>tfw you wasted your childhood staring at a screen
>tfw you wasted your 20's staring at a screem
>tfw you wasted your teens laughing at memes
>>28851743
At least I'm not in my 20s yet. Maybe I still have a chance?
i will never regret roleplaying on the harry potter and lord of the rings message boards in elementary, watching Stickdeath, playing hentai games on Newgrounds, being bullied on gaia and neopets, or posting on 4chan in it's prime.
>>28851728
Did you just play video games or something? When I was 14 I spent a lot of time reading about science, the universe, history, other cultures, religions, etc.
I don't feel like it was a waste.
>>28851779
GET OFF THIS WEBSITE KID RUN PLEASE RUN OH GOD SDFKLSJDKGJASL I'M SOBBING
>>28851779
Ill say this once
im 31, GET OUT
>>28851728
>tfw you wasted your life being a dank meme-meister
>>28851728
>tfw you have eye damage because you wasted your childhood and adolescence and early adulthood staring at a screen
>>28851779
You have a couple years left to try and change things. 23-24 is usually the point of no return.
>tfw I enjoyed my youth laughing at memes
>>28851728
0 regrets
great times and great people
>tfw wasted your teen years on Webkinz
I am REAL good at staring at screens
>>28851779
>Maybe I still have a chance?
HAHAHAAHHA EVERYONE LOOK AT HIM AND LAUGH
>tfw "wasted" a good and meaningfull part of your life on world of warcraft
was worth it
staring at a screen is what humans do now. you'll never escape it. a lot of white collars jobs will have you looking at a screen, and normies are glued to their phones to keep track of social media and whatever else.
>tfw you wasted your life on Internet forums having bantz and trolling people, and overall being an edgy faggot
And not a single regret
>>28851866
this is roughly when your brain stops developing, but you always have a chance to change your behaviors, anon
>>28851779
>Maybe I still have a chance?
run, anon, run!
>there's a president
>there are prime ministers
>there are ceos
>they are all human with various backgrounds
>I grew up with loving parents and a sister in a small town and later moved to a city
>my current life is teaching for minimum wage and playing video games
Glad I chose to be fucking lazy for my whole life.
>>28851820
>>28851825
I hear you.
Original comment?
>>28851779
>>28851820
>>28851825
>>28851866
>>28851907
there is a reason they say you are here forever.
not because it's addictive, but because if you were ever the sort to come here voluntarily, you are damned to continue that way for the rest of your life.
Regret nothing. Best fucking moments of my life.
>tfw listening to this brings up stronger emotions than thinking about anyone I've ever known
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_0G6WPuss4
>>28851728
>>28851743
Why did we do it? Why couldnt we have faced reality like everyone else?
>>28852069
sorry anon, but nobody has faced reality for a long time now
Holy fucking shit this thread made me realize that I am 24 years old now and I remember browsing 4chan at age 19 after highschool graduation. School kept me off the internet. Wasn't until I graduated I realized I have nothing to do but use the internet and browse. Which slowly got me here to 4chan.
When I found 4chan. I thought it was a porn website and realized it wasn't. There was more to this place. Then I created this friendship with 4chan because I didn't have friends.
Time has really flown by.
>>28852270
Are you me? I'm 23, almost 24, and started visiting 4chan at the age of 19 while I was a NEET for a year. I started out as complete faggot who actually found /b/ funny, but then gradually moved on to /r9k/ and a few other boards after I outgrew /b/.
When I was 12 I was programming custom maps for SCBW (dat trigger logic amirite)
When I was 15-19 I was learning animation software and how to write in action script so I could make movies and games for newgrounds. A few of my films have a million+ views, a few games are in the hundreds of thousands, I got paid like 150bucks in total for a game sponsorship, but overall it was a monetary waste of time but good learning experience.
Some of my animation and programming buddies are now big youtube fags who rake in the big bucks catering to scum....
From 20-25 I was at university smoking weed and playing obscene amounts of World of Warcraft, not the most productive but at least I graduated my software engineering course with full honour's
Now I work for a billion dollar company as an in house software developer, I am 2 years into my first job out of uni and I make 35 bucks an hour which isnt terrible. Plus I get full benefits and all that shit that I never use because I'm scared of the dentist and I've never been really sick.
Either way, my current job is great, I love it, it pays good and its like 35 hour work weeks, of which I work maybe 10 hours of. I get my own office where I play hearthstone on my tablet and I only have to be in the office from 12pm-4pm. As long as my shit gets done I don't even have to show up for more then 20 hours. And I get to work at home one day a week if I want.
All of this exists because I was a shutin kid playong brood war when someone in a custom game edited the game script to give player 1 an unfair advantage. I was so upset that I lost to that, that I went in the editor myself and was determined to find out how to rig the game for myself. The rest just snowballed from there.
>>28852636
>>28852636
no 1 car
Well I'm 22 and do spend a fair amount of browsing (has been that way since I was 16) but I have such an overwhelming sense of guilt that I will become severely depressed, suicidal even if I don't do stuff that makes me feel like I'm making moves towards success. I won't say what it is I do because it's not important. What's important is that I do shit.
To the fellow WoW anons, I feel you, I started playing in vanilla when I was 13. Missed a lot of opportunities when I was younger because of it, but today I still PvP in WoD and can honestly say that I am not addicted. Feels good.
As you grow older, you learn the value of moderation. Or it gets beaten into you, violently.
>>28851779
SameI'm turning 20 in June though
>>28851779
LEAVE, NOT BECAUSE NORMIE REEE OR ANYTHING BUT YOU HAVE A CHANCE MY DUDE
>>28851728
>I wasted my childhood doing something I enjoyed over doing something I'm pretending to enjoy
Its far too early in the morning for feels of this caliber
>>28852270
Same, been here since I was 16. Just turned 24 and it feels weird cause I remember being 20 and thinking this was still just harmless fun. Sometimes it hits me how the years flew by like nothing, how far behind I am for my age, seeing younger family members enter their adolescence, etc. Then it stops being fun.
>spend life in front of a computer
>i finally decide to do something with my life before i hit 40
>get a masters in mathematics
>studied algebraic geometry for almost 4 years
>publish a nice result that drastically reduces a class of long proofs involving hilbert schemes (some of you might know who i am)
>cited by a few notable mathematicians
>the only two jobs i could find were at publix and chili's
once you've wasted a sufficient amount of time in front of a computer, it's over
there's nothing left for you here
Been on 4chan for about a month and as time goes I go here more often
>>28851728
>>tfw you wasted your childhood staring at a screen
I saved princesses and saved the World.
What would I achieve in real world if I wear in real world instead of virtual word?
>>28852636
You work at McDonald's
Doesn't matter. This life is just a dream. It will end eventually. Im waiting for my Auron.
>>28851728
>tfw it doesn't matter anyway
There's gotta be a way to market this lazy underachiever shit. There are plenty of lazy shits who game the system by appealing to dumb fucks. I wanna be that person. Or else I'll just have to be wagie for at least a good 3 decades, probably more.
>tfw fell for "just le become a normie" meme when 16-18
>tfw exactly felt like the "my feet hurt", "i wish i was home watching anime" feel guy at parties
>>28851728
Checked my hours on steam: 18.730 hours in tf, csgo and doto but is ok with me really.
Some people do heroin some drink wine, i lived different lives and have been dissconected from reality for years upon years in pixelated universes.
Is how i lived my life...
>>28851728
its a good feel. original commento
>>28852636
Hello fellow Newgrounder, I was once sort of popular on that website for like a month or two. But I never reached a million views with my videos :(.
Anyway today I'm a pathetic loser who missed out on all JewTube chances, with no future, no money, no gf and on r9k.
>>28854182
Same! What day?
>TFW you spent your childhood connecting with thousands of people in dozens of countries all around the world
>>28851728
>had complete shit taste in vidya, anime,music, and manga
>the chans introduced me to a fucking ocean of media and vastly improved my taste
What's to regret?
>>28852636
You should travel or something, you can live a fulfilled life since youre set.
>>28851728
>tfw continuing to waste my life staring at a screen
>tfw addicted and too afraid to do anything else
>>28855730
you?
Oreganaddo
ok OP here. How does one become a normie? Like how to make friends etc.
>>28858468
There is no hope if you have to ask that
>>28851818
I did the same until I found the internet....
>tfw addicted to weed and staring at a screen
>tfw decade is almost over
there is no hope for people like me
>>28851728
>tfw you will most likely waste your life staring at a sceen
>>28858237
pretty much desu
beepboop
>>28858648
>addicted to weed
nice meme, dipshit
>>28858572
ARE U SERIOUS?? I ACTUALLY THOUGHT THERE WAS A CHANCE FOR ME TO BE SAVED...
>>28851728
>wasted
Well spent. Otherwise, I might have killed myself by nowalthough this would probably be something /r9k/ would want
>>28859384
Weed is psychologically addictive, dipshit.And that's coming from someone who's smoked for 15+ years.
>>28852270
>that pic
>"I wish I could talk to someone"
I do this often, but then I remember
>normies
>talking to people
Never again. There's a reason why I spend all of my time at home on my PC, because the idea of even talking to someone, even online, makes me want to kill myself. I can't be my true self, I constantly have to seek approval, follow social norms whoever stupid they might be and most importantly fit a certain criteria to be "in" some social group as in looks
I'm happy to live in a time when video games are a thing, anime is a thing and the internet is a thing, whether or not they're any good in the moment is another topic
>>28859495
You already are a normie. You just have no friends.
>>28851728
How could I spend it any other way?
I rarely got the opportunity to socialise with decent people and as a kid I could form relationships with others online.
I fell for the normie meme... My life is more miserable now than it ever was sitting in front of a screen.
>>28851779
LEAVE
LEAVE
LEAVE
YOU NEED TO LEAVE PLEASE THERE'S STILL HOPE FOR YOU THIS IS NOT A MEME IT'S NOT A JOKE I'M SERIOUS
>>28859636
this. People that think weed isn't addictive mentally are fucking retards that have no clue what it can do to you.
>>28859718
>tfw normie but without friends
>>28859495
>>28858572
>>28858468
ted bundy spent years studying and practicing becoming a confident chad. It's very possible to do.
>>28859822
weed is very addictive. Everything about it is addictive. Even the process in which you aquire it, smoke it, and the setting in which you do so is addictive. People who say it isn't are probably addicts. I don't believe there are withdrawal symptoms but being someone who used to smoke it I can say that it is addictive and still crave it after being off of it for five years.
>>28852011
Mr. Dubs is right. Take flight OP and you may yet taste deliverance!
>>28851728
>>28851743
Not like I ever had a choice. I have never declined an invite from someone simply because I actually preferred vidya or internet. Not fucking once.
I only play vidya and lurk 4chan because I have nothing else to do anyway.
>>28852011
Yah, If you resonate with this board then you may never have had a chance to begin with. What are we if not life's schadenfreude?
>>28851890
WoW was some of the best times of my life. Is that sad? I played from the original release all the way up to the end of Lich King before finally quitting. I still think those times to this day.
>>28852017
awww shiet dawg dem monsterkills tho
anyway op I had lots of other hobbies like reading and card games and board games and table top miniatures and comics.
im 29 and i regret nothing.
my megadrive/genesis days then on to psx then PC. no regrets.
used to play MtG at lunch time at school. was pretty fucking dank. I can still smell the fresh ink smell when you open a new booster pack...mmmmmmm
it's one step away from the smell of new wh40k models or that satisfying feeling of popping something out of its sprue. fuck year!
>>28859636
Anything can be mentally addictive, though. Especially if you have an addictive personality. Vidya, Internet, food, shopping, or anything else, can be addictive. It's usually less about the substance, and more about the type of person you are.
>>28852270
same here except I started to browse when I was 13 five years ago (never shitposted or memeposted even thought I was young). I just kinda didnt have anything else to do. Just browse the net all day and play games from time to time. I was already an outcast when I was kid
>>28859778
I only go on 4chan because it's fun
what's so wrong about it
>>28851728
I'd """""""waste""""""" even more time in front of a screen if I could. Fuck out of here. You're a normie in denial.
There is nothing new under the sun, son.
>>28851728
>tfw when you wasted your childhood bouncing a ball
>tfw when you wasted yuor childhood staring at a book
>tfw you wasted your childhood hangin off a treebranch
>tfw..
see what i did there faggot op?
