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Any older (24+) players here?
How do you balance vidya with adult life?
Do you even enjoy games anymore?
>>335451893
>24 is considered "old" on /v/
FFS. You guys are probably the second youngest board after /b/. It's fucking pathetic.
>24+
>old
>adult
Yeah right.
>>335452139
Normal people move out from their parents at 18 and are well established at 24
Not everyone is a neet manchild
>>335452195
>rich people move out from their parents at 18
ftfy
what economy do you even live in? dubai?
I'm 28 and I play semi-pro cs:go.
It's the only game I have time for to maintain my skills. I don't really enjoy it anymore so I'll probably go full normie soon
>>335452195
>tfw 27
>living at home
>made poor life choices in the past
>only now finishing my degree
27. I mainly play older games on my Saturn, PS2, DC, DS and PC primarily. I decided not to participate in Gen 8 because of how shitty things are becoming. Gen 7 and prior games are still great so I don't mind at all.
I work a lot so I tend to play after work in the night a few times a week. Recently beat Pokemon Black 2 which was fun.
>>335451893
>wake up
>start working
>lunch break and shitposting
>back to work
>finish work, get dinner
>some more shitposting to wind down then vidya
>>335452195
>Normal people move out from their parents at 18
Not in this day an age.
I was the only person i know from High School to move out and live on my own (without room mates or friends) at 18, and that's only because I lucked the fuck out an got a job at a lumber yard when I was 17.
Even so I'm probably going to move back into my parent's place because even though I can afford to live on my own, I simply can't save up money to actually buy a house or a new car or any of that shit with how high rent is in my area.
>>335452420
Could be worse. You could be like quite a few ppl I know that made god life choices, went to college for 4-6 years, then proceeded to do nothing because there's no work in their fields, and are now approaching 30 y/o and still have no possible way to pay of student and credit card debts that they'll probably have until they're passed 40.
As long as you're not sitting on a mountain of debt, you're golden.
27 in 2 months.
I don't know, man. I wish I could just not worry about shit and go to sleep one day and wake up the next not having to worry about my rent, shit is brutal. Really wish I could go like 2 days without being super worried. This takes away all my energy to play any game whatsoever. Wife keeps bothering me when I play for long stretches as well so that also kills the fun.
Waiting on overwatch right now. if that fails, I don't know what I'll play. DaS3 was fun but burned out very fast.
>>335452264
I was a foster kid and lived with a friend's family until mid-19 when I moved out and live on my own.
You can't move out at 18 when you're a defeatist bitch. You can when you're an adult.
>>335451893
>27
>work out with friends
>visit other friends
>cook with roommate bros in my house
>try to rekindle old relationship
>get my stuff ready for work the next day
>still have 3~ hours to play vidya, usually only use 2 or so
The question is really, how are 11 of your daylight/night hours being wasted on vidya
>>335452420dude, I'm exactly the same. Although I already moved out at 18, due to poor choices I had to move back with my parents once. And now I had to move back a second time, since me and my GF had to give up our home to study in Japan for half a year.
Also, I mostly play single player-games during the weekends and play some multiplayer with friends online during weekday evenings.
Balancing really isn't all that hard.
Wii U, PS4 and PC.
I am 25. I am a student and I work part time. I love vidya. My most beloved hobbies are playing games and reading books.
Let me tell you how my day goes by... I wake up at 10 o clock, I eat and so on and start to learn for university at latest by starting at 12 o clock. So I usually sit at my desk until 9 or 10 o clock, sometimes even longer.
After that, I play like an hour or two vidya and then I read a book, Also for an hour or two.
Thursdays, I have to go to university from 9:45 in the morning until 8:30 at night.
Two days in the week, I am going to work. When I have semester break, I work almost every day.
Sorry for my bad english. I am from germany. Oh and there are very rare days, when I play all day. Usually after an exam.
I enjoy gaming a lot. Especially games like Ro2, insurgency and CSS. At the moment I play dark souls. It´s very good but man it annoys the fuck out of me.
I am at the dukes archive and I got cursed.. wth
30 here
I rarely play newer games, though there are some that I like very much. I bought Ori and the blind forest last year and loved it.
Half of my top 10 favorites are SNES games, others something like Morrowind and HoMM3
>>335452712
In the same boat as you buddy, you are not alone.
>>335451893
I'm 32 and my lifestyle has never really changed. I work 9-5 Monday thru Friday, come home, cook myself some food, then play vidya or watch anime tell midnight, pass out, go to work, and proceed to repeat. I have a bretty good job as well, just bought me a corvette a few months ago. Shit is fast yo.
>>335451893
Yeah I do.
I am currently looking forward to Kingdom Come, Total War Warhammer, and Mountain Blade 2.
Currently I am trying to remake Rome as Byzantium in EU 4.
totally irresponsible cuck, who sponges off his breading winning gf for vidya and rent.
work only 25 hours a week, rest is spent shitposting and gaming. pretty sweet t b h whiff u. probably gonna be super fucked in the long run.
>>335451893
31 and still playing video games.
>How do you balance vidya with adult life?
I play when I can and don't have any social obligations.
>Do you even enjoy games anymore?
Yeah but not all these day 1 DLC fest-Season Pass aka interest free loans shits.
>>335451893
I have my own small business so while I don't make much money, I can be on the PC or console while there are no clients so shit is cash
>>335451893
28, play on my Vita after work for an hour or two and PS4/PC on my days off.Waiting for EO5 and SMT Apocalypse before I bother with my 3DS again.
I still enjoy vidya, just wish I had more time.
This thread makes me want to find a group for older people who want to play together. Nothing makes me feel like I'm wasting my life more than playing CSGO or any moba and realize everyone's acting like a child (such as hacking), because they are children.
I used to do well in pvp in WoW and I can't stand playing with any of the kids anymore, had a blast playing with someone at his 30s the other day even though we did very fucking poorly and tanked my rating from 2.4 to 2.1. I don't mind losing or anything as long as people act like people and make the game interesting for everyone.I'm brazilian so communities are always worse for me than it is for you
>>335452195
in israel and other countries conscription is mandatory, so basically 3 years of our lifes are taken away. add to that the shitty state our country is in and you get a late bloomer generation
>>335452732
I feel like this situation is becoming the norm these days in western countries. More and more of my friends have had to move back home lately or are lucky enough to move out with their partners. Kind of sucks how it's such a taboo - especially if you're like me and pay rent, cook your own meals etc
To be fair, I really have no desire to owning a house or a nice car. I'm totally satisfied with a comfy little unit with my old shitty car. I just wanna lift, play vidya and enjoy my career. s-SOON.
>>335453186
Serves you right for being a kike.
I'm 32. Have a kid.
Usually just play something that I can pop-out in case I need to.
No more MMOs for me. No more something that needed shitloads of time to finish it.
Still play some co-op games/and or competitive shooters once in a while.
>>335451893
Just gaming on weekends
Since I got work all week.
73 here been lurking here since 2005
>>335453558
that reminds me of when I used to play d2:lod. the best player i ever knew was a 65+ yo guy who played literally all day every day for years
he's probably dead of old age by now. rip
>>335451893
24 yrs old.
Life is falling apart, at least I have games to complain about
>>335453186
Same in Germany my long nosed friend. (not anymore though)
Also, you only serve 9 months max. I was at the Luftwaffe for only 2 months and said, "nah I don't feel like it"and they let me go.
ebin :-)
23 here. Video games do nothing for me and I've been just reading manga and watching film lately. I'm actually in a pretty good state mentally, having suffered anxiety and my mother and grandmother being in the hospital I'm now sated with who I am - I take solace knowing so many of you work your jobs, finger your phones and drag yourself out of bed in the morning for the almighty dollar and all I do is sit here..contemplating "hmm, what will I do next?"
Sure I'll be homeless soon, but my heart is in the right place.
Talk about delusion. You fags don't even enjoy your waking life but keep doing it, I'm sated in my delusion that so long as I keep my mind healthy then nothing bad will ever happen.
>>335452195
Yes! Good goy! Move out at 18 and pay rent for the rest of your life instead of saving up for your own apartment.
tfw turning 24 in august and still a NEET
>>335453893
Hahahaha, I'm at work right now laughing at you on 4chan. We're both doing the same thing right now, except only one of us is getting paid to do it.
Stay cucked and gay, loser. Try not to starve when mommy finally kicks your retarded ass out.
>>335451893
I don't, I'm about to fail one of my college assessments because unless I chew on a handful of adderall every half hour I can't tear myself away from trying to get the one achievement in Devil Daggers.
30 here. My adult life is pretty simple. I bartend, make fairly shitty money but the cost of living here is cheap as fuck so it's not hard to pay bills. I just like relaxing and gaming, watching movies or reading. Have a girlfriend, she is pretty chill too, we hang out just a couple times a week. I have all the free time in the world. No kids, no debt, just work an easy job and enjoy my hobbies. Don't let people pressure you into doing "adult" shit you don't want to do.
>>335453893
its time to grow up, anon
>>335452720
This bugs me every time I play on my off days.
High school days = 12-14 hours of playing, usually just Gran Turismo 2. Now, it's 5 hours max on off days, and 3-4 hours on a weekday.I still haven't finished Alien isolation and Mad Max for fucks sake
25 here
Tfw still living with my mom
Goto uni for 9 hrs mon - wed have no job
But i play splatoon for 1-3 hrs a week
>>335451893
I work 40 hours a week, spend all my remaining time hanging with friends or playing videogames.
I Practice dmc4 on occasion, and similarly I try to find games that allow the same type of playstyle, which I then write about on my shitty website if I like it enough, with the occasional youtube vid demonstrating shit. This takes up a lot of time and normally I would also play guitar and piano on the side, which I havent done in quite some months now.
I Want to earn more $$ for less hours. That would help. I also need to spend less time shitposting on /v/.
Also want to get a tablet for playing dmc4 on the train so I can get my practice in there but I'm not sure if the specs are capable of a stable 60fps.
Also I dont have a gf, thank god, because those take up time I would rather invest in myself.
>>335451893
25, full-time job. It pays pretty well, and I'm able to give away shifts and take early outs if I like, so I tend to work 30 hour weeks typically. Plenty of time for vidya; finishing up DaS3 and then it's back to where I left off in P3.
30.
Play vidya for several hours on my one day off.
Play Dissidia at the arcade for a couple hours total per week.
Basically I focus on one console vidya and one arcade vidya.
>>335453423
>Have a kid
>22
>full-time job as a brunswick mechanic
>spend most of time bowling, fixing machines, and playing vidya on my off days
>make $18.50 an hour
it's a good life
>>335452195
Projecting.
>>335452264
>>335452647
>>335454189
>Work from age 16 to 20
>Save up money instead of wasting it on garbage
>Move out into a cheap studio apartment
It's not hard and it's worth it. I would kill myself if I had to live with the embarrassment of living with my parents past the age of 20.
>>335452608
Damn are you me?
>>335451893
27
full time comfy job i do at home
play vidya or browse this shithole for the rest of time
enjoy none of it really
32 do my 40 something hours work for the week . Some fitness boxing 3 nights of the week , kids every second weekend keep the missus happy , and squeeze in some singleplayer games .
>That feel when just finished college at 25 but want to go back to neeting it up
>>335453423
>Have a kid
You mean your wife had a kid
>>335455604
lmfao, cukd on 4chin just like irl
>>335455659
>>335455604
Was actually worried that people were talking about this cuck business all the time like it was some thing. But it's just their own fear isnt it?
>>335452947
You mean to say that you're autistic?
>>335455290
>Work from age 16 to 20
Part time or full?
>Save up money instead of wasting it on garbage
Fair enough, though garbage is pretty ambiguous.
>Move out into a cheap studio apartment
At what, 20?
>It's not hard and it's worth it. I would kill myself if I had to live with the embarrassment of living with my parents past the age of 20.
Did you go to University/College?
>>335451893
>Any older (24+) players here?
31
>How do you balance vidya with adult life?
I play when I have free time and nothing more productive to do. Like, you know, any hobby.
>Do you even enjoy games anymore?
Well, admittedly most games is just way to pass time, but from time to time I hit something great that makes me cut real-life activities just so I can play more.
Only thing that worries me is my backlog, which grew unexpectedly large even since I bought PC and installed steam. But it's hardly something complain, since this way I ended up playing oldies like System Shock, Blood or Doom, and even genres I would normally not play like RTS or 4X.
>>335452195
I moved back to my parents at age of 27. Turned out my new workplace is just 2km from my hometown, so my parents wanted me to move back, probably because my sister, who was supposed to take over family house, moved with her husband to other side of country.They probably expected to move in with my girlfriend though.
No suprise if at this point they think I'm gay.
>>335456659
>>335456659
>They probably expected to move in with my girlfriend though.
>No suprise if at this point they think I'm gay.
>tfw same
>tfw they would be right
any advice for a 29yr old trying to quit MMOs?
All I do is come home from work and log in MMOs sometimes just idle and not actually playing because of habit.
I play some single-player games no and then but I end up feeling lonely after just 1-2hrs of playing.
>>335457030
Do you socialize while idling or literally just idle in the game?
If the former my advice is tonever stop, I play single player shit all the time, I miss my guild and e-friends
>>335451893
34 here.
Most I get to do these days is play Dragon Quest on the iOS on my commute to and from work. Occasionally if the living room is free I'll play some old shooter on the projector but time and energy is scarce these days, especially moreso due to games being fucking shit.
>>335457030
Holy fuck dude if you feel lonely while you're not playing MMOs you should try going outside and taking a walk because your life is in shambles
>>335452195
im 21, Ive moved out before, but it was shitty. Im saving for a deposit for a home so theres that I guess.
>>335455052
Damn, anon. Sounds like you're living the life.
What job do you have?
>30 years old
>married with two kids (2 and 5)
>full time job (home owner/no mortgage, so not a complete wage slave)
>play maybe twice a week for a couple of hours
When I'm busy I really yearn for games, but when I sit down to play I find I can't find anything that really absorbs me, and I quickly lose interest. Also I don't want the kids to see me vegging in front of the computer.
My wife doesn't mind me playing but she's not enthusiastic about it either (I've yet to meet a woman who keen on their other half playing games).
Nevertheless I am looking forward to Mount & Blade 2.
>>335457140
The former, paying a sub fee just to idle and socialize sounds a bit sad though.>>335457230
>shitty money but the cost of living here is cheap as fuck so it's not hard to pay bills. I just like relaxing and gaming, watching movies or reading. Have a girlfriend, she is pretty chill too, we hang out just a couple times a week. I have all the free time in the world. No kids, no debt, just work an easy job and enjoy my hobbies. Don't let people pressure you into doing "adult" shit you don't want to do.
>>335457230
Easy to feel lonely when you have no place to talk about vidya/nerd shit and other interests that you wouldn't talk about in RL.
>>335457807
Fuck that mang, unless you are ready to throw yourself out there amongst normalfags and have shallow conversations while drinking alcohol every day, just chill with your online mates.
Unless you have 0 IRL friends, if you have a few just hang with them sometimes.
Alternatively ask around if your clan/guild is playing something else and do it with them.
This comes from a 27yo fag who quit his last mmo in 2008 and has been trying to get hooked on ANY of them again and it never ever happened.
The games are not good enough to play for themselves so I can't get invested enough to stay. Single player is good but lonely when you cant discuss it with anyone else but /v/ who can't discuss anything at all.
>>335452264
You should be able afford a studio apartment and support just yourself on a part time job. Or at least a two roomer with a friend.
You DO have friends, don't you?
>>335458185
Not everyone lives in your country and town anon.
A part time job would either let me pay for half the rent of a place and starve, or vice versa.
Also
>moving out to be yo own man
>live with roommates and have to put up with their shit
okay...
>>335458185
Not the guy you're talking to but in my country? Good luck
500$ pay per month and rent with evwryrhing you need is 500$
Its not worth it
People here stay with their parents until they finish college and find a job maybe more or move in with a girl/guy
>>335451893
26 here. I'm a grad student and if I want to get good grades I don't really have time for vidya. I usually don't feel like playing (or doing) anything at all anyway. Sometimes though I get a streak of vidya craving and I play for a couple of days straight. Gotta watch out that doesn't interfere with studying (which I hardly do, but near the exams I go all out and study all day).
Funny thing is I usually don't feel like playing vidya, but whenever I have an exam or deadline coming up I am drawn to vidya immensely.
27
work 40+ hours, some swimming for exercising, visit on separate places brothers and parents, have one week free on Your own each month
I stilly enjoy the shit out of the game. I shuffle between generations, still enjoying and exploring variety of games. I still can replay River Raid on A2600 and it gives me a smirk.
>>335451893
Just play games that genuinely interest you and ignore 95% of the terrible shit that comes out.
>>335458563
2nd this, forcing myself to play (and like) bioshock infinite made me hate video games for several months.
Then i played dragons dogma:DA a few months later and all was good in the world again.
Trust yourself/your gut and play what you are really passionate/interested in and not what others/marketing tells you to.
>>335459060
That game was my last venture into trying to socialize and talk vidya with normalfags.
I played through it just so when asked about it I wouldn't just shit on it like /v/ did.
Apparently it was all perfectly justified, instead of discussing it with them on fair grounds I just decided to never talk about it again, I gave up on talking with the dude who liked it - and he sat next to me at work for over a year.
29yo here
I still live with my parents and make indie games from my home for a living so I still get to play
No
>>335451893
I'm a professional cowboy and I use catheters. Been cowboyin' for 25 years. I've had 14 broken bones, 2 concussions and a punctured lung. I know pain and I don't want any more of it. Especially when I cath.
>>335451893
>all people on /v/ are 24+
>they haven't married yet>still a virgin
>23
>graduating this year
>offered a 75k/year job when I graduate
>the last five years killed the little light I had in my life
>can afford all the vidya I want but don't enjoy any of it
>don't even enjoy playing my old favs anymore
Don't go to college, kids.
>>335459505
Don't worry anon, I didn't go to college and felt exactly the same when I was 23-24
Protip:it does not get better
>>335451893
Oh, that's pretty easy.
I'm a neet, I hate 9 out of 10 videogames, I despise everything 4chan (and /v/ specifically) became, I'm constantly depressed and fall asleep thinking whether I should an hero.
>>335451893
>>>>>>adult life
No job. Live with parents. 27. Kill me pls.
>>335452019
Depends. What in your life really. Got a girlfriend? Married? Have kids? Got a house? Really if your girlfriend puts up or likes video games then just enjoy life with her. If she doesn't then you should put a side alot of your gaming and be with her.
If you got kids don't forget about them. If you got a mortgage don't forget to have at least more than enough money to pay it off every week,
>>335459505
>pleb who honestly believes "guaranteed" job bullshit professors fed him to sucker him to stick with shitty degree
>>335459651
You do know you can still have hobbies while in a relationship, right anon?
>>335459646
How do you not have a job? really ? So much $16+ jobs out there. And its not like you should only have a goal for as low as 16$ but comon
>>335459717
as a person who is married and has a child.
no. hobbies are kill.
>>335459705
Offered a job as in, my boss from last summer said "please come work for us when you graduate, we'll keep your desk in shape" idiot.
>>335452264
>pampered children move at out 18
ftfy
I'm from a wealthy family but my dad won't pay for my rent if i moved out. Fortunately I live in a society where living with your parents is culturally acceptable . I pay for shit like groceries and internet still though.
>>335459646
Pretty much me. I turn 27 in August. No idea what I'm supposed to do with life. Thought about trying to learn how to code, but not sure how long it's going to take me to not be shit at it or if that's even possible for self teaching.
>>335459774
How many hire without previous work experience? Do you live in America?
>>335459816
Only because you married a cunt.
>>335459612
How old are you now?
Just turned 23 and can't believe how low I've felt lately. I'm going to spend this summer trying to make some positive life changes, and if I still feel this way, it's time to give the antidepressants a go. I'm going to kill myself if I reach 30 and still haven't found some way to at least cope.
>>335459843
>summer volunteer
lol okay buddy, sure
you will apply for the job, interview, and not be accepted. they feed you bullshit to keep word of mouth for future slaves getting paid 0 dollars for "experience"
>>335457768
no mortgage at 30? Damn, nicely done anon. How'd you manage that?
>>335459705
offer might've come from company looking for hires.
But yes, with goverment backing up student loans, and as following banks handing them out freely, uni reps will lie more shamelessly to get you and your money in, than even army recruiters would.
>>335460051
The boss is my dad tho ;)
24 years old and I am starting college
I don't know what the future will hold but I really just play dark souls these days
>>335460149
What have you been doing between high school and now?
>>335460051
Nope. 26/hour over the summer. Keep projecting
>>335460147
>friends family is owner of a real big company
>comfy well paid desk job guranteed if he gets his degree
>fails it 2 semesters before final exam
>family disappointed as fuck, drop all support
>lives from social welfare and 400€ jobs
dont let this be you.
>>335451893
I'm 30. I only play on weekends.
After a dissapointing experience with the Wii U, I bought a PS4 with Bloodborne. The latter reminded me what I loved about video games years ago, so s still room for gaming in my life
>>335451893
I spend more time doing bullshit related to games then I spend playing them. Because I can do this kind of bullshit while at work, but I can't very well play video games.
>>335451893
>oldfag
>age
I don't think you understand the terminology that you're using.
29. Wife. Kid. Full time employed (and then some).
I basically cannot play video games between 08:00 and 20:00 because we have a baby and it needs full time monitoring and if I am not working then I am expected to be monitoring so wife can have a break. Then after baby sleeps it's usually time to watch television shows that have recorded over the week if I'm home before 22:00. Sometimes on a regular day there's a period between about 23:00-00:00 that I can play video games, then sleep. Otherwise I just go straight to bed. If I am working nights and/or on call, I can sometimes get away with playing some games when I get home... right now I am playing KOTOR again. I mostly just play old games that remind me of happy simple times. I also get to sleep in when on nights so I get a brief baby reprieve.
I'm told it does get better... I guess we'll see. There are definitely days I wish I could go back to raiding 6 nights a week and playing whatever video games I want (mostly raiding though). University afforded me that luxury because I could get away without attending classes or studying... that doesn't work in the real world though! You kind of have to show up.
>>335451893
>older (24+)
it's like it's already summer here
28, I play whenever I feel like and have free time, no need to balance shit, it's a hobby and a lately a shitty one.
>>335459953
This. I managed to get a damn good 35$ an hour for being computer tech at a chase Morgan building. Big problem is I'm in fucking San Francisco. Rent is fucking killer and either you sacrifice a lot of get lucky. So I said fuck it I'm back with my parents and I can play games and still go out with friends at the end of the day.
>>335460059
Luck really, wifey's parents are well off.
I just can't do it anymore. I wish I was neet again. I was neet for 6 years, been full-time slave 3 years and already sick of it. I will never retire. I have too many interests to waste away like a normalfag.
>>335460419
Sounds like hell anon
>>335460283
>>lives from social welfare and 400€ jobs
Damn I'd love to have 400/month, average wage in my shit country is 200.
>>335451893
35 year old married father here. I'm a bit of a night owl, so I tend to play between 10 pm and midnight while the wife and son are asleep. I still enjoy games, though I really don't have the patience for PvP competition anymore. These days, the closest I come to playing against other people is Dark Souls.
>>335460419
>work all day
>get home
>"I need a break. You watch the kid for a while."
How the hell does this work?
>>335460419
Retard.
>>335457030
>I play some single-player games no and then but I end up feeling lonely after just 1-2hrs of playing
find an IRL friend that will sit with you while you play single player games and talk about dumb bullshit
>32
I have a cake accounting job that pays enough to live comfortable. Play Pokemon red/sapphire and the f2p Pokemon shit while at work. Sometimes some smtIV if the bosses are gone.
it's cool to play at work but it gets to the point where i don't want to play once I'm at home which is good I guess.
>>335460419
Father as well. As your child gets closer to 1 year old, your life will ease up significantly. I've been there, and it gets better.
>>335460269
i love the tactless attempt at ad hominem to conceal your lie. you werent hired, you clearly stated you were looking to be hired in the future, you did unpaid summer internship 1 year prior to finishing your degree, because your colleges pay those companies to play make-believe employees
all fucking colleges do this, dont try to pretend you know more about life than me, because you really honestly fucking don't.
you believed the bullshit, and now you get to pay for your student debt and struggle to get a job for years, good luck, faggot, you're already deluded yourself im sure youll go far in life, lol.
>>335460147
>LE OBLIGATORY REDDIT SHITPOST XDD!!!11
>>335460824
>cake accounting job
>"yep, that's definitely a cake."
>26
>no work experience
>studying game and media technology
>graduating in a year or so
And I don't even like vidya as much as I did anymore. The irony.
And I don't particularly feel like working in the vidya industry even if I could. Seems like hell.
Then again I'm sure I can get a job doing cool shit with graphics or something that's not video games. Right?
>>335460991
Nice credentials there, hoss.
>>335460675
Babies are pretty hard. Like I said, I've heard it gets easier, like this poster:
>>335460916
We're at 9 months right now. It's much better than it was before that's for sure but still not what I would call "fun". At least she sleeps regular hours. I don't expect it to get fun for me personally until about 4-5 years old when I can have real conversations with her. When she started crawling it was an interesting novelty but now it is more of an annoyance than anything since she gets into so much more trouble.
That's not what oldfag means, you newfag.
>>335461129
im not the delusional little kid who hasnt graduated talking about his "Guaranteed job" lol
you see so many fucking retarded kids saying that shit and believing allt he bullshit they were told
>>335460991
>you clearly stated you were looking to be hired in the future
Nice reading comprehension. Go to bed.
>>335460991
>dont try to pretend you know more about life than me, because you really honestly fucking don't
son, you're on 4chan. That's all I should NEED to say.
I'm 35 and married. We have a rule about personal time. We each get a couple hours a day of time to ourselves free of any bitching of interruption from the other. So, I get to play some video games and she gets to watch stupid ass reality shows. Then, we are both happier, less stressed, and a whole lot less likely to get pissed off at each other. It really is simple. Make time for the things you enjoy or your whole life will be joyless.
>>335451893
i only enjoyed a few games the last years.
one of them was witcher 3.
most games just suck and the older you get the less hype you feel because you know that games never are like they get advertised.
i don't work so i have much time for playing but it is just boring, games still suck.
maybe in 10-20 years gaming will improve.
ai still sucks and gameplay is always the same, there is nearly nothing new.
>>335461140
I feel I should also mention that though the hours can be long my job is not very strenuous except on a very bad day. If it is a bad day then I get a baby exemption, but most of the time I'd rather just look after the baby so that I can bank the positive parenting points to spend when I have a bad day. I just embarked on 3 days off in a row so I can bank a lot of points during this time to spend when I go back to work.
>>335459651
>Girlfriend
Check
>Married
Not going to, both don't need to we're practically married already
>Have kids?
Not going to, kids suck up time and money and you only get one life, she also has no interest in wrecking her puss, might adopt some day I guess.
>Got a house?
Yup, second house, used to own a small appartment but have since moved on to a nice two story house with plenty of rooms, even got my own gaymen room where I house all my gaming related stuff.
Pretty well off I'd say.
>>335461197
You're just talking shit with nothing to back it up.lol
Easily, just don't get a gf or family
>>335451893
My stats
>26
>Wife since 4 years
>Cat and dog
>Kids soon (hopefully)
>Work 3 jobs for a total of 35 h/week
And I still manage to play vidya like 8 h+ every day, wife aint even bitching about it.
Life is working just fine, like for anyone else.
>>335451893
>25 and soon to be 26
>3-5 games of Dota on a weekend.
>1-2 runs of Gungeon daily
>Random amount of investment in the new releases or old backlog games.
>SSDC and Clash Royale on the phone.
>The backlog keeps growing and growing.
>For instance installed GTA V only couple weeks ago.
>Still have to launch TW3 installed 5 months ago.
It became increasingly hard to play the "long investment" games. I try to keep up with the new releases to at least have a taste in them though. Shit's hard.
>>335451893
>adult life
hhhhhhhhah
>>335461403
>parents insist you were a blessing not a burden
>you know as soon as you were born they didn't have time for anything
>you unwittingly stole a majority of their time for your own dumb sorry ass
>you will never give back the time you stole from your parents
>>335461426
>>Kids soon (hopefully)
Unless you have a very accommodating wife, you can kiss goodbye to those 8 hour sessions.
>>335461314
>maybe in 10-20 years gaming will improve.
Why would it when people are giving more and more money for less and less game?
>>335461582
If you're real unlucky she won't ever like fucking again, some women undergo serious hormonal changes pretty much killing their sex drive after giving birth
Probably because nature wants us to deliver kids quick and then stop before we get older and increase the odds of genetic defects and such
I don't have an adult life.
>>335451893
My average work day
>get up at 2020
>work from 2345 to 715
>hour+ break from 6-615 to 715 where I eat and take a short refresher nap to recharge for after-work
>get home around 740
>play vidya all morning and early afternoon until bedtime at 1530
It's fucking great honestly.
I'm 26 by the way my family-pie.
>>335461540
Only the most retarded of people have children without at least some glimmer of knowledge that they are going to have to make sacrifices.
Having seen some people's kids though, I do feel sorry for them, due to their offspring being natural born assholes.
>>335461320
R O F L
O
F
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Fuck off with the blogshit jesus christ
28, I work like, 10-12 hours a day cause I'm a programmer in a start up. I still manage to play vidya and have a social life, no romance in sight though.
>>335461343
>no kids because I need money for shit
>not ruinig her pus
Fucking degenerate.
>26
>work parttime,doing a degree
>when I'm not studying or meeting friends I'm playing vidya
>skip some sleep if time is running short
Not that hard.
>>335451893
>How do you balance vidya with adult life?
i dont
>Do you even enjoy games anymore?
sometimes
>>335451893
>24
>old
26 here,
Don't work the slightest bit more than 40 hours a week. If you can find a stable 32 hour a week job that pays well enough, you're golden.
>>335461824
My shift is almost the same but I get out at 0800 and get up at 2300. How do you stand 5 or less hours of sleep a day on top of it being ass backwards daytime sleep?
>>335451893
>Any older (24+) players here?
24 here
>How do you balance vidya with adult life?
Vidya is really my only hobby right now and since i'm unenployed because i just came back from a exchange program, i don't have much else to do besides looking for a job and play vidya.
>Do you even enjoy games anymore?
Fuck yeah, just this month iw as enjoying the hell of Battleborn beta, SF5 with some friends(because honestly, thak game fucking sucks even if you try playing online), Sleeping Dogs and ,surprisingly, Persona 4: Golden.
Honestly i don't have much going for right now besides waiting for college to start again, deal with my family's bullshit and cope with the fact that i might never leave the country ever again and i'll be stuck in here forever.
Shit, i miss living alone in Japan.
>23
>graduated last year
>unemployed, finding a job has been a struggle
>degree isn't some bullshit social science or anything either
>have quality work experience also
>if I don't get this job this week it'll probably mentally break me
Still I don't play vidya all that much over the course of a year. Mainly just big spurts when something of quality comes out. Witcher 3, MGSV, XCOM 2 and Dark Souls 3 probably have a combined playtime of 200 hours so far. I mostly just watch Netflix when i'm home.
25 here
moved away from pc and became a console casual
it's alright i guess, hoping to get an xbone if they release a slim version
>>335463187
JUST
>>335462459
My mis-type actually. I get up at 2220, not 2020. So I get just short of seven hours whilst I sneak another 30 mins in at work usually.
I like my days, it's like a 7/7/7 split of work/sleep/vidya. Works perfectly!
29.
Dont really enjoy games anymore, feels like im going through the motions. MGS V and DaS3 were fun though, i dont know what separates them from everything else.
I've been without a job since new year, but im about to become a marketing manager for a major phone company so my free time is about to be low.
I like video games, but recentally i dont really enjoy it, so i really feel like im wasting my life. I dont have any friends either. im not a nerd so i dont have an online life, but not cool enough to be a normie. so im stuck in this middle life.
>>335463809
That sounds absolutely miserable, why do you even live? Why don't you just sell everything and go travel the world? Or if you're too retarded to enjoy anything in life anymore, sell everything and give it to me so that I can live a decent life instead.
>>335464098
I'm quite well traveled, i wen to japan when i was 20 (boy, is that country overrated), the states, all over europe etc.
I got a girl that's cool so i go out with her friends from time to time. im not really 100% happy with that relationship either. someone said i might be depressed but i dunno how that works.
>>335464389
Here's how it works: you have a life that's way too good for your mental capabilities, so instead of being creative and doing awesome things, you get bored because you're literally too stupid for what you have.
>>335464501
the job is too easy actually...
193 IQ here, while I'm about as old as much of you I consider myself more mature than most people
There's nothing to balance when you and your bf are both NEETs :^)
I don't really find most games fun anymore besides bullet hells, competitive shit, and souls games (although I think 3 killed that for me, extremely shallow compared to BB and DS1)
Personally I think the gaming industry is too saturated to be interesting anymore. Occasionally you'll get a niche gem but 99% of it is uninspired garbage made and loved by literal autists, college/high school dropouts, and degenerates and offer nothing thought provoking.
The only reason I still play is because I want to attempt the esports meme :^)
>>335464389
>I'm quite well traveled, i wen to japan when i was 20 (boy, is that country overrated)
Same guy from here>>335463002
I miss living in there simply because i had a place of my own but i have to agree, that country is extremely overrated
>>335464389
>i wen to japan when i was 20 (boy, is that country overrated)
Do you know Japanese? I've been living here for a year so far and I'm loving it.
It probably is a case of expectations though, I didn't expect it to be some magical place where anime is real (that said seeing the school uniforms and visiting onsen etc does make it feel a bit real, but that'll be because those aspects of anime are based on real life here anyway).
>>335464618
>I want to attempt the esports meme :^)
This is how I can tell you're actually 2 digit IQ subhuman.
Everyone doing esports should just be hanged.
>>335464727
I just enjoy the high from winning, Anon.
Plus once you get your name known there are so many more possibilities available to you.:^)
>>335464618
I think you may have added an extra digit to your IQ
Which would explain your bf and "esport" interest, as in you are a female who wants to stream her tits while playing LoL.
>>335451893
I'm 24. I only work two days a week so plenty of time for video games due to the high wages in my country. My gf also works 2 days a week so together we can easily pay for food and rent, as well as video games and beer etc.
We play games together, now its Mass Effect. Currently on ME2.
What's the point of having children anyway.
Imagine all the money, time and energy you could save by not having them.
24+ is the definition of "older" now? Get the fuck out.
>>335464621
I'm sure you'll get your own place when you get a job.
>>335464656
I knew some basic and could take care of myself. I dont know what i expected but as the weaboo nerd most of us were/are i think i expected something crazy when in in the end it was just a cool country with a funny culture.
>>335464904
switzerland pls go
>>335451893
>Any older (24+) players here?
>Old
You're newfags that happen to grow up a little.
>>335465000
Norway, but I bet it goes for Switzerland too
I play almost exclusively old (pre-1995) games because new games are shit. And yes, I play a lot of old games.
>>335451893
24 here. Neet. Have all the time in the world to play vidya, but seeing friends move on with their lives and dealing with daily depression kinda takes the fun out of it.
I'm considering meds / anhero.
>>335464978
>I'm sure you'll get your own place when you get a job.
Probably not since my family has a huge ass debt they need to pay and it will take a while to pay for it.
I do plan to have my own car though. Having to rely on publi transport around here is not very safe and rides from my parents usually ends with me wasting 5 hours having to follow my mom around.
>>335459651
If you have a girlfriend you're a beta loser. The LAST thing you should ever voluntarily subject yourself to is a girlfriend.
>>335465325
are you gonna help your family? or else u could rent something
>>335465402
i got to. I mean, they have money problems but they are my family. I just wished they had more care with money ingeneral, they already got all my savings twice.
>>335465137
Getting a job will have temporarily, use that boost to branch out a little, make friends and shit.
It was like that for me but I didn't make use of it at all, Now I live NEET life with a paycheck and its not much better.
>>335457768
>married with two kids
What country allows you to marry children?
>this thread
Consider this: We are the first generation in HISTORY to be poorer than our parents without a war causing that poverty.
I don't. I work 70+ hrs a week and am too tired when I get home to play video games. I live my gamer life through twitch streamers now by getting drunk, chillin in chats, and passing out in my chair or on my couch.
I miss playing mario party with my friends all through the night.
29, 30 in a couple months.
Play tons of DotA 2, and other games while going to school full time. Wife and I watch lots of wrestling and have fun times.
Please get your depression treated if you aren't living the life you want.
>>335466160
Sucks to be you, we actually had a war in my country!
>>335465836
Middle East, Africa and also Europe, if you're a Muslim. Technically not legal in last place, but it's not like "authorities" have any power in mostly Muslim areas, and Sharia law that rules there, does not consider it crime.
>>335466186
I worked 65 hours a week (plus Sunday from time to time), and found out I'm making mistake of cutting down my sleep to play more.
In result instead of playing games, I was sitting in chair and wasting time on /v/ and youtube, because I was too tired to concentrate on game.
>>335451893
24 here
Balancing it between uni and work. I still get to play a fair amount even with seeing gf too.
Just say goodbye to those marathon day/night sessions.
I'm 27, 28 next month. Still live with my parents and I work nights in a grocery store. I pretty much just play games all day after I get home and take a nap.
I turn 20 in a few months and that scares me
>>335467416
It should, time will start going by so fast you won't have time to realize it.
>>335467416
I turn 20 next yearand I already feel too old. It's as if quality of everything just kind of plunged down and it's not going up anytime soon.
>>335451893
Balancing working, socializing, and all that adult shits with vidya is easy. Add chan and it become hard.
Leave this accursed place now.
>>335460419
no offense but this sounds awful, it's like you're a slave.
sometimes i feel like i should be more social and have gf but if this is what i'm going to become i'd rather be alone for the rest of my life
it's like you have to give up on life to become a family man
29 year old, soon-to-be-wizard here. I still with my mother not necessarily because I made bad choices. I just have no idea what I wanted to pursue as a career and basically am stuck between a rock and a hard place because now I'm 29 with no job prospects.
I blame the city I live in. Place is a shit hole. Apparently we're the number one growing city in the midwest but that means fuck all in this economy.
Don't really need to balance vidya with actual responsibilities because I don't have any of the latter. Feels bad man.
>>335467473
Holy shit this. I'm 24 and it feels like I was 20 just last year. I want off this ride.
>27
>wife and I are trying to buy a house
>work an hour away
>work 4 hours, lunch break, then 4 more hours
>after an hour to work, 9 hours there and an hour back, I am out of the house for 11 hours a day
>need to get 8 hours of sleep a night on average due to medical reason
>Have dinner with wife for an hour every night
>after all is said and done, I'm tired as fuck and have 3 hours of free time, most of which is spent house hunting
Life is suffering.
Friday night and Saturday are my only reprieve.
>>335467868
Same here, the only difference is that I'm 23 and I live on Rio de Janeiro, I can't get motivated on this shit hole.
>>335467604
fuck I thought I was young, but i'm turning 21 next year. I guess I've been on this place since I was 14 though
>and it still shitalso that means you guys used to be the little kids in the grade below me, fuck
>>335468114
rio is big as fuck, if you can't get any motivation there it's pretty much your fault. that anon seems to live in a tiny place in the middle of nowhere (though he could have moved out) so it serves as an excuse
>>335468615
You are probably right, I'm just making a excuse, i really don't know what to do with my life. I planned suicide a couple of times but I always think how my mother would feel.
At least videogames keeps my mind busy.
>>335452195
I left my house at the age of 16, then I got called to come back by the age of 18 for a couple of months, and once again when I was I'm 21, been here since then (26 atm)..
I saved 3 lives since January. I find it hard to believe people would me dead without me.
>>335467868
>>335467868
i know how it feels mate. I'm 24 and i ned to finsih collge, but to do that i need to finish my TCC and get a job as an intern. Nobody is hiring right now.
>>335451893
>Any older (24+) players here?
28
>How do you balance vidya with adult life?
i don't
>Do you even enjoy games anymore?
Not really
>>335451893
25+ here
full-time high salary job, 9~5 work weeks
300+ hours logged on Xenoblade X
It's really about your prioritization. That's not to say you shouldn't take breaks. But if you the the type of person who's always out on weekends, it will be difficult.
28
I have job but no social life so there's plenty of time for videogames. But I don't make long sessions anymore and think that vidya takes too much of already sparse free time
>turning 27 in a few months
Moved-in with fiancée and am living with her in her parent's basement. It's not ideal but we're trying to save cash for our own house.
Vidya time plummeted hard when I moved there. 2 weeks ago, we bought a dog and now I have even less time for vidya. I work for VIA Rail and am on the road a lot, but it also means I have the weirdest days off.
Some weeks, I can cover myself in Cheetos and not wear pants until someone gets home. Some weeks, I have to fantasize until the next time I can turn my PC or a console on.
Shit really sucks, sometimes.
>the making way above average bux for my generation but am dead inside
>>335468180
Nigga wait till you're 26 like me and feeling those same feels. You guys were in middle school when I was on /v/
I'm not even one of the oldest ones here, must feel even stranger for older anons
>>335470048
why on earth would you get a dog
>>335470361
If you've ever had a dog you'd understand why
They're a more loyal companion than any person could ever be
>>335451893
I don't care to even play anymore at 28, i'd rather be working or playing with my car. I can't even find any casual or good story driven games that I can play for more than 15 minutes.
It's really frustrating but freeing at the same time.
24
I don't balance it, I use video games as an unhealthy means of escape and put too much time into them
Yes
>>335470467
i mean why would you get a dog when you dont even have your own place yet?
>>335470361
It was a decision made by her and her familia. I mean, I love dogs too but the responsibility falls on me too much strictly because my hours are whack.
Believe me, I felt buyers remorse like you wouldn't believe.
Today, I came the closest I've been to killing Nameless King but the new dog started to bully the older, full-of-anxiety dog. I had to put the controller down and just die, both in-game and mentally.
I just wanna play video game...
>>335470261
i dont wanna think that senpai, lifes too big and shit
like finding a wife and kids and a house and a career? im just some uni kid who lifts weights and plays vidya.
>>335459816
That's because you had a kid dipshit
You have loads of free time and cash in a relationship provided you don't fuck up and have a child
>>335470714
fuck my name was still here from another thread
>>335452195
>Normal people move out from their parents at 18 and are well established at 24
Friendly reminder that moving out young is something that's only happened for about 20 years in all of human history
People are reverting back to living at home longer is reflective of what is now "normal"
This has little to do with the person and everything to do with the employment and housing markets where they liv
>>335470467
But you don't even have a house, dude. Why not wait for an ideal living situation then get a dog?
>>335467416
>>335467473
>Almost 23
>Still remember my 16th birthday as if it was yesterdayI actually sometimes forget how old I am and think that I'm still 17 or 18.
>>335452264
Moved out when i was 15 to attend upper secondary.
>>335452713
>I was a foster kid
You didn't move out. You were never in.
>>335455604
>You mean your wife had a kid
Dose jok3s m80s! ;^)
>>335471026
Wasn't solely my choice. I'm adapting. It's good practice for when we have kids as I'm seeing what it's like to have zero time for hobbies.
I used to play Fantasy competitively and 40k casually. I can't tell you the last time I even played a game.
Heed my warning, buckeroos; you can't have a normal life and abnormal hobbies. No matter what, you have to sacrifice one and you'll always be unhappy.
>graduate from university in less than 2 weeks
>absolutely unreal amount of student loan debt
>still going to live with parents for a few years
>havent gotten calls back from any of the places i applied to
I'm sitting here worrying that I'm going to end up a deadbeat who no one will hire, and Sallie Mae is going to come knocking on my door, wondering where their money is.
>>335467604
>I turn 20 next year
>I already feel too old
nigga you were born in fucking 1997
you're literally young enough to be my kid
you're not old, you a literal fucking child
>>335470261
You're average age for /vr/. Go over there and ask about age. I'd bet 10% of that board is over 30.
>>335471397
No doubt, the cut off for retro over there is PS1/N64 era so you'd have to be around my age or older to have played that era as a kid and have nostalgia for it
>>335467416
>>335467604
Don't worry anons, because it actually gets worse from here on.
>>335451893
26 here. Nowadays I only play at night and weekends when I feel like it.
24 here. Will be 25 in December
I'm full-on NEET. Suffering from depression for nearly 10 years and never worked a day in my life.
I don't think I've truly enjoyed a game for quite some time now. I mostly play to distract myself from my problems.
>How do you balance vidya with adult life?
By obsessively playing until whatever other responsibilities I have become absolutely necessary or overdue. My college grades are pretty much A with a negative modifier of how many hours I wanted to play everyday.
Luckily my fiance finds my gameplaying habits annoying but respects that I have hobbies.
>>335451893
I'm single. No kids, Two jobs. I got money and free some time.
>>335451893
I'm turning 26 and want to die
>>335471342
>abnormal hobbies
Like?
>>335451893
I'm single, so I masturbate to 2D waifus and lack both the maturity or the personality to get a real girlfriend. I'm taking college classes and getting financial aid on the side from that, while working a part time day job as a cashier at a supermarket. I live with a room mate in a two-bedroom apartment and we're both gamers with other gamer friends in real life, so we host LAN parties on the weekends sometimes and also do table-top RPG stuff.
Honestly, I'm your stereotypical /tg/ neckbeard (although, I do shave, and I'm not overweight)
I'm 32 btw. I've been on 4chan since the dinosaurs created it.
>25
>graduated a few years back then applied to be a pilot with military while I worked a shit job
>finally got in
>2 months into basic realise this career will totally shred my relationship since we can't do long distance in this kind of environment
>bail
Now I'm unemployed, looking at summer courses to get my CGPA up for law school. So I have lots of free timeand my fair share of regrets
>>335460032
Try something new dammit.
>>335472164
Video games and warhammer.
They may not seem like it but normies (actual normies, not CoD dudebros) look at those things like children's activities.
Why do you thing The Big Bang Theory got so huge?
>>335452934
Isaac?
Please explain how anyone can browse this shitty imageboard for more than a couple of years and not get terribly bored of it.
I've barely been around for 4 years and the sheer repetitiveness and banality of it all has reduced my browsing habits to basically 40 minutes of mild lurking per day. Even when I do come here, all I find is retards who are so obviously underage.
There is no value here. It's not informative. Meme-spouting teenagers make it painfully unfunny. With full anonymity, any sense of comradeship or community you might get here is just an illusion. It's a terrible, terrible waste of time that only someone who's experiencing for the first time in his life might find entertaining.
I mean, just what kind of drooling retard finds something as dumb as the word "JUST" written with spaces between letters funny? How fucking mentally deficient must he be to continue to find it funny month after month, year after year? What's the fucking point of all that? We used to make fun of 9gag and Reddit for being stupid cunts who keep unfunny shit alive for years purely because it's le meme, but apparently nowadays you can do just the same on 4chan and that's what passes for content here.
I simply refuse to believe anyone over the age of 25 still uses this site.
>>335472701
There's always something "new" to read. It's like mindlessly scrolling through a Facebook feed for me, except I prefer it since it's not all reposts of memes reposted by another page who reposted it (I said it's not ALL) and I have the option of a few boards to do so on, mostly here, occasionally /co/, and /gd/ and /toy/ now and then.
>>335470048
Thats cool bro, can you get me a job with VIA rail?
>>335472985
Do you speak French? It's mandatory.
>>335472701
It's pretty simple.
You learn to mentally filter out those posts or you burn out and leave.
It helps if you increase the speed of your mouse scroll wheel so you can just blow through threads that are full of shitposts and have nothing you find relevant to read.
>>335473080
This. I don't even see the porn anymore. Try explaining waifushit to normies looking over your shoulder, though. That's uncomfortable.
24 here
my adult life is pretty boring
not really
>>335451893
>Any older (24+) players here?
More than you'd think. Also, 24 is not "older".
>How do you balance vidya with adult life?
Moderation, like with everything.
>Do you even enjoy games anymore?
Of course. I may not enjoy the same types of games I used to, but I still love the medium.
>>335473204
>normies
Fuck off reddit
These threads always make me feel a little better about my own situation.
It makes me realise that I'm not the only faggot who's too lazy to man up and fix his life.
27. I have an engineering job I work 8am-5pm M-F. I live with my gf who is a singer/actress so I usually see her in the morning but only for an hour in the afternoon. I like to game 6-10pm on weekdays, and usually all day on the weekends if I'm busy or working out.
When she doesn't have a show or a gig she hangs out with me. Some days she wants me to not game so we can spend time together, but she knows I'm great at it, I'm playing with family or friends online, and I just made a twitch channel for fun.
She entered the relationship knowing I like to game and it's futile to try to change me. I've played video games since I was 3 or 4, and it's just where I thrive. I work hard, I work out, and I game. It's just the best hobby there is.
>>335472701
Because I lurk a dozen boards, so there's usually something I find interesting at any point. Also, you get acclimated to the shitposts. They stop bothering you after a while.
>>335472701
It's fast, and there's always something to find in the catalog, since threads get bumped off and made anew all the time. And failing that, you can always just browse for pictures of cute anime grills or amusing shitposts to while your time away.
/vg/ is fucking cancer, though. Same shit all the time, with tripfag circlejerk to sour it even further.
>>335451893
I just play whenever I have the desire to
> 23
> internship as "part time job" for 20h a week every single morning
> university classes every single afternoon
> live with my parents and that isn't unfortunately changing anytime soon because lol prices
> play some vydia for 2 or 3 hours almost everyday when I don't have to do university stuff
Just turned 29 on Friday, and toss me in as one more "life just never got started" fellow. Still live at home, never had a relationship, work nights, and don't really interact with anyone anymore, which is generally fine by me. I usually wake as regular people are packing it in, and go to bed as people eat lunch. I'm generally too exhausted after work to really focus on playing games. I attempt to on my nights off, but generally, I just forget or am pre-occupied with something else. I'd love to at least move out, but rent in even the stabbier parts of town are beyond my income range, and I lack the career skills (not to mention networking ability) to pursue employment in a location that would allow me to move.
It's surprising difficult, and I have had a much harder time to enjoy games. Pic related is the last game I've completed 100% and had fun with. Partly because pretty alright and another part because I just had my gallbladder removed and couldn't get out of bed for a few days.
I recently got a 9 tp 5 (well 5:30 due to lunch) job, and I thought I'd have so much time after work to play vidya. However, after fighting with traffic both to and from work, doing house work, cooking, and trying to handle other things...It's normally like 10:30 or 11 at night before I can sit down to attempt to play a game. By then, I'm so tired that I normally end up just browsing here while laying in bed.
The only thing I play regularly is FFXIV because I'll do a a roulette or 2 and call it a night. Here recently I've had trouble even being able to do that! So this normally leads to me spending 1 whole day off trying to catch up on the gear grind that I've missed out on instead of playing other vidya.
>>335459651
>Married
>WIth 2 fucking 4
There are quicker ways to end ones life.
Youre still a kid with 24 unless youre amerifat and look like 50 already
Is renting worth it? or should I just save the money to buy a place?
Played rocket league over the weekend with my homeboys, haven't had this much fun since I was a little girl.
€12 is still too much for that basic content.
Show me a single game released in the last 5 years that isn't either shit or a rehash of an idea I already played to death back in the 90s/early 00s.
There isn't one.
>nearly 27
>three years to 30
>mfw
>>335474028
Saving up for a mortgage is generally the best idea, rent is just dead money.
>>335472701
To be honest, I feel like I still only come here out of habit. I started coming here in 2010, 2011 and 2012 were the peak years of /v/ for me, I can't even remember 2013, 2014 was fucking terrible enough to break my 4chan addiction for a while, and 2015 and 2016 are just boring.
>>335474260
At least you're not a virgin, right?
28
Engaged to my partner of 8 years now.
Have a 3 bedroon house with about £100K on the mortgage (25 years left).
Work 6 days a week (extra day is overtime for the fucking house)
VERY little time for vidya, Divinity Original Sin is taking me a month and a half to complete. I'm sure i'd have more time though if I left /v/ but it's become a habit after 9 years.
To think I once wasted 2000+ hours on a YuGiOh GBA game in just under a year now I scrape for every minute I can outside of work and relationships just to complete a single playthrough of an RPG.
>>335474095
Metal gear rising.
Got a good job some months ago, can afford rent and still have money so last month i finally got a ps4, bought bloodborne and witcher 3...reality is i barely have time to play, maybe spend few hours at night but i really really enjoy them.
>>335474739
OK, fair cop, I played the fuck out of Rising.
>>335451893
i'm about to turn 24
all i do is play the same game i played over a fucking decade ago, runescape. i haven't made any meaningful life progress since i was 18
please fucking kill me on the way to work god
>>335451893
>25
>oldfag
>me
>yes
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucccccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkk
oh to answer your question
>Have absolutely no life
>beat depression
>Retreat into vidya
>???
>yay
>>335474028
It really depends on a few factors.
If you're absolutely miserable where you're at right now and can find a place within your current budget, I'd say it's worth it. I left home when I was 20 after having a really bad fall out with my family and was super depressed just being home. I was completely worth struggling and living off a tight budge to be free of their bullshit. It also helped that shortly after moving out, I found some friends and we decided to move in together. Rent is far more manageable with roommates.
Yet, if you're happy where you're at, then might as well take advantage of a free place to live. I really hate that so much of my money went to nothing since there's no investment in paying for an apartment but hey, I would have been in a much worse state if I hadn't left when I did.
Though I'm discovering that it's easier to get a house than I thought. Hopefully I'll be ready to buy one in another year or so.
>>335452195
>Normal people move out at 18
Dumbasses and rich people leave that young. If you had issues with your family that's on you but I don't leave because I live my parents and I rather help them pay their mortgage instead of some fat Pakistani.
>>335451893
It's hard. I am 26 and have a gf and a kid now.
She isn't a gamer at all but has never hassled me about playing, she just teases that one day our kids is going to learn from me and my gaming ways.
That said I play a lot less than I used to. I generally go through phases. Don't really play anything for a while then something I have been looking forward to like ds3 comes out and its pretty much all my free time and I nolife it.
I am lucky that even though she doesn't play games at all, she gets its my hobby and she has her own hobbies I leave her to.
Honestly, I'm happy. I played an unhealthy amount in my youth
>>335474028
>live in rented accomodation for 25 years
>literally 25 years of money thrown down a hole
>get a 25 year mortgage
>monthly repayments are the same as rent prices these days
>have a house with no more payments at the end of 25 years
The only real drawback is if you think you'll be moving in those years.
>>335475201
Holy fuck who can stand living in one place for 25 years?
>>335451893
>Even so I'm probably going to move back into my parent's place because even though I can afford to live on my own, I simply can't save up money to actually buy a house or a new car or any of that shit with how high rent is in my area.
Even leeching off of your parents, you're not going to be able to afford a house without an education and a decent job. I'm sorry, but it's just not how your life was meant to play out. Better luck in the next one.
24 and finished my bachelor back in january, still looking for a job.
At least I got an internship with time for vidya on the side. Hope I can get part time for a real job.
Don't want to work my life away.
>>335451893
25 about to be 26.
A lot of games have lost value to me, especially MMOs.
I find myself enjoying episodic games or short games that focus on story more than I used to now.
Love Dwarf Fortress since I can play it at work and no one can even tell what it is.
>>335474895
Seriously no progress? After that long time? What have you ou been doing?
By now you should at least have a skillcape.
>>335463187
Hue i did this a couple of years ago
Went back to my PC to find it had a 770 4gb oc which barely gets medium 1080p in alot of games at 60fps any more.
Said fuck it sold my xboner because it had no games to a dumbshit on ebay for $350aud and going to get a polaris Fury 8gb hmb2 16gb if and when it exists
24 is not old, in fact it's young. In my opinion.
>>335471586We know
>>335474028
On a similar subject to this guy, is it weird that I feel like I would rather live in an apartment than a house? If and when I finally get round to moving out, I think I would prefer a very minimalist lifestyle, and a house just feels too big when I don't think I'll have that much stuff.
>>335475449
i've never even had a 99
i'm a failure in runescape and life
>>335471792
Take a break and do other shit
i spent 5 years working on and off since i was 20 odd it was gr8
made lost friends traveled did a bunch of shit now i am right back at the start.
Still the same awkward virgin
27 here. i just play at night and on thr weekends when Im not at my fulltime job. also, I have no gf so I have plenty of time
>>335472701
its simple 4chan is always there
>feeling depressed?
>/v/
>Feeling lonely?
>vidya
>???
great substitute for no social life or when your low.
Just get comfy and enjoy the ride.
>>335475356
>Bachelor
>Real job
>waiting
Like me you will be waiting forever and i did any work i could
Reading this thread makes me really think about how much time I've wasted on 4chan. I'm 23, and I've been spending entire days and nights messing around on /v/ since around 2011, and going nowhere with my life. Fucking hell, I need to get my shit together and quit this place.
26 and I've been here for 10 years.
Kill me.
jobs aren't that much fun.
they make school seem like it was pretty good.
but now we just have to do these jobs for 40 years or more.
i dont like the sound of that too much.
how do you become a millionaire with no real skills ? i dont want to work a job every day for the rest of my life, it doesnt seem that great.
>>335476178
>how do you become a millionaire with no real skills
be born one
>>335451893
Not 24 (actually 21), life is kinda shitty, i just want to finish enginiering, pack my shit and move as for from my parents as i can, live in a nice place, buy a decent pc to play all these games everyone's talking about
also i dont want kids, i'll probably try to move from country to country every 5 years or so
>>335476165
25 and 9 years
>>335476165
>10 years
literal cuck
kys smf desu familia
>>335475650
Fuck even in video games you're a failure. At least you're not a virgin.
>>335472701
I like the no-strings-attached nature of social interaction on this website. Whenever I don't feel like talking to someone, I just don't reply. Whenever I say something stupid, it's not going to come back to me. I'm not left with any reputation when I spend my time here.
>>335476486
at least i have that
>>335451893
27
I very much still enjoy vidya. Only problem is that I'm a failure who still lives with his parents and shares a room with his brother. I have a problem with coping with failure in front of others, so playing vidya is difficult. Plus I work 40 hours a week.
>>335476413
I'm sorry you didn't get to witness the first Japan time.
>>335451893
>24
>still live with parents
>working 2 jobs and training to become a pro musician
>haven't had the time or money to play new games for a couple years now
>hanging around /v/ and keeping up on the latest releases and memes is the only thing holding me back from going full normie
I have this hope/fear that I'll come back to vidya when I'm settled as an adult/given up and gone the neet way, but right now I'm at that time in life when I really don't have time for kid's stuff.
>old fag status is based on age
I want Newfags to leave
>>335476413
>tfw the memes over the last two years have been completely awful
>turning 25 next year
>a quarter of life gone
>>335451893
25
Recently I have started to lose interest in playing games, not that long after getting into a good job. The free time I had for games is replaced by mindless browsing or watching videos.
I don't like this.
>>335451893
I'm a NEET
>>335476978
I just catch up on older games these days. I've been playing PS2 games I missed out on back in the day, like Ace Combat and the Shin Megami Tensei games, and it's nonsensical to me how people pay full price for games, when I can get great older games for much less.
>>335459505
what did u study?
>>335474895
i also haven't made much progress mate.
It sure wasnt for the lack of trying though.
27
I work as amobilegame programmer and live in a 1 bedroom apartment on my own. No idea how you guys get burned out of games. Drinks and board games on friday nights with the fellows, chores and errands on saturday, hang out with my boyfriend on sunday. Vidya every day for a few hours at night.
Turning 28 next week.
I have an easy job and live with my parents. I have a lot of free time and no responsibilities aside from making sure I pay things on time. I have plenty of time to play games.
I still enjoy playing games though I don't play near as much as I used to.
Also 24 isn't old. Not even close.
I'd guess that there are very few if any old people on this site. By old I mean 65 and up.
>X, amount of times you have sex over a year
>Y, hours you play vidya in a week
Y better not be higher than X, pham.
>>335455180
ROFL its that guy that makes the funny faces on youtube LMAO
>>335477042
25 in may 21st ill let you know what it feels like.
>>335452420
To me. You made it anon
>>335477601
Retard
27, every time I buy a game I can't seem to finish it.
>>335474095
Saints Row 4
Wargame series
Alien Isolation
Rainbow Six Siege
>>335477436
nohomo or girl?
Either way good for you.what gaem? Ill load up my m8
>31
>full time job, decent pay
>can afford car, nice flat, all vidya I want
>enough time to play due to shifts
To be able to still play much, I pay with little social activity, couple of long term friends who I see occasionally. No gf in 7 years, but no fat neckbeard so I had my share of action back in the days. Sometimes I order a prostitute, otherwise I don't give much of a fuck.
>>335477785
i usually try to finish 5-10 a year.
2013-2015 i basically did no gaming at all.
All i remember is getting shitfaced and playing GTA V and Shadows of MoreDur
>>335478683
All my longterm friends went insane around my age 23-25 so i never see them anymore.
Feels weird
all the 26+ year olds went full normie
>>335477607
Can't that be applied to all reaction images?
>ROFL its the guy who makes the funny faces on the TV show LMAO
>ROFL its the guy who makes the funny faces on the anime LMAO
>ROFL its the guy who makes the funny faces on the video game LMAO
>>335478545
those are all shit though
Since when did oldfag correlate to age? Why do I keep in seeing this nowadays?
>>335478932
Probably because no one believes that you or anyone else are 4chan veterans anymore, oldfag is now a term for old people who play vidya
>>335478791
Yeah, same. They get kids nowadays and post their lunch on facebook. The few close ones I have however, are still cool to hang around with.
>>335452264
The fuck? Everybody there move out at 18 to attend university or equivalent education. Paying for a rent is not the problem of the shitty economy we have.
>>335455180
poor life choice happen, or else he wouldn't be on 4chan too, like us.
>>335479093
Dunno how you did it to be honest.
My problem is i cant seem to get any work.
Tried moving doesnt work still no work for 20 somethings in aus atm alot of blokes our age stuck at home.
I dont even mind kids its just the parents that are mainly the problem ironically its my male friends that went psycho or just totally dropped contact :s
I'm 25.
Currently working full time and taking evening classes twice a week to get my MBA.
MBA program is honestly pretty easy so far, but the GF takes up a lot of my gaming time. I don't mind it, its just hard to break the mindset of patiently finishing a game piece by piece instead of binging through it like I used to.
Playing Dark Souls 3 right now, only just beat the abyss watchers. Was a pretty awesome fight. I play Destiny or League on Tuesdays with my friends from college, so we keep in touch that way, and that's fun. Still, the backlog just keeps growing.
>>335479578
Also my parents are rich and paid for my schooling so I have no debt, if that's worth mentioning.
29 here. I grew up on NES and consoles.
Around 18 or 19 I stopped buying new vidya and started spending most of that money on music gear. Last new console I bought was a PS2.
Still play vidya but it's 99% emulator and PC/gog downloads now. Still enjoy them but it's getting harder for me to disassociate and immerse myself in them. Really want one of the new 3DS desu
29, $10/hr about 28 hours a week. My job does deliveries on contract that I can take for some extra money, but I generally don't need to. I live with my GF, but she's the chillest person on the planet and completely approves of vidya as a hobby.
I don't play anything with a ton of DLC or a season pass. I haven't bought into the current gen at all. I'm simply too used to buying a complete game all at once.
>>335479717
dont worry if you literally have no life Vidya is great.
i dropped it when i was around 19-24 for real life and that turned out to be shit so i went back to vidya.
>>335452195
>Normal people move out from their parents at 18
That's more like an american thing
>>335479837
This.
EU AU NZ its pretty normal to stay the fuck at home especially in UK and AU where house prices are stupidly high and there is nowork
>>335451893
I'm 23 and won't be have even graduated college until I'm 25. Then I'm going to grad school just to delay entering the work force. I'm going to be 27 with no real job experience trying to find my first real career position. I'm fucked. But at least I have 4 more years of jerking off and playing vidya.
>>335480047
Lol ive been in the work force on and off for what 10 years.
There is nothing mate even if you start work at 15 theres no full time or permo part time only casual/contract
>>335478910
okay
>>335479367
I went through an apprenticeship and wrote applications until hired. Before that, worked all kinds of jobs, at at diner, pizza delivery, supermarket, night shifts at a postal factory. Dunno how things down under work. I suppose getting a qualification can't be wrong either way. If I ever get tired of my profession, I might become a carpenter or smith.
Went to trade school for massage therapy, live with a few roomates and pay about 350 a month with utilities and put about 500 away a month for potential house someday, work 25 hours a week making ~25k a year....flexible work schedule = not having to wake up until 10-1030 most days. Play on average 2 to 3 hours worth of video games daily, could play more but I try to have some sort of social life.
>>335480631
sounds comfy
>>335480594
>I might become a carpenter or a smith
Few hundred years late there
>>335451893
28.
I play a lot when my wife goes to bed, we stopped going out to parties and such so my weekends are open for vidya now.
>>335477042
>25
>Quarter of life
lmao more like 1/3 if you diet and exercise properly, if you're on /v/ chances are your lifestyle won't even suit for 1/2 of that.
>>335452420
>26
>dropped out of school at 22
>work a shit tier job
>live with mom
>no plans to go back to school
Just kill me. I should have gone back to school, i would have been almost done by now. I can still learn how to code and get a real job r-right guys?
>>335481034
HOW2EXTENDLIFE
>>335451893
i'm 26 in canada
dont have a diploma
dont have a job (living off depression buxx)
i've embraced my status as a NEET and found a comfortably routine for living and being happy while maintaining good relationships with my family and friends
>>335480047
at least you could afford secondary education. you should be thankful for that much
>>335481269
Try a trade school. Programs generally aren't more than a year or so and you can make enough money to at least move out. Or just rot at home I d k.
>>335480889
>Few hundred years late there
Maybe I used the old fashioned words cause english is my second, but otherwise nope. Crafting/construction is a relatively safe bet. Every young shit nowadays does economics or media design, but you know your shit in carpenry or car mechanics or whatever and you are set.
>>335464904
Is Norway accepting of immigrants? Northern Europe always sounded peaceful. I'm mainly Danish and Denmark always gets one of the highest ratings for happiness/Q.o.L.
>>335451893
29
I play the most in the weekends when my gf has to work double shifts(one saturday every two weeks). I could play some weekdays after work but i prefer doing other stuff (gym, having a beer with the mates, going to a restaurant with the gf...)
I still enjoy games, stopped playing online games tought, people in some comunities has become unbearable
>>335452264
Found the "liberal" who blames everyone else for his downfalls and feels entitled to other peoples benefits from working hard and is the reason liberals are more like socialists now.
Enjoy being 35 blogging about how welfare doesnt give you enough money to buy nice things or excessive junk food and how it's people like me who have worked every day of their lives fault for not giving you enough.
MFW seeing little brats bitching about "slave wages" who have never worked more than 4 months at a time with no bills living with their parents
>>335452281
>buy CS:GO
>Play for 10 hours with bros
>Bros all hardcore, hundred upon hundreds of hours
>Everyone's unboxing shit, seeing who gets the best
>I want to play, buy 5 boxes
>3rd box get some purple knife worth $85
>Everyones raging mad as fuck, dont play or care about CS:GO really
>Sell knife for $75 and buy a bunch of games
Game wasn't bad. 7/10, would sell knives again
>>335451893
27 here, working 60 hours a week, gf, doing sports 3 times a week.
I get ultradrunk on friday with friends in order to play all saturday long completely hungover with a shitload of pizzas and tea. And I love this moment, kind of a Shabbat
>29
>Married, seven years this year, been going out since we were both 16~
>Both have jobs
>No kids
>Apartment
It's fairly comfy. We live on the second floor of this house, the landlords live below us, they're a nice older couple. I work 36-40 hours a week, but I still have time for vidya. Days off are usually reserved for chores or shopping or cleaning but otherwise I play regularly.
I don't play many modern games, although I've been going through the Uncharted series since it came with my PS4. Our living room has both our computers and the TV (as well as a tiny CRT with a VCR for old movies). When we get home after work, we usually watch movies/YouTube until bed. If there's a game we wanna play, we do that instead.
My wife usually plays MMOs, fighting games, puzzle games, and really enjoys finding room escape/flash escape games, usually obscure ones from Japanese indie devs that are free. I tend to go with almost any game, and my wife likes to watch me play because they tend to be entertaining. Xenoblade Chronicles X was hard, because the game story/writing went from charming to annoying, and she absolutely hated the chorus of the fighting music and demanded I finish fights quickly to end that song. She really likes Uncharted, mostly from the character aspect.
Currently, I like to play Enter the Gungeon or Darkest Dungeon, since I can usually play quick rounds between watching videos/movies. My wife always cheers me on and it's cool having someone root for you on these more difficult games.
If we're lucky, we can find an MMO to play together. We used to live long-distance, so MMOs were one of the only ways we could really be "together" for a long time.
Okay, that's enough of my blog post.
tl;dr I play short sessions mostly unless a major release comes out that I really want to see.
24 here
worst part about this hobby is that i feel like ive played every game that i could possibly enjoy, and i have to watch beloved franchises from my youth fall apart and die.
everyone always has that one game they play endlessly, making friends and being apart of a community surrounding it, but then it just vanishes.
all these new games coming out have zero ability to do such a thing anymore, don't know if it's just a growing up thing but it sucks.
>31
>my gf and I live with my parents and care for them due to illness
>I work 40+ and she stays home
>have whole bottom level to ourselves and it's big
>parents won't take our money because we help them
>coop any chance we get, or watch movies
Nice having all my income to do what I want and only pay a few bills
>>335463259
Where do you live that has 21 hour days?
>27
>full time job
>live with gf in my parents apartment
>both parents have health issues
>gf goes to school
>gf doesn't play vidya but she doesn't mind me playing because she has her own hobbies
>can't afford moving out, 60% of my salary for rent
Feels terrible, all my co-workers have rich parents so they live in really nice apartments. I swear to god if another one of them asks me why I still live with my parents I'm going to stab them in their fucking eyeballs
>>335455290
>I would kill myself if (condition)
Kek, so the cool guys HAVE to move once the Earth turned 20 times around the sun?
Do we also have to smile to one side, walk in a relaxed manner and be really good at a particular activity?
>>335466382
It's actually pretty autistic you responded to a joke post with your little /pol/ rant.
>>335473581
Almost had me, but you went too far with the bull shit
>she knows I'm great at it, I'm playing with family or friends online, and I just made a twitch channel for fun.
>>335451893
32 here.
I play 2-3 hours of vidya on weeknights, and more on weekends. My girlfriend doesn't play much, but she liked to watch while reading her magazines on the couch with me.
Holy shit that was hard.
>>335472701
J U S T
>>335472701
>year after year
You have been here for less than a year you fucking faggot. How the fuck has "JUST" been going on for "Year after year"?
Remember to report, sage and hide blog threads.
>>>/r9k/
>>335451893
Im a games critic so I can mix vydia with my job nicely but at this point I have lost my ability to play games for fun every time I start taking notes on what I dislike/hate about it
Even when I dont have to make a review on the game im doing it in my head out of habit
OP pic is similar to how I feel. Just replace hotdogs with "modern vidya"
Im 25. And it feels like I just get games n am dissatisfied more often than not. Casualized/press x to win games feel like extended tutorials compared to older titles. Not immersed ever anymore..
I dont blame age/growing out of vidya.. I know for a fucking fact games are souless money sucking shitters nowadays
>>335452647
my family life was horrid so I had moved out at 16
Yea trying to live on your own off a part time job (was still in high school at the time) ends badly
>>335451893
>graduate
>get job making decent dosh
>climb the ladder, make more dosh
>the more i make the less time i have for everything else
>recently, come to realization that every minute, every hour i spend on vidya is potential earnings down the drain
i didn't think it would become like this
>>335485050
>normies nigger memes
>>335485026
you live a very gay life
>>335474702
Why can't faggots just say "engaged". Fucking attention whores.
>>335484640
it's been around since around late-2014/early-2015
>>335485620
Being a cynical asshole is not a happy life
That being said I am glad I have the job I have
>>335451893
31 years. I don't have an adult life.
ITT: grown men who can't justify the path they are on and cope by insulting the path that others took. Kill yourselves.
>>335452420
>exact same deal
>know a lot of people that have done the same
personally I chose to join the military, my grades were terrible and 18 yr old me felt I needed to get in shape
left after a year (basically 2-3 months after basic), but much better work ethic since then. completing my bachelors next year. started when I was 24, 23 was MS entry. So basically wasted one year.
beyond that I just kick back and play vidya with my bro, we both have just realized then when people give us shit for playing too much vidya (mostly jolly cooperation) it's 90% jealousy and 10% concern (he's masters, financial consultant in top company in the country, dgaf still just cares about vidya basically lol)
been a few girls that kinda might have been a go for a gf over the years, but basically they'd always go with "you're like a brother to me" or "you're really nice but I just think we should be friends"
that said a lot of them have had no problem kissing me/playing with my dick on the rare occasion. So I'm pretty sure I'm around a 6/10, super average I'd say.
others have really fucked me over, cheated on their bfs with me. tried to drive a wedge between my best bro of 24 years and myself
I'm at the point now where friends (girls and guys I know) who I've known for many years have turned around and walked away from me. In some cases for nothing more than; you played your guitar wrong in this song. As far as girls go, never ask out anyone's sister. Especially if she's crazy and so is her mother.
Games even if I don't play them as much now are still something I can get absorbed in and have fun with. I don't feel I have to apologize for that, nor is it uncommon at all with young men.
If I had kids or a gf it might be a different story in terms of time put in, but that's not happened.
All anyone can do is try anon. You probably know more people than you think who are 50+ with no gf, no kids etc
It just doesn't come together for some people.
>been in retail for 5 years because no license
>get driver license
>want to apprentice in instrumentation
>recession hits
>employer market
>no one wants to hire a starter
>can't get general labour job either
Time to ride out the recession with more retail.
Enough of the blog posting though. For me I have to really want to play a game in order to motivate myself enough to pop one in. I spend too much time feeling sorry for myself that when I end up picking a game up I just stare at the screen for a bit before turning it off and going to lurk.
However I recently got back into Monster Hunter due to hype for Generations. I've been playing that for at least 3 or 4 hours a day for the past week or so. I also have a D&D group I meet up with on Saturdays when we're all free, so that helps break things up. We usually play for 6 or 7 hours.
>>335488034
>Especially if she's crazy and so is her mother.
Depends. Are they crazy enough for a crazy theesome?
>le move out when you're 18 meme
Not everyone wants to live in a shitty, small apartment with tons in debt.
>>335489118
B-but anon, you HAVE to grow up. Having huge amounts of debt and working 24/7 as a wagecuck to support your soon to be born children is the only way to live a responsible adult life.
>>335462426
this
since I got a 30h/week job with flexible schedule my life quality got so much better it's not even funny
FUCK BEING OBEDIENT FOR GREEN PIECES OF PAPER TO SOMEONE WHO COULD GIVE A FUCK ABOUT YOU
FUCK NOT GOING FOR MY DEEPEST DESIRES AS A HUMAN BEING
FUCK OWNING A HOUSE IT FEELS LIKE A PRISON
FUCK BUYING THINGS OVER AND OVER TILL I DIE I NEVER WILL FEEL SATISFIED
FUCK ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THEY DESTROY HUMAN BEINGS TRUE PURPOSE.
>>335490156
YEAAAAH!!
Umm what now? I'm cold, hungry and have nowhere to go.
>>335489929
I work 30h/week too, but then again, there are still those days off where your family won't leave you fuck alone.
>>335488589
only in my dreams
>>335490325
And now you do not have any freedom because you have to spend 70 percent of your money JUST TO FUCKING SURVIVE.
You think 2000 years on a god damn planet would evolve a system enough to not be about survival.
Wanna get rid of the problems in the world
You seek peoples deepest desires and every single person on the planet will have meaning to what they have done on the planet.
You make society about HELPING humanity all of it instead of JUST YOURSELF and surviving.
There cannot be any true spirituality on this planet till this survivablity is gone. The mind is to focused on surviving and there is no peace to be held in everyone's mind.
Meaning everyone is a slave to eat drink piss and live
Which is the govts fault and secret societies fault.
it kinda sucked when i finally became older than satou was and still haven't done anything with my life
going on 26 this year
>>335471692
Are you still having fun with B&S? Idk, I just stopped after I hit 46. Just a wall of dailies that turns me off. I like the PvP, but I'm just not having enough fun with it.
>>335472701
If it's so easy to quit, then why are you here? Not giving any pity to an internet junkie
I play when i can, which is nights and weekends, i work 40 hrs a week and im married, i stick mostly to fps games, i love games still its how i get rid of stress.
>>335452195
I finished my school at 19 and I am currently doing my master at the age of exactly 24.
I have no idea what you are on about. Making a master in STEM is not exactly something that is attributed to "neet manchildren", nor would I consider myself a failure at life at all.
Yet I am still a poor university student and don't earn anything at 24. It is perfectly normal, really.
>>335455240
>>335455142
>>335455015
>>335459289
live a good life bros
i'm 31.
i dont have a GF right know. i don't have kids.
I worked in gobernvment so i mostly play on the weekends and some nights.
i have most systems so i can afford games.
i'm currently playing rise of the tomb raider and it's great.
i'm very dissapointed with Street Fighter V
>>job
27
40+ hours
gym 2 times a week
no gf because when i was younger i had reltaionship for 6 years and sick of it
i play vidya like 4\5 times a week at least 1-2 hours per day.
>>335492486
>working in the government
why?
>Any older (24+) players here?
26 turning 27
>How do you balance vidya with adult life?
I work full time as a QA engineer for a big name company. It consumes a lot of my time, which has detracted from my gaming. I also work out and play in a couple of bands. I thought after I graduated from college things would lighten up but after I started working full time things got even more complicated. I tend to play a lot of 3ds and other portable games when I get down time at work. It sucks because I tend to enjoy really long and involved rpgs but I just dont feel like I have the time anymore.
>Do you even enjoy games anymore?
Depends on the stress. I tend to play games as a mild form of escapism, but if im to stressed to immerse myself then it becomes more of a chore then anything else.
>>335493569
Not him but secure job and no pressure.
If you work in a private company you are always pressured into doing better than your competitors.
If you work for the gubbernment you can just take it easy. What are they gonna do if they don't like your work, go to another government? They can't.
>>335452712
Are you me?
>>335452195
> move out at 18
Who the fuck moves out when they're still in high school? There's literally no point.
>>335494031
to look cool and responsible in your social circle ofcourse ;) I mean, who cares about debt and small living space, when you can look cool in front of others?
>>335451893
30.
I make time by neglecting my wife and kids.
>>335451893
>Any older (24+) players here?
Yes
>How do you balance vidya with adult life?
That's easy, I don't fucking play video games.
I either talk about them here or fap to an eroge every now or then, that's it.
>>335452195
Holy fuck it must be nice spending all of mommy and daddy's money huh? Kill yourself
>>335494202
>I talk about video games I haven't played
good job being the cancer that is killing this site
>>335492486
>i'm very dissapointed with Street Fighter V
everyone is mate, including me, not only it has barebones content the fighting system isnt of my liking and any of the chracters i like to play feels good to play as in other SF games.
Sadly people will continue to play it simply because it is the current SF game.
>>335493569
>not wanting that cash, benifits and job security
>>335494119
Yep have one freind who moved out of his families house into an apartment
He goes broke every single month and tells us that he is superior to us because he has his own place yet everyone else has more money and more fun then him.
>infinite free time in uni
>no free time when working after graduating
it is the worst
a simple 80 hour RPG is like 3 months worth of weekends
>>335452264
UKfag here, I lived in America and living costs are so low and making money is so fucking easy that there is absolutely no excuse to be living with your parents past the age of 18.
Also your 'apartments' twice the size for half the price.
Fuck this shitty country, I wish moving to Canada were easier.
>>335494357
>wanting to be a slave for green pieces of paper, being a slave to get better treatment for yourself, being a slave so other people cannot be a slave.
>>335469053
Hang in there bud.
>>335490828
am I on /v/ or am I on youtube news comments
>>335490828
t. Bernie voter
>>335490828
oh, so enlightened and smart you are! fuck the government, am I right? xD Feel the bern baby!
>>335472701
It's pretty addictive
>be self employed
>spend about four hours working, three days a week
Why do I still feel like I have no time, Anons? Technically I have more free time than I every have (excluding summer) but I still feel like days are too short.
I feel like i'm one of the few oldfags who still fucking loves vidya, you cunts can't ever make me stop.
i'm going to play video games until I die
>>335494567
Yes but Americans are literally shit eaters. And this is coming from midwestern American, born and raised.
People in this country are miserable shits. Everyone bottles up their emotions and only give a shit about themselves. If it's like that in England disregard but I want out of this fucking country where people are just constantly in this bitch state.
I'm 30.
I don't.
Yes, but not as much, it seems.
>>335495236
You should try moving to China.
They definitely care about their fellow man over there.
>>335490156
Owning a house is great though
>>335451893
>32
>married, wife is pregnant
>still play ports of old Final Fantasy games
>still play Smash
I honestly go on /g/ more than /v/, but my wife and I met on 4chan so I can't see us losing interest in vidya ever
>>335495236
Where do you want to go? Do you think there is some paradise country on this earth?
Unlike 99% of the board I lived in both North America and Western Europe for almost a decade and I can assure you it is not better anywhere else.
>>335495878
>but my wife and I met on 4chan
Wow, really?
>>335495956
Yeah, on omegle, which I was linked to by an /r9k/ thread
>>335494952
>>335495038
Fuck Bernie
And fuck Trump
They are going to do the same fucking thing you fucking idiots
and that is lead us to this
"The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the "agentur" of the "Illuminati" between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion…We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time."
If you are obedient for green pieces of paper you are a slave. Fuck the govt because they got your bitchass.
>>335495536
Myex-wifewas Chinese so I've spent time there. It's alright (better than the UK at any rate). Also the government doesn't really get involved in peoples lives aside from internet censorship that a simply proxy can solve. It's the corporations that have the real power in China, I'd even argue that they are the most capitalist country I've been to.
>>335496267
Then move middle Africa, there is no evil government there and you can be anarchists you want to be there, retard.
>>335452195
As someone who is 38 and has a home, that's a bullshit mindset from the 50's and baby boomer generation.
It was drilled into everyone's head that 'Merica needed to expand and the economy needed to balloon out and that meant everyone being kicked out as soon as they're old enough to produce for the industrial machine.
In most other countries entire generations of families live in the same house. It is more economically sound to keep your family close.
>>335496267
... So you're an anti-society Satanist
Do you have a job?
>>335496158
Huh.
>>335496267
>unironically is an anarchist
Ah, to be 16 and rebellious again.
>>335452195
I'd rather live at my parents house while I work so I can save up money easily. I don't even pay rent, all I do is help with groceries and the families tech problems.
>>335484348
I play on xbone, so I have family and real life friends on it. We all have the same taste in games. When I play alone I record/stream on twitch just because I like to have good game clips saved somewhere.
I live with my GF so while I do make time for her and take her on dates still, I also utilize my free time to play a fuck ton. Because I play a fuck ton, I'm pretty good at PvP (any game).
What could be made up about any of that?
>>335481269
Good at Computers =/= programmer
I learned my senior year after scraping by with a CS Arts degree. Just get an A+
>work till 5:30
>work out
>dinner, bath
>vidya till 1 AM or so
That's how I do it during week days.
I like threads about everyday life.
>>335451893
I do when I'm on vacation. Once I go back to the 9-5 hell I can slowly feel the life drain out of me again until barely have the energy to play vidya.
>>335460916
You're going to miss infancy when he/she is spilling juice on the carpet and playing with mommy's lipstick....along with using it as a paintbrush.
I've noticed now that I'm 27 that I don't care about gaming as much.
Your priorities might start changing once you're out of your parents house and done with school.
But I still find myself being absorbed by games every once in a while. And especially now that I'm making ok money.
Once I have a kid or start a PhD I'm probably gonna drop gaming or keep it at slow TBS or casual games, and or tabletop gaming until I'm retired.
>29
>Teacher
>Flat with gf
>Play most evenings
Don't sweat the small stuff bros, if you got shit to do do it.
25 getting tired gamer syndrome im most likely on my last system.
>>335451893
I'm 28, work as a progammer in a shit company... life is shit but vidya is the only thing that contain the frustration of having the love of my live far away from me
>>335496538
>>335496431
>>335496407
Giving me a labels because you heard the labels from other people to criticize people without even looking at your own god damn selves
I am not anti-society
What they are making you go through is anti-society.
If we want to exist as a society we need to evolve past the survival era or we go back to the medieval era.
I call our society neo-feudalism because NOTHING HAS CHANGED.
Govt is adhered to
Military is right below govt to enforce you
Slave drivers below - If you do not comply with this you die in a gutter!
All your money goes to the top two without you doing anything about it and you stay unfulfilled throughout your whole life
Govt is a good thing
WHEN IT IS DOING the right thing
Govt is the worst thing that it can be in existence
When it is doing what it is doing right now.
Adult life is 8-5, vidya is 6-midnight sleep midnight-7
>>335496431
You dumb cunt he is saying that they are setting up the world for a world war destroying religion not that he is a satanist.
>>335497591
thats great and all but make a group if you are so actively against it, not shitpost on a taiwanese weaving site
>>335497591
So where is your tinfoil hat? Also why do you expect anyone on 4chan to be able to bother with your ramblings?
>>335497591
>fuck the ebil gobbernment, you are all slaves to your government
>b-b-but I am not anti-society
It's true, you are neither anti-society, nor anything else. You are an inconsistent retard who has no idea what he wants. I am glad that people like you will never be put in charge of anything.
>>335497675
>Adult life is 8-5
>8-5
I feel sorry for you
>>335497730
black lives matter
#dindu-nuffin
Federal meme made to make sure people do not rebel against what is there for them. You have no choice about what is out there.
>>335451893
>24 is old
why did we let the kids take over our board?
>>335452264
I think I moved to my own place (which I paid for myself) at 16.
Not everyone is from the USA, the nannt state.
>>335497904
I know exactly what I want.
Society be about making the best info structure the best of everything that can be possibly made.
Secondary thing
I want society about personal achievement.
I SURE LOVE HEARING about kanye west 1000 times per day when that is 1000 times other people who actually do shit that is ignored.
The common man needs fucking love, why the fuck do you think people are so angry and upset now a days idiot.
>>335497828
Another meme word instead of talking about the problems. When are you going to confront the reality in front of you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bVa6jn4rpE
>>335451893
You work during the day and play during evenings, on weekends, or on day offs.
Also you avoid playing crap and focus on the 2-3 good games released every year.
>>335497904
He is not wrong though, When the leaders of the world fail to do the best thing for their citizens they tend to be replaced. And what he is saying makes more sense then a lot of shit that is going on today.
26.
I don't play games the way I used. I used to power through single player games all the time but that almost never happens now. There's a lot of reason for that. Internet stuff eats up a lot of my free time in a way that wasn't really possible back in the day, which eats most of my weeknights. I have other hobbies now, namely /tg/ stuff, that take up my weekends. I have less free time in general because I have more responsibilities.
Video games are mostly a social activity now, where I'll play a few hours of fighting games with a friend on the weekend when I can't get together enough people for a board game. Or stuff like Duck Game where you can have a bunch of people together.
I don't think I've played all the way through a single player game this year. I'm not sure when I last did. I know played through Bleed and cleared the Arcade mode, which was a couple years ago I think.
I do spend most of my weekends playing board games with friends, so it's not like I have no free time though.
>>335498205
>info structure
>>335498205
>Society be about making the best info structure the best of everything that can be possibly made.
>I want society about personal achievement.
And you don't even realize that these contradict each other?
>I want to best of everything with no downsides anywhere
Yeah, everyone wants that. But there is no way of achieving it. Again, I am happy that naive retards like you who have no idea how the world works will never be put into charge of anything.
>>335498561
I am a human. Humans mess up.
>>335451893
31yo
I don't balance at all. I play like every two weeks for 5ish hours at the weekend, and maybe the next day another couple of hours.
Rest of the time is filled with a 40 hours workweek, girlfriend, household, family visits and occasionally the gym.
Currently replaying resident evil 5.
>>335497949
You know seeing these sorts of connections and cconspiracies here and there isn't you getting something that everybody else doesn't get.
The parts of your brain that works with finding connections and patterns (like seeing a face on a car or what you do when you build puzzles and shit like that) is a bit too good at it's job. It sees patterns where there are none. It's a mild sort of mental disorder that is relatively common. I'm not 100% sure if that's exactly how it works, so if anyone else who is a lot better at this stuff is around, then please help me explain.
>>335451893I turned 24 yesterday, do I still count?
I play when home and work when not.
Simple.
>>335498637
It can work just no one chooses to make it work.
Just you watch with trump being president he will revitalize all industries in the USA and modernize everything to be the best they can be.
I know how the world works.
You have people being obedient for green pieces of paper buying items and they are completely under control till they end up in a casket.
Just like every other person that has existed before.
Every item is meaningless the only thing that remains is the memories of the persons who was close to them.
But
Life is made to be about Items which is the lowest form of going through life. LIFE needs meaning. Needs godlihood for all of mankind.
Just because you cannot think of another way to propel society through the aeons does not mean that other ways do not exist.
>>335498872
>corporate bots do not exist on all websites influencing peoples opinions on everything
What are you
>>335499118
Okay let me go along with you just for a second.
What would YOU do to change all this? If you were given absolute power, what changes would you make to achieve.... whatever it is you are trying to achieve?
>>335453893
Does anyone else find these "LOL IM GOING TO DIE ON THE STREETS BUT AT LEAST I NEVER WORKED!" fags every bit as sad as the "life doesn't matter unless you have a wife, two point five kids, and a mortgage" normalfags?
>>335461852
You are literally 12 years old.
>>335499247
That's exactly what I'm talking about. You look at that image and think of it as part of whatever it is you are trying to prove. I'm sure it all makes sense to you, but it does not to most other people. Somewhere along the lines you need to ask yourself if everyone else really are crazy or if it's perhaps you who see things that are not there. Which is very difficult, because for you, they ARE there. It's just that it's are not there for anyone else.
I'm 23, finished my bachelor's degree, and I've had a full time job for 9 months now. I usually play a bit in the evenings. I have to take care of the household, play with the cat, and spend time with gf, so I can't go full retard and just play vidya every day after work.
Weekends are the time when I sit down to play a game for hours.it's a good life
>>335451893
30 years old here.
i work a full-time job and have two kids ages 6 and 2. i play in a couple of different local bands (bars and weddings and stuff). I also live/work 154 acres. Cutting pine and turning it into lumber; keeping the landscaping nice, etc., working on new projects. I still have plenty of time to read and socialize and play video games. I mostly spend sundays working outside and playing my softmodded wii. I'm playing disaster, xenoblade (which is ridiculously fun and addictive, to me) and the last story, which is a beautiful game in its own right. I'm also a big fan of the ps vita, which has great older games and plenty of steam games i'd rather not play on a toaster.
It's not difficult you guys, I may not play everyday or every week, even, but find yr balance and get outside and read some books. vija is the brain-dead, gambling addiction trigger that has to be itched every now and again, it's not life. just media. and yes, new generation of vija seems like shit.
>>335499893
>Corporations talking about it
Must make it not true!!!
>>335460032
maw kys rn lmao
>>335500654
I guess I'm just wasting my time. After all the chance that I'd get through to you when I'm just some random fuck on the internet is about as slim as the chance of you getting through to anyone else here.
I feel kind of sorry for you for some reason. Take care of yourself.
>all of this 18+ you shouldn't live with your parents meme
>I'm 20 and have no job or money to move out with
>my brother who is a wageslave lives with us too, hes 32
I think it's more eastern yuropoor standards that make it acceptable in my family, because it's the norm where they are from.
24 here, compsci student
i dont even play vidya that much anymore but i do wanna make a game in my free time.
>>335501004
How would you feel if gamergate was made by darpa to pin 2 different people against each other.
Divide and conquer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaexFYJZWiA
>>335501191
Economic collapse prevents people from moving out of parents house.
>>335499893
For The First Time US Deploys Two F-22 Raptors Close To Russia To "Deter Aggression"
>>335501446
>even the vid is censored
im scared
>>335461028
That's great
>>335496554
>>335452195
This is me essentially .
My folks would have probably replaced their computer 3 times and their router about 5 if not for me.
Dad is also sick, so I take care of him and do errands.
Lady and I are saving up to move though,
also lol, well established at 24 if they know what the fuck they want to do, thing is a lot of american schools don't push what a person could possibly do, they just push the basics and GOTO COLLEGE GOTO COLLEGE.
Also not everyone has a job that can support moving out, tell me how one is suppose to live on their own at 9 an hour?
You can't.
>inb4 better job
sure, but even then, maybe 10-12 if you're lucky.
Jersey sucks for living on your own.
>>335502831
It is a song.
Meat beat manifesto
your mind belongs to the state
I set aside Sunday afternoons to play or I'll play after work for a little bit if I'm not doing anything else. Seems to work pretty well.
>>335503135
american education is a joke
>>335451893
I own my own business and married life doesn't interfere either, plus she likes vidya anyway. I have a lot of free time.
>>335451893
35 here and I've become casual as fuck. Games that are easy to start and stop have taken precedence, and android emulators have replaced their console originals. I have money to spend on vidya and PC parts but only a few hours weekly to enjoy. At least I can shitpost here at work.
>>335503330
As an american, I agree.
College is too much, boomers fucked the economy big time with that, they made schools into a business 1st and a school 2nd.
Grade schools are horrid in challenging kids and high schools are fucking awful, I understand some people might have trouble, but anyone who is american here..
can you say high school was even remotely hard?
Not a single class was hard, none. Even math, which I suck at.
>>335456074
try harder babby-kun. learn what you're saying before memeing
>>335468114
Same age and situation as you, just differentBRcity. Dropped college but at least I'm sure that's definitely not what I want to do.
>>335452420
Mike?
>>335452264
Fuck off mate I was working 2 jobs to get by but I managed.
I'm 28, married (as of last year), own my own house as well as a business.
I feel "grown up" in the way that I have responsibilities and am basically set on my path for the rest of my life.
I still play vidya almost every day and enjoy it. My most played games include Neverwinter Nights, Red Orchestra 2, DiRT Rally, and the Souls series.
I have more than enough time to enjoy gaming as well as the rest of my favorite hobbies.
I work from sunrise to sunset almost every day but I love what I do. I squeeze vidya in between working to relax.
So don't worry young /v/irgins you'll have plenty of time and love for vidya if you look in the right places.
>>335505472
whats your business?
>>335505857
I shovel expired peanut butter into dumpsters for a local food services company. The peanut butter is very had and I've devised a way to move it without breaking my back or my shovels in the process. Plus I get to eat whatever peanut butter is still edible from the pile.
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