>95% of friends from high school have "grown out" of video games
>in reality they just replace it with watching shit on Netflix for 20 hours a week
Its like they force themselves to not do something they enjoy because its "for kids"
FUCKING NORMIES
thanks for the blog post but tumblr is that way ->
have you ever met a baby boomer/generation x play video games?
>>342881497
my friend's grandma plays Final Fantasy all the time
>>342881334
Great movie or greatest movie
>>342881497
Dude, gen x'ers loved video games.
>>342881071
>Its like they force themselves to not do something they enjoy because its "for kids"
Or maybe they replaced dumb video toys with more sophisticated and ultimately fulfilling artistic mediums such as film and literature while your underdeveloped brain still gets its endorphin boost from pressing buttons
>>342881497
Old dude and his wife was a warrior tank shamen healer combo in a guild a few years back.
>>342881775
top kek, this is what normies actually believe
>>342881775
(You)
>>342881661
Not greatest but damn near top 5 best Netflix pick.
>>342881775
>unsourced opinion
Video games actually improve mental faculties like tracking, 3D imagery rotational abilities, visual acuity, etc. Movies aren't all fantastic, and none of them do any of that.
>>342881871
>>342881968
Its okay, keep turning away from reality in comfy /v/ safe space, just REEE regularly and call everyone who disagrees a normie.
And don't get me wrong, I still love vidya, but at least I'm honest with myself that its a dumb manchild hobby
>friends grew out of video games
>all they do now is just visit 9gag and facebook all day
>>342881497
These twins I used to date have a dad that plays WoW / FFXI / FFXIV.
>>342881775
>netflix tv shows
>flim and literature
fuck off normie
>>342881071
Can't blame them. Vidya gets boring after 2 decades of mashing buttons brainlessly. On the other hand, some movies/series make you think and they aren't a hassle, you can just sit back and enjoy the show.
>>342881970
The fact that it is flawed and full of contradictions just make me love it more
>>342882063
Yeah, if only Einstein played Quake instead of studying useless retarded shit like physics, he could do so much more...
>>342882350
>some movies/series make you think
Did you unironically use that phrase?
>>342882182
Hello Quentin. How is jail?
>>342881497
My mom plays mario,kirby and crash like crazy.
>>342882350
Exactly. This is why I got bored of gameplay plebs and play only sophisticated story based games.
>>342881775
You'd have a case if they watched something that wasn't shitty TV serials or superhero movies.
>>342881071
Mine started playing phone games. Clicker games. Hearthstone.
>>342881497
have 2 uncles who used to play, alone in the dark doom and more cool stuff, they got me into vydia actually
>>342882318
>These twins I used to date
You dated both of them?
>>342882481
Yeah, if only Einstein watched Storage Wars instead of studying useless retarded shit like physics, he could do so much more...
>>342882481
>appeal to extremes
>not even addressing the point about vidya being actually helpful in contrast with movies
>log on xbox
>check freinds list to see if anyone wants to play
>Netflix
>Netflix
>Netflix
FUUCK i just wanna play with people i know instead of strangers
>>342881071
I don't play a lick of games, and try to fill my time with pastimes that are more engaging. It's working well, but I still post here. Books, video, cinema are all shit tier hobbies.
>>342882823
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbWgUO-Rqcw
I guess they weren't wrong
>>342882350
You must have only played casual games.
![[IhavenowillIhavenoobjections].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/S5yn5b2.jpg "[IhavenowillIhavenoobjections].jpg")
>>342881071
>tfw the only connection I have to my last two friends is video games
>one is pretty much gone now, he has a job that consumes his life
>haven't spoken to him in over a year
>the other became a redditor and the only time I can talk to him is when a new 3DS game we both like has something worth talking about
end me
>"Loser" dropout friends grow out of vidya
>They get into sports, camping and generally fucking around in nature instead
>Always make sure to give me a call whenever they're leaving and don't mind me missing on a couple of days due to a game release
>Laid back, healthy and relaxed fun
>"Successful" college friends keep growing more and more bitter every day
>Would rather smoke pot, party from saturday to sunday non-stop and whine about their relationships as the only way to avoid their tedious routines
>Laugh at me for playing videogames even though all of us were in the same guild five years back
>They constantly mock me for keeping in touch with the uneducated swines
Higher education turns people into unbearable, petulant assholes I swear.
>>342882897
I know I know, /v/ doesn't play video games etc etc, but really why do you come here then?
>>342882823
they may as well be strangers now Anon ;_;
>log onto my ps3
>just a bunch of Netflix
>a few amazon video
>watching a movie
>A single person playing some obscure japanese game
Thats a good thing you fucking manbaby. Do you honestly think you're going to be playing video games in your 30's? I hope to god you don't plan to.
>>342881497
I'm not sure if it counts, but my dad is 66 and he plays most Action-RPGs and action-adventures like Dark Souls, Assassin's Creed and recently I got him into Dragon's Dogma for the PC.
>>342881071
videogames get boring as you get older
i'm 21 and the only videogame I've played in forever is civ 5
>>342883106
Why is binge watching Netflix better than video games?
Please do tell. I can wait.
>be kid
>play video games for 3 hours straight
>mom tells me to stop
>meanwhile she has been watching tv all day
>>342883348
So you can talk to your normie friends about Orange is the New Black kill me kill me kill me end it end it stop telling me to watch it kill me kill me
>>342881497
This old guy I work with plays hearthstone
>>342883424
>Stop playing your games alone and come do stuff with the rest of us
>Everyone just sits on the couch and watches TV
A few times i even tried to start a conversation with them because i was so fucking bored. They never lasted more than a minute or two.
>>342883328
I don't think so. I only get tired for a while if I play too much, especially if I play just one game.
>>342881071
Video game target market is males aged 25 to 35. They make up the majority of their sales and ads are targeted at them.
>>342883424
They convince themselves it is more valuable because they are watching the news. Even though the news is just the same mindless shit over and over again. They repeat the same stories constantly because not enough interesting things happen for news to be on 24 hours.
>>342883348
It's simple anon. Netflix isn't designed to trigger addictive-like behaviors. Most video games nowadays are designed to cause addictions much like casinos, while netflix doesn't.
Also movies have a lot more intellectual value than video games. I'm not sure what they have on Netflix but movies are a significantly more stimulating medium than video games.
>>342883106
Yep, I'll be playing until I can no longer see.
Because its so much more worse than sitting on my ass watching tv or movies.
I'm happy my partner also enjoys video games, along with no one in my family giving a shit.
In fact, my mother plays mystery games on 3ds, such as zero escape 999, phoenix wright, hotel dusk etc.My Partner's family hates vidya though, they only put up with it because he started buying them with his own money when he had a job.
>>342883106
you need to be 18 or older to post here.
I'm going to keep playing video games until I don't have fun with them. I'm still having fun so I'll still play. I don't give a fuck if someone thinks it's childish or whatever. People are stupid and their opinions are worse.
I do things for myself and really don't care about others judgement. It's sad some of you think so much about others perception of you.
>>342883214
Good shit anon
>>342883705
>Netflix isn't designed to trigger addictive-like behaviors.
Oh you poor, poor, poor uneducated kid.
Netflix is streamlined so much around the consumer binge watching and never stopping.
>>342883690
thats why local news only runs for a few hours, cnn was on at the dentist last time i was there and i heard the same stories 3 times in 20 minutes
>>342883456
But anon, you need to see the new show about the edgy sociopaths doing bad things while remaining interesting and magnetic. It's so mature and shocking!
After that we can watch the new sitcom about the young urban middle-class people with all the funny energy having relationships
After that we can saw our hands off and weep
>>342882182
video game are no more refined that shit television
if you think watching tv is any better than you're a moron
ultimately most of us are on the same level
>>342882350
>gets bored of shitting on other people online
fucking stable boy detected, fetch my mare
>>342883705
If we're strictly talking freemium trash and games with high RNG I agree with you but you and me both know games exist without cheap addictive draws like that. At the risk of sounding like a tit games with high reaction time requirements do kind of make you think more on your feet outside of games.
>>342883826
And it's mentality like this why most first world countries wont survive the next 50 years. Degeneracy at it's pure finest.
"Why should I heighten my standards as a person? I'm not harming anyone :^)"
>>342881071
Your greentext sounds just like my friend. In addition, he gets paid to do it at work 'cause he literally does nothing else.
Aside from on a plane i've watched 3 movies this year. I watch so few that i can remember all the movies i've watched in the past 6 months. I don't see why it matters what shit you do in your free time. The real problem is my /v/ and /int/ addiction.
>>342881071
>>342882506
Yes. Mad Men is a good example. The only videogame that really made me think about what was going on was MGS2.
>>342883007
Nah, I've played vidya of all kinds. It's not a terribly "deep" hobby to be honest, be it casual or "hardcore", whatever you name them.
>>342881071
This is what all isolated neckbeards say. The fact that you think video games and watching movies are the only two activities you can participate in just shows me how fucking clueless you are.
>>342883106
When I see all these stories about grandpas and grandmas offing themselves because they have literally nothing to do in their debilitated states makes me wonder whether they would've done the same if they knew about vidya. My grandma learned about the internet a few years back and I noticed a substantial jump in her quality of life.
I hope videogames keep bringing me joy when I'm an old fart.
>>342883084
Old habits die hard. Dumping videogames was easy... Bit leaving this shithole is hard. I guess it's like keeping up with an MMO or online game after you've quit (if you've ever done that).
>>342883705
>Netflix isn't designed to trigger addictive-like behaviors.
lol
>>342883916
Know what's even worse? One of them is way, way into ancient aliens documentaries. He likes to make his own theories. Did you know that the mermaids were at war with the aliens?
>>342883705
Except it does? The next episode/season starts up before the credits roll and each movie recommends similar movies you just watch.
Youtube tries the same shit and it works.
>>342883705
>Video Games are addicting.
Fun and mental activity is addicting? Well I guess that's just going to have to be my fucking poison then.
Everything's fucking addicting, by that logic.
>>342881334
are you the one newfag who keeps doing this in every thread? It's been this way for the last decade and it will never change
>>342884005
>It's not a terribly "deep" hobby to be honest
I doubt you have actually played many video games then. There is a lot going on in many video games. You are also actively engaged while you play.
>>342881071
Honestly it's hard to come home from a 12 hour shift and still have the energy to play a video game - especially if it has any kind of challenge to it. I play video games on the weekend but during the week I would rather watch a movie or tv show.
>>342883081
My experience has been the opposite actually. Most of my friends that never went to college just became boring cunts with shitty routines and zero direction in their lives. They're not unpleasant or anything, but everytime I'm with them it's like their lives never change. Can you imagine how boring it is to catch up with someone after a year without seeing them and them having absolutely nothing new to say to you?
I'm getting to this point at 26 because I enjoy reading, rock climbing, lifting shit up and down and hanging with the grill more nowadays.
Games got boring. It's honestly all the same shit. At times I'll just play Civ and Smash.
>>342884005
yeah man
if its not deep go enter esports as a single person team
if its not deep you'll be fine dude
>>342883705
>"no addictive-like behaviours"
Every US TV show's basically the same set of setups and payoffs. Like 20 goddamn hours a season of shenanigan bullshit, nothing that couldn't fit into a 2 hour film.
>oh but this season's totally different this season walter white's a cyborg
>>342884045
Was it that easy though? Sounds like you still kind of miss something about video games a bit if you're checking up on it (granted via through /v/ but still). I mean, if you're way happier now more power too you but might wanna pay attention to that little detail, could be bad sign.
>>342881497
my big sister plays Pokemon like no other
>>342883705
>Most video games nowadays are designed to cause addictions much like casinos
Then why the fuck do so many new games nowadays barely give you an incentive to replay them. No unlockables, extra difficulties, modes, nothing, just a shitty tacked-on multiplayer if you're lucky and lmao achievements dude.
>>342884187
Not him, but even the most competent and challenging games can be utterly defeated in months or even weeks. Most other hobbies are lifelong pursuits...
>>342882897
>Pastimes more engaging than video games.
Can I see the wormhole you used to travel here from your alternate dimension?
>>342883705
>Netflix isn't designed to trigger addictive-like behaviors.
needs to be greentexted more
>Netflix isn't designed to trigger addictive-like behaviors.
>>342883965
Playing games is degenerate? Okay anon.
But watching inception, or reading the newest ice and fire book is for high brow people that are bettering themselves through mediums of sophistication?
You can fuck off
>>342881071
That's a good thing though, less normies in the industry means less oversimplified casual garbage because they dont have to cater to a wider audience.
If these companies pull out of gaming because they cant cater to enough normies to pull a profit that appeases their shareholders then GOOD, it's filtering the cancer. Quality over stale quantity.
>>342882350
Movies get boring too you dumb nigger. That's why people who watch so many movies end up getting shit tastes and they end up calling garbage like Pulp Fiction a masterpiece, when it's at best a mediocre movie.This is also true with vidya
>play SMW
>boomer parents who don't give two shits about vidya stop what they're doing and start watching for the first time ever
>mfw
I think it was at that point I realized vidya reached a zenith of playability and basic appeal a long, long time ago.
>>342884382
What are you babbling about?
Netflix is shit, television is shit, and video games are shit.
Jesus Christ, remember when people actually used to go outside? Remember when men actually knew how to chop down a tree? Remember when adults actually knew how to parent their kids instead of letting technology raise them?
Fuck it, ban it all. I just want men to start acting like men again.
>>342883623
>tfw as everyone in my family got older they actually started to watch less TV and talk more
>tfw as you also got older dinner table conversations got more bearable
It's quite ok actually
>>342883705
>more intellectual value than video games
Maybe some but the most popular shows include Duck Dynasty and The Big Bang Theory
>>342881497
Casual shit like Dr. Mario, yes.
>>342884373
>watching a movie is a lifelong pursuit
You can't be serious. If you were talking about something engaging then you would have a point but watching a movie is less engaging than a video game.
>>342884590
Why are you here?
>>342881575
My grandma keeps playing Bejeweled clones. Candy crush and such. But hey, she's not bad at it.
>>342881071
Or maybe you know they just don't like playing video games anymore?.
>>342884590
I'm not going outside in summer in florida
fuck off faggot
>>342883996
>le marks
>not the patch of hair on right forearm from rubbing on edge of desk
>>342884590
t. Gavin McInnes
>>342884590
You're quite fond of men aren't you?
>>342881071
I'd rather watch netflix for 20 hours then be addicted to this pile of shit where 95% of these abrassive cunts are addicted to (You)'s
>>342884864
He likes to fond(le) men
>>342884750
>"Not him."
>"Most hobbies."
Are you fucking retarded?
>>342884373
You don't really try to "beat" anything in other entertainment mediums anon. I didnt beat game pf thrones or the martian.
>>342881775
>ultimately fulfilling artistic mediums such as film
Are you serious?
>>342884949
Well why would you say that if we were talking about movies. I don't disagree with you but it isn't really a counter to my argument because it was comparing video games to movies.
>>342881497
My best friends dad recently bought an xbox one for the new Doom and Halo
>>342884761
I'm a slave like everyone else anon
>>342884791
Well do SOMETHING other than sit around. Go work out or read a book or something
>>342884845
no idea who that is
>>342884864
hahaha very funny. You know I'm right though.
>>342884005
>Mad Men
fucking white people and their shitty shows
>Be me
>Wake up at 6am
>Eat breakfast
>Fight traffic
>Work from 7am to 5pm
>Head to gym
>Arrive at home by 7
>Eat dinner
>Exhausted as fuck
>Play vidya
>Get rekt and get called a nub by little kiddies and basement dwelling autists with no jobs
I still play vidya, but only at the end of the day when im tried and ready to go to bed. But I don't blame slavewagers who watch netflix because they're exhausted from working.
It's all part of growing up. Assuming you have, OP.
>>342884216
No not really. When I meet up with old friends I actually hope that they're still the same great guy that I remember them as. Im friends with them for a reason. I'd like them to do well for themselves but they don't need to change to stay interesting to me.
You sound like a cunt to be honest
>>342885124
Anon when you read a book you're still sitting on your ass. I don't know about you but i can read for 4+ hours at a time. Its not really healthy but i enjoy it
Yeah, passively watching Netflix is a lot worse for you than playing videogames, where some level of activity besides looking at the screen is necessary. On the other hand, watching real film is a lot better for you than videogames.
>>342881497
Did you know there were video games in the 70s?
>gf thinks videogames are for degenerates
meanwhile she watches so much greys anatomy and other chick bullshit media that she applies television logic to real life
if its not video games its TV or alcohol or drugs or some other waste of time, i'd say video games are one of the better vices to have
>>342883018
>tfw exactly the same with my group of friends
>all of them normieing it up at varying degrees, girlfriends and barely any interest left in vidya
Honestly, I'm not even sure if I eve have an interest in vidya, or its just the routine and it being the only connection why I keep wasting so much of my time on it.
>>342882182
>>342883965
>Degeneracy
>unironically using that word like an irrelevant derelict
>>342881071
My 49 year old dad was in clans in Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, and Call of Duty: United Offensive, plus a server admin for CoD:UO as well. He played UT and UT 2004, plus Quake 3 Arena, and he's played Doom and Quake. He and I used to play SW Battlefront 2 together all the time... he was a fantastic sniper. Headshots for days. My dads pretty much an FPS guru, but he doesn't enjoy it too much anymore. He hates mindless killing when he used to love it. I don't know, I mean, Ive been playing FPS with my dad since I was 10. It's hard to see him drop the entire genre like a rock, but he's really good at Starcraft II now.
>>342885271
What would be a few examples of a real film? Hardmode: name 3 that came out in the last 5 years
>>342884913
>implying you wouldnt just become a /tv/ fag
>>342884597
Yea it's weird. Sometimes I think back on things that used to irritate me about my family and I can't figure out why it did. Now conversations just flow and when they ask for favors or just to hang out I don't mind saying yes.
>>342885186
nigger entertainment is far worse
>>342885124
Are you one of those fuckers that thinks the world would be better if we all just started living like cavemen again?
>>342885124
Well reading a book I'm still sitting on my ass or laying on my bed
and I do work out, I just happen to enjoy video gamesStill not what I'd prefer but I've lost so much in the past year its crazy
>>342885032
You haven't even seen that movie yet
>>342881497
My boss whose 37 plays vidya
Same with my 34 coworker
>>342885202
Good luck finding topics to talk about then
>>342885032
>cherry picking
There will never be a video game version of Godfather or 2001. The most sophisticated game out there is something like system shock or planescape. Either way video games are still a childs hobby and is essentially junk food for the mind.
>Roomate is addicted to Netflix while I'm addicted to vidya
>Every single time I come out of my room to grab a drink he's fallen asleep on the sofa
>Has fucked up his sleep cycles and is rapidly gaining weight due to shit eating hours
He fucking misses like 50% of a series run-time, he frequently has to rewatch entire seasons because he misses on so much stuff. I mean vidya isn't the pinnacle of activity but at least it keeps you focused enough.
Anyways, vidya + working out is a patrician combo, fuck anyone who says otherwise.
>>342885490
and?
>Use to play D&D/Exalted/other tabletop games with a friend
>Played vidya with him too
>He moved away
>talked to eachother over steam for a year or so after that
>Get him a game from a steam winter sale as a gift one day
>He doesn't log onto steam for over 2 years and gift remains unredeemed
>Finally does one day, we chat and I learn he got married and has a kid, doesn't 'have time for games' anymore.
Haven't talked since then since he hasn't been on the day but I truly felt grief from that. Like and subscribe.
>>342885197
>tfw after 3 years of ful NEETness got a job that got me up at 6pm and get back home at 7:30pm
Never again. It was nice to have money and get ride of that sensation of wasted time though.
Now I'm heading to programming and I feel it will be worse.
>>342884290
33 and you are me except paradox
>>342885459
Nope. The world would be better place if we embraced Spencerism and removed all obsolete people from society.
>>342885562
movies like those will never be made again accept their death and move on
>>342885445
The weirdest part is when your opinion on matters actually starts being taken seriously sometimes even more than that of older elements of the family. It's good to not be treated as a child anymore but it's weird at the same time.
>>342885590
>Media consumption.
>Patrician.
Never ever. Literature, video, cinema, and listening to music are all pleb.
>>342885590
This is the truth.
>>342885562
>and is essentially junk food for the mind
Except for the fact that television fits the bill much more than video games. Good games actually exercise the brain and your reflexes unlike TV/movies.
>>342885648
Never again what?
Having a job?
>>342885718
And video games will never reach that level. Accept their death and move on.
>>342885685
>we need to remove obsolete people from society
>>342885370
The classics, in general. I don't watch a lot of movies anymore and definitely not a lot of recent things (where only time will tell whether or not they become classics). Some examples of what I would consider real film would be something like Lawrence of Arabia or Late Spring, though. It doesn't need to be hideously obscure like /tv/ will suggest, but it needs to be a unified whole, which the classics tend to be.
>>342885814
Having to work that many hours for fucking 5 days a week.
>>342885838
video games weren't made to tell stories
>>342884216
What do you mean exactly by nothing new? There's a bunch of shit you can find to talk about just by looking at the internet, at least once per day. Conversation isn't exactly hard to create if you're not a retard.
>>342881775
I thought they permabanned your ass Quentin
>>342881071
Television/netflix is the equivalent of 4chan for older people and normalfags. Very low effort, can just hop in and out without hassle, is stimulating but not challenging, eats up a lot of your time without you realizing it. Both are equally cancerous, and are only fine if you don't turn them into a habit. It's sad when you see someones life ends up just going to work, coming home, doing whatever chores there might be, and then just watching TV until they go to bed every day.
>>342885920
Clearly you don't hang out with the kind of people I'm talking about
>>342885859
>le fedora meme
This is why I keep saying society is fucked. There is no reason for anyone to care about the future. That's why we need a happening asap
>>342885685
Machines make most people obsolete and eventually they will make us obsolete. Talking about learning how to cut down trees yourself and shit is just regressing society.
>>342883081
I'm in completely opposite situation
>all my dropout freinds are all dude weed lmao who hang out with the same guys they've known since middle school
>all hang out in the same shitty basement but now with shitty adult shit like relationships and weed
>all a bunch of mustards who complain they have no money
>did I mention the women they go out with are total fuckin asspies and lardbags?not even the fatties with good personality . The kind that are so full of themselves that they let the whole crew fuck em
>this is litteraly a hippy commune that doesn't move
>college freinds are completely different
>play vidya and are idort
>they love doing new shit and meeting new freinds
>all have healthy relationships except for one who has always been a rigid fuck boy .he's also a ex member of the weed squad
>>342885739
>listening to classical music while reading Tolstoy is pleb
>>342881775
This is good quality bait. Bravo.
>>342885539
Why would that be difficult? The usual "what have you been up to these days" is the most boring part of the conversation when friends meet up. It's normally just done as a courtesy.
Most people have fun reminiscing or just talking about the thing they literally met up to do.
>>342885915
I did that for 4+ years, 11-13 hour days thanks to commute.
It sucks, fyi programming will often lead you to that very same thing if you end up working under others, though ofcourse you should work on reducing commute to as low as possible.
>>342885370
Sucker Punch
Man of Steel
Batman V Superman
>make friends at smash bros locals
>anon, let's go play at some guy's house
>sure
>get there
>like three people watching Markiplier in the living room
>>342885885
Yeah ive seen most of the classics and i still enjoy rewatching them from time to time. casa Blanca is an all time favorite of mine. I can enjoy new movies
normies like their shows because it feels like they accomplished something they can talk to people about, except they were able to text on their phone the whole time and not really pay attention
My friends replaced video games with marijuana and doing literally nothing
>>342885617
at least you got some closure man. A lot of other people never even get that.
>Spend a few years living the NEET dream
>Decide that I'm not interested in money and "success" all that much, would rather be comfy and go out camping or play vidya
>Discover my dream job as a courier, moving around the town whilst helping others
>My parents say I need to get a real job
Fuck off
>Play Dark Souls. Turn a corner and see a huge dragon slam dunk in front of me. Hair stands on my back as a primal instinct kicks in from staring down an animal 10 times larger than me. An instinctual response buried in our genes that hasn't been used for millenia until video games.
>Play a military shooter campaign. Be a warhero and shoot people without any of the drawbacks of doing that in real life. Drama everywhere as you try to save a fictional 'Murrica that is worth saving, unlike the real one.
>Play military sim. Get a close experience to the real thing without any of the drawbacks of joining the army IRL, such as wasting years of my life and risking death or worse, losing a limb.
>Go skydiving in Just Cause 2/3.
>Become a race car driver in a racing sim.
>Fly planes in Ace Combat, experience the majesty of soaring through the air.
>Build a home in Sims 3/Minecraft.
>Become mentally exhausted from engaging in competitive games like Dota 2.
>Spend the boring downtimes at work by playing Hearthstone, which offers more mentally invigorating strategy.
>Command armies in games like Total War and Command & Conquer 3.
>In Dungeons & Dragons Online, I can be a Wizard. I can make a character for each school of spells. Or I can make a Dwarven Bounty Hunter. Or a strong Half-Orc cursed with Vampirism and raised by a tinkerer who has taught him rogue skills.
But then I go on a date and as soon as vidya is mentioned:
>I will never understand people that play games every day.
Well, I'll never understand people who slave away on a career all their life for money they probably wouldn't know what to do with to begin with, and breaking up that monotony only by listening to mainstream radio and getting drunk at crowded, dark, loud bars or clubs - an activity centered fully around numbing every single one of your senses - despite the fact that you already don't use them much to begin with.
I feel like I come from another planet, honestly. I do not understand "normies".
>>342881497
~50 year old guy I work with plays modern multiplayer shooters and MAME games all the time.
>>342884590
Call down,I get what you mean but there's no need to abandon all technology to go live as lumberjacks. Just moderation.
Christ this thread is full of so much cringe and idiocy.
Anyway here's my two cents. Video games and movies and any other way you waste your freetime are equally shitty and great.
The problem is narrow minded people who assume x is better than y.
For all the idiots in this thread suggesting movies or Netflix are better alternatives to games you're wrong, and the same goes for the opposite.
To have the mentality that "I pretend to like x because It's adult like" is pathetic,you're not truly an adult but just as stupid as a teenager trying to get into an r-rated movie because it's "mature".
Also you won't get anymore out of one than you will put of the other,you say that by watching movies you gain some deeper intellectual value,but that's subjective as well as retarded.
I mean seriously,unless you're taking your sweet time to rewatch scenes, evaluate camera techniques and analyze subtle symbolism every time you view a shirty b-movie or hot topic-tier show on netflix as if you were some pretentious film student I doubt you'll be doing yourself any better with your time than you would popping in lego indiana jones and playing through a level.
>>342886176
Zack please leave
>>342886015
Trust me anon, with the way things are going now we'll never get to that point. WW3 is coming and it's coming real fucking soon.
I say let it happen, and let humanity rise from the ashes like a phoenix.
>>342885341
It gets boring after a while. For me it's gotten to the point where I can't even play Battlefield for more than a half an hour before I'm bored. I don't know why I even bother playing anymore.
What's good on Netflix? It's 90% bullshit.
>>342881071
>old friend and neighbor keeps telling me how my life is going nowhere beceause I work as a freelancer instead of getting married like him and becoming a full time wageslave
>he keeps whining about not have time to play many games like he did back in the day
>"at least there's LoL for a short match from time to time"
>lookup his profile
>clocked almost 30 hours of playtime over the last week
People like that are hopeless.
>>342886371
Do you by chance own an apocalypse shelter?
>>342886276
Yeah. It just hurts though since we use to be such good friends. I'd prefer to just remember the good times and move on at least.
>>342885458
>nigger(s) are far worse
fixed that 4you
>>342881071
i know alot of old people play video games, the others that pretend not to are the "whales" in the phone BUY 5 GET 5 FREE industry.
>>342886280
Isn't that like a more personalized mail man?
How isn't that a "real" job?
What even qualifies as a real job to parents?
>>342886076
Of course it is. Consuming of media is literally what plebs do, a passtime that belongs to the masses. Listening to something approved to be patrician doesn't make you patrician.
>>342886472
I've been doing body weight training for 2 years now. Now please refrain from posting until you have an actual argument, Captain Shitpost of the Piss-Ass Seas.
>>342885490
>you_cant_know_it_will_be_shit.jpg
>>342881071
>normies
What happened to just calling them normalfags?
>>342884382
>rafting
>rock climbing
>mountain biking
Anything physically demanding will be much more engaging than watching a screen with a controller in your hand.
>>342886280
>courier
H-how is that a comfy life?
Also, I'm also no careerist or looking for success in the traditional money oriented sense - but in the end its money that can actually let you be as comfy as you can be.
>>342885739
Underrated post right here
Creating>Consuming
>>342886176
>man of steel
>bbq
Shit taste
I haven't seen sucker punch but it's probably shit too,modern Hollywood is dead.
A joke a lot of people around me have been making is how people who watch sports are just completely dead inside and their lives are completely maundane.
All they do is watch esports bullshit all day and none of them have anything going for them and are generally fat, drop outs or pretty much NEETs.
Guess it doesn't matter who you are. The moment you start watching sports you're a fucking loser.
>>342885659
Man I can't get into those games.
Too much shit to worry about.
>dad always gave me and lil bro shit for playing vidya all the time
>he watches TV all the time and listens to music just as much
>>342885590
>vidya + working out is a patrician combo,
MY NIGGGA!
>That feel when a fit "nerd"
It's the best feeling.
TV series give you something to talk about every week
Bit like how you lot flame on /a/ every week after an episode of "I can't believe I just shagged my 500 year old demon sister!" airs.
>>342886176
>Man of Steel
>Batman V Superman
>>342886612
I think it's more because I'm not in charge, or running my own business.
They always said that I should do something that makes me happy, now I realize that it needs to be a career that they can brag about to their friends.
>>342886651
>Consuming of media is literally what plebs do, a passtime that belongs to the masses
Except for the fact that traditionally it was only aristocrats who had the time/money to build and enjoy a library with live musicians providing background music, plebs were busy being laborers. Later on it was only the upper middle class that had sufficient time and money for that sort of thing and today you need to be first world (or the elite of the third world) to enjoy most of the shit 4chan talks about.
>>342886176
low quality bait
>>342885590
>vidya+working out
How? Tell me your secrets.
>>342881071
That's why AAAALL of you are amd will continue to be underageys. I'm 29 and in one month I'll be playing whatever I've mised since January. I can either play alone or with some friends.
I don't give a shit how I play and yes, each year I play less and less but I still get excited about new releases regardless of how many friends of mine haven't touched a control/mouse/keyboard for games in years...
You are the actual scrubs
>>342887124
tell your parents they have shit friends
>>342881497
There's a baby boomer who plays battlefield
>>342886897
What movies do you like then m80?
Why do people care so much about what other people do with their time? I don't understand this.
only a handful of games catch my attention nowadays, and i get too tired to replay games or find old ones to add to my backlog. right now i'm just looking forward to yakuza 0.
hell, i've given up on anime altogether and just started watching foreign films, korean and japanese in particular. they're pretty good.
>>342886949
I think its a matter of standing on the sidelines rather than going ahead and "doing"
>>342886897
You can't be a good creator without first having a vast amount of consumption, you shitcunt. Modern arts are all derivative. The people who think they're the next little Mozart Wunderkinds are some of the stupidest, dullest brats I've ever met, and are almost always a source of braindead content.
>>342886184
Man that reminds me.
>Strike a chat with a guy playing SMT: Strange Journey on his laptop at my Uni's cafeteria
>Turns out to be a super cool guy
>Friendship develops, invites me over to his house to lend me SMT:IV since they're fucking rare in our country
>As I come in a nauseating weed smell strikes my nose
>Three guys and a girl, all with dreadlocks and cringeworthy "le jamaica d00d" getups are laying on the sofa, laptop plugged into the TV, watching our own copy of PewDiePie
>Find out he's been around the chans for longer than I have
>Offers me his PS4 so I can try Bloodborne
>Give him my old 360 so he can try out that one Tales game and the original Dead Rising
>Days later as I visit him for the second time I find out his friends have refurbished my 360 as a Netflix machine
>Dead Rising lays on top of the dusty 360, outside of its case
>Friend says they took it out because it kept booting the game instead of the dashboard
>They wouldn't even let him near the console except for Sundays when they're out being scum somewhere else
Jesus Christ Ignacio if you're reading this, my flat's doors are always open for you if you wanna move.
>>342886292
You dont have to understand them
Normies are passionless people, following what peer pressure and their nurture taught them.
The reason they say that - is because they don't understand you, for having passion.
With that said, when one loses his passion for gaymin like that , he ends up falling between two stools, ofcourse, saying from experience.
>>342887238
Obsession with improvement. Other people exist with us and if they're not helping them with what they want then they're a problem to them.
>tfw cant remember last time when made a new friend IRL
>>342887251
>korean and japanese films
good stuff if you know how to filter the crap out.
some of their stuff is a lot more gritty than hollywood's.
>>342881497
You mean that's not a cell phone puzzle game? No.
>>342883106
>tfw 28
>turning 29 in a few months
>my days are numbered
FACK. Mortality sucks.
>>342881071
>mfw two really good friends each built $2,500 computers
>one plays walking sims two or three times a year
>the other is literally never playing anything
It hurts.
>>342881071
for the most part, none of my friends have. friends i met 7 years ago still very much enjoy video games. the people i havent been friends with for a long time, some are too busy with college and work but play when they can
>>342887415
I'd be your friend lad, I'm sick of all these fucking 70 year Olds in south Australia
>>342883106
>Being immature enough to give a shit what people think about your hobbies
Married, 30 and still going strong, and I'll be damned if people look down on what I do.
>tfw nothing you do in life matters
>you will die and return to nothing
>>342886006
I don't disagree that we would be better off without useless people, but actually implying a genocide is fedora as fuck
>>342887124
>They always said that I should do something that makes me happy, now I realize that it needs to be a career that they can brag about to their friends.
Fucking this
Holy shit
>didn't graudate highschool until 19 because wasn't motivated and strugged to do the work, changed the rules halfway through so I had to take these tests to actually graudate instead of just doing the fucking course
>dad thinks I'm a failure when he has a ged
from 1980s and that makes him better
>thinks all video games are worthless but he can listen to his dad rock same sounding songs for the 50th time
>I'm now in college and moved out, but because I graudated highschool at 19 I'm still a failure to him
>sister got out with a D average but because she gruadated at 17 he's the world to him
>mom divorced him a few months ago due to how he treated me, and cheated on my mother
>he's 51 on almost on his deathbed because he can't fucking take care of himself
Hope he rots
Like and subscribe.
>>342887194
>not making sweet gains and relaxing with a game
>>342881071
It's like you discovered that people need to feel superior about their "choices" despite them having absolutely 0 intrinsic value.
>>342887124
Plenty of jobs like that to stick around in, finding a very comfy one of those in scheduling, money and colleagues might take time.
Careerism is death, unless your career is something where you can be your own boss and create something by your own power, you'll be a profesionnal cocksucker kissass, with all promotions being decided on smoke breaks and the mandatory drinking with your boss.
>>342887731
Just enjoy the time you have you faggot
>>342885590
Yeah working out plus vidya is the best combo
>>342887164
Creators >>>>>> Tenured Critic > Hobbyist.
Aristocrats were the same as you are now; remarkably beneath those who create the medium. Consuming and critiquing media will always be common, for there were far, far more aristocrats than remarkable artists.
>>342883705
50¢ have been deposited into your account
>>342887818
>was mad at me because he tells everyone he works with I didn't gradate at 18 and he gets laughed at and he's hurt because he has self esteem issues at someone who's fucking 50
I went on a rant and forget that :^)
>>342887840
I thought you were doing both at the same time through some kinda wizardry.
>that """friend""" of yours that stopped playing vidya
>makes fun of you for playing it, saying you're just playing stuff for children
>while all he does is shit around on facebook and dating websites trying to fuck slags
>smokes weed and gets drunk constantly
Yeah man, I sure am wasting my life enjoying myself as opposed to only getting my fun from getting shitfaced and high all the time
>>342882439
Sorry, but what movie is that?
>>342886292
Honestly, I feel you brother. I go along with them because it's better than being completely alone but boy, do I not understand them and what motivates them day after day.
>>342887194
What's so difficult anon? As long as you eat healthy, you can do pretty much anything you want.
I wish I had friends
>>342881497
My dad fucking loved FPS like Wolfenstein, and Quake multiplayer
>>342887536
>just turned 28
Feels very bad man.
>>342884590
That sucks too faggot
>32 years old.
>Was in a circle of about 16 gamer friends.
>Of the 16 friends, 7 still play regularly, 3 casually.
>The other 6?
I couldn't tell you. I stopped giving a fuck about them years ago. I know I'm a fairly unusual case. I was gaming back when it was still considered "nerd shit" you know, when nerd was actually stigmatic. Grew up next to an airforce base, all those kids owned video game consoles and even PCs back then because their parents could afford 'em. Their constant moving through their childhood meant their hobbies were important to them.
The one thing I really miss though were the insanely intense Halo 1 and 2 LAN parties we used to have in High School. Damn, that was fun.
>GODDAMNIT MOM VIDYA LETS ME RECOGNIZE PATTERNS BETTER OKAY? ITS NOT "IMMATURE"!
: The Thread
>>342883996
My wrist is always off the edge of my desk, I don't got shit there
>18 yr old me
>Had tons of friends from High School
>Knew literally everyone in school, 1000+ friends on kikebook
>Watch over the years one by one as they leave or move on with different interests or get married or just disappear off the map
>Fast forward today
>26 years old
>Down to only a few groups of friends
>Only friends left that I hang out with the most are now anime weebfags
>Rest are working all day or just don't feel like "hanging out" anymore
>Literally never hung out with them in high school or college, only knew them because had a few classes together and got along with each other so we added each other on facebook
>started hanging out with them in the last two years, basically sacking their group
>Doing the whole anime convention crap, playing games, stuff I would've looked down upon in high school, but they don't really know this yet
>some secretly don't like me cuz im a newfag casualfag, the rest love me
feels good. Glad to have backup friends but it's kinda sad I've had to downgrade.
>>342883705
>Netflix
The only shows worth watching are on Crave.
>bf, our best friend I go and get overwatch together
> all wait to play first match together and talk on headset
> go to Jack in the Box at three as a spur of the moment fun thing
Lads don't let this end
>>342888446
>Facebook.
>Friends.
Pick one.
>>342887818
Nigger I graduated HS when I was 20 years old. Even though I'm balls deep in a Chemistry degree with grades that haven't gone below a 9, my dad still feels the need to bring out the fact that I was a fucking loser at high school every single time he meets his friends or we have a family reunion.
>>342881071
>How dare people enjoy things different from things I enjoy, fucking normies!
Grow up, idiot
>>342887298
I'll give you that but only living as a consumer is pitiful, a better way to put it would be to say there need a to be a balance
>>342887232
Don't really have any favorites since I haven't seen anything in a while,I've been meaning to watch ex machina though but I've been putting it back.
The last thing I can remember was interstellar due to its meme status was alright, like a 7/10 to a soft 8
>>342888425
you could work at a theatre with all that projection
>>342888016
Are you me?
>Have a friend that called himself a "Gamer"
>Literally the only game he's ever played is TF2 and phone apps
>Never even owned a console before in his childhood
>Gets addicted to TF2 supposedly and says it's ruining his life
>Quits and says I should "stop playing games too"
>I've been playing games since I was3- 4 on my parent's first NES, I do it as a fun hobby, not an addiction
>He doesn't understand this
>Thinks video games are for losers
>Starts smoking weed and drinking every night
>Currently spends his time browsing on tinder, netflix and facebook, going out to parties, frats or clubs trying to get laid day in day out
>Brags about it whenever he manages to bag one ugly slut
>Tries to convince me this is "living"
Yeah, what a happy life.
>>342884590
Why in the ever loving fuck would I ever need to know how to chop down a tree? Seriously, what the fuck would that accomplish?
![1400326004971[2].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/IAPnINY.jpg "1400326004971[2].jpg")
>>342887536
turning 26 this year
realized i was going to die someday back when i was like 11
need to have work or a screen to distract me from thinking about it each day
>>342888212
I went to one of those high tech high life gyms once with a friend and their exercise bikes had fucking Pac-Man and Tetris on offer, it was pretty damn cool.
>>342888446
>high-school friends
>real friends
pick one
>>342888446
>1000 facebook friends at any point in your life
>"only a few groups of friends"
>that entire backup friends setup
Its a wonder you weren't born a woman you shallow piece of shit, you have zero friends, all you have is acquaintances and people who tolerate you.
>>342888829
You constantly keep thinking about the fact that you'll die?
>>342883705
You ignorant fuck. The majority of shows watched on netflix are actually binged watched. If you think its not just as addictive or more so you are truly and hopelessly retarded
I for one get antsy if I sit for more than hour doing either vidya or watching movies, but with video games at least I'm devoting my self to a task and developing a skill which gives some sort of satisfaction beyond passively watching something
>>342887938
>Aristocrats were the same as you are now; remarkably beneath
Shifting goalposts, you were saying consumption of media wasn't patrician when that's exactly what it was since they were the only ones who could really do it and the only ones who could patronize the content creators, facilitating the whole thing in the first place.
>Consuming and critiquing media will always be common
It isn't even "common" today if you consider the world's population in total. A lot of people are illiterate and don't even have reliable electricity. Of those who do, there are only a fraction who can dedicate the thousands of dollars to equipment and a home theatre necessary to fully enjoy various mediums, not to mention having enough free hours to enjoy all of it.
>tfw have a friend who used to share my views on Facebook being shit and ruining social interaction
>His brothers eventually pushed him into making an account
>Now whenever we hang out he's always on his phone looking at Facebook
>Keeps showing me old ass memes and I have to pretend they're dank
>>342887124
>now I realize that it needs to be a career that they can brag about to their friends
I used to see it this way too.
>Looking for fulfiling career
>Join Air Force as pilot
>3 months in realise I'm basically killing my relationship because her career isnt mobile enough yet
>Simultaneously realise I'm basically just in so I can have a rank appended to my name and feel cool about it
I mean it was a great experience, and if nothing else works out, I'll probably go back to it once her career is more flexible. But until then, I've learned a valuable lesson.
>>342881775
you misspelled autistic.
