I just turned 30 and constantly think about painting the wall with my brains. Outside of thatm I regularly play COD and Diablo but I needed a break so I'm emulating Flower, Sun, and Rain for the first time. So far it's been absolutely kino. I wish there was an english version of the PS2 game or something because the DS graphics absolutely blow. Not a huge deal though. Et tu?
Awful. Thought I'd finally found a career I'd enjoy then the company folded and now I'm on the search again. ADHD+tism here, picking up new skills and starting different routines again is fricking exhausting in your mid-30s. I'll start looking for work seriously again after I'm sick of BG3, AC6 and Starfield.
Therapy is expensive and not everyone has a supportive circle of family and friends, sometimes you just need to vent to anonymous zoomers larping as wizards on a Mongolian basket-weaving forum.
I've tried on and off for more than 12 years and I've had terrible results with therapy.
It's like paying to get advices for reddit posts and in the end all change must come from yourself anyway.
I wish there was simply centers you could join where you'd be assimilated in a community with scheduled programs and activities or whatever and just living a somewhat normal type of life for extended amount of time.
>I wish there was simply centers you could join where you'd be assimilated in a community with scheduled programs and activities or whatever and just living a somewhat normal type of life for extended amount of time.
You mean like prison? I know prisons in Norway are exactly that. Must be nice to know that you hit rock bottom so you can only improve from there.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Prison isnt rock bottom in Norway. Homelessness is, the point where you are incapable of even saying one sentence to other people without aggravating them. That is a dirtful and humiliating life.
Anyway wanna buy some funtanyl?
9 months ago
Anonymous
I didn't think of this but I guess it fits... I just want someone or something to take the burden away for a little while so I can find my bearings back.
Listening to some dumb c**t telling me to set myself goals and walk around the street and strike conversation with X amount of strangers while I'm socially stunted, on top of draining me of 200$ every week. I just gave up on therapists. Psychiatrist are even worse. You're just a guinea pig to them for them to collect data while they try every anxiolytic and antidepressant under the sun.
9 months ago
Anonymous
I guess this is why cults are so appealing too, what we're lacking as a society is a sense of community and purpose, both things that religion can provide.
do it like that homosexual did in fight club. go to alcoholics anonymous or whatever it was even if you arent a drinker/junkie just to vent off or interact with others
>larping as wizards
Ahaha
ha
That said, I'm not so ugly that I couldn't have gotten sex. Totally could have. 2 girls confessed to me so I should really not be a wizard but I still am. I just don't want to do any social stuff.
I said frick it and saw a pro last year. I realized that I really don't give a frick about getting a steady girlfriend after that, just some physical companionship every now and then. It's nice to have that weight off my shoulders tbh.
Also, is Bannerlord good now? I haven''t touched it since the coof hit.
how was it with the pro? have had sex only twice in 27 years, want to try an escort but im worried my dickie wont get erect because of the awkwardness
9 months ago
Anonymous
I've been to 4 since then, all the sessions were mostly positive since I go on review boards. If you go, don't go for the really young girls on your first time. The cougar types know how to break the ice and get you settled.
Also not gonna lie, boner pills make the sessions much more fun. I can see myself turning into a WEG and h-game ojii-san if I get to grow old.
Yeah, I guess I'm OK looking, but I'm literally autistic and very socially withdrawn, so I ended up as a wizard just because I stay at home all the time and don't talk to anyone.
Castlevania is one of the only NES games that I everbeat when I was younger. I spent way more time playing mario and megaman, but castlevania has a special place in my heart, especially because I could actually beat the sequels as well.
How the frick did you beat that shit as a kid ?
Death is a straight up nightmare, those fricking scythes flying around made me feel like I was playing a fricking puzzle game.
>death is 20x harder than the other bosses
Definitely.
Gonna play the second one but I know its reputation.
9 months ago
Anonymous
The second is pretty good imo, but I'd follow a guide simply because there are a handful of things which basically require one. The bulk of the game is good if not a bit wonky at times.
Turned 30 this year. It's been a pretty shitty year so far. GF of 4 years cheated on me and we broke things off. I was already drinking a lot but I became a full blown alcoholic and this year made me realize I have to quit because I got a DUI and I've been in and out of the ER 3 times already this year for seizures from alcohol withdrawals. Quitting is hard.
Been playing Baldur's Gate 3 with some friends. It's been a fun time so far.
32 neet virgin living with my mom here. I'm playing guilty gear strive (i have 2k hours) and baldur's gate 1. But i mostly spent the last two days overclocking my cpu
I'm 31 and the same way as the guy you replied to. I guess it's comfy in the sense that I don't have to worry about responsibilities much, but there is the feeling that I would be absolutely fricked if I had to finally face the real world for whatever reason.
going really good. Got bored of Diablo 4. So Jumped into Black Desert to finally try it out. Wish I got into this sooner. it feels like the open world sandboxy MMOs I liked from before WoW so busy doing some grindan and exploran
I play old games and love it. recently did alpha protocol, flashback, starfox, rainbow six vegas, and ghost recon adv warfighter. that last game sucked with the friendly AI, so Im onto playing HAWX 2, which is mediocre af. other than that, things are going smooth.
life is going shitty.
in a dead end job at a comp that has to be constantly bailed out to stay afloat.
gaming-wise, got Q2 remastered loaded just to see how that is.
Getting back into F4 just because I haven't been there in a while. I was playing ARPGs earlier but got burnt out of them.
Tried playing UBoat but my fan revs up as though it's about to lift off so I had to drop that.
30, doing fine being essentially friendless and without a significant other. Currently doing dailies in HSR and Nikke before finishing my evil playthrough in BG3.
life is going shitty.
in a dead end job at a comp that has to be constantly bailed out to stay afloat.
gaming-wise, got Q2 remastered loaded just to see how that is.
Getting back into F4 just because I haven't been there in a while. I was playing ARPGs earlier but got burnt out of them.
Tried playing UBoat but my fan revs up as though it's about to lift off so I had to drop that.
you probably already know this but the silent hunter series is really good if you're looking for a sub game
>you probably already know this but the silent hunter series is really good if you're looking for a sub game
Yeah, thanks, anon. Already got SH3. I should probably give that a spin. How does it work for Win11?
Never tried it on win 11, but head to the subsim forums, they've probably got guides, if needed, to get it running on win 11.
And pick up the Grey Wolves mods for it too.
I'm on neetbux and I spend most of my time on here or playing older games from the ps2, ps3 and vita eras. I think I have schizoid personality disorder. No girlfriend or friends but i actually prefer that. I might come out of my cave to get armored core 6
Turned thirty in may. Doing great, love my job. Been playing downwell a lot for the last couple months, got all the stars in SM64 for the first time before that. Is it just me or does the movement feel nerfed and constrictive in maro oddysey? I picked it up because i enjoyed 64 but i couldn't get into it, felt pointless after the smoothness and liberating movement of the older game
I'm 38 and I'm currently plowing through the Rance series since my comp is 12 years old and cant play modern games. I can afford to outright buy the rest of the parts I need but I feel guilt and remorse every time I spend significant sums of money outside of splurging for holiday and birthday gifts for my daughter.
I'll be 31 next week. Been thinking about getting back in touch with my ex since I miss her and want her back in my life again. Yet every time I try and get in touch with her I can never bring myself to do it. I was the one who broke things off.
Currently playing The Witcher 3.
Do you miss her or just your life at that time? Has anything else changed since then? I typically only miss exes when life isn't going great or I'm not feeling fulfilled.
https://i.imgur.com/yUDdqAR.jpg
how's life going? what you playing?
Still on Baldur's Gate 3. Chapter 3 now, all I've played since release because I have narcolepsy.
I wanted to play Remnant 2 next but I'm not sure if I should play Starfield. I want to play Lies of P when thats out too. Next few months I have nothing to worry about filling the void.
Its undoubtedly why you feel the need to have her in your life. You need to do some thinking on how she improved you as a person if at all at the time. Did she make you a better man? Did she inspire you? Or was she just a container to blast into?
I know exactly how you feel. My thoughts at times wax nostalgia for my exes but objectively, it wasn't them that made my life good at all, they were just a part of my journey.
Do some deep introspection anon, talk with family or friends. Consider trying to date someone new,.You're not alone, many men experience what you are feeling.
one day youre going to have the courage and desire to do so, and you will realize that she has moved on, but for now there is still yet time.
muster the courage today, so you are not forgotten by someone you can not forget tomorrow.
38, happily married, on to producing a child, decent job. Playing Baldurs Gate 3, the first game I cannot wait playing every day or stop thinking about it. Fist game that managed this since I was a teen.
Tried playing Outer Wilds but I wasn't into it, and also am straight up too dumb for most puzzles. Shame cause it's supposed to be great.
Played lots of Rimworld but I don't feel like actually building the ship to beat the game; so I'm basically done with that. Great game though.
Now I don't know what to play
Life's been Decent. Time is tight due to my son being born. Got some work stress, but that should be passing. I can't wait for fall. Such a comfy time.
In the meantime, I've been enjoying some TF2.
Beat BG3 yesterday after playing it for a week straight, now trying to find something to do, sorta depressed because I realized how little fun I've had with other games by comparison. Might take a break from games in general because of it. Have an interview at a state position coming up which I'm anxious about.
How about you, OP?
turned 30 last month. while others wither i only grow more powerful. fricking sleepy constantly from staying up til 4am painting but power nonetheless.
these kids are pissing me off, i thought wed all be able to enjoy talking about videogames as gentleman but i keep havign to remind myself that 19 year old incels would rather shitpost about [Annual Boogeyman] than actually discuss games they genuinely enjoy
>games they genuinely enjoy
That's where the difference is. I honestly don't think the younger generation feels love towards games like the older one does. Partially because they don't seem to form attachments at all because of the zeitgeist of cynicism/nihilism because of the impermanence of everything as a result of technology, but also partially because most games these days are straight up predatory and don't give a damn about their own appearance or whether the player actually likes them, just that people spend money on them.
cynicism and nihilism are not active traits in youth. for someone to be cynical or nihilistic they have to actively voice that the thing doesnt matter or the thing is unimportant.
these people are treating every tiny inconsequential argument as world ending and humanity shaping. theyre attached but too afraid to show weakness in positivity. whether it be the grip of dailies, gacha, RPG grinding, hardcore status from difficult games or being autistically skilled they do for certain care- the value and strength of those attachments are glass knives though, extremely attractive and piercing but can shatter if a tiny doubt hits it
>i used to play [game] for 12hrs a day until [event] happened and [personality] did [action]
>I honestly don't think the younger generation feels love towards games like the older one does
holy lmao
"oldgays" do NOTHING but shit their pants for decades about games
im 36 and play games constantly and wish there was a place to talk about games without HORDES of freaks freaking out at the mere mention of games.
I was playing gundam battle operations 2 and bf2042 yesterday and love both. I play tons of games. I work at a school and could talk to any little shit kid about games cause they all love games. I can't talk to anyone my age about for example 2042 without them losing their minds.
You're that "cool" janitor at the school. Good on you, anon.
9 months ago
Anonymous
I fix computers/network for several schools. Why do you make dumb assumptions in every one of your posts?
I'm gonna assume youre a fat whiney homosexual. Whats the last game you played, anon? Whats the title and when? Will you be brave enough to answer? Most dont when I ask on this aids riddled board.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Lol, sorry anon. Don't take it so personally. I just assumed you were a janitor based on your basic sentence structure.
9 months ago
Anonymous
See, didnt answer. Of course. People like you pretend to love something but you just cry about it.
9 months ago
Anonymous
bruh
9 months ago
Anonymous
Damn anon they were trying to be nice, don't take it like that.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Anon, that was someone giving you a genuine compliment, not me. A bit ironic just because you said assumptions.
I assumed you were a janitor too though, just because you sound like someone that is a bit simple minded, based on how proud you are of escapism. I'm not brave enough to answer, but I'm brave enough to say frick you, and also wish you well and hope you keep enjoying your vidya.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Multiple anons who dont play games that pretend to care about games while complaining about the youth hating games. Mental illness for everyone.
9 months ago
Anonymous
I can assure you I play more modern and diverse games than you do. I also don't hate any games or so called zoomers. The anon you were complaining about really didn't seem like they wanted to insult you.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Jeez lighten up. You seem like a loser to me but that anon was being nice
9 months ago
Anonymous
>sounds like you clean up poop for a living
How is that nice?
Who loves books more? The person who reads four a year and remembers every detail and is greatly interested by their every aspect, or the person who reads 24 and enjoys them in the moment and then moves on with their life?
It's a subjective and rhetorical question before you get your panties in a bunch.
Because as we grew and changed, we watched the industry do the same. Where were you when Mortal Kombat 1 came out, Or Gta 1, Or Phantasy star online or frickin Smokey and the Bandit pinball haha or any other game that laid the ground for all the games youve played and enjoyed. We played those too. But cant forget what came before, cause we played those too
I played all that shit too, and you'd have to be batshit bonkets to think MK1 or GTA1 is better than their modern versions but older people will act like the modern versions killed billions and the old versions saved mankind from extinction.
Good thx, played around BG3 for an hour or two then went back to finish of a BG1 playthrough and continued directly unto BG2 which is my current addiction. Really forgot how wonderful the game is. Can't remember shit about the plot anyway because I was high for my first playthrough some years back so it's almost like playing it for the first time. I think the Pathfinder games really missed out on making combat impactful by centering everything on buff stacking and build modifier synergy on higher difficulties. In the BG games, combat feels much more like puzzles which can be solved in a variety of ways and that just never gets old, combined with limited trash encounter (in BG2 at least) and it just never gets old.
I'm turning 30 next year, and I've been diving into Psychonauts and jungleChase, one of the rare VR games on holoride collections. >super fun at the higher levels
34 here. It's alright. Hate working, hate the fact that I finally make decent money now and this joke Black person world has let inflation run so rampant that it doesn't matter and I might as well be a shift manager at taco bell. But I got a house, I've lost 50 pounds in the past year, I have my own gym in my house, and I game every Friday and Saturday night and my wife doesn't b***h and mald over it so I'm better off than most. I do miss the crew I used to have gaming, went from like 8 down to me and one other guy, and the other guy fricking SUCKS at e ery game
a bought a bunch more VNs because of the Steam sale but I probably won't end up reading any of them for at least a year because my backlog is dozens of titles long and the next title was a game I bought back in fricking January
being an adult sucks
Life is incredibly lonely. I'm 38 and haven't had friends since highschool. 20 years of solitude... I've officially been alone and isolated for over half my life now.
>bunch of people malding about being totally alone kissless virgins >talking about playing pokemon >one guy is unironically talking about visual novels
I think I need to leave this fricking site and never look back. I figured there might be some normal mid-30s guys who aren't stereotypes and we could talk about vibeo gaymes but you're all just being exactly who is pictured in a redditors mind when he hears "Ganker"
youre still here so dont try and be a high and mighty c**t, its an anonymous imageboard for shitposting about videogames on, if you want to single out KHVs to complain about thats on you, you couldve started rambling about the types of videogames youre playing but you decided to hit a "oh geez what a bunch of losers, not like me" instead so youre just as bad if not worse. >lambast stereotypes >become one
I'm a vocalist in a hardcore band that pulls hundreds of peoples to shows(not a lot but not backyard show amounts either). Still playing with my joystick all of the free time, like you guys.
Nearly 32. Got a night job in a small up+coming business warehouse three years ago and it's unironically been the best decision I've ever made. I get paid to go to a glorified gym, I've never been in better shape and I've got actual muscle definition now. I'm forklift certified. It being night means I never experience the drudgery of rush hour traffic, and when I go into stores before/after my shift, all the goods are fresh from the back. I'm so good at my job that there's a real possibility of me hitting supervisor within the next 1-2 years because everybody around me is either a drug addict or a moron and the current supervisors can't stand any of them besides me.
Been playing Baldur's Gate 3, but also got a sudden need to replay a classic racing game like Racer Driver GRID or Burnout Revenge.
reconnected with a cousin that's been having a tough time for a while. we've been playing diablo in 4-5 hour stretches over the last week or so, just having a blast playing together, bantering and reminiscing about funny shit.
im 41 and i have mostly lost interest in video games. i really enjoyed genshin impact for a few years but its gotten old, and the pandering to gay-boy shit with less sexy female characters honestly just ruins the universe...i dont listen to paimon talk so that i can then talk to gay boys in lingerie
im going hiking a lot and learning to camp and backpack. it is my goal to do some long-distance trails in america, there are many trails that are hundreds of miles long and people regularly set out to thru-hike them in groups or solo, for bragging rights or adventure or what have you. for me, i just enjoy walking around a lot.
i wish i still enjoyed video games, but i have played them for over 35 years, and i kinda wish i played video games at the last 35 years of my life instead of near the first 35.
video games are simulation, if you can find the equivalent necessary activities you can enjoy i wouldnt worry about "missing" them.
there is no world in which you telling yourself that you wish you still liked videogames when you have another active interest makes sense so dont worry about it.
>there is no world in which you telling yourself that you wish you still liked videogames when you have another active interest makes sense so dont worry about it.
that's not true at all, i don't see activities as surrogates for each other, i was involved in amazing online communities for games that brought a lot to my life, and enjoyed playing them very much
when you really look at it though, the height of my experiences covers like a few 2 or 3 year periods, and then everything is so dull between those in comparison. i'm sure i will love some new game again, in 5 or 6 years.
i mean in the sense that youve got SOMETHING to do and dont just play videogames and hate them. you can still look for and hope to find something you like while doing other shit. i pray for the hikki, talentless, volitionless wretches that only browse this site and play games.
im still going pretty strong enjoying random games and have a few on backlog but it might be because im easy going. >Noita >deciding to compelete FFXII after 15 years >Next: >Wartales possibly >Muramasa on Vita possibly >Vagrant Story >Gladiator PSP game >Wanted: Dead >MHR
theres so much shit to do and im enjoying all of it.
>i pray for the hikki, talentless, volitionless wretches that only browse this site and play games.
man......i think Ganker and the internet has just shown me that some people are kinda soulless
ive seen a LOT of people on here who seem to just have no personality and parrot what others say. and they wonder why their lives are shit, girls dont want them, etc...you have to be a unique person or at least have the bravery to try. I think a lot of people who are into video games are losers. that is part of what is drawing me away from them. Like I love manga too- specifically manga way more than anime-- and people who are really into manga are LOSERS. it's hard to deal with
theres no midpoint. the lower denominators only play FIFA and watch one Piece and the higher spend $5K on gacha and read Shikoku Inazuma Bodega Romance Firetruck[JP].
ask either why they like the games and media they do and itll be some frickshit garbled inarticulate two word response. and then you yourself get caught int the contrivance of "am i pretentious or are most people actually just mentally bankrupt". and you got to settle on the latter because you know full well you think too neutrally and are too disconnected in general about shit to be sincerely up your own ass about your tastes
theres no midpoint. the lower denominators only play FIFA and watch one Piece and the higher spend $5K on gacha and read Shikoku Inazuma Bodega Romance Firetruck[JP].
ask either why they like the games and media they do and itll be some frickshit garbled inarticulate two word response. and then you yourself get caught int the contrivance of "am i pretentious or are most people actually just mentally bankrupt". and you got to settle on the latter because you know full well you think too neutrally and are too disconnected in general about shit to be sincerely up your own ass about your tastes
Amazing midwits.
9 months ago
Anonymous
id rather be a midwit and listen to someone explain why they love what they love and what else they love than have some c**t post a reaction image and huff out their nose. try again b***h
9 months ago
Anonymous
Isn't it ironic.
9 months ago
Anonymous
no because ive been talking about videogames all thread. this isnt really a "gotcha" game where you can come in and pretend there arent an overwhelming amount of shit tier people to talk with like a contrarian devils advocate
[...] Those posts tripped my working AI filter so I think it's a bot. If not, clearly not worth interacting with anyway.
i dont know much about computers, cept the one i had at home my mom put a couple games on there and i play em
9 months ago
Anonymous
HELP COMPUTA
9 months ago
Anonymous
You're moronic. Now.. STOP YER DOWNLOADIN'!
9 months ago
Anonymous
This doesn't give me seizures but it certainly agitates my brain. Am I moronic?
9 months ago
Anonymous
self awareness is not a trait that everyone has
9 months ago
Anonymous
Isn't it ironic.
Those posts tripped my working AI filter so I think it's a bot. If not, clearly not worth interacting with anyway.
Good actually. I've been out every night this week having no plans, just go out and see what there is to do or who I'll run into. Even just grabbing a packet of peanuts from the store and walk around town. Work isn't busy lately so I'm not overly tired when I get home either. I feel comfortable with myself now, I don't have any friends and yet I'm more at peace than ever. Weird but I dig it.
I was up until 2am last night playing Organ Trail on my switch. I have a soft spot for this game. One of my favourites for sure.
I also picked up Quake 2, I'll dive into that tonight
Lately I 100% Jedi Survivor. Fun game, little buggy.
Kenshi.
Every day for weeks now.
Doing a solo martial artist run now, i only recruit skeletons that i have sitting around a shop in a major city, but eventually i'll start a dojo and recruit hot women and dress them as loose ninja.
When i finally get Kenshi out of my system again, i'm going to finally play Warhammer: Shadow of The Horned Rat until i get the perfect playthrough and vindicate my young self.
31 here. $200k p/a job. wife will inherit $10m from midwestern steel distributor family. playing baldurs gate 3 (moderately too woke). playing dungeon travellers 2 on vita. life is mildly disappointing but okay. i kinda wish id been born 10 years earlier
>focuses on money >finds life disappointing
Gee anon, it’s almost like the oldest and most common advice about money turned out to be true, who woulda thunk
>He's still lonely at 30+
Literally how? I think I hit 26 and then achieved zen-like peace with the fact I'll never be married or even have a partner. Not once have I desired human affection since that point. Like it's not even that it simply doesn't cross my mind, I can weigh it up and down in my head for hours and I always come to the conclusion I'd be less happy than I am now.
I'm only getting there at 37, i finally understand that wanting something i can't have would simply be a bad fit anyway.
I am embracing my failure at life, and trying to build a tolerable routine around that realization.
Life sucks, but it sucks slightly less when you accept reality instead of fighting it.
>hmm, maybe i could pursue a rela- >have to get up >which means you have to go to sleep >which means youll have to not be doing what you currently enjoy
some people dont have intrinsic motivations, that glint miles away of [NICE FEELING] is enough to make people lament endlessly about how far away it is but if you have any sense of idk, "self" and comfort in such you can just look at it and go "cool, so anyway"
never got that whole "ITS NOT FAIR, I WISH I COULD HAVE X" pining mentality. im more of a "why was the human body designed to shutdown periodically, i have things id like to do"
For me, I needed to hit the sobbing ugly cry hyperventilating breakdown period before I achieved that mindset. Like I just stared at my ceiling while in bed thinking over and over how much of a pathetic virgin loser I was, and then it just went away. Got up, washed my pillow because it was soaked in tears, and I've been good for nearly a decade now.
33 and I like to think I've hit this point but then the loneliness creeps back in before going away again. Usually happens if I read a book or play a game that has a romance subplot
i thought that too when i was 30. then i got a hot young zoomer gf who eventually became an insane b***h and ended up feeling more alone than when i was literally single
Age isn't the barrier. I was 33 and I played games all the time. Then I got a girlfriend and now I can only play games on the weekend. Feels bad but at the same time I am glad I got a girlfriend.
41 here - busy as always with work but at least this year my team will launch some projects that we have been working on for a few years now and that will be a good feeling.
I'm waiting for my son to come back from summer camp so we can play some co-op 30XX. In the meantime, I think I'm pretty much done with FFXI now. It has been a fun ride for many, many years but players quit / retired in droves with the recent Sortie and Prime Weapon nonsense. The game is still incredible, but I literally have nothing left to do.
Still eagerly awaiting Dragon's Dogma 2. More news when?
what always fricks me up with people 10 years my senior is how they were always old enough to fully embrace, obtain and understand the emerging technologies of the 90s but are relatively similar to their juniors in terms of era.
when we were 9 playing early 3D games for christmas and birthdays exclusively, you were 19 actually able to buy them personally and soon begin even making them.
I'm long past my prime, the world is going down the shitter, all my favorite franchises are dead or violated to the point where I wish they were and between incompetence, boundless greed and shifting trends in entertainment media nothing new interests me.
Just turned 30. Getting married next year with a kid coming. Just started playing RDR2, first playthrough, for now it feels amazing. Would you recommend anything before I dive in? Maybe playing the first game beforehand even?
RDR2 needs no walkthrough just experience the game. But make sure to clear the quest b4 proceeding to the next act, you will know when that happens because some of them are no longer available in the later chapters.
could be worse, looking for non food service jobs since it's just too draining
been emulating the first mercenaries, fun to go back to after all this time. still pretty compelling atmosphere for how simple the world is, the fog and ambience like the jet flybys really adds a lot. makes ne wish they'd make a new one, like in the sahel since that's where all the pmc action is nowdays
About to turn 30.
Work sometimes sucks and sometimes doesn't, and I've copped gout for the first time but life overall's been good. One of the lads just got married and had a baby and another is getting married in a few months.
Looking to starting and fricking up and fricking around with a business with the missus, hopefully within the next couple years. Been contemplating about proposing to her soon but I'll first find a job that doesn't require me to be away from home so often
I've also been playing BG3. Got my own save and a 3-player co-op save with a couple buddies. Gf rarely plays video games but she's really curious about this one since she knows I've been playing DnD with a bunch of the lads the past couple years. Shit's been great.
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Playing Final Fantasy 16 and its great! I say that as somebody who has played FF since 7 came out and have subsequently played all of them. Also played Devil May Cry since the original.
So I really dont want to be subjected to the opinions of sour 14 years olds because the game didnt come out on their plastic box of choice. Learn to enjoy videogames without poisoning yourself with your own vitriol.
Not too bad anon. 31 in 2 months, daughter will be exactly 2.5 years old then. Wife is 21 and a good mother to our kid, shares s lot of interests with me, and has been supportive of me rebuilding my retro collection. Currently, shes watching me play through breath of fire iv on ps1, and starting up persona 5 for herself in the meantime. Daughter has taken an interest in bof iv as well, and will sit next to me with the other controller, try to mimic my hands while playing, and ask "whats that?" To everything on screen. Not bad at all anons.
Thoroughly love having a daughter. We want 3 kids total, and im hoping for one more daughter, and one son. Obviously theres a chance i may not get both, and get stuck with 2 more daughters, or 2 sons, but i can always hope for my ideal. Dont raise your daughter to be a prostitute, and you'll find its not so bad.
*huffs pipe*
i work from home doing IT, and within my office youll find my work computers, a crt with PS2 via component, and my tobacco pipe. So you were very correct, anon.
A tradwife who chose the option of marriage and starting a family at 18 with someone who's capable of leading them into a happy and secure life, where she can raise said family, with pets, in a loving environment? Shit anon, thats probably the best i could ask of her as my daughter.
I hope you find the same happiness sometime, anon. Youre right to feel jaded based on how the majority of our world is, but know there are still worthwhile options out there: you will find one, anon.
Hopefully her taste is men is just like her mom.
i appreciate that. The best we can do is instill her with the right values, and hopefully I do a good enough job as her father that she will understand and know whats important and what she wants early on. Kids imprint their ideals based on their parents, whether its wanting to be with someone like then, or someone opposite of if the parents failed that child. Im not a perfect father by any means, but i genuinely hope i never make my children feel as though ive failed them.
What should i start up once bof iv is done? Xenogears, star ocean second story, smt nocturne, or wait for ac6?
9 months ago
Anonymous
Not sure why you are implying I am unhappy since all I said was sure. Because I hope she grows up to be just like her mom.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Could be anon, and if so then thats my bad. 18 years spent on here and i assume every short response is full of resent and seethe. But i'll take you at face value and say thanks and i hope so too. I genuinely hope you are happy, however, anon.
9 months ago
Anonymous
No problem. I hope she grows up well and ripe under your care and when she turns 18, I am sure there will be someone special there to reap the rewards. good luck anon.
9 months ago
Anonymous
I'm gonna say start nocturne, you can easily beat it in like 30 hours.
I hate Ganker. More than ever I hate Ganker. I hate being here. I hate the constant identity politics b***hing. I hate the schizos who make things up to get angry about. I wish I could leave.
Just call them out with screencaps. That almost always works.
Also just use filters. Makes the site way more usable. Once a week, open up the /misc/ catalog, look for the newest shitpost buzzword and add it to the filter.
I hate Ganker. More than ever I hate Ganker. I hate being here. I hate the constant identity politics b***hing. I hate the schizos who make things up to get angry about. I wish I could leave.
36, going well. Alternating between Infinifactory and Oracle of Seasons on the sp side and MH Rise and Remnant II on the mp side. Been in the best shape I've ever been despite still being a total fatass, but getting there.
31 here. I've decided to get a dog to cope with the fact that I'll never be allowed to get married at 5'6" in a country where the average is 5'10". My only hope is to wait until I inherit some of my rich father's money to try and settle in with a gold-digger. Until then though I'm not complaining. I'm living a pretty comfy life making pretty decent pay, gaming with friends 2-3 times a week and fricking prostitutes.
37, just ran out of content in FF16 two weeks ago. Nothing else remotely interesting to play so I am just catching up on work and drinking myself to sleep every night.
>Playan
I have been playing lots of boomer shooters lately, I never played many fps when I was young, I used to play stuff like Golden Eye 64 or Perfect Dark but now I'm obsessed with retro shooters, I bought Quake II and I'm currently playing DOOM II WADS and Quake 64, I have Dusk, Project Warlock and Ion Fury on the backlog, it's probably those kind of games I'd have been obsessed when I was a teenager but now it feels like I'm catching up, I have been playing racing games like Need for Speed, CTR, Hotshot Racing and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, bought SEGA Ages Virtua Racing for less than $1, I have a massive backlog of games but I don't know if I will be able to keep up, I'm back to wagecucking
>Gonna buy soon
Thinking on getting the Kirby games, also Mario RPG and Wonder, it blows my mind that I'm gonna be playing RDR1, Gothic 1, Metal Gear games and Suikoden games on a Nintendo's handheld
Life's going good. Married my highschool sweet heart and just recently she got into cuckqueaning. She's also into pup play so its fun to tether her to the end of the bed on a doggy bed as I frick with a twink with a bubble butt. Been a really good life for me. And I just got Baldurs gate 3. The wife likes it and so does the twink.
38. Life isn't great, but i can't complain. Lots of ppl have it far worse than me. Wanna find a girl soon though, have kids before my hair falls out & my face turns into a scrotum.
If a mother gives birth over the age of 40 it's not fair on the child. Just because she can give birth doesn't mean she should at that age.
Just saying.
Will be 34 soon. Things are going alright even though I am feeling burnt out and bored again with life. I really should try some other hobbies and start working out, but I always feel like I don't have time. So, I'm trying to get better at managing my time and trying to find ways to get myself more focused at work so I can what needs to done faster to have a bit more time to start learning programming. Finishing school next year will help too with giving me some freedom back.
Currently playing BG3 and still play FFXIV regularly.
been playing medieval 2 without paying attention to campaign goals, just building a comfy nation and keeping it safe and prosperous. just got into gunpowder weapons and ships and its going good. i like watching the hundreds of trade ships float back and forth. might conquer the americas later, idk.
33
Lots of Street Fighter 6 and Pikmin 4
Got a gf but its a little shaky at the moment. I still dream of moving out West to a more rural place like Wyoming or something. New England is fine but everything is incredibly expensive and it's a never ending dick measuring contest over six-figure salaries.
I might want kids in a couple years, but I enjoy gardening, so I need a place where I can have some acreage, chickens, and some fricking peace.
32 and the only time I don't feel like dying is when I'm spending time with my mother and sister and when I'm outside on walks. The minute I get home and just sit here by myself the negative fricking cloud of emotions just sweeps in and like OCD I can't stop, its just fricking endless.
I was completely fine being isolated and alone for the first 30 years of my life, now loneliness is breaking me, I fricking hate it, I hate every minute I spend here alone, it is complete fricking torture.
Looking forward to the MGS master collection so I can replay these games from my childhood and pretend I'm back there for however many days it takes to beat.
Zoomer is a state of mind. It's a colloquial phrase that people improperly attribute real time constraints to. If you play gacha games and spend lots of time on your phone, I'd say you're a zoomer.
37, live alone in a big apartment but the rent is going up a lot next year. I'm being a NEET but I have a few hundred each month to spend on whatever. Life is good but I can't help but to be depressed from time to time. Mainly due to bad health and being obese.
I'm currently playing Elden Ring and loving it. Good challenge. Bought Baldur's Gate 3 and will start playing it next week.
They unfortunately weren't joking or exaggerating when they said the body starts slowly giving up at 30. It's not like you become an old man, but its when you notice you're no longer young.
Stomach problems, back problems, shoulder problems, fricking sensitive to everything now it seems. Sad thing is that I'm in way better shape now than I was in my 20s, but you're literally just invincible at that age, your body does not care about anything, you can fricking do anything to it and its just fine.
Honestly, just get a job. Doesn't matter if you're working 4 hours a week or 40, just keep something that you can prove on a resume. It's good for your mental health to continue interacting in a society and it's good for future job prospects. Way easier to get a job with "cashier for 4 years" than "literally nothing for 4 years".
BG3
Listening to all these little zoomies crying that this game they've never heard of is blowing up has been delicious. >Baldurs Gate is back >Armored Core is coming back in less than 2 weeks >FF7 remake is happening
Its like someone built a time machine to go back to the late 90s and pick the games industry up where they left off, before 9/11 came to transform the industry into TURRUST-HUNTER SIMULATOR 'OORAH '06
>been applying to jobs for months >keep seeing bait and switch offers or just getting ghosted.
2023 is looking great for vidya
18 year old zoomie here, how do I avoid fricking up my 20's?
Do you live in North Am*rica?
Boomers are holding job advancement hostage, there's mass shootings every week, and our politicians are getting bribed by gun companies.
There's literally no good way to advance right now unless you go into the one sector of content that hasn't been assraped by boomers, corporate homosexuals, or business execs.
Work a normal job. Good jobs with benefits literally don't exist right now.
While you're doing that, get into a creative hobby and publish stuff online. There's free software and tutorials for any creative hobby you could possibly want to do. Don't use patreon, there's a bunch of issues.
i'm 26 would you guys consider me a zoomer?
No, I wouldn't.
32 and the only time I don't feel like dying is when I'm spending time with my mother and sister and when I'm outside on walks. The minute I get home and just sit here by myself the negative fricking cloud of emotions just sweeps in and like OCD I can't stop, its just fricking endless.
I was completely fine being isolated and alone for the first 30 years of my life, now loneliness is breaking me, I fricking hate it, I hate every minute I spend here alone, it is complete fricking torture.
Looking forward to the MGS master collection so I can replay these games from my childhood and pretend I'm back there for however many days it takes to beat.
You are stuck in a routine. Make some small changes to it. It helps a lot.
Weaponize all the hatred you and other people like you have for brexit.
Get mad at the people that fricked your generation over. Do it creatively. Don't do something stupid that will get you thrown in jail. Literally just shitpost online about it, but spin it in a way that is safe and marketable.
you cant frick up, youll be forced to live in North or East due to pricing and youll get a job with other yutes and have a grand time complaining about shit while getting invited to dick around in central. dont dick around in central, paying upwards of 5 quid a beer for a whole night is a waste. if you dont have a single person with their own flat in your group in your 20s its going to be frickin miserable. also frick off the door clearly says 30+ on it m8
45 yo here. Just finished god of war ragnarok. Now I started playing the callisto protocol. I don't what is it with me though. Either gaming is not what it used to be, or I don't enjoy it as much as I used to
Diablo 4. Ever since I got a job I don't even want to look at my other games. There's something scary about starting a new game. The weird thing is I absolutely have the time, especially if I dropped d4.
My God damn 3 year old won't play independently at all. He literally follows me around all day and trys to initiate play with me. I make a point to play with him everyday but I'm so fricking annoyed. We do things everyday - I'm not some neglectful parent but I need some fricking time to myself.
>want to play Overwatch 2 >nervous because I never played the game before and I’m worried someone will rage at me for being bad and not knowing the basics >go back to playing TF2
i've never played a competitive FPS and i just got into OW2
there are so many females and children playing, you're fine, just play open queue, don't play in competitive
make sure you watch some videos about the basics though, and it's always good if you have a friend who can teach you some tips at first
30, Dead end job, high school relationship fricked my view on relationships, but I'm enjoying solitude. I really want to write for a living, and I'm torn between taking the plunge and working 9-5s. I don't want to be 40 still wondering what could have been
Also in the midst of platinuming Shantae SS, completing the SV pokedex, but I think I need to stop gaming for a bit. Marik pic because I like Marik
>tfw spent months doing marketing research for a new book I'm writing >threw out some bait posts on a bunch of websites specifically for that target audience and watched it go semi-viral >tfw I have physical proof of years of research actually working >tfw also have proof that my particular pitch has a high amount of interest, even with all the legal red tape surrounding it
I'm mad at myself for not trying sooner. But I'm also thrilled. Can I commission editors on Ganker?
>just turned 30 >too old for cons >too old for raves >too old for clubs >too old for locals >now i'm in the age range where people have kids, get married, have soul sucking jobs, and never do anything fun
i want to die
30 isn't too old to party. Just keep up with exercise.
32 had a psychotic episode in May and I'm now NEET in my uncle and aunt's basement
All games feel like shit on antipsychotics
Does anyone have a link to the 60fps port of Mario 64? I had it a few years back but can't find a reliable link anywhere online now
http://sm64pc.info/
Click the Programs/scripts tab
Life is shit, gaming is getting more shit and meaningless by the minute.
Life is shit, but hobbies are still fun take a break from vidya and try other hobbies
>have a quarter-million dollars net worth >still live with parents because house prices have skyrocketed out of my reach and apartment rent is such that if you want to live in a complex that doesn't gouge you $2k/month you have to live in the "try not to step in human poo" parts of town
Surprise! Net worth doesn't actually mean anything when highschool dropout politicians have 5 times that because they get bribed.
Save up money and live with your parents while you can.
>Can I commission editors on Ganker?
Unfortunately no. I'm an editor but I've always been hesitant to provide any proof on /wg/ before. And without providing proof, it doesn't feel right asking for money. If you want critiques on scenes or chapters though, you can post them in the thread or on the sekrit discord and I or others can review or proofread stuff. Just be warned that plenty of genres will not be popular. If you're writing anything considered "reddit" it's honestly best you don't share it there.
Thanks for that info.
I'll consider that when I get a typical novel draft, and a shorter, user friendly, e-book draft done and actually available for download.
Finished Doom Eternal, it was cool but kinda don't want to touch it again for some reason. Now looking into what to play next.
Thinking of breaking up with my 6+ year gf bros, haven't had sex for the last 3 years because she got fat as frick, but even before she wasn't really into it. Feeling a bit of resentment tbqhwy
Don't waste your youthful years on relationships you don't care about. Every year the dating pool will get smaller and you'll be left with the scraps and the crazies.
>the haggard and beaten smuggler in a post-post apocalypse should look like upper class, daily beauty regime, fashion conscious Liz Hurley
only homosexual here is you because youd probably still complain if they facescanned her and put her in the game saying "pshh shed have been kidnapped and killed ages ago looking like that because women are useless"
how the frick do you reach 30 and still be so moronic. pic related is an outlier, what kind of moron do you have to be to cherrypick so hard and think it makes a point
35 now I've been doing great thank you for asking. Playing AC Odissey now after FFXVI. Gaming seems to be recovering bit by bit. Misc gays and left gays will eventually lose to common sense. And their political momentum is losing strength this gives me some hope that people are getting tired of being shat on with this constant attacks to everyone and everything. I havent tried BG3 though I was thinking on getting Demon Souls remake or some other game at a discount.
>Demon Souls remake
DS remake is not bad. I did play the original all the way back before dark souls came out so I have an affinity for that one, but the remake is decent.
My wife and I just got a second PS5 and DS remake was the first thing to get (second copy) so we can coop but will be after playing bg3
getting closer to 40
usual problems
doing my first house sitting soon and will see how that goes
I have been quite active lately with dog walking not playing much video games
was playing cod, plan to play genshin during 4.0 update , plan to replay bg1 n 2 before 3
was looking for a laptop to buy so I could play video games during house sittings, but I'll wait until after this first one to see how it goes.
kinda like doing outdoor activities while it's still summer out.
38 next week, playing baldurs gate during my days off
gonna play star citizen tonight with my work buddy
got a month off from work for starfield and elden ring dlc
>how's life going?
Career wise doing great. In terms of health no so good. >what you playing?
Guild War 2, log in do a PvP match maybe some WvW and log off
Anno 1800 - decided to reinstall it
It still baffles me that people had a problem with this change. Joel is a 52 year old man in the first game. And Tess is around his age. Might be younger, who knows. But even if she were 10 years younger, that would still make her 42 year old.
There's no way a 40 year old living a rough life should look like the left. Her face was always weirdly age inappropriate.
>literally letting your brain turn off while on medication and playing mario kart isnt going to make you feel better
not him but it actually will, i dont know how you came up with the idea it wouldnt
Because "all games feel like shit on antipsychotics", is not solved by changing games. He'll just feel numb while playing Mario 64. Not only due to the psychotics, but also because it's a 27 year old game. How much joy can you squeeze out of a 27 year old game? the sheer boredom and apathy he'll feel, will make him more depressed than he already is.
>just turned 30 >too old for cons >too old for raves >too old for clubs >too old for locals >now i'm in the age range where people have kids, get married, have soul sucking jobs, and never do anything fun
>30 >too old
I know someone who is almost 50 who dates girls in their early 20s. He goes to cons and music festivals and also uses tinder. If you act old, you'll be treated old, simple as.
you really think 50 year old men actively and seemingly successfully bagging women in their 20s give a single frick what zoomers giving him the side eye huddled together in a corner think.
9 months ago
Anonymous
it's not all about women
9 months ago
Anonymous
Anon, have you ever looked at grindr? Most people don't even put an age preference. The social norms for gays are way more open because options are fewer. If you're a femanon, you've got to be kidding if you think a zoomer wouldn't want an older woman.
9 months ago
Anonymous
This, I gave up on women years ago. If I need to frick I'll get a prostitute so can lay them to frick off. Life becomes much more simple when yoi stop caring about women. I mean they claim they don't need us, and I sure as shit don't need them.
i mean i don't go everywhere just to bang women, meaning zoomer guys thinking i'm an ancient relic means something
9 months ago
Anonymous
It does. But if you're not talking about sexual or romantic relations, very few people will care. You can be friends with 20 year olds just fine. I'm 31 and I'm in a group of friends who are all between 22-24. As long as you aren't trying to get close to them or doing anything outright creepy, no one will care.
9 months ago
Anonymous
This, I gave up on women years ago. If I need to frick I'll get a prostitute so can lay them to frick off. Life becomes much more simple when yoi stop caring about women. I mean they claim they don't need us, and I sure as shit don't need them.
he must have a really young appearance then. but who seriously hears that someone is almost fricking 50 and doesnt immediately get disgusted?
30 is not too old for any of those things lol. And why would you give a frick even if someone thinks that?
I remember being 18-19~ and one of the hottest girls in my school (while very drunk) told a story about her getting her first orgasm while getting assfricked by a 40-something yo guy she met at a fancy club. I still fap to it sometimes. Age only gets to you if you let it.
>too old for cons
m8 you do realize that most con goers are 30+ right? Conventions are expensive as frick, teenagers and college kids generally do not have the money to attend cons regularly. They might be able lucky enough to attend their regional cons if they’re lucky enough to live near a regional con, but that’s hardly the full con experience. For the record I live near where Otakon is held. It’s known as one of the top 10 biggest anime cons in the country. There are people, mostly cosplayers, that live in California, who have their own huge conventions like SDCC and AX, and these people fly across the country all the way to the east coast, book a hotel room, all just to attend Otakon. Honestly if you’re under 30 and attend cons, you are being financially irresponsible. You might just start off casually going to your regional cons, but eventually you’ll want to start doing 8 hour drives to other cons near your city. Then that leads to flying out to the bigger cons across the country. It’s really a hobby for older people who have cash to burn.
I've been thinking I'm too old to do stuff since I was 19 homie. I'm 32 now and stopped giving a frick, went to a rave the other day and there were tons of people older than me.
like the other anon has said, taking a break may help
I get burnt out on gaming from time to time and even have taken two months breaks doing other hobbies to then feel ready for it again
>have a quarter-million dollars net worth >still live with parents because house prices have skyrocketed out of my reach and apartment rent is such that if you want to live in a complex that doesn't gouge you $2k/month you have to live in the "try not to step in human poo" parts of town
are you quite literally a moron? you have half a mill, even if not liquidated- and cant figure out how to move state to be independent because your first thought is Alabama?
maybe you should stay with your parents. even something simple like a small rented property for income sounds like too much of a mental hurdle for you to set up
>your first thought is Alabama?
No, I'm saying Alabama because I've already done my research, moron. There's only a handful of states where real estate prices have not spiraled out of control -- you're delusional if you think this is limited to "blue" states -- and all of the ones with affordable real estate prices happen to be hillbilly backwater states.
im not sure how you manage to figure anyone else but you is a moron for claiming to be so mildly valuable yet unable to figure out a means to profit from said wealth. stay with your parents, youre too frickin stupid.
9 months ago
Anonymous
>stay with your parents
I intend to. Still making good money from my fulltime job and at the rate I'm making it, I should be able to retire by the time I'm 45.
Come on down to Alabama, friend. The rednecks are pretty nice as long as you don't look like a homosexual with a bunch of tattoos and dyed hair. Not a lot of black peepo in my town either
And what if I want to use my money to start a small videogame development company? Sure, in Alabama I won't be inundanted with resumes from trannies or junkies with Antifa tattoos, I also won't find many qualified applicants in general.
Or you can move to an actual nice country like Germany or in Scandinavia where you can literally pay almost 50% of a nice apartments total value up front resulting in extremely low living costs. Also healthcare and everything is free.
Only reason for living in America is if you have a goldmine of a job or you're one of the super-rich.
I think i'm buying a new GPU not for game but for stable diffusion.
Otherwise, i'm playing on PS5 and newer games like Horizon / GOW:R don't excite me... all other shit 3rd party too. Maybe BG3 will be fun...
But yeah, last good generation is 128 bits era
Life is going pretty decently. Just having motivation issues for chores around the house, hobbies and gaming.
Was playing quite a bit of Remnant 2, but it was crashing a lot for me. Looks like they've patched a bit.
Played 1 or 2 hours of BG3 shortly after launch. Having a bit of paralysis on playing it because I'm the kind of person who likes to get the most out of games on one playthrough, but I know that won't be the case for this, and it will require multiple playthroughs.
Decent, at a bit of a turning point as I'm studying cyber security but I feel like a dumbass because I don't fully get a lot of it. Just brought Papers, Please, and bouncing around between HS and L4D2.
I’m turning 27 early next year anons. It’s been hard and I’m only just now going to college for programming next year and I still want to do animation someday, but I’m joining the 30+ club soon.
Get started on learning how animation software works now.
Frick around with small projects. Keep up with the coding stuff, but also get certificates so that you can actually find a job.
If you really want to get into animation later on, make a subscribe star account and other social media accounts now.
It takes a while to come up with a name that isn't taken on every site.
Turning 30 later in the month, overall life is fine. >Have a decent job >Haven't dated in 6 years, but honestly find the solitude much more enjoyable then chasing meaningless relationships. >Trying to find a smaller place to live, since it's cheaper and I don't have a lot of shit, no luck but something will pop up.
Just finished Cultic and it was pretty good. Probably going to play some SOASE with friends later.
Just turned 36. Job is great, my little side company has a buy out offer, and I'm losing weight again after the tired period after child #5. I'm playing Ark Survival Evolved (single player with boosted rates because frick that grind), recently finished Elden Ring, and have gotten my old Super NES working again to play Super Mario All-Stars with 7 year old.
I can't say how much I wish all of you could have things work out like I have. It makes me genuinely sad how many IRL friends and people here are in a place of emptiness and despair.
>I can't say how much I wish all of you could have things work out like I have. It makes me genuinely sad how many IRL friends and people here are in a place of emptiness and despair.
can never be too late, I met my wife when I was 29 and we have been married for nearly 10 years now
before that I was single for over 10 years and alone
at the same time, sometimes being alone its better
i would be in a place of suicide if i had to take care of 5 children while watching the entire world collapse around me knowing they will have it 10x worse by the time all is said and done
I run in social circles (homeschooling and political) that give me a lot of hope, groups with families more numerous than I ever saw in churches growing up. That is critical to keeping spirits up. I even the occasional gaming with other dads, mostly strategy stuff. I wish that group could be far larger, but it is something.
Living in a little enclave of normalcy while the other 99.99% of society implodes is admirable and all but it's just dooming them to a life of basically being a different species. You might as well be raising them Amish, they'll never be able to relate to anyone in the outside world and finding a partner will be like going unicorn hunting.
t. homeschooled but not a christcuck
32 and I feel like I've reached the end of gaming as my main hobby. I just don't give a shit about the majority of the big games out now and trying BT3 was what basically sealed it. After Bomb Rush and Starfield, I really don't see any upswing happening in video games for me outside of casual stuff like Mario or something every now and then.
Otherwise life is fine. I made it to a job I thought I always wanted for years and turns out I don't like it as much as I thought and now I have to work later. That said, it's not all bad since it's small a pay increase and I get to help out the family more without having negative money in the bank left.
The big reason why I think this is it for me for games (at least this generation and moving forward) us because I've done the whole song and dance of "just play retro for a while" and "just take a break and come back" things and still do that. Only thing now is that doesnt work much for me anymore.
That said, I do still enjoy playing the older stuff casually so it's going to be a transition to retro and older games, but even still games aren't going to be my top hobby anymore. Probably just number 2 and mostly older stuff and some AAs nobody's heard of or cares to talk much about.
fair enough. perhaps focusing on other hobbies will either refresh your enjoyment of games or you just end up enjoying something else and that really is what matters
I'm stuck being a wage slave. I have no money because divorced. I have lived with my parents for two months now because I nowhere to live.
Every job I actually want to do is locked behind a pay-wall basically, "Oh you want to drive a cab or create your own business based on skills you have? That's be $50k for a licence, please, also frick you".
All I want to do is leave everything and just walk until I find some purpose, but the whole world is just fricked.
I actually looked up doing volunteer work in other countries but it's the same shit there, you literally have to PAY to do it.
"Yeah, we desperately need help building this hospital, so here: pay us to live here and you can help us build"... what?
Hunt: Showdown.
Turning 32 in October. Could be worse I suppose, but overall it's pretty shitty. I work a low status low income job that I hate. Haven't had a girlfriend in 4 years and the way things are looking I probably never will again. I quit drinking because it was becoming a problem. Going to the gym and vidya are really all I do anymore these days because I also don't have many friends anymore.
Playing TF2 and Elden Ring currently. Not sure what I'll fire up next.
Playing a lot of Stellaris lately. Aftwards might mive to HoI4 for a bit, give the computer a break and boot up the console to play Outer Worlds I think. Been while since did another playthrough. Then maybe go back to the computer and play Skyrim for the bajillionth time. Though I'll have to re-download all my mods which will be a pain in the ass.
I turn 31 today and I have no hopes for the future other than mere distractions from how bad I have fricked up my life. Mostly playing BG3 and intermittently playing Apex with my friends, I just uninstalled GB02 on my PC cause I got sick of waiting 40 minutes just to get stuck in Arctic Base twice. At least AC is coming, at least this year my birthday has some games coming out around it that aren't fricking Madden.
I'll be 31 at the end of the month. The age doesn't bother me; what does bother me is that the last couple years of my life were stolen by the pandemic and the response to it. It doesn't feel like I aged at all in that time, so I'm still in my late 20s in my mind.
But life is generally okay. I'm not accomplishing as much as I'd like, but I've made small changes for the better. I'm currently playing Elden Ring for the first time since last April, and I've got a solo fist monk with dragon communion incants going alongside a cleric I'm playing in seamless coop with a friend. It's been a lot of fun, and I think I have over 30 hours in the past two weeks. When this game is good, it's really good. It grabbed me really hard that first month or so after release, too.
So they straight up changed the art style in the "remaster"?
There's no way the character on the right side of OP's image and pic related are supposed to be the same person. Unless she aged about 20 years
yes they made it more realistic like TLOU 2 and less stylized. its too bad because TLOU 1 had better character models and a better style overall. ultra realism is so boring.
Shit yknow I barely even realised the art style changed so dramatically from 1 to 2. But the original 1 style still looks good now, 2 and the part 1 remaster are only gonna look worse with time. Frick realistic styles
I guess shit could be worse. I've got shit to look forward to on the horizon both in gaming and in real life, but things often still feel kinda rough, directionless. I've got mental health shit I need to work on + apply for programs to start getting more money in than just gig work. Normal jobs suck.
>31 >extremely debilitating chronic health problems >leave me in severe pain all day every day >doctors took over 4 years with various tests and medications desperately trying to figure out what it was but even now its uncertain >cant take care of myself due to the pain so had to move back in with parents >pushed all irl friends away so as to not make them sad about my condition >waiting to qualify for disability/income assistance but given that my condition is rather nebulous i will likely be denied >huge drain on my family financially, feel extremely guilty about this >consider suicide sometimes but dont want to make people sad
I play a lot of video games to pass the time, usually jumping around between 6-8 at a time to take my mind off of my shitty situation. Currently playing all of these. Balls hurt gay 3 is one of the best games i have played in a very long time, looking forward to AC6 and Eternights. Might get into some schmups one day if my pain will allow me to, picked up ikaruga but im trash at it so far.
https://www.backloggd.com/
its great for keeping track of games you are playing, want to play, and have played.
Shit sucks mang but keep on keepin on. Don't think of yourself as a burden, most parents would give everything for their child without hesitation. You didn't choose your situation but you have to make the best of it.
Shit sucks mang but keep on keepin on. Don't think of yourself as a burden, most parents would give everything for their child without hesitation. You didn't choose your situation but you have to make the best of it.
35 here. Just finished We Love Katamari Reroll, though I still have two achievement left to get. My skills at that game are not what they used to be back when I played it on PS2 because I can't seem to route the Big Bang level for shit anymore. Before that, I beat Fuga Melodies of Steel 2 and got the secret movie. Currently playing Dave the Diver. It's not the deepest game despite just how many mechanics they toss in but it's still a fairly addicting gameplay loop and I do appreciate just how much effort and personality went into this game. I've also got FF16 on the back burner but I have not been able to find as much time to just sit down with it and really get engrossed in it for a few hours without having to get up and take care of something every 30 minutes. Game has its flaws but I have been enjoying it.
We Love Katamari is probably the best entry in the series I'd say just because it has the most variety without a bunch of bloat. Things went a bit downhill after that. Tribute was solid but by that point there wasn't quite the same magic left in the series. First game still holds up but in all honesty, if you were only ever going to play one game in the series, We Love would be my recommendation.
33 here. Managed to find a new fully remote job last year after my old one tried to israelite us back to the office. I remain never had a GF, but soon i'm taking my third of (probably) 4 vacations this year to shithole SEA countries to frick a variety of 19 year prostitutes. I'll bring my 'Deck with me and play some more OG God of War 2
>How's life going
I had to leave my family overseas, moved back to America, after just a year I'm about to start my own business, the paperwork to immigrate them here is done, and I feel pretty fricking good not gonna lie. I miss them, but you gotta do what you gotta do. >what you playing? Dota 2
I'm 31. I stopped drinking 2 months ago and my friends have alienated me for the most part, I play games with one friend who still drinks his mind out while we play. There is a point where he switches to his drunk personality which gets extremely annoying. I miss drinking honestly, but at the rate I was going I wouldn't make it over past my 40s. Also currently playing Valheim a lot. I play solo 95% of the time
37 lvl here.
Just finished base campaign of Q2 Remastered.
Yesterday I finished System Shock Remake.
Dudes at Nighdive studios know what they are doing, Quake remastered was also great.
Makes me kind of hopeful we could, one day, have remakes/remasteres of Unreal and Sacrifice.
36
I make okay money. Nothing going on relationship or family wise, too schizoid for that. Started prepping a bit (food wise) in case this country implodes someday. It's actually kinda fun and I wasnt using the basement before anyway.
I'm not playing much besides Swtor on my old ass PC. Getting a new one soon, will play ER, FF16 and BG3 and likely drop Swtor for good, it's over
31 here, I tried by joining a hiking circle and group sport sessions but people are so fricking shallow and clearly don't give a shit about anyone that I quit and accepted that I'll become a full blown hermit schizoid
I don't leave the house, but I'm actually pretty happy and getting fitter every day.
Currently I'm playing a run of Morrowind and Master Blaster Zero, which I forgot about for a while but want to play through all three titles sometime soon.
I'm trying to quit drinking because since turning 30 last year I've balooned 20kgs. Then I'll work on losing all that weight.
Playing Pathologic with speed boost.
Turned 30 yesterday. Life is pretty shitty, I tried to be a comic artist but I couldn't create anything of my own and I can't find work anywhere and now I can't find any work because I don't have any qualifications, I've only been in a relationship that lasted many years but after we broke up she immediately got engaged and changed 4-5 guys cooler than me (obviously) and I was left alone, I'm not complaining but I feel bad for my parents, I would have liked to earn money to let them live well , to make them visit more places, instead the more I go on and the more life scares me. Gaming is good, it was a great year, we are lucky to be passionate about video games because it is one of the richest and most varied media
33 >work wise going well, respected and well paid >financially good, own my own house and soon will rent it out soon t o get another buy2rent >personal not good not as much free time for friends and gf as i wish
maybe I will be free in 1 year
played through MCC 2-4, soon to start infinite
>30 >at moms >slavejob at the supermarket >all my favorite games aren't fun anymore and never will be again >all new games are trash >don't like watching animay anymore >like cycling but there are hardly any routes so it's always the same which gets boring fast
No interests in life remaining and nothing to look forward to.
I let my friends slip away because of my insecurities.
I'm getting better with the insecurities but I fear those friendships may be forever fricked at this point, too little too late.
>26 >KHHV >never traveled abroad
tell me 30+ year old boomers, does it ever get better?
i need to start living my life
I've never tried dating and I'm feeling increasingly anxious at the thought of never leaving this tiny suburb bubble I've been raised in
You need to leave, whether that's travelling or school or anything else. I was 100% the same until I put myself into a sink or swim situation where I had to take care of myself. You'll be surprised how quickly you adapt.
I'm having a terrible time making new friendships online.
2008-2014 was amazing in the sense where anyone with any interest in your own hobbies, it was simply too easy chat up people and become virtual best friends in the span of a few hours.
All nighters on skype talking about whatever the frick. Playing games, having the time of my life.
Now I'm 32 and I tried getting into more mature gaming circles like VR for example and while the people there are seemingly my age, it's so goddamn hard to keep conversation going and just get to know people.
We have weekly events where it's almost the same people showing up and while I'm always genuinely interested to talk with almost anyone about any subject, I feel like it's a one way street. It's like everyone is jaded and putting on a personas for "public" appearances but then have this immense barrier and don't want to commit at all with bonding with others, like they've been burned out hard.
I don't particularly think of myself as someone who's a social butterfly or anything, even the opposite as most of my time spent is "alone" time.
I really want to get friends with people my age but I feel like it's not meant to be and it demoralizes me.
I'm turning 30 next sunday. This will be my last week as "young meat".
Will whatever's left of my value as a human being in the eye of society go down the shitter, or do normies not care?
Men's age doesn't matter much, never did. Wealth, fame, power, physique is more important.
Nowadays even women are getting away with being older.
Just keep fit and accumulate wealth.
Life is good. Have a decent job, girlfriend, own house, and dog. Currently 60 hours in to my first playthrough of Elden Ring. Hoping to finish before Starfield releases but the next few weeks will be busy. Travel for work next week and then family is visiting for the following week.
My friend got murdered at the end of last year and frankly it has burnt a hole in my brain that I didn't think was possible, particularly given this is the second time one of my friends has been murdered
In career terms I'm in a very good place but it is hard to feel any investment in life between everything that's going on in the world and the reality shock of something like the above happening
27 y/o virgin here. It's going fine, i moved out of my parents house two years ago and got a job in a bank that pays well so i can't really complain. Housing's fricked in my country so i think i'm going to be a rentoid the rest of my life.
I paid for a ps plus subscription and i'm playing all the games i can't play on my xbox. Mostly jap shit like disaster report 4, trials of mana, and now i'm just starting pic related
>i think i'm going to be a rentoid
Even with a mortgage? I was under the impression that once you made decent money you should buy a house, and the monthly payments would be the equivalent of renting anyway but after 20y you actually own your house.
a lot of places are in a position where landlords are buying up as much of the housing stock as they can so you're expected to have a huge deposit/down payment ready to go to compete with them and if you don't have that then you're not getting a mortgage
and they will usually have money to outbid first time buyers anyway
Your country? EVERYONE is fricked. Boomers killed the next generations
>how's life going
My friend got murdered at the end of last year and frankly it has burnt a hole in my brain that I didn't think was possible, particularly given this is the second time one of my friends has been murdered
In career terms I'm in a very good place but it is hard to feel any investment in life between everything that's going on in the world and the reality shock of something like the above happening
This. Even if you manage to get a house, world is too fricked up, and your kids will be drown by immigration and lgbtpedos
I literally got anxiety last days, we are literally surrounded man. Its why I despise Notch's personality, how I wish I were billonaire to isolate from the modern world and have kids raised by the 90s material.
I honestly cant blame Japan for being into isekai, it really kills you to know your life is over.
I feel like many people quit already, I dont bother being invested anymore
>how across the spectrum it's a feeling of general decline and malaise
That's hardly anything new. Fight Club was basically about men who felt lost and directionless, and it came out in the 90s. My theory is that everything always sucked, it's just that we were never really allowed to admit it.
Played through the STALKER trilogy and STALKER gamma, playing through a couple of doom wads now, playing CSGO to get ready for CS2 as well. A bit dissapointing that most of the people in these threads tend to avoid games that have gameplay nowadays, it feels like 30+ threads are worse than zoomers. Like you see people screeching about zoomers in other threads and the shitters actually turn out to be you guys.
BG3. Enjoying it quite a lot but I wish it didn't have so many woke things. PoE league on Friday, will go degen in ssfhc. League looks shit so ill prob only play a week or two, then back to second evil playthrough of BG3.
If there's still time after that I'll prob replay pathfinder wotr or bg2 if im not burned out of crpgs, if not there start pathfinder.
Life is whatever really, on auto pilot while I try to reach goal weight(from 35% BF down to around 14%, really want to get very lean but last few weeks its been rough). Work is meh, boss is on holiday for 2 weeks (remote work from home) so I'm planning on doing 0 work next week as I did this, Im very important to the company so I can't get in shit.
There's very few games out there that still bring me joy. Killing Floor 2 is one of those games that just hits my personal spot.
>multiplayer co-op >more than four players is a plus >co-op and not competitive >different classes to choose from
Only downside is that it's a 7 year old game now. Community is kinda dying down because it doesn't have the staying power of something like Team Fortress 2, then again most games don't. I mean I can still find games fine, I just can't help but feel the game is on it's last leg.
30 here, doing alright mentally, still enjoying video games in general, although live service can go pound some sand. bought a Series X recently for starfield, been catching with some games on gamepass, loving halo infinite for its gameplay. overall very happy with the purchase.
Work with a best friend, who now has kids, so while we hang out at work alot the only time to play vidya is one day of the week where he has to wrangler 2 <2 year olds. We played OS1 and OS2, early access, release, and the enhanced versions but this BG3 playthrough is going to take like 4 months at this rate.
34,life has been really great for me this last year,I finally found a job I really like and motivate me to wake up in the morning,the pay could be better but I don't mind.
Just finished Aegis Rim and what a ride it was,my only complaint is that the VN part could have been a little more fleshed out like with some puzzle or riddle to solve but everything else was really good.
39 in a week, having lots of fun with playing dee jay in street fighter 6, else I play slay the spire and flight simulator. Other then that, couple days ago I made the first step to get me into psychotherapy, been having recurring thoughts about hanging myself for like 12 years, so thats a step in the right direction.
33
Playing DS for the first time because I really wanted to play Eldren Ring but first wanted to be a bit more familiar with FromSoft games to get a better idea of how the series started and where it's going.
The only other FromSoft game I had played before was BloodBorne, and I'm hesitant on whether or not to play DS3 first before ER or go straight into ER after beasting DS (Not going to play Sekiro, just looking at videos it and I know I'm don't have the time to GitGud enough for it)
Life-wise. Got my third-life crisis after my daughter was born and from that moment it hit me that my youth was behind me, and anything I hoped to achieve outside of career and family (art projects, game development, etc...) now feels unatainable, and I regret spending so many years worrying about how I spent my free time as I felt behind in my career that I played VERY FEW games over the last 7-or-so years and so feel like I missed out on a lot of great stuff. I can't complain too much as I have done a lot over the last decade and now make 6 figures, but wish I had been more relaxed about life up to this point
Woke up with my index finger and thumb tingling. I guess this is life now.
Gonna play some more baldurs gate or maybe try getting S+ professional in re4make after some carpal tunnel stretches.
31
About to finish Doom Eternal Taras Nabad master levels.
Reminder society has been handing our age group their bags for decades now, since before we were born really, and if you're not actively trying to protect yourself from these torrents in everything you do its only going to get worse as more and more boomers start drawing from their entitlements (lol) and more and more of these progressive golems get brought online getting paid for their downstream, unproductive jobs complaining and micromanaging some social page or whatever.
It's been going good mate. Me and the wife going through the Final Fantasy Pixel remasters. Taking it in turns per game. Its currently my turn and we're on FF4. Can't wait to hit FF5 and see what team she builds, she's never played it before
29 soon >how's life going?
stuck in 3rd world being a rent cuck with possibility to escape to another country but I got a comfy 2 days remote job where I don't do shit and it pays enough so I just choose to ignore reality instead. >what you playing?
I'm playing the Quake 2 remaster, I already beat this game back when I had win98 but I wanted to check out the new stuff.
Sometimes I think about applying to remote jobs but I know it will just dig me into a deeper hole than I already am
I need to get out of this goddamn house
But sounds comfy anon I wish I could work 2 days a week and afford rent
32 and feel like I ruined my life. Got a useless degree and lost most of my social skills after the pandemic. I haven't done much in the last 2 years since I couldn't find a job so I decided I'm going back to college to do something useful.
I don't really feel like playing anything atm, I completed most of the stuff in FFXIV and WoW has a long content drought again. I kind of liked playing MMOs because you can stop whenever you want but singleplayer games take more commitment and effort to get started.
The usual, some Darktide with my co-op brothers and now I'm alone chilling in a boomer delight: Division 2.
Can't stop playing that shit, despite all its faults. It's just a very fun game, like a real-time 3ps XCOM.
I've talked to other people in the game and lot of old people seem to love it: 50+yo taxi drivers, old marines, etc. There's something to that Gears of War+Diablo mix of gameplay.
It's been a lot better. About a year ago my gf and I of 5 and a half years broke up (around July) and while we talked a lot we only wanted to start taking steps towards getting back together around Christmas. But this year we had so much back and forth on if that was a good or bad idea and all that. It was hard on both of us. We spoke early July or so that we should probably let both of us be free and able to move on properly. And it honestly sucked for awhile I was super down and even though a big part of me knew it was right I hated to lose her. Despite that we were able to remain friends.
Then she told me she was going to see some guy she had been chatting to and getting to know in another state, and while I was initially upset and jealous it kind of felt like a weight lifted off my shoulders. I felt able to truly let myself be free and just enjoy life properly again, not waiting for her texts or thinking what she was doing...And even though I was kind of sad I felt pretty good. I had been on dates and I can finally pursue girls that im interested in without guilt, go on fun dates, frick hot girls and just have fun again. Focus on my work and training.
So I ended up realizing that I had a beautiful relationship where we both got to grow, love eachother deeply but just not have been ultimately right for eachother at this time in our lives. That we can maintain a friendship and just be happy for one another. She's a wonderful person and I wish her everything good and I feel like I can finally really grow and move on for myself.
And Ive basically just been playing the new season of Apex, started Ghostwire Tokyo, but its not outstanding sadly.
Letting go of shit that's not right for you is pretty nice, Anon. Sounds like you're in a pretty nice place right now, good luck finding those good games.
good fricking god >"we just werent right for each other, its good we can play the field and engage in degenerate courtship so i can frick a bunch of random girls and ultimately end up with some other random person who probably isnt a better fit and we wont be able to look back on our lives we spent together but at least i got to have random meaningless sex" >"i play mostly apex legends" >this all padded out with lots of sentimental effeminate garbage and simping >"im glad i got to waste more time wasting my life working to paying taxes for subhumans, single mothers and israeli wars
you sound like an insufferable normie homosexual homosexual who should be dragged out into the street and beaten within an inch of his life
i guess this is what happens when you waste 5 years of your life trying to make it work with some dumbass roastie and all her feminine bullshit rubs off onto your personality. this is probably why it "wasnt working out". you let her psyche totally infiltrate your own and became a b***h totally reliant on her and always saw everything through her perspective instead of being a fricking man
Hey man, when you have a good relationship one day youll understand man. While I attest I wasnt in a good place for the half year and definitely lost my way an direction. I can still look back on a really great relationship with a lot of positive emotion.
I hope you find someone who makes you super happy man!
yes im angry you have the audacity to post your dumb generic normie life on Ganker and let some woman become such a huge part of your mind and life that you end up sounding like one
anyone who has a "good relationship" with a modern women is most likely an idiot, like you, or otherwise lucky. but you are clearly an idiot
fricking apex legends at 30+ years old >passive aggressiveness
Anyone given up on making friends or interacting the people beyond the absolutely necessary? I felt like i was fighting myself all through my 20s to do it, but now i'm just done.
Anyway total warhammer III and aliens dark descent was bretty gud
31, got a bad cold atm, don't know how the frick you get one in the middle of summer. As for games I finished Umineko recently. Recently also decided to go through the favorite games of some of my favorite friends so I finished TWD and when we have spare time playing through Guild Wars 2 with a friend.
31 soon contractor doing business interiors kid #3 coming in December. Recently quit drinking and smoking completely. I’m playing the knife of Dunwall I finished D1 doing high chaos. I played low chaos my first run like ten years ago love the atmosphere and lore in this game. I don’t get as much game time as I’d like but family is my first priority. I always try to out with the family but dads idea of fun camping is like boot camp to them
I just turned 30 and constantly think about painting the wall with my brains. Outside of thatm I regularly play COD and Diablo but I needed a break so I'm emulating Flower, Sun, and Rain for the first time. So far it's been absolutely kino. I wish there was an english version of the PS2 game or something because the DS graphics absolutely blow. Not a huge deal though. Et tu?
>I just turned 30 and constantly think about painting the wall with my brains.
I'm sure saying this on Ganker will help you.
Awful. Thought I'd finally found a career I'd enjoy then the company folded and now I'm on the search again. ADHD+tism here, picking up new skills and starting different routines again is fricking exhausting in your mid-30s. I'll start looking for work seriously again after I'm sick of BG3, AC6 and Starfield.
Therapy is expensive and not everyone has a supportive circle of family and friends, sometimes you just need to vent to anonymous zoomers larping as wizards on a Mongolian basket-weaving forum.
is expensive
Right? I gave up on going to therapy because the price is absolutely restrictive.
I've tried on and off for more than 12 years and I've had terrible results with therapy.
It's like paying to get advices for reddit posts and in the end all change must come from yourself anyway.
I wish there was simply centers you could join where you'd be assimilated in a community with scheduled programs and activities or whatever and just living a somewhat normal type of life for extended amount of time.
>I wish there was simply centers you could join where you'd be assimilated in a community with scheduled programs and activities or whatever and just living a somewhat normal type of life for extended amount of time.
You mean like prison? I know prisons in Norway are exactly that. Must be nice to know that you hit rock bottom so you can only improve from there.
Prison isnt rock bottom in Norway. Homelessness is, the point where you are incapable of even saying one sentence to other people without aggravating them. That is a dirtful and humiliating life.
Anyway wanna buy some funtanyl?
I didn't think of this but I guess it fits... I just want someone or something to take the burden away for a little while so I can find my bearings back.
Listening to some dumb c**t telling me to set myself goals and walk around the street and strike conversation with X amount of strangers while I'm socially stunted, on top of draining me of 200$ every week. I just gave up on therapists. Psychiatrist are even worse. You're just a guinea pig to them for them to collect data while they try every anxiolytic and antidepressant under the sun.
I guess this is why cults are so appealing too, what we're lacking as a society is a sense of community and purpose, both things that religion can provide.
do it like that homosexual did in fight club. go to alcoholics anonymous or whatever it was even if you arent a drinker/junkie just to vent off or interact with others
>larping as wizards
i wish i were larping, anon
>larping as wizards
Ahaha
ha
That said, I'm not so ugly that I couldn't have gotten sex. Totally could have. 2 girls confessed to me so I should really not be a wizard but I still am. I just don't want to do any social stuff.
I said frick it and saw a pro last year. I realized that I really don't give a frick about getting a steady girlfriend after that, just some physical companionship every now and then. It's nice to have that weight off my shoulders tbh.
Also, is Bannerlord good now? I haven''t touched it since the coof hit.
how was it with the pro? have had sex only twice in 27 years, want to try an escort but im worried my dickie wont get erect because of the awkwardness
I've been to 4 since then, all the sessions were mostly positive since I go on review boards. If you go, don't go for the really young girls on your first time. The cougar types know how to break the ice and get you settled.
Also not gonna lie, boner pills make the sessions much more fun. I can see myself turning into a WEG and h-game ojii-san if I get to grow old.
Yeah, I guess I'm OK looking, but I'm literally autistic and very socially withdrawn, so I ended up as a wizard just because I stay at home all the time and don't talk to anyone.
I finished Castlevania on NES today.
Was insanely hard. Hated it. 10/10.
Oh and like this Anon I'm playing Diablo. (Diablo IV that is). Hope you feel better bro.
Castlevania is one of the only NES games that I everbeat when I was younger. I spent way more time playing mario and megaman, but castlevania has a special place in my heart, especially because I could actually beat the sequels as well.
How the frick did you beat that shit as a kid ?
Death is a straight up nightmare, those fricking scythes flying around made me feel like I was playing a fricking puzzle game.
Dunno, death is 20x harder than the other bosses. I only did it once or twice, but I'll never forget that feeling of satisfaction.
>death is 20x harder than the other bosses
Definitely.
Gonna play the second one but I know its reputation.
The second is pretty good imo, but I'd follow a guide simply because there are a handful of things which basically require one. The bulk of the game is good if not a bit wonky at times.
Badly
TLOU multiplayer
Nice whats your loadout?
33, Im doing great, omw to some animecon with some friends for a lazy afternoon
Kingdom come deliverance atm and Im finally able to smash kumans. Never seen a game that is so accurate to the dark age, its great if you dig that era
That's not the "dark age" you total fricking moron.
Why you trying to educate some giga burnout drug addled weeb. You really think he gives a frick anymore?
in a death spiral t b h
Turned 30 this year. It's been a pretty shitty year so far. GF of 4 years cheated on me and we broke things off. I was already drinking a lot but I became a full blown alcoholic and this year made me realize I have to quit because I got a DUI and I've been in and out of the ER 3 times already this year for seizures from alcohol withdrawals. Quitting is hard.
Been playing Baldur's Gate 3 with some friends. It's been a fun time so far.
I know you're angry but please don't have sex with the bear
Quitting drinking is fricking brutal but it sounds like you’re through the worst part of it at least
32 neet virgin living with my mom here. I'm playing guilty gear strive (i have 2k hours) and baldur's gate 1. But i mostly spent the last two days overclocking my cpu
Unironically comfy-sounding
I'm 31 and the same way as the guy you replied to. I guess it's comfy in the sense that I don't have to worry about responsibilities much, but there is the feeling that I would be absolutely fricked if I had to finally face the real world for whatever reason.
Feeling sad
Still chasing the vtubing dream. I have 25 followers now, but none of the seem to be repeat watchers.
would YOU want to waste your free time watching your content?
My model is a cute femboy. I would watch anyone streaming with a cute femboy model and simp for their 2D bussy.
going really good. Got bored of Diablo 4. So Jumped into Black Desert to finally try it out. Wish I got into this sooner. it feels like the open world sandboxy MMOs I liked from before WoW so busy doing some grindan and exploran
I play old games and love it. recently did alpha protocol, flashback, starfox, rainbow six vegas, and ghost recon adv warfighter. that last game sucked with the friendly AI, so Im onto playing HAWX 2, which is mediocre af. other than that, things are going smooth.
life is going shitty.
in a dead end job at a comp that has to be constantly bailed out to stay afloat.
gaming-wise, got Q2 remastered loaded just to see how that is.
Getting back into F4 just because I haven't been there in a while. I was playing ARPGs earlier but got burnt out of them.
Tried playing UBoat but my fan revs up as though it's about to lift off so I had to drop that.
30, doing fine being essentially friendless and without a significant other. Currently doing dailies in HSR and Nikke before finishing my evil playthrough in BG3.
>HSR
What's HSR? Come play black desert with me
you probably already know this but the silent hunter series is really good if you're looking for a sub game
>you probably already know this but the silent hunter series is really good if you're looking for a sub game
Yeah, thanks, anon. Already got SH3. I should probably give that a spin. How does it work for Win11?
Never tried it on win 11, but head to the subsim forums, they've probably got guides, if needed, to get it running on win 11.
And pick up the Grey Wolves mods for it too.
honkai star rail
I'm on neetbux and I spend most of my time on here or playing older games from the ps2, ps3 and vita eras. I think I have schizoid personality disorder. No girlfriend or friends but i actually prefer that. I might come out of my cave to get armored core 6
I miss the 90s so much
we all do
I miss 2000s
The last white people subculture
>how's life going?
39. Good, thank you for asking.
>what you playing?
Weird West and replaying Best Fantasy VIII
dark void
its actually kinda cool
started out lukewarm but it opened up a bit more after a couple of chapters
just an update on this
this game is actually fun
dogfights are pretty sweet
>how's life going?
lol
>what you playing?
lmao
jej im 32
Turned thirty in may. Doing great, love my job. Been playing downwell a lot for the last couple months, got all the stars in SM64 for the first time before that. Is it just me or does the movement feel nerfed and constrictive in maro oddysey? I picked it up because i enjoyed 64 but i couldn't get into it, felt pointless after the smoothness and liberating movement of the older game
I'm 38 and I'm currently plowing through the Rance series since my comp is 12 years old and cant play modern games. I can afford to outright buy the rest of the parts I need but I feel guilt and remorse every time I spend significant sums of money outside of splurging for holiday and birthday gifts for my daughter.
I'll be 31 next week. Been thinking about getting back in touch with my ex since I miss her and want her back in my life again. Yet every time I try and get in touch with her I can never bring myself to do it. I was the one who broke things off.
Currently playing The Witcher 3.
Go for it anon, you got nothing to lose
Do you miss her or just your life at that time? Has anything else changed since then? I typically only miss exes when life isn't going great or I'm not feeling fulfilled.
Still on Baldur's Gate 3. Chapter 3 now, all I've played since release because I have narcolepsy.
I wanted to play Remnant 2 next but I'm not sure if I should play Starfield. I want to play Lies of P when thats out too. Next few months I have nothing to worry about filling the void.
A lot has changed since then, I guess. I haven't felt like life wasn't going my way in a while.
Its undoubtedly why you feel the need to have her in your life. You need to do some thinking on how she improved you as a person if at all at the time. Did she make you a better man? Did she inspire you? Or was she just a container to blast into?
I know exactly how you feel. My thoughts at times wax nostalgia for my exes but objectively, it wasn't them that made my life good at all, they were just a part of my journey.
Do some deep introspection anon, talk with family or friends. Consider trying to date someone new,.You're not alone, many men experience what you are feeling.
Thanks man, I'll give it some thought. I think, for now, I'm better off not messaging her and looking at myself. Take care of yourself, anon.
Happy to help even a little, anon.
remember to live for yourself my 31yo boomer brother, then the amount of exes are more than one and you see personal relationships for what they are.
one day youre going to have the courage and desire to do so, and you will realize that she has moved on, but for now there is still yet time.
muster the courage today, so you are not forgotten by someone you can not forget tomorrow.
my ex was with a Black person within 6 months
frick that b***h
38, happily married, on to producing a child, decent job. Playing Baldurs Gate 3, the first game I cannot wait playing every day or stop thinking about it. Fist game that managed this since I was a teen.
There's nothing to play until Armored Core 6 is out.
Tried playing Outer Wilds but I wasn't into it, and also am straight up too dumb for most puzzles. Shame cause it's supposed to be great.
Played lots of Rimworld but I don't feel like actually building the ship to beat the game; so I'm basically done with that. Great game though.
Now I don't know what to play
They made her look like Edward Norton.
Life's been Decent. Time is tight due to my son being born. Got some work stress, but that should be passing. I can't wait for fall. Such a comfy time.
In the meantime, I've been enjoying some TF2.
Beat BG3 yesterday after playing it for a week straight, now trying to find something to do, sorta depressed because I realized how little fun I've had with other games by comparison. Might take a break from games in general because of it. Have an interview at a state position coming up which I'm anxious about.
How about you, OP?
turned 30 last month. while others wither i only grow more powerful. fricking sleepy constantly from staying up til 4am painting but power nonetheless.
these kids are pissing me off, i thought wed all be able to enjoy talking about videogames as gentleman but i keep havign to remind myself that 19 year old incels would rather shitpost about [Annual Boogeyman] than actually discuss games they genuinely enjoy
>games they genuinely enjoy
That's where the difference is. I honestly don't think the younger generation feels love towards games like the older one does. Partially because they don't seem to form attachments at all because of the zeitgeist of cynicism/nihilism because of the impermanence of everything as a result of technology, but also partially because most games these days are straight up predatory and don't give a damn about their own appearance or whether the player actually likes them, just that people spend money on them.
cynicism and nihilism are not active traits in youth. for someone to be cynical or nihilistic they have to actively voice that the thing doesnt matter or the thing is unimportant.
these people are treating every tiny inconsequential argument as world ending and humanity shaping. theyre attached but too afraid to show weakness in positivity. whether it be the grip of dailies, gacha, RPG grinding, hardcore status from difficult games or being autistically skilled they do for certain care- the value and strength of those attachments are glass knives though, extremely attractive and piercing but can shatter if a tiny doubt hits it
>i used to play [game] for 12hrs a day until [event] happened and [personality] did [action]
drink some water
Well said, anon.
>I honestly don't think the younger generation feels love towards games like the older one does
holy lmao
"oldgays" do NOTHING but shit their pants for decades about games
Yeah, you're just reaffirming what I said. You don't view games the same way.
im 36 and play games constantly and wish there was a place to talk about games without HORDES of freaks freaking out at the mere mention of games.
I was playing gundam battle operations 2 and bf2042 yesterday and love both. I play tons of games. I work at a school and could talk to any little shit kid about games cause they all love games. I can't talk to anyone my age about for example 2042 without them losing their minds.
You're that "cool" janitor at the school. Good on you, anon.
I fix computers/network for several schools. Why do you make dumb assumptions in every one of your posts?
I'm gonna assume youre a fat whiney homosexual. Whats the last game you played, anon? Whats the title and when? Will you be brave enough to answer? Most dont when I ask on this aids riddled board.
Lol, sorry anon. Don't take it so personally. I just assumed you were a janitor based on your basic sentence structure.
See, didnt answer. Of course. People like you pretend to love something but you just cry about it.
bruh
Damn anon they were trying to be nice, don't take it like that.
Anon, that was someone giving you a genuine compliment, not me. A bit ironic just because you said assumptions.
I assumed you were a janitor too though, just because you sound like someone that is a bit simple minded, based on how proud you are of escapism. I'm not brave enough to answer, but I'm brave enough to say frick you, and also wish you well and hope you keep enjoying your vidya.
Multiple anons who dont play games that pretend to care about games while complaining about the youth hating games. Mental illness for everyone.
I can assure you I play more modern and diverse games than you do. I also don't hate any games or so called zoomers. The anon you were complaining about really didn't seem like they wanted to insult you.
Jeez lighten up. You seem like a loser to me but that anon was being nice
>sounds like you clean up poop for a living
How is that nice?
Who loves books more? The person who reads four a year and remembers every detail and is greatly interested by their every aspect, or the person who reads 24 and enjoys them in the moment and then moves on with their life?
It's a subjective and rhetorical question before you get your panties in a bunch.
Because as we grew and changed, we watched the industry do the same. Where were you when Mortal Kombat 1 came out, Or Gta 1, Or Phantasy star online or frickin Smokey and the Bandit pinball haha or any other game that laid the ground for all the games youve played and enjoyed. We played those too. But cant forget what came before, cause we played those too
I played all that shit too, and you'd have to be batshit bonkets to think MK1 or GTA1 is better than their modern versions but older people will act like the modern versions killed billions and the old versions saved mankind from extinction.
Good thx, played around BG3 for an hour or two then went back to finish of a BG1 playthrough and continued directly unto BG2 which is my current addiction. Really forgot how wonderful the game is. Can't remember shit about the plot anyway because I was high for my first playthrough some years back so it's almost like playing it for the first time. I think the Pathfinder games really missed out on making combat impactful by centering everything on buff stacking and build modifier synergy on higher difficulties. In the BG games, combat feels much more like puzzles which can be solved in a variety of ways and that just never gets old, combined with limited trash encounter (in BG2 at least) and it just never gets old.
I'm turning 30 next year, and I've been diving into Psychonauts and jungleChase, one of the rare VR games on holoride collections.
>super fun at the higher levels
34 here. It's alright. Hate working, hate the fact that I finally make decent money now and this joke Black person world has let inflation run so rampant that it doesn't matter and I might as well be a shift manager at taco bell. But I got a house, I've lost 50 pounds in the past year, I have my own gym in my house, and I game every Friday and Saturday night and my wife doesn't b***h and mald over it so I'm better off than most. I do miss the crew I used to have gaming, went from like 8 down to me and one other guy, and the other guy fricking SUCKS at e ery game
I'll never understand why americans consider losing weight an achievement, it is not.
>t. fatass
lmao you wish fatty, I bet you can't even bench your own bodyweight
>implying this is impressive when your bodyweight is 130 pounds
Eurocuck just go get acid attacked already
>self-improvement is not an achievement
31. Dropped BG3 yesterday. Now I'm looking for something else to play, don't really know what. Thinking about trying the Quake 2 remaster.
Bg3 all week after work.
Man i missed this feeling of just wanting to finish stuff to boot a game.
a bought a bunch more VNs because of the Steam sale but I probably won't end up reading any of them for at least a year because my backlog is dozens of titles long and the next title was a game I bought back in fricking January
being an adult sucks
Life is incredibly lonely. I'm 38 and haven't had friends since highschool. 20 years of solitude... I've officially been alone and isolated for over half my life now.
Playing Pokémon Emerald and Metroid Dread.
If only you stopped playing nintendo. It's time to move on.
>Playing Pokémon Emerald and Metroid Dread.
That explains it.
>bunch of people malding about being totally alone kissless virgins
>talking about playing pokemon
>one guy is unironically talking about visual novels
I think I need to leave this fricking site and never look back. I figured there might be some normal mid-30s guys who aren't stereotypes and we could talk about vibeo gaymes but you're all just being exactly who is pictured in a redditors mind when he hears "Ganker"
youre still here so dont try and be a high and mighty c**t, its an anonymous imageboard for shitposting about videogames on, if you want to single out KHVs to complain about thats on you, you couldve started rambling about the types of videogames youre playing but you decided to hit a "oh geez what a bunch of losers, not like me" instead so youre just as bad if not worse.
>lambast stereotypes
>become one
Lmao didn't read, get disregarded moron. Stay virgin pussy boy
>become one
zoomer larp
I'm a vocalist in a hardcore band that pulls hundreds of peoples to shows(not a lot but not backyard show amounts either). Still playing with my joystick all of the free time, like you guys.
Nearly 32. Got a night job in a small up+coming business warehouse three years ago and it's unironically been the best decision I've ever made. I get paid to go to a glorified gym, I've never been in better shape and I've got actual muscle definition now. I'm forklift certified. It being night means I never experience the drudgery of rush hour traffic, and when I go into stores before/after my shift, all the goods are fresh from the back. I'm so good at my job that there's a real possibility of me hitting supervisor within the next 1-2 years because everybody around me is either a drug addict or a moron and the current supervisors can't stand any of them besides me.
Been playing Baldur's Gate 3, but also got a sudden need to replay a classic racing game like Racer Driver GRID or Burnout Revenge.
reconnected with a cousin that's been having a tough time for a while. we've been playing diablo in 4-5 hour stretches over the last week or so, just having a blast playing together, bantering and reminiscing about funny shit.
im 41 and i have mostly lost interest in video games. i really enjoyed genshin impact for a few years but its gotten old, and the pandering to gay-boy shit with less sexy female characters honestly just ruins the universe...i dont listen to paimon talk so that i can then talk to gay boys in lingerie
im going hiking a lot and learning to camp and backpack. it is my goal to do some long-distance trails in america, there are many trails that are hundreds of miles long and people regularly set out to thru-hike them in groups or solo, for bragging rights or adventure or what have you. for me, i just enjoy walking around a lot.
i wish i still enjoyed video games, but i have played them for over 35 years, and i kinda wish i played video games at the last 35 years of my life instead of near the first 35.
video games are simulation, if you can find the equivalent necessary activities you can enjoy i wouldnt worry about "missing" them.
there is no world in which you telling yourself that you wish you still liked videogames when you have another active interest makes sense so dont worry about it.
just dont fricking slip on the trail
>there is no world in which you telling yourself that you wish you still liked videogames when you have another active interest makes sense so dont worry about it.
that's not true at all, i don't see activities as surrogates for each other, i was involved in amazing online communities for games that brought a lot to my life, and enjoyed playing them very much
when you really look at it though, the height of my experiences covers like a few 2 or 3 year periods, and then everything is so dull between those in comparison. i'm sure i will love some new game again, in 5 or 6 years.
i mean in the sense that youve got SOMETHING to do and dont just play videogames and hate them. you can still look for and hope to find something you like while doing other shit. i pray for the hikki, talentless, volitionless wretches that only browse this site and play games.
im still going pretty strong enjoying random games and have a few on backlog but it might be because im easy going.
>Noita
>deciding to compelete FFXII after 15 years
>Next:
>Wartales possibly
>Muramasa on Vita possibly
>Vagrant Story
>Gladiator PSP game
>Wanted: Dead
>MHR
theres so much shit to do and im enjoying all of it.
>i pray for the hikki, talentless, volitionless wretches that only browse this site and play games.
man......i think Ganker and the internet has just shown me that some people are kinda soulless
ive seen a LOT of people on here who seem to just have no personality and parrot what others say. and they wonder why their lives are shit, girls dont want them, etc...you have to be a unique person or at least have the bravery to try. I think a lot of people who are into video games are losers. that is part of what is drawing me away from them. Like I love manga too- specifically manga way more than anime-- and people who are really into manga are LOSERS. it's hard to deal with
theres no midpoint. the lower denominators only play FIFA and watch one Piece and the higher spend $5K on gacha and read Shikoku Inazuma Bodega Romance Firetruck[JP].
ask either why they like the games and media they do and itll be some frickshit garbled inarticulate two word response. and then you yourself get caught int the contrivance of "am i pretentious or are most people actually just mentally bankrupt". and you got to settle on the latter because you know full well you think too neutrally and are too disconnected in general about shit to be sincerely up your own ass about your tastes
Amazing midwits.
id rather be a midwit and listen to someone explain why they love what they love and what else they love than have some c**t post a reaction image and huff out their nose. try again b***h
Isn't it ironic.
no because ive been talking about videogames all thread. this isnt really a "gotcha" game where you can come in and pretend there arent an overwhelming amount of shit tier people to talk with like a contrarian devils advocate
i dont know much about computers, cept the one i had at home my mom put a couple games on there and i play em
HELP COMPUTA
You're moronic. Now.. STOP YER DOWNLOADIN'!
This doesn't give me seizures but it certainly agitates my brain. Am I moronic?
self awareness is not a trait that everyone has
Those posts tripped my working AI filter so I think it's a bot. If not, clearly not worth interacting with anyway.
Normal people are the ones that are most likely to parrot things, exactly what you are doing right now
Good actually. I've been out every night this week having no plans, just go out and see what there is to do or who I'll run into. Even just grabbing a packet of peanuts from the store and walk around town. Work isn't busy lately so I'm not overly tired when I get home either. I feel comfortable with myself now, I don't have any friends and yet I'm more at peace than ever. Weird but I dig it.
I was up until 2am last night playing Organ Trail on my switch. I have a soft spot for this game. One of my favourites for sure.
I also picked up Quake 2, I'll dive into that tonight
Lately I 100% Jedi Survivor. Fun game, little buggy.
Fine, mildly seething that I can't be a NEET any more but otherwise pretty good.
BG3 and Quake 2 remaster
Had a tooth pulled due to an abscess. Trying to cope with the pain by building stuff in Valheim
Kenshi.
Every day for weeks now.
Doing a solo martial artist run now, i only recruit skeletons that i have sitting around a shop in a major city, but eventually i'll start a dojo and recruit hot women and dress them as loose ninja.
When i finally get Kenshi out of my system again, i'm going to finally play Warhammer: Shadow of The Horned Rat until i get the perfect playthrough and vindicate my young self.
31 here. $200k p/a job. wife will inherit $10m from midwestern steel distributor family. playing baldurs gate 3 (moderately too woke). playing dungeon travellers 2 on vita. life is mildly disappointing but okay. i kinda wish id been born 10 years earlier
*opens up a full blast piss on your face*
thats what anyone thinks about how much you have or say you have
>focuses on money
>finds life disappointing
Gee anon, it’s almost like the oldest and most common advice about money turned out to be true, who woulda thunk
Good. Just became a dad about a month ago. Playing BG3 and Skyrim.
>He's still lonely at 30+
Literally how? I think I hit 26 and then achieved zen-like peace with the fact I'll never be married or even have a partner. Not once have I desired human affection since that point. Like it's not even that it simply doesn't cross my mind, I can weigh it up and down in my head for hours and I always come to the conclusion I'd be less happy than I am now.
I'm only getting there at 37, i finally understand that wanting something i can't have would simply be a bad fit anyway.
I am embracing my failure at life, and trying to build a tolerable routine around that realization.
Life sucks, but it sucks slightly less when you accept reality instead of fighting it.
>hmm, maybe i could pursue a rela-
>have to get up
>which means you have to go to sleep
>which means youll have to not be doing what you currently enjoy
some people dont have intrinsic motivations, that glint miles away of [NICE FEELING] is enough to make people lament endlessly about how far away it is but if you have any sense of idk, "self" and comfort in such you can just look at it and go "cool, so anyway"
never got that whole "ITS NOT FAIR, I WISH I COULD HAVE X" pining mentality. im more of a "why was the human body designed to shutdown periodically, i have things id like to do"
For me, I needed to hit the sobbing ugly cry hyperventilating breakdown period before I achieved that mindset. Like I just stared at my ceiling while in bed thinking over and over how much of a pathetic virgin loser I was, and then it just went away. Got up, washed my pillow because it was soaked in tears, and I've been good for nearly a decade now.
It's called midlife crisis, and everyone goes through this.
SENSE OF SECURITY
LIKE POCKETS JINGLING
33 and I like to think I've hit this point but then the loneliness creeps back in before going away again. Usually happens if I read a book or play a game that has a romance subplot
pure undistilled virgin cope
I thought that too when I was 26. One day you'll wake up and be 35 and realize you failed at life.
>be 31
>feel like I'm way too used to being alone at this point
>also feel like I'm too much of an autistic moron to handle relationships anyway
i thought that too when i was 30. then i got a hot young zoomer gf who eventually became an insane b***h and ended up feeling more alone than when i was literally single
Fine. BG3
Age isn't the barrier. I was 33 and I played games all the time. Then I got a girlfriend and now I can only play games on the weekend. Feels bad but at the same time I am glad I got a girlfriend.
41 here - busy as always with work but at least this year my team will launch some projects that we have been working on for a few years now and that will be a good feeling.
I'm waiting for my son to come back from summer camp so we can play some co-op 30XX. In the meantime, I think I'm pretty much done with FFXI now. It has been a fun ride for many, many years but players quit / retired in droves with the recent Sortie and Prime Weapon nonsense. The game is still incredible, but I literally have nothing left to do.
Still eagerly awaiting Dragon's Dogma 2. More news when?
what always fricks me up with people 10 years my senior is how they were always old enough to fully embrace, obtain and understand the emerging technologies of the 90s but are relatively similar to their juniors in terms of era.
when we were 9 playing early 3D games for christmas and birthdays exclusively, you were 19 actually able to buy them personally and soon begin even making them.
Fellow old coots, how do you respond when Zoomers and underage tell you how things used to be?
Don't talk to anyone under 30 unless you're telling them to get off your fricking lawn
33 doing fine. Getting my life in check by eating healthy and working out some more.
At the moment Fear and Hunger and Baldurs gate 3
I'm long past my prime, the world is going down the shitter, all my favorite franchises are dead or violated to the point where I wish they were and between incompetence, boundless greed and shifting trends in entertainment media nothing new interests me.
Just turned 30. Getting married next year with a kid coming. Just started playing RDR2, first playthrough, for now it feels amazing. Would you recommend anything before I dive in? Maybe playing the first game beforehand even?
RDR2 needs no walkthrough just experience the game. But make sure to clear the quest b4 proceeding to the next act, you will know when that happens because some of them are no longer available in the later chapters.
could be worse, looking for non food service jobs since it's just too draining
been emulating the first mercenaries, fun to go back to after all this time. still pretty compelling atmosphere for how simple the world is, the fog and ambience like the jet flybys really adds a lot. makes ne wish they'd make a new one, like in the sahel since that's where all the pmc action is nowdays
Life is an endless tiresome daily cycle. I'm enjoying Shadows of Doubt though
About to turn 30.
Work sometimes sucks and sometimes doesn't, and I've copped gout for the first time but life overall's been good. One of the lads just got married and had a baby and another is getting married in a few months.
Looking to starting and fricking up and fricking around with a business with the missus, hopefully within the next couple years. Been contemplating about proposing to her soon but I'll first find a job that doesn't require me to be away from home so often
I've also been playing BG3. Got my own save and a 3-player co-op save with a couple buddies. Gf rarely plays video games but she's really curious about this one since she knows I've been playing DnD with a bunch of the lads the past couple years. Shit's been great.
The vegana-wielders yearn for DnD systems, it's in their blood.
35
Playing Final Fantasy 16 and its great! I say that as somebody who has played FF since 7 came out and have subsequently played all of them. Also played Devil May Cry since the original.
So I really dont want to be subjected to the opinions of sour 14 years olds because the game didnt come out on their plastic box of choice. Learn to enjoy videogames without poisoning yourself with your own vitriol.
stop segregating yourselves in these threads
Not too bad anon. 31 in 2 months, daughter will be exactly 2.5 years old then. Wife is 21 and a good mother to our kid, shares s lot of interests with me, and has been supportive of me rebuilding my retro collection. Currently, shes watching me play through breath of fire iv on ps1, and starting up persona 5 for herself in the meantime. Daughter has taken an interest in bof iv as well, and will sit next to me with the other controller, try to mimic my hands while playing, and ask "whats that?" To everything on screen. Not bad at all anons.
>Daughter
Oooof
Thoroughly love having a daughter. We want 3 kids total, and im hoping for one more daughter, and one son. Obviously theres a chance i may not get both, and get stuck with 2 more daughters, or 2 sons, but i can always hope for my ideal. Dont raise your daughter to be a prostitute, and you'll find its not so bad.
i work from home doing IT, and within my office youll find my work computers, a crt with PS2 via component, and my tobacco pipe. So you were very correct, anon.
She is going to grow up and be like her mom.
A tradwife who chose the option of marriage and starting a family at 18 with someone who's capable of leading them into a happy and secure life, where she can raise said family, with pets, in a loving environment? Shit anon, thats probably the best i could ask of her as my daughter.
Hmm okay. Sure.
I hope you find the same happiness sometime, anon. Youre right to feel jaded based on how the majority of our world is, but know there are still worthwhile options out there: you will find one, anon.
i appreciate that. The best we can do is instill her with the right values, and hopefully I do a good enough job as her father that she will understand and know whats important and what she wants early on. Kids imprint their ideals based on their parents, whether its wanting to be with someone like then, or someone opposite of if the parents failed that child. Im not a perfect father by any means, but i genuinely hope i never make my children feel as though ive failed them.
What should i start up once bof iv is done? Xenogears, star ocean second story, smt nocturne, or wait for ac6?
Not sure why you are implying I am unhappy since all I said was sure. Because I hope she grows up to be just like her mom.
Could be anon, and if so then thats my bad. 18 years spent on here and i assume every short response is full of resent and seethe. But i'll take you at face value and say thanks and i hope so too. I genuinely hope you are happy, however, anon.
No problem. I hope she grows up well and ripe under your care and when she turns 18, I am sure there will be someone special there to reap the rewards. good luck anon.
I'm gonna say start nocturne, you can easily beat it in like 30 hours.
Just call them out with screencaps. That almost always works.
Also just use filters. Makes the site way more usable. Once a week, open up the /misc/ catalog, look for the newest shitpost buzzword and add it to the filter.
Hopefully her taste is men is just like her mom.
Imagine letting your kids live in the filth of an animal.
*huffs pipe*
I hate Ganker. More than ever I hate Ganker. I hate being here. I hate the constant identity politics b***hing. I hate the schizos who make things up to get angry about. I wish I could leave.
i hate the moderation team and hiroyuki so much
36, going well. Alternating between Infinifactory and Oracle of Seasons on the sp side and MH Rise and Remnant II on the mp side. Been in the best shape I've ever been despite still being a total fatass, but getting there.
36. Good. I'm still playing Dark Souls: Remastered.
31 here. I've decided to get a dog to cope with the fact that I'll never be allowed to get married at 5'6" in a country where the average is 5'10". My only hope is to wait until I inherit some of my rich father's money to try and settle in with a gold-digger. Until then though I'm not complaining. I'm living a pretty comfy life making pretty decent pay, gaming with friends 2-3 times a week and fricking prostitutes.
37, just ran out of content in FF16 two weeks ago. Nothing else remotely interesting to play so I am just catching up on work and drinking myself to sleep every night.
Gonna play icewind dale with my wife after breakfast. Kinda hungover from drinking with my neighbors last night so just gonna chill all day in my AC
My neighbor looks like a much rougher version of the woman on the right. Though she might be into meth or something. Hard to know.
41, learning japanese and wishing i started as a teenager
Unironicaly, modded Minecraft
>Playan
I have been playing lots of boomer shooters lately, I never played many fps when I was young, I used to play stuff like Golden Eye 64 or Perfect Dark but now I'm obsessed with retro shooters, I bought Quake II and I'm currently playing DOOM II WADS and Quake 64, I have Dusk, Project Warlock and Ion Fury on the backlog, it's probably those kind of games I'd have been obsessed when I was a teenager but now it feels like I'm catching up, I have been playing racing games like Need for Speed, CTR, Hotshot Racing and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, bought SEGA Ages Virtua Racing for less than $1, I have a massive backlog of games but I don't know if I will be able to keep up, I'm back to wagecucking
>Gonna buy soon
Thinking on getting the Kirby games, also Mario RPG and Wonder, it blows my mind that I'm gonna be playing RDR1, Gothic 1, Metal Gear games and Suikoden games on a Nintendo's handheld
Did this girl retire or did she age like any Mexican woman?
Life's going good. Married my highschool sweet heart and just recently she got into cuckqueaning. She's also into pup play so its fun to tether her to the end of the bed on a doggy bed as I frick with a twink with a bubble butt. Been a really good life for me. And I just got Baldurs gate 3. The wife likes it and so does the twink.
>in his wildest fantasy he actually gets the girl and even then he's still a homosexual
Hahahahaha lmao you need to go back
My life is constantly like this. I really do must live in a fantasy. But no, this is very much real.
>29yo
trails of cold steel II
papers, please
pikmin 4
First time in long time I had good sleep and feel great.
can you read? you dumb frick
it's for people 30 and older
you're 29
get out
🙁
Still super hanging on, trying not to power drift into a twisted metal accident on this gran turismo
38. Life isn't great, but i can't complain. Lots of ppl have it far worse than me. Wanna find a girl soon though, have kids before my hair falls out & my face turns into a scrotum.
If a mother gives birth over the age of 40 it's not fair on the child. Just because she can give birth doesn't mean she should at that age.
Just saying.
Will be 34 soon. Things are going alright even though I am feeling burnt out and bored again with life. I really should try some other hobbies and start working out, but I always feel like I don't have time. So, I'm trying to get better at managing my time and trying to find ways to get myself more focused at work so I can what needs to done faster to have a bit more time to start learning programming. Finishing school next year will help too with giving me some freedom back.
Currently playing BG3 and still play FFXIV regularly.
I'm 30 and bouncing back and forth between D4, BG3, and totk currently
I barely have time to play anymore.
baldurs gay ;3
Mass effect 2 but need more coomer mods.
been playing medieval 2 without paying attention to campaign goals, just building a comfy nation and keeping it safe and prosperous. just got into gunpowder weapons and ships and its going good. i like watching the hundreds of trade ships float back and forth. might conquer the americas later, idk.
Are you using any mods?
33
Lots of Street Fighter 6 and Pikmin 4
Got a gf but its a little shaky at the moment. I still dream of moving out West to a more rural place like Wyoming or something. New England is fine but everything is incredibly expensive and it's a never ending dick measuring contest over six-figure salaries.
I might want kids in a couple years, but I enjoy gardening, so I need a place where I can have some acreage, chickens, and some fricking peace.
32 and the only time I don't feel like dying is when I'm spending time with my mother and sister and when I'm outside on walks. The minute I get home and just sit here by myself the negative fricking cloud of emotions just sweeps in and like OCD I can't stop, its just fricking endless.
I was completely fine being isolated and alone for the first 30 years of my life, now loneliness is breaking me, I fricking hate it, I hate every minute I spend here alone, it is complete fricking torture.
Looking forward to the MGS master collection so I can replay these games from my childhood and pretend I'm back there for however many days it takes to beat.
i'm 26 would you guys consider me a zoomer?
Who cares? The whole generational rift hasn't meant much since gen x, boomers are the cutoff.
Zoomer is a state of mind. It's a colloquial phrase that people improperly attribute real time constraints to. If you play gacha games and spend lots of time on your phone, I'd say you're a zoomer.
I guess that makes sense. Well I'm more of a post-gamer and have zero interest in gacha cancer
37, live alone in a big apartment but the rent is going up a lot next year. I'm being a NEET but I have a few hundred each month to spend on whatever. Life is good but I can't help but to be depressed from time to time. Mainly due to bad health and being obese.
I'm currently playing Elden Ring and loving it. Good challenge. Bought Baldur's Gate 3 and will start playing it next week.
>been playing video games my whole life
>halfway through and my best years are passed me
Cool panic attack bro
They unfortunately weren't joking or exaggerating when they said the body starts slowly giving up at 30. It's not like you become an old man, but its when you notice you're no longer young.
Stomach problems, back problems, shoulder problems, fricking sensitive to everything now it seems. Sad thing is that I'm in way better shape now than I was in my 20s, but you're literally just invincible at that age, your body does not care about anything, you can fricking do anything to it and its just fine.
37
just beat Aliens Dark Descent
incredibly buggy but fun game
33 and i just realized that i had 10 white hairs. It's fricking ogre.
Unless you're balding, that's just 10 out of like 1,000 give or take.
I started greying when I was 17, you're fine.
My dad just died of lung cancer. I don't know what to do anymore.
18 year old zoomie here, how do I avoid fricking up my 20's?
Stop posting here. The influence this place has on your mind is nothing but poison.
Honestly, just get a job. Doesn't matter if you're working 4 hours a week or 40, just keep something that you can prove on a resume. It's good for your mental health to continue interacting in a society and it's good for future job prospects. Way easier to get a job with "cashier for 4 years" than "literally nothing for 4 years".
BG3
Listening to all these little zoomies crying that this game they've never heard of is blowing up has been delicious.
>Baldurs Gate is back
>Armored Core is coming back in less than 2 weeks
>FF7 remake is happening
Its like someone built a time machine to go back to the late 90s and pick the games industry up where they left off, before 9/11 came to transform the industry into TURRUST-HUNTER SIMULATOR 'OORAH '06
>been applying to jobs for months
>keep seeing bait and switch offers or just getting ghosted.
2023 is looking great for vidya
Do you live in North Am*rica?
Boomers are holding job advancement hostage, there's mass shootings every week, and our politicians are getting bribed by gun companies.
There's literally no good way to advance right now unless you go into the one sector of content that hasn't been assraped by boomers, corporate homosexuals, or business execs.
Work a normal job. Good jobs with benefits literally don't exist right now.
While you're doing that, get into a creative hobby and publish stuff online. There's free software and tutorials for any creative hobby you could possibly want to do. Don't use patreon, there's a bunch of issues.
No, I wouldn't.
You are stuck in a routine. Make some small changes to it. It helps a lot.
No I live in bongland and even worse, in London.
Weaponize all the hatred you and other people like you have for brexit.
Get mad at the people that fricked your generation over. Do it creatively. Don't do something stupid that will get you thrown in jail. Literally just shitpost online about it, but spin it in a way that is safe and marketable.
you cant frick up, youll be forced to live in North or East due to pricing and youll get a job with other yutes and have a grand time complaining about shit while getting invited to dick around in central. dont dick around in central, paying upwards of 5 quid a beer for a whole night is a waste. if you dont have a single person with their own flat in your group in your 20s its going to be frickin miserable. also frick off the door clearly says 30+ on it m8
45 yo here. Just finished god of war ragnarok. Now I started playing the callisto protocol. I don't what is it with me though. Either gaming is not what it used to be, or I don't enjoy it as much as I used to
Diablo 4. Ever since I got a job I don't even want to look at my other games. There's something scary about starting a new game. The weird thing is I absolutely have the time, especially if I dropped d4.
My God damn 3 year old won't play independently at all. He literally follows me around all day and trys to initiate play with me. I make a point to play with him everyday but I'm so fricking annoyed. We do things everyday - I'm not some neglectful parent but I need some fricking time to myself.
get him a brother
He has a sister but she's only 9 months old.
>want to play Overwatch 2
>nervous because I never played the game before and I’m worried someone will rage at me for being bad and not knowing the basics
>go back to playing TF2
i've never played a competitive FPS and i just got into OW2
there are so many females and children playing, you're fine, just play open queue, don't play in competitive
make sure you watch some videos about the basics though, and it's always good if you have a friend who can teach you some tips at first
Just frick around in quickplay, arcade mode or custom games.
Competitive overwatch is fricking boring.
I'm playing clash
30, Dead end job, high school relationship fricked my view on relationships, but I'm enjoying solitude. I really want to write for a living, and I'm torn between taking the plunge and working 9-5s. I don't want to be 40 still wondering what could have been
Also in the midst of platinuming Shantae SS, completing the SV pokedex, but I think I need to stop gaming for a bit. Marik pic because I like Marik
Write and publish stuff while you work.
Publish it under an alias so your boss doesn't use that as a reason to fire you.
I write for a living. Join us on Ganker.
>tfw spent months doing marketing research for a new book I'm writing
>threw out some bait posts on a bunch of websites specifically for that target audience and watched it go semi-viral
>tfw I have physical proof of years of research actually working
>tfw also have proof that my particular pitch has a high amount of interest, even with all the legal red tape surrounding it
I'm mad at myself for not trying sooner. But I'm also thrilled. Can I commission editors on Ganker?
30 isn't too old to party. Just keep up with exercise.
http://sm64pc.info/
Click the Programs/scripts tab
Life is shit, but hobbies are still fun take a break from vidya and try other hobbies
Surprise! Net worth doesn't actually mean anything when highschool dropout politicians have 5 times that because they get bribed.
Save up money and live with your parents while you can.
>Can I commission editors on Ganker?
Unfortunately no. I'm an editor but I've always been hesitant to provide any proof on /wg/ before. And without providing proof, it doesn't feel right asking for money. If you want critiques on scenes or chapters though, you can post them in the thread or on the sekrit discord and I or others can review or proofread stuff.
Just be warned that plenty of genres will not be popular. If you're writing anything considered "reddit" it's honestly best you don't share it there.
Thanks for that info.
I'll consider that when I get a typical novel draft, and a shorter, user friendly, e-book draft done and actually available for download.
Just turned 30 last month
Finished Doom Eternal, it was cool but kinda don't want to touch it again for some reason. Now looking into what to play next.
Thinking of breaking up with my 6+ year gf bros, haven't had sex for the last 3 years because she got fat as frick, but even before she wasn't really into it. Feeling a bit of resentment tbqhwy
Don't waste your youthful years on relationships you don't care about. Every year the dating pool will get smaller and you'll be left with the scraps and the crazies.
>left
>25-35
>right
>50-60
Even that is being kind. Pic related is a 57 year old woman. Naughty Dog are a bunch of homosexuals.
>the haggard and beaten smuggler in a post-post apocalypse should look like upper class, daily beauty regime, fashion conscious Liz Hurley
only homosexual here is you because youd probably still complain if they facescanned her and put her in the game saying "pshh shed have been kidnapped and killed ages ago looking like that because women are useless"
how the frick do you reach 30 and still be so moronic. pic related is an outlier, what kind of moron do you have to be to cherrypick so hard and think it makes a point
37; I miss my wife terribly. been sort of playing BG3 just to have something to keep my mind on something other than suicidal ideation
where's your wife?
>Buy a new graphics card.
>Use it to play Quake II
Oops.
35 now I've been doing great thank you for asking. Playing AC Odissey now after FFXVI. Gaming seems to be recovering bit by bit. Misc gays and left gays will eventually lose to common sense. And their political momentum is losing strength this gives me some hope that people are getting tired of being shat on with this constant attacks to everyone and everything. I havent tried BG3 though I was thinking on getting Demon Souls remake or some other game at a discount.
>Demon Souls remake
DS remake is not bad. I did play the original all the way back before dark souls came out so I have an affinity for that one, but the remake is decent.
My wife and I just got a second PS5 and DS remake was the first thing to get (second copy) so we can coop but will be after playing bg3
i'm waiting to die
pathfinder
When I turn 30 later this month I'm gonna loop steel wire around my neck through the car window and stomp on the gas. As a prank
in minecraft?
Could you draw this is mspaint? I have no idea what you're describing.
I can't believe some of you actually managed to reproduce
getting closer to 40
usual problems
doing my first house sitting soon and will see how that goes
I have been quite active lately with dog walking not playing much video games
was playing cod, plan to play genshin during 4.0 update , plan to replay bg1 n 2 before 3
was looking for a laptop to buy so I could play video games during house sittings, but I'll wait until after this first one to see how it goes.
kinda like doing outdoor activities while it's still summer out.
38 next week, playing baldurs gate during my days off
gonna play star citizen tonight with my work buddy
got a month off from work for starfield and elden ring dlc
>got a month off from work for starfield and elden ring dlc
nice, enjoy it!
thanks buddy
>how's life going?
Career wise doing great. In terms of health no so good.
>what you playing?
Guild War 2, log in do a PvP match maybe some WvW and log off
Anno 1800 - decided to reinstall it
It still baffles me that people had a problem with this change. Joel is a 52 year old man in the first game. And Tess is around his age. Might be younger, who knows. But even if she were 10 years younger, that would still make her 42 year old.
There's no way a 40 year old living a rough life should look like the left. Her face was always weirdly age inappropriate.
32 had a psychotic episode in May and I'm now NEET in my uncle and aunt's basement
All games feel like shit on antipsychotics
Does anyone have a link to the 60fps port of Mario 64? I had it a few years back but can't find a reliable link anywhere online now
Your childhood cart game isn't going to make you feel better.
>literally letting your brain turn off while on medication and playing mario kart isnt going to make you feel better
not him but it actually will, i dont know how you came up with the idea it wouldnt
Because "all games feel like shit on antipsychotics", is not solved by changing games. He'll just feel numb while playing Mario 64. Not only due to the psychotics, but also because it's a 27 year old game. How much joy can you squeeze out of a 27 year old game? the sheer boredom and apathy he'll feel, will make him more depressed than he already is.
>just turned 30
>too old for cons
>too old for raves
>too old for clubs
>too old for locals
>now i'm in the age range where people have kids, get married, have soul sucking jobs, and never do anything fun
i want to die
>30
>too old
I know someone who is almost 50 who dates girls in their early 20s. He goes to cons and music festivals and also uses tinder. If you act old, you'll be treated old, simple as.
he must have a really young appearance then. but who seriously hears that someone is almost fricking 50 and doesnt immediately get disgusted?
He has gray hair but he definitely does look about 10 years younger than his age.
>almost fricking 50 and doesnt immediately get disgusted
Females.
you seriously think zoomer guys wouldn't immediately be extremely judgmental?
you really think 50 year old men actively and seemingly successfully bagging women in their 20s give a single frick what zoomers giving him the side eye huddled together in a corner think.
it's not all about women
Anon, have you ever looked at grindr? Most people don't even put an age preference. The social norms for gays are way more open because options are fewer.
If you're a femanon, you've got to be kidding if you think a zoomer wouldn't want an older woman.
i mean i don't go everywhere just to bang women, meaning zoomer guys thinking i'm an ancient relic means something
It does. But if you're not talking about sexual or romantic relations, very few people will care. You can be friends with 20 year olds just fine. I'm 31 and I'm in a group of friends who are all between 22-24. As long as you aren't trying to get close to them or doing anything outright creepy, no one will care.
This, I gave up on women years ago. If I need to frick I'll get a prostitute so can lay them to frick off. Life becomes much more simple when yoi stop caring about women. I mean they claim they don't need us, and I sure as shit don't need them.
30 is not too old for any of those things lol. And why would you give a frick even if someone thinks that?
I remember being 18-19~ and one of the hottest girls in my school (while very drunk) told a story about her getting her first orgasm while getting assfricked by a 40-something yo guy she met at a fancy club. I still fap to it sometimes. Age only gets to you if you let it.
>too old for cons
m8 you do realize that most con goers are 30+ right? Conventions are expensive as frick, teenagers and college kids generally do not have the money to attend cons regularly. They might be able lucky enough to attend their regional cons if they’re lucky enough to live near a regional con, but that’s hardly the full con experience. For the record I live near where Otakon is held. It’s known as one of the top 10 biggest anime cons in the country. There are people, mostly cosplayers, that live in California, who have their own huge conventions like SDCC and AX, and these people fly across the country all the way to the east coast, book a hotel room, all just to attend Otakon. Honestly if you’re under 30 and attend cons, you are being financially irresponsible. You might just start off casually going to your regional cons, but eventually you’ll want to start doing 8 hour drives to other cons near your city. Then that leads to flying out to the bigger cons across the country. It’s really a hobby for older people who have cash to burn.
I've been thinking I'm too old to do stuff since I was 19 homie. I'm 32 now and stopped giving a frick, went to a rave the other day and there were tons of people older than me.
Life is shit, gaming is getting more shit and meaningless by the minute.
like the other anon has said, taking a break may help
I get burnt out on gaming from time to time and even have taken two months breaks doing other hobbies to then feel ready for it again
42 year old man, playing diablo 4 and its quite boring but I play it because my wife likes it and wants to co-op
>have a quarter-million dollars net worth
>still live with parents because house prices have skyrocketed out of my reach and apartment rent is such that if you want to live in a complex that doesn't gouge you $2k/month you have to live in the "try not to step in human poo" parts of town
move state moron
Where? Alabama? No thanks. Nobody lives there but rednecks and Black folk (same thing)
are you quite literally a moron? you have half a mill, even if not liquidated- and cant figure out how to move state to be independent because your first thought is Alabama?
maybe you should stay with your parents. even something simple like a small rented property for income sounds like too much of a mental hurdle for you to set up
>your first thought is Alabama?
No, I'm saying Alabama because I've already done my research, moron. There's only a handful of states where real estate prices have not spiraled out of control -- you're delusional if you think this is limited to "blue" states -- and all of the ones with affordable real estate prices happen to be hillbilly backwater states.
im not sure how you manage to figure anyone else but you is a moron for claiming to be so mildly valuable yet unable to figure out a means to profit from said wealth. stay with your parents, youre too frickin stupid.
>stay with your parents
I intend to. Still making good money from my fulltime job and at the rate I'm making it, I should be able to retire by the time I'm 45.
Come on down to Alabama, friend. The rednecks are pretty nice as long as you don't look like a homosexual with a bunch of tattoos and dyed hair. Not a lot of black peepo in my town either
And what if I want to use my money to start a small videogame development company? Sure, in Alabama I won't be inundanted with resumes from trannies or junkies with Antifa tattoos, I also won't find many qualified applicants in general.
Or you can move to an actual nice country like Germany or in Scandinavia where you can literally pay almost 50% of a nice apartments total value up front resulting in extremely low living costs. Also healthcare and everything is free.
Only reason for living in America is if you have a goldmine of a job or you're one of the super-rich.
I think i'm buying a new GPU not for game but for stable diffusion.
Otherwise, i'm playing on PS5 and newer games like Horizon / GOW:R don't excite me... all other shit 3rd party too. Maybe BG3 will be fun...
But yeah, last good generation is 128 bits era
Life is going pretty decently. Just having motivation issues for chores around the house, hobbies and gaming.
Was playing quite a bit of Remnant 2, but it was crashing a lot for me. Looks like they've patched a bit.
Played 1 or 2 hours of BG3 shortly after launch. Having a bit of paralysis on playing it because I'm the kind of person who likes to get the most out of games on one playthrough, but I know that won't be the case for this, and it will require multiple playthroughs.
>how's life going?
Don't want to think about it.
>what you playing?
Halo: The Masterchief Collection
Borderlands 3
Breath of the Wild
Soul Calibur VI
Metroid NES
how do you manage playing so many games at once?
Decent, at a bit of a turning point as I'm studying cyber security but I feel like a dumbass because I don't fully get a lot of it. Just brought Papers, Please, and bouncing around between HS and L4D2.
I’m turning 27 early next year anons. It’s been hard and I’m only just now going to college for programming next year and I still want to do animation someday, but I’m joining the 30+ club soon.
Get started on learning how animation software works now.
Frick around with small projects. Keep up with the coding stuff, but also get certificates so that you can actually find a job.
If you really want to get into animation later on, make a subscribe star account and other social media accounts now.
It takes a while to come up with a name that isn't taken on every site.
30
Not well, loneliness is getting to me
Playing through yakuza 0 again to cope
enjoy yakuza 0, its a great game
any hobbies you like that might be social perhaps? perhaps it has meet ups etc?
Turning 30 later in the month, overall life is fine.
>Have a decent job
>Haven't dated in 6 years, but honestly find the solitude much more enjoyable then chasing meaningless relationships.
>Trying to find a smaller place to live, since it's cheaper and I don't have a lot of shit, no luck but something will pop up.
Just finished Cultic and it was pretty good. Probably going to play some SOASE with friends later.
Just turned 36. Job is great, my little side company has a buy out offer, and I'm losing weight again after the tired period after child #5. I'm playing Ark Survival Evolved (single player with boosted rates because frick that grind), recently finished Elden Ring, and have gotten my old Super NES working again to play Super Mario All-Stars with 7 year old.
I can't say how much I wish all of you could have things work out like I have. It makes me genuinely sad how many IRL friends and people here are in a place of emptiness and despair.
>I can't say how much I wish all of you could have things work out like I have. It makes me genuinely sad how many IRL friends and people here are in a place of emptiness and despair.
can never be too late, I met my wife when I was 29 and we have been married for nearly 10 years now
before that I was single for over 10 years and alone
at the same time, sometimes being alone its better
i would be in a place of suicide if i had to take care of 5 children while watching the entire world collapse around me knowing they will have it 10x worse by the time all is said and done
You don't know that. Things generally get better for people in this world.
I run in social circles (homeschooling and political) that give me a lot of hope, groups with families more numerous than I ever saw in churches growing up. That is critical to keeping spirits up. I even the occasional gaming with other dads, mostly strategy stuff. I wish that group could be far larger, but it is something.
Living in a little enclave of normalcy while the other 99.99% of society implodes is admirable and all but it's just dooming them to a life of basically being a different species. You might as well be raising them Amish, they'll never be able to relate to anyone in the outside world and finding a partner will be like going unicorn hunting.
t. homeschooled but not a christcuck
32 and I feel like I've reached the end of gaming as my main hobby. I just don't give a shit about the majority of the big games out now and trying BT3 was what basically sealed it. After Bomb Rush and Starfield, I really don't see any upswing happening in video games for me outside of casual stuff like Mario or something every now and then.
Otherwise life is fine. I made it to a job I thought I always wanted for years and turns out I don't like it as much as I thought and now I have to work later. That said, it's not all bad since it's small a pay increase and I get to help out the family more without having negative money in the bank left.
I play old games as well as new releases and found that retro achievements has breathed new life into some games I had already played through
may help
The big reason why I think this is it for me for games (at least this generation and moving forward) us because I've done the whole song and dance of "just play retro for a while" and "just take a break and come back" things and still do that. Only thing now is that doesnt work much for me anymore.
That said, I do still enjoy playing the older stuff casually so it's going to be a transition to retro and older games, but even still games aren't going to be my top hobby anymore. Probably just number 2 and mostly older stuff and some AAs nobody's heard of or cares to talk much about.
fair enough. perhaps focusing on other hobbies will either refresh your enjoyment of games or you just end up enjoying something else and that really is what matters
Agreed and thanks anon.
I'm stuck being a wage slave. I have no money because divorced. I have lived with my parents for two months now because I nowhere to live.
Every job I actually want to do is locked behind a pay-wall basically, "Oh you want to drive a cab or create your own business based on skills you have? That's be $50k for a licence, please, also frick you".
All I want to do is leave everything and just walk until I find some purpose, but the whole world is just fricked.
I actually looked up doing volunteer work in other countries but it's the same shit there, you literally have to PAY to do it.
"Yeah, we desperately need help building this hospital, so here: pay us to live here and you can help us build"... what?
Hunt: Showdown.
Turning 32 in October. Could be worse I suppose, but overall it's pretty shitty. I work a low status low income job that I hate. Haven't had a girlfriend in 4 years and the way things are looking I probably never will again. I quit drinking because it was becoming a problem. Going to the gym and vidya are really all I do anymore these days because I also don't have many friends anymore.
Playing TF2 and Elden Ring currently. Not sure what I'll fire up next.
Playing a lot of Stellaris lately. Aftwards might mive to HoI4 for a bit, give the computer a break and boot up the console to play Outer Worlds I think. Been while since did another playthrough. Then maybe go back to the computer and play Skyrim for the bajillionth time. Though I'll have to re-download all my mods which will be a pain in the ass.
>high paying job
>married
>son/daughter on the way
>own house and property
Life is good, going to play elden ring when I get off work
>going to play elden ring when I get off work
Look forward to the end of that with a kid on the way.
Nah, I’ll just put the little guy in my lap and hand him/her the controller
Wizard powers next month baby. Been replaying the Ezio saga of AC and been knocking out my neglected indie backlog while watching TV via Steam Deck.
I turn 31 today and I have no hopes for the future other than mere distractions from how bad I have fricked up my life. Mostly playing BG3 and intermittently playing Apex with my friends, I just uninstalled GB02 on my PC cause I got sick of waiting 40 minutes just to get stuck in Arctic Base twice. At least AC is coming, at least this year my birthday has some games coming out around it that aren't fricking Madden.
life is fine. been playing HL: Alyx and IXION today.
I'll be 31 at the end of the month. The age doesn't bother me; what does bother me is that the last couple years of my life were stolen by the pandemic and the response to it. It doesn't feel like I aged at all in that time, so I'm still in my late 20s in my mind.
But life is generally okay. I'm not accomplishing as much as I'd like, but I've made small changes for the better. I'm currently playing Elden Ring for the first time since last April, and I've got a solo fist monk with dragon communion incants going alongside a cleric I'm playing in seamless coop with a friend. It's been a lot of fun, and I think I have over 30 hours in the past two weeks. When this game is good, it's really good. It grabbed me really hard that first month or so after release, too.
>the last couple years of my life were stolen by the pandemic
Holy normalhomosexual.
I wasn't aware that occasionally leaving your house made you a normalgay.
i'm 31 and a broke NEET virgin. i will probably never have sex or own a house.
So they straight up changed the art style in the "remaster"?
There's no way the character on the right side of OP's image and pic related are supposed to be the same person. Unless she aged about 20 years
yes they made it more realistic like TLOU 2 and less stylized. its too bad because TLOU 1 had better character models and a better style overall. ultra realism is so boring.
Shit yknow I barely even realised the art style changed so dramatically from 1 to 2. But the original 1 style still looks good now, 2 and the part 1 remaster are only gonna look worse with time. Frick realistic styles
I guess shit could be worse. I've got shit to look forward to on the horizon both in gaming and in real life, but things often still feel kinda rough, directionless. I've got mental health shit I need to work on + apply for programs to start getting more money in than just gig work. Normal jobs suck.
>31
>extremely debilitating chronic health problems
>leave me in severe pain all day every day
>doctors took over 4 years with various tests and medications desperately trying to figure out what it was but even now its uncertain
>cant take care of myself due to the pain so had to move back in with parents
>pushed all irl friends away so as to not make them sad about my condition
>waiting to qualify for disability/income assistance but given that my condition is rather nebulous i will likely be denied
>huge drain on my family financially, feel extremely guilty about this
>consider suicide sometimes but dont want to make people sad
I play a lot of video games to pass the time, usually jumping around between 6-8 at a time to take my mind off of my shitty situation. Currently playing all of these. Balls hurt gay 3 is one of the best games i have played in a very long time, looking forward to AC6 and Eternights. Might get into some schmups one day if my pain will allow me to, picked up ikaruga but im trash at it so far.
forgot pic
what site/launcher is this?
https://www.backloggd.com/
its great for keeping track of games you are playing, want to play, and have played.
thank you anon
Shit sucks mang but keep on keepin on. Don't think of yourself as a burden, most parents would give everything for their child without hesitation. You didn't choose your situation but you have to make the best of it.
Pretty fricking good. I love having a lot of disposable income. I can do whatever the frick I want as long as I do my 9-5 during the week.
35 here. Just finished We Love Katamari Reroll, though I still have two achievement left to get. My skills at that game are not what they used to be back when I played it on PS2 because I can't seem to route the Big Bang level for shit anymore. Before that, I beat Fuga Melodies of Steel 2 and got the secret movie. Currently playing Dave the Diver. It's not the deepest game despite just how many mechanics they toss in but it's still a fairly addicting gameplay loop and I do appreciate just how much effort and personality went into this game. I've also got FF16 on the back burner but I have not been able to find as much time to just sit down with it and really get engrossed in it for a few hours without having to get up and take care of something every 30 minutes. Game has its flaws but I have been enjoying it.
never played a karamari game but am interested in trying one. any tips on which one to try first?
They are all kinda similar.
The PC ones are pretty good.
We Love Katamari is probably the best entry in the series I'd say just because it has the most variety without a bunch of bloat. Things went a bit downhill after that. Tribute was solid but by that point there wasn't quite the same magic left in the series. First game still holds up but in all honesty, if you were only ever going to play one game in the series, We Love would be my recommendation.
thanks anon
It's very good. I have a beautiful wife and son, and a gratifying day job.
Currently playing Sekiro.
well done on life
I gave up on Sekiro a whole ago and its been bugging me so I need to try it again one day
33 here. Managed to find a new fully remote job last year after my old one tried to israelite us back to the office. I remain never had a GF, but soon i'm taking my third of (probably) 4 vacations this year to shithole SEA countries to frick a variety of 19 year prostitutes. I'll bring my 'Deck with me and play some more OG God of War 2
>How's life going
I had to leave my family overseas, moved back to America, after just a year I'm about to start my own business, the paperwork to immigrate them here is done, and I feel pretty fricking good not gonna lie. I miss them, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
>what you playing?
Dota 2
I'm 31. I stopped drinking 2 months ago and my friends have alienated me for the most part, I play games with one friend who still drinks his mind out while we play. There is a point where he switches to his drunk personality which gets extremely annoying. I miss drinking honestly, but at the rate I was going I wouldn't make it over past my 40s. Also currently playing Valheim a lot. I play solo 95% of the time
they don't sound like friends. perhaps you are better off
37 lvl here.
Just finished base campaign of Q2 Remastered.
Yesterday I finished System Shock Remake.
Dudes at Nighdive studios know what they are doing, Quake remastered was also great.
Makes me kind of hopeful we could, one day, have remakes/remasteres of Unreal and Sacrifice.
36
I make okay money. Nothing going on relationship or family wise, too schizoid for that. Started prepping a bit (food wise) in case this country implodes someday. It's actually kinda fun and I wasnt using the basement before anyway.
I'm not playing much besides Swtor on my old ass PC. Getting a new one soon, will play ER, FF16 and BG3 and likely drop Swtor for good, it's over
How do you make friends at 32?
31 here, I tried by joining a hiking circle and group sport sessions but people are so fricking shallow and clearly don't give a shit about anyone that I quit and accepted that I'll become a full blown hermit schizoid
pretty good. Made enough money I don't have to wageslave anymore and I have an 18 year old gf
I don't leave the house, but I'm actually pretty happy and getting fitter every day.
Currently I'm playing a run of Morrowind and Master Blaster Zero, which I forgot about for a while but want to play through all three titles sometime soon.
>how's life going?
awful
>what you playing?
wegs
My stomach has been hurting for a few days, I think I have an ulcer
I'm trying to quit drinking because since turning 30 last year I've balooned 20kgs. Then I'll work on losing all that weight.
Playing Pathologic with speed boost.
Is 30 our peak times? I'm 29 now and I have another 10 years to not frick up. I am surprised as frick that I am pulling girls left and right.
why is that your measure of success?
are you pulling 18-22 year olds or 30 year old women? If it's 30 year old women then it's not peaking at all
Pros: Finally got my house
Cons: It's in freaking Canada
Christ annon, what kind if millionaire are you? Even shit in the middle of nowhere cost more then it would in the states.
I'm in Quebec
Glad I got it before Toronto/Vancouver price gouging hit us
Turned 30 yesterday. Life is pretty shitty, I tried to be a comic artist but I couldn't create anything of my own and I can't find work anywhere and now I can't find any work because I don't have any qualifications, I've only been in a relationship that lasted many years but after we broke up she immediately got engaged and changed 4-5 guys cooler than me (obviously) and I was left alone, I'm not complaining but I feel bad for my parents, I would have liked to earn money to let them live well , to make them visit more places, instead the more I go on and the more life scares me. Gaming is good, it was a great year, we are lucky to be passionate about video games because it is one of the richest and most varied media
That's the spirit Anon. Gaming will always be there for you whenever you have the time and interest in it.
>all of the people playing from software games have families and are successful
Wonder if there is a correlation
Being a normalhomosexual, yeah
>being better than me
Ftfy
slow gameplay for slow people
33
>work wise going well, respected and well paid
>financially good, own my own house and soon will rent it out soon t o get another buy2rent
>personal not good not as much free time for friends and gf as i wish
maybe I will be free in 1 year
played through MCC 2-4, soon to start infinite
I know I'm going to get shit on, but I've been playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey and I'm having fun. So frick it.
Turok 2 and I am on the fence about maybe purchasing the shadowman remaster
>30
>at moms
>slavejob at the supermarket
>all my favorite games aren't fun anymore and never will be again
>all new games are trash
>don't like watching animay anymore
>like cycling but there are hardly any routes so it's always the same which gets boring fast
No interests in life remaining and nothing to look forward to.
what exactly do you want from this thread? embarrassing reply for someone who is apparently over 30.
You don't autofilter mass repliers?
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Nothing has changed since my 20s. I am still autistic without friends or any contact with the outside world. I play minecraft and team fortress 2.
Same here, I'm still the exact same shut-in NEET I was 10 years ago, only now I have grey hair.
I let my friends slip away because of my insecurities.
I'm getting better with the insecurities but I fear those friendships may be forever fricked at this point, too little too late.
og still looks better, realistic while stylized, better art direction, remake is just the most highly detailed boring.
>26
>KHHV
>never traveled abroad
tell me 30+ year old boomers, does it ever get better?
i need to start living my life
I've never tried dating and I'm feeling increasingly anxious at the thought of never leaving this tiny suburb bubble I've been raised in
You need to leave, whether that's travelling or school or anything else. I was 100% the same until I put myself into a sink or swim situation where I had to take care of myself. You'll be surprised how quickly you adapt.
>be 31
>live in UK
>never even left the county I live in, let alone the country
I'm having a terrible time making new friendships online.
2008-2014 was amazing in the sense where anyone with any interest in your own hobbies, it was simply too easy chat up people and become virtual best friends in the span of a few hours.
All nighters on skype talking about whatever the frick. Playing games, having the time of my life.
Now I'm 32 and I tried getting into more mature gaming circles like VR for example and while the people there are seemingly my age, it's so goddamn hard to keep conversation going and just get to know people.
We have weekly events where it's almost the same people showing up and while I'm always genuinely interested to talk with almost anyone about any subject, I feel like it's a one way street. It's like everyone is jaded and putting on a personas for "public" appearances but then have this immense barrier and don't want to commit at all with bonding with others, like they've been burned out hard.
I don't particularly think of myself as someone who's a social butterfly or anything, even the opposite as most of my time spent is "alone" time.
I really want to get friends with people my age but I feel like it's not meant to be and it demoralizes me.
>how's life going? what you playing?
Did you even fricking read the op?
Oh boy, I love it when mass reply homosexuals include me in their autism!
I'm turning 30 next sunday. This will be my last week as "young meat".
Will whatever's left of my value as a human being in the eye of society go down the shitter, or do normies not care?
Men's age doesn't matter much, never did. Wealth, fame, power, physique is more important.
Nowadays even women are getting away with being older.
Just keep fit and accumulate wealth.
On my own: FF14
When the wife wants to watch: Whatever she wants
When she wants to play: Monster Hunter, until she feels bad for getting carted all the time.
I dont want to kill myself but I am ready for life to be over.
I've been playing hunt showdown and trying to finish divinity original sins 2 while I wait for starfield.
Life is good. Have a decent job, girlfriend, own house, and dog. Currently 60 hours in to my first playthrough of Elden Ring. Hoping to finish before Starfield releases but the next few weeks will be busy. Travel for work next week and then family is visiting for the following week.
Baldur's Gate III and the WW2 community DLC for Arma 3.
Both are breddy gud
>how's life going
My friend got murdered at the end of last year and frankly it has burnt a hole in my brain that I didn't think was possible, particularly given this is the second time one of my friends has been murdered
In career terms I'm in a very good place but it is hard to feel any investment in life between everything that's going on in the world and the reality shock of something like the above happening
Diablo 4 borderlands and Exoprimal. I am peek soulless.
27 y/o virgin here. It's going fine, i moved out of my parents house two years ago and got a job in a bank that pays well so i can't really complain. Housing's fricked in my country so i think i'm going to be a rentoid the rest of my life.
I paid for a ps plus subscription and i'm playing all the games i can't play on my xbox. Mostly jap shit like disaster report 4, trials of mana, and now i'm just starting pic related
>inb4 not 30
I don't care
>i think i'm going to be a rentoid
Even with a mortgage? I was under the impression that once you made decent money you should buy a house, and the monthly payments would be the equivalent of renting anyway but after 20y you actually own your house.
Lol mortgages sadly don't exist anymore here. You either pay up upfront or you get jackshit.
a lot of places are in a position where landlords are buying up as much of the housing stock as they can so you're expected to have a huge deposit/down payment ready to go to compete with them and if you don't have that then you're not getting a mortgage
and they will usually have money to outbid first time buyers anyway
Your country? EVERYONE is fricked. Boomers killed the next generations
This. Even if you manage to get a house, world is too fricked up, and your kids will be drown by immigration and lgbtpedos
I literally got anxiety last days, we are literally surrounded man. Its why I despise Notch's personality, how I wish I were billonaire to isolate from the modern world and have kids raised by the 90s material.
I honestly cant blame Japan for being into isekai, it really kills you to know your life is over.
I feel like many people quit already, I dont bother being invested anymore
Been replaying REmake
I don't agree with your /misc/ shit but it's interesting how across the spectrum it's a feeling of general decline and malaise
>how across the spectrum it's a feeling of general decline and malaise
That's hardly anything new. Fight Club was basically about men who felt lost and directionless, and it came out in the 90s. My theory is that everything always sucked, it's just that we were never really allowed to admit it.
I think the Internet plays a role in this. These days everyone all over the world can easily talk to each other about how things suck.
Second life.
Played through the STALKER trilogy and STALKER gamma, playing through a couple of doom wads now, playing CSGO to get ready for CS2 as well. A bit dissapointing that most of the people in these threads tend to avoid games that have gameplay nowadays, it feels like 30+ threads are worse than zoomers. Like you see people screeching about zoomers in other threads and the shitters actually turn out to be you guys.
We need to up the thread age to 35.
i wish reincarnation was real so i could reroll
I get exhausted more often.
Sitting in front of a computer 8 hours straight fricks me up.
Send help. What drugs fix this?
BG3. Enjoying it quite a lot but I wish it didn't have so many woke things. PoE league on Friday, will go degen in ssfhc. League looks shit so ill prob only play a week or two, then back to second evil playthrough of BG3.
If there's still time after that I'll prob replay pathfinder wotr or bg2 if im not burned out of crpgs, if not there start pathfinder.
Life is whatever really, on auto pilot while I try to reach goal weight(from 35% BF down to around 14%, really want to get very lean but last few weeks its been rough). Work is meh, boss is on holiday for 2 weeks (remote work from home) so I'm planning on doing 0 work next week as I did this, Im very important to the company so I can't get in shit.
I'm trying to get my 40k fix, but I've got a console.
There's very few games out there that still bring me joy. Killing Floor 2 is one of those games that just hits my personal spot.
>multiplayer co-op
>more than four players is a plus
>co-op and not competitive
>different classes to choose from
Only downside is that it's a 7 year old game now. Community is kinda dying down because it doesn't have the staying power of something like Team Fortress 2, then again most games don't. I mean I can still find games fine, I just can't help but feel the game is on it's last leg.
30 here, doing alright mentally, still enjoying video games in general, although live service can go pound some sand. bought a Series X recently for starfield, been catching with some games on gamepass, loving halo infinite for its gameplay. overall very happy with the purchase.
Work with a best friend, who now has kids, so while we hang out at work alot the only time to play vidya is one day of the week where he has to wrangler 2 <2 year olds. We played OS1 and OS2, early access, release, and the enhanced versions but this BG3 playthrough is going to take like 4 months at this rate.
51 here fellow redditers
Automobilista 2 in VR. fricking vroooooom
I am 31 and only play Doom WADs
37. Two kids. Mostly play Fortnite on 4070. Kids love to watch it.
how's life going?
>Pretty shitty, unemployed with no perspective in short term.
what you playing?
>Caliber and Eternal Return
>Caliber
Oh right, I downloaded that a couple of weeks ago but haven't actually touched it yet.
Anon, the game is fun, better if you have some friends to make a full comp
>Nerf fortress pls
34,life has been really great for me this last year,I finally found a job I really like and motivate me to wake up in the morning,the pay could be better but I don't mind.
Just finished Aegis Rim and what a ride it was,my only complaint is that the VN part could have been a little more fleshed out like with some puzzle or riddle to solve but everything else was really good.
35 y/o anon here
Surprisingly I am married and taking care of my 2 y/o daughter (Met my wife playing WoW).
Currently playing the new zelda
you motherfrickers were right, even if i stop visiting this place for a while, i will never leave this place
Yeah, Ganker's changed a lot and I don't post here as much these days, but I still feel like I fit in here more than anywhere else on the Internet.
39 in a week, having lots of fun with playing dee jay in street fighter 6, else I play slay the spire and flight simulator. Other then that, couple days ago I made the first step to get me into psychotherapy, been having recurring thoughts about hanging myself for like 12 years, so thats a step in the right direction.
About 35
Going good got a promotion at work
Totally bored lately d4 being a letdown totally blew me out. Shoulda known blizzard would frick it up.
Going to play BG3 or RuneScape 3/OSRS haven’t decided yet.
Playing random MSX games for some reason. Ki Ki Kai Kai is the best one I have tried so far.
32
life is fine
played ufo defense recently, finished xcom enemy within today, about to start xcom 2
33
Playing DS for the first time because I really wanted to play Eldren Ring but first wanted to be a bit more familiar with FromSoft games to get a better idea of how the series started and where it's going.
The only other FromSoft game I had played before was BloodBorne, and I'm hesitant on whether or not to play DS3 first before ER or go straight into ER after beasting DS (Not going to play Sekiro, just looking at videos it and I know I'm don't have the time to GitGud enough for it)
Life-wise. Got my third-life crisis after my daughter was born and from that moment it hit me that my youth was behind me, and anything I hoped to achieve outside of career and family (art projects, game development, etc...) now feels unatainable, and I regret spending so many years worrying about how I spent my free time as I felt behind in my career that I played VERY FEW games over the last 7-or-so years and so feel like I missed out on a lot of great stuff. I can't complain too much as I have done a lot over the last decade and now make 6 figures, but wish I had been more relaxed about life up to this point
I'm doing the same but I played ER first
Woke up with my index finger and thumb tingling. I guess this is life now.
Gonna play some more baldurs gate or maybe try getting S+ professional in re4make after some carpal tunnel stretches.
31
About to finish Doom Eternal Taras Nabad master levels.
Reminder society has been handing our age group their bags for decades now, since before we were born really, and if you're not actively trying to protect yourself from these torrents in everything you do its only going to get worse as more and more boomers start drawing from their entitlements (lol) and more and more of these progressive golems get brought online getting paid for their downstream, unproductive jobs complaining and micromanaging some social page or whatever.
I just finished Ultima 1 through 6.
I'm doing fine.
It's been going good mate. Me and the wife going through the Final Fantasy Pixel remasters. Taking it in turns per game. Its currently my turn and we're on FF4. Can't wait to hit FF5 and see what team she builds, she's never played it before
29 soon
>how's life going?
stuck in 3rd world being a rent cuck with possibility to escape to another country but I got a comfy 2 days remote job where I don't do shit and it pays enough so I just choose to ignore reality instead.
>what you playing?
I'm playing the Quake 2 remaster, I already beat this game back when I had win98 but I wanted to check out the new stuff.
Sometimes I think about applying to remote jobs but I know it will just dig me into a deeper hole than I already am
I need to get out of this goddamn house
But sounds comfy anon I wish I could work 2 days a week and afford rent
32 and feel like I ruined my life. Got a useless degree and lost most of my social skills after the pandemic. I haven't done much in the last 2 years since I couldn't find a job so I decided I'm going back to college to do something useful.
I don't really feel like playing anything atm, I completed most of the stuff in FFXIV and WoW has a long content drought again. I kind of liked playing MMOs because you can stop whenever you want but singleplayer games take more commitment and effort to get started.
The usual, some Darktide with my co-op brothers and now I'm alone chilling in a boomer delight: Division 2.
Can't stop playing that shit, despite all its faults. It's just a very fun game, like a real-time 3ps XCOM.
I've talked to other people in the game and lot of old people seem to love it: 50+yo taxi drivers, old marines, etc. There's something to that Gears of War+Diablo mix of gameplay.
We should have those +30 threads more often!
Any CPA here btw?
37 soon I've been playing genshin, diablo 4, aoe2 and starsector
Playing Tactics Ogre on my Switch. Also swapped out the power supply on my PS3 and cleaned my PS2.
It's been a lot better. About a year ago my gf and I of 5 and a half years broke up (around July) and while we talked a lot we only wanted to start taking steps towards getting back together around Christmas. But this year we had so much back and forth on if that was a good or bad idea and all that. It was hard on both of us. We spoke early July or so that we should probably let both of us be free and able to move on properly. And it honestly sucked for awhile I was super down and even though a big part of me knew it was right I hated to lose her. Despite that we were able to remain friends.
Then she told me she was going to see some guy she had been chatting to and getting to know in another state, and while I was initially upset and jealous it kind of felt like a weight lifted off my shoulders. I felt able to truly let myself be free and just enjoy life properly again, not waiting for her texts or thinking what she was doing...And even though I was kind of sad I felt pretty good. I had been on dates and I can finally pursue girls that im interested in without guilt, go on fun dates, frick hot girls and just have fun again. Focus on my work and training.
So I ended up realizing that I had a beautiful relationship where we both got to grow, love eachother deeply but just not have been ultimately right for eachother at this time in our lives. That we can maintain a friendship and just be happy for one another. She's a wonderful person and I wish her everything good and I feel like I can finally really grow and move on for myself.
And Ive basically just been playing the new season of Apex, started Ghostwire Tokyo, but its not outstanding sadly.
Letting go of shit that's not right for you is pretty nice, Anon. Sounds like you're in a pretty nice place right now, good luck finding those good games.
how come my post gets deleted for being off topic but this cuck homosexual gets to post an entire ass essay about being a cuckold
good fricking god
>"we just werent right for each other, its good we can play the field and engage in degenerate courtship so i can frick a bunch of random girls and ultimately end up with some other random person who probably isnt a better fit and we wont be able to look back on our lives we spent together but at least i got to have random meaningless sex"
>"i play mostly apex legends"
>this all padded out with lots of sentimental effeminate garbage and simping
>"im glad i got to waste more time wasting my life working to paying taxes for subhumans, single mothers and israeli wars
you sound like an insufferable normie homosexual homosexual who should be dragged out into the street and beaten within an inch of his life
i guess this is what happens when you waste 5 years of your life trying to make it work with some dumbass roastie and all her feminine bullshit rubs off onto your personality. this is probably why it "wasnt working out". you let her psyche totally infiltrate your own and became a b***h totally reliant on her and always saw everything through her perspective instead of being a fricking man
Hey man, when you have a good relationship one day youll understand man. While I attest I wasnt in a good place for the half year and definitely lost my way an direction. I can still look back on a really great relationship with a lot of positive emotion.
I hope you find someone who makes you super happy man!
NTA but your gf is fricking black guys while you're being passive aggressive on Ganker. Keep coping though.
Naah man, dude just seems angry af. I genuinely hope he lets go of that. Could care less about what my ex is doing.
yes im angry you have the audacity to post your dumb generic normie life on Ganker and let some woman become such a huge part of your mind and life that you end up sounding like one
<3
anyone who has a "good relationship" with a modern women is most likely an idiot, like you, or otherwise lucky. but you are clearly an idiot
fricking apex legends at 30+ years old
>passive aggressiveness
I only play Dota 2 anymore. I don't have the attention span to start a new game and slog through a tutorial for 4 hours. Had enough of that.
These threads are cancer. Go to /LULZ/ or something.
Anyone given up on making friends or interacting the people beyond the absolutely necessary? I felt like i was fighting myself all through my 20s to do it, but now i'm just done.
Anyway total warhammer III and aliens dark descent was bretty gud
Too addicted to the internet to play any games am playing vampire survivor demo so far. Its addictive and boring at the same time.
Never had friends or gf and job is okay but pay is bad.
Always get bullied where ever I go. Life is hard am 37 feel depressed bros want to make a change in life but just sm not doing it
31, got a bad cold atm, don't know how the frick you get one in the middle of summer. As for games I finished Umineko recently. Recently also decided to go through the favorite games of some of my favorite friends so I finished TWD and when we have spare time playing through Guild Wars 2 with a friend.
Really excited for Armored Core VI.
31 soon contractor doing business interiors kid #3 coming in December. Recently quit drinking and smoking completely. I’m playing the knife of Dunwall I finished D1 doing high chaos. I played low chaos my first run like ten years ago love the atmosphere and lore in this game. I don’t get as much game time as I’d like but family is my first priority. I always try to out with the family but dads idea of fun camping is like boot camp to them