JRPG characters are aged on a fricking curve. Raven from Tales of Vesperia is constantly joked about and treated as the "old man" of the party, and has lived like three full lives and been a part of some major war and has this ancient past. The dude's like 35.
And he argues with two 16-year olds, seems about right. 33 would be a pretty ripe age for an active duty soldier, and he's actually a captain to show for it.
This never made sense to me however since I always figured he was about the age of Tidus' dad. I guess he does look young in the flashbacks but still.
Auron I give a pass because afaik there's no set rule as how unsent would look. As old as he would if he lives? Auron's like this. As old as they when they died? That one guy from Yevon's higher hierarchy's like this. Yunalesca too, but I probably wrong at that. My belief is that unsent's age is whatever they want to be perceived at.
One of my buddies is 34 already greying. Another 33yo buddy is completely bald on the top of his head, my mid 30s coworkers all have specs of grey and are winkled and weathered. Same for me, but no greys or balding. All of us are cobstruction workers though..
Subsistence farming doesn't seem all that interesting. I don't get these brain worms. Self-sufficiency is admirable and all but eating gruel doesn't seem very grand.
do yourself a favor
the next time theres a farmer's market near you, go check it out
buy some vegetables grown by a local farm (avoid mexicans, they just buy stuff from shoprite and pretend they farmed it)
you will understand why white people didnt mind "simple food" when it tastes that fresh
alexander the great was a prince with a standing army ready to die for him. many historians still attribute most of his successes to his father, philipp the II
You are trying to insert our reality and reason with game were there's girl who reached her peak college level academic carrer with 15 yo or even less, 13 maybe.
They think everybody is old. Doesn't help that tons of people are fat and out of shape. I'm 29 and i ran a total of about 20 miles last week. That's part of the reason why 30 seems old. People are fat and out of shape, so they just assume they will be at that age too. I have friends who have beer guts and barely stay in shape.
The Japanese suspension of disbelief can't comprehend the idea of not being an established and settled down adult in regular traditional employment by the time you're in your early 20s, not even in fantasy worlds. It makes no sense to them that someone in his late 20s or older would have time to go adventuring, what would his employer and his family say?
They must have seasonal jobs in Japan that pay well enough right? A couple months on a couple months off. Fishermen? They probably have more free time when they're off.
>Fishermen? They probably have more free time when they're off.
I've got a native friend, talented artist who's a Fisherman, and hell fricking no they don't really have hours like that. If anything being mainland just means you get to talk with other people instead of being stuck on a boat with spotty mobile data plans, but you still clock in and out at hours anyone outside of Japan would complain about. Does good splatoon art when he's not trying to juggle time with his daughter though.
This one's fricking worse.
Dude is a magical engineer banished from his kingdom over performing a surgical transplant when it wasn't halal to do so, spending something like 15 years in exile, and then they tell you this is his age.
you have to take the account for the period setting too
back in medieval japan being over 30 years old is ancient
since everyone die of pneumonia by the age of 14
I rejected a 19 year old once, at her place sitting on the couch with her, because she mentioned that she was israeli after we got there, and I didn't notice before. No son of mine will be claimed by some matrilineal israelite bullshit.
Also, she had just gotten over the flu and I didn't want to catch it.
7 months ago
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1. You didn't have to marry her immediately
2. You could just tell her you don't want to catch the flu and try to meet later.
7 months ago
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No, instead I just made it really awkward because I wasn't sure what to do, and I was too drunk to drive the 40 miles back to my place. In the room was also her best friend and a friend of mine, who were making out and getting pretty handsy with each other. The israeliteess tried that with me but I gracelessly moved away and pretending to be very interested in whatever garbage they had on the TV.
my man I understand you would say that because pussy.
But please talk to a 19 year old sometime. They are fricking drama queens. Even the men. They constantly need to be center of attention for their tiktok and Instagram stories. They don't give two shits about privacy, and will record you doing random shit.
Not to mention if you even date the girls the guys get jealous as frick and start their own shit
7 months ago
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I would outcringe the lass, that's guaranteed
This is probably still at work.
Fricking your coworkers is shitting where you eat, and usually a bad idea.
This is probably still at work.
Fricking your coworkers is shitting where you eat, and usually a bad idea.
7 months ago
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Maybe, but it's also some men's best chance at a relationship with a decent woman. Just being near someone on a daily basis vastly increases the odds of developing a mutual attraction, to the point that anon can bat way above his average.
The modern dating scene is hell for men and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. It's the kind of game you can't win without either being a gigachad or becoming a lying manipulative piece of shit (and landing one, to boot).
A chance at love without having to go through all that? I'd pick that in an instant over a shitty wage cage.
>are probably the same person they were in their 20's as well
I'm almost 38, and I still feel like the kid I was when I was like 13 inside me. All the "adult" shit is just a facade.
I only feel like a kid when I play games. If I'm not playing games, I feel tired constantly, even if I just woke up from a 8 hour sleep. My back hurts all the time. I force myself to eat stuff I don't want to eat because it's healthier but it tastes horrible. But if I make an effort to play something, I can play all day long and shirk all responsibilities and obligations and at the end of the day, I know I wasted a lot of time I could have been doing something better with, but I had fun and that's all that really matters to me now
I'm 37 as well and pretty much the same way. I have to wonder if there's a point where that changes though. All the old people I know just don't really seem "into" anything anymore, even if they're mentally fine. Am I still going to have any interest in video games or entertainment media when I'm 80 or will I just be content to sit in a chair and stare at the wall all day? Scary thought.
I miss my novelty seeking so fricking much
now everything new just seems like yet another pointless effort as I no longer care of discovery for discovery’s sake and I have to force myself to try something new
I only came to this realization at 30. That most old people still feel their young selves.... 34 now and it just feels bizarre I'm almost middle age... I had youth just moments ago...
I realized this recently in my late 20s. My first realization came after graduating high school. That was that adults don't know everything. Then around 27-28, i realized that i'm no longer "inferior" to adults. Older people can be stupid as frick and not everyone is wise just because of age. I also realized that you never really feel old mentally. I see pictures of myself from 9 years ago, and i look younger, but i don't really feel like a different guy. Aside from learning more and having more experiences.
Yep, still bugs me at 29. We grew up thinking we would "become" adults. Like suddenly we would wake up and have this more "mature" attitude to life, you always have an answer, always know what to do, you'll suddenly want to do adult things and enjoy them like drinking, reading, working etc. But the reality is that it only looks that way on the outside, you never stopped being you. And even scarier when you realize that all older people and your parents were like this too. That they never just became mature adults, perfectly settled into the world, they are also still the same kid just in an older body, still trying to figure out life day by day. Still have worries, fears, desires, imagination. That old man might still fantasize about having super powers in his mind as much as he worries about taxes.
This is great and all, but it is mostly missing the point that it itself is trying to make. Because the ""real"" reality is that, the "one day my real life will begin" is just cope for the fact that 99% of us won't live "real" lives. You grow up being told you can be a rockstar, reading books and watching movies about untold excitement and adventure, and you believe even if subconsciously that it will be you one day. And most people keep believing that, because they have to, because people don't want to believe that they were dealt a hand by fate that condemns them to an entirely ordinary and ultimately boring existence. The speech in the clip postures it like it is the fault of the individual, but it isn't, because the individual has no control. In the same sense you can't make people love you, you can't make things happen to you. Same reason why "just go outside bro" is a fallacy, going outside guarantees nothing. Nothing guarantees anything. It is all up to chance. Alexander the Great could've easily been born a peasant and he would've done nothing with his life, the same as the millions of other peasants that died before he lived and would live after he died. And it sucks, it really does, but trying to deconstruct the "my real life will start soon" cope with more cope about how "I can totally force it to happen" benefits nobody.
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>is just cope for the fact that 99% of us won't live "real" lives. You grow up being told you can be a rockstar, reading books and watching movies about untold excitement and adventure
the even grander cope is believing there is something extraordinary in the ordinary life. rockstars, actors, CEOs and people who walk the red carpet and have their faces on GQ magazine are all ordinary men. Worse, they are boys playing the caricature of a man. There is more reality and honesty in the working man; not because his labor is noble, but because his labor forces him to be honest. It's why so many of the media darlings, once they age out through old age or boredom, begin to cave in on themselves and all that remains is an empty plastic shell, warped beyond human recognition holding a deranged psyche. You are the cope. You are chasing the fiction instead of embracing the fact.
7 months ago
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tbf Tonegawa probably beat his ass day and night for decades to get where he was, and he's still #2 to the most vile old yakuza boss ever written and is thrown away by him like trash for a single failure. I don't think the speech itself is entirely without merit, but it's worth considering that it comes from someone who genuinely thinks convincing poorgays to join death games for money is doing them a favor.
7 months ago
Anonymous
You're only as good as your last mistake.
No idea who said it.
You were raised by women, weren't you? At home, at school. Taught that the highest virtues are obedience and submission to authority.
7 months ago
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i was educated
7 months ago
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by women
7 months ago
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By my dad that was a soldier.
Discipline is a thing.
7 months ago
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Soldiers don't know shit about self-discipline, they only know obedience. It's not "discipline" to just do whatever you're told without thinking about it.
7 months ago
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>without thinking about it
and where in that comic does it say that?
are you projecting by any chance?
7 months ago
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No, not projecting, the military turned me down when I tried to join because I have a criminal record.
7 months ago
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You’ve never served and it shows. Go tell a bunch of rangers or infantry guys they have no discipline and see what happens.
7 months ago
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>grunt rage
7 months ago
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not him but by school
my parents didn't care about teaching me anything, they were just happy i sat at the computer out of their way all day
7 months ago
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you father was b***h lol
7 months ago
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You don't have one, momyboy
7 months ago
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ur black aren't you?
7 months ago
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no I was raised by my father and groomed to be the inheritor of an estate and take my place as some company cuck with money to burn but then my parents got divorced and now I'm just a moneyless broke lost and mentally moronic college student
7 months ago
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Possibly. I would add getting a computer at young age.
Thankfully I don't have this problem, it was actually the complete opposite. I was more of a "creep" and rejected when I was younger and now I'm usually the most lively and sociable person in the room. Amazing what fixing yourself up physically and mentally can do.
This is literally me.
I've grown to accept that I'll be considered boring or creepy by everyone, but it doesn't matter so long as I feel self-fulfilled.
40 here, life experiences and tragedies have worn me down a bit but I still feel no different when I was a kid at times.
Still got the same active imagination, still just wanna make friends, still dream of that life I imagined as a kid.
The average age is hitting 50 soon, they barely have any teenagers left IRL.
It's like having white people in media if you're white, you're reminded of what you lost.
Japanese salarymen spend about 18 hours a day working and drinking with their boss after work. The only time your average Japanese person actually has a life is while they're in highschool. Watching Game Center CX and seeing Arino playing a game for 13 hours straight before having to stop and go do a work meeting or whatever really fricked with me. Japs don't even get to sleep.
Steiner doesn't really come across as an old man though, he just has a blocky chin and he's clearly a regular adult rather than a young adult like Zidane.
>Racist caricature
Probably on some level but his relationship to Mr.T is responsible for most of his design's visual traits.
Japan has had a weird immigrant relationship with Nigeria since the 90s, he's less racist caricature and just an observation of a Japanese man living in Tokyo during those years.
Auron looks like he's in his mid fifties at his youngest.
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Cid does look 30. Definitely not Auron though.
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This is true, to an extent. I definitely feel different personality-wise than I did at 13, but I basically haven't changed since I was 20.
Growing up past that point isn't about what the growing process does to you, but you making the decision to change yourself and to take on more responsibilities.
You can't even see half of his face, but he isn't covered in wrinkles or anything. The only thing making him look older is his gray hair, and I have friends going gray in their 30s.
JRPG characters are aged on a fricking curve. Raven from Tales of Vesperia is constantly joked about and treated as the "old man" of the party, and has lived like three full lives and been a part of some major war and has this ancient past. The dude's like 35.
Japanese people are depressed so they think life is basically done after high school like some of the weirdos on here.
They've gotten better recently and seem to be making characters older.
life usually is "done" after high school. not because you don't keep doing things, not even necessarily because your life doesn't get better after high school in an economic, social, or general freedom sense, but because nothing will ever feel as new and exciting and meaningful as it did when you were aging from 14-18. most of your big positive life milestones and "firsts" will already be behind you, and the freshness of their memory will keep growing more distant until it's lost to you completely, and you'll just keep getting older and older, and it'll keep getting harder and harder to just maintain the basic level of fitness and health that you put zero effort into when you were younger. the only moments in my life that made me feel "alive" again as an adult was the birth of my fist child and the first few years of raising my kids as they were young and in awe at experiencing their own firsts.
>nothing will ever feel as new and exciting and meaningful as it did when you were aging from 14-18
Stopped reading here to laugh at you! Frick your wall of text!
This is more specific to the US, but
you can actually do many things in your 20s that you can't do as a teen. One of the best things about graduating high school is you're no longer tied to going to school Monday through Friday. Working can take up that time, but it doesn't have to. You can't just leave school as a teen without people having problems with it. You could walk out of work at any day and any time if you wanted to. You can travel easier in your 20s. Rent cars, fly without people worrying about you. Go drink at bars, buy things that you have to be at least 21 to buy. There's way more freedom after the teenage years.
>One of the best things about graduating high school is you're no longer tied to going to school Monday through Friday. Working can take up that time, but it doesn't have to. >You can travel easier in your 20s. Rent cars, fly without people worrying about you. Go drink at bars, buy things that you have to be at least 21 to buy.
W O W
Frickin' moron acted like there's nothing new to do after 18. You can't really enjoy life fully until you're a certain age. What people love about being young is the lack of responsibilities and you have more time to just purely have fun. There's a lot you can't really do as a kid though.
This is half true and half moronic doomerism, or at least insane levels of peaking-in-high-school.
If you haven't done a bunch of cool new shit as an adult you're doing it wrong. There's more to life than your first handjob
JRPG characters are aged on a fricking curve. Raven from Tales of Vesperia is constantly joked about and treated as the "old man" of the party, and has lived like three full lives and been a part of some major war and has this ancient past. The dude's like 35.
These dudes do look like men in their 30s
What kind of baby world do you all live in?
>are probably the same person they were in their 20's as well
I'm almost 38, and I still feel like the kid I was when I was like 13 inside me. All the "adult" shit is just a facade.
This is true, to an extent. I definitely feel different personality-wise than I did at 13, but I basically haven't changed since I was 20.
Growing up past that point isn't about what the growing process does to you, but you making the decision to change yourself and to take on more responsibilities.
It's like an ongoing hero's journey. You've changed parts of you, but you're still the same guy. It's like aging wine or variations of something over time. It doesn't completely change, but it changes a little. The overall shape never changed.
>Alexander the Great,[a] was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon.[a] He succeeded his father Philip II to the throne in 336 BC at the age of 20, and spent most of his ruling years conducting a lengthy military campaign throughout Western Asia and Egypt. By the age of 30, he had created one of the largest empires in history, stretching from Greece to northwestern India.[2] He was undefeated in battle and is widely considered to be one of history's greatest and most successful military commanders.[3][4]
>King of Macedon >Reign 336–323 BC >Hegemon of the Hellenic League >Reign 336–323 BC >Pharaoh of Egypt >Reign 332–323 BC >King of Persia >Reign 330–323 BC
>Died >10 or 11 June 323 BC (aged 32)
By Steiner's age this guy had conquered the world, had a ton of kids and died of old age.
So what have you got done? Can't even start a family yet?
What's your excuse?
Society holding you back?
Pft. Pathetic.
What exactly is preventing you from gathering up your posse and taking over mainland Europe, parts of northern Africa and most of Asia?
And no copes or excuses. Give hard facts.
>He succeeded his father Philip II to the throne
So in other words, his dad was already an accomplished warlord who title and skilled armies he inherited.
Basically rich daddy's son being paraded around as great businessman. Of course he fricked up long-term planning and thus his empire fell apart after his death.
I get it man, but there's just no way everyone could be Alexander the great or Genghis Khan. Those are occasionally bigger droplets of God that come to the earth to create massive change and then leave.
Perhaps it's just more widely dispersed, due to the massive populations of today compared to the past. Even 100 years ago, what was the human population, less than 2 billion? And before that, in the age of Romans, it was like 200 million. Today, we have over 8 billion, and still increasing.
Perhaps it's just more widely dispersed, due to the massive populations of today compared to the past. Even 100 years ago, what was the human population, less than 2 billion? And before that, in the age of Romans, it was like 200 million. Today, we have over 8 billion, and still increasing.
is correct, but also you just are less likely to notice because there is so much going on. Too much noise.
Perhaps it's just more widely dispersed, due to the massive populations of today compared to the past. Even 100 years ago, what was the human population, less than 2 billion? And before that, in the age of Romans, it was like 200 million. Today, we have over 8 billion, and still increasing.
Higher populations should mean more people for the more numerous Alexanders and Khans to rally. There should be more of them, not less.
Interesting logic however the kind of people who breed Alexanders and Khans were greatly outnumbered by the kinds who can't, and those are the ones vastly inflating the numbers
It's dilution in both ways. The droplets aren't as big relatively anymore, and you also notice them less because there's so much noise spread out. They're still around, but the spectacle isn't as huge. There's currently less than a handful of people on the planet currently that can lift over 1000lb. That's the stuff of legends right there.
Said droplets must affect change more subtly these days. Hard to go around conquering vast amounts of shit when everything is tied together and the big boys sit on nukes.
I can assume they also think that 30 is as old as 60.
And at cons or open events there are no moronic walls placed between people, everyone is having fun. Or perhaps you would rather want to lock up everyone under 18 at schools and everyone over 40-50 at monastery?
The left is full of powerful people and israelites, who are pedos. The right is full of trad larpers, who think that age gap is ok if not good, while zoomzooms (the girls those guys are going after) think that an age gap of more than six months is literal grooming (unless he's RichChad, where even a 50+yo is fine).
hebe is probably the most common sexual preference if you look at aoc worldwide and in 1st world countries historically. 18 being the hard line is an incredibly modern phenomenon
>be me >in my local tavern I've drank at for almost 20 years >some punk barely old enough to pass for drinking age walks up to me and my boomer drinking buddies >don't you guys feel weird for drinking in a bar with people half your age? >We stare at him until he leaves us alone >continue our conversation like it never happened
Jotaro comes from a family line of high-test English giants. He gets a pass for looking the way he does, considering there's stuff in Part 1 where Jonathan is effectively a brick wall with legs.
The golden age of Final Fantasy was during a time in Japan where it was expected of you to be in a managerial position or at the very least a senior workplace employee by your 30s with wife and children.
22 here and it feels fricking weird to see 18/19 year olds treating themselves as kids on Ganker when I was working niche boards at 14/15 larping as an adult. I cannot relate.
If you are aging rapidly, then try drinking more water and getting enough sleep. Also eat less garbage. If you can't grow it or kill it, then you shouldn't eat it.
I drink a ton of water every day but unfortunately my food options are severely limited by being in uni and I did a stint at a hotel working 3rd shift for a few years, which probably didn't help.
You can't eat junk anymore at this age. Seriously, no more fast food or ice cream. Peanut butter is as decadent as you can get if you don't want to be a tub of lard.
Age doesn't matter
Calories in need to be lower than calories out
The reason most get fatter as they get older is usually they find a partner in their 20s so they grow lazy and stop working out
>Calories in need to be lower than calories out
Yes but this is overly reductive.
Your base calorie expenditure goes down as you get older, and where you're getting your calories matters.
500 calories from a cinnamon roll might sound like it's the same as 500 calories from oatmeal, eggs and milk, but the former isn't going to make you feel like hitting the gym and burning 500 calories later
Base expenditure isn't that much different, something like 50 calories a day per decade
But yeah it's better to eat less sugary products and focus on stuff that fills you up faster
You are correct, but that is independent of what the other anon said. The mechanism at play is still calories in, calories out, but you're right that over time, due to aging and your own choices, you simply burn less energy.
>Age doesn't matter >Calories in need to be lower than calories out
I'm convinced this is a popular delusion. It doesn't match reality at all. I'm the same lazy eat what I want person I always was but only got a dad bod belly bump in my 30s. Took some time traveling for a couple months, again eating whatever and I was down to 137 lbs (62 kg) by the end.
Age matters. And the the calories-in-out mantra is just protracted self loathing. The only way to be thin is to never get big in the first place or combine mildly painful diet with exercise/fasting.
>be lazy >metabolism slows down >still keep putting in the same amount of energy >hahahahaha it's just the age bro like there is NOTHING you can do about it
Age is not an excuse for being fat. Both my parents are 50 something and they're both still healthy. My dad could probably still beat my ass if he wanted to.
I think it's popular because obviously it's true on the macro and that obvious truth is used as a shield for reductive simplicity and moralism.
The real story shows every sign of being more nuanced and complicated. People that lose weight with calories-in-out dieting force of will regain it. It's extremely difficult to hit a plateau that will keep you at a slim weight that isn't also leaving you constantly cranky, hungry, and slightly in pain - if you've already gotten used to being a certain weight, like say 20 lbs overweight. Your sense of hunger will not easily readjust and modern living is basically a massive conspiracy against healthy eating and living.
7 months ago
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Yes, CICO is not the full story, but it's enough to work with.
7 months ago
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But it is. Climbing a mountain is simple too. Just go up. Step on this rock and that rock until you reach the top.
Just because it's simple doesn't mean it's easy.
7 months ago
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It's just that most foodstuffs nowadays has plant oils in it - not only it's extra calories that you don't need, but also it might have negative effect on your metabolism.
7 months ago
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>It's nuanced because I throw a tantrum when I don't eat a box of twinkies a day
You might as well say the same about personal hygenie and getting up in the morning.
7 months ago
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>hunger pains
Our bodies are extremely adaptable and resilient. That's why we're #1. If you start intermittent fasting, only for a few days will you feel hunger when you normally would have eaten breakfast, but it soon disappears. You don't have to resist the urges forever, just for a short while, and then they go away.
7 months ago
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And this isn't even real hunger pain. The real pain comes after few days of nothng but water and it is like real pain not just some ugh I wish I had a cookie kind of pain.
7 months ago
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i can go 24 hours w/o food no problem but around the 30 hour mark it becomes miserable
7 months ago
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They don't go away, you just get used to them.
Anyone who is dieting with the expectation that hunger pangs will disappear is doomed to fail. The REAL trick is to eliminate the negative emotions associated with hunger pangs. You have to learn to smile and know that you're gonna make it whenever you feel your stomach growl.
7 months ago
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I entirely disagree. I literally don't feel the urge to eat breakfast, not hunger pains or anything, if I just don't for a few days. Maybe if you're old it takes longer for your body to adjust.
You’ve never served and it shows. Go tell a bunch of rangers or infantry guys they have no discipline and see what happens.
Yeah, they'd get really mad, and probably start a fight. That doesn't mean they have discipline, quite the opposite.
7 months ago
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All of that if irrelevant because it still comes down to your choices. Doesn't matter if you were used to eating a certain way, or what age does. The fact does not change, if you eat less and move more, you lose weight. Overcomplicating it with the nuance of human moment to moment decision making is useless.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Being cranky hungry and in pain doesn't make you gain weight. Stop shoving food in your mouth and overcome the adversity, fattie.
7 months ago
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>It's extremely difficult to hit a plateau that will keep you at a slim weight that isn't also leaving you constantly cranky, hungry, and slightly in pain
No it's not, it's actually easy as frick. Losing weight is kind hard and it sucks, but maintenance calorie intake is a lot more forgiving. Once you get your body used to the appropriate portions it becomes intuitive and doesn't leave you wanting whatsoever.
Frick your fatty cope. I'm so sick of the >It's OK that I'm a lardass because at least enjoying life unlike you miserable hungry skinny people
bullshit, which is what your post actually is
>metabolism slows down >calories out lowered as a result >uhhh I eat the same but I became fat?
are you moronic?
need a safety helmet when you go outside?
accidentally catch your dick in your zipper every other day?
put your pants on backwards?
forget to lock your front door?
accidentally stab your finger with the keys in your pocket?
crush your fingers in a car door much?
choke on mouth wash?
>I'm the same lazy eat what I want person I always was but only got a dad bod belly bump in my 30s.
Right, so again, stop eating so much fatass. Metabolism not pulling the weight for you anymore doesn't change that you'll lose weight by eating less.
Yes and no. Yes I do feel like a lot of people don't (or refuse) recognize that all bodies are a bit different, but weight-loss is pretty possible for everyone. All this really means is that you were relying on your metabolic rate a bit too much which obviously slows down with age.
>>fr fr that 30 ye-owd been workin fo 5 yeays here fr fr no cap that man on som strong'ass lean yu feel me?
you fricking nailed it. Even worse is the godamn drama the girls give when you don't date them.
>reject some fricking 19 year old >she starts crying and throwing a hissy fit about working all berceuse I said to go date the guys here her age
This reminds me of a situation I had at my current job, a 19 year-old wanted to date a friend of mine and he told her no multiple times but she keeps trying to slide in.
Teenagers are moronic. Hope I wasn't like that.
You literally cannot gain more calories, magically. It does not work that way. What happens over time is:
You lose muscle mass
You lose activity
You either increase or don't change the energy input
That's it. That is why anyone gets fat. You can only lose muscle through age, not magically gain fat. If anything, you may lose your ability to actually absorb as many calories from food, which would lead you to lose weight. But you cannot gain more energy than you put in. The metabolism thing is so fricking poorly understood.
Metabolism has direct correlation with activity. Low metabolism doesn't make you fat, it's the fat that low metabolism = lower energy, so you literally move less. You can still FORCE yourself to push through, and burn more energy, which forces your body to adapt and increases metabolism.
>Calorie intake doesn't matter >Age makes you fat >You can lose weight with diet and exercise, though >I lost weight in my thirties when I changed up my lifestyle by travelling and eating a different diet
What the frick is going on in this post
There's a snowball effect too where people get fat because their friends are all fat. It becomes the new normal and gives people a feeling of leeway to pig out on snacks and brush off that growing gut with "that's just what happens to dudes after 30 lol"
I'm 32 and outside of gaining weight I don't feel much different from 18. Not sure how people stay slim.
I haven't cut out junk completely but I also only eat three times a day and have kept my figure with no issues.
Obviously you need to eat healthy overall, but I think it's less eating junk food and more snacking between meals in general. When people say you need to eat three times a day, they mean three times period, not three meals while snacking on garbage throughout the day.
I have a 6 pack and V lines at 29 but I'll eat entire family sized bags of chips in one sitting no problem. I eat so much crap but I stay in great shape without working out so I might be broken in a good way
>I have a six pack without exercising
I can believe not being fat without exercising despite eating junk but you don't magically acquire muscles/definition by sitting around all day.
>I have a six pack without exercising
I can believe not being fat without exercising despite eating junk but you don't magically acquire muscles/definition by sitting around all day.
hes eatting chips, which dont have muchif any sugar. sugar and its relatives are wht give you belly fat.
the best thing i ever did was get a stationary bike to play vidya on.
You can't eat junk anymore at this age. Seriously, no more fast food or ice cream. Peanut butter is as decadent as you can get if you don't want to be a tub of lard.
>eat a pizza >sleep for 3 days
not like this bros...
I went for a uni stint a couple years back and befriended a guy who was 19 at the time. One day we started joking about me being pic rel, and he said when he looks at what his younger relatives are doing and watching online, he feels completely lost as well. I get the feeling the cultural gaps between generations is getting shorter than before, but wtf do I know
Life is only good for about the 20 years, 25 if you're lucky. Funnily enough, that's when you start doing the toughest shit like working, just as you start getting the least payoff. It's all just so backward and pointless. The time also flies by insanely fast after you hit 23: I remember 2014 like it was an era but I barely the 8 years after that, especially everything post 2020. This reality seems like a sick joke, like it's a senseless footnote to something that so obviously should be bigger, longer, and grander in meaning. I am not Christian but I see their point, this plane of existence does just feel like an afterthought.
2020-2023 was a blur.
I turned 20 in 2014. A lot of 2015-2018 all flows together for me. I remember specific things, but i don't know exactly when they took place. Something i remember could have been in 2015 or 2017, unless it's tied to where i was working at the time. I was also not working from 2015-2017 so that might be part of it.
I would but as another anon had said nothing is really as bright and leaves such an imprint as when you were a teen. I feel like I am developmentally stunted so for me it was the period between 20-23, but after that I barely felt anything. Hell I could get fricking hard and wet as a waterfall from just touching and smooching a girl when I was 22. Now at almost 31 I could have a naked girl beside me and not feel a thing, not just physically but my heart doesn't skip a beat, I feel like there is a mannequin in my bed.
I was always happy as hell building a new PC every few years, it was always a big event, even if it was with my own money. The last time I did that in 2021 I just felt dead. This extends to almost anything, you get the idea
>my work is easy and I enjoy it >don't have to waste 10+ hours with school everyday where I don't care about most of the curriculum >still spend plenty of time with friends >far smarter then I was years ago (not that that's saying much) so I can do far more and get far more out of what I'm doing
I'm also single which means I actually have time outside of work to enjoy myself but still, I enjoyed my childhood but I'm even happier now.
It's really just a matter of what you do with your life (assuming of course that you, the reader, have any control of it to begin with)
Can't go outside much when your working hours occupy most of you day, even if you WFH. It's a boon if you're able to take a stroll somewhere down your street for an hour or two during the weekend and not just work more or do chores and other shit
I mean yea they don't because it's against the law.
7 months ago
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On paper, sure. But you are expected to work extra hours in most jobs unless you're a unionized factory grunt.
That, and people usually take at least an hour to get ready for job between eating, taking a shower, etc. and the average commute time 30min to an hour. That makes it at least 3 more hours to your "8 hours of work" not counting the mandatory extra hours.
7 months ago
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>But you are expected to work extra hours in most jobs unless you're a unionized factory grunt.
Anon you've gaslit yourself. Your workplace is literally just abusing you.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Then all my college friends, parents, aunts, cousins and uncles have decided to gaslight eachother telepathically I guess.
7 months ago
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Do you live in the south perchance?
7 months ago
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yes but not in muttland.
Unions are not a thing if middle school education or higher is required for the job.
Literally only illiterate factory grunts are unionized.
7 months ago
Anonymous
This is why union jobs are the best. It doesn't matter if the office is burning down, my supervisor still makes us promise not to work extra hours without authorization.
Owners and administrators have so much negotiation leverage over a typical worker it's unreal. You'd have to be insane not to want to even the odds.
7 months ago
Anonymous
I'm white so I don't eat breakfast. It's 10 minutes and I'm already going. And 30 min is max what I am going to use for commuting (1 way). And everyone should be unionized.
7 months ago
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>I'm white so I don't eat breakfast
lolwat? whites live off water like plants or what?
7 months ago
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nta but also white, I eat well at evening and then I can go about an hour without being hungry once I wake up in the morning.
7 months ago
Anonymous
There's a forced lunch break at noon. A human can survive that long without problem.
Assuming you're sleeping at least 8h you should be hungry after waking up, that's just how human metabolism works.
Working without eating anything before is just self torture
7 months ago
Anonymous
You could argue that it depends no the type of work but most modern work definitely doesn't require you to have high energy levels to perform for few hours before the lunch. You might FEEL hungry but be realistic and ask yourself how many calories are you actually burning.
7 months ago
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>that's just how human metabolism works
Not really. Humans used to eat once a day, three meals a day and more is a modern thing.
7 months ago
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are you a caveman? no? then that's how human metabolism works.
You could argue that it depends no the type of work but most modern work definitely doesn't require you to have high energy levels to perform for few hours before the lunch. You might FEEL hungry but be realistic and ask yourself how many calories are you actually burning.
The feeling of hunger is very unpleasant for most people and it doesn't take that much time to just eat whatever before going out.
7 months ago
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>are you a caveman? no? then that's how human metabolism works.
Our metabolism haven't really changed since caveman times. You have just been conditioned by modern conventions and diet, but it's not innate and natural.
7 months ago
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>The feeling of hunger is very unpleasant...
Right. And fat people feel hungry too but when you look at them it's pretty fricking obvious that they still have loads of unspent energy inside them. They have forgotten what it means to feel real hunger.
7 months ago
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There's a forced lunch break at noon. A human can survive that long without problem.
7 months ago
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whiteanon here, i have no idea what that other anon is talking about. i eat breakfast every morning, and as far as i know so does almost everybody that i know. anon is probably coping with his shitty lifestyle by trying to project it as, for some reason, a racial thing.
7 months ago
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I'm positive the whole >you MUST have breakfast
was a white thing
7 months ago
Anonymous
It's definitely a modern, Western idea, so yeah whites a probably behind it. But eating breakfast is a relatively new idea, uncommon in most of history.
7 months ago
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Yea, most people just ate when they were hungry and had food. It was that simple.
7 months ago
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Where did the idea of three meals a day even come from?
7 months ago
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Breakfast is literally to break a fast after x hours of rest and sleep. Lunch is to lightly refuel for more toiling, dinner is a large meal to store energy for tomorrow, since you have plenty of downtime to digest a large succulent meal.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Breakfast only makes sense if afterward, you're gonna go do hours of hard physical labor, like working the fields. But, otherwise, you don't need it.
7 months ago
Anonymous
I started eating breakfast again after getting a job, but I stopped because it gave me biohazard-level farts
I can't do much before work, socially and otherwise. I'm free after 8pm and by that point I have like 3 hours until I want to drift off to sleep. I should also ideally spend up to 3 hours a day on my physical health due to health issues (which I am obviously not really consistent with and suffer for it).
>Skinny entire life >At 27 just realize I have 0 health problems >Start fencing >Start weightlifting at 29 >Win national tournaments at 34 >Traded in my skinnyfat flat gf for a hot babe 5 years younger than me >Still getting bigger
It's all in the mind
I think the percentage of actual oldgays who are still around is very high, it's just that the site has grown a lot since then, so we are outnumbered like 10:1.
I think the percentage of actual oldgays who are still around is very high, it's just that the site has grown a lot since then, so we are outnumbered like 10:1.
I haven't enjoyed coming here since about the end of 2013, but I'm still here.
been around since '06, left in 2014 and came back this year, in the end you always come back to your roots
He's just built out of logs and his armor is big on top of that. If you look at it up close, the armor pieces in FF9 you see in cutscenes are always super thick looking. It's a visual style thing.
be the best version of yourself. if they told these guys to think of it like a character skin it might make them realize what they actually need to do.
Kinda. You kinda have to be to some degree. If someone who doesn't talk a lot, wants to be more social then they have it in them to be more that way. It's still a part of them. It's just your version of being more outgoing. You can never replicate some socially confident guy exactly, but you can be your version of that.
The old people have them.
I might look too old to even get interest from decent woman.
Hell, I might look too old to do sporty styff and not be cringe.
7 months ago
Anonymous
dude zoomers have them lmao
look closely next time
7 months ago
Anonymous
Shitty lifestyles
7 months ago
Anonymous
But on other hand they tend to be taller.
In few years I will look like a manlet.
7 months ago
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Shitty lifestyles
7 months ago
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>these are the zoomers making fun of you for being old
7 months ago
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>BUT MOMMY YOU TOLD ME ONE DROP OF MESTIZO BLOOD WOULD MAKE ME DON JUAN WHERE MY HAIR GO REEEEEEEEEE
7 months ago
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Not me. I've taken great pains to never smile or laugh in my life
7 months ago
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Not that I really had any support, awareness or confidence to be anything better.
I'm pretty close to 30 and I got laugh lines. It's over.
Everyone gets nasolabial folds around 25, try looking around objectively at other people your age. They're basically a shortcut for distinguishing young adults from actual adults. You legitimately sound like you have body dysmorphia or an objectively skewed self image
7 months ago
Anonymous
It wouldn't be much of problem if not the fact that men around 30 are pretty much screwed romantically if they're exceptional in something.
Are laugh lines the ones around eyes? I've had them since I was a teenager and none others despite being 34. Pretty sure it's just dependent on your skull shape and expressions.
Even as a kid I knew I couldn't be arsed to amount to anything. I knew that if I didn't work harder once school stopped being children's play and opportunities and need to work approached, I'd end up not having too much in life.
Maybe it'd give me motivation to do something about it earlier but I'm not sure of even that. I was in a lot of ways already disillusioned at that point.
He'd likely be really sad that he has no real contact with his brother anymore, for no reason beyond just not having anything in common. Otherwise, the usual disappointment.
I miss those long days of going through FFIX and other games with my brother, collaborating on how best to get through the game, and giving characters funny names.
Japs be like that. For some reason their entire civilizational focus seems to be on ages 15-25 and outside of that it's over. Despite the fact they live to 90 and look good for 50 years.
>Steiner fricks Beatrix in the ass every night and even sometimes during the day at the Alexandria soldier training barracks when no one is looking
How is that fair???
It's because Xenoblade 3 has this message about finding the strength to get out of your rut and move on no matter how many frickups you have made or how much time you have wasted (your life isn't over till it's over), so all the old people are depicted as badass and/or good looking even or that would go against this message.
Just look at Shulk and Rex who are supposed to be middle aged and all they have to show for it are some slight lines under their eyes.
I feel like I'm frozen in time, I'm 30 and I still look like I did a decade ago, babyface, no hair loss, not a single gray hair
I'm thankful but I still became a wizard so it's not like it has helped me one bit
Nah it's true, even my hairdresser comments on it
Especially weird since both my father and brother were already heavily balding at my age, I must have dodged several genetic bullets or something
People aren't being "bred" to be anything. Nothing short of totalitarianism can stop people from fricking when they want to frick.
That being said, I don't know about more subservient or less ambitious, but people are definitely becoming dumber.
>survived
Reaper's bony hand is ought to get you sooner or later though. And don't even start about leaving progeny and all that stuff. It's also pointless. And even if humanity doesn't kill itself, and manages to escape this floating rock before it gets fried by the Sun, it also wouldn't make any difference. You can't survive the heat death of the universe. Humans like the delusion of cyclical nature of the universe. But as things are looking right now, the Universe started with a bang, but will end with a whimper. There is an ultimate end to everything, that's the cold harsh truth.
There is no excuse for getting fat when you’re under 40. It’s just sheer laziness. If you’re 45+ and your body is riddled with injuries then it’s partially understandable but morons who are in their twenties are b***hing like they’re about to turn 60 ffs. The reason your metabolism has “slowed down” is because you lost whatever muscle mass you had and stopped moving around as much.
JRPG characters are aged on a fricking curve. Raven from Tales of Vesperia is constantly joked about and treated as the "old man" of the party, and has lived like three full lives and been a part of some major war and has this ancient past. The dude's like 35.
I'm pretty sure Auron was also like 35, but he looks 60. It's just a Japan thing.
And he argues with two 16-year olds, seems about right. 33 would be a pretty ripe age for an active duty soldier, and he's actually a captain to show for it.
This never made sense to me however since I always figured he was about the age of Tidus' dad. I guess he does look young in the flashbacks but still.
dude looks 50
a 33 year old can have a 16 year old son if he fricks a b***h at 16 himself. and as he was a giga chad blu ball player, so you know he did.
sure is, I mean they are letting 12 year old kids make the decisions and and everyone lusts for the 14 y.o.s
>everyone lusts for the 14 year olds sex
I'd say he looks pretty good for being a walking corpse.
Auron I give a pass because afaik there's no set rule as how unsent would look. As old as he would if he lives? Auron's like this. As old as they when they died? That one guy from Yevon's higher hierarchy's like this. Yunalesca too, but I probably wrong at that. My belief is that unsent's age is whatever they want to be perceived at.
>Auron is 35
what the frick he's literally graying and has the voice of a 50 year old.
Tidus is 17
dying and regret does that to a man
Auron's seen some shit. You'd go grey early, too.
>he's literally graying
Yeah..haha..imagine graying in your thirties.
That sucks. Some people are bald. Guess it's a trade off.
I got a patch of grey hair when I was 12, it went away though.
graying at 35 is not uncommon
One of my buddies is 34 already greying. Another 33yo buddy is completely bald on the top of his head, my mid 30s coworkers all have specs of grey and are winkled and weathered. Same for me, but no greys or balding. All of us are cobstruction workers though..
i am 31 and have been graying since i was 13. i'm at about 20% gray now.
Damn. My cousin went bald at 18 so could be worse.
my hairline is thinning and my crown is balding. i've learned to accept it though.
I am paranoid my hair is thinning but no one thinks it is, just feels different to touch. Probably unhealthy from all the smoking and drinking.
Do you eat a lot of foods that have a lot of zinc? Like oysters. Excessive zinc consumption causes grey hairs, but it isn't permanent.
no, but my mother was the same way and we've just chalked it up to being hereditary
I'm 34 and probably have that amount of gray hair, just not concentrated for style purposes like that.
It's definitely a thing with japs in general but it does feel like it's worse in Vidya than in my animus
I'm now older than old man steiner
I'm now older than old man auron
I'm now older than old man cid
I don't like the ceaseless and unrelenting march of time
The clocks are ticking.
The hours are going by.
The past increases.
The future recedes.
Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
Do you understand?
To be fair, the shit Auron went through, i think it's fair enough. I can only imagine how being dead would take a toll on someone.
It harkens back to grander times when people actually did things, now most people in there 30s have achieved very little in their lives.
Subsistence farming doesn't seem all that interesting. I don't get these brain worms. Self-sufficiency is admirable and all but eating gruel doesn't seem very grand.
Subsistence waging to barely afford buying that gruel isn't much better.
do yourself a favor
the next time theres a farmer's market near you, go check it out
buy some vegetables grown by a local farm (avoid mexicans, they just buy stuff from shoprite and pretend they farmed it)
you will understand why white people didnt mind "simple food" when it tastes that fresh
>35
>not old as frick
The only thing an old man can tell a young man, (which he will never listen to), is that it goes fast.
Alexander the Great had conquered the entire world by his twenties.
30+ being old and dead and world weary is accurate. You should've done something by now.
The world didn't exist before the 70s.
alexander the great was a prince with a standing army ready to die for him. many historians still attribute most of his successes to his father, philipp the II
this is why it is always more interesting to read about the dudes who had to deal with the fall of an empire, as opposed to the ones who "created" it.
raven is physically 30s but his heart and mind is basically in his 60s. kind of like how presea is physically 12 but mentally 30.
>presea
Hot
Yeah they treat guys in their early 30s as grandpas all the time. It's funny because Rowen in Xillia/2 is 62/63 and actually fits the part.
You are trying to insert our reality and reason with game were there's girl who reached her peak college level academic carrer with 15 yo or even less, 13 maybe.
>moron weeb homosexual manchild doesn't realise nip games are catered to high-schoolers that see anyone 20+ as ancient
Well most Japanese fiction features kids aged 10-14 taking on God hand to hand while yawning.
I'm 34 and I've heard high school students refer to me as an old man.
They think everybody is old. Doesn't help that tons of people are fat and out of shape. I'm 29 and i ran a total of about 20 miles last week. That's part of the reason why 30 seems old. People are fat and out of shape, so they just assume they will be at that age too. I have friends who have beer guts and barely stay in shape.
This is why I like the Yakuza games. All the main characters are middle aged or older men.
It also makes zero sense for a lot of younger guys to be in those positions.
If anything Kiryu looks too young for his age in Yakuza 6 onward.
>This is a 51 year old man.
The Japanese suspension of disbelief can't comprehend the idea of not being an established and settled down adult in regular traditional employment by the time you're in your early 20s, not even in fantasy worlds. It makes no sense to them that someone in his late 20s or older would have time to go adventuring, what would his employer and his family say?
They must have seasonal jobs in Japan that pay well enough right? A couple months on a couple months off. Fishermen? They probably have more free time when they're off.
>Fishermen? They probably have more free time when they're off.
I've got a native friend, talented artist who's a Fisherman, and hell fricking no they don't really have hours like that. If anything being mainland just means you get to talk with other people instead of being stuck on a boat with spotty mobile data plans, but you still clock in and out at hours anyone outside of Japan would complain about. Does good splatoon art when he's not trying to juggle time with his daughter though.
This one's fricking worse.
Dude is a magical engineer banished from his kingdom over performing a surgical transplant when it wasn't halal to do so, spending something like 15 years in exile, and then they tell you this is his age.
you have to take the account for the period setting too
back in medieval japan being over 30 years old is ancient
since everyone die of pneumonia by the age of 14
>The dude's like 35
He's already approaching 40, which is pretty old.
By that age, he'll have been an adult for longer than he was a kid.
hello grandpas
Words words words
anons... Im sorry to say but... 30 is fricking old.
Source:I work with tons of teenage and early 20s people. The shit they talk about would make you hate the future.
>fr fr that 30 ye-owd been workin fo 5 yeays here fr fr no cap that man on som strong'ass lean yu feel me?
>>fr fr that 30 ye-owd been workin fo 5 yeays here fr fr no cap that man on som strong'ass lean yu feel me?
you fricking nailed it. Even worse is the godamn drama the girls give when you don't date them.
>reject some fricking 19 year old
>she starts crying and throwing a hissy fit about working all berceuse I said to go date the guys here her age
>rejecting a 19 year old
I understand not getting along personality-wise, but come on, at least get laid.
I rejected a 19 year old once, at her place sitting on the couch with her, because she mentioned that she was israeli after we got there, and I didn't notice before. No son of mine will be claimed by some matrilineal israelite bullshit.
Also, she had just gotten over the flu and I didn't want to catch it.
1. You didn't have to marry her immediately
2. You could just tell her you don't want to catch the flu and try to meet later.
No, instead I just made it really awkward because I wasn't sure what to do, and I was too drunk to drive the 40 miles back to my place. In the room was also her best friend and a friend of mine, who were making out and getting pretty handsy with each other. The israeliteess tried that with me but I gracelessly moved away and pretending to be very interested in whatever garbage they had on the TV.
my man I understand you would say that because pussy.
But please talk to a 19 year old sometime. They are fricking drama queens. Even the men. They constantly need to be center of attention for their tiktok and Instagram stories. They don't give two shits about privacy, and will record you doing random shit.
Not to mention if you even date the girls the guys get jealous as frick and start their own shit
I would outcringe the lass, that's guaranteed
Fair enough.
This is probably still at work.
Fricking your coworkers is shitting where you eat, and usually a bad idea.
Maybe, but it's also some men's best chance at a relationship with a decent woman. Just being near someone on a daily basis vastly increases the odds of developing a mutual attraction, to the point that anon can bat way above his average.
The modern dating scene is hell for men and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. It's the kind of game you can't win without either being a gigachad or becoming a lying manipulative piece of shit (and landing one, to boot).
A chance at love without having to go through all that? I'd pick that in an instant over a shitty wage cage.
I'm older than Steiner
This sucks, bros
Basically all non-tourists are at this point.
I don't even know what age I am unless I take a few seconds to calculate by remembering my birth date...
What is with Japanese obsession with teenagers anyway? I'm 35 and don't look much different than my 20's.
Nobody really wants to get old, those 80 year olds you see are probably the same person they were in their 20's as well
>are probably the same person they were in their 20's as well
I'm almost 38, and I still feel like the kid I was when I was like 13 inside me. All the "adult" shit is just a facade.
I only feel like a kid when I play games. If I'm not playing games, I feel tired constantly, even if I just woke up from a 8 hour sleep. My back hurts all the time. I force myself to eat stuff I don't want to eat because it's healthier but it tastes horrible. But if I make an effort to play something, I can play all day long and shirk all responsibilities and obligations and at the end of the day, I know I wasted a lot of time I could have been doing something better with, but I had fun and that's all that really matters to me now
I'm the same person I was when I was 18, just more physically and mentally worn down to a nub.
I'm 37 as well and pretty much the same way. I have to wonder if there's a point where that changes though. All the old people I know just don't really seem "into" anything anymore, even if they're mentally fine. Am I still going to have any interest in video games or entertainment media when I'm 80 or will I just be content to sit in a chair and stare at the wall all day? Scary thought.
I miss my novelty seeking so fricking much
now everything new just seems like yet another pointless effort as I no longer care of discovery for discovery’s sake and I have to force myself to try something new
I only came to this realization at 30. That most old people still feel their young selves.... 34 now and it just feels bizarre I'm almost middle age... I had youth just moments ago...
I realized this recently in my late 20s. My first realization came after graduating high school. That was that adults don't know everything. Then around 27-28, i realized that i'm no longer "inferior" to adults. Older people can be stupid as frick and not everyone is wise just because of age. I also realized that you never really feel old mentally. I see pictures of myself from 9 years ago, and i look younger, but i don't really feel like a different guy. Aside from learning more and having more experiences.
Yep, still bugs me at 29. We grew up thinking we would "become" adults. Like suddenly we would wake up and have this more "mature" attitude to life, you always have an answer, always know what to do, you'll suddenly want to do adult things and enjoy them like drinking, reading, working etc. But the reality is that it only looks that way on the outside, you never stopped being you. And even scarier when you realize that all older people and your parents were like this too. That they never just became mature adults, perfectly settled into the world, they are also still the same kid just in an older body, still trying to figure out life day by day. Still have worries, fears, desires, imagination. That old man might still fantasize about having super powers in his mind as much as he worries about taxes.
Please stop
This is great and all, but it is mostly missing the point that it itself is trying to make. Because the ""real"" reality is that, the "one day my real life will begin" is just cope for the fact that 99% of us won't live "real" lives. You grow up being told you can be a rockstar, reading books and watching movies about untold excitement and adventure, and you believe even if subconsciously that it will be you one day. And most people keep believing that, because they have to, because people don't want to believe that they were dealt a hand by fate that condemns them to an entirely ordinary and ultimately boring existence. The speech in the clip postures it like it is the fault of the individual, but it isn't, because the individual has no control. In the same sense you can't make people love you, you can't make things happen to you. Same reason why "just go outside bro" is a fallacy, going outside guarantees nothing. Nothing guarantees anything. It is all up to chance. Alexander the Great could've easily been born a peasant and he would've done nothing with his life, the same as the millions of other peasants that died before he lived and would live after he died. And it sucks, it really does, but trying to deconstruct the "my real life will start soon" cope with more cope about how "I can totally force it to happen" benefits nobody.
>is just cope for the fact that 99% of us won't live "real" lives. You grow up being told you can be a rockstar, reading books and watching movies about untold excitement and adventure
the even grander cope is believing there is something extraordinary in the ordinary life. rockstars, actors, CEOs and people who walk the red carpet and have their faces on GQ magazine are all ordinary men. Worse, they are boys playing the caricature of a man. There is more reality and honesty in the working man; not because his labor is noble, but because his labor forces him to be honest. It's why so many of the media darlings, once they age out through old age or boredom, begin to cave in on themselves and all that remains is an empty plastic shell, warped beyond human recognition holding a deranged psyche. You are the cope. You are chasing the fiction instead of embracing the fact.
tbf Tonegawa probably beat his ass day and night for decades to get where he was, and he's still #2 to the most vile old yakuza boss ever written and is thrown away by him like trash for a single failure. I don't think the speech itself is entirely without merit, but it's worth considering that it comes from someone who genuinely thinks convincing poorgays to join death games for money is doing them a favor.
You're only as good as your last mistake.
No idea who said it.
delete this
You were raised by women, weren't you? At home, at school. Taught that the highest virtues are obedience and submission to authority.
i was educated
by women
By my dad that was a soldier.
Discipline is a thing.
Soldiers don't know shit about self-discipline, they only know obedience. It's not "discipline" to just do whatever you're told without thinking about it.
>without thinking about it
and where in that comic does it say that?
are you projecting by any chance?
No, not projecting, the military turned me down when I tried to join because I have a criminal record.
You’ve never served and it shows. Go tell a bunch of rangers or infantry guys they have no discipline and see what happens.
>grunt rage
not him but by school
my parents didn't care about teaching me anything, they were just happy i sat at the computer out of their way all day
you father was b***h lol
You don't have one, momyboy
ur black aren't you?
no I was raised by my father and groomed to be the inheritor of an estate and take my place as some company cuck with money to burn but then my parents got divorced and now I'm just a moneyless broke lost and mentally moronic college student
Possibly. I would add getting a computer at young age.
Taking the portal soon
Literally me
ahhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Thankfully I don't have this problem, it was actually the complete opposite. I was more of a "creep" and rejected when I was younger and now I'm usually the most lively and sociable person in the room. Amazing what fixing yourself up physically and mentally can do.
This is literally me.
I've grown to accept that I'll be considered boring or creepy by everyone, but it doesn't matter so long as I feel self-fulfilled.
the only thing that truly changes is that now your actions have consequences and your body doesn't feel invincible anymore.
40 here, life experiences and tragedies have worn me down a bit but I still feel no different when I was a kid at times.
Still got the same active imagination, still just wanna make friends, still dream of that life I imagined as a kid.
Childhood and teenage years are the only time you can be happy in Japan. After that it's endless wageslavery.
>Implying it's not that way everywhere
Wrong. College is the fun time because you no longer have to deal with entrance exams or 12 school clubs and cram school.
What is the point of grinding in Jap schools if you still have to do entry exams in uni? Or do you need good grades to get invited to better colleges?
>if you still have to do entry exams in uni?
You don't do them in college unless you want to go to grad school. You do them to get into college.
video games are for teenagers, thus characters are teenagers, it's not hard to understand
The average age is hitting 50 soon, they barely have any teenagers left IRL.
It's like having white people in media if you're white, you're reminded of what you lost.
life ends after you graduate from high school in Japan.
to be fair , working and living in japan looks like a hellhole
living looks fun, if they do have all those varied bars, restaurants and arcades like on my videogames.
oi don't skip the working part
Japanese salarymen spend about 18 hours a day working and drinking with their boss after work. The only time your average Japanese person actually has a life is while they're in highschool. Watching Game Center CX and seeing Arino playing a game for 13 hours straight before having to stop and go do a work meeting or whatever really fricked with me. Japs don't even get to sleep.
Unlikely lol
imagine caring about the fricking age of a character
>mein fuhrer, der angriff steiner ist nicht erfolgt
'fuhrer'? Sprich Deutsch, du Hurensohn!
Steiner doesn't really come across as an old man though, he just has a blocky chin and he's clearly a regular adult rather than a young adult like Zidane.
>Age: 35
Older generations aged a lot faster due to smoking/alcohol + bad habits in general.
>he still has a full head of hair at 35
unrealistic body standards
Is this Nomura's greatest character design?
Squall, Barret, and Lightning are better
>Squall
Arguable I guess.
>Barret
Racist caricature
>Lightning
Literally a man in drag
>racist
kys
>Racist caricature
Probably on some level but his relationship to Mr.T is responsible for most of his design's visual traits.
Japan has had a weird immigrant relationship with Nigeria since the 90s, he's less racist caricature and just an observation of a Japanese man living in Tokyo during those years.
bump
As somebody with a childish looking face I wish it looked more mature.
You can't even see half of his face, but he isn't covered in wrinkles or anything. The only thing making him look older is his gray hair, and I have friends going gray in their 30s.
Oh N-
Japanese people are depressed so they think life is basically done after high school like some of the weirdos on here.
They've gotten better recently and seem to be making characters older.
life usually is "done" after high school. not because you don't keep doing things, not even necessarily because your life doesn't get better after high school in an economic, social, or general freedom sense, but because nothing will ever feel as new and exciting and meaningful as it did when you were aging from 14-18. most of your big positive life milestones and "firsts" will already be behind you, and the freshness of their memory will keep growing more distant until it's lost to you completely, and you'll just keep getting older and older, and it'll keep getting harder and harder to just maintain the basic level of fitness and health that you put zero effort into when you were younger. the only moments in my life that made me feel "alive" again as an adult was the birth of my fist child and the first few years of raising my kids as they were young and in awe at experiencing their own firsts.
>nothing will ever feel as new and exciting and meaningful as it did when you were aging from 14-18
Stopped reading here to laugh at you! Frick your wall of text!
Happy 12th birthday, kiddo.
>as new and exciting and meaningful as it did when you were aging from 14-18
Try building a family, homosexual.
homie read
that’s why I haven’t lost my virginity yet or kissed a girl at 29
This is more specific to the US, but
you can actually do many things in your 20s that you can't do as a teen. One of the best things about graduating high school is you're no longer tied to going to school Monday through Friday. Working can take up that time, but it doesn't have to. You can't just leave school as a teen without people having problems with it. You could walk out of work at any day and any time if you wanted to. You can travel easier in your 20s. Rent cars, fly without people worrying about you. Go drink at bars, buy things that you have to be at least 21 to buy. There's way more freedom after the teenage years.
>buy things that you have to be at least 21 to buy.
fricking americans lmao. They'll probably lower the age requirement eventually
Didn't the UK pass a law where the legal age to buy tobacco goes up every year so kids today will NEVER legally be allowed to purchase it?
>One of the best things about graduating high school is you're no longer tied to going to school Monday through Friday. Working can take up that time, but it doesn't have to.
>You can travel easier in your 20s. Rent cars, fly without people worrying about you. Go drink at bars, buy things that you have to be at least 21 to buy.
W O W
Frickin' moron acted like there's nothing new to do after 18. You can't really enjoy life fully until you're a certain age. What people love about being young is the lack of responsibilities and you have more time to just purely have fun. There's a lot you can't really do as a kid though.
This is half true and half moronic doomerism, or at least insane levels of peaking-in-high-school.
If you haven't done a bunch of cool new shit as an adult you're doing it wrong. There's more to life than your first handjob
>age: 32
Maybe it's the smoking.
These dudes do look like men in their 30s
What kind of baby world do you all live in?
Auron looks like he's in his mid fifties at his youngest.
I have the same amount of grey hair as him and I'm 27
at least you aren't balding yet... right?
uuuh I also have about the same hairline as him.
Does that count as balding?
Jesus christ, and I thought I was greying early at 32.
one in which we weren't child laborers with a smoking habit by the age of 6, apparently.
Oh so you were just fat lazy.
Found the zoomer
I have a baby face
This IS what 30 looks like.
40 looks mostly the same but the hair is gone.
50+ looks like a boomer.
That one actually looks 30
cid is so fricking cool, love his theme too
>cid's theme
>Cloud/Cid/Barret
Gamer time
I'm 34 and I look like this, age wise, not character wise. Could well be the smoking though.
Cid does look 30. Definitely not Auron though.
This is true, to an extent. I definitely feel different personality-wise than I did at 13, but I basically haven't changed since I was 20.
Growing up past that point isn't about what the growing process does to you, but you making the decision to change yourself and to take on more responsibilities.
It's like an ongoing hero's journey. You've changed parts of you, but you're still the same guy. It's like aging wine or variations of something over time. It doesn't completely change, but it changes a little. The overall shape never changed.
it's smoking + night shift work
t. 31 and looks worse
I wonder what age they'll make him in Rebirth, since they've been tweaking some of the ages in remake.
cid in ff14 is supposed to be like 35 but he looks like a buff grandpa
he looks like a 39 year old with gray hair
It's just the white hair and beard. Look at how smooth and young his face is. Try imagining him clean shaven with blonde hair and he'd look 20.
SIX YEARS OLD YOU SICK FRICKS
patrick steward reminds me of a 25 year old Japanese man.
>horned human
Looks like the Mexican ayy.
This annoyed me because six year olds in real life can barely string a sentence together.
Non-white?
Sex
OUT OF 5!
But in the end he got to suck on those enormous fricking breasts so he wins, late or not.
I was so shocked as a kid that these two wound up together but I liked him so I was like, "Good on you dude."
>He's 33 years old
Why does Japan fetishize being young like that? Are they scared of aging?
Steiner looks like he's on his early 40s at the youngest.
Japan can't ever do any numerical values right they'd see this guy and be like
>age: 32
>height 6'1
>weight: 165lb
WEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLL
I knew that's what this would say and I still love it
Literally Tekken 8
T. Hawk in Street Fighter is 8 feet tall and is supposedly 400 pounds.
with respect to ffx, who is that girl actress people say looks like tidus? margaret something right?
its meg ryan btw, figured it out myself
you all let me down!
typical 4skinz..
>Alexander the Great,[a] was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon.[a] He succeeded his father Philip II to the throne in 336 BC at the age of 20, and spent most of his ruling years conducting a lengthy military campaign throughout Western Asia and Egypt. By the age of 30, he had created one of the largest empires in history, stretching from Greece to northwestern India.[2] He was undefeated in battle and is widely considered to be one of history's greatest and most successful military commanders.[3][4]
>King of Macedon
>Reign 336–323 BC
>Hegemon of the Hellenic League
>Reign 336–323 BC
>Pharaoh of Egypt
>Reign 332–323 BC
>King of Persia
>Reign 330–323 BC
>Died
>10 or 11 June 323 BC (aged 32)
By Steiner's age this guy had conquered the world, had a ton of kids and died of old age.
So what have you got done? Can't even start a family yet?
What's your excuse?
Society holding you back?
Pft. Pathetic.
Same excuse as the rest of humanity I suppose. Nobody save for maybe Genghis Khan accomplished shit on the level of Alexander
What exactly is preventing you from gathering up your posse and taking over mainland Europe, parts of northern Africa and most of Asia?
And no copes or excuses. Give hard facts.
Same reason you haven't, I guess.
No legs due to diabeetus?
Post stumps
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Dude this is a blue board
frick they slipped
>He succeeded his father Philip II to the throne
So in other words, his dad was already an accomplished warlord who title and skilled armies he inherited.
Basically rich daddy's son being paraded around as great businessman. Of course he fricked up long-term planning and thus his empire fell apart after his death.
this
at least bring some example of a self made man who start from pleasant
Why would I want to conquer the world? What the frick am I getting out of it?
I get it man, but there's just no way everyone could be Alexander the great or Genghis Khan. Those are occasionally bigger droplets of God that come to the earth to create massive change and then leave.
Why are there no such droplets in the modern day?
What is suppressing it?
Perhaps it's just more widely dispersed, due to the massive populations of today compared to the past. Even 100 years ago, what was the human population, less than 2 billion? And before that, in the age of Romans, it was like 200 million. Today, we have over 8 billion, and still increasing.
This anon
is correct, but also you just are less likely to notice because there is so much going on. Too much noise.
Higher populations should mean more people for the more numerous Alexanders and Khans to rally. There should be more of them, not less.
Interesting logic however the kind of people who breed Alexanders and Khans were greatly outnumbered by the kinds who can't, and those are the ones vastly inflating the numbers
It's dilution in both ways. The droplets aren't as big relatively anymore, and you also notice them less because there's so much noise spread out. They're still around, but the spectacle isn't as huge. There's currently less than a handful of people on the planet currently that can lift over 1000lb. That's the stuff of legends right there.
Said droplets must affect change more subtly these days. Hard to go around conquering vast amounts of shit when everything is tied together and the big boys sit on nukes.
It's just less blatant because control and power is no longer just going around cutting everyone's head off.
>24 years old
Only in 0, which I would believe.
Yakuza 1 is like 18 years later.
I turned 30 this year, it fricking sucks.
The wizard powers are nice though
i will join you next year. Im specing into illusion, what did you pick?
just dont pick turning into little girl one
turn out that tree is a fricking monkey paw and all you will get is an axe wound
Am I missing something? He doesn't look that old.
No, 30 year olds, you do not look as cool as Cid.
I'm 30 and I already look like Steiner.
>41 years old
Hey, I'm 33 myself and I'm not old! Some 15 yo even though I'm 20 instead.
>Some 15 yo even though I'm 20 instead.
Anon, what the frick are you saying?
Thought, missed the t. I had to correct them.
15 year olds are dumb as frick and don't know what 20yo look like.
Also what the frick are you doing talking to 15 year olds you old creep...
I can assume they also think that 30 is as old as 60.
And at cons or open events there are no moronic walls placed between people, everyone is having fun. Or perhaps you would rather want to lock up everyone under 18 at schools and everyone over 40-50 at monastery?
>Or perhaps you would rather want to lock up everyone under 18 at schools and everyone over 40-50 at monastery?
That actually sounds great.
jrpgs are set in hostile medieval worlds where people need to grow up fast
Good take
I remember thinking that was old. But I also remember thinking it was stupid as hell they the devs thought 16 year olds could save the world.
I’m 19
Don’t you 30 +year old guys feel like creeps hanging around on a site where people half your age go?
We were here first.
And it'll happen to you
Some dog breeds just look sad but they really aren't.
I was here first, lad.
lmao I was you 10 years ago
30/2 = 15
19*2 = 38
newbie cutoff for Ganker was 2007. Joining later is like starting to watch the Simpsons after season 10.
i miss the 80s gays, now i have to share the site with you unfunny fricks
Incel generation right here lads.
Do you feel aroused hanging around with men twice your age?
Don't yo0u feel weird coming to a site where a bunch of well-established old fricks are?
Make your own website.
not really, though it seems that you really enjoy our company
now get bent
I literally said the same thing when I was 16
I'm 32
my current girlfriend is 16...
based
The frick is going on where people in the news are saying shit like this.
I thought the left was full of pedos. Were we wrong?
>I thought the left was full of pedos
Every side is full of pedos.
The left is full of powerful people and israelites, who are pedos. The right is full of trad larpers, who think that age gap is ok if not good, while zoomzooms (the girls those guys are going after) think that an age gap of more than six months is literal grooming (unless he's RichChad, where even a 50+yo is fine).
hebe is probably the most common sexual preference if you look at aoc worldwide and in 1st world countries historically. 18 being the hard line is an incredibly modern phenomenon
hebe is 11-14 and not that common at all.
The word you're looking for is ephebo
>Bro I'm not a pedo
>I'm not a hebe
>I'm a ephebophile
yes that is how terminology work anon.
this is the ""female"" redditor version of the have sex incel -> frick me baalbuddy image
>16
>pedophile
don't you get tired of being a whiney little homosexual kid?
Not amazing bait but it did what it needed to, 8/10.
haha yeah all you bratty 19-year olds that needs correction
>be me
>in my local tavern I've drank at for almost 20 years
>some punk barely old enough to pass for drinking age walks up to me and my boomer drinking buddies
>don't you guys feel weird for drinking in a bar with people half your age?
>We stare at him until he leaves us alone
>continue our conversation like it never happened
You're the weird one.
Nah, if anything I find it weird people as young as you come here.
I'd feel weird posting on Tiktok or whatever.
Here is where I'm supposed to be.
>Age: 17
Jotaro comes from a family line of high-test English giants. He gets a pass for looking the way he does, considering there's stuff in Part 1 where Jonathan is effectively a brick wall with legs.
I mean he's dressed like a schoolyard delinquent, he essentially has to be that age.
Jotaro ages in reverse
imagine being sufficiently based as to wear a hat with a bunch of female (pussy) symbols on it lmao
>Turns black
how does hat hair work?
we don't talk about it
Steiner?
more like eyyyye Leiner
>8 Characters Max
Why?
>feeling the pressure of father time
>can't stay on a young man's board like Ganker anymore
time to move to an exit board like Ganker, Ganker, or /vst/
The golden age of Final Fantasy was during a time in Japan where it was expected of you to be in a managerial position or at the very least a senior workplace employee by your 30s with wife and children.
>Age: 49
worked for Jackie-chan, he was still in great condition past 40.
22 here and it feels fricking weird to see 18/19 year olds treating themselves as kids on Ganker when I was working niche boards at 14/15 larping as an adult. I cannot relate.
he was in love with the princess that was like 14
boomers are disgusting fr fr
Reminder that this motherfricker is 45
and Saphir is 35
this one is the winner for me, what a fricking flex on westernized women from the japs jesus.
The shit war does to a man
I'm 35
>37
>Ending where Raymond can involuntarily cuck him
Fricking thirsty blue alien prostitutes
28 and I feel like a geriatric
wait until you're 31
i'm 33 and i feel the same as always
nah, im peak in my 31st year. Financially and even more fit than my fatty 20s.
pretty soon you'll eat too much bacon one weekend and be legitimately worried you're going to die.
>29
>left side of my head is almost fully gray like in some anime
The salt and pepper look is actually really nice anon
Do you drive a lot?
Is your pc next to a window on your left?
my pic is indeed on my left
People dig that sort of thing actually.
>22
>have literal streaks of gray all through my hair
I am aging like shit and I can see it happening in real time and it fricking hurts
If you are aging rapidly, then try drinking more water and getting enough sleep. Also eat less garbage. If you can't grow it or kill it, then you shouldn't eat it.
I drink a ton of water every day but unfortunately my food options are severely limited by being in uni and I did a stint at a hotel working 3rd shift for a few years, which probably didn't help.
26 the only gray hair i spot is a tiny patch on my chest so far
STILL NOT AS OLD AS STRAGO BROS WW@
HAHAHA THOSE FUNNY OLD FARTS, WHO COULD IMAGINE BEING SO ANCIENT LMAO
>TFW as old as steiner and he still got beatrix as his waifu
WAGMI
I'm 32 and outside of gaining weight I don't feel much different from 18. Not sure how people stay slim.
>Not sure how people stay slim.
Stop eating so much.
>31
>Love my snack
>Still relatively skinny
I fear the day my metabolism slows down.
On that day, the fun is over for us skelebros
You can't eat junk anymore at this age. Seriously, no more fast food or ice cream. Peanut butter is as decadent as you can get if you don't want to be a tub of lard.
I'm not humongous, I have a beer belly. But I do eat those things so it's probably a bigger culprit than not knowing the right exercise.
frick that I'm not giving up pizza and beer
Depends how active you are. Ever since I got a job as a FedEx driver I've been losing weight no matter what I eat.
I'm an accountant. I have to do air squats every hour just to keep my desk chair from giving me a pulmonary embolism.
I'm a fat manlet and I'm fine with only living until like 50
Same, no pension and I don't want to work 'till I die so a massive heart attack is A-OK in my book.
Age doesn't matter
Calories in need to be lower than calories out
The reason most get fatter as they get older is usually they find a partner in their 20s so they grow lazy and stop working out
>Calories in need to be lower than calories out
Yes but this is overly reductive.
Your base calorie expenditure goes down as you get older, and where you're getting your calories matters.
500 calories from a cinnamon roll might sound like it's the same as 500 calories from oatmeal, eggs and milk, but the former isn't going to make you feel like hitting the gym and burning 500 calories later
Base expenditure isn't that much different, something like 50 calories a day per decade
But yeah it's better to eat less sugary products and focus on stuff that fills you up faster
Simplex versus complex carbohydrates
*Simple
You are correct, but that is independent of what the other anon said. The mechanism at play is still calories in, calories out, but you're right that over time, due to aging and your own choices, you simply burn less energy.
It's slightly reductive, not overly reductive. His post is completely sound even though he didn't get autistic about details.
>Age doesn't matter
>Calories in need to be lower than calories out
I'm convinced this is a popular delusion. It doesn't match reality at all. I'm the same lazy eat what I want person I always was but only got a dad bod belly bump in my 30s. Took some time traveling for a couple months, again eating whatever and I was down to 137 lbs (62 kg) by the end.
Age matters. And the the calories-in-out mantra is just protracted self loathing. The only way to be thin is to never get big in the first place or combine mildly painful diet with exercise/fasting.
>be lazy
>metabolism slows down
>still keep putting in the same amount of energy
>hahahahaha it's just the age bro like there is NOTHING you can do about it
Age is not an excuse for being fat. Both my parents are 50 something and they're both still healthy. My dad could probably still beat my ass if he wanted to.
>the calories-in-out mantra is just protracted self loathing
bro thinks the laws of thermodynamics are just bad vibes
I think it's popular because obviously it's true on the macro and that obvious truth is used as a shield for reductive simplicity and moralism.
The real story shows every sign of being more nuanced and complicated. People that lose weight with calories-in-out dieting force of will regain it. It's extremely difficult to hit a plateau that will keep you at a slim weight that isn't also leaving you constantly cranky, hungry, and slightly in pain - if you've already gotten used to being a certain weight, like say 20 lbs overweight. Your sense of hunger will not easily readjust and modern living is basically a massive conspiracy against healthy eating and living.
Yes, CICO is not the full story, but it's enough to work with.
But it is. Climbing a mountain is simple too. Just go up. Step on this rock and that rock until you reach the top.
Just because it's simple doesn't mean it's easy.
It's just that most foodstuffs nowadays has plant oils in it - not only it's extra calories that you don't need, but also it might have negative effect on your metabolism.
>It's nuanced because I throw a tantrum when I don't eat a box of twinkies a day
You might as well say the same about personal hygenie and getting up in the morning.
>hunger pains
Our bodies are extremely adaptable and resilient. That's why we're #1. If you start intermittent fasting, only for a few days will you feel hunger when you normally would have eaten breakfast, but it soon disappears. You don't have to resist the urges forever, just for a short while, and then they go away.
And this isn't even real hunger pain. The real pain comes after few days of nothng but water and it is like real pain not just some ugh I wish I had a cookie kind of pain.
i can go 24 hours w/o food no problem but around the 30 hour mark it becomes miserable
They don't go away, you just get used to them.
Anyone who is dieting with the expectation that hunger pangs will disappear is doomed to fail. The REAL trick is to eliminate the negative emotions associated with hunger pangs. You have to learn to smile and know that you're gonna make it whenever you feel your stomach growl.
I entirely disagree. I literally don't feel the urge to eat breakfast, not hunger pains or anything, if I just don't for a few days. Maybe if you're old it takes longer for your body to adjust.
Yeah, they'd get really mad, and probably start a fight. That doesn't mean they have discipline, quite the opposite.
All of that if irrelevant because it still comes down to your choices. Doesn't matter if you were used to eating a certain way, or what age does. The fact does not change, if you eat less and move more, you lose weight. Overcomplicating it with the nuance of human moment to moment decision making is useless.
Being cranky hungry and in pain doesn't make you gain weight. Stop shoving food in your mouth and overcome the adversity, fattie.
>It's extremely difficult to hit a plateau that will keep you at a slim weight that isn't also leaving you constantly cranky, hungry, and slightly in pain
No it's not, it's actually easy as frick. Losing weight is kind hard and it sucks, but maintenance calorie intake is a lot more forgiving. Once you get your body used to the appropriate portions it becomes intuitive and doesn't leave you wanting whatsoever.
Frick your fatty cope. I'm so sick of the
>It's OK that I'm a lardass because at least enjoying life unlike you miserable hungry skinny people
bullshit, which is what your post actually is
>metabolism slows down
>calories out lowered as a result
>uhhh I eat the same but I became fat?
are you moronic?
need a safety helmet when you go outside?
accidentally catch your dick in your zipper every other day?
put your pants on backwards?
forget to lock your front door?
accidentally stab your finger with the keys in your pocket?
crush your fingers in a car door much?
choke on mouth wash?
>I'm the same lazy eat what I want person I always was but only got a dad bod belly bump in my 30s.
Right, so again, stop eating so much fatass. Metabolism not pulling the weight for you anymore doesn't change that you'll lose weight by eating less.
Yes and no. Yes I do feel like a lot of people don't (or refuse) recognize that all bodies are a bit different, but weight-loss is pretty possible for everyone. All this really means is that you were relying on your metabolic rate a bit too much which obviously slows down with age.
This reminds me of a situation I had at my current job, a 19 year-old wanted to date a friend of mine and he told her no multiple times but she keeps trying to slide in.
Teenagers are moronic. Hope I wasn't like that.
You literally cannot gain more calories, magically. It does not work that way. What happens over time is:
You lose muscle mass
You lose activity
You either increase or don't change the energy input
That's it. That is why anyone gets fat. You can only lose muscle through age, not magically gain fat. If anything, you may lose your ability to actually absorb as many calories from food, which would lead you to lose weight. But you cannot gain more energy than you put in. The metabolism thing is so fricking poorly understood.
Metabolism has direct correlation with activity. Low metabolism doesn't make you fat, it's the fat that low metabolism = lower energy, so you literally move less. You can still FORCE yourself to push through, and burn more energy, which forces your body to adapt and increases metabolism.
>Calorie intake doesn't matter
>Age makes you fat
>You can lose weight with diet and exercise, though
>I lost weight in my thirties when I changed up my lifestyle by travelling and eating a different diet
What the frick is going on in this post
>and stop working out
I don't work out at all and I'm still slender.
Just don't eat like a pig
That too, but goyslop is readily available these days
There's a snowball effect too where people get fat because their friends are all fat. It becomes the new normal and gives people a feeling of leeway to pig out on snacks and brush off that growing gut with "that's just what happens to dudes after 30 lol"
haha 'eck and 'izza go brrrrrrrr
I haven't cut out junk completely but I also only eat three times a day and have kept my figure with no issues.
Obviously you need to eat healthy overall, but I think it's less eating junk food and more snacking between meals in general. When people say you need to eat three times a day, they mean three times period, not three meals while snacking on garbage throughout the day.
I have a 6 pack and V lines at 29 but I'll eat entire family sized bags of chips in one sitting no problem. I eat so much crap but I stay in great shape without working out so I might be broken in a good way
you're just a Black person, jamal
>I have a six pack without exercising
I can believe not being fat without exercising despite eating junk but you don't magically acquire muscles/definition by sitting around all day.
I don't believe anon's lies either, but abs truly are 95% diet and 5% exercise
Sixpacks are not made in the gym. They're made in the kitchen.
I believe it. Doesn't mean he's strong, but i know people like that.
You don't need muscle for a six pack, all you need is to get rid of the fat.
Where's the six pack though
bad lighting but the monitor light catches the sides, not a strong six pack but it's there
hes eatting chips, which dont have muchif any sugar. sugar and its relatives are wht give you belly fat.
just be tall, it works on my machine
Same age but my crown is thin as frick now, hairline's the same so hopefully I can just keep combing it over.
You don't burn as much calories just for existing as you did when you were younger. Do more exercise or eat less
When I was a teenager I could eat two familiar sized pizzas in one sitting and was still fit as frick. Now if I do that I'll gain 20 pounds
I eat once a day, as anyone should.
the best thing i ever did was get a stationary bike to play vidya on.
>eat a pizza
>sleep for 3 days
not like this bros...
Stop eating garbage you disgusting fat frick.
Steiner really is the heart of that game. His relationships with Zidane, Garnet, and Vivi really help define the game in terms of tone and feel.
>"the old guy" in the playable cast
>is my age
They don't look old.
>age 16
Joestar has some competition for the youngest adult man
>Watching anime
>20 year old guy called old-man by everyone
it's so over
I went for a uni stint a couple years back and befriended a guy who was 19 at the time. One day we started joking about me being pic rel, and he said when he looks at what his younger relatives are doing and watching online, he feels completely lost as well. I get the feeling the cultural gaps between generations is getting shorter than before, but wtf do I know
Life is only good for about the 20 years, 25 if you're lucky. Funnily enough, that's when you start doing the toughest shit like working, just as you start getting the least payoff. It's all just so backward and pointless. The time also flies by insanely fast after you hit 23: I remember 2014 like it was an era but I barely the 8 years after that, especially everything post 2020. This reality seems like a sick joke, like it's a senseless footnote to something that so obviously should be bigger, longer, and grander in meaning. I am not Christian but I see their point, this plane of existence does just feel like an afterthought.
2020-2023 was a blur.
I turned 20 in 2014. A lot of 2015-2018 all flows together for me. I remember specific things, but i don't know exactly when they took place. Something i remember could have been in 2015 or 2017, unless it's tied to where i was working at the time. I was also not working from 2015-2017 so that might be part of it.
If it's a joke, why not laugh? Part of being dust in the wind is that your existential misery is pointless too.
So forget it and choose happiness. It's the only meaningful choice you or anyone else will ever make.
I would but as another anon had said nothing is really as bright and leaves such an imprint as when you were a teen. I feel like I am developmentally stunted so for me it was the period between 20-23, but after that I barely felt anything. Hell I could get fricking hard and wet as a waterfall from just touching and smooching a girl when I was 22. Now at almost 31 I could have a naked girl beside me and not feel a thing, not just physically but my heart doesn't skip a beat, I feel like there is a mannequin in my bed.
I was always happy as hell building a new PC every few years, it was always a big event, even if it was with my own money. The last time I did that in 2021 I just felt dead. This extends to almost anything, you get the idea
This is not an age problem but a society problem
Maybe, but if society only befits not just the young but very young, then what is there to do? Unless you mean something else
???
I'm 30 and happy for the first time in my life.
>my work is easy and I enjoy it
>don't have to waste 10+ hours with school everyday where I don't care about most of the curriculum
>still spend plenty of time with friends
>far smarter then I was years ago (not that that's saying much) so I can do far more and get far more out of what I'm doing
I'm also single which means I actually have time outside of work to enjoy myself but still, I enjoyed my childhood but I'm even happier now.
It's really just a matter of what you do with your life (assuming of course that you, the reader, have any control of it to begin with)
>It's called garbage can, not garbage cannot
Time feels like it moves faster when you don't develop new memories. Way to project. Go outside and live, wizard.
Can't go outside much when your working hours occupy most of you day, even if you WFH. It's a boon if you're able to take a stroll somewhere down your street for an hour or two during the weekend and not just work more or do chores and other shit
8 hours work, 8 hours sleep, 8 hours you. + weekends and holidays. You used to go to school as a kid too it's just few hours more.
yes because I can teleport to my job and companies dont force people to work unpaid extra hours
I mean yea they don't because it's against the law.
On paper, sure. But you are expected to work extra hours in most jobs unless you're a unionized factory grunt.
That, and people usually take at least an hour to get ready for job between eating, taking a shower, etc. and the average commute time 30min to an hour. That makes it at least 3 more hours to your "8 hours of work" not counting the mandatory extra hours.
>But you are expected to work extra hours in most jobs unless you're a unionized factory grunt.
Anon you've gaslit yourself. Your workplace is literally just abusing you.
Then all my college friends, parents, aunts, cousins and uncles have decided to gaslight eachother telepathically I guess.
Do you live in the south perchance?
yes but not in muttland.
Unions are not a thing if middle school education or higher is required for the job.
Literally only illiterate factory grunts are unionized.
This is why union jobs are the best. It doesn't matter if the office is burning down, my supervisor still makes us promise not to work extra hours without authorization.
Owners and administrators have so much negotiation leverage over a typical worker it's unreal. You'd have to be insane not to want to even the odds.
I'm white so I don't eat breakfast. It's 10 minutes and I'm already going. And 30 min is max what I am going to use for commuting (1 way). And everyone should be unionized.
>I'm white so I don't eat breakfast
lolwat? whites live off water like plants or what?
nta but also white, I eat well at evening and then I can go about an hour without being hungry once I wake up in the morning.
Assuming you're sleeping at least 8h you should be hungry after waking up, that's just how human metabolism works.
Working without eating anything before is just self torture
You could argue that it depends no the type of work but most modern work definitely doesn't require you to have high energy levels to perform for few hours before the lunch. You might FEEL hungry but be realistic and ask yourself how many calories are you actually burning.
>that's just how human metabolism works
Not really. Humans used to eat once a day, three meals a day and more is a modern thing.
are you a caveman? no? then that's how human metabolism works.
The feeling of hunger is very unpleasant for most people and it doesn't take that much time to just eat whatever before going out.
>are you a caveman? no? then that's how human metabolism works.
Our metabolism haven't really changed since caveman times. You have just been conditioned by modern conventions and diet, but it's not innate and natural.
>The feeling of hunger is very unpleasant...
Right. And fat people feel hungry too but when you look at them it's pretty fricking obvious that they still have loads of unspent energy inside them. They have forgotten what it means to feel real hunger.
There's a forced lunch break at noon. A human can survive that long without problem.
whiteanon here, i have no idea what that other anon is talking about. i eat breakfast every morning, and as far as i know so does almost everybody that i know. anon is probably coping with his shitty lifestyle by trying to project it as, for some reason, a racial thing.
I'm positive the whole
>you MUST have breakfast
was a white thing
It's definitely a modern, Western idea, so yeah whites a probably behind it. But eating breakfast is a relatively new idea, uncommon in most of history.
Yea, most people just ate when they were hungry and had food. It was that simple.
Where did the idea of three meals a day even come from?
Breakfast is literally to break a fast after x hours of rest and sleep. Lunch is to lightly refuel for more toiling, dinner is a large meal to store energy for tomorrow, since you have plenty of downtime to digest a large succulent meal.
Breakfast only makes sense if afterward, you're gonna go do hours of hard physical labor, like working the fields. But, otherwise, you don't need it.
I started eating breakfast again after getting a job, but I stopped because it gave me biohazard-level farts
I can't do much before work, socially and otherwise. I'm free after 8pm and by that point I have like 3 hours until I want to drift off to sleep. I should also ideally spend up to 3 hours a day on my physical health due to health issues (which I am obviously not really consistent with and suffer for it).
Not that there are girls outside. They're in bars and malls. They don't really have hobbies.
>Skinny entire life
>At 27 just realize I have 0 health problems
>Start fencing
>Start weightlifting at 29
>Win national tournaments at 34
>Traded in my skinnyfat flat gf for a hot babe 5 years younger than me
>Still getting bigger
It's all in the mind
I started being a musician at 33. Now I make a full time living of it and have literally thousands of bawdy teenage fans.
>mfw 30 but hooked up with a 17 year old last month
>she thought I was 20
feels good
People think i'm younger as well, not 10 years, but 4-5 years.
I think people who hate their 30s are just fat fricks who don't exercise.
Nah, it's people who actually have to work.
Frick sort of cope is this? I've been a wagie since I graduated college.
Which means you have developed stockholm syndrome from being a slave.
you are not happy. No one who has to work for a living is.
Is Cyan from FF6 the only one that actually looks his age?
I still have this perception of Ganker being full of teebagers, but it's cool to see some 30+ people in here. Guess we really are here forever.
I think the percentage of actual oldgays who are still around is very high, it's just that the site has grown a lot since then, so we are outnumbered like 10:1.
I haven't enjoyed coming here since about the end of 2013, but I'm still here.
been around since '06, left in 2014 and came back this year, in the end you always come back to your roots
theres nowhere else to go
Good meme, only a 2011 newbie would be moronic enough to unironically adopt such a reddit meme like virgin/chad.
Is Steiner fat? Or is he just big boned? Or is his armor just too big for him?
As a kid I thought he was fat so I always wondered how he became a high ranking soldier.
He's just built out of logs and his armor is big on top of that. If you look at it up close, the armor pieces in FF9 you see in cutscenes are always super thick looking. It's a visual style thing.
Look at his Amano concept art. He's a huge as giga homie.
>dominant hand
Why
Why deem it so important you cant like set him up to dual wield or put his sword in the wrong hand
>31
>remember all those hot girls I banged during my 20s
>now I feel lucky if a fatty gives me a blowjob
I had no Idea how lucky I was
>tfw didn't bang a damn thing because asocial sperg
welp
>he fell for the just bee you're self meme
be the best version of yourself. if they told these guys to think of it like a character skin it might make them realize what they actually need to do.
>be the best version of yourself
that is just synonim of "be what other people what you to be" aka not yourself
Kinda. You kinda have to be to some degree. If someone who doesn't talk a lot, wants to be more social then they have it in them to be more that way. It's still a part of them. It's just your version of being more outgoing. You can never replicate some socially confident guy exactly, but you can be your version of that.
Not that I really had any support, awareness or confidence to be anything better.
I'm pretty close to 30 and I got laugh lines. It's over.
>'m pretty close to 30 and I got laugh lines. It's over.
what's wrong with laugh lines
everyone has them
The old people have them.
I might look too old to even get interest from decent woman.
Hell, I might look too old to do sporty styff and not be cringe.
dude zoomers have them lmao
look closely next time
Shitty lifestyles
But on other hand they tend to be taller.
In few years I will look like a manlet.
>these are the zoomers making fun of you for being old
>BUT MOMMY YOU TOLD ME ONE DROP OF MESTIZO BLOOD WOULD MAKE ME DON JUAN WHERE MY HAIR GO REEEEEEEEEE
Not me. I've taken great pains to never smile or laugh in my life
Everyone gets nasolabial folds around 25, try looking around objectively at other people your age. They're basically a shortcut for distinguishing young adults from actual adults. You legitimately sound like you have body dysmorphia or an objectively skewed self image
It wouldn't be much of problem if not the fact that men around 30 are pretty much screwed romantically if they're exceptional in something.
Are laugh lines the ones around eyes? I've had them since I was a teenager and none others despite being 34. Pretty sure it's just dependent on your skull shape and expressions.
>Are laugh lines the ones around eyes?
I mean those around mouth.
never had sex because I had shit selfconfidence after being bullied by everyone at school+my mom
He looks about 30. He never came off as much older.
be honest Ganker, what would your kid-self who played FFIX think of you right now? will he be proud? scared? excited? disappointed?
Even as a kid I knew I couldn't be arsed to amount to anything. I knew that if I didn't work harder once school stopped being children's play and opportunities and need to work approached, I'd end up not having too much in life.
Maybe it'd give me motivation to do something about it earlier but I'm not sure of even that. I was in a lot of ways already disillusioned at that point.
He'd likely be really sad that he has no real contact with his brother anymore, for no reason beyond just not having anything in common. Otherwise, the usual disappointment.
I miss those long days of going through FFIX and other games with my brother, collaborating on how best to get through the game, and giving characters funny names.
Look at that 30 year old boomer hanging around a 15 year old... Creepy...
zoomers will be entering their 30s in just 5 years
from the generation literally obsessed with being young I expect nothing but mass suicides
>tfw 33 in a couple of months
and the world will continue to spin
Is this the thread where people realize they wasted their life on the internet?
you did?
Japs be like that. For some reason their entire civilizational focus seems to be on ages 15-25 and outside of that it's over. Despite the fact they live to 90 and look good for 50 years.
>Steiner fricks Beatrix in the ass every night and even sometimes during the day at the Alexandria soldier training barracks when no one is looking
How is that fair???
Steiner deserves it every single day
>Age: 15
For Japs, once you're over the age of 25, you are an ancient person.
japs' life also peaks in highschool. after that you're just another person to overwork to death
I'm not sure that matters anymore. I don't think there are many kids left in Japan
it's so hard getting his ultimate weapon
>Age: 60
homie thats a frickin lie
you a dirty ass homie tryin to put that on me
https://xenoblade.fandom.com/wiki/Gray
He's married to a 30 year old woman too
Now this is just a straight up lie in the other direction.
It's because Xenoblade 3 has this message about finding the strength to get out of your rut and move on no matter how many frickups you have made or how much time you have wasted (your life isn't over till it's over), so all the old people are depicted as badass and/or good looking even or that would go against this message.
Just look at Shulk and Rex who are supposed to be middle aged and all they have to show for it are some slight lines under their eyes.
Perfeck
I win all the cookies
>Age: 106
I feel like I'm frozen in time, I'm 30 and I still look like I did a decade ago, babyface, no hair loss, not a single gray hair
I'm thankful but I still became a wizard so it's not like it has helped me one bit
>no hair loss
Look closer, Lenny
Nah it's true, even my hairdresser comments on it
Especially weird since both my father and brother were already heavily balding at my age, I must have dodged several genetic bullets or something
You are just faceblind. There is more to the human face than just beard and hair.
Damn, I'm 50 years older than Steiner
Don't worry when Steiner attacks everything will be alright.
>:3
go back
Are people being bred to be more subservient and less ambitious?
Yeah, to ~~*capitalism*~~ and ~~*big corporations*~~, like infowars homosexuals.
People aren't being "bred" to be anything. Nothing short of totalitarianism can stop people from fricking when they want to frick.
That being said, I don't know about more subservient or less ambitious, but people are definitely becoming dumber.
Japan is Pedophilia: The Nation.
>tfw finished university at 29
am I gonna make it bros?
Awful thread.
Sage
>zoomers learn that everyone ages differently: the thread
morons
Yeah all these 30+ year old zoomers. Damn them and their ignorance.
the oldest gen z would be 28
why are things like that?
genetics
lifestyle
etc
>I'm older than Steiner now
fml...
It was bound to happen?
Well, technically, not necessarily. I could've died before that. But, yeah, I guess.
>2014 was ten years ago
Getting older is a good thing. It means you survived. Think of how many people didn't make it. Be happy.
>survived
Reaper's bony hand is ought to get you sooner or later though. And don't even start about leaving progeny and all that stuff. It's also pointless. And even if humanity doesn't kill itself, and manages to escape this floating rock before it gets fried by the Sun, it also wouldn't make any difference. You can't survive the heat death of the universe. Humans like the delusion of cyclical nature of the universe. But as things are looking right now, the Universe started with a bang, but will end with a whimper. There is an ultimate end to everything, that's the cold harsh truth.
I think you meant to post that here https://www.reddit.com/r/im14andthisisdeep/
There is no excuse for getting fat when you’re under 40. It’s just sheer laziness. If you’re 45+ and your body is riddled with injuries then it’s partially understandable but morons who are in their twenties are b***hing like they’re about to turn 60 ffs. The reason your metabolism has “slowed down” is because you lost whatever muscle mass you had and stopped moving around as much.
the steroids and various other medications made me gain weight
what now homosexual
>age 32
>spend 1k on a PC
>play vampire survivors clones and other indie shit
bump
newbie moron