It is absolutely a real medical condition. Your emotions are created by chemicals not magic you goddamned retard. You think the brain is immune to chemistry or something?
Ill phrase this in a way you can understand. A human is a machine whose function at bare minimum is to survive and procreate. You evolved to do these two things. Depression is the machine signaling to you that something is wrong. Calling it a medical condition is no different than calling the feeling of pain when you put your hand on the stove a medical condition. You shouldnt try to turn off those signals by tricking them, you need to listen to them.
Antidepressants are like fixing the loud noise your car is making by putting in earplugs.
You cant fit people into small boxes like this. My depression is caused by past trauma and being hurt so your solutions would not help. Humans are complicated and most of the time being sad is not a choice you make.
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Anon
He is just armchair doc with no credentials, experience, or any knowledge. Just stuff he read on Ganker at best.
Any Anon here pretending to be an expert in any medical field is 95% time lying and most often has no knowledge or worse just surface knowledge on topic they are arguing about.
>Depression is the machine signaling to you that something is wrong.
you've never had depression have you?
been around people who have and its like they get early onset dementia or something its fucking awful. its like their brain just turns off. no desire to do literally anything, to say anything to think anything to feel anything, they just exist staring off into the void all day every day.
it takes a ton of work from alot of people all around a depressed person to even begin to get them on the right track and even then it can take years of drugs to get the brain to start to change for the better.
It's a a mental disorder.
Just like how you where born mentally retarded. Some people have chemical imbalances and cannot produce enough of the right chemicals
>It's a a mental disorder.
Living is a mental disorder.
If you removed all the mental coping mechanisms you use to distract yourself from the meaningless of life, you would have a nice day now.
>chemical imbalances
I've heard this isn't actually a thing either. It's just something doctors use to make appointments go faster when they don't feel like explaining stuff or if they don't know exactly what's happening.
It is real and you can see its effects with medical imagery.
Ill phrase this in a way you can understand. A human is a machine whose function at bare minimum is to survive and procreate. You evolved to do these two things. Depression is the machine signaling to you that something is wrong. Calling it a medical condition is no different than calling the feeling of pain when you put your hand on the stove a medical condition. You shouldnt try to turn off those signals by tricking them, you need to listen to them.
Antidepressants are like fixing the loud noise your car is making by putting in earplugs.
>Calling it a medical condition is no different than calling the feeling of pain when you put your hand on the stove a medical condition.
>It is absolutely a real medical condition
No it's not. It's called being a bitch and getting sad when life gets bit shitty.
>No it's not. It's called being a bitch and getting sad when life gets bit shitty.
You never saw anyone with severe depression or melancholia, you don't know what you're talking about. You're just thinking about "feeling a bit depressed"
Also explain bipolar disorder if the depression part isn't a real condition.
And explain why giving antidepressant to someone with BD in a depressive state can make him go manic.
yeah, no, as always with health in general and especially mental health, most people here are retarded.
>I've been playing RPGS as a neet for 12 hours a day all year to escape reality
your brain will explode after 30
All I've done for almost 6 years now is go to work and go home. Nothing appeals to me, don't go anywhere, no way to meet anyone or a romantic/sexual partner. Get all my groceries and occasional purchase delivered to me so I don't need to leave to do that either. I'm 32 now.
Get a hatchback like an old 205 gti, golf gti, renault turbo 5 and go enjoy the countryside roads during the week end without all the bullshit electronics we have in cars today.
You self diagnosed retards didn't have depression.
If you had depression you wouldn't play a fucking game for 12 hours. You would play it for 20 minutes and then go back to bed to reflect on your shitty life and every last mistake to coax you into finding enough reasons to have a nice day. Depression is the lack of deriving any enjoyment out of anything besides porn
>If you had depression you wouldn't play a fucking game for 12 hours. You would play it for 20 minutes and then go back to bed to reflect on your shitty life
yes because that's what depressed people want to do, experience the dread and hopelessness of being depressed. That's why so many depressed people are sober and - in truth - just bored, elemayo no cap! Fucking retard armchair zoomorian.
if you were depressed, you wouldn't want to do anything. you wouldn't want to watch porn.
depression is a void that never goes away. depression is finding it hard to do anything, even get out of bed.
>depression is a void that never goes away.
Every time I'm in a psychotic suicidal state from taking too much pot, I realize that depression is a blessing. You are actually convincing yourself to be sad about failing an ultimately meaningless life. In the end, I'd rather be depressed than suicidal.
>You are actually convincing yourself to be sad about failing an ultimately meaningless life.
what?
and depression makes people suicidal too.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>and depression makes people suicidal too.
I'm extremely confident in my opinion that depression is a passive coping mechanism that prevents you from committing suicide. Once you start thinking about ending your life, you are no longer passive. You are in a state of active dread.
I suppose it's TECHNICALLY possible to have a nice day in a passive state of depression to make others guilty but that's really more from narcissism than the depression itself.
>You are actually convincing yourself to be sad about failing an ultimately meaningless life. In the end, I'd rather be depressed than suicidal.
Depression makes people suicidal, but it also robs people of the ability to do it. Which is why people kill themselves on antidepressants. Because they have enough clarity and energy to actually do it.
>You are actually convincing yourself to be sad about failing an ultimately meaningless life.
what?
and depression makes people suicidal too.
At least those who aren't depressed and plagued with those thoughts can actually find the willpower to do something about it.
With depression you'll always be stuck in that shitty limbo of not wanting to live but being too weak-willed to go end it because you can't be even bothered to do it. It's a vicious cycle.
>If you had depression you wouldn't play a fucking game for 12 hours.
I don't, I start a game then quit after 2 hours at most and start browsing Ganker, /co/ or youtube. >Depression is the lack of deriving any enjoyment out of anything besides porn
That barely works for me anymore, masturbating feels like a chore now, I go weeks without doing it.
I wish I had energy to do things. I just lie in bed and hug my pillow nearly 24/7. Occasionally I'll browse Ganker to get some social interaction, but then it's back to bed.
I was in the same boat as you. Just get antidepressants. They will give you energy to do things. From there you can take action to change your life for the better.
despite having depression seeing people doing everything they can to escape reality and just crumbling when they eventually get thrown back made me never want to attempt to try it,i dont know how people can do that shit when they know it just makes everything worse
Its 100 percent depression. I've been playing RPGS as a neet for 12 hours a day all year to escape reality. Actually works really well
lol true in my most depressive neet years i just spam replayed fallout new vegas. i have like 1.5k hours on its and its a fking single player game lmao
>what is steam
I'm genuinely convinced Ganker is just full of retarded teenagers and shillbots, I might actually quit Ganker and do something productive upon this revelation
See, here's the thing. To you this is an achievement. This is the "final level" in your mind, so how could he possibly be sad?
The truth is, normal people dont think about starting a family, it just happens. Its like breathing or taking a shit. You see it as an epic quest that you must dedicate your entire life to, so you see this old man who lived a normal life and think "what does he have to be sad about?" You cannot even fathom the problems normal people have because you're still in the tutorial zone figuring out your fucking controls.
I was hooked on GTA IV for a while, that's pretty boring. For me it was about doing all the missions perfectly including not crashing the cars and not getting hit, to make it play almost like a movie
>34 year old neet >irl friends all moved on >only real social outlet is a discord server of other 30 year olds (rare) >scared of it ever falling apart
too damn hard to make friends when you're old
>volunteer somewhere (the easiest fucking way to meet people) >search for local groups (depending on which country you live in, this is a lot easier. usually a lot of various type groups out there who meet weekly monthly. my friends host a frisbee golf thingy every sunday at the local park, for example.) >meet people at the gym >if you're into vidya, go to local nerd store that sells cards and shit and talk to nerds there >go to gigs/concerts >develop a hobby and find groups related to that >get a groupon or some shit for a class of any type of activity you think could sound fun
i could go on, but you get the gist. it's not exactly rocket science here, if you genuinely want to make friends you'll put in the 5 minutes of effort and look various things up to see what interests you. or you can just continue to be a shut-in neet i guess, but hopefully things look up for you anon i'll say a prayer 4 u tonight.
if you can only relate to someone through an activity I wouldn't call that a friend
friends connect on a deeper level where you don't even need to have any common interests to enjoy each others company
You're a fucking lazy retard. Yes, friends can connect over deep things but you need to meet people to become their friend in the first place. You're just acting like some entitled cunt who expects people to fawn over him without ever leaving the house. Grow up, gay.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Retards like this is why people mock depression and has been turned into a literal meme word, just look at that gay who is depressed but somehow made cookies with frosting and has a fucking active social media, total clownshit. >look at me Morty, I turned myself into a lying gay, im depressed for attention Rick!
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
The best thing that social media has given us is the means to catch those who do this shit for attention and who are the one's really suffering. You wouldn't put the effort in broadcasting your depression like this, fuckers got issues I'm sure but it ain't actually depression
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>you need to meet people to become their friend
but I don't want to subject others to myself.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
depression makes you think you're awful to be around, but it is a Lie! the people you meet will also be happy to meet people, including you
>work
dont do this its like shitting where you eat. some coworkers are cool but you should keep them at a distance always. there is always a factor that can screw it up and youd end up getting fucked twice over.
it is one of the best games to just run around in, the amount of special encounters is pretty staggering and each one is very unique to boot. i hope rockstar carries that over to GTA6 because it makes RDR2 one of the only open world games thats actually fun to aimlessly run around in waiting for something to happen. in RDR1 there was like 4(?) special enounters that just played on repeat for the entire game and you basically see them all a quarter way through the game.
Clinical depression anon here.
You cannot cure depression. Accept that it will be with you for life.
There is beauty in depression. Some of the best music and art was created by clinically depressed people.
SSRIs do work. They massively improved my quality of life.
lmao this just sounds like some shit a clinically depressed neet would say. Not everyone is as fucked up as you are. Most of the time depression is cured by finding a purpose and/or a sense of belonging. You likely have neither and cope with medication to make you forget that you're worthless.
I was self medicating with alcohol for 10+ years. Once I stopped, my life improved greatly for the first month. Then the anxiety I had growing up as a kid came back with a fucking vengeance. So I started working out and eating right, hiking most days, trying to be outdoors and it didn't help. I finally gave in and went to the doctor who prescribed me zoloft, that shit was fucking magic. I feel like I lost my entire childhood because I refused to take those pills
no matter how stable my pills make me, i still can't connect with people >volunteer at dog shelter because i love dog >no one to really talk to since ur walking dogs >eventually stop because i'm just doing chores with no reward other than being depressed about walking shelter dogs >try local community groups but too retarded to pick up social cues or something and most people just tolerate me politely >try working but boss keeps nagging about worker harder/faster despite me being the most productive worker, also get punished for other co-workers retardation because lmao group punishment >society tells me the only way to fix myself is to go through discomfort for long periods of time to stop being uncomfortable >never stop being uncomfortable
i was a ship launched to sink
>society tells me the only way to fix myself is to go through discomfort for long periods of time to stop being uncomfortable
Because that's the truth.
Do you feel like you are discomfort and depressed because you need to wear shoes yourself, and holding a spoon and feed yourself?
You don't, because it's something that you did daily for thousands of times.
Stop complaining about discomfort because you only did it a few times.
Fucking strawberry generations
>Do you feel like you are discomfort and depressed because you need to wear shoes yourself, and holding a spoon and feed yourself?
unironically yes
you don't know how good you have it
>try working but boss keeps nagging about worker harder/faster despite me being the most productive worker
How naive are you?
You think you'll get some nice little badge or medal for working hard? You'll just get more work.
NEVER work faster than you need to. You'll just raise their expectations.
The only difference between the two is the prescription, ultimately you're still using drugs to cope. And SSRI withdrawal is just as bad as alcohol/benzos, plus you're going to get sexual dysfunction and tinnitus.
>be depression fag since i was teenager >got taken to numerous places and psychiatrist to find a solution >nobody got anything >all they could prescribe was antidepressants which would've lead to suicide probably if i took them every day >check vitamin levels at hospital >they were dangerously low in some cases >i had to take vitamin injections into my asscheeks lol >vitamin B injections made me feel like i was high or something because i couldn't stop smiling >started eating healthier >fast forward 3 months after i started doing all this >depression is entirely gone
funny how this shit was part of my life for around 15 years and now i am living normally
depression is often caused by underlying health conditions, maybe you just need to experiment a little bit
This.
I was a neet shut-in for years. Wanted to hang myself. Started going for long walls every day, started lifting, stopped drinking, stopped doing drugs, stopped watching western media. I feel great now. I hate modern life and most of the people in it, and see no good reason to start a family or make something of myself, but I feel great.
>You cannot cure depression >guarantee that """"depressed"""" anon hasnt been camping innawoods in the last 6 months
no shit
pack weed, beer, steaks
go to the forest by a lake
look at the stars for 2 nights
your """""""depression"""""""" will be fixed
every fucking time a cityfag claims this shit its cuz they havent been Ganker
I went on a boar hunting trip with my dad one year when I was a kid. I had a lot of fun and was excited to be there.
At one point my dad left me alone in the blind for a short period of time. I had a revolver on me and I seriously considered killing myself right there.
If you can cure your "depression" by doing something fun, you aren't depressed, you are just bored and/or sad.
I don't know who's worse. The people thinking they are depressed because they have a boring life or the normalfags they become when they go outside and think they reach enlightment because they camped for a few days and now never shut up about the outdoors.
I think that's the root of it. Ganker really is a normie website nowadays. Well, has been for a while now but it's easy to remember before it was.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Hi
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I think that's the root of it. Ganker really is a normie website nowadays. Well, has been for a while now but it's easy to remember before it was.
2012 and 2016 were honestly the turning points
The Fappening brought so many normalfags here looking for """celeb""" nudes and the 2016 election finished the place off
now you cant even post an OC MSpaint pic or some greentext without it showing up in some gay's "Best of Ganker" weekly youtube compilation within a few days
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
The internet becoming interconnected was one of the tragedies that will be talked about for generations.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
As the phrase goes "there’s nowhere else to go". Altchans are alright for slightly higher quality discussion but there is barely any funposting, and they are mostly full of the most die hard autist oldfags
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Altchans are alright
until they get shut down within 12 months of opening because of dumb shit like "my mom kicked me out of my basement so i cant run the server anymore"
420ch was actually fucking great and its a real shame it closed down
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Some guy bought the domain and is trying to rebuild it. But I don’t hold my breath
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
didn't the owner of that site dox a bunch of Canadian truckers then pissed off when people went after him in retaliation, or am I thinking of another Internet based lifeform? P sure he was blonde.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>now you cant even post an OC MSpaint pic or some greentext without it showing up in some gay's "Best of Ganker" weekly youtube compilation within a few days
>think this is a troll >look it up >youtube is literally full of this shit >even /tg/ greentexts arent fucking safe
its over
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
People use meme arrows on fucking Facebook these days.
It was over a long time ago, dude.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Thats just a stand in for bullet pointing, so i kind of get it.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
LIFE HAS MANY DOORS, KENTUCKY BOY
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>The YouTuber pronounced Anon as Ey-non
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I remember looking at one out of curiosity and one of my posts made it in there. I was posting about how I was going to kill myself and the comments were all laughing at me.
Translated: "I hate that there is a perfectly viable way to cure "depression " But I am too much of a lazy cunt to do it"
Get over yourself! You are just sad. Go do something like exercise and you will see improvement.
That's not what clinical depression is. That's also ignoring that what you're describing is a symptom, not the cause. Depressed people don't leave the house because they are depressed.
No, that isn't depression.
You can call it ennui, lethargy, boredom, etc, but it is not depression.
Major depressive disorder is a chemical imbalance, it cannot be fixed by doing something fun.
No, those are literal gnomish lies. Depression is NOT real. Just stop being a sad cunt who believes psychologists. All they want is to sell you drugs to keep you "depressed"
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Ignorant gay.
>Like, just be happy, do something fun 🙂
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Ganker is mostly middle-class white people still living with their parents with have no knowledge themselves of actual hardship so they spout whatever talking point the celebrity they have taken their political view from is saying. You've got to remember this everytime you hear stupid takes like the one you reply to.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>You've got to remember this everytime you hear stupid takes like the one you reply to.
He says this without the least bit of irony.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Am I wrong? Is Ganker not just middle-class white americans?
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
in 2003~2012 it was basement dwelling scum of the earth
in 2012-2015 it was that plus gamers, druggies and people who heard they could find Emma Watson's tits on /b/, so they started making "i totally know this chick Left or Right?" larp threads on /b/
then after 2016 it turned into all of those plus redditor MAGAfags coming here cuz they heard they could be edgy on 4chan without getting banned
then 2020 came and with covid came LOTS of bored people ruining hobby boards like Ganker and Ganker cuz they couldnt go outside and do their normalfag shit so instead they decided to shit up our boards instead
place has been dead since 2012, some people argue 2007/2008 but it was still ok until 2012
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
also i left out the 2017 Gatcha phone gambling game spam where chinks with their anime .jpg casinos invaded all the vidya boards with their coomer pics
now /vg/ is the 2nd fastest, sometimes fastest board on Ganker because of chinks spamming copy-paste /c/ pics of their waifus for their literal who games with less than 100 players
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
yep checks out
here are the current 7 fastest boards on Ganker
i miss when /vg/ threads could go 2-3 days without a new post and threads would stay up for 2-3 weeks
now shit falls off of page 20 (yes page 20 cuz /vg/ has 20 pages unlike other boards) within 3min
not quite, just literally if you feel ""'sad"" try leaving your house sometime
the touch grass meme is real
90% of the time its cityfags that are ""'depressed"" and its cuz all they know is doing overtime in their shit officecuck jobs in a concrete jungle
Honestly I find concrete jungles comfy when it’s night and the streets are empty.
I miss those liminal space threads on Ganker. Then twitter and Reddit got a hold of it
No, that isn't depression.
You can call it ennui, lethargy, boredom, etc, but it is not depression.
Major depressive disorder is a chemical imbalance, it cannot be fixed by doing something fun.
That's not what clinical depression is. That's also ignoring that what you're describing is a symptom, not the cause. Depressed people don't leave the house because they are depressed.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
moron I just said I find night time cities comfy, I like nature too
Computational neuroscientist here.
SSRIs are qualitatively less efficacious than St John's wort, and there are several double-blind, placebo-controlled, peer-reviewed studies to substantiate.
Most SSRIs and SNRIs show no greater efficacy than placebo, in CI>95 studies.
Several pharmaceutical companies have been sued, including Eli Lilly, for advertising MDD, gSAD, PDD, SD, and BP as "chemical imbalances", without ever substantiating. It has since been established that there are actually no marked changes in a patient's neurotransmitter volume, reuptake, degradation enzyme volume, or receptor enhancer/promoter count, when they suffer from depression. Academia and medical science quite literally do not know for certain why the compounds in SSRIs have an effect in some people. They do not know the exact pharmacokinetics behind it.
The current consensus is that most types of depression are caused by LTD, or Long-Term-Depression of neural nuclei, following sensitization and/or paired-pulse facilitation(neural facilitation), which leads them to be unable to achieve threshold potentials, because they cannot reach resting membrane state of -70mV and subsequent threshold potentials of -55mV. In short, it has more to do with neurochemistry in the context of electrical systems, microvoltages, and electrical-chemical resistance. That's why neurofeedback, as well as ECT and EST are so efficacious in treating several types of depression.
You have not met any neuroscientists, evidently.
My current research team, contracted by the European Medicines Agency, no less, proudly employs several "sexual and neurodivergent minorities", subsidized by taxpayer euros. If you think my parlance is flowery, I suggest you never read european EMA think-tank journals and meta-analyses, you might suffer an ischemic episode.
There was an article about this, the biggest ever SSRI study showed next to no effect on depression. Apparently its still v effective for anxiety though?
SNRIs are mildly efficacious in treating generalized social anxiety disorder. But, interestingly enough, TCAs have been proven to be more efficacious and with considerably less pronounced side effects. How come, then, TCAs are not the ones being advertised, and neurologists and psychiatrists are not actively prescribing TCAs instead of SNRIs and SSRIs?
What do you know about compound patenting, precursors, and pharmaceutical patent law? What do you know about compulsory licensing laws, and how they apply in chemical patents?
I think you can piece out the answer.
Hint: Neurologists and psychiatrists are not too dissimilar to drug dealers.
>Computational neuroscientist here.
Ah, yes. I am sure computational models transfer so well to the real world.
>they cannot reach resting membrane state of -70mV and subsequent threshold potentials of -55mV. In short, it has more to do with neurochemistry in the context of electrical systems, microvoltages, and electrical-chemical resistance. That's why neurofeedback, as well as ECT and EST are so efficacious in treating several types of depression.
They are not and the mechanism you are suggesting betrays a fundamental lack of understanding of high school level chemistry.
he literally just took a picture of his dad with a controller in his hand wearing a hoodie. what makes you think any of the shit he just said was true to life?
people do this shit all the time on reddit for karma points and attention
That's just old dudes in general.
You'll probably gawk at how many times the average 80 year old has rewatched Hogan's Heroes or Dad's Army.
The expectation that you'll seek out new things and not just do the same thing forever to avoid stagnating as a person, is a relatively new one, honestly.
He probably just likes the cowboy sandbox shit he can do on his own terms. I wonder if they ever tried RDO, but maybe he just doesn't want that.
Some may be nostalgia, some may be just what they like. The same things will happen now - my literal boomer dad is a doctorate holding professional, military veteran, still working into his 70s, enjoyed MMOs when they were less shitty (though he mostly solo'd), and played through classic flight sims and LucasArts games back in the day, , but falls asleep watching reruns of NCIS most of the time. For a bunch of us, it will probably be something else.
Think about how many posts about people who play old games emulated, or how stuff was better in the past one way or another (viewed through nostalgia perhaps, but also through cherry picking what you liked etc).
nah, knew about the site but didnt like it that much at first, started properly lurking from 2006 and started posting around 2010
i wish moronmoot would put a minimum 10 year lurk rule before posting rule, would clean up the site quicksmart
but yeah, if you werent already playing MMOs by the time you were in college you're probably a newfag
yep
i feel it already at 40 years old
not interested in new movies, new tv shows, new anime, new games anymore
instead i just rewatch/play shit I know i'll enjoy
They still are. 2023 is a pretty damn good year for games so far. Don't let nostalgia or acquired nostalgia blind you to new experiences. But maybe you're just a retro enthusiast, what do I know?
thought the same thing as you when i was 20-something
one day you'll blink and you'll be overweight, 40, single and still checking Ganker, /b/ and Ganker every night hoping for that once-in-every-6-months epic thread
and you'll also be shitting on newfags from reddit that came in the 2032 election
>one day you'll blink and you'll be overweight, 40, single and still checking Ganker, /b/ and Ganker every night hoping for that once-in-every-6-months epic thread
dear god
thought the same thing as you when i was 20-something
one day you'll blink and you'll be overweight, 40, single and still checking Ganker, /b/ and Ganker every night hoping for that once-in-every-6-months epic thread
and you'll also be shitting on newfags from reddit that came in the 2032 election
>one day you'll blink and you'll be overweight, 40, single and still checking Ganker, /b/ and Ganker every night hoping for that once-in-every-6-months epic thread
dear god
I can see it.
He's at the right age to have absolutely loved Cowboy shows/movies as a kid.
Red Dead is actually one of the very few games that captures that kind of stuff well.
I met a original hippie who stilled played oblivion on his 360. This was 2018, he loved the manor house dlc and like to play as the khajit. I told him about skyrim and I wonder what he did afterwards.
I miss the days were I could hyper focus on a game. I remember spending 12 hour days on daggerfall, skyrim, oblivion. I don't know, I'm jadded as fuck now and I can't play a game more than a hour. Like with starfield, I only played it four 12 hours and I got it free with a AMD card. I even bought the AMD card to get starfield special edition. I just went back to skyrim.
>I miss the days were I could hyper focus on a game. >have 16k hours on FFXI >have 10k hours on Eve >have 3k hours on Dota >have 2k hours on TF2 >logged all of these when i was young and could just do an 18h session like it was nothing >now I feel exhausted from playing the same game for more than 40 minutes
never get old bros
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>mmos and assgays
You should get down on your knees and thank God you don't have the will to play that dogshit any more.
Why is he sitting with his legs like that?
I've done it before and it does nothing but fuck up your spine since you're shifting my weight entire on your tailbone.
Getting old seems so scary when you're alone.
My grandparents have so many people around them to help them out, I will have no one at that age but I still can't bring myself to even try and get a wife and kids, it's quickly hitting the point of no return too.
If you won't even bother to try then you deserve your fate. You should have a nice day but you seem like a huge pussy so I doubt you will. I simply can not understand...if your life is so empty and worthless then what is the harm in trying to make it better? If you fail then your life continues to be shit as it normally would if you do nothing. You deserve everything that happens to you. You disgust me.
I don't have a fear of failing, it's just a shit load of work, also I fell for the true love meme I can't get over, I don't think there's a girl for me out there I'd ever truly love and vice versa.
Yeah it's a shitload of work. Worth it though but I guess existing as an empty husk is more fun for you. Very productive. You don't think you'll find someone to love and love you in return and so you never will. You decided the outcome before you even made the attempt. I would pity you if it wasn't completely your own fault.
Best of luck gay. You get what you put in. In your case it's gunna be nothing.
Why RDR2? There isnt really much to gain in subsequent play throughs. At least in Starfield (just a recent example i can use) you can have several different playstyles and roleplay different characters.
I'm so fucking glad I have probably the best model dad you can get.
>Successful 35 years in the military >Saw insane action, no PTSD >Ironically more jolly and outgoing than depressed dad's who work as Walmart managers >In peak physical condition and spends his time studying fitness routines for maximum gains at 60 >Loving marriage with my mom and never divorced >Enjoys fantasy, action movies, nerd shit >Invites me to watch fat cringe compilations on YouTube >Showed me zyzz memes >Very educated in history, geography and politics, and is faster than a google search >Wanted to give me a Roman name >Was invited into the order of Saint John, formerly the Knights hospitalers >I can always have a beer with him and shoot the shit about Warhammer or whatever because deep down he's a nerd too
He's a Workhorse. Lawful good Paragon. No offense to anyone here but I'm glad he's not some Democrat that plays table top on weekends.
not necessarily.
bad times can fuck someone up and make them weak.
good times can provide someone with a healthy outlook and keep them going no matter what.
I never understood people who don't spent time with their dad. My dad was always a maker, improving the house, renovating every room by himself. I always helped him, even now he's still searching for stuff he can do in his free time and frequently finds new projects. A couple of times a month we drink beer in the front yard and talk about everything that comes to our mind. A couple of times a year we get wasted and he does fun shit. I can always count on him no matter what. When I have kids I want to be like him.
Some people don't have good fathers, simple as.
Mine failed miserably at preparing me for life, and as a result, I don't interact with him anymore. I don't hate him or anything, I just don't see him as relevant to my life.
Some people don't have good fathers, simple as.
Mine failed miserably at preparing me for life, and as a result, I don't interact with him anymore. I don't hate him or anything, I just don't see him as relevant to my life.
I don't see why I would hate kids. I would be very careful not to repeat my father's mistakes. My hypothetical children might have a shitty childhood, but they'd be prepared for working life as soon as possible, which is the only important duty of a parent.
>I would be very careful not to repeat my father's mistakes.
Easy thing to say when you're not committed to full-time parenthood for at least 2 decades.
It doesn't really happen that often. I've had the shittiest, most absent dad you could ever imagine, and all of the pain he inflicted into me just made me want to be a good dad more and more. I got a 4-year old who I spend the maximum amount of time with, already reads and writes, builds plane models and does arts and crafts with me, we built a medieval castle out of shoeboxes and old wine corks last week. My kid may not know a grandfather, but I'm making my absolute damn sure to provide a meaningful childhood.
The main thing is to always present life as a wonderful thing your kid's gonna go through. Be there to guide them and provide them stuff to do. ALWAYS listen to what they like and try to find fun ways to do that together. Kids feeling heard and replied back to with pure human respect is like 90% of what they need to be satisfied and grow into the most fulfilled kinds of people. If your kid is interested in bird watching while riding a unicycle, then get yourself some unicycles and binoculars, then figure it the fuck out. Because figuring things out with them is the most rewarding thing there is. Because deep down, they don't give a shit what they're doing, as long as 1. They're spending time with you and 2. You're hearing them out.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
It's so hard to care about anyone else so I dont know if I could ever have kids. I'm practicing being a better person but I dont feel that passion like you do inside.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
It's always different when it's YOUR kid. Unless you're a psycho, you tend to feel this need to protect them and make your life around them. It works when you understand they're just a little guy who's more than happy to follow your lead in whatever happens and they just can't fend for themselves in anything. My kid just hung out with me while I worked and I just figured out a way to type and keep talking to'em. I ended up having a very interested baby hanging out and being happy that I was there and interacting. it's the most rewarding thing in the world.
>Democrat >plays table top on weekends.
anon hate to break it to you but most TTRPG enjoyers are trump supporters that hate lefties
literally play any system that isnt D&D
t.ran cyberpunk red for a friend the other day and his instant reaction was to neck stomp a crackhead that approached him
If my gay son posted me on reddit I would disown him and I'm not joking in the slightest. There's zero excuse for selling out your family member for updoots.
red dead 2 was probably my favorite gaming experiences
was working night shifts when the game came out. i also woke up at nights on the weekends as i didn't want to mess my scedule up, so i'd just play red dead 2 all night - pitch-black room, no distractions, no nothing - and it was super immersive.
kek fucking plebbitors will do anything for those internet points. fucking state of the world.
Remember that post when some cuck posted his dying family member for those points? I do member
Why do people think this guy looks sad, he just looks super immersed in the game world, I wish I could get into that zone right now.
Imagine being a super boomer and suddenly playing this advanced game which did not exist in your childhood, I'd be mesmerized.
My dad is alright. He only plays Half Life 1 and 2. also he doesn't understand WASD and uses the arrow buttons, so he changes his left hand to the spacebar and then uses the arrows with his right hand whenever he needs to jump
I feel like I’ve been told to think I have to play a variety of games but if I hadn’t been told that I’d always play the same handful of games that I like
I wonder how the people who hyperfocus on one game do it. I love certain games don't get me wrong, but once I beat a game and let it sit I'd rather move onto something else than immediately hop back into it all over again.
exercise beats depression
t. former depressed
also realized one of the reasons i was depressed was because i was too content with my life. just find a hobby that involves constant improvement that you can resonate with
I lost 100 pounds and am still depressed, actually if anything it made my life worse because there was mental and physical strain. I guess I can breathe easier but thats about it.
It might not necessarily be as simple as 'exercise' but depression is always health related. A healthy person just doesn't get depressed by the same stuff a depressed person is depressed about. It's because your mind is unhealthy, that could be because of weight, it could be you have some allergy you're unaware of, it could be that you don't get enough sunlight and social exposure. Whatever it is, there'll be some chemical imbalance you can fix that's causing your depression. It's *not* _wah wah my life sucks so I'm le depressed_
I'm not sure I believe that. My most depressive episodes were directly related to objectively horrible life circumstances. As soon as I had a stable life, I was reasonably fine. I still don't really enjoy anything, but I wouldn't call myself depressed anymore, where before, I literally couldn't get out of bed for days.
>It's *not* _wah wah my life sucks so I'm le depressed_
What a fucking retard.
Are you saying that someone that just have their family member died, then get fired, and then have to sell their house and car because they are in debt, and then have their wife leave them, can't be depressed because his life sucks, but because somehow he has chemical imbalance when those shits happened?
Fucking retard.
There's a difference between clinical depression and being depressed. Exercise can help if your depressed but it isn't a cure for depression.
I lost 100 pounds and am still depressed, actually if anything it made my life worse because there was mental and physical strain. I guess I can breathe easier but thats about it.
Loosing weight has lots of benefits, both health and social. Being in shape feels good and People see you different and treat you better than if you are obese.
t. Former fatty
My Mom and Grandma watch the Western channel to the point where they don't even bother with some movies bc they've seen them so many times.
I keep trying to get them to watch a western made past the 1970s but they outright refuse. It seems like, for them, Westerns stopped existing after 1979.
>. It seems like, for them, Westerns stopped existing after 1979.
As a Westernfag i can relate somewhat. There are some good "newer" ones, but you just can't beat the classics
I’m sorry anon. I’m terrified of my dad getting Dementia or Alzheimer’s too. My grandma has it, luckily the meds helped slow it down enough to make sure she didn’t go crazy until the very end. He is a very good man and I don’t want to see him slowly lose his mind
Hijacking this thread with oldfag screencaps.
Depressed anons: wake up at 4am, go for an hour long walk in the dark. Go to a bakery or gas station or whatever. Drink coffee. Come home and exercise. Pushups, squats. Skip rope. Get your blood flowing. Stop using social media. It helps more than you can possibly imagine.
i dont get why this is such a big deal
fax machines are literally still used to this day because email is considered too insecure by a lot of companies/countries
>It helps more than you can possibly imagine. >It helps
I will applaud you for being one of the few that says that it helps, instead of saying that its a magic fix.
It's not a magic fix.
There is still no reason to do anything, but it does help.
Get up in the dark. Exercise. Turn off the fucking internet. Your perspective on yourself and the world will be drastically altered for the better.
I'm living proof.
Not that Anon, but i like getting up just before dawn for my daily run. Its comfy seeing the sky go from dark to light, especially first light. Just something magical about that.
Just do it instead of being a sardonic gay. You'll feel better.
Have you considered that the reason you're depressed is that you're a miserable cunt and nobody likes you?
Change your attitude. Everything else will follow organically. Or don't. Feel free to not take my advice and fuck off until our sun goes supernova. Couldn't care less 🙂
NTA but dispensing basic self-help advice as if it's a magical one-stop solution is the most laughable, normie feel-good schlock imaginable. Yeah, gee thanks, I'm sure they'll feel better by just doing things that non-depressed people do. That'll do the trick.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I know it sounds like wavy gravy new age bullshit, but it really is that simple.
Do things that a non-depressed person would do. Fucking do it, you coward. Do what I told you to do -- no matter how stupid you think it sounds -- for two weeks.
Do it.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Human beings are not physically capable of altering their brain chemistry long-term through routines. What you are describing is a new coping mechanism, a hobby. It will probably take focus away from the issue for a time but just like ignoring a hungry lion at your door, it's mere escapism. If it worked for you, chances are you either weren't actually clinically depressed or you yourself are still in denial. I'm not a psych so I can't say for sure, but I have depression/anxiety and I had a period of a few years where I thought I just "got over it" and guess what? It wasn't really gone.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
no one wants your sugar pills moses
just take vitaman D and zink it cures your "depression" (not real)
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I never said it would go away. I said it helps. And it does.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
NTA but I seethe uncontrollably when people say hobbies are a new thing. Eat shit, hunter gatherers also participate in side activities and hobbies after the hunt. Hell even wild apes do too
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I think you placed the emphasis on the wrong word in the sentence, anon. Hobbies aren't new by any metric.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Depression has nothing to do with brain chemistry.
Habit formation is a well-understood process.
Neural pathways are created via repeated, consistent response to stimuli. It's called the salience system, and it's broken down to motivational and aversive salience.
If you force yourself to engage in behavior, you will eventually create neural pathways that activate in response to the stimulus, and depending on the nuclei that are involved, you will engage your dopaminergic, endogenous opioid, and 5HT systems.
Due to NT coupling and neural facilitation, even if a process potentiates neurons to communicate via GABA or glutamate, or a/b-endorphin, or oxytocin, or vasopressin, or whatever peptide hormone, neuromodulator, or steroid hormone, other neurotransmitters will also be ejected into the ion channels of axons, and even otherwise irrelevant behaviors will have an outsized effect on mood and outlook.
That's why exercising or cleaning your room or completing random tasks can make you feel elated, content, or happy, even though they shouldn't affect your mood at a glance.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
This is why neuroscientists (if your credentials are real) make terrible psychologists/psychiatrists.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
They're both fake fields invented by garden gnomes
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>psychologists
Not a real thing. They are agentur that have no idea about how anything works, because they did not go to medical school and instead spent 2 to 4 years learning about gender ideology and gnomish canon.
It's hilarious that you say that, though, since most neuroscientists can get a medical license whenever they want to, and psychiatrists use our work to navigate their diagnostic methods and treatment heuristics. Who do you think compiles all those models, qualitative analyses, actuary assays, and conditional-statistical reports?
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I'm guessing the reason that they don't get those licenses might have something to do with a complete lack of skillset overlap, as evidence by the discussion and your other posts.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
No, they don't bother to take a license to treat patients, because working in the private sector as a neuroscientist pays significantly more, has considerably more robust job security, less stress, and way more money, on average.
Compiling agent-based or tournament-selection computational models in a cozy, air-conditioned office is not only considerably more relaxing, it is also considerably more profitable.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
And that would be the precise reason you're not really cut out to treat people. Or, to enumerate, you lack the drive to do so, the motive, and the ability. What you do is fine work I'm sure but all that data isn't really meaningful in terms of helping understand the human brain until it's applied.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>treat people
Therapists are charlatans.
Psychiatrists effectively assess the data they receive from the patient's medical history, they make diagnostic inquiries, and they cross-reference against the literature, standardized tests and exams they performed, and medical examinations that the patient conducted. It's a heuristic. That's why computational models interfaced by LLMs outperform actual medical professionals in diagnostic efficacy, precisely because it's a heuristic process where human input is statistically detrimental more often than not.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
As much as your demeanor gives me negative feelings, I will admit that I'm intrigued by that at least. I'll read more about computational models for psychiatric care.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
You sound like a menstruating woman, it's unsightly.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
A pity, I thought I was talking to a fellow autist, not a projecting moron. Well, good luck with your feckless demeanor.
Hey buddy don't lash out at me. It's not my fault you don't have a basic grasp of biology and think waking up in the dark is a good thing for your brain. Funniest thing I have read on Ganker today, thank you for the laugh. ESL?
On my old computer I had a screen so of a Latvian anon on /int/ saying “suicide isn’t all that common here. I’ve only known 3 people who’ve killed themselves “
Sadly it’s gone now
Just do what I said. You'll see the difference for yourself.
I used to want to kill myself. Now I want to kill other people. It's great.
Pic related; it's you.
Homie, no one who was talking to you was depressed, normies were calling out your advice as entry level. You have bigger problems than depression like being ESL with a terrible reading skill.
depression is NOT real. no neurological disorders is. they're all just behaviors, not real medical conditions. it's all gnomish lies
It's no different than calling the feeling of pain when you put your hand on the stove a medical condition. You shouldnt try to turn off those signals by tricking them, you need to listen to them.
Human beings are machines. Antidepressants aka sugar pills are like fixing the loud noise your car is making by putting in earplugs.
Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. what we need is another war.
Oy vey remember to take your prescription loboto- I mean medication goys.
Depression is just being a bitch and getting sad when life gets bit shitty. The cure for depression is to stop being a moron. Just stop being a sad cunt who believes psychologists. All they want is to sell you drugs to keep you "depressed"
Start exercising, cut bread out of your diet, don't drink caffeine after noon, maximize sleep quality, drink plenty of water, eat plenty of meat, and it will cure your "depression" and "anxiety"
No, The problem is not just bread but grains/starches in general. Some people are naturally maladjusted to them.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27065833/
Most mental illness symptoms can likely be stopped via diet changes
If it isn't real why are PTSD brains physically different from regular brains to the point the differences can be seen in brain scans?
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
PTSD isn't real, and it's been disproven. Claiming it's real because it's a phenomenon is inherently dishonest and wrong. Just look at multiple personality disorder. It wasn't a thing until it got popular as an idea. Now people are diagnosed with it in droves compared to how it was before. Because it's not a real illness, and people just want something to feel special.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>it's been disproven
Source? >Just look at multiple personality disorder. Now people are diagnosed with it in droves compared to how it was before
Yeah and there's no physical evidence of it existing, unlike PTSD
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Source? Source? Source? SOURCE?!!??
Do you have a source on that?
Source?
A source. I need a source.
Sorry, I mean I need a source that explicitly states your argument. This is just tangential to the discussion.
No, you can't make inferences and observations from the sources you've gathered. Any additional comments from you MUST be a subset of the information from the sources you've gathered.
You can't make normative statements from empirical evidence.
Do you have a degree in that field?
A college degree? In that field?
Then your arguments are invalid.
No, it doesn't matter how close those data points are correlated. Correlation does not equal causation.
Correlation does not equal causation.
CORRELATION. DOES. NOT. EQUAL. CAUSATION.
You still haven't provided me a valid source yet.
Nope, still haven't.
I just looked through all 308 pages of your user history, figures I'm debating a glormpf supporter. A moron.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
You sure convinced me anon
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
source?
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
you should post that on your subreddit instead
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>States something has been disproven >Anon asks for proof >starts chimping out
Always funny to see this shit happening. Congratulations, you just lost the debate.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Always funny to see this shit happening. Congratulations, you just lost the debate.
Source?
Depression is a chemical imbalance and your gut dictates chemicals.
Less sugar, more meat.
Not that anon, but I"m doing low-carb (because keto is too micromanage-y) and it's been really fantastic. I eat big-ass meat salads with cheese and sauces and it's delicious as fuck.
Down 40 pounds since April.
WAGMI
Imagine the most basic, average, nothing to talk about, curved weiner and now you're thinking about my weiner. It is not significant enough to talk about.
Luckily foreplay counts for 80% of the whole night and once you get them all hot and bothered with their motor running, it really doesn't take much.
Wrong. Smile and the world smiles with you. Sounds like some trite rubbish your mother would say, but it's true. Everything starts with your attitude. I know you don't want to believe it, because it goes against your programming.
So, instead of taking steps to fix yourself, you'll continue to piss and moan and cry like a bitch because it's easier. You'll continue to be a slow-witted, docile drone with a victim complex clamouring for your meds and your cum stained security blanket. >b-b-but I have an illness!
Shut the fuck up, cunt.
based
WHEN YOU'RE SMILING
(when you're smiling)
THE WHOLE WORLD SMIIILES WITH YOU
(smiles with you)
WHEN YOU'RE LAUGHING
(when you're laughing)
THE SUN COMES
SHINING THROUGH
All my dad likes to play is Solitaire on his laptop and Sudoku. He buys physical Sudoku books and has cleared out at least a dozen of them, maybe more. I've tried introducing him to new games, but he doesn't want to touch them. The few times I've tried to get him to play something he gets frustrated because he doesn't understand everything immediately and has gotten offended when I told him "It's okay to be bad at a game, just press buttons and you'll learn."
Depression is real.
Everyone "Has it"
It's like lonliness.
If you're experiencing hurt, you're FUCKING SOMETHING UP AND STOP FUCKING DOING THAT.
IMPROVE YOURSELF.
Your body undergoes depression becuase what you're currently doing is shit. Everything you've decided was a good decision guess what YOU FUCKED UP.
The good news is YOUR BODY BOUNCES BACK LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER.
Now make something of yourself, losers.
Or don't.
I don't care.
I like talking down to others.
You should see me in the WFH threads.
I have a grand old time.
I work outside with people and my hands, so that's just one more thing that helps keep me from being depressed.
Humans need activity and social interaction -- without it they wither away.
>anon people here are miserable
It's a lot better then trying to deal with normalfags IRL
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
*easier
Dealing with normalfags is better. It's what the brain craves. Trying to deny this is like trannies convincing others they're a real woman.
It's written into your blood. You cannot escape it.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Dealing with normalfags is better.
God no. They tire you out in the worst ways possible and just leave you feeling worse
[...] >implying modern Ganker's userbase isn't majority failed normalfags
Duh, why do you think this place is such shit now?
>It's a lot better then trying to deal with normalfags IRL
Translation: interacting with well-adjusted people reminds me of my insecurities and failures and I cannot cope with that
Nah, they're just pretty boring and annoying
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>they're just pretty boring and annoying
So just like Ganker then
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
That's because this place is full of normalfags. I have normie friends I hang out with on occasion and while I like them well enough, thjey're incredibly exhausting and tiresome every time something mildly outside of their purview is brought up.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>God no. They tire you out in the worst ways possible and just leave you feeling worse
Anon my job is basically walking around a black college campus talking to people and fixing their wifi.
Genuinely, it's more tiring to sit at home after work by myself playing vidya. My energy just goes to zero until I go to work the next day and talk with 30-50 different people again.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
You are an extrovert. Introverts are the opposite.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>God no. They tire you out in the worst ways possible and just leave you feeling worse
I worked in a bar for the last 2 years and honestly, most normalfags aren't that bad really. They can actually be quite interesting to talk to when they're tipsy and NPC mode gets turned off.
NOTE: Tipsy, and NOT drunk. Fully drunk people range from sad drunk cunts to raging assholes who are impossible to deal with. Sad drunks are honestly the worst
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
*easier
Dealing with normalfags is better. It's what the brain craves. Trying to deny this is like trannies convincing others they're a real woman.
It's written into your blood. You cannot escape it.
>implying modern Ganker's userbase isn't majority failed normalfags
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>It's a lot better then trying to deal with normalfags IRL
Translation: interacting with well-adjusted people reminds me of my insecurities and failures and I cannot cope with that
My dad died when I was 9. He was a good guy but my mother's family hated him. I remember he used to play Blair witch 3 and air offensive with me. When he died my family never really interacted with me again
Seems more like depression than based tbh
depression isnt real
its real and its causes by viruses that modify the brain
This is the type of schizo shit I'm into.
Let's have it, then.
it's a behavior, but i agree it isn't a real medical condition
It is absolutely a real medical condition. Your emotions are created by chemicals not magic you goddamned retard. You think the brain is immune to chemistry or something?
Ill phrase this in a way you can understand. A human is a machine whose function at bare minimum is to survive and procreate. You evolved to do these two things. Depression is the machine signaling to you that something is wrong. Calling it a medical condition is no different than calling the feeling of pain when you put your hand on the stove a medical condition. You shouldnt try to turn off those signals by tricking them, you need to listen to them.
Antidepressants are like fixing the loud noise your car is making by putting in earplugs.
You cant fit people into small boxes like this. My depression is caused by past trauma and being hurt so your solutions would not help. Humans are complicated and most of the time being sad is not a choice you make.
Anon
He is just armchair doc with no credentials, experience, or any knowledge. Just stuff he read on Ganker at best.
Any Anon here pretending to be an expert in any medical field is 95% time lying and most often has no knowledge or worse just surface knowledge on topic they are arguing about.
>Depression is the machine signaling to you that something is wrong.
you've never had depression have you?
been around people who have and its like they get early onset dementia or something its fucking awful. its like their brain just turns off. no desire to do literally anything, to say anything to think anything to feel anything, they just exist staring off into the void all day every day.
it takes a ton of work from alot of people all around a depressed person to even begin to get them on the right track and even then it can take years of drugs to get the brain to start to change for the better.
>It is absolutely a real medical condition
No it's not. It's called being a bitch and getting sad when life gets bit shitty.
It's a a mental disorder.
Just like how you where born mentally retarded. Some people have chemical imbalances and cannot produce enough of the right chemicals
>It's a a mental disorder.
Living is a mental disorder.
If you removed all the mental coping mechanisms you use to distract yourself from the meaningless of life, you would have a nice day now.
>chemical imbalances
I've heard this isn't actually a thing either. It's just something doctors use to make appointments go faster when they don't feel like explaining stuff or if they don't know exactly what's happening.
It is real and you can see its effects with medical imagery.
>Calling it a medical condition is no different than calling the feeling of pain when you put your hand on the stove a medical condition.
>No it's not. It's called being a bitch and getting sad when life gets bit shitty.
You never saw anyone with severe depression or melancholia, you don't know what you're talking about. You're just thinking about "feeling a bit depressed"
Also explain bipolar disorder if the depression part isn't a real condition.
And explain why giving antidepressant to someone with BD in a depressive state can make him go manic.
yeah, no, as always with health in general and especially mental health, most people here are retarded.
>depression isnt real
I kneel
Its 100 percent depression. I've been playing RPGS as a neet for 12 hours a day all year to escape reality. Actually works really well
>I've been playing RPGS as a neet for 12 hours a day all year to escape reality
your brain will explode after 30
I'm 30. A girl talked to me, today and it was terrifying.
All I've done for almost 6 years now is go to work and go home. Nothing appeals to me, don't go anywhere, no way to meet anyone or a romantic/sexual partner. Get all my groceries and occasional purchase delivered to me so I don't need to leave to do that either. I'm 32 now.
Sounds like my future
Get a hatchback like an old 205 gti, golf gti, renault turbo 5 and go enjoy the countryside roads during the week end without all the bullshit electronics we have in cars today.
good car taste
At least play good games for fuck’s sake
If he did than he wouldnt be depressed
Rpgs are the only good games there is
You self diagnosed retards didn't have depression.
If you had depression you wouldn't play a fucking game for 12 hours. You would play it for 20 minutes and then go back to bed to reflect on your shitty life and every last mistake to coax you into finding enough reasons to have a nice day. Depression is the lack of deriving any enjoyment out of anything besides porn
Playing 12 hours a day was the only reason I didn't kys'd myself when I had depression
Can you type in english? Wtf did I just read
>If you had depression you wouldn't play a fucking game for 12 hours. You would play it for 20 minutes and then go back to bed to reflect on your shitty life
yes because that's what depressed people want to do, experience the dread and hopelessness of being depressed. That's why so many depressed people are sober and - in truth - just bored, elemayo no cap! Fucking retard armchair zoomorian.
Seems like I have depression then.
sounds like your coom rotten brain got what it rightfully deserved
good riddance gay
>besides porn
One of the most retarded posts I've ever seen on this webzone, good job.
if you were depressed, you wouldn't want to do anything. you wouldn't want to watch porn.
depression is a void that never goes away. depression is finding it hard to do anything, even get out of bed.
>depression is a void that never goes away.
Every time I'm in a psychotic suicidal state from taking too much pot, I realize that depression is a blessing. You are actually convincing yourself to be sad about failing an ultimately meaningless life. In the end, I'd rather be depressed than suicidal.
>You are actually convincing yourself to be sad about failing an ultimately meaningless life.
what?
and depression makes people suicidal too.
>and depression makes people suicidal too.
I'm extremely confident in my opinion that depression is a passive coping mechanism that prevents you from committing suicide. Once you start thinking about ending your life, you are no longer passive. You are in a state of active dread.
I suppose it's TECHNICALLY possible to have a nice day in a passive state of depression to make others guilty but that's really more from narcissism than the depression itself.
>You are actually convincing yourself to be sad about failing an ultimately meaningless life. In the end, I'd rather be depressed than suicidal.
Depression makes people suicidal, but it also robs people of the ability to do it. Which is why people kill themselves on antidepressants. Because they have enough clarity and energy to actually do it.
At least those who aren't depressed and plagued with those thoughts can actually find the willpower to do something about it.
With depression you'll always be stuck in that shitty limbo of not wanting to live but being too weak-willed to go end it because you can't be even bothered to do it. It's a vicious cycle.
>Depression is the lack of deriving any enjoyment out of anything besides porn
Yer not depressed yet, anon.
Ye got a ways to fall.
>If you had depression you wouldn't play a fucking game for 12 hours.
I don't, I start a game then quit after 2 hours at most and start browsing Ganker, /co/ or youtube.
>Depression is the lack of deriving any enjoyment out of anything besides porn
That barely works for me anymore, masturbating feels like a chore now, I go weeks without doing it.
I wish I had energy to do things. I just lie in bed and hug my pillow nearly 24/7. Occasionally I'll browse Ganker to get some social interaction, but then it's back to bed.
no one checks on you? wtf
My mother calls me every day.
Im sorry anon. Try to motivate yourself to do something small everyday and take your time.
I was in the same boat as you. Just get antidepressants. They will give you energy to do things. From there you can take action to change your life for the better.
bro wait till you try drugs
wagie here, I'm jealous as fuck
despite having depression seeing people doing everything they can to escape reality and just crumbling when they eventually get thrown back made me never want to attempt to try it,i dont know how people can do that shit when they know it just makes everything worse
lol true in my most depressive neet years i just spam replayed fallout new vegas. i have like 1.5k hours on its and its a fking single player game lmao
>fking
>lmao
😐
:/
"_"
:O
:]
how many hours did you log in before you transitioned?
chudcord falseflag post tryign to retroactively make NV a chud game
projecting chud
you dont say "log in" for a single player game you retarded americhud
>what is steam
I'm genuinely convinced Ganker is just full of retarded teenagers and shillbots, I might actually quit Ganker and do something productive upon this revelation
you'll be back
so to play fallout you have to "log in" to steam every time? holy SHIT you are retarded.
That's what they all say.
you're retarded, log in as in hours logged, not signing in with an account
>log in as in hours logged
lmao i hate amerimutts so god damned much
You wont take Fallout gay.
>1.5K
Are you even a gamer with that kind of nothing hours?
>Fallout
Oh, right, nevermind.
>Are you even a gamer
please kys
depression is not playing games
That's major depression
Seems like light depression. Actual depression is spamming league ranked all day every day, never even climbing up and getting mad over it constantly.
No, it's not. Real depression is not doing that at all.
he should start speedrunning
I've clocked at least 10k hours into a subsim since childhood because of the comfort it provides
He looks miserable.
He's got kids and a comfortable home, I think he's alright.
See, here's the thing. To you this is an achievement. This is the "final level" in your mind, so how could he possibly be sad?
The truth is, normal people dont think about starting a family, it just happens. Its like breathing or taking a shit. You see it as an epic quest that you must dedicate your entire life to, so you see this old man who lived a normal life and think "what does he have to be sad about?" You cannot even fathom the problems normal people have because you're still in the tutorial zone figuring out your fucking controls.
You spend too much time on Ganker
>people with kids and homes don't get depression
You're retarded
Depression isn't real
How come depression is observable in animals then
It isn't.
The animals are faking it for attention
Na, he's just in the zone.
His son is a gamer, of course he is
he's got someone disturbing him while he is playing his favourite game. can you blame him?
His son walked in when Arthur was in the bathhouse.
He was waiting for him to leave.
>average rdr2 "fan"
he tried playing the game instead of slowly riding a horse through an empty field
He looks focused
His kid posts on reddit I'd be depressed too if my kid did that.
His kid distracted him while Charles Shat-n-Gay made out with Arthur
I would too if my kid was a redditor
At least they aren't using Ganker.
no he looks focused on the game and annoyed that his son is taking photos.
But hell yes he is depressed, at least he's got the game to escape into.
bussin' hoodie doe
TAHITI
WHAT'S IN TAHITI DUTCH
It'snot that he likes games, he just likes larping as a cowboy.
there are two paths before you as an old man
cowboy larper
or model train collector
he just chose a modern version of cowboy
God I wish I had my own place so I could finally start up my model rail collection.
You forget the MS flight sim enthusiasts
I can't imagine being addicted to a game that boring.
I was hooked on GTA IV for a while, that's pretty boring. For me it was about doing all the missions perfectly including not crashing the cars and not getting hit, to make it play almost like a movie
>autism
>34 year old neet
>irl friends all moved on
>only real social outlet is a discord server of other 30 year olds (rare)
>scared of it ever falling apart
too damn hard to make friends when you're old
no it's not hard you just are making 0 effort and expecting results at the same time.
What effort am I not putting in? Where do adults go to make friends
>volunteer somewhere (the easiest fucking way to meet people)
>search for local groups (depending on which country you live in, this is a lot easier. usually a lot of various type groups out there who meet weekly monthly. my friends host a frisbee golf thingy every sunday at the local park, for example.)
>meet people at the gym
>if you're into vidya, go to local nerd store that sells cards and shit and talk to nerds there
>go to gigs/concerts
>develop a hobby and find groups related to that
>get a groupon or some shit for a class of any type of activity you think could sound fun
i could go on, but you get the gist. it's not exactly rocket science here, if you genuinely want to make friends you'll put in the 5 minutes of effort and look various things up to see what interests you. or you can just continue to be a shut-in neet i guess, but hopefully things look up for you anon i'll say a prayer 4 u tonight.
if you can only relate to someone through an activity I wouldn't call that a friend
friends connect on a deeper level where you don't even need to have any common interests to enjoy each others company
You're a fucking lazy retard. Yes, friends can connect over deep things but you need to meet people to become their friend in the first place. You're just acting like some entitled cunt who expects people to fawn over him without ever leaving the house. Grow up, gay.
Retards like this is why people mock depression and has been turned into a literal meme word, just look at that gay who is depressed but somehow made cookies with frosting and has a fucking active social media, total clownshit.
>look at me Morty, I turned myself into a lying gay, im depressed for attention Rick!
The best thing that social media has given us is the means to catch those who do this shit for attention and who are the one's really suffering. You wouldn't put the effort in broadcasting your depression like this, fuckers got issues I'm sure but it ain't actually depression
>you need to meet people to become their friend
but I don't want to subject others to myself.
depression makes you think you're awful to be around, but it is a Lie! the people you meet will also be happy to meet people, including you
Stfu. I hate people like you who just shrug off detailed advice like that. You dont even really want to change you just want to feel like a victim.
>normieshit
fuck off
>volunteer
>do work for free
No i will not.
that's too much fucking work just to have someone to talk shit with
r u serious? all that time/money/effort for a chance to talk to someone? pass
work
>work
dont do this its like shitting where you eat. some coworkers are cool but you should keep them at a distance always. there is always a factor that can screw it up and youd end up getting fucked twice over.
RDR2 for all it's flaws in its writing is still the best cowboy sim money can buy. He's just living out his fantasies of being a cowboy.
No, anon. He's living out his fantasies of being free.
it is one of the best games to just run around in, the amount of special encounters is pretty staggering and each one is very unique to boot. i hope rockstar carries that over to GTA6 because it makes RDR2 one of the only open world games thats actually fun to aimlessly run around in waiting for something to happen. in RDR1 there was like 4(?) special enounters that just played on repeat for the entire game and you basically see them all a quarter way through the game.
This is why all the billionaires have moved to Jackson Wyoming, to larp as cowboys.
Clinical depression anon here.
You cannot cure depression. Accept that it will be with you for life.
There is beauty in depression. Some of the best music and art was created by clinically depressed people.
SSRIs do work. They massively improved my quality of life.
post nose
Oy vey remember to take your prescription loboto- I mean medication goys.
The cure for depression is to stop being a moron.
This but with all mental illnesses. Schizophrenia isn't real either.
lmao this just sounds like some shit a clinically depressed neet would say. Not everyone is as fucked up as you are. Most of the time depression is cured by finding a purpose and/or a sense of belonging. You likely have neither and cope with medication to make you forget that you're worthless.
Being bored is not depression, but what you do actually have is acute mental retardation.
Noone gives a shit, kys you miserable piece of garbage
>SSRIs do work
You have fake depression then, thoose are literal candies for retards
I was self medicating with alcohol for 10+ years. Once I stopped, my life improved greatly for the first month. Then the anxiety I had growing up as a kid came back with a fucking vengeance. So I started working out and eating right, hiking most days, trying to be outdoors and it didn't help. I finally gave in and went to the doctor who prescribed me zoloft, that shit was fucking magic. I feel like I lost my entire childhood because I refused to take those pills
no matter how stable my pills make me, i still can't connect with people
>volunteer at dog shelter because i love dog
>no one to really talk to since ur walking dogs
>eventually stop because i'm just doing chores with no reward other than being depressed about walking shelter dogs
>try local community groups but too retarded to pick up social cues or something and most people just tolerate me politely
>try working but boss keeps nagging about worker harder/faster despite me being the most productive worker, also get punished for other co-workers retardation because lmao group punishment
>society tells me the only way to fix myself is to go through discomfort for long periods of time to stop being uncomfortable
>never stop being uncomfortable
i was a ship launched to sink
Those dogs still need you, anon.
but anon those dogs
>society tells me the only way to fix myself is to go through discomfort for long periods of time to stop being uncomfortable
Because that's the truth.
Do you feel like you are discomfort and depressed because you need to wear shoes yourself, and holding a spoon and feed yourself?
You don't, because it's something that you did daily for thousands of times.
Stop complaining about discomfort because you only did it a few times.
Fucking strawberry generations
yeah man you should also have a nice day in the foot everday, eventually you'll become immune to bullets.
>Do you feel like you are discomfort and depressed because you need to wear shoes yourself, and holding a spoon and feed yourself?
unironically yes
you don't know how good you have it
Anon, if you are depressed enough then yes, eating and putting on clothes feels miserable.
>go to local pub
>make friends
>play online games
>make friends
>play MMOs
>make friends
>try working but boss keeps nagging about worker harder/faster despite me being the most productive worker
How naive are you?
You think you'll get some nice little badge or medal for working hard? You'll just get more work.
NEVER work faster than you need to. You'll just raise their expectations.
The only difference between the two is the prescription, ultimately you're still using drugs to cope. And SSRI withdrawal is just as bad as alcohol/benzos, plus you're going to get sexual dysfunction and tinnitus.
I've been taking ssris for 15 years and my sex drive is completely fine. I also haven't jerked off since 2019.
>~~*SSRI*~~
should get some psilocybin treatment instead. That actually works
>Some of the best music and art was created by clinically depressed people.
Such as?
>be depression fag since i was teenager
>got taken to numerous places and psychiatrist to find a solution
>nobody got anything
>all they could prescribe was antidepressants which would've lead to suicide probably if i took them every day
>check vitamin levels at hospital
>they were dangerously low in some cases
>i had to take vitamin injections into my asscheeks lol
>vitamin B injections made me feel like i was high or something because i couldn't stop smiling
>started eating healthier
>fast forward 3 months after i started doing all this
>depression is entirely gone
funny how this shit was part of my life for around 15 years and now i am living normally
depression is often caused by underlying health conditions, maybe you just need to experiment a little bit
You can cure depression. It comes in the form of not being a lazy shit.
This.
I was a neet shut-in for years. Wanted to hang myself. Started going for long walls every day, started lifting, stopped drinking, stopped doing drugs, stopped watching western media. I feel great now. I hate modern life and most of the people in it, and see no good reason to start a family or make something of myself, but I feel great.
>You cannot cure depression
>guarantee that """"depressed"""" anon hasnt been camping innawoods in the last 6 months
no shit
pack weed, beer, steaks
go to the forest by a lake
look at the stars for 2 nights
your """""""depression"""""""" will be fixed
every fucking time a cityfag claims this shit its cuz they havent been Ganker
I went on a boar hunting trip with my dad one year when I was a kid. I had a lot of fun and was excited to be there.
At one point my dad left me alone in the blind for a short period of time. I had a revolver on me and I seriously considered killing myself right there.
If you can cure your "depression" by doing something fun, you aren't depressed, you are just bored and/or sad.
Explaining depression to people who don't have it is like explaining breathing to an insect.
I don't know who's worse. The people thinking they are depressed because they have a boring life or the normalfags they become when they go outside and think they reach enlightment because they camped for a few days and now never shut up about the outdoors.
I think that's the root of it. Ganker really is a normie website nowadays. Well, has been for a while now but it's easy to remember before it was.
Hi
2012 and 2016 were honestly the turning points
The Fappening brought so many normalfags here looking for """celeb""" nudes and the 2016 election finished the place off
now you cant even post an OC MSpaint pic or some greentext without it showing up in some gay's "Best of Ganker" weekly youtube compilation within a few days
The internet becoming interconnected was one of the tragedies that will be talked about for generations.
As the phrase goes "there’s nowhere else to go". Altchans are alright for slightly higher quality discussion but there is barely any funposting, and they are mostly full of the most die hard autist oldfags
>Altchans are alright
until they get shut down within 12 months of opening because of dumb shit like "my mom kicked me out of my basement so i cant run the server anymore"
420ch was actually fucking great and its a real shame it closed down
Some guy bought the domain and is trying to rebuild it. But I don’t hold my breath
didn't the owner of that site dox a bunch of Canadian truckers then pissed off when people went after him in retaliation, or am I thinking of another Internet based lifeform? P sure he was blonde.
>now you cant even post an OC MSpaint pic or some greentext without it showing up in some gay's "Best of Ganker" weekly youtube compilation within a few days
>think this is a troll
>look it up
>youtube is literally full of this shit
>even /tg/ greentexts arent fucking safe
its over
People use meme arrows on fucking Facebook these days.
It was over a long time ago, dude.
Thats just a stand in for bullet pointing, so i kind of get it.
LIFE HAS MANY DOORS, KENTUCKY BOY
>The YouTuber pronounced Anon as Ey-non
I remember looking at one out of curiosity and one of my posts made it in there. I was posting about how I was going to kill myself and the comments were all laughing at me.
Translated: "I hate that there is a perfectly viable way to cure "depression " But I am too much of a lazy cunt to do it"
Get over yourself! You are just sad. Go do something like exercise and you will see improvement.
i mean, most people are literally only depressed cuz they dont leave their house and do fun shit
its that fucking simple
That's not what clinical depression is. That's also ignoring that what you're describing is a symptom, not the cause. Depressed people don't leave the house because they are depressed.
No, that isn't depression.
You can call it ennui, lethargy, boredom, etc, but it is not depression.
Major depressive disorder is a chemical imbalance, it cannot be fixed by doing something fun.
No, those are literal gnomish lies. Depression is NOT real. Just stop being a sad cunt who believes psychologists. All they want is to sell you drugs to keep you "depressed"
Ignorant gay.
>Like, just be happy, do something fun 🙂
Ganker is mostly middle-class white people still living with their parents with have no knowledge themselves of actual hardship so they spout whatever talking point the celebrity they have taken their political view from is saying. You've got to remember this everytime you hear stupid takes like the one you reply to.
>You've got to remember this everytime you hear stupid takes like the one you reply to.
He says this without the least bit of irony.
Am I wrong? Is Ganker not just middle-class white americans?
in 2003~2012 it was basement dwelling scum of the earth
in 2012-2015 it was that plus gamers, druggies and people who heard they could find Emma Watson's tits on /b/, so they started making "i totally know this chick Left or Right?" larp threads on /b/
then after 2016 it turned into all of those plus redditor MAGAfags coming here cuz they heard they could be edgy on 4chan without getting banned
then 2020 came and with covid came LOTS of bored people ruining hobby boards like Ganker and Ganker cuz they couldnt go outside and do their normalfag shit so instead they decided to shit up our boards instead
place has been dead since 2012, some people argue 2007/2008 but it was still ok until 2012
also i left out the 2017 Gatcha phone gambling game spam where chinks with their anime .jpg casinos invaded all the vidya boards with their coomer pics
now /vg/ is the 2nd fastest, sometimes fastest board on Ganker because of chinks spamming copy-paste /c/ pics of their waifus for their literal who games with less than 100 players
yep checks out
here are the current 7 fastest boards on Ganker
i miss when /vg/ threads could go 2-3 days without a new post and threads would stay up for 2-3 weeks
now shit falls off of page 20 (yes page 20 cuz /vg/ has 20 pages unlike other boards) within 3min
Always count your blessings. We're not /vt/.
>dude WEED BEER AND STEAKS HELL YEAH
>the staaars man... this is nature... woah..
you're that guy who makes going outside his whole personality huh?
Do you make being inside your whole personality?
not quite, just literally if you feel ""'sad"" try leaving your house sometime
the touch grass meme is real
90% of the time its cityfags that are ""'depressed"" and its cuz all they know is doing overtime in their shit officecuck jobs in a concrete jungle
Honestly I find concrete jungles comfy when it’s night and the streets are empty.
I miss those liminal space threads on Ganker. Then twitter and Reddit got a hold of it
moron I just said I find night time cities comfy, I like nature too
>SSRIs do work. They massively improved my quality of life.
This but LSD, alone at home.
Computational neuroscientist here.
SSRIs are qualitatively less efficacious than St John's wort, and there are several double-blind, placebo-controlled, peer-reviewed studies to substantiate.
Most SSRIs and SNRIs show no greater efficacy than placebo, in CI>95 studies.
Several pharmaceutical companies have been sued, including Eli Lilly, for advertising MDD, gSAD, PDD, SD, and BP as "chemical imbalances", without ever substantiating. It has since been established that there are actually no marked changes in a patient's neurotransmitter volume, reuptake, degradation enzyme volume, or receptor enhancer/promoter count, when they suffer from depression. Academia and medical science quite literally do not know for certain why the compounds in SSRIs have an effect in some people. They do not know the exact pharmacokinetics behind it.
The current consensus is that most types of depression are caused by LTD, or Long-Term-Depression of neural nuclei, following sensitization and/or paired-pulse facilitation(neural facilitation), which leads them to be unable to achieve threshold potentials, because they cannot reach resting membrane state of -70mV and subsequent threshold potentials of -55mV. In short, it has more to do with neurochemistry in the context of electrical systems, microvoltages, and electrical-chemical resistance. That's why neurofeedback, as well as ECT and EST are so efficacious in treating several types of depression.
No actual neuroscientist would write this meaningless flowery speel unless you also have autism..?
Autism isn't real.
You have not met any neuroscientists, evidently.
My current research team, contracted by the European Medicines Agency, no less, proudly employs several "sexual and neurodivergent minorities", subsidized by taxpayer euros. If you think my parlance is flowery, I suggest you never read european EMA think-tank journals and meta-analyses, you might suffer an ischemic episode.
There was an article about this, the biggest ever SSRI study showed next to no effect on depression. Apparently its still v effective for anxiety though?
SNRIs are mildly efficacious in treating generalized social anxiety disorder. But, interestingly enough, TCAs have been proven to be more efficacious and with considerably less pronounced side effects. How come, then, TCAs are not the ones being advertised, and neurologists and psychiatrists are not actively prescribing TCAs instead of SNRIs and SSRIs?
What do you know about compound patenting, precursors, and pharmaceutical patent law? What do you know about compulsory licensing laws, and how they apply in chemical patents?
I think you can piece out the answer.
Hint: Neurologists and psychiatrists are not too dissimilar to drug dealers.
>Computational neuroscientist here.
Ah, yes. I am sure computational models transfer so well to the real world.
>they cannot reach resting membrane state of -70mV and subsequent threshold potentials of -55mV. In short, it has more to do with neurochemistry in the context of electrical systems, microvoltages, and electrical-chemical resistance. That's why neurofeedback, as well as ECT and EST are so efficacious in treating several types of depression.
They are not and the mechanism you are suggesting betrays a fundamental lack of understanding of high school level chemistry.
>They are not and the mechanism you are suggesting betrays a fundamental lack of understanding of high school level chemistry.
Substantiate
>SSRIs do work
Germs aren't real.
vitamin d + zink cured my ADD and depression
If you're a sad fella make sure you're getting enough Vitamin D-3, you'll be surprised at what a difference it makes if you're lacking enough
This was my grandfather with Metal of Honor on PS2. Didn't care to play much else.
he literally just took a picture of his dad with a controller in his hand wearing a hoodie. what makes you think any of the shit he just said was true to life?
people do this shit all the time on reddit for karma points and attention
I choose to believe people when there's no harm in being fooled
I give people the benefit of the doubt, but I don't ever give it to redditors
That's just old dudes in general.
You'll probably gawk at how many times the average 80 year old has rewatched Hogan's Heroes or Dad's Army.
The expectation that you'll seek out new things and not just do the same thing forever to avoid stagnating as a person, is a relatively new one, honestly.
This. Dad exclusively plays AoE2 and won't play or seek out any other game, pretty admirable.
He probably just likes the cowboy sandbox shit he can do on his own terms. I wonder if they ever tried RDO, but maybe he just doesn't want that.
Some may be nostalgia, some may be just what they like. The same things will happen now - my literal boomer dad is a doctorate holding professional, military veteran, still working into his 70s, enjoyed MMOs when they were less shitty (though he mostly solo'd), and played through classic flight sims and LucasArts games back in the day, , but falls asleep watching reruns of NCIS most of the time. For a bunch of us, it will probably be something else.
Think about how many posts about people who play old games emulated, or how stuff was better in the past one way or another (viewed through nostalgia perhaps, but also through cherry picking what you liked etc).
>I'm going to be playing Yu-Gi-Oh at 70
Somebody fucking kill me now
>was playing FFXI at 20 years old
>fucking 44yo now
>considering rolling a new character on a new pserver
Christ are you an originalfag?
nah, knew about the site but didnt like it that much at first, started properly lurking from 2006 and started posting around 2010
i wish moronmoot would put a minimum 10 year lurk rule before posting rule, would clean up the site quicksmart
but yeah, if you werent already playing MMOs by the time you were in college you're probably a newfag
yep
i feel it already at 40 years old
not interested in new movies, new tv shows, new anime, new games anymore
instead i just rewatch/play shit I know i'll enjoy
38 here
Been playing old games I missed from 16-32 but era
Been having a blast, games really were worth playing once
They still are. 2023 is a pretty damn good year for games so far. Don't let nostalgia or acquired nostalgia blind you to new experiences. But maybe you're just a retro enthusiast, what do I know?
nta but the only decent game since 2013 has been Deep Rock Galactic but naturally Ganker hates fun games so Ganker shits on it every chance they get
I'm tempted to shit on it too just because one tricks like you are more annoying than muh all games are shit asswipes.
I am disgusted to share a board with you old losers. Holy shit 40 years old and STILL on Ganker? Pathetic.
thought the same thing as you when i was 20-something
one day you'll blink and you'll be overweight, 40, single and still checking Ganker, /b/ and Ganker every night hoping for that once-in-every-6-months epic thread
and you'll also be shitting on newfags from reddit that came in the 2032 election
>one day you'll blink and you'll be overweight, 40, single and still checking Ganker, /b/ and Ganker every night hoping for that once-in-every-6-months epic thread
dear god
The reason people seek out new things is a mix of ADHD and new thing seeing disposable and garbage anon
I already do that with south park, literally rinse and repeat viewing. That and all the tv personalities of my youth being 60+ lets me know im old.
Something tells me that he's wearing shoes.
I can see it.
He's at the right age to have absolutely loved Cowboy shows/movies as a kid.
Red Dead is actually one of the very few games that captures that kind of stuff well.
Depression isn't real, but if you need to check out then do it.
I met a original hippie who stilled played oblivion on his 360. This was 2018, he loved the manor house dlc and like to play as the khajit. I told him about skyrim and I wonder what he did afterwards.
He probably killed himself
It's kind of insane to see cases like that, some people just hyperfocus on one game and play it like it's the only one in existence.
I kinda wish I was still like that.
Fuck that shit, there are too many good games to play just one
I miss the days were I could hyper focus on a game. I remember spending 12 hour days on daggerfall, skyrim, oblivion. I don't know, I'm jadded as fuck now and I can't play a game more than a hour. Like with starfield, I only played it four 12 hours and I got it free with a AMD card. I even bought the AMD card to get starfield special edition. I just went back to skyrim.
Sounds like you're hyperfocusing on Skyrim there bud
>I miss the days were I could hyper focus on a game.
>have 16k hours on FFXI
>have 10k hours on Eve
>have 3k hours on Dota
>have 2k hours on TF2
>logged all of these when i was young and could just do an 18h session like it was nothing
>now I feel exhausted from playing the same game for more than 40 minutes
never get old bros
>mmos and assgays
You should get down on your knees and thank God you don't have the will to play that dogshit any more.
...Is no one gonna mention that this guy's legs are more than twice as long as his torso?
no
t. angry manlet
Why is he sitting with his legs like that?
I've done it before and it does nothing but fuck up your spine since you're shifting my weight entire on your tailbone.
Depression and autism.
Getting old seems so scary when you're alone.
My grandparents have so many people around them to help them out, I will have no one at that age but I still can't bring myself to even try and get a wife and kids, it's quickly hitting the point of no return too.
If you won't even bother to try then you deserve your fate. You should have a nice day but you seem like a huge pussy so I doubt you will. I simply can not understand...if your life is so empty and worthless then what is the harm in trying to make it better? If you fail then your life continues to be shit as it normally would if you do nothing. You deserve everything that happens to you. You disgust me.
I don't have a fear of failing, it's just a shit load of work, also I fell for the true love meme I can't get over, I don't think there's a girl for me out there I'd ever truly love and vice versa.
Yeah it's a shitload of work. Worth it though but I guess existing as an empty husk is more fun for you. Very productive. You don't think you'll find someone to love and love you in return and so you never will. You decided the outcome before you even made the attempt. I would pity you if it wasn't completely your own fault.
Best of luck gay. You get what you put in. In your case it's gunna be nothing.
Damn you're so cool. Can i please duck your penis sir? Sir yes sir? May I shine your boots daddy?
honestly, what an amazing comic.
Same
I'm checking out when the health issues start. Not dealing with it.
Dementia runs in the family for me so I'll just grab the rope when it comes
Hopefully they perfect the suicide pods they got in Switzerland
Fuck that, all you need is fetty.
>hey dad, can you wear this hoody and hold this controller, that's not even charged?
>i want to post a fake story on Reddit for upvotes.
>Thanks.
The controller light glows red when you play RDR 2...Nice try though.
Why RDR2? There isnt really much to gain in subsequent play throughs. At least in Starfield (just a recent example i can use) you can have several different playstyles and roleplay different characters.
He's old as fuck and doesn't know shit about vidya but loves dem cowboys
>His dad
He at least had sex and owns property, anon, let him have his escapism. On the other hand, what's your excuse?
I'm so fucking glad I have probably the best model dad you can get.
>Successful 35 years in the military
>Saw insane action, no PTSD
>Ironically more jolly and outgoing than depressed dad's who work as Walmart managers
>In peak physical condition and spends his time studying fitness routines for maximum gains at 60
>Loving marriage with my mom and never divorced
>Enjoys fantasy, action movies, nerd shit
>Invites me to watch fat cringe compilations on YouTube
>Showed me zyzz memes
>Very educated in history, geography and politics, and is faster than a google search
>Wanted to give me a Roman name
>Was invited into the order of Saint John, formerly the Knights hospitalers
>I can always have a beer with him and shoot the shit about Warhammer or whatever because deep down he's a nerd too
He's a Workhorse. Lawful good Paragon. No offense to anyone here but I'm glad he's not some Democrat that plays table top on weekends.
>I'm glad he's not some Democrat that plays table top on weekends
kek
>military
your dad is a cuck
Strong men create good times
Good times create weak men
>militarycuck
>strong man
not necessarily.
bad times can fuck someone up and make them weak.
good times can provide someone with a healthy outlook and keep them going no matter what.
im choosing to believe you're lying because i cannot cope
Same here except he's an engineer. Love my pa.
Im happy for you anon
I never understood people who don't spent time with their dad. My dad was always a maker, improving the house, renovating every room by himself. I always helped him, even now he's still searching for stuff he can do in his free time and frequently finds new projects. A couple of times a month we drink beer in the front yard and talk about everything that comes to our mind. A couple of times a year we get wasted and he does fun shit. I can always count on him no matter what. When I have kids I want to be like him.
Some people don't have good fathers, simple as.
Mine failed miserably at preparing me for life, and as a result, I don't interact with him anymore. I don't hate him or anything, I just don't see him as relevant to my life.
this anon will want kids
this anon will hate kids
I don't see why I would hate kids. I would be very careful not to repeat my father's mistakes. My hypothetical children might have a shitty childhood, but they'd be prepared for working life as soon as possible, which is the only important duty of a parent.
>I would be very careful not to repeat my father's mistakes.
Easy thing to say when you're not committed to full-time parenthood for at least 2 decades.
I believe in you anon.
It doesn't really happen that often. I've had the shittiest, most absent dad you could ever imagine, and all of the pain he inflicted into me just made me want to be a good dad more and more. I got a 4-year old who I spend the maximum amount of time with, already reads and writes, builds plane models and does arts and crafts with me, we built a medieval castle out of shoeboxes and old wine corks last week. My kid may not know a grandfather, but I'm making my absolute damn sure to provide a meaningful childhood.
Thats wholesome. I strive for this mindset as I practice my prayers for a better life.
The main thing is to always present life as a wonderful thing your kid's gonna go through. Be there to guide them and provide them stuff to do. ALWAYS listen to what they like and try to find fun ways to do that together. Kids feeling heard and replied back to with pure human respect is like 90% of what they need to be satisfied and grow into the most fulfilled kinds of people. If your kid is interested in bird watching while riding a unicycle, then get yourself some unicycles and binoculars, then figure it the fuck out. Because figuring things out with them is the most rewarding thing there is. Because deep down, they don't give a shit what they're doing, as long as 1. They're spending time with you and 2. You're hearing them out.
It's so hard to care about anyone else so I dont know if I could ever have kids. I'm practicing being a better person but I dont feel that passion like you do inside.
It's always different when it's YOUR kid. Unless you're a psycho, you tend to feel this need to protect them and make your life around them. It works when you understand they're just a little guy who's more than happy to follow your lead in whatever happens and they just can't fend for themselves in anything. My kid just hung out with me while I worked and I just figured out a way to type and keep talking to'em. I ended up having a very interested baby hanging out and being happy that I was there and interacting. it's the most rewarding thing in the world.
>Democrat
>plays table top on weekends.
anon hate to break it to you but most TTRPG enjoyers are trump supporters that hate lefties
literally play any system that isnt D&D
t.ran cyberpunk red for a friend the other day and his instant reaction was to neck stomp a crackhead that approached him
and yet here you are
Damn, how'd you end up being such a disappointment?
>exploitation of your father for internet fame
I hate reddit
>exploitation
He took a picture lol
If my gay son posted me on reddit I would disown him and I'm not joking in the slightest. There's zero excuse for selling out your family member for updoots.
thoughts on this?
Makes me wanna play a SwSh romhack but it's a stupid "competitive difficulty" hack for compgays.
I thought this was Todd/grotesquesubhuman before I enlarged the thumbnail, it looks so much like him.
I wonder if that boomer dad is playing Starfield.
You know this dude absolutely spends hours fucking with NPCs (probably minorities). Sticking them up, roping them, feeding them to aligators.
He's just old and old people are autistic. My dad played Super Mario Kart on our family SNES for about 20ish year.
red dead 2 was probably my favorite gaming experiences
was working night shifts when the game came out. i also woke up at nights on the weekends as i didn't want to mess my scedule up, so i'd just play red dead 2 all night - pitch-black room, no distractions, no nothing - and it was super immersive.
Why the fuck are images loading so slow?
kek fucking plebbitors will do anything for those internet points. fucking state of the world.
Remember that post when some cuck posted his dying family member for those points? I do member
https://reddit.com/r/RDR2/s/o72UBvw0QK
Nothing but a bunch of larpers trying to gain updoots
Why do people think this guy looks sad, he just looks super immersed in the game world, I wish I could get into that zone right now.
Imagine being a super boomer and suddenly playing this advanced game which did not exist in your childhood, I'd be mesmerized.
Why he doesn't look happy
his son is about to post him on reddit
how would you feel in that situation?
Tbh it’s a depressing game
I am literally too autistic to have a depression.
Every time i feel sad i imagine meme arrows in my head talking shit about me. I hate it.
I'm 34 but I look and feel like that guy.
My dad is alright. He only plays Half Life 1 and 2. also he doesn't understand WASD and uses the arrow buttons, so he changes his left hand to the spacebar and then uses the arrows with his right hand whenever he needs to jump
no hes not alright, hes retarded if he cant understand wasd
As far as I know, Sniper Elite series is popular with similar audience
I feel like I’ve been told to think I have to play a variety of games but if I hadn’t been told that I’d always play the same handful of games that I like
most people just stick to their thing
Reminds me of my grandpa who was always reading western novels
I wonder how the people who hyperfocus on one game do it. I love certain games don't get me wrong, but once I beat a game and let it sit I'd rather move onto something else than immediately hop back into it all over again.
I don't bother interacting with people because I know that deep down, they hate me.
if a tranime girl thinks these things about you, it is tranime law that she wants to rim your asshole
that belief is cope to protect yourself from the realisation people hardly care about you
I interact with people cause I hate them too much to let them inconvenience me.
This guy makes wholesome stuff too
>funny little cartoon makes your soul hurt
god im such a gay
Here ya go
https://youtube.com/shorts/fHXIF32cl9o?si=d20Fkkm6hGVtDiio
early dementia symptom
>playing a third person shooter with a controller
ewww... weren't boomers supposed to be based?
exercise beats depression
t. former depressed
also realized one of the reasons i was depressed was because i was too content with my life. just find a hobby that involves constant improvement that you can resonate with
I lost 100 pounds and am still depressed, actually if anything it made my life worse because there was mental and physical strain. I guess I can breathe easier but thats about it.
It might not necessarily be as simple as 'exercise' but depression is always health related. A healthy person just doesn't get depressed by the same stuff a depressed person is depressed about. It's because your mind is unhealthy, that could be because of weight, it could be you have some allergy you're unaware of, it could be that you don't get enough sunlight and social exposure. Whatever it is, there'll be some chemical imbalance you can fix that's causing your depression. It's *not* _wah wah my life sucks so I'm le depressed_
I'm not sure I believe that. My most depressive episodes were directly related to objectively horrible life circumstances. As soon as I had a stable life, I was reasonably fine. I still don't really enjoy anything, but I wouldn't call myself depressed anymore, where before, I literally couldn't get out of bed for days.
>I still don't really enjoy anything
you're depressed
>It's *not* _wah wah my life sucks so I'm le depressed_
What a fucking retard.
Are you saying that someone that just have their family member died, then get fired, and then have to sell their house and car because they are in debt, and then have their wife leave them, can't be depressed because his life sucks, but because somehow he has chemical imbalance when those shits happened?
Fucking retard.
He would be down, he would be sad, he may be destraught for some time. But he would bounce back. He would not be """depressed"""
There's a difference between clinical depression and being depressed. Exercise can help if your depressed but it isn't a cure for depression.
Loosing weight has lots of benefits, both health and social. Being in shape feels good and People see you different and treat you better than if you are obese.
t. Former fatty
People do treat me better which is why this shit makes me so sad.
If I was almost dead I too would only play one game. I'm fine with this
My Mom and Grandma watch the Western channel to the point where they don't even bother with some movies bc they've seen them so many times.
I keep trying to get them to watch a western made past the 1970s but they outright refuse. It seems like, for them, Westerns stopped existing after 1979.
>. It seems like, for them, Westerns stopped existing after 1979.
As a Westernfag i can relate somewhat. There are some good "newer" ones, but you just can't beat the classics
Alright lads how do get rid of depression?
Hard mode: no anprim gayry
Shit game. It would be more based to just play solitaire like every other dad.
My 63 year old dad is dying and I feel desolate.
I’m scared of my dad dying before he can meet my grandkids. I just want him to be proud of me
I'm scared of my dad dying before I have a stable life, because I want to rub it in his face that I did in in spite of him.
I feel you. My dad has dementia and it's awful.
I’m sorry anon. I’m terrified of my dad getting Dementia or Alzheimer’s too. My grandma has it, luckily the meds helped slow it down enough to make sure she didn’t go crazy until the very end. He is a very good man and I don’t want to see him slowly lose his mind
So does mine, he got diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob two months ago.
Imagine wanting to play RDR2
probably a recently retired man who's struggling with what to do with his life now. his family should try to help him.
I wish I were a darkspawn
Just go to town, attack, and go to next town
Just look how happy they are
My father just plays domino and chess online
Clinical depression anon (2) here.
It never goes away, but you can learn to live through it. I believe in you!
Hijacking this thread with oldfag screencaps.
Depressed anons: wake up at 4am, go for an hour long walk in the dark. Go to a bakery or gas station or whatever. Drink coffee. Come home and exercise. Pushups, squats. Skip rope. Get your blood flowing. Stop using social media. It helps more than you can possibly imagine.
i dont get why this is such a big deal
fax machines are literally still used to this day because email is considered too insecure by a lot of companies/countries
>It helps more than you can possibly imagine.
>It helps
I will applaud you for being one of the few that says that it helps, instead of saying that its a magic fix.
It's not a magic fix.
There is still no reason to do anything, but it does help.
Get up in the dark. Exercise. Turn off the fucking internet. Your perspective on yourself and the world will be drastically altered for the better.
I'm living proof.
Which scam artist self-help guru did you pay money to? "Get up in the dark." Really? Do you have basic knowledge of biology?
Not that Anon, but i like getting up just before dawn for my daily run. Its comfy seeing the sky go from dark to light, especially first light. Just something magical about that.
Just do it instead of being a sardonic gay. You'll feel better.
Have you considered that the reason you're depressed is that you're a miserable cunt and nobody likes you?
Change your attitude. Everything else will follow organically. Or don't. Feel free to not take my advice and fuck off until our sun goes supernova. Couldn't care less 🙂
NTA but dispensing basic self-help advice as if it's a magical one-stop solution is the most laughable, normie feel-good schlock imaginable. Yeah, gee thanks, I'm sure they'll feel better by just doing things that non-depressed people do. That'll do the trick.
I know it sounds like wavy gravy new age bullshit, but it really is that simple.
Do things that a non-depressed person would do. Fucking do it, you coward. Do what I told you to do -- no matter how stupid you think it sounds -- for two weeks.
Do it.
Human beings are not physically capable of altering their brain chemistry long-term through routines. What you are describing is a new coping mechanism, a hobby. It will probably take focus away from the issue for a time but just like ignoring a hungry lion at your door, it's mere escapism. If it worked for you, chances are you either weren't actually clinically depressed or you yourself are still in denial. I'm not a psych so I can't say for sure, but I have depression/anxiety and I had a period of a few years where I thought I just "got over it" and guess what? It wasn't really gone.
just take vitaman D and zink it cures your "depression" (not real)
I never said it would go away. I said it helps. And it does.
NTA but I seethe uncontrollably when people say hobbies are a new thing. Eat shit, hunter gatherers also participate in side activities and hobbies after the hunt. Hell even wild apes do too
I think you placed the emphasis on the wrong word in the sentence, anon. Hobbies aren't new by any metric.
Depression has nothing to do with brain chemistry.
Habit formation is a well-understood process.
Neural pathways are created via repeated, consistent response to stimuli. It's called the salience system, and it's broken down to motivational and aversive salience.
If you force yourself to engage in behavior, you will eventually create neural pathways that activate in response to the stimulus, and depending on the nuclei that are involved, you will engage your dopaminergic, endogenous opioid, and 5HT systems.
Due to NT coupling and neural facilitation, even if a process potentiates neurons to communicate via GABA or glutamate, or a/b-endorphin, or oxytocin, or vasopressin, or whatever peptide hormone, neuromodulator, or steroid hormone, other neurotransmitters will also be ejected into the ion channels of axons, and even otherwise irrelevant behaviors will have an outsized effect on mood and outlook.
That's why exercising or cleaning your room or completing random tasks can make you feel elated, content, or happy, even though they shouldn't affect your mood at a glance.
This is why neuroscientists (if your credentials are real) make terrible psychologists/psychiatrists.
They're both fake fields invented by garden gnomes
>psychologists
Not a real thing. They are agentur that have no idea about how anything works, because they did not go to medical school and instead spent 2 to 4 years learning about gender ideology and gnomish canon.
It's hilarious that you say that, though, since most neuroscientists can get a medical license whenever they want to, and psychiatrists use our work to navigate their diagnostic methods and treatment heuristics. Who do you think compiles all those models, qualitative analyses, actuary assays, and conditional-statistical reports?
I'm guessing the reason that they don't get those licenses might have something to do with a complete lack of skillset overlap, as evidence by the discussion and your other posts.
No, they don't bother to take a license to treat patients, because working in the private sector as a neuroscientist pays significantly more, has considerably more robust job security, less stress, and way more money, on average.
Compiling agent-based or tournament-selection computational models in a cozy, air-conditioned office is not only considerably more relaxing, it is also considerably more profitable.
And that would be the precise reason you're not really cut out to treat people. Or, to enumerate, you lack the drive to do so, the motive, and the ability. What you do is fine work I'm sure but all that data isn't really meaningful in terms of helping understand the human brain until it's applied.
>treat people
Therapists are charlatans.
Psychiatrists effectively assess the data they receive from the patient's medical history, they make diagnostic inquiries, and they cross-reference against the literature, standardized tests and exams they performed, and medical examinations that the patient conducted. It's a heuristic. That's why computational models interfaced by LLMs outperform actual medical professionals in diagnostic efficacy, precisely because it's a heuristic process where human input is statistically detrimental more often than not.
As much as your demeanor gives me negative feelings, I will admit that I'm intrigued by that at least. I'll read more about computational models for psychiatric care.
You sound like a menstruating woman, it's unsightly.
A pity, I thought I was talking to a fellow autist, not a projecting moron. Well, good luck with your feckless demeanor.
Hey buddy don't lash out at me. It's not my fault you don't have a basic grasp of biology and think waking up in the dark is a good thing for your brain. Funniest thing I have read on Ganker today, thank you for the laugh. ESL?
>Couldn't care less
But keeps replying.
Fascinating how the normie brain works.
>wake up at 4am
but i don't go to bed until 7am
"Let me guess, you need more?"
leave him the fuck alone. what a gay son. rd2 could be the only game hell ever need
Schizophrenia is NOT real. Just stop being an neurotic cunt who believes psychologists. All they want is to sell you drugs to keep you "sane"
As long as those drugs are speed, I'm okay with that
Autism isn't real either it's just a made up disorder that big pharma
On my old computer I had a screen so of a Latvian anon on /int/ saying “suicide isn’t all that common here. I’ve only known 3 people who’ve killed themselves “
Sadly it’s gone now
>neuroscientist here
no one wants your sugar pills moses
I wanna meet that dad.
mullenmaxxing
ayyy dude it's 5am haha
Stop playing games and go outside.
Go to a pond and look at a duck or whatever. It'll be great
Why don't you take your own advice? According to the stats, you spend quite a long time on Ganker.
Just do what I said. You'll see the difference for yourself.
I used to want to kill myself. Now I want to kill other people. It's great.
Pic related; it's you.
Homie, no one who was talking to you was depressed, normies were calling out your advice as entry level. You have bigger problems than depression like being ESL with a terrible reading skill.
You're an idiot.
depression is NOT real. no neurological disorders is. they're all just behaviors, not real medical conditions. it's all gnomish lies
It's no different than calling the feeling of pain when you put your hand on the stove a medical condition. You shouldnt try to turn off those signals by tricking them, you need to listen to them.
Human beings are machines. Antidepressants aka sugar pills are like fixing the loud noise your car is making by putting in earplugs.
Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. what we need is another war.
Oy vey remember to take your prescription loboto- I mean medication goys.
Depression is just being a bitch and getting sad when life gets bit shitty. The cure for depression is to stop being a moron. Just stop being a sad cunt who believes psychologists. All they want is to sell you drugs to keep you "depressed"
I truly weep for people like you. Your brainrot from being terminally online runs deep. Sad
YWNBAW
Checks out, it's a game for decrepit old people.
average snoy
>Ganker(nel) doctors
cringiest shit ever tbh. fucking kys scumbags. just give me piccolo
Start exercising, cut bread out of your diet, don't drink caffeine after noon, maximize sleep quality, drink plenty of water, eat plenty of meat, and it will cure your "depression" and "anxiety"
99% of depression and anxiety wont be cured by any of this because it's about the conditions of your life.
No, The problem is not just bread but grains/starches in general. Some people are naturally maladjusted to them.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27065833/
Most mental illness symptoms can likely be stopped via diet changes
>diet will undo being molested as a child
great advice anon
Trauma isn't real
Just stop being a bitch
If it isn't real why are PTSD brains physically different from regular brains to the point the differences can be seen in brain scans?
PTSD isn't real, and it's been disproven. Claiming it's real because it's a phenomenon is inherently dishonest and wrong. Just look at multiple personality disorder. It wasn't a thing until it got popular as an idea. Now people are diagnosed with it in droves compared to how it was before. Because it's not a real illness, and people just want something to feel special.
>it's been disproven
Source?
>Just look at multiple personality disorder. Now people are diagnosed with it in droves compared to how it was before
Yeah and there's no physical evidence of it existing, unlike PTSD
Source? Source? Source? SOURCE?!!??
Do you have a source on that?
Source?
A source. I need a source.
Sorry, I mean I need a source that explicitly states your argument. This is just tangential to the discussion.
No, you can't make inferences and observations from the sources you've gathered. Any additional comments from you MUST be a subset of the information from the sources you've gathered.
You can't make normative statements from empirical evidence.
Do you have a degree in that field?
A college degree? In that field?
Then your arguments are invalid.
No, it doesn't matter how close those data points are correlated. Correlation does not equal causation.
Correlation does not equal causation.
CORRELATION. DOES. NOT. EQUAL. CAUSATION.
You still haven't provided me a valid source yet.
Nope, still haven't.
I just looked through all 308 pages of your user history, figures I'm debating a glormpf supporter. A moron.
You sure convinced me anon
source?
you should post that on your subreddit instead
>States something has been disproven
>Anon asks for proof
>starts chimping out
Always funny to see this shit happening. Congratulations, you just lost the debate.
>Always funny to see this shit happening. Congratulations, you just lost the debate.
Source?
Depression is a chemical imbalance and your gut dictates chemicals.
Less sugar, more meat.
Not that anon, but I"m doing low-carb (because keto is too micromanage-y) and it's been really fantastic. I eat big-ass meat salads with cheese and sauces and it's delicious as fuck.
Down 40 pounds since April.
WAGMI
post cock
Imagine the most basic, average, nothing to talk about, curved weiner and now you're thinking about my weiner. It is not significant enough to talk about.
Luckily foreplay counts for 80% of the whole night and once you get them all hot and bothered with their motor running, it really doesn't take much.
HOLY cope. "Foreplay is where it counts" is always said by men with "average" aka small dicks.
dunno. just werks for me.
Wrong. Smile and the world smiles with you. Sounds like some trite rubbish your mother would say, but it's true. Everything starts with your attitude. I know you don't want to believe it, because it goes against your programming.
So, instead of taking steps to fix yourself, you'll continue to piss and moan and cry like a bitch because it's easier. You'll continue to be a slow-witted, docile drone with a victim complex clamouring for your meds and your cum stained security blanket.
>b-b-but I have an illness!
Shut the fuck up, cunt.
based
WHEN YOU'RE SMILING
(when you're smiling)
THE WHOLE WORLD SMIIILES WITH YOU
(smiles with you)
WHEN YOU'RE LAUGHING
(when you're laughing)
THE SUN COMES
SHINING THROUGH
All my dad likes to play is Solitaire on his laptop and Sudoku. He buys physical Sudoku books and has cleared out at least a dozen of them, maybe more. I've tried introducing him to new games, but he doesn't want to touch them. The few times I've tried to get him to play something he gets frustrated because he doesn't understand everything immediately and has gotten offended when I told him "It's okay to be bad at a game, just press buttons and you'll learn."
Depression is real.
Everyone "Has it"
It's like lonliness.
If you're experiencing hurt, you're FUCKING SOMETHING UP AND STOP FUCKING DOING THAT.
IMPROVE YOURSELF.
Your body undergoes depression becuase what you're currently doing is shit. Everything you've decided was a good decision guess what YOU FUCKED UP.
The good news is YOUR BODY BOUNCES BACK LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER.
Now make something of yourself, losers.
Or don't.
I don't care.
I like talking down to others.
You seem to care quite a lot judging by the number of posts from your ip in this thread.
You should see me in the WFH threads.
I have a grand old time.
I work outside with people and my hands, so that's just one more thing that helps keep me from being depressed.
Humans need activity and social interaction -- without it they wither away.
>Humans need activity and social interaction
Ganker fills that need
anon people here are miserable and are imprinting on you
you have to rise above it or leave it.
you are not to wallow in it
>anon people here are miserable
It's a lot better then trying to deal with normalfags IRL
*easier
Dealing with normalfags is better. It's what the brain craves. Trying to deny this is like trannies convincing others they're a real woman.
It's written into your blood. You cannot escape it.
>Dealing with normalfags is better.
God no. They tire you out in the worst ways possible and just leave you feeling worse
Duh, why do you think this place is such shit now?
Nah, they're just pretty boring and annoying
>they're just pretty boring and annoying
So just like Ganker then
That's because this place is full of normalfags. I have normie friends I hang out with on occasion and while I like them well enough, thjey're incredibly exhausting and tiresome every time something mildly outside of their purview is brought up.
>God no. They tire you out in the worst ways possible and just leave you feeling worse
Anon my job is basically walking around a black college campus talking to people and fixing their wifi.
Genuinely, it's more tiring to sit at home after work by myself playing vidya. My energy just goes to zero until I go to work the next day and talk with 30-50 different people again.
You are an extrovert. Introverts are the opposite.
>God no. They tire you out in the worst ways possible and just leave you feeling worse
I worked in a bar for the last 2 years and honestly, most normalfags aren't that bad really. They can actually be quite interesting to talk to when they're tipsy and NPC mode gets turned off.
NOTE: Tipsy, and NOT drunk. Fully drunk people range from sad drunk cunts to raging assholes who are impossible to deal with.
Sad drunks are honestly the worst
>implying modern Ganker's userbase isn't majority failed normalfags
>It's a lot better then trying to deal with normalfags IRL
Translation: interacting with well-adjusted people reminds me of my insecurities and failures and I cannot cope with that
in the same way that eating feces and drinking cum fulfills your nutritional needs yeah
>He doesn't drink cum for protein
NGMI
Depression and anxiety has nothing to with your material conditions or trauma materialism is fake and gay gnomish science
My dad died when I was 9. He was a good guy but my mother's family hated him. I remember he used to play Blair witch 3 and air offensive with me. When he died my family never really interacted with me again