>tfw turned 36 in June
>tfw can feel my vidya reflexes aren't as fast as they used to be
It's over bros.
>tfw turned 36 in June. >tfw can feel my vidya reflexes aren't as fast as they used to be
>tfw turned 36 in June
>tfw can feel my vidya reflexes aren't as fast as they used to be
It's over bros.
Please tell me you have a gf and a well paying job at least
At 36 it's the point where you are happy to sacrifice well paying job for a job that is fun and still can support your family's needs. Ten years of grinding and earning money for your company should be enough, it's time to focus on yourself too. Also at that point you shouldn't be doing "gfs", it's more worrying about your kids' first gfs and bfs and being happy that you and mom can finally have some privacy when you drop kids at their trainings.
>Destroying your free time and financial independance with the burden of a family.
33 here. I finally got to a point where I can enjoy my life and have enough to spend on hobbies and pursue my interests and I don't want some hole or a bunch of brats getting in my way.
If your job was paying much more, or at the very least if your purchasing power was much bigger, would your opinion change?
Probably not. I understand why some people want a family, but I just want to do my own thing.
Fair enough
It's your life. But childless option isn't for everyone.
I'd like to have kids but I'm too broke and socially inept to get past the main obstacle (a woman). Makes me wish men could use the power of surrogacy to have kids on their own like lesbians do.
It's funny, I used to care about having a good job that paid a lot. I spent my best years working and excluded my family and friends. Now I'm too tired at the end of the day and have no will to play games or friends. I have nothing but a soulless job now.
If I could go back I would hang more with buddies, more fun doing things I wanted to do at the time instead of the "Oh I will have more time and money to do it when I get older".
I ruined so much and got nothing out of it
I live in a turd world country where the only way to be is either to go through a blood soaked gauntlet of crime, torture, slaughter and atrocity to become even remotely wealthy, wage slave away until you die with no way for promotion because lmao nepotism and cleptocracy or drink/drug yourself to death like human trash. And there is no way out of the country.
>no way out of the country
Do they have internet in North Korea?
Nice try dudes. But you won't be getting rid of competitors that way. At least not mr. I will get the promotion.
Frick no. Deal with it.
I love being a betabux and a paypig for Black folk, single moms and hohols
>26 and starting to bald
i fricking hate mother nature
that's the beauty of video games you just have t
did candleja
oh man, thanks anon. This took me back. All those memories of the candlejack mem
Ah well, fak it m8 jus hav a pint an it'al be alright
then play/practice more
bump
>>tfw can feel my vidya reflexes aren't as fast as they used to be
thats bullshit. old homosexuals are still competitive in in games that require fast reflexes like fighting games or afps. talking about people in their 40's. you just havent played much or at all. I am 35 and I dont feel like I am slower than 20 years ago.
I'm probably still faster than you tbh, just not as fast as before.
>reaction time test
>actually a reflex test
kek also who the frick asked if you are faster or slower than me? lol
Cope or try to enjoy the butthurt.
You are just fricking stupid. Do you think any of these metal bands could rip out blazing guitar solos when they are 60 years old? If it wasn't just the lack of your own practice and stupidity this whole planet would grind to a halt when people get older.
Those riffs aren't as mechanically demanding as they sound, anon, especially if you've done then to fricking death.
its already been proven your reflexes are slower. but OP is mostly wrong tin that you usually can feel the actual difference.
the difference may be numerically massive, but realistically, its too small to be observable w/o precise machines to measure the difference.
It's objectively true. My reflexes dropped from top 10% when I was a teen to complete mid. When I play fps games these days, I rely more on prediction and letting people walk into my reticle rather than trying to flick.
Even pros get washed. They drop from pro tier to GM, which is like dropping from Diamond to Gold.
>It's objectively true
>Here's an anecdote.
>that require fast reflexes like fighting games
lol, you fell for the shitter cope. Really good players at fighting games don't react they predict, that's why the old guard players can keep up. It's not that they haven't slowed down, it's just that they know their option selects and how to read and condition their opponents.
>32
>live at home
>haven't had sex in a decade
at least I'm not balding
SOme of the top FGC guys are much older than that so just keep playing/practicing.
>29
>live alone
>virgin
>full head of hair
Maybe I won't kill myself
>live at home
>balding
>non-virgin but haven't had a gf since I was 27
>no degree
Where can I buy helium bros?
The world will end in 10 years, don't you want to witness the apocalypsse from the front row seats?
I've been waiting for the world to end since Y2K, this shit just isn't going to happen man. Every happening amounts to a big nothing and the big one that's totally going to truly wipe us out is always right around the corner.
Don't expect an ultimate happening, it will be slow decline and degradation so we can savor it.
Fighting games are different from games that require reflexes and precision. Fighting games require a lot of mind games and muscle memory, which don't rely on reflexes at all.
It's self-evident you fricking smoothbrain, spend 5 second searching for it.
https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?ContentTypeID=1&ContentID=562
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/brains-reaction-time-peaks-age-24-study-finds
>He still "trusts the science"
moron.
…yet!
>28
>live with parents
>virgin
>bald
you can't out shit my shitty life it's the only thing I'm good at, being shit
work on yourself
>live at home
Where the frick else would you live?
>31
>balding
>live with mom
>have a shitty part time job
>physical hygiene is fricked
>never had a gf
And I am completely at peace. I used to struggle a lot with it, was depressed, but not anymore.
>was depressed, but not anymore.
It's true. I'm not depressed about that, because I realize that even if those things were fixed from my life, it still wouldn't remove suffering from my life totally. The PTSD would still be present, is still present.
>>32
>>live at home
shiggydiggy
Competitive gaming has been a disaster for the human race. The most competitive anybody should've ever gotten about a video game was fricking Mario Party. Video games are toys designed to be played with, not perfected and obsessed over. Nobody will ever care that you were diamond rank in whatever dogshit FPS that came out 20 years ago.
Capitalism says otherwise. If you can have a career out of gaming then that's a billion times better than working some soul destroying office job.
how can you say that!? you need to study as soon as possible so you can wage slave in your cubicle for as long as possible. every year counts my goy.
sorry moishe i forgot
Competitive gamers have to beg their subscribers for money because their sponsors don't pay shit, and winnings from game tournaments are almost nothing. And that's if you actually win. The chance of you ever making it big enough to live on playing video games competitively is probably ~ the same chance of winning the lottery, except you don't need to spend years streaming for 0 viewers to get a chance at winning the lottery.
Ain't no homie on this fricking website that throws their dick around ever gonna actually be in a pro circuit making millions lmao
You got compensate with game sense to get over that. Now you have to make more accurate reads to make up for not being able to react as fast.
>30 years old
>feel my reflexes starting to slow
>wisdom and game sense higher than ever, so despite being slower I'm better at games then ever
I'm 35 and my vidya reflexes have always been shit, get on my level you scrub.
>53 year old uncle recently started Fortnite
>Zero build only
>This is good shit he says
>~500 games played
>21 wins
>over 40% top 10 rate
Nah, it's in your head.
Just start hacking.
>turning 30
>reflexes clearly aren't the same as it was even 3 years ago
>start walling and using very slight aim assist
>start destroying the ADHD zoomer Black folk left and right
Feels amazing.
>reflexes get worse in just 3 years
are you moronic? I mean did you have an accident or something like that?
No, just playing less and less.
mixture of practice and age.
i don't have the patience for anything anymore either.
You can make up for your lack of dexterity with experience. Be active, you don't need reflexes if you are the player leading the exchange and make the opponent react. Show the youngsters that the old guy living in the world where players die young mean serious business! Or you know, admit you are too old for this shit. Turn based strategies and RPGs are fun too and there are casual games like Skyrim or Mass Effect where you don't need reflexes.
33 and better than ever at vidya. Cope.
Time to put down the joypad and pick up the joy stick.
The older I get, the more I tend to want to play strategy games rather than FPS. I don't have reactions as quick as a 14 year old American ADHD zoomer who is hopped up on adderall.
More likely your eye sight is degrading then your reflexes. Men's reflexes don't start to have a noticeable difference until you hit your 60's.
I'm 38 and my skills are better than ever.
vyvanse and coffee.
coffee. and vyvanse
and like the other anon said, you have to rely on reads and game sense more now. your vidya reflexes are objectively worse. but if you've been playing high skill games for most of your life like cs, dota, starcraft etc. via practice your skills will deteriorate slower than the average normie
Jokes on you
I'm about to turn 35 and I can still outsnipe most people in TF2 except for bots and a few othe autists who probably are in their 20s and play nothing but sniper and are on stimulants/probably not as high as I am when I play vidya
Get on my level
Then again I've always been amped/wired as frick my entire life
>most people in TF2
because only old people play that
Then why are all the people on casual so squeaker?
Nice try though
>Turned 30 in June
>Still on Ganker
Why are we still here?
Unironically, there is no other place like this. I like posting without having some autist with too much time on their hands to go through my previous comments and harrasing me about shitposting I made ten years ago.
It's the only outlet some of us have.
I miss the old internet and this is the closest thing to it I have been able to find except for the tiny obscure forums that still exist. A lot of the problems this website has also exist on other sites, so there's not really many other good options with a large active user base. I do wish that the daily number of visitors was cut in half though.
Society has degraded enough that the most likely place to still find authentic discussion are fricking echo chambers of all things, and that in itself is a hotbed for shit to go wrong or get weird eventually. It's a sad state of affairs. It's times like this that I'm grateful the one thing I didn't frick up was having a strong real life friend circle. We're basically family and I'm holding onto them for dear life because I'll fricking lose my mind if something ever happens between us. Most of my close family has either died of old age or overdosed. Dad isn't here anymore. I'm barely 30 and my world is quickly sterilizing itself. Frick.
sup fellow '92er. turned 30 a week ago.
still around because i like to talk shit about vidya and vidya communities. also you guys always find the best porn, even though i was born with my main fetish.
>people born in '92 are 30 now
Frick. You 90s babbies were supposed to be babies forever.
Would be okay if every american didn't have a prescription for pharmaceutical grade amphetamine, its actually impossible to compete sometimes.
ACTUAL FRICKING QUESTION
DO YOU GUYS STILL HAVE FRIENDS
I feel like I lost touch with all my friends. I used to hang out with them every week. Now I have 1 that I hang out with every 2-3 weeks.
I still regularly see the same friends I've had since high school, but it's definitely less than it used to be. Basically only one of my friends still plays videogames and he has a kid now so we can't play too often. I mostly spend time with my wife's friends. They're not bad but it's definitely not the same.
No. Social circle gets deformed into colleagues, neighbours, regulars that visit the same establishments, kids' classmates' parents and acquaintances that you met online or at vacation adn you have the same hobby and totally will do them together - one day. Promised five years ago. Maybe next year.
No I'm a schizoid that's why I spend my time on this loatian sensory deprivation tank enthusiasts forum under the name 'anonymous'
I was hoping you guys would say that it gets better
That I would make a new set of friends or something.
I mean you could
or you could wait and it might not happen
You could go outside, set off on a journey in a direction and talk to every person you meet on the way and in doing so start a chain of events that could alter your line in unimaginable ways
but you won't
>but you won't
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-fulfilling_prophecy
That sounds cool and all but I have a very strong counterarguement on why this is a bad idea.
Black folk
You can. I work in tech so a lot of my coworkers have similar interests. Otherwise join some kind of club or if you have a girlfriend try to piggyback off of them. Definitely is harder to organize that stuff the older you are though.
I've had literal hundreds of friends over the course of my life (I define friend as someone I hang out with at least once a week) who I lost touch with because I've moved all over the place for work.
There's a select few friends I still keep in regular touch with and it's because I run a dnd game for them every two weeks. You should probably consider doing something like that. Find a hobby and make friends there.
I guess the glue that holds most friendships together is years of familiarity and shared experiences, so befriending random adults, while possible, won't amount to the same bond you get from people you spent your formative years with. But of course not even those friendships necessarily last and people drift apart regardless.
If you're talking about someone like a best friend from high school then maybe. But most friends you have as an adult are just people who share your interests or who are otherwise fun to talk to.
There are only like two people in my life who I can spill my guts out to. The rest of my friends are people who I enjoy spending time with. The whole shared experiences thing kind of fades with time anyway. I remember walking with my friend through a literal blizzard, stopping every 20 or so minutes to get shelter and warm up. It was a very important memory to me, but we rarely talk these days.
I'm now at the point where contact is starting to fade. I can still turn that around but a lot of my friends are kind of petty and I really do enjoy my own company. My social skills will totally go down the drain and I'm just sure I will regret it later if I let things slip though.
No. But I always loved being on my own.
I haven't had any since I was 15.
I used to think my reflexes had gotten worse too, then I tested it with Aimlab and found out that I was still as twitchy as I had ever been.
What most likely has happened is that cheating is just so much more prevalent and subtle these days that you are matched against cheaters without even realizing it.
The reflexes of a teen and 36 year old are no different. You're just lazy and don't care as much. The only real thing that would affect skills is eyesight getting worse or you turned into a huge fatass who can't even movie.
Frick off moron.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0094215
>Study of 3305 subjects
>All playing Starcraft
>Noticeable decline in motor speed past 24
24 is basically your peak as a human being. after that you're on the decline until you die.
*that said, even though it's your cognitive/health peak, it's not necessarily your peak in whatever you're trying to do. like boxers tend to be at the peak of their careers around 30-33. even if they were faster, stronger and healthier at 24, they didn't have the experience they had at their peak 30-33.
>23, virgin
>live with parents
>working some office jobs with inexplicably good pay
I spent a year as a NEET after graduating and it kind of ruined me, I'm constantly craving the comfy shut-in life.
time to get into sims. spend your money on cool peripherals.
>been running for the past 10 years
>2-3 weeks back my hip started to hurt
>stopped running, hip got better
>pain comes back if i try to run now
had a good run
I like how many old farts there are on Ganker now. Found this shithole May 2009 at the ripe young age of 22. It's been absolutely terrible aging here with you awful people and I wish I could leave but at least you're still here too I guess. I sure do miss being a normie.
here's to another 10 years of basket weaving
Post you're stats
Me:
>36 years old
>genuinely really good looking, head full of hair (though it's not as thick on top anymore, wonder how much time I have), can pass as mid 20s, get attention from women every time I leave my house
>No real job but have well off parents, have £40k sitting in my bank account, own my own flat which I rent out and gives me £825 a month
>two degrees from good unis, BSc and MSc, but wasted them 'cause never got a grad job when I had the chance, was a straight A student in school (not at uni though)
>working on a house building project right now that's being funded by my mommy
>have been a recluse for over a decade cuz my dick doesn't work with real girls, only works for porn
>have tried to quit porn but can never get past a week
>have failed to frick 5 girls irl, didn't get it up, only blowjobs worked
>inb4 I'm gay, no I'm not, I'm just the most unlucky frick that ever lived
>developed a chronically fricked up stomach six years back from years of depression and a bad takeaway that obliterated it
>doctors called it IBS. I never had the diarrhea kind at least, shits are now normal but I used to be constipated. I have two symptoms: stomach bloating and lethargy. Thankfully I'm at least getting better gradually
>infinite regret
>lost all my old friends 'cause didn't return their calls, only have one left who refuses to let me go even though I hardly ever pick up/return his calls, very rarely hang out with him and the guys I know through him who'd I'd call good acquaintances but not friends
>deactivated facebook in 2013
>no self esteem left, everyone I know is super successful, cousins ten years younger than me have careers and good job positions, every day I wish I was dead
>knew so many interested beautiful girls over the years that I could have gone out with but didn't cuz my wiener doesn't work
inb4 mean things. meh.
>post your stats
frick off normie. this is also a big reason why i'm here, normies filter themselves out. it's hilarious going off topic about dick health but shallow bullshit like this where you get to boast about great you're doing belongs on facechat and snapgram.
>normie
>boast about great you're doing
wat. did you actually read my post? I just gave a brief rundown of the situation, good and bad points. I'm clearly not doing great at all overall. What's worse than having a broken fricking dick, no self esteem and being a recluse? Oh and a chronic stomach problem to boot that makes you feel 20 years older than you really are. I'd rather have cancer than this shit.