Video games ruined my life. I wasted so much time on them if I used that time to better myself I would be a millionaire by now.
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Video games ruined my life.
Video games ruined my life. I wasted so much time on them if I used that time to better myself I would be a millionaire by now.
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quitter talk
No, you'd be a corpo slave working a dead-end job.
>Implying I am not doing that already
Then start stashing away 20% of your paycheck into 401k or index funds. Shit dude, life is not that hard.
Tell me about index funds
It's pretty much a portfolio of high profile companies, usually based on Fortune 500 or other similar metrics. Essentially you're putting money that's matched against highly competitive and successful companies, so the idea is that even if some of them fail, better, stronger ones take up their place.
Do I have to be smart to do this or are there just good index funds available to me
Is this an elaborated ad?
I am so sick of you schizos who can’t handle basic conversation
It's okay, they're socially-inept zoomers who never learned what genuine interest in a topic or normal discussion looks like. You should pity them and their 12 layers of irony everything is hidden behind.
There's good index funds available. I usually just go see what those billionaire types are suggesting. As always, results aren't guaranteed, investing carries risk, etc; etc; Keep in mind these are more long term than buying shares.
>You should pity them and their 12 layers of irony everything is hidden behind
It takes a major lack of self-awareness to say this unironically on this website
Just because you post shit ironically doesn't mean I do. Or are insinuating everyone here is ironic, whichever you meant.
The latter, and you're delusional if you believe otherwise
Not everyone hides behind a mask of irony on this site, it's absolutely a majority but people like me are still here.
I literally just learned how to financially invest in my future by talking to that anon for like 3 minutes. You’re fricking moronic
If it was that easy the world wouldn't be full of poor people. You'll take advice from a financial advisor, who are literally employed by wallstreet companies to frick you over, he'll tell you to invest in a dead end company that looks shiny on the surface and you'll lose all your money instantly.
Lmao look at all the legwork you have to do to act like two people talking to eachother is a problem. Jesus Christ buddy
it's a fricking frogpost off-topic thread you dumb Black person, not a single word in this thread is genuine or worthwhile
Quit projecting for once in your fricking life you god damn homosexual
They are all available to (You)
VOO etc.
DCA in.
I hate people that say this. Life IS that hard or we wouldnt all be here wasting away.
Life is ez bro.
My parents are rich so I will never ever need to work or worry about having a roof or food 🙂
How did you get your parents to just fund you forever and never expect you to work
>t. Also rich parents but was raised to work
They're not stupid and realized this system wasn't made for people who want to work and own things.
I thought you said your parents were rich? How did they get rich if they didn't work for it? Are you from some elusive line of generational NEETs who all inherited their wealth or something?
>How did they get rich if they didn't work for it?
Lmao, are you seriously this naive? Working hard doesn't give you any significant amount of money.
I didn't say anything about working hard, but working at all does seem to be a requirement to make money unless you were born rich. Which is why I'm asking, did your parents inherit their money from their parents? At some point somewhere down your lazy ass family line must have done some work to aquire that wealth though.
Do you even know how to handle your own finances or is that something they do for you too? Do you make money using money in a way where you don’t have to work, or is it more like you get an allowance from your parents?
If you live in a developed country, life really is easy except getting the will to do something. Changing your behaviour and making decisions based on an abstract notion about your possible future is difficult in itself
Man, you can't even be a fricking loser right. What the frick?
create your own games anon
Nah you'd just find some other stupid shit to occupy your time just like 99% of people, do not feel bad for playing vidya
>all life is garbage and there are no goals worth achieving
You wouldn’t have to tell yourself this if you didn’t waste your life
moron
If you aren't the inventor or parents of the inventor of faster-than-light travel, you life had objectively zero meaning
It’s not that they ruined your life, it’s that you know you wont keep a promise to quit them, so you’ll continue to ruin your life in the future
Stop Frogposting and you'll already be on the right path.
Think about how good you could have been at guitar and all the hot babes you would have picked up.
Musicians themselves do not pick up the b***hes, it's only the charismatic smooth talkers who can trick a hoe into opening her legs for nothing.
>Musicians themselves do not pick up the b***hes
Correct. It's the b***hes who try to pick up musicians.
Incorrect on both accounts
It's daddy has money or you have money
Iv never seen otherwise. Being in band class is like, negative b***hs
Not to be shallow or nothing but I have never seen the "poor artist sweeps woman off her feet" thing the media likes to make it out to be. I know many poor artist, they are not players. In fact I'd say the game is below average.
I am a millionaire and I play video games now what? Just be smart lol
>3 int
How generous.
>27 cha
Simply delusional.
>proficiency: deception
sounds like you got fooled.
>Bought into the "If you put your mind to it you can achieve anything" BS
If you are reading this, I am the Ganker Demon. I am coming to get you now, and there is nothing you can do. You are the only one who can see this. While you wait, please enjoy video game.
if you didnt ruin your life playing videogames you would ruin your life watching tv, or playing sports, or trying to get a degree
Video games kept me away from drugs and alcohol, but also made me an incel.
>I wasted so much time on them if I used that time to better myself I would be a millionaire by now.
No you wouldn't Anon, You would waste your time in other way like 95% of humanity.
It's not the videogames' fault that you're a loser.
Even if videogames didn't exist you'd still be a loser.
imagine typing this shit unironically
Literally nothing wrong with those statements. OP is assuming that if video games didn't exist, he would magically have the motivation to be a better person. Doesn't work that way. Video games were just an outlet for his passivity. You could absolutely have just been a lazy piece of shit the same way by watching TV.
Blaming the games isn't addressing the core of the problem which is OPs passiveness and lack of motivation resulting in him doing nothing to better his own situation.
At 25 I was morbidly obese and jobless. Now I'm 30, have got a stable job, have lost 120lbs and have taken up other hobbies (recently enjoying model kits a lot). I never stopped playing video games, and still play several hours of them a day. Arguably I value them more now than I did when I was NEET.
If you did not play videogames you would just have spent that time watching TV or browsing social media/YouTube instead. Like all other normies.
fricking this dude, OP doesnt realize how much more time the average normie wastes watching netflix slop or sportsball.
Why do you think the powers that be in every government allow recreational drugs to continue to exist?
all those instruments u could have learned to play...languages mastered...those hours at the gym or doing sports...dating girls in high school and college...
and now you'll NEVER get that time back
You can still do all those things right now (older women are better, too)
>used up meat flops
>learned to play instruments
>learned to draw
>got a career
>still ended up a nofrens shizoid autist at 30
should’ve spent all that time shitposting and playing vidya tbh at least then i wouldn’t have missed out on chromehounds and the good mmos
I spend alot of time at the gym, I play sports, I dated in HS and College, and Ive probably played more video games than most of you combined.
>jrpgs
lmao
No, YOU ruined your own life.
If not videogames, you would have found something else you liked and let that dominate your time instead, and you clearly have no agency or sense of personal responsibility if you're blaming games themselves.
You just want something to blame other than yourself, hell, you're even saying it in past tense so you don't have to do anything about it.
Well just be a millionaire now. It will you waste the next 10 years of your life on the internet? Which is less fun than gaming.
>I could have done so many things if it weren't for video games...
>What actually would have happened
Nah, you ruined your own life. Your lack of self-control is what led you down here, not video games. Chances are that if you were born 200 years ago in a world without video games you might have wasted your life away with books.
Stop shifting the blame and start facing the consequences of your own failures.
you're in the exact same position, we're all basically clones here with a 1% difference at most.
and you're delusional that just because (You) are in a specific situation, everyone MUST be in the same situation.
I know you'll probably just ignore or do some crazy mental gymnastics, but I recommend therapy.
Stop coping like a little b***h. Plenty of normalgays play vidya without getting addicted.
You were a pathetic homosexual before you started playing them, it's the reason why you got addicted to them in the first place, and why you now blame vidya instead of your fricked up maladapted brain.
>thinks being a normalgay is a good thing
lole
What would you rather have spent the time on? Do you think its addiction or a coping method for not fitting into the square hole society expects you or you believe you are expected to fill?
>If you didn’t play video games you would waste your time doing something else
This is why you gets no b***hes, besides with the amount of crying about the state of modern gaming you would think you tards would get a new hobby
why would anyone want multiple female dogs
>Video games ruined my life.
Correct.
>I wasted so much time on them
Game addiction is a real issue, I would say the cause to this is the fact that ypipo live in the safest countries in the comfiest times so instead of breeding and being productive they play video games and do other stupid shit.
>if I used that time to better myself
Yes this is the correct approach, staying fit and being educated is essential and should be your top priority. Wageslaving is bad too.
>I would be a millionaire by now.
not likely a millionaire but surely you will have more wealth and a more fulfilling life because your accomplishments are all real, getting a degree takes a lot more time and dedication than completing games made for children.
I wouldn't say games are inherently bad, you would have said the same if you spent all that time watching movies instead. Games are just another type of entertainment like anything else, games being interactive make it more convienient to play because they encompass music, writing and literal cinema sometimes. It's obviously not too late to change and you need to find a real thing you would obsess about that will take all your time, whether it's learning how to draw or a new language, doesn't matter.
>It's obviously not too late to change
This is the biggest cope of the 21st century. If you don't turn things around by your 20s you're done. If you don't have sex by 22 there is a MASSIVE observable trend in statistics that you will never have sex, short of rape which isn't recorded.
>Born a virgin
It was over for me before it started….
Yes if i worked every waking hour of every day for all the time I had, I too would be a millionaire.
And then I would have spent my life being completely miserable.
If it wasn't video games it would have been something else, it's an internal issue.
Lol why are your friends all rich now?
Because mine didn't do crap but work while I had fun.
Without video game I'd probably be in prison tbh
>would be a millionaire by now
And then what? Play video games?
Our life's purpose is to earn money and live comfortably
I worked a total of 3 months in my life and I'm 35
Neetbux?
Nope my grandparents bought share's in a medical company some 70y ago.
>Our life's purpose is to earn money
What a bleak and grim existence. The absolute state of corporate slaves.
Not him but it's not about money it's about what money gives you.
Having a decent amount of money gives you enormous freedom. So much of your life is worrying about money. If you rent, that's instantly like half of your income gone. If you've prepared, you're paying mortgage payments instead, which are lower. Eventually it's paid off and then, even with a part time or low paid job, you can live in some comfort.
So much of it though is just being able to go on holiday or buy new clothes or get a decent car without feeling stressed. That stress never leaves some people, their whole lives, all because when young they didn't give a shit
>go to school for 12 years
>4 years of university
>16 years of fricking nothing just to be able to earn a shit paycheck
If you aren't lucky or born rich then it's over
Life ruined my video games. I wasted so much time on it if I used that time to play video games I would have had much more fun.
kino
This but instead of video games its furry pornography. But I don't think I would be millionaire.
Being a millionaire is worthless you dumb Black person.
Go learn about how the world works.
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>Being a millionaire is worthless you dumb Black person.
I would kill a person in minecraft for a mil and the guarantee of not getting caught.
It really isn't.
I have a personal Chef that cooks for me every Sunday.
I used a Russian service and had children using the egg's from a girl that won the olimpics.
I crashed several very expensive rally cars
Food is good what you eat isent food.
The problem is people.
Millionaires are not good people and you should avoid them.
If they take an interest in you there are 2 reasons.
1.They want something you have.
2.They want to put something they did on you.
Life would be awesome if other people with money didn't exist.
>I used a Russian service and had children using the egg's from a girl that won the olimpics.
tell me more about this
I avoided video games and ended up in the same place. Here's some wisdom for you younger anons. Nobody will give a shit how hard you worked for a decade if you end up not being able to work. They'll just assume you are and always were lazy. I advise you to do your best to acquire property and the means to defend it. That way you can tell people to frick off because they sure as frick aren't going to treat you like a human being if life decides to frick you over.
People claim that making a videogame is some massive endeavor when all it really comes down to is having a few hundred unique assets, a couple playtesters and enough knowledge of code and level design that you can iterate on a formula enough to sustain a multiple hour playthrough.
That's it. You don't need crazy good graphics, a far-reaching story, loads of player choice and all that other bullshit people think makes AAA games great. What you need is what OTHER indie developers choose not to have in place of convenience and making a quick buck.
Also you have to realize that making games is a multi-discipline hobby ONLY for those who are doing everything on their own. Just having an art guy, or a sound guy, or a single marketing guy, or one e-celeb, can exponentially decrease the load off your shoulders of making a successful game.
>if I used that time to better myself I would be a millionaire by now.
In America if you work hard you become a billionaire
>No mention of America
>Talks about America
So, what shithole country are you from, brownoid?
There isnt a billionaire in America that has ever worked hard.
In America, if you work hard you make someone else a billionaire.
>I would be a millionaire by now.
No you wouldnt.
It's the weirdest cope, do people with this mindset not realize 95% of normies will never be millionaire's either, even if they never touch a videogame in their lives? If OP was some money/grind obsessed gay he would have done that instead of videogames, if videogames didn't exist he'd go for some other type of entertainment
99% of money/grind obessed gays are not millionaries.
>People who want money don't have money
No shit
I have 15k in crypto and that’s it. I hate everything
>instead of bettering himself, Anon comes to Ganker
i play games 4 hours a day minimum yet im a dentist earning pretty good wages. "X ruined my life" is a moronic take, you ruined your life, not anyone else. With the same logic you can't do anything recreational ever, after all there's no difference between getting drunk every now and then and hitting the bottle every day.
Same, I'm a self sufficient and married engineer, and most of my free time is taken up by video games, it's a great way to destress.
The real point of these threads is to get you to disengage with the hobby, they don't actually care if you find an alternative, they just want you to stop posting here and engaging with a community that is deemed unhelpful to social causes
no you guys would have wasted this new time shitposting on Ganker or watching brainless content on youtube (or pornhub)
Another idiot who fell for the american dream meme. Slaves will never be billionaires you dumb frick.
Stop talking like you're already dead, b***h.
I had a 55 yo low grade professor (he taught health and security at work to unemployed people) pursuing a chemistry degree on his own volition. Just study to be better at whatever shit you want to be.
You’re talking about a tenured professor making $80k+ a year recreationally attending classes at his university, possibly for free
>80k a month
I live in Portugal lmao
No, he gave classes at the unemployment center. Most of my teacher friends live by like this. Never setting a foot on actual schools.
*Year
Freudian slip.
I appreciate people learning things throughout their life but many people don’t have access to 1500 euro per year education
>I wasted so much time on them if I used that time to better myself I would be a millionaire by now.
no you wouldn't. you'd be, at best, one iota closer to retirement, I guess. maybe you'd be a home owner, if you're lucky. maybe you'd have a sizable 401k. but a millionaire? nah. sorry kid, you're never getting rich, the system is stacked against you such that you can't earn a wage and make a profit at the same time. unless you think you'd be able to entrepreneur your way to riches, like some cryptobro NFT gay, but that's unlikely to happen for anyone who doesn't already have capital to invest.
anyway, just enjoy the vidya while you can. life is shit, but you can be comfy at least.
Crypto is the only way to get rich. Stop being a moron and keep buying shit like doge next time.
>please buy my shitcoin so I can pump and dump and take all ur liquidity
no thanks.
You'll come around when btc hits 500k don't worry.
>I should be a millionaire despite the fact that I'm ugly, unintelligent and lazy.
Why are these threads always the same.
Back to antiwork with you homosexuals
No one cares about this until it's too late. When you're young the future seems so far away that it's difficult to take seriously. When you grow up a bit you might start to change your mind but it can take a long time for it to change your behaviour which is already strongly ingrained.
But eventually you'll reach a certain age, 30-40, and you'll realize that the authority figures, the successful businessmen, the government ministers, etc. - they're your age. But they live in spaceous homes, drive nice cars, have attractive wives and beautiful children. And you will become jealous or at least you'll regret your choices as you sit in your tiny apartment fapping.
Games REALLY ARE a waste of time and if you're of at least average intelligence you should do the most you can when you're young to set yourself up for a decent life when you're older. You don't care now, but you will.
Listen to this disingenuous slop, you don't have anything to offer anyone but a vague sense of worry. The goal is clearly to keep people in this sense of mind regardless of their degree of success.
Again, I'm dramatically more successful than my peers, very likely including yourself. I've chosen a work-life balance that allows for me to enjoy escapism and fantasy, not too different from any other media type. You are a wolf
If you play a little, that's no problem. The issue is people who take it as a main hobby and devote large parts of their youth to it.
>but I'M successful and play vidya, what about that 😉
I bet
A) You have an average job and are excessively proud for some reason and
B) You're married and childless
and also
C) You're moronic since you're saying "listen to me - I'm rich!" on an anonymous image board
Eh, you can do useful gainful work for 40 hours a week and have gaming as a main hobby. What’s the problem?
It's hilarious to me how broken losers like this guy have convinced themselves that in order to have a home, a wife and children you need to be a successful businessman without any hobbies other than making money.
The point isn't to be realistic, it's just to discourage you. They select Ganker for these threads for a reason
Literally not what I said. You can learn a language on your computer at home. You can take classes. There is all the information you need. You can get qualifications without setting foot in a school. My point is to focus on that and maybe have games as a side thing. Pretty good advice but it touches a nerve I guess
Yes and you aren't doing any of that right now. What you choose to do with your time this instant is to argue with strangers on a video game board on Ganker. MY question to you is simply why are you incapable of taking your own advice?
You're misunderstanding what I said. I did not say that you can NEVER so anything purely for leisure. You dumb brown c**t
But YOUR time that you are wasting right now on a video game board on Ganker arguing about random shit isn't wasted? It's impossible to take shit like this seriously when clearly you yourself can't take your own advice at all.
>video games are a waste of time? SO YOU MEAN I CAN LITERALLY NEVER PLAY THEM???
Are you moronic?
I've spent a weird amount of time conceptualizing a fighting game featuring every franchise I think is cool. I made a tier list, stages, and even some prefight exchanges
I seethe whenever I see how much streamers like cohh are earning. Dude is literally playing games and earning millions or dollars.
>if I used that time to better myself I would be a millionaire by now.
Pfffthahahahaha
What would you do with your millions anyway
Actually live
>Every waking moment that is not spent earning money is wasted.
Nobody meets this standard, especially not the ones espousing it. Why are these threads never directed towards Ganker?
Nobody’s trying to shame working people for resting in the last second before midnight, we’re talking about people who never work
man you could have build up skills, a career, friendships, relationships, create a loving family with a great partner, have kids, your own house, earn a safe amount of money. and in your spare time... well you could play videogames knowing you achieved something in your life instead supression the thought of failure with denial and drugs
You probably couldn't have. Look up cross addiction. A weak person like yourself who blames video games for his failure in life would have always just swapped one waste of time with another. Instead of playing video games you'd then just have spend more hours on Ganker and pick up 3 more tv shows to watch, rather than doing anything to actually improve your own life.
What about people who become addicted to work or a gainful course of action
Why do you have to be such coy homosexuals in either direction, you obviously understand the usefulness of action and you understand the idea of a healthy balance, why do you have to make yourself such malingering idiots pretending you don’t get the score
Why don't you take your own advice though? We both know that you have spent more time on Ganker today than most people spend playing video games. How is spending your time arguing about video games more healthy than playing them?
I’m on Ganker at work, I’m getting paid, it’s the perfect balance
if you're at a job that requires so little effort and has so few responsibilities where you have enough free time to waste it on Ganker, then you aren't trying very hard yourself as far as your career goes.
For sure. But you can literally earn money getting useful work done and also have a gaming hobby. It’s not that big of a deal
no one is arguing that. Why are you pretending that anyone who isn't you must be some loser NEET just because they play video games?
I never said that at all, I said why are people being so belligerent and coy on either side of this? Like it has to be an extreme? Imagine a person who does gainful work for 40 hours a week and also games for 40 more hours a week. There you have it. All I said was everyone here knows what balance looks like, so why be so coy, yourself included
You lost.