>every year that passes is another reminder that I'm past the prime of my gaming life
>reactions too slow to keep up with the 16 year olds online
>unable to learn new skills because the neuroplasticity has settled
>kept chasing a futile dream of making it big in e-sports while everyone else grew up, got married and had a family
Every year that passes is another reminder that I'm past the prime of my gaming life
Joshua Gray
Kayden Bell
and you're still a frogposting faggot
Kayden Bailey
>do something I never do and try a MP game with a mic
>all the other players are white teenagers talking like black people with slang like "bruh" and "bet"
I never felt so out of touch and old. Sometimes it feels that even though I've essentially dedicated my life to video games, I am still an outsider and don't fit in even there.
Chase Walker
and the worms ate into his brain
Juan Cook
I'm 27 and I play way better than when I was 16. But I've never been too good playing vidya.
Henry Scott
stop playing multiplayer games and remember it's just a pointless fun timesink. maybe get a productive hobby so that you don't care if you suck at a pointless thing that's just supposed to be fun
Bentley Diaz
gosh what are you playing, fortnite and ark?
Dominic Fisher
it was just some 12-year-old forgotten sourcemod. I expected to see some older people who had played it when they were younger to be in-game but it was just more kids. I want to connect with peers my age in a game but it's occurring to me that games in general are just played by children and I'm looking for fellow losers like needles in a haystack.
Eli Price
>turn 30
>thought I was slowing down as why I couldn't keep up
>realized its more that I just don't care enough anymore
>I'm not going to learn to be good at a new game, fuck that I just want to relax
>don't want to play a fast paced game and listen to some underage retards scream
>even though i was that guy when I was 18
don't care, play single player, be comfy. Modern multiplayer is different from a cultural stand point, matchmaking_era_comic.jpg
Jaxson Cox
Really? I am in my 30s and I still crush FPS lobbies. COD, Titanfall 2, whatever. Just aim better.
Jackson Green
Julian Powell
>>unable to learn new skills because the neuroplasticity has settled
take LSD sir
Tyler Gomez
Reaction time doesn't decline that much with age for it to matter. Most likely you just never had talent to begin with.
Angel Reyes
>he wanted to make money from playing video games
You should have listened to your father
Anthony Gomez
I'm 30, and I can feel my entire arms literally dying from years of gaming so much. Was it all worth it?
Lincoln Fisher
git good
Nathaniel Scott
HEY YOU
Dylan Collins
You don't need to be better than other people.
You do if you want a gf though.
Alexander Edwards
stop hating on ark you pieces of shit
Colton Wood
arms dying? wth
my fucking left wrist hurts but you don't see me going straight edge
Caleb Lewis
I can relate. The community that I grew up with back in 2008 feels so alien to me now that basically everyone I knew moved on, and when I occasionally pop on to see what it's like, I immediately regret it because while the average age of the community never changed, I got older. For once I felt like I was out of touch when I had promised myself years ago to never let that happen. As it turns out it's easier said than done. Now, I'm unironically having a great time doing Ultimate raids in FFXIV with people my age and older, so I think you may just need to find a game with a slightly older playerbase.
Blake Bell
>Fuck around with your aim and sensitivity for years
>Wtf how are 16 year olds better than me?
Natural talent, but you should have over a decade of muscle memory at this point, you did take the time to measure an instant 180 degree turn with a wrist flick and then use a calculator to match that sensitivity in every game you played for the last 14 years right?
Gavin Cook
Yea, all the years of bad posture is really starting to bite my ass. I’m gonna have to get some ergonomic shit cause this is getting to much
Caleb Howard
It's just a matter of shifting priorities. In high school I'd game well into the early morning like 4-5am. Obviously those hundreds of hours of practice made me great at a game, but nowadays I can't do that. I have a job and fiance and I wouldn't trade them for those carefree years. You can buy video games and live on borrowed time, but you can't buy a gf or love. If you think back to your teenage days I'm sure you'd consider trading some vidya time for time with a gf. I'd have done that in a second.
So I don't feel bad about being half as good at a game if i have infinitely more sex/love than those kids.
Jackson Barnes
I wish she hadn't aged or gotten fat bros...
Daniel Jones
FPBP. I'm a depressed faggot too but at least I haven't posted Pepe in over ten years when it was just "feels good man"
Angel Green
Based enlightened user.
Blake Moore
Multiplayer is just a chatroom at this point even if 99% of the time it's a teenager screaming incoherently or pretending to be black.
Juan Ward
>not bullying young guns in game of choice due to raw experience
Its like you don't even gate keep
Leo Anderson
>Zoomers talking about some gay shit
>Call them gay zoomer babies
>They call me old
>Zoomers in TF2 start bullying me for being old
>Switch to Demoman and spawn camp
Only I am allowed to have fun, your fun is priviledge I allow
Levi Flores
>people still believe the reaction time myth not realizing that native reactions are slower than trained reactions