Hey Zig Forums, do you ever play a vidya and have a moment of realization?

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>19
You are like a little baby.

I'm 32 and still playing vidja. I do have a job though

You'll experience those kinds of realization about everything to be fair. Even sex gives a "why am I doing this shit?" feeling after some time and depression.

How do you not have any skills by 19? by 20 i had 4 it certs and at 33 now i have 8 more and decent job.

We are literally just thinking meat floating through space on a rock in an indifferent universe.

It doesn't matter what we do. Its ultimately meaningless

Nah, I'm 28 and I play vidya constantly because that's what I want to do with my time. Life gives me enough shit to the point where I don't mind finding the time to escape it for a bit. If you feel like you're not having fun or you're wasting your time, try doing something else for a change.

I don't know how to say this but your "realization" is just cultural brainwashing, and a question of scale, nothing more. For one, there's 8 billion of us here right now, nothing you do or don't do will ever make a dent on the world as it is now. The achievements and deeds of the most legendary people who have ever existed, or will ever exist, won't change the fact that they will all die and eventually be forgotten, 99.999% of the people which means all of us on this board, will be entirely forgotten in no more than 2-3 generations. For some of us, it's just 1. In fact, our entire species will be gone and extinct in a less than a cosmic blink of an eye, and the rest of the entire universe won't even know or care we ever existed.

The point is, people love to imagine there's some grand purpose or great meaning to life. There isn't. Which means you're free to do whatever you want, think whatever you want, as long as it maximizes your own happiness in your extremely short life. Besides, most anything you do in life is no different from games. All people fill their lives with useless activities that serve no purpose other than to entertain, provide, and kill time. And playing is a part of life, all animals do it.

hold onto that feeling user. videogames have you trapped. unless you want to end up like me 39 and still living at home talking with teenagers about videogames. its too late for me but nows the time you should be taking your foot off the gas and finding other interests. id suggest drones, girls, cars, or the gym for a start.

for me it was Anonymous Agony. But it was more of a positive epiphany, like it changed me for the better

Yeah, but for me it was more like 16. After that everything in life started mattering less to me. Ironically, I only started turning my life around after that realization. I lost a ton of weight and got a car and a shitty part time job. I became much more confident and stopped caring about what everyone thought of my hobbies.

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>Wow, I'm X years old and just spent X amount of time doing X, what a waste.
It works the same with anyting, hobbies are hobbies.
Life is inherently suffering and we all find different things to take us away from that suffering. Be it video games, music, or exercise. It's all the same shit, you're gonna die anyway.

While games haven't offered me any revelations, a movie did. You know that line in Matrix, when Neo is about to exit the car in the beginning and Trinity stops him. Neo looks at the rainy road, back at Trin, ans asks why he shouldn't leave. Trinity replies: "Because you have been down there Neo, you know that road, you know exactly where it ends. And I know that's not where you want to be."

That was something I've remembered every single day since. I was a failure of a teen back then, and for quite a few years after into my mid 20's. But that line, its meaning, stuck with me. And eventually led me on a better path. Because that made me realize that as long as I do what I've always done, procrastinate, hang out with the same toxic people, or don't change my stupid habits... nothing will EVER change. I know where the road I'm on leads. So every time I need a change in my life, I need to pick a different road. My degree didn't come by staying on the road. My job didn't come by staying on my road. My physique didn't come by staying on the road.

At any point in life, I could look at which road I was on, I could see how my life would be like, if I kept following it for 5, 10, or 30 years. And every time I wasn't satisfied, I changed something, did something to pick a better road. And every time my life got better. Up to 25 years I was a NEET loser. In the past 10 years I've graduated from Uni, created a career, and now own my own flat and get upper middle class earnings, and exercise regularly. All because I now know that unless I do it myself, nothing will change. Ever. So every time I feel like procrastinating, I remind myself and ask "Is what you have now enough? Is the point where this road leads, good enough for you?" And if the answer is "no", then I do better.

I’m 34 years old. It only gets worse kid. Get a hobby where you create something (drawing, painting, writing, woodworking, painting fucking warhammer minis or dumb shit like that even) instead of just consooming. If you want take baby steps play Mario maker or Minecraft or some shit ass video game where you make something first then move on to real life. Seriously, video games should be how you unwind, not a crutch that you rely on or something that you do for the sake of doing. It’s like fapping, it’s fun to do every once in a while but don’t just fill all your empty time with it.

Do you people not find value in being entertained? What is with this "videogames are pointless" narrative?

>19
I'm 32 and I knew what videogames were the moment I got into them as a kid, playing a friends NES. It's just distraction before the end.

Bitch youre 19, if it worries you just stop playing vydia and go out and have fun
You know what I would do if I could be 19 again? Fuck everyone I have the chance to, not giving a fuck about relationships, getting drunk, high, whatever and go out and fuck every girl you want and can
t. sad user in a relationship for 13 years

unironically Jesus Christ

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just drugs, alcohol is shit.

Based. I literally did nothing but these for the past 10 years and am trying to stop. Made a lot of cool friends and have a lot of fucked up memories, good and bad. Trying to stop is retarded tho. For me, I've just kinda started picking up where I left off, Zig Forums and vidya.
I feel too old for Zig Forums now.
I still drink a lot.

When you stop deriving entertainment from games, they become pointless. I had a moment a few months ago where I was playing game after game, spending an hour on one then getting bored of it and moving on to the next. Then it fucking hit me as I was playing something or other... I wasn’t having fun. I wasn’t enjoying my time with the games but I kept playing them compulsively without actually thinking about how they made me feel.

>I feel like I'm just kinda spending my time on nothing all of the sudden

You are

Your youth will leave you VERY quickly and you will regret all this wasted time on toys

>user suffers his first episode if existential dread
How cute. Just remember to handle it gracefully. Many lose their minds and become alt-right dipshits.

No, just you faggot.

You finally got some taste and realised you were playing a shit game.
Congrats

>had girlfriends
>got laid
>have a career
>varied skillset
>traveled the world
>vidya is still the coolest thing to do
If you can't enjoy vidya anymore, you might as well kill yourself.

Someone read to much Marc Aurelius

It was never meant to be fun. Maybe sometimes it was fun, but if you look closely at those times, and I might be projecting, it was because you were playing them with friends.
For me, I like having goals I know how to actively work towards, its a nice way to kill time, which is all any hobby is. Video games provide that, even if there is no real reward at the end.

You're fucking 34 and you keep using retarded buzzwords that dumb underaged wojak posters spam, get a life grandpa. We're on fucking Zig Forums, of course people are consuming vidya. I don't see people laughing at /l/ for consuming literature.

Sure you can go with drugs and alcohol, but I just want you to know that theres a chance its gonna give you serious mental problems
I was never really into drinking, but spent like 10 years of my life smoking weed literally every day, not always getting actually high, but just to make fun things more fun, to make fucking around with friends more memorable and retarded, conversations getting deeper etc
Eventually I had my first panic attack while being high, I was just chillin and cooking at home by myself, everything was fine and nice, and then it began
Now I can barely make it through 1 or 2 days at best without taking pills, I cant take the bus without my meds, cant go to restaurants, having a hard time at work, should seriously start thinking about my future but my panic attacks and constant tension I feel makes it really hard
I mean its just one fucked up retarded anons experience, but I never thought it could happen to me, never had problems like these before, my whole life changed in literally 1 minute