Gamer Dysfunction/Impotence

Time to move on. A job means money, money means opportunities and variety.. Go exercise, camp, hike, become a cinephile, read books, comics, play a sport, get into mechanics and cars, go travel.

You've been playing out of habit instead of interest.

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Give up your responsibilities and embrace NEETdom. At out lowest points by turning and reflecting inwards you can see who and what you really are and where you sit in the world. This is the path to becoming a true meme magician.

find actual fun games instead of being hooked on hype trains.
i have lots of games i get hyped for and then play 2 days of and wonder why i cared, but i also have genres i really like.
it's sometimes hard to get started but once you spend a few hours in something you like you'll be right into them.
i do this with books too.

adopt a neet and spend all day bullying them

just jack off before you play games. Works for me, plenty o' fun guaranteed

Behold the fate of the normalfag. Pity him, but never follow in his footsteps.

Get a new hobby like fisting yourself.

Try drugs.

What you should do is start a portfolio, pile the money up faster, and start venting it to the WFP so starving Indian babbies can eat. I know le imageboard pros taught you that it was stoopid not to be edgy, and I know SJWs beat it into you from a young age that it was condescending to think about helping someone with less stuff with you (unless it's them because they're charity cases), and patriots tell you to keep the wealth in your country, and catholics tell you you have to live in absolute poverty to be virtuous while helping the poor, and alarmists tell you the world will ASPLODE ZOMG!!!111!!!1 if the population grows anymore, but past all of the bullshit, you have more money than you need or want to do anything with, and you're competent. You can save up for retirement, make separate accounts, invest, get rich, whatever, but while you languish in plenty there are still kids who all tear-jerker commercials aside really are starving or severely malnourished and will grow up weak and short or die of illness from weak immune system.

Not only can you help them, you can even calculate how many you've saved. Not as some dick-waving self-esteem bullshit, but as an actual reason to keep living. As a declaration of loyalty to your species.

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we have similar lives

There is a possibility that it might just be the games. If you've been playing a long time, it will be harder to present something to you that is actually new, interesting, and well done.

It's why, as much as I keep saying "I wish there were more games like such and such". In reality, trying to make more games like classics of old won't work. You say "I want more games like it" but you are really saying "I want games as good or better than this."

It might be shocking, but classics are classics for a reason. They aren't just going to be able to crank them out like it's nothing. And an indie studio is not very likely to do it on their smaller budgets.

It's like playing Super Metroid and then going "I really want more games like this!" but then being a little dissatisfied. You played the best one, it's only downhill after that.

I know the exact feeling you are talking about. It still happens occasionally. When something quite unique and well done comes out.

And I think there is also an issue of game developers not really sure what they are doing anymore. They aren't taking the big risk. They aren't pushing the envelope except remaking older games but with new technology.

Like look at this.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_in_video_gaming

That was a fuckin amazing year. But look at the year before or the year after. Same thing. Now fastfoward and pick a more recent year like 2008.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_in_video_gaming

There are some great games that came out that year, but it's a lot more underwhelming.

Basically, I think the two relevant variables: you and the industry, both have a sort of push-pull thing going. Where you have already played a lot of great games, and the industry has just stopped releasing them. So it feels like "Where is all my passion for gaming? Why is it gone?" Well assuming you just want to play good games, you don't really have a lot of options.

Oh also, side note, I think there is a friend aspect as well. A very fun part of playing games was playing next to, or with, a friend. And then talking to a bunch of people at school about it. It was a solo activity mechanically, but ultimately a social one as well. Most adults don't have that at all. You play it, that's it. You can go to Holla Forums to post about it, but most people will either say "shit game fuck you", have not played it, have played it and don't have anything to say other than "great game 10/10", or someone will start freaking out about dubs.

I wonder if anyones ever tried a book-club style gaming social. See how that works.

No, fuck helping out human beings, they're goddamn awful and there are way too many of them. If you really want to donate to charity then you should help out the ASPCA.

Throwing money at a fire only helps it burn.

Also Pajeet, git out.

Listen user, what you need to do is take time to find the answer yourself. I know it sounds like a halfassed excuse for me to tell you to do "nothing" but it sounds like what you need is to take some time to be introspective and think about the problem.

Actively seeking a quick-fix without understanding what is broken is a road that leads only to disaster.

Analyze the problem, what exactly is making you discontent, talk to someone or talk to yourself, see who or what do you empathize with, find WHAT makes you feel, HOW it makes you feel and then you can find the WHY.

Also:

I think a lot of Anons end up feeling this when they end up going through an "existential crisis". The reason i say that is because of these points here in the wiki article:

If you feel this might be the case, I suggest reading the "Dark Night of the Soul" and some cursory research into Ego death and the like it might help you to rationalize a lot of this nonsense.

Top tier recommendation.

I know those feel too well my friend
Too well

Die.

If you really want to help donate money to you local community, not to some oversee country to people that you will never see

Jesus user, don't you have anything besides videogames?

Just watch anime or organize your hentai collection or some shit for the next few days and the desire to play videogames will come back.

Time to start lifting and reading in preparation for the greatest game of all: saving the White race.

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Take a hike, kike.

It's not something that those who have fatally internalized Semitic morality would understand.

Possessions pass away, relatives die, you yourself die as they. One thing I know that lives forever: the famous deeds of the dead.

i dont get why people think they are goign to pick one hobby and stick only with it

Blogpost thread?
Here we go.
Life's alright.

When you're bored of vidya, your brain is screaming at you to do something other than consume content.

Go learn something.

loo poo

I haven't even played video games in a while, all i do is open the game, stare at a title screen or something, click a few things and close it. And then i spend the rest of my free time either shitposting or staring at the screen

You need socializing, user.
And pussy impregnating.
This is the worse time for wizards apprentices, you know, because the path gets stiff.

I know man, i know

I have games just waiting to be installed on my PC but i dont have any motivation to even install them

I think a lot of people who feel like they've "stopped enjoying video games" mistake that video games are the problem. Step one to verify whether this is the case is to check whether you've also stopped enjoying everything else. If video games were the only thing you enjoyed, there's a good chance that the answer is "Yes."

I've felt similar thing when i played for my whole life on pc only.

Few days ago i decided to emulate. I was playing yakuza for about 6 hours yesterday and felt the fun i was supposed to feel. You just need something different, try emulators really.

yay blogposting thread

granted, outside of SF and Skullgirls I mostly just shit around with Faust and Takuma, but at this point it's all I can be bothered to play.

itt defeatists faggots

With the lack of dreams, that can be attributed to you unconsciously committing astral projection in your sleep. I suggest meditation.

user that's not how it works. Classics are not "made" as if you can just whip one up and pump it out with a big budget and planning, they're games that have stood the test of time. Here is what happens you make your game it's either good, average, or shit. Almost all of it will be shit, the remainder will be average for the majority, and the rest will be good budget doesn't matter outside whether the shit is polished to make a golden shiny pile of shit instead of a regular pile of shit. Then after enough time passes most of it will be forgotten but a few of each category and most will be "good", followed by "shit" (for being shit), then "average" that had that one thing about those particular games that stood out enough to be remembered. Those remembered will either remain with the so called "cult" status where it's only spread to a insular group of variable size or it ends up growing in popularity until it becomes popular to reference with those who've never played it thus becoming iconic and therefore a "Classic" if it's good or something akin to ET for Atari (if its reputation is that the game is terrible).

For example: The SNES, Super Famicom, and SNES Pal together have over 1500+ games and the SNES by itself has 780 or so however 200-250ish of those are recommended for being good and fun and only 50ish of those are iconic enough to be considered to be "classics" like Super Mario Bros, Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, Starfox, Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Live-A-Live, etc., etc.

But how many people talk about Brain Lord? Joe & Mac? Killer Instinct (SNES)? Mutant Chronicles: Doom Troopers? Phantom 2040? Rock n' Roll Racing? Sparkster? Sunset Riders? Wild Guns?

It is true though that the frequency of good fun games to remember at all compared to now or even 2008 has exponentially decreased. Not many games to go back too that's actually worth it to spark a feeling of fun.

why is lack of dreams connected to depression?

Find a good game you dipshit.
Lv 27, my vidya drive fades periodically to the point of nearly zero interest, but once every several months a good enough title comes out and it gives me all the feels back.

kill you're selve

Children. Other than that, I don't know either.

If you smoke weed you should stop.

10/10 if trolling.

You can also calculate how many more lives you've created and how many more will go hungry as a result.

If you feed them, they breed. Which only makes the problem worse.

and how many of them wronged human beings worthy of anything since the several breeds of nigger are the only races in the history to have no history since they never invented writing or a society that fit the definition of civlization and they're all savage animals

Quit your job, get a new one or something?
If you've got so much dosh piling up just take a leap and go do something crazy.
Get a lisence to fly a plane, sky dive, I dunno do something crazy.

What counts as "inventing"? The Japanese never invented writing, they just tried to force the Chinese system to fit, giving rise the almighty clusterfuck that is written Nipponese. Even the Gooks did a better job.

To add to that, Native Americans never wrote WORDS, did they? I guess they got pretty close though, with all their symbols and general painting.

Well it's unknown which ones did before the "forgot to make fire and dieing out" part, because ancient proto-commies killed off the smart ones or the entire gene pool was fucked to death by Arabs.

is weed connected to insomnia?

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I would have given anything to have as much free time as I do now back then. Now that I have time, I'm not using it. I start the game but I can't stop tabbing out and going to Holla Forums instead. I'm good at the game, as you would expect, but I still have many years worth of goals ahead of me. I want to do them, but I feel like I can't put in the necessary energy. I don't play to win, I just pass time.

is this for real? because I never thought my lack of dreams could be connected to my daily weed usage, potent weed too. lmao

I always get a good night sleep though…

You still dream but you end up way to high to remember them, same shit with drinking.

Personally I drink to avoid my dreams, used to smoke weed but can't get it anymore

I'm even older. When you play games for decades you sort of eventually become densensitized to all of the different genres. There just comes a time when nothing surprises you anymore because you've seen it all. Just take a break, you'll gravitate back to it. Age 12 to 23/24 was when I was most enthralled with vidya. It's normal to play less after that whole phase in life.

A quick search around the net has actually told me that depressed people are 3x more likely to dream than non-depressed people.

So shit whatever I'm just gonna keep smoking and fapping thank you enabling parents.

THC effects sleep cycles, it increases time spent in "deep sleep" and thus decreases time spent in REM sleep. Less REM sleep means less dreams.

Cannabis has DMT in it, overdose and chronic use of a drug builds tolerance to it, your brain naturally releases DMT to dream during sleep.

Stop doing drugs.

There isn't a single night you don't dream, the case comes with remembering them

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Apply yourself.

you never "lack" dreams unless you have a really fucked up sleep schedule, you just don't remember dream when you think you don't have any.

some psychologists say people forget 50% of their dreams when they wake up

You do realise that donating them money for food is a bad thing?
Their farmers can't currently support their population, and you're only making it worse. The more free food that comes in means farmers get less work and the country can support even less people by itself.