Do you think you would've turned out better in life if you grew up without video games?

Do you think you would've turned out better in life if you grew up without video games?

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It's the internet that fucked me up. I got dialup when I hit puberty and it fucked me up for life. It fucked up everyone.

I'd be more successful, but I'd be the sort of faggot that would be the most boring and normal of all normalfaggots.

No. I'd be missing out on the joys of button mashing, interactivity through reflexes and waifus.

I would probably have done better if my dad wasn't a deadbeat who got thrown in jail for assisting in the cooking of crystal meth.

I wouldn't have had a better life or anything. Video games helped me explore myself and find different interests I had, like history, cooking, science. Video games also helped me talk to people online about a more shared experience that allowed me to know we had shared feeling, like both being frustrated by the same inaccurate mini-games or difficult bosses.

So I'm pretty glad I play video games.

Nope, there's no outlet for my anger without video games.Playing too much video games is just a symptom of having too much time on your hand.

Did you ever get to play Payday with your dad?

I would have killed myself or I would have found something as autistic to detach myself from this shitty existence.

I would have turned out better if I never found imageboards.

Now this is something I can agree with.

No.

No, why?

i would have gone full nonimportant without videogames.

I grew up around the time magazines discovered photoshopping.

They were terrible at it, but they didn't THINK they were terrible at it.

Compared to we were supposed to find sexy, Video games and anime just seemed normal.

I would've most likely been that shitty kid who tried so hard to be cool and chad but was just awkward, unfunny and a spaghettimaster who all the other chad kids ripped on and fucked with. I'm actually glad I'm so into vidya.

Ever think he was a deadbeat because his son played video games and needed to pay for that addiction some how?

I can't be the only one who saw the thumbnail in the catalog and thought it was a guy fucking a slime.

this smh tbh fam

No, I would have got even deeper into wargames, boardgames, and tabletop than I already am

videogames take away time and money I'd just be spending on that anyway.

I'd probably have killed myself already. So yes.

if the alternative would've been a productive self-improving social networking activity, yes.

if the alternative would've been drugs, crime, bluepill, no.

games are less my ruin, more an enabler of my poor response to problems and issues in my life.

play in moderation, prioritize life, i guess
another user once said "time enjoyed is time well spent"

My entire adult career has been in computers, and video games got me into computers as a kid, so no.
but i barely play four hours of vidya a week at this point, other than weekends, so that factors into it.

Video games were the only time in my life where I was content and happy. Life without video games is empty and numb.

Cherish your time as a NEET. When it's gone you will begin to die as I am.

I was mind-bendingly autistic. Video games gave me the first thing I knew how to talk about with other people, and that gave me enough practice to eventually be able to talk to other people about stuff that isn't video games.

Video games were the only thing that got me friends and is the only thing I can really talk about. It made me more autistic in other ways, but seeing all the other things I could have been, I'm ok with this.

I would waste my life with some other form of escapism

Want an honest answer?
No. Easy readon, you are here on Holla Forums. You are here and fully aware how brainwashed the masses are. What I am telling you is that you were not on Holla Forums because of vidya, you'd be another victim of drinking the koolaid. Believing about feminism and sexism and all that other bullshit spewed.
Think about it this way, if not for vidya what would you be like mentally in "current year"

Yes. And internet. It's too late to quit now, I'm addicted. Though addiction isn't the main reason I think I would have gotten along better. Not only would I have had to actually go outside and interact with people, thus having more social skills, but I'd probably have better eye sight since I'm not staring at a screen all the time.

this.
I would hate being a hype monkey living off of marketing and being told what to like at every corner. I would hate having to keep up an image in order to maintain "friends", giving up hobbies and personal interest so I can have a mid life crisis later on in life.
My interest into video games led me to have an autistic interest into engineering which is going to give me job opportunities hopefully.

Probably.
I have no social skills and I don't particularly enjoy video games.
I've long stopped fitting in with the "video game" crowd because I play Japanese weebshit instead.

I don't think video games ruined my life, but anime probably did. I stopped trying to go along with most normal people and now I do things alone and escape the real world by watching anime or shitposting in irc chatrooms.

To be honest, the 3D world sucks anyway, so I don't know if I'm missing out on much. The few people I stick around with define success as doing what they're told, or just working as hard as you can to get rich and die a meaningless life.

(OP)
No not really. All things considered games have probably kept me out of trouble.

I've got that picture.

I'm not sure why that didn't spoiler correctly the first time

Would I be happier living in the [current year]?

This

ignorance is bliss user.

It's for the best that video games, even if just barely, can still distract me from the things that infuriate me.

No. Video games are just another part of my life. Not a huge one, compared to others, but certainly large enough that I would list video games as a hobby. And if I didn't have them, there would just be something else. The thing is, I don't know what that is. Likely, something just as escapist, like watching television shows. And given the alternatives, I like the choice that I've made. Video games at least give me a challenge to try and better something. Television and similar escapist hobbies give you nothing. In that regard, I would say video games actually improved an aspect of my life.

Do you know what does improve a person's life? Coming to accept what they are. And I don't mean in the "perfect the way you are" way - I mean in coming to terms with yourself, finding your flaws, and using them to better yourself. If you're a fat person, congrats, you've completed the bulking stage for getting into lifting. Now it's time to cut. Your weakness becomes the stepping stone to self-betterment. But the essential part to this is self-betterment. You have to strive at all times to become stronger than you were the day before.

No, I think that I would have even less friends without video games than I do now considering how fucking sick I was as a kid, and that made me really socially akward and video games helped me develop some social skills

I regret getting addicted to them, but they did give me some tools to move on.
So, no. I think not. My parents saw what I became when I was addicted and they shoved their fear in me.
I regret deeply thinking videogames ruined me.

Yes. Video games lead me to Holla Forums, and Holla Forums turned me gay.

video games are not responsible for where you are in life. the only person responsible for that:

IS YOU

accept where you are. take responsibility for where you want to go. find what makes you happy and do that. if you aren't happy, stop escaping with vidya and go make a life for yourself that lets you be happy. then ENHANCE it with vidya.

to answer OP: stop baiting with this retard shit. i've met better, more interesting, and more human people playing video games than I have vapidly attempting to navigate the arbitrary social hierarchy called >2016

So you're saying I turned myself gay? Nah.

You were always a faggot.

I guess I have to kill myself, with digits like these.

You are a leaf nigger. Being a faggot was your only option in life.

Nah, I've had a number of hobbies and video games have their own particular type of joy. I don't think I'd have ever had many friends without video games too. I might have gotten better at drawing without video games eating idle time, maybe a healthier sleep schedule too. No big loss.

This. Fuck Flash games, it set a trend for my life that I'll never recover fully.

Not really, but society do treat NEET video game playing losers almost as worse as drug addicts who'll eventually turn to crime, thank you fucking media critics.

Whenever someone says that what always comes to mind first is directing fetish pornography.

No, because if I'm not wasting my time playing video games, I'm wasting it shitposting here.

But I've devised a new plan to turn shitposting into a productive activity. I've learned the basics of the russian language, and i'm going to go shitposting on Два.ч until I'm fluent (in shitposting at least)

I'd probably be more religious than I already am. Господин помилуй

That's just crazy enough to work

why even live?

Things would have been much worse for me. I learned English by playing them. They taught me how to grind, set goals, and be resourceful. They inspired me to learn about technology and programming. Video games and imageboards are my parents.

Who knows.

"Run."

If I grew up without video games I'd probably latch on to something else like television or books or sports.

Same here. I'd probably be in better shape too.

Well video games is the reason why I didn't kill myself ages ago

The main things that fucked me in life was the school district and my narcissistic mother. That shit fucks you up for life

Women scare the shit out of me naturally due to that. I just want to be normal

Surprised the thread didn't end here.
Without video games and, admittedly, Holla Forums I'd be a colossal faggot who votes Hillary and smokes weed, since everyone else in my home town who wasn't either an athlete or a fisherman smoked weed.

I've been on Holla Forums since the first goddamn month of halfchan. Don't make excuses. If anything, your constant exposure to syrup made you gay.

nigger detected

i turned to video games after i got put on add shit. basically lobotomized me. then when i was still a minor 16-17 i was put on some hard antidepressants, now i have huge holes in my memory. years lost both in coming off of them and years of memory lost. all because i was a "disruptive" child.

so now i shitpost and play video games.

and my parents wonder why i never want to leave the basement.

I would either be:

A ) a normalfag delinquent

B.) A criminal

C.) More of an anime autist than I am

Not much to do in my shitty town

I get to experience this for the next several months, so who knows? Maybe I will end up better, maybe I'll just spend time I'd spend on vidya on anime or some other dumb shit.

Ready for the Nativity?

Maybe, the hope would be id have modivation to do Something other than game, shitpost and put minimal effort into all else? It's like an addiction at Times

Nah. My real addiction is shitty genre fiction.

-No Constantinople

No.

Yes

No. Without video games I'd spend all my time on Holla Forums, and that place is a fucking cancer.

Definitely not.

After my older sister died when i was young, my family broke apart. My father was already a brain damaged mentally 14 years old pussy and my mom is out of her mind. My friends would beat me up and make fun of me.

But Kirby was always smiling.
Link was always strong. Countless other characters taught me lessons also, but those two really stuck. The worlds of video games were struck by tragedy, but always hope, always fighting until the end.
After several years of nothing but struggling alone, very little time for video games, and no money to buy them with, I'm making more money than anyone in my family ever has and I'm saving for a house. Video games raised me to one thing, rain or shine: persevere.

If anything, anime fucked me up most. At least I could talk to real people about games.

Just saying OP, but that wouldn't work. The whole "bath tub toaster" suicide thing is only possible with DC current, back before we had a thing called 'fuses' and 'relays.' That was a hundred years or more ago. If you were to try suicide by electrocuting yourself in the bath, all that would happen is you would blow the breaker and you might get a bit of a jolt (and it might sting), but it won't be enough to kill you and it'll be extremely short because the breaker will blow almost the millisecond that the toaster/radio/whatever hits the water.

If you end up here, it's not video games, or the internet, or society that made you the way you are.
It's just you.
It was you all along.

You are broken, and you are the problem, blaming your problems on a number of factors surrounding you won't change the reality of the situation: you were broken all along, it had nothing to do with any external factors, any path you might have taken in life would always lead to this moment, as you are the only constant in all your possible realities, and since you're defective to the very core, you always end up here.

Of course not that's retarded.

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Lol this.

And yet it's one of the few sane places left where you can discuss games properly.

Let that sink in.

No, I think I'd be dead, and that's pathetic.

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Nah. I'd just be spending my free time in front of the tv instead and my brain would be even more mush than it is now. I also probably would not be studying history and writing because it was the old fantasy RPGs that first sparked my interest in those things.

Not sure, but I'm pretty sure I'd better off

You have a pretty fucked up interpretation of the term "friends". Other would call that enemies.

Nah, ill would be better off if porn didnt exist tough

Holla Forums got me into traps. Traps are my favorite fetish because of Holla Forums.

Now I'm having the desire to become a trap. Thanks for turning me into a degenerate, guys.

My life would be better if I didn't have a trash family addicted to drugs that did nothing to help raise me. I was the only person in my family to not drop out of high school. I have an aunt right now whose kind of helping me out right now. Not financially or anything, she gives me a lot of spiritual and emotional support. I'm trying to get out of my current living situation, but there's literally no jobs for me to get and the only way out is to join the military. I'm going to do it after this year of college is over.

weak people like you should just off themselves

THe last couple years showed me how fucking true that is.
Almost everyone I know has a sip or a gallon of the koolaid and they seem content with the world, completly oblivious to what is happening around them.

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Kill yourself.

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sodomite.

I'd have killed myself in middle school without video games.
So I guess yeah, I would have turned out better.

Did you ever think they do know what is going on and are welcoming it?

liking traps isn't gay, but wanting to be one might be gay

steer clear of the gay

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I feel ya, my mother was a cunt as well. I'm considering moving to America and chase muh American dream. Everything is better than this.

What's wrong with weed? Alcohol's overly harsh effects on the body objectively make it an archaic and less efficient method of achieving intoxication. As a Trump supporting marijuana enthusiast I feel lucky to have discovered it personally.

Weed is for meme-loving little shits.

The US empire will fall soon, best to stay away before major depression hits and everything gets fucked.

Doesn't depression mean cheap shit? Also the country really seems to rally around Trump and the dying legacy media. I think this seems like a great time to come to the states.

Are you mentally challenged or something?

Probably, vidya just makes me waste a lot of time, but what's really affected me was finding out that I'm circumcised. That really made me depressed. I'm trying to restore, but it seems like it's taking for fucking ever.

Fuck you Holla Forums

Who is stopping you from enslaving other people?

The great depression happened because the stock market fucked itself and banks went bust. The "cheap shit" was just a result of NOBODY HAVING ANY MONEY TO SPEND ON SHIT and if the great depress 2 electric boogaloo does happen in this [[[current year]]] environment chalk full of niggers and shit(maybe not mexicans because they're used to being poor, nigs like to pretend they're rich) then good luck not getting shanked in the street fam.

Muh NAP

Also i don't know what would've happened if i didn't have vidya, maybe i wouldn't have gotten ambushed by a spic a nigger and a wigger. Maybe i wouldn't have been sent to special ed(read: a school full of nigs) for saying problematic shit in front of a group of other nigger. Hell, maybe i wouldn't be so autistic who the fuck knows

All i know for sure is i'd probably killed myself long ago if it wasn't for vidya.

Holy shit you're a massive fucking pussy and you deserved to be beaten up with that pretentious nu-male drivel. I can't think of a worse image for you to have posted with because you're nothing like that, you sad limp little cocksucker.

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Anyone that trespasses on my lawn violates NAP, therefore I can enslave them. Anyone that tries to free my slaves is violating NAP and can be enslaved as well. "NAP" is whatever the anarchist with the most guns say it is.

Probably not and I doubt anyone can really say that it would be. If you've devoted enough of your time to video games that its affected your life negatively or otherwise, that probably means that you have an addictive personality which would've been spent on some other hobby in the absence of video games. Now the case could be made that if that if it weren't for video games, that hobby could've been something "productive" like working on cars, but at the same time if you're content to play video games endlessly, being content working on cars is a very lateral move, except maybe you'd have to option of working on cars in an autoshop as a career.

Basically this. If I didn't end up addicted to video games I probably would've ended up either a junkie with no future or an autist with spaghetti unmatched.

And as time wasting as games usually are, at least I sometimes learned shit while playing. Hell, I learned about the value of money and basic economics playing fucking runescape.

thus the nople

No, I'd probably have turned out to be an ignorant and miserable normalfag.

I'm convinced that I would probably have grown up doing tons of drugs. I've had clinical depression since I was a young kid due to early childhood. Video games are my drug of choice I guess you could say. Without them I would probably not even exist anymore to be honest.

Just kill me fam, end my suffering.

It's not the drug itself, it's the people who obsess over it and think they're better than everyone.

Sure, most of the people I've actually smoked with are good people, but god damn get off your high horse and talk about something other than weed.


Hell no. Sure, there might be a chance that I would be slighty less autistic without them, but it wouldn't be where I am today without it. I'd most likely be:

a) a really boring normalfag who, without any interests in video games or computers, takes up finance or business or some over saturated major in college where everyone and their dogs are getting degrees in. This decision will most likely end up in a midlife crisis, tons of financial problems, and a possibly eh marriage. I hope to god that this doesn't happen to me in the current timeline

b) Join the wrong group of people, do stupid shit, fuck up my school, and possibly end up either dead, as some junkie alcoholic as well maybe, in prison, or as some blue collared nobody who barely passed high school and lives in worse conditions than the above case.

c) living off NEETBUX until I'm 38.

why aren't you doing it? there is a reason that pornography is a BILLION DOLLAR MARKET.

GET UP. GET HARD. MAKE PORN. BE THE ONE.

No, since i'd have turned to books instead and ended up the same i am now

Too scary if true, so no

If I didn't play video games, I'd probably be an alcoholic.

cant you do both

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>never would have met my boyfriend

semper vidya

How was breakfast today?

get one of those silly straw hats and a minifridge

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Some reason this made me laugh.

a straw for adults

Sometimes I wish I were a normalfag, but then I'd be brain-dead too, so I guess this is fine.
Video games gave me fun and imageboards taught me to think.

Do you think you would've turned out better in life if you grew up without video games?
No doubt, but it's too late to bother with regrets.

No, I probably would have turned into a school shooter.
I'd still have my biology incredibly bad hayfever leading to me spending more time indoors, non-drowsy meds hadn't really come along, leading to me still being antisocial, leading to me still being a creepy pale twiggy kid, leading finally to people thinking "I can fuck with this kid with zero repercussions".
I'm pretty sure without videogames I would have been torturing cats at a young age instead of playing Chips Challenge, Commander Keen or Chex Quest.
Not a lot of parental oversight.
Without videogames I would no doubt have attempted to emulate my walking trope of an older brother.
I'd dress like a jackass, listen to shit music, drink and start doing a lot of drugs.
If hanging around him didn't kill me it would definitely still make me a worse and more unhinged person.
A wetback or some trailer trash would fuck with me and I'd just start gentrifying the school the following day because conservative dad who owns a lot of guns and doesn't lock them up very well.

That is one of the least dark projection I have.
The worst one is following convention by becoming a wigger, then an emo, until finally a self proclaimed "male feminist" hipster adult who wares girl jeans "fitten jeans".
I'd fall in love with and marry a girl, we'd watch Big Bang Theory and laugh, we'd start a family until she leaves me for a doctor because money can buy happiness and he has more of it and is also probably more of a man than I am.
That is the nightmare scenario I've seen personally happen to multiple people I know.
I had either too much hope or lack of imagination to actually believe in that sort of thing until I saw it happen again and again.
The similarities are striking every time and that more than anything else makes me believe some choices I have made in life, like playing videogames, were the right choices.

I'm laughing like a fucking hyena at these, god, I love you guys.

How do you buy weed tho? You have to talk to people and shit, "wh-where do i go to get weed g-guys", fuck that. Go to store, buy alcohol, pay, leave.

you can still make a lets play channel user :^)

Also how the fuck did anyone in this thread meet anyone via video games?

Are you all autistic or just shitposting? Do you honestly believe that every single ethic, moral, and cultural belief of a society must be enshrined as a law and backed up by authoritarian police and government in order for it to work and be maintained?
What do you think common law is?
How do you think churches work?
How do you think communities pull together after a tragedy or disaster?
Because here's the thing: If Volunteerism doesn't work then whatever ideology you're pushing will ultimately fail, and if Volunteerism does work then we don't really need what you're selling.

Sage for completely not thread related.

lol no. Everything in life is a shit disappointment. If it wasn't vidya I'd just find whatever else I was doing to be equally pointless.

I want this meme to end.

I want this meme to end as well

whoopsie daisy

I also want the social acceptance codeword for kosherwood forced meme of promiscuity and virginity shaming to end. I've done stupid shit too that could have cost me my future, for nothing, because I was gullible.

I'm in Colorado so ezpz but when I was in Texas I had it delivered to my house so no biggie there either.

This makes me want to commit a murder in San Fran.

This image makes my fucking stomach hurt.

Who is this mana milker?

maybe you should stop touching yourself with traps on your screen; traps, as well as touching yourself, are missing the point of your reproductive system, which is to make babies

you should also stop touching yourself period, but if you can't do that at least look at actual girls who don't have guy parts and aren't pleasing themselves; if they are you could develop autogynephilia and then want to become a girl in order to satisfy those new and erroneous urges

pic related, read the whole thing

just get to the point

Admittedly because of a psychological condition that I have, I don't get mental addictions, and mental coercion doesn't work on me. Another side-effect is that I don't feel fear (which is a bad thing, because it makes my fight or flight response ineffective).

I've looked at every type of porn there is, but I still find real women to be attractive, although I am a bit different, because I find women in conservative dress to be more attractive than women in skimpy/"sexy" clothes. Perhaps it's because I never tried to self-insert and imagine myself being the man fucking the woman, or a woman eating out another woman, but instead I got off to the erotic imagery of women alone, I don't know, but I don't think that entire post is even half accurate even for a regular male.

It sounds more like an obsessive individual who becomes so desperate that they become lost in the fantasy and the lines of what is real and what is fantasy begin to fade away, until they begin to hypnotize themselves to believe whatever it is they think they desire because their obsession has caused them to allow imagery alone to consume their psyche.

tl;dr - Just like hypnotism is an unspoken agreement between the operator and the subject, I think that in order to be "affected" by porn you need to be receptive to the idea that you are being affected by the porn. If you feel that you are being brainwashed ludovico style, it's because you have chosen to be, and you need to make the active choice to ignore the phenomena and defy it, to think "healthy" thoughts instead. A man's brain is his domain, and your sense of propriety is your control center. If you lose your sense of propriety to obsession because you are prone to addiction, you need to become aware of this weakness, because it can harm you greater than anything else in your life.

As to the subject of pedophiles and pedophilia, I don't think using non-pedophiles as a control is an effective way to gauge how that mindset works, and really doubt that that user has any actual grasp of what pedophilia is like for a pedophile. Injecting the idea that pedophilia is merely a means of bypassing rejections based on size, appearance or personality is ridiculous. There's a compulsive behavior involved in pedophilia which stems from developmental problems and a pedophile doesn't develop feelings for children because he thinks that only a child would accept his cock without judgement. That's not only erroneous, but fucking dangerous as it subverts what pedophilia is and leads to poor judgement, like a video game journalist sending pictures of his daughter to a pedophile to cheer them up, thinking that one day their problem will be overcome and they'll become normalfags, they just need that quick fix to help them out today.

Just from the thumbnail of that simple picture I could tell that that was the beginning of Silent Hill 2.

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No.

At first I thought so, but then I realised if I didn't waste all my time and energy into video games, I'd waste it on books like ye days of olde.

I know that feel, you can't have a boy raised by a woman and expect a man.

The issue isn't that you grew up on video games.
The issue is that you were in a position to grow up on video games.

I am grateful for having grown up with video games and the internet. They're what shaped my life and conscience with strong values. All the friends I've met on here taught me and have raised my socializing stat to a solid 9, even if I rarely go out of the house. Everyone thinks I'm funny. And the best part is, I got onto 4chan. I felt a magnetism to the pre-2007 internet values, and decided to join in the migration. And that's my biggest reason for NO RAGRETS, because I fucking love you guys. I love your sense of humor and I love your well-founded pessimism. You, too, have taught me.


This too. Ten out of fucking ten.
>Tfw my blatant incorrectness surfaced and I insulted a teen with a muffin top wearing a halfway tank-top for dressing like a slut while on vacation
>Tfw her father damn near beat my ass and I just told him to have his daughter dress with dignity like a lady
>All the while my balls are steadily shriveling

i dont understand most of these term
but i love the orignal deus ex
it seem like a smartly made game

ken levine?

wow to same person who made help make system shock 2 and thief

made a dog shit game like bioshock infinite

I'd say that the internet has fucked up everyone, in a sort of way, it's great that we didn't end up braindead normalfaggots.

Considering the fact that I won multiple thousands of dollars from scratch off tickets. I don't think videogames would have changed much besides engorging my gambling habit which caused me to go on a lotto spree.
That being said, OP if you are so interested in not videogames, why don't you ask people that left this field of entertainment.

I wouldn't be any different. I'd just be consuming more of some other kind of media, like books or movies or sports, or doing other hobbies like drawing or building shit. Whether that would make me more "normalfag" isn't the issue. I would still be the same kind of person; that's genetics and the first few years of my life, not video games.

Now, if I'd been born 10 years later, and been playing video games since toddlerhood, it might have been a different story. But I didn't even get my first game system until I was 12. My formative years were spent reading books and playing with building toys like Legos. The games I play are as a result of who I am; they didn't cause it.

i wish I was dead

Why even die if not to terrorize the living?

Traps was a "ironic" meme before poe's law took over, consider ridding of your fetish or kys

oh fug

I still would have grown up to be a fat sack of shit because my mother would still have kept feeding me, telling me "Oh you'll grow out of it when you're a teenager", despite the fact that I was obese as a child. I still would have been reviled by women anywhere I went because of my eternal babyface, often being seen as a child despite how much older I got. I still would have been socially inept (probably even moreso) for not sharing any interests with literally anyone. I didn't even know anyone playing vidya until I was well into the last year of high school, and it was just chad thundercocks playing halo and being outright fucking apes after school. I still would have tried to pursue my passion in writing, and drawing, and then finding out that I'm a complete sack of shit in both of those too, and then just giving up to be an eternal workhorse until I die.

So no, I don't think I would have changed in the slightest. Probably would have picked up a different hobby.

Well that's depressing as fuck. Thanks for keeping it real, I guess.

I think I would have turned out better if I wasn't drugged since kindergarten.

how do you meet people here though?

I pass my last 2 days of my neet life play h-game in newgrounds. I think you have a answer now.

It's never to late to fulfill your destiny user

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I fucking love these.

Without video games I probably would've put more time and money into comic books and anime/manga. Which for me would be a detriment in the long run because the high price tag of video games is what keeps me from buying them all up and draining my bank account.
Unlike comics where it slowly chips away at my wallet until it's the day before my next paycheck and I see that I've got a mere $8 in my account.

Funniest thing so far around here.

Is this some abo meme?

even worse, anarcho-tribalists

So abos.

These aren't funny.

pretty much, although sleeping in streets and huffing petrol is kinda instinctive to them whereas antribs are just taught to be retards

probably

So it's a white people "back to the roots, no coming back" thing, then? Guess it's darwinism at it's finest.

What's orange and black?

It's supposed to be yellow

No, it's supposed to be orange.


Orange is anarcho-syndicalism, where you own what you use and lose what you don't. Don't go on vacation, or the squatters will take your stuff.

No. I just would have filled the void of ennui that is my soul with other completely useless things, like sportsball or drugs.

I would still be a failure since my shortcomings can all be blamed on my parents
I would've probably gotten too bored and killed myself or something though

Nope. I actually took a hiatus from a lot of gaming in my late high school years, instead obsessing over bands and movies. Once I graduated I realized I had some more free time until I left for college about a year later, at which point I played a lot more games, mostly emulation. It's been that way for about eight years now.


Also this. When you have limitless information and pornography at your hands that's going to leave a mark on you.

Thats some next level autism man, saying that shit IRL

Nope, because without vidya I'd still be a shy dork that plays did and read Harry Potter

Same here, wasn't that old but the internet fucked me up, tho tbh some other awful shit happened in my life so its not all the internet's fault

I do envy how kids these days have access to free porn streaming, we didn't get jack shit but lowres jpegs that took forever to load back in the day

Also back then normalfags didn't even know what email was, if I were a 13yo today I would be hacking the instagram of every dumb cunt in my school, it was hard to dox dipshits back in the day because they didn't upload every fucking shit they did so there wasn't a lot of stuff to play around with besides tracing them and send the address to scare them

what's with all these edgelord political views coming about lately? Did all these people grow out of death metal in their twenties and then latch on to one of these flavors of savagery?

Nah, it's just that the West is busy committing suicide. Every day we get more and more info on how corrupt the power structure is, and seeing what were once considered schizo tinfoil conspiracy theories 100% verified (7th floor group, choi soon-sil, etc). Naturally, people feel totally lost and are desperate for something, anything to bring us back from the brink, and that includes the kooky ideologies you mentioned.

I don't know, but I'm convinced that it's because of the type of belief that led to people believing in a good afterlife. All of these retarded systems, whether hard right or hard left, end with "it'll be a utopia maaaan now please waste your time or your life for the party's sake" But people want to "get into heaven" easily e.g. by not following strict rules. Thus, the varieties of anarchism for politics, and the "once saved always saved" megachurches for christianity (and equivalents in other major religions).

Read a book, nigger. Read two books. Read ten books. Do whatever you have to do to learn what the fuck libertarianism is. It is the least extreme ideology that fucking exists. What the fuck could be less extreme than "People shouldn't tell you what to do"?

Most people want some authority to tell them what to do. You know it's true, so it's less extreme.

People probably shouldn't tell you what to do? :^)

>implying anything, even world peace, can't be taken to dangerous extremes social justice is a good example. no one finds things like wheelchair ramps and toilet stalls with hand rails for cripples who can't squat to be disagreeable, but shit tons of people find concepts like the progressive stack to be quite disagreeable

embed related. A shit slinging simian explains how extreme conviction in aspects of libertarianism can't work out.

fuckin dropped, lmao

M8 children deserve a slap at times. I don't necessarily agree with the e-celeb and whatever he is talking about, but at times children deserve a slap.
They have to learn to not do certain shit. For example I was a good nerdy kid, but still got a few slaps as a kid. And it taught me not to do certain shit.
On the other side the kids that never got beat usually became entitled little brats, some of which got beaten down hard by life later on.

Absolute retard detected

this meme needs to die. Hell, there are times when even a solid slap on a kid's gob is the proper course of action, but that never happens anyway because if the parents knew what they were doing, it would never get to the point where the best course of action was to smack the kid's cheek.
Enjoy your wait in the line/queue while some shit stain kid is wailing about wanting a thing, and the shit stain parent is shouting at it to somehow calm it down.

No.
Which is the job of the parent to teach them without resorting to nigger-tier violence.
Because you had shit parents.
Getting hit didn't "teach" you anything.
No, that's just a meme perpetuated by low IQ nigger-tier parents who beat their kids, and kids whose parents drilled that into their heads with violence. There's a reason why Asians and Whites hit their kids at a much lower rate than niggers/mudslimes/spics. That is absolutely low-IQ behavior.


Spanking raising cortisol levels and causing developmental issues at the same rate as "beating" is a fact, not a meme, regardless of how much it triggers you. Hitting is hitting.
Only under extremely specific circumstances, such as you beating your kid and raising a little sociopath who enjoys hurting other children kid hitting/biting other children and completely lacks empathy because you failed as a parent. If you hit your kid because they're just doing something you don't like, or saying things you don't like, you need to gas yourself.
I'm nearly 30, and I can count the times I've seen that happen to a white family on one hand. On the flip side, I've lost count of how many times I've seen niggers abuse their kids in public.

Yes.

Video games didn't fuck me up. Growing up without a father fucked me up.

People like you is why we now have a generation of spoiled shits who firmly believe throwing a tantrum is the way to get what they want in life even when their in their goddamn 20s.

It's so fucking kooky amirite!

Rational empiricists? Race realists? If there were more people like me we wouldn't be having this problem right now.
You mean women? Because that's what women have been doing forever, and it's only recently (last ~100 years) that we've started to take them seriously and hand over control to them.


When your ideology can only function in a magical theoretical bubble, it's pretty fucking kooky user :^)

I've read all the books. Libertarianism remains retarded.

No, I would just read visual novels all the time instead.

Nope, it's mutualism.

This isn't the case under libertarianism.
The belief system is that you should be able to do whatever you want to so long as it doesn't directly affect others without permission. This is a belief system of most people but they tend to back down on it whenever it doesn't suit them personally.

You have the swedish mentality. Kids never get touched over there. And it hasn't really helped them much. In fact it has encouraged them to do whatever the fuck seems cool over there.
Beating your kid for no reason is granted very stupid, but slapping your kid when he does incredibly dumb shit is educational whether you like it or not.
As I kid early on I picked up a lot of swear words from my grandfather. In my house others gave me the silent treatment when I sued them so I reduced use. But that didn't stop me from it. Ended up swearing like a truckdriver at 7 years old at my other grandfather. Naturally I got slapped and learned never to insult elders or peers over small shit.

You are the one using tumblr words like that, while yourself being agitated over other people approving of slapping.

If my kid does incredibly dumb shit it get slapped or spanked. Period.
This does not mean it gets beaten over throwing toys around. It is reserved for worse offenses. But it will be there, unlike in your pacifist family.

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Ha ha ha no OP.

I wasn't aware swedes were ultra pro-gun, white nationalists :^)
Heh, what? They let shitskins rape and torture their children.
You can thank women for that. They've become a gynocentric nation, and have all of the troubles that comes with it. Men aren't the ones giving teddy bears to 30 year old muslim men, getting raped wandering those tent city slums, and then blaming white men for it.
Where's the proof? We know for a fact that hitting your kids changes how their brains develop. All I'm getting out of you is "muh feels" and "I was hit, and I turned out fine, so I'm gonna hit my kids too!" which is the exact cycle of violence I've been talking about.
Hitting a kid because they made some noises with their mouths that you didn't like is fucking insane, and you sitting there justifying it after the fact is disgusting.
Which is exactly what niggers do. Enjoy the fruits of your labor when your daughter is out riding the cock carousel because she hates your fucking guts and doesn't respect you, or when your son gets gets mag dumped trying to mug the wrong person because you taught him might makes right and he wanted his gibs.

We are talking slapping/spanking kids. They do not touch kids over there.
Yes. Spanking/slapping kids is not a thing in sweden.
Not spanking/slapping kids is a very woman thing in general. Women enforced such rules in most households.
Where is the proof against it ? Changes development ? But you never say in what actual way.
You equate discipline to *a cycle of violence*. Yet you forget:
There are many children who will never change their ways with words alone. At time clear dominance must be shown or they will run rampant.
When your 6 year old kid is calling you a fucking faggot, you don't think that is just noise.
On the contrary. Exactly the daughter taught that she can do whatever the fuck she wants will easily be influenced into becoming the whore or prostitute.
Exactly the son slapped for attacking other kids or stealing will avoid that behavior, over the one who gets away with everything.

Your pacifistic ways are the reason we have people willing to open borders for niggers and arabs. People who think they can do anything and never experience any consequences for their actions.

They also don't mutilate boys genitals either, but I guess that's a negative trait too, right?
You really need to look up the stats before you run your mouth. Mothers beat and murder their children at a higher rate than fathers. Women also commit domestic violence at a higher rate than men.
Lower IQ, higher chance to be on welfare, higher chance of being on drugs, higher chance of attempting suicide, higher crime rate. Hitting your kids has a similar statistical outcome to raising them in a gay two dad/two mom situation.
Because you hit them instead of negotiating and reasoning with them, and have irrevocably damaged them.
Kids are biologically programmed to imitate the actions and mannerisms of their elders. Honestly the fact that you're sitting here unironically defending a "do as I say, not as a do" approach to parenting when it comes to mouth noises proves my point completely.
Which is why non-whites who hit their kids at significantly higher rates than Whites and Asians actually have lower rates of prostitution and crime right? :^)
In what world does protecting our children and instilling useful traits such as deductive reasoning, negotiation skills, and empiricism have to do with abandoning all of those things, ignoring human biodiversity, and opening the floodgates to violent muds who want to kill you?

Completely unrelated once again.
While that is true it is usually women who advocated never slapping kids despite doing the opposite. It's a woman thing.
Are we talking beating kids or slapping them 3-4 times in their entire childhood ? Because there is a vast difference.
You only slap/spank when all other non-physical methods have proven to fail. There are such situations with kids and I do hope experience some of them. Would be fun to see you scramble to deal with that.
These are 2 different grandparents who never spend time with each other and live in different places. There is little to no connection betwen them for you to use "do as I say, not as a do".
This has a higher relation to poverty than slapping or not slapping, but I find it hard to trust you on something that is so personal to families. Maybe you can get data on niggers who still live in small huts in africa, but accurate date from the western world on that? Good luck.
So far this is the first actual mention you give of any of this. I would like to see you try that for a truly unruly kid.
But what I am trying to say is that a lot of western societies became so reluctant to deal with any violence whatsoever, that they are willing to let their countries be taken over by more violent racial groups than deal with them accordingly.
The *never slap a kid* mentality partially came about because of that pacifist mindset. It was already there long before any actual studies on it existed.
Look at swedes, which are completely against slapping kids I see proof of just that. Less social people, less willing to do anything about common issues affecting them. Just letting things happen.
Perhaps you see your opposition as people violently beating kids, me included, but that is far from the case. I see the alternative of letting your kids do anything they want as very dangerous.
And perhaps you plan to spend a lot of time on educating your kid. A good idea, but the implementation give that your wife will be the one speding the most time with it is unclear.
And even then most families will simply not do that and just let the kids run rampant. Few fathers would spend a lot of time on what you describe in your final sentence.

To be fair, parents who let their child get to the point where only physical violence can get it to respect their authority are already really shitty parents to begin with.

And I've noticed you somehow keep going back to the assumption that "I never hit my child" literally means "I let my child do whatever it wants". Just to be clear, you do know there's a difference, right? That there are ways to assert authority other than violence?

Should I convert? t. lutheran

Yes and I specifically said that violence is used when those methods fail. There are situations that require a dose of a violence. Even with calmer kids.

And my point is that if get to the point where all those methods indeed fail, you ALREADY failed as a parent, so why even take those cases into consideration, instead of, y'know, real parents.

Such as? I'm honestly curious, because I still don't see a point. The child is smaller, less intelligent, less articulate verbally, and literally everything in its life is provided by its parents. The only way it can get the upper hand in a confrontation is to emotionally blackmail them, and that only works if you LET it work.
Plus, it's much easier to assume a situation is unsolvable except by violence than it is to consider there's a better way (although one that takes more effort), hence why I'm still skeptic about this.

possibly. I had a lot of opportunity to make friends and go out during my childhood since my country then was underdeveloped but my cousins had to introduce vidya when I was seven and it eventually made me hole myself in our house 24/7 and not meet new people.

I still have no regrets, though.

I call bullshit. It's more likely that a human who has low IQ can't overcome an income status to shed welfare, drugs, and crime rates is the same kind of human that is ruled by emotion, making hasty decisions in the heat of the moment without thinking it through, and needlessly hitting their child is only one such faulty snap judgments they make (among the many others that wound them up relying on welfare and low income neighborhoods that attract crime and prostitution). You probably read something like or maybe even heard someone talking about "We found higher rates of spanking in these low IQ, low income families" and thought spanking somehow lowers people's IQ.


Because those wayward kids are still kids, y'know, real kids. Honestly, at that point, both the kids and the parents need some hard course correction. Spank both their bottoms :^)

I know of one such case.
>never actually curses despite both parents cursing a lot because of this my aunt told me that she didn't teach her they were "bad words", just that they are words adults use frequently, but are inappropriate for most conversations. Not sure if that matters, I just wonder if it does
I will readily admit that this is a weird case. My cousin was a late teen pregnancy and my aunt and uncle had to drop out of college to handle it. A real shaky time for them, and got really close to divorce soon after, but they stuck it out. Also, my aunt had several years of experience keeping my and the cousins close to my age in control while she was still in her early to mid teens, and this is probably she had the skills to never need to spank her child but that one time.

I'd say it was the interenet, like said. Specifically, the internet is what opened young me's eyes to how shit most game companies are, etc.

I would have turned out better if I decided to move to the projects and play video games like you know who does. The problem was being casual.