Decline What do you do about all gaming when.....?

[Kruyurk]

Go to the gymnasium to become jacked and stacked.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

 

[Frozen]

Yeah, even buying a game has not even an ounce of thrill. I just left some gog & steam carts full and dumped em. Said fuck it. I won't play them anyway. Same with pdfs of RPG shit, movies, comics, everything.

No rats to murder..... else I get booted. Hell, would killing hundreds or thousands of rats give me any thrills?

I tried to hang on but man... no thrills at all.

They be gone.



Must be just me.

Congratulations, you are now a grownup.

Read some books, watch old intelligent movie, read a good (not American) old comic. Listen to some good (old) music, watch some porn, buy a hooker (or get married, same thing only you pay for no sex) etc.

Games were always juvenile entertainment for kids. You should outgrow them because grownups are intelligent unlike kids that are dumb AF.

 

[NecroLord]

Yeah, even buying a game has not even an ounce of thrill. I just left some gog & steam carts full and dumped em. Said fuck it. I won't play them anyway. Same with pdfs of RPG shit, movies, comics, everything.

No rats to murder..... else I get booted. Hell, would killing hundreds or thousands of rats give me any thrills?

I tried to hang on but man... no thrills at all.

They be gone.



Must be just me.

Congratulations, you are now a grownup.

Read some books, watch old intelligent movie, read a good (not American) old comic. Listen to some good (old) music, watch some porn, buy a hooker (or get married, same thing only you pay for no sex) etc.

Games were always juvenile entertainment for kids. You should outgrow them because grownups are intelligent unlike kids that are dumb AF.

You must be fun at parties.

 

[Vic]

games are not only for kids retard

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Tbh, it has been like this for a few decades and is getting worse. The "get some professional help" spawned a few thoughts:

1. Psychiatry to get gamers addicted & back to gaming and then to seek professionals to "up their game" for self improvement in game benchmarks and competitively in the gaming arena of player vs player in all genres.

2. A game where you are a psychiatrist (maybe of gaming) and you are trying to bilk more of your clientele to stay your patient. Careful, you don't want to turn into a crazy like old Hannibal the cannibal.

Well, there's still darts, horseshoes, croquette, and tetherball I guess. And punchy joe... er fuck! I forgot what that stupid punching dummy is called? Dynamite Danny? Terry Punch-It? Buster Thumbless?

Ah! Century Bob! I knew I'd 'member eventually. Biden-itis hasn't struck...... yet.
-.- ..... <.< ..... >.> ..... @.@!

 

[Frozen]

games are not only for kids retard

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Wasn't there a study in learning that pain & reward weren't the only ways to teach? Wtf do I know? I ain't an educator. Also, go to a casino; lot's of old people more ancient than me playing casino GAMES.

 

[Ezekiel]

Yeah, even buying a game has not even an ounce of thrill. I just left some gog & steam carts full and dumped em. Said fuck it. I won't play them anyway. Same with pdfs of RPG shit, movies, comics, everything.

No rats to murder..... else I get booted. Hell, would killing hundreds or thousands of rats give me any thrills?

I tried to hang on but man... no thrills at all.

They be gone.



Must be just me.

Congratulations, you are now a grownup.

Read some books, watch old intelligent movie, read a good (not American) old comic. Listen to some good (old) music, watch some porn, buy a hooker (or get married, same thing only you pay for no sex) etc.

Games were always juvenile entertainment for kids. You should outgrow them because grownups are intelligent unlike kids that are dumb AF.

I don't know why you would recommend a whore unless you know for a fact that he has vast disposable income. It's something you do only once in a blue moon, not as a hobby, considering how many hours worked is equal to one good session.

 

[Vic]

"vast disposable income" $20 for a fuck

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

I'd rather buy some games with that $20. A game buying addiction keeps the drugs, hookers, booze, gambling, and murder addictions away..... well, rat killing isn't exactly murder unless you are part of the rodent race.

Maybe I just need to pull out some of my old pads of graphing paper and hex grids and smell the nostalgia... reminisce the days past. Maybe I will grab a pencil and place it on that grid......










..... maybe I'll draw that first line that hasn't been drawn in a long long time.

 

[Ezekiel]

"vast disposable income" $20 for a fuck

I said, "good session." You get trash for 20 dollars.

 

[Vic]

"vast disposable income" $20 for a fuck

I said, "good session." You get trash for 20 dollars.

for 20 bucks you just get to fuck. I would not pay more for a prostitute, but it depends where you live and how the prices are. For "a good session" I'd look to an escort to come to my room and give proper service, but that's much more expensive.

 

[Vic]

I'd rather buy some games with that $20. A game buying addiction keeps the drugs, hookers, booze, gambling, and murder addictions away..... well, rat killing isn't exactly murder unless you are part of the rodent race.

honestly, I go through phases where I'm burned out from gameplay too, I just do somthing else. I haven't played any games from I think Decemeber until May? And then I got back into gaming with first idle games and then proper ones. I think that's normal to take some time off. But you said you are bored for years already... what I do know is that it's not about age because I know of people who played games until they died of old age...

 

[anvi]

Tbh, it has been like this for a few decades and is getting worse. The "get some professional help" spawned a few thoughts:

1. Psychiatry to get gamers addicted & back to gaming and then to seek professionals to "up their game" for self improvement in game benchmarks and competitively in the gaming arena of player vs player in all genres.

2. A game where you are a psychiatrist (maybe of gaming) and you are trying to bilk more of your clientele to stay your patient. Careful, you don't want to turn into a crazy like old Hannibal the cannibal.

Well, there's still darts, horseshoes, croquette, and tetherball I guess. And punchy joe... er fuck! I forgot what that stupid punching dummy is called? Dynamite Danny? Terry Punch-It? Buster Thumbless?

Ah! Century Bob! I knew I'd 'member eventually. Biden-itis hasn't struck...... yet.
-.- ..... <.< ..... >.> ..... @.@!

Reminds me of Life & Death. As a kid I played Life & Death 2: The Brain, where you have to shave heads and cut open skulls and deal with the subdural haemotoma with a scalpel.



Games used to be interesting, now they are all made by dumbasses.

 

[Lyre Mors]

Find more varied hobbies to do. If those don't bring you joy, you're probably depressed and there's a deeper problem. Figure out how to deal with that, then return to things you loved and see if you enjoy them again. Chances are you probably will.

I like to have various interests and joys in my life, from family and friends, to physical activity, to the plethora of art forms to enjoy, to making music, to cooking, gardening, crafts, and of course videogames, etc etc. Nothing becomes particularly stale as a result. There's not enough time in the day for me to enjoy and engage with everything I want to.

 

[Itoh]

I can still get into games. Some of the best experiences I've had gaming have been in the last couple of years or so. That said, I find that with age I'm much quicker to drop a title that if I'm not feeling it after a couple of hours - in the past couple of years I've likely ditched and refunded more games than in the rest of my life combined. In your case, OP, I agree with the above poster that if you can't enjoy ALL your hobbies, there's probably a deeper issue with your life. Don't be afraid to take a break.

 

[Pikoman]

Well, games aren't as interesting and addicting to me anymore, but that's probably due to my age and the fact that I've already experienced most of what tickles my autism already. I mean, my mind exploded when I was a kid and first played BG1 and saw multiple dialogue options or some shit, I was in awe of quests that could be solved in different ways as well. Was really thrilled at Planescape letting you join factions, likewise was blown away by the vast world I could freely explore in Morrowind or some shit, absolutely ecstatic at the existence of NWN's persistent worlds/toolkit and many other examples when I experienced some interesting concepts or facets of gaming for the first time ever, which I previously had no idea were a thing or even a possibility.

But now that I know that open worlds, branching out dialogues, open ended quests and whatever else really made me giddy back then isn't something special or rare and I'd not be experiencing it for the first time ever, it does not hit that way it did years ago. For example BG3 - it is a great RPG in itself, doing all the right things correctly and even offering more reactivity and open-endedness in your approach than a few of the classics, but in essence it just builds upon an already existing foundation. Failing at some aspects, solid at others and superior in certain ways. But in my mind when I play it I am reminded of other games, it can't be a purely fresh experience as it was when I was young and green, hence not as interesting and engrossing. If I was a zoomer I'd be all over that probably and coom to Shadowheart uncontrollably all day everyday, but I'm not, already played a ton of CRPGs and it ain't something staggering to my mind.

Maybe games need to get more innovative and the ones in the past were more adventurous and fresh with ideas, still I am not in the doomerposting camp of people who shit on whatever is new and draw up wild generalisations. Out of the new games, I think Elden Ring is one of the best ever for example, if we aren't strictly talking about CRPGs. The Pathfinder games and BG3 are great as well IMO for all their faults in the wokeness department, really couldn't care less about whether or not I have the option to romance a half-orc tranny lesbian or some shit, as long as the gameplay and core RPG mechanics are good.

 

[Moonrise]

Step 1: stop being depressed
Step 2: seek non-superficial novelty

Mind that step 2 may require that you venture beyond this plane of existence. I had a dream one time where a group of monsters set up a three-dimensional version of a TurboGrafx puzzle game I like, and gleefully and like a child I got to play something entirely new. Not with a gamepad though, it was more like Legends of the Hidden Temple, but boy was it fun! Thanks dream lizardman.

 

[Darth Roxor]

y'all niggas need Jesus ELEX

 

[MasterofThunder]

y'all niggas need Jesus ELEX

No it's the one you shamelessly crossed out, unironically.

 

[Vic]

you need Allah

 

[Maxie]

Yeah, even buying a game has not even an ounce of thrill. I just left some gog & steam carts full and dumped em. Said fuck it. I won't play them anyway. Same with pdfs of RPG shit, movies, comics, everything.

No rats to murder..... else I get booted. Hell, would killing hundreds or thousands of rats give me any thrills?

I tried to hang on but man... no thrills at all.

They be gone.



Must be just me.

Infinitron ban this fucking retard immediately for daring to put some yelling nigger in the OP on my racist forum

 

[Vic]

calling the king of blues "some yelling nigger" is a new low for you maxie

 

[rumSaint]

I am constantly finding something new to play and I've been gaming for over 30 years now. Of course due to my life circumstances I have much less time to play and I play mostly with my "team" more to socialize and keep connections than actually play. I also play various genres to keep things fresh, although If I would spend playing vidya 8h daily I would probably go Kurt Cobain mode.

If the thrill is no more maybe it's time to find some new hobby? Read a book? Touch some grass?