Let's Cozy.

[Anonymous No.2084654]

So, /vr/others, I'm 30 years old today.

Let's celebrate our age by posting when we got our first gaming console/computer.

I remember the 1989 Mario Christmas commercial, I begged my dad at the fresh age of 5 to buy the NES. I received the NES Action Pak if I remember correctly with the SMB/Duck Cunt combo with a zapper and a copy of Mega Man 2.

As a child I was most blown away that I could pause a game and not lose quarters.

[Anonymous No.2084664]

>>2084654
>As a child I was most blown away that I could pause a game and not lose quarters.

DAWWW :-')

you privileged douchebag.


My first console was a N64 i recieved on Christmas, but I had played videogames before on the NES and SNES of my neighbor.

My first games where Star Wars Shadows of the Empire, and Yoshi Story.

speed forward 2003-2004 I had my first PC

It was an Intel Pentium 4 at 1.7 Ghz, the first game I downloaded (using an AOL CD lol) was Doom Shareware edition.

And the first game I pirated was Doom of course.

Today I'm well past 25.

[Anonymous No.2084671]

I never got a console because my mom is a militant tech hater apart from her beloved TV. The only exception was my uncle's used brick Game Boy when my parents caved in on my christmas wish so I could play Pokemon Blue. Other than that and visiting friends I grew up exclusively on the PC, and even then I wasn't allowed my own PC - only access to the family computer - until age 16 when I bought one from my own savings. At least the first games I remember playing were all great titles. Prince of Persia, Commander Keen and Day of the Tentacle, and my dad bought a joystick just so we could better play TFX.

[Anonymous No.2084676]

>>2084671
i now you are on 4chan.

[Anonymous No.2084683]

>>2084676
>post of the year

[Anonymous No.2084684]

I'm 20. My family had a SNES probably before I was born, because I don't remember my Dad ever bringing it home. We only had a couple of games -- Donkey Kong Country and Primal Rage. The latter would scare me, so I never really played it.

The first console I do remember receiving was a Playstation 1. That had to be in Christmas of '98. My sister and I got up at 5 in the morning and it was still dark outside, but the lights were on when we rushed down the stairs to see what we got. The Playstation was sitting underneath the glow of the TV screen, just waiting to be played. It was fucking surreal. We played Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon all morning as we ate Nestle chocolate eggs and other stocking goodies.

[Anonymous No.2084687]

>>2084654
This was the commercial BTW:

1989 Pepsi/NES commercial...

http://youtu.be/LFsHXLwgQ9w

[Anonymous No.2084689]

>>2084676
Yeah, I guess it was my way of revenge and rebellion to spend all my time on the PC in my teen years, and this in turn has contributed to my general life situation.

[Anonymous No.2084707]

>>2084654
Welcome to your thirties. If you haven't got them already this is when you get kids and it all goes downhill from there. I'm sorry to be break the news.

My first computer was an 8-bit Atari XE. And yes I was jealous of C64 graphics but I am possibly the only person who thinks POKEY sounds nicer (obvious bias, I know, but I do like it more). I have virtually no childhood memories but I remember obscure 80s games. This explain why I went into gamedev when I grew older and why I'm here despite "getting too old for this shit".

[Anonymous No.2084708]

>>2084707
Aw shit that looks delish.

[Anonymous No.2084713]

>>2084664
>Today I'm well past 25.

Woah there granpa, past 25?! Do you remember the continents forming?

[Anonymous No.2084715]

>>2084713
shuts.

[Anonymous No.2084717]

>>2084708
It fucking is. Pro tip: put the potato in the microwave for 5 mins before grilling (unless you like eating raw potatoes)

[Anonymous No.2084730]

Got the NES with the SMB/Duck Hunt pack in and a copy of Tengen Ms. Pac Man in '91 for my 5th birthday. I also recall having a fucking awesome Tyrannosaurus shaped birthday cake that year.

[Anonymous No.2084732]

>>2084707
Life is only downhill in your 30s, if you aren't one of those guys that love being a dad.

I never cared about clubbing, drinking and crap. I love fishing and hunting with my kids, playing vidya, etc.

Just wait until you're properly prepared.

My 30s are more enjoyable than my 20s.

[Anonymous No.2084738]

My family had an Atari 2600 I think before I was even born. We also had a Tandy CoCo2 for as long as I remember, though it was released a year after I was born so clearly I don't really remember back far enough.

[Anonymous No.2084770]

I got pic related for my sixth birthday along with some kickass dinosaur toys that I played with way more until I got a little older.

[Anonymous No.2084797]

Question for the anons that have kids: do they suck the free time you guys have to play vydia?

[Anonymous No.2084806]

>>2084797
Yeah, but I find that even just an hour or so a day is enough. You get used to it. I think once my daughter gets older and can play with me, it'll be a different story.

[Anonymous No.2084830]

>>2084654

>/vr/others

[Anonymous No.2084841]

>>2084830
:D

I'm not even OP.

[Anonymous No.2085115]

First console: either SNES or N64 (the 64 was my cousin's)
First game owned: Super Mario All-Stars

Still had a copy until recently.
Had the same 64 until I was about 16 or 17 when it shit out on me (though 13-14 years with the same console in frequent use isn't bad)

[Anonymous No.2085117]

I'm 29. Parents had an Atari 2600 and that was the first system I played. Lots of fun games. I think Venture was the name of one of them. Scared the hell out of me.

My dad seemingly bought a NES out of nowhere when it first came out. I still remember watching him open it in the bathroom for some reason.

[Anonymous No.2085138]

31 yes old fag here.

First official console was a Game Boy I bought with some cash I got for being student of the month in 6th grade. Family was too poor growing up, and I didn't experience NES until I was 16 and had a job (PS2 was just around the corner by then)

found my first NES at a yard sale with Mario 3, Startropics, Fester's Quest and Double Dragon for 50 bucks.

[Anonymous No.2085145]

>>2084654
Happy birthday, asshole who made me feel really old.

>>2084732
>downhill
Doesn't have to be. I have a few friends who never had kids and enjoy it. Like you I think their missing a lot but money not spent on kids apparently can buy happiness.

>>2084797
I play vidya with my kids.

[Anonymous No.2085175]

First console was an NES at age four. First game was Legend of Zelda II.

[Anonymous No.2085185]

The 1997 Memorial Cup occurred May 10–18 at the Robert Guertin Centre in Hull, Quebec.

[Anonymous No.2085735]

>>2084654

I turned 30 a couple months ago.
I discovered the NES when passing in front of a video game shop in a mall, a guy was playing SMB. I remember he was going up a "magic bean" as I called them. And I found that fantastic.

My parents offered us the NES for the nexwt Christmas with TMNT (it was sold with it, I don't know if it had been the case in other countries, Frenchfag here) and SMB. Our American cousin offered us Tetris. These were my first 3 games and as I hoped, I enjoyed SMB. Playing it with my brother is among my best memories. And SMB is still my favorite game to this date.

[Anonymous No.2085754]

My first contact with video games was when I was around 3 or 4, with a Coleco Vision, from my aunt.
She'd lent it to us and my dad and I would stay overnight playing pac-man, DK, Galaga.
I also clearly remember playing Smurf: Rescue at gargamel's castle and Cabbage Patch Kids a lot.
There was a Superman game, some casino mini-games one, and a couple others.

But my actual first console was a grey Famiclone, exactly like the one in this pic.
It came with a 30 in 1 multicart full of classics and SMB3. This must have been 1990 or 91.
Rocked it all throughout my early childhood until 1993 when I got a SNES and later a Megadrive.

[Anonymous No.2085762]

>>2085175
I might've been a year or two older but otherwise it was the same for me. That game took me a long fucking time to beat as a kid.

[Anonymous No.2085772]

29 here, 30 in 4 months. Being the youngest of three brothers, there was already vidya in the house when I was but a baby. There was an Atari which I don't really remember, and then my oldest brother bought a NES with money he saved up mowing lawns. My earliest vidya memory is me play Mario Bros. 2 on a dinky little 13' screen in our family room.

[Anonymous No.2085776]

On the edge of 26 here. Inherited my uncle's NES when he went into the army when I was 2. First game was Castlevania, also had Mario 1. Got a Genesis for my next birthday and SNES for a birthday after that. I can still remember mom and dad walking up our driveway with that SNES box.

Would have had my grandmother's Atari too, but that got burnt in a house fire after my mom sold it but before grandmom could get it back. She gave me a bunch of Atari instruction manuals, though, which are pretty cool in their own right.

[Anonymous No.2085779]

>>2084797
my son is 14 months old and i never play video games anymore.

i have to either wake up at 3 or 4am to get to do anything by myself. i can't stay up late because then my wife wants to stay up with me... sometimes she'll want to play a newer mario with me, which is really exciting except she sucks at it and i get irritated.

it's the worst.

then i look at my little monster and remember that in a couple years he'll be my player two and everything will be better.

don't get me wrong, i love my family and being a father. i just wished i could have had another couple years before it all happened...

oh, and i'm 27.

[Anonymous No.2086653]

>>2084707
you don't actually have to ever have kids, get married, or even have sex. in fact without those three things, i am quite satisfied. get a nice sextoy with a warming plug in, and enjoy all the additional freetime not having moneysuckers and earlybird alarms will give you.

this is pretty obvious information, no shit you can go through life without the above, just reminding you that not everybody needs to ruin their lives.

[Anonymous No.2086696]

>>2086653
Oh, man up. It's OK to be Beta but taking it to the extreme and being somehow proud of it is just deranged.

First PC game I ever played (unless you count microcomputers as PCs) was Warcraft 1 - so whenever that was released. With a black and white monitor.

[Anonymous No.2086809]

>>2086653
Jesus. Even the fattest ugliest retards usually find someone on their level to produce tardspawn with. You must be an utterly disgusting creature.

[Anonymous No.2086945]

>>2085762

I didn't actually complete the game for about eight years. It was worth it.

[Anonymous No.2087045]

I'm turning 30 in 3 weeks.

I first got an NES when I was 5 and living in the Middle East as the son of an expat (I'm a white American). There wasn't much to do due to strict shariah law in our country, so I played NES all day every day.

I then moved back to the states and spent my young adulthood playing Japanese import games on my modded PSX and DC.

But the overall best years ever? Competitive HLDM, Baldur's Gate, and Fallout 1/2. It doesn't get better than that.

[Anonymous No.2087745]

26 years old Anon here.
My first console was the good old Commodore 64, first game I remember playing was an old Popeye game, I was lucky my uncle was a turbonerd and had a stash of old games and consoles from his age.
Later I got a megadrive but didn't really live the best of the snes' years as it was not a big thing in certain parts of Europe, that didn't stop me from enjoying it later though.
I also remember that as a kid I used to play a lot with my pc, Wolfenstein, Commander Keen and Jazz Jackrabbit were my greatest pleasure back then...
I can't enjoy pc gaming anymore though, but I guess that's because I'm a bit jaded now.

I feel like things have moved too fast, pc gaming has lost most of its magic to me, though it's true that it has also a lot of good things like a vast community of modders, consoles still have something that keeps me going though I'm mostly playing on handhelds these years.

I wonder whether I'm kinda falling out of gaming with the passing of time or I just have more bias or both.

[Anonymous No.2087752]

I am of approximately the same age as OP and I can kinda remember getting an SNES, though I do know we had an NES and that my mom and dad loved playing Mario. I can vaguely recall the McDonalds toys that came out when SMB3 was coming out and being excited about it.

[Anonymous No.2087891]

>>2086696
>Upset about what others do with their lives
>Talking about Beta
>"Man up"
>2014

[Anonymous No.2087912]

27 here.

First console was a 2600 jr in 1990. Earliest vidya memories include watching my brother playing Pitfall while eating sandwiches

Since we're doing a "grown-up checklist" dick waving contest:

>Work for videogames
>Wife works for videogames
>Play vidya with my wife in the evenings
>Never having kids
>Never getting a mortgage
>Never letting things come between us

[Anonymous No.2087925]

>>2087912
>Never letting things come between us
it's called "a matter of time", anon.

[Anonymous No.2087926]

>36
>vcs 2600
>c64 / c128
>amiga 500
>commodore cdtv
>386 ibm pc, always got a gaming pc from this point
>snes for street fighter 2
...

[Anonymous No.2087967]

>>2087912

>16 yo kids living together

It's time to grow up Peter Pan

[Anonymous No.2088023]

>>2085779
How are you gonna train him to be your player two? What will you feed him?
This is very important.

[Anonymous No.2088271]

>>2087967
They have jobs, and playing games should be essential or at least beneficial for their jobs. If they worked for publishing and just read books together in the evenings, no one would be saying anything.

And if they don't want kids, there's enough people here already.

[Anonymous No.2088428]

>>2087745
I get this feeling a lot as well. There hasn't been a AAA release since 2011 that has grabbed my attention. I think I've jost lost my sense of wonder a little bit. Who knows.

[Anonymous No.2088443]

>>2084654
uhh, I hate to ask for sauce on the cake. looks 16 bit realistic, so must ask for the source. whats the game?

AND 1985 get 1st issue Nintendo Power mag, get system for 1988 birthday with Mario 2.

[Anonymous No.2088629]

>>2088443
Chances of that cake being a genuine sprite is 0%. Definitely modern creation. I know because of my autisms.

[Anonymous No.2088641]

I played my dad's NES when I was 3 or 4 and got my own Game Boy Advance and Super Mario World when I was 6.

[Anonymous No.2088684]

>>2084654
Born in 87, poor family in brazil, but my older cousins had a brazilian version of atari with tons of games in the memory.

92 - Their mother buy a brand new Phantom System, brazilian clone of a Nes. Ghostbusters came with it...I can't tell you guys how i thought the car segments were awesome to my 5 year old self...

97 - my dad, that never lived with us and only visited us twice a year, bought me a Super Nintendo. Shit...I almost crapped my pants.

Mom was too cheap to ever buy me any games, had to make deals with friends to have more games...in the process i became a keen and ruthless negotiator, collecting almost 22 games, without ever having to buy none of them...only exchanging among friends.

2006 - got a internship as a law student. buy my ps2 hidden from my mother. Shit was indeed cash with god of war 2 and grant turismo 4.

2009 - mom finally buys me some video game. a faggot wii...mario kart was awesome though.

2010 - the same internship buys me a ps3 with my last payment. graduate from law school, and can't find a job. But resident evil 5 drown my sorrows.

2013 - I am now a lawyer. Somewhat decent job. Buy a super nintendo from a dude, and spend a whole week high on nostalgia.

2014 - n64, playstation 1, dreamcast, mega drive, master system and a new sit on my shelf...now That i have money i try to satisfy my old dream of having ever video game from my cild hood.

>phantom system eludes me...

hold me vr, i will never find a working phantom system in box with a functioning gun and with a black collored ghostbuster cartridges...

[Anonymous No.2088685]

>>2088629

[Anonymous No.2088689]

>>2086809
>Even the fattest ugliest retards usually find someone on their level to produce tardspawn with

Leave your parents out of this discussion

[Anonymous No.2088692]

>>2088689

[Anonymous No.2088704]

>>2084732
>>2084707

What really happens when you get to 30's:
>Finally a decent job.
>fucking living with parents. Now I can bring home any girl i can find and fuck them silly and make them go away by cab before 3.
>can just chill at home playing games, eating crap and smoking a fine cigar. all while butt naked.
>you have money to buy anything you want. Someday i just went to a store and bought a nice led tv, 50', to watch the brazil cup on it, and still had a couple of grands left for that month.
>you finally stop being a idiot, and learn how to deal with your own shit and take care of yourself - that means you get to do anything you want, but it never bites you on your ass because you were too much of a retard to not do things with moderation.
>I really mean it: you are smarter. more experienced. girls will worship you and your wise and rich dick.
>generally men become more atractive between 30-40, while women become rancid after 27. that means you get to fuck impressionable and young fuckwits who are amazed at how nice you car are and how mature you are in a conversation.
>you are finally a man. you don't need to lie, you get your shit done, you are good at your job, people need you, and they respect you because you a useful human. paying bills isn't that hard in the internet age.

The only way life sucks after 30 is if you are an idiot and screwed up your education or made pretty terrible career choices. OR, if you fucked some bitch you don't care about and now have to pay for that...

[Anonymous No.2088710]

>>2086653
>>2086696
>tfw nothing wrong with having a fleshlight
>tfw GF would be nice, but don't ever want to get married and have kids

I'm an uncle, and I see my brother with his 2 and 3 year olds and I know he loves them to death, but every time I see him he just looked absolutely haggered, like he hasn't slept in days.

[Anonymous No.2088721]

>>2084654
My first game console was the Atari 2600, might've been around 1983. Luckily, Atari started to drop in price around that time. I used to like to take apart the systems and see if I could "modify" them, never turned out well. I remember playing Jungle Hunt, Pitfall, Vanguard and Pole Position sitting cross legged in front of the old tv set we used to have, i miss those simpler times.

[Anonymous No.2088723]

>>2088704

You forgot
>women in their 20s now call you "old" and want nothing to do with you

[Anonymous No.2088726]

>>2088704
you sound like a highly aggressive douchbag

things are not always the same for everyone faggot

[Anonymous No.2088727]

>>2088723
yeah fucking right, I always see chicks my age dating older guys cause of some perceived maturity.

[Anonymous No.2088949]

>>2088723
>>2088726

Man, I never meant to be agressive or sound like a douche. But c'mon, if you are not a kid you will know that I am not just bragging or acting tough on the internet...if you got a job during your 20's, then by your thirties you just HAVE to be good at it, or else you are an Idiot...I am sorry, I do not mean that as an offense, but it's just true man...if you spend sometime doing something, then you should eventually be good at it.

If you can do something that other people can't - or rather won't - congrats, you are usefull to society and people will treat you accordingly.

So, like I said, only after the 30's you start to become acknowledged in whatever it is that you do for a living, so things become better. you get your financial stability, you learn how to deal with pressure in your work enviroment, you understand how society trully works - like, grey areas everywhere - you stop seing yourself as a special snowflake and your mind become clearer and more focused. I am not saying this based only in myself, but in all my friends, families, and, frankly, anybody ever. It should apply to you too.

>women in their 20s now call you "old" and want nothing to do with you

You have to be joking dude...

>be me
>28 year old lawyer
>2 year browsing /fit/, weighted over 121 kg before. Now juicy ottermode 79 kg. 1,81 height.
>drive around in a fucking Honda New Civic.
>have a cousin that helps me buy decent clothes. nothing too expensive.
>Am not an assburger idiot, and can assert myself in conversation and have learned how to comunicate with people in my profession.

fuck 20's is not even worth bragging...girls at this age are fucking morons only concerned with status position.. (at least the pretty ones). I guarantee to you, sex is secondary for them.

But if you are in a job you hate, pays you crap, all the while you are a balding, overweight, small dicked man-child that thinks that your woes are to be blamed in someone else than you, then I agree..

[Anonymous No.2088959]

>>2088949
sorry for being out of topic, just wanted to clarify my views. my post was the phantom system one.

[Anonymous No.2088993]

>>2088723
Oh god you're funny. Have you like never even talked to a gurl or something? Most girls in their 20's fine with older guys for a long list of reasons. I had girlfriends 10+ years younger than me when I was in my 30's as did many of my friends.

[Anonymous No.2090469]

Christmas 1998, got me a Nintendo 64 and Mario Kart. Didn't want to play it cuz I was more interested in Barbie dolls. but my dad made me play it anyway thankfully. Dad and me could play Mario Kart for hours and he snuck behind Mom's back and got me Quake and Castlevania 64 (totally awesome to a 10 year old)

the Nintendo 64 still works but Dad died 7 years back. I love games but I still haven't been able to play any incarnation of Mario Kart since.

[Anonymous No.2090492]

>>2085117
he was trying to enjoy it alone anon
while on the shitter

[Anonymous No.2091235]

>>2090492
>enjoy
fap

[Anonymous No.2093038]

>>2085754
>Family Game
Argentina or Paraguay?

[Anonymous No.2093039]

>>2088704
>screwed up education
I know that feel, I'm book smart but I always put aside college like a moron, and now I'm 30 and just doing "jobs" is a pain in the ass but I don't have time to go to school.

[Anonymous No.2093043]

>this thread

[Anonymous No.2093056]

>>2087745
>c64

Fuck yeah. 30 in a month and started playing videogames on a hand me down c64. Mostly playing kiddy game shovelware though. Fucking fireman sam aka unwinnable minigames. How do you get your head constantly stuck in these railings you little shit and who the fuck is throwing these rollarskates at an on duty fireman.

At least kikstart 2 was legit. Also HERO

[Anonymous No.2093147]

>>2090469
>the Nintendo 64 still works but Dad died 7 years back.

Shit Anon, I'm sorry...but hey, at least you got some good memories, my father was an idiot pseudo intellectual leftist that hated anything related to computers and Always picked on me when I played videogames, thank god mom was the opposite.
>>2093043
Are you telling me I'm an old irrelevant fart, Anon?
>>2093056
Yeah man, the C64 was the shit, I remember my uncle even taught me how to program and create my own games a bit, I wonder if I can still do it, I kinda forgot most things.

[Anonymous No.2093182]

>>2093147
>uncle even taught me how to program

I didnt get beyond

10 print NAME is gay
20 goto 10
run

[Anonymous No.2093505]

>>2088629
My autism's radar can tell as well.

Old school 2D drawings were more utilitarian... When they look all Artsy Fartsy it's because it's done by a hipster art student making "pixel art".

Even the greatest sprites didn't get all wacky, even Nanatsu Kaze no Shima Monogatari on Sega Saturn, probably the best looking 2D retro game on a home console didn't go that apeshit.

[Anonymous No.2093569]

>>2093505
beautiful stuff

[Anonymous No.2093576]

>>2084654
I'm turning 30 in two months.

I remember begging my parents for a NES because a friend of my mother's daughter had a NES with Mario 3 on it and I liked it so much I couldn't stop playing when we were visiting.

I got the same as OP with the SMB and Duck Hunt with the Frank Zapper. I still have it and they still work to this day.

[Anonymous No.2093593]

>>2093038

arg

[Anonymous No.2093647]

>>2093505
>hipster
>2014 going on 2015

underage pls leaf

[Anonymous No.2093728]

>>2088949

>balding
>small dicked
>woes are to be blamed in someone else than you

Your post was fine until you implied that you can control your genetics. I agree that you shouldn't let these things hold you back, but these two items have literally nothing to do with the other factors in that last sentence.

[Anonymous No.2096825]

>>2084654
>So, /vr/others, I'm 30 years old today.
How's that feel?

28 in a couple months, good to know I'm not the oldest person here...

[Anonymous No.2098431]

>>2093147
Shit Anon, my dad was playing Atari and the original Zeldas as a kid. If I could have shared him with you I would have.

[Anonymous No.2098476]

>>2084654
First game machine was a computer. Don't remember what kind. I was possibly three, and my father let me play Adventure on it. I remember that vividly because a spider laid an egg in the keyboard, and it hatched while I was playing it. That was pleasant. After that was a brick gameboy an exchange student let me have when I was six. I had lots of friends who had all sorts of game systems, though. So I played all of them growing up.

[Anonymous No.2099420]

>>2093728
It was a bad expression. english is only second language. what I meant to is: to complain about how shitty your life is ain't nothing more than a waste of time. If you are bald and not a whiny faggot you will figure out a way to still be happy.

[Anonymous No.2099425]

35 here, I remember that my very first home gaming came from my oldest brother's Commodore64, game was the not bad Panther.

[script writer kibe No.2099454]

I was six when I got my Sega Genesis model 2 (I played games on my Father's computer when I went to visit him on the weekends prior), my parents made certain to stress to me that they squandered their last dime on it, so I had to be sure to play it often and enjoy it

I also got a birthday cake with Sonic on it, though it always irked me that my mother didn't have enough room for Sonic's trademark sneakers

[Anonymous No.2099464]

>>2099420

This is true. I started balding around 25 (29 now), but anyway I kept my head shaved since I was 20, so literally, being bald is just natural to me, way more hygienic and comfy, too.
And more often than you think, girls will actually love bald guys. It kind of stands out, you know? If you are attractive, you can use a shaved head to your advantage, I've had many girls come talk to me, using my "nice baldy head" as an excuse.


however, I agree with >>2088726
you do sound like an aggressive douchebag.

[Anonymous No.2099530]

I was very fortune to be born the son of a gamer. Some of my earliest memories are sitting on my father's lap and playing King's Quest and other early Sierra On-Line DOS adventure games.

My first console was an N64 + Super Mario 64 for Christmas 1998. The rest is history.

[Anonymous No.2101395]

>>2099464

To be really honest, if people like>>2088726
find me an agressive douchebag, I kinda take that as a compliment.

The fact that I know about the stuff I described shouldn't mean I have no respect and consideration for others (which should be the definition of a douchebag). It just means that I don't believe I am entitled to anything, and I HAVE TO be useful to others so THEY will respect me as a functioning member of society.

If you can do that, you will have money and to financial stability to not depend on your folks and be able to do as you please.

I also said that the longer you live, the more experienced you will be, which means you are more effective in what you do. Ergo, people will value you more, and your job will pay you more and etc...that's just how it works.

The agressive part, well...I really am. People need to be that...at least a little bit in crutial times...I am a lawyer, if I do not expose my side of the story with force and conviction, the technical stuff will sometimes not be enough, and that's fucking frustrating.

Ask youself if you want the lawyer that represents you in a messy divorce to be an agressive douchebag or a gutless beta - both having the same techinical proficiency in law.