So I joined the retrogaming club at my uni

[Anonymous No.3779165]

Walking past some manchilds huddling around an LCD taking turns on what they called "Marry-o" I struck up a conversation with the only woman there.
"So, what's your favorite PC-98 game?"
"Oh, um, I really liked Myst!"

[Anonymous No.3779171]

>>3779165
What kind of "university" has gaming clubs, let alone retrogaming ones? I thought universities were institutions of higher learning and not places of entertainment? Is it a Murican thing?

[Anonymous No.3779210]

>>3779165
> woman
> at a uni retro gaming club
> oh I know let's ask her a question about obscure game platform
> haha she doesn't know the answer what a disappointment

[Anonymous No.3779389]

>>3779165
What a faggot. Tip your fedora elsewhere. I am into retro games, and I haven't played every fucking platform

[Anonymous No.3779394]

>>3779171
In america we have fraternities and parties for social interaction. For everyone with autism or other social disorders we have clubs like the one OP joined.

[Anonymous No.3779397]

>>3779171
I don't know how it's done outside of the United States, but here, students often live at universities and thus, in addition to getting an education, are likely to get together and play games and so on.
>>3779394
Hey, the only semester where I got all A's as an undergrad, I was in the university's tabletop gaming club, playing D&D every Friday night and getting drunk off my ass at parties every other Saturday.

[Anonymous No.3779445]

>>3779165
>Is it a Murican thing
Americans don't call it "uni", yurofag.

[Anonymous No.3779449]

>>3779445
Calm down you 'college' 'freshmang'.

[Anonymous No.3779465]

>>3779171
Yes, nowadays you party to get dirt gathered on your life in order to maintain order.

[Anonymous No.3779469]

>>3779165
>muh retrohipster gayming club

kys asap please

[Anonymous No.3779478]

>>3779165
>hurrrr durr if your favorite game of all time isn't Funny Pizza Land then you're just a casual shit-tier normie hurrrrrrr

[Anonymous No.3779603]

>>3779165
>PC-98
into the trash it goes

[Anonymous No.3779610]

>Retro gaming club
Why? I bet it's like every other fucking Gaming club, they just do nothing but circlejerk over Smash all day as if it's the only game in existence, and then just end up playing everything on a fucking Emulator on some guy's laptop with a 360 controller or something.

[Anonymous No.3779623]

>>3779603
Lackluster bait.

[Anonymous No.3779625]

>>3779610
>>3779165

They probably have more fun than most of the folks around here who are spend more time trying to find PCM monitors than playing games.

[Anonymous No.3779686]

>>3779625
Nah, I don't like playing smash every fucking time in Senior year of Highschool with assholes who always tend to kick the other players out just to have a sudden "FOX MAIN VS. FALCO MAIN FIGHT!" bullshit. Always wanted to just unplug the senior lounge's gamecube after that, but I found more entertainment maining Pichu just to be a laughing douchebag when I smashed people out... that's if the 2 faggots didn't suddenly go "GET OUT! WE DOIN' 1V1! FOX VS. FALCO" bullshit.

Basically, fuck Smash and fuck vidya clubs which are essentially just Smash clubs

[Anonymous No.3779689]

>>3779686
Meant to say "didn't" as senior year of Highschool was years ago.

[Anonymous No.3779965]

>>3779394
sounds dope
I wouldnt give 2 shits and join them nerds immidately.

[Anonymous No.3779996]

>>3779686
Lol I have no idea what you're talking about. My high school had books and computers

[Anonymous No.3780009]

>>3779996
It had a senior lounge where students played vidya and vaped when the teachers weren't looking.

[Cherish the Leaves !AnVbXjgZco No.3780029]

If an ugly guy starts talking to me about nerdy stuff, I pretend I don't know what he's talking about so he'll go away. So if you've ever had a bad experience with a "fake gamer girl", that's probably what actually happened.

[Anonymous No.3780137]

>>3779469
WOAAAAH THERE DUDE HOW RADICAL! SO FUNNY!! KYS JOKES ARE TOTALLY STILL FUNNY AND NOT DEAD AND EDGY AND POINTLESS!!!

[Anonymous No.3780142]

>>3779165
Welcome to /vr/ grandpa.
Next time start off the conversation with "wow, a gamer gurl. lol xd. ur so retro and nerdy and quirky. do u want to get a soy latte and talk about jewtube shit."
You'll be in faster than her last herpes eruption.

[Anonymous No.3780146]

>>3779171
OP is clearly not American because he called it his "Uni." We just called it College here.

[Anonymous No.3780150]

>>3780029
Noted, thank you for the information.

[Anonymous No.3780187]

>>3779625
>pulse code modulation monitors
heh

[Anonymous No.3780225]

>>3780187
>doesn't know monitors prefer PCM to fart noises
Stay pleb sport

[Anonymous No.3780231]

>>3780029

Gee, I'm sure you have that problem a lot.

[Anonymous No.3780243]

>>3779210
>obscure game platform
>PC-98

[Anonymous No.3780286]

>go to retro gaming club
>Just trying to play games
>Weird new guy keeps correcting everyone's pronunciation
>Apparently really triggered by the TV we have too
>Oh god he's looking at me
>Asks me my favorite game for a system that was never released here and has little relevance to non-perverts like myself
>"Oh um Myst"
>Lmao he believed me

And that's how I saved retro gaming club from the guy who thought his knowledge of obscure hentai games and analog televisions made him a better than us.

We played Marryio long into the night after he left, what a great night :)

[Anonymous No.3780295]

>>3780286
He sounds normal, the rest of you sound like wannabe retro gamers

[Anonymous No.3780381]

>>3780243
Um just asking out of sheer curiosity but how relevant is PC-98 outside Japan? There must be some enthusiasts who actually own one in hardware but I would guess that it's still rather marginal

[Anonymous No.3780396]

>>3780381
It's irrelevant even in Japan.

[Anonymous No.3780596]

>>3780396
In japan it's illelevanto

[Anonymous No.3780915]

>>3780295
>Apparently really triggered by the TV we have too

But seriously though, hooking up a pre-millenium console to an LCD is like tying a menorah onto a christmas tree. It's downright offensive.

[Anonymous No.3780986]

>>3779165
Why don't you fuck off back to /v/? Better yet, just kys.

[Anonymous No.3780989]

>>3779394
>frats for social interaction
>greekfags think this is above regular clubs
Having to pay for friends and being hazed so you can belong is pathetic.

[Anonymous No.3780997]

>>3780243
Can you believe it? It's actually obscure for most people who leave their mom's basement

[Anonymous No.3781014]

>>3780997
Obscure for your average non-Japanese Joe, but I would expect most people in a self-titled "Retro Game" club to know it. Sounds like OP either joined a poser club who think 6th gen is retro or maybe OP came off as such a huge neckbeard that the girl played dumb.

[Anonymous No.3781015]

i need this group but i would be so pissed if they hooked their n64 to a not retro TV

[Anonymous No.3781029]

>>3779165
This would be a funny niggerwalk.jpg edit. Cast either way, with you posting that text later on 4chan or with the "gamer gurl" tweeting or whatever they do. Both would be gold for /vr/ reposting.

[Anonymous No.3781060]

>>3781014
>but I would expect most people in a self-titled "Retro Game" club to know it
I wouldn't. It's mainly treasured by weebs, not by people who want actual games.

[Anonymous No.3781071]

OP is like one of those kids at anime club who wants to make you guess what anime opening is playing through his phone

[Anonymous No.3781126]

>>3780029
I've actually done this a few times I think. Not only video games but other geeky or niche stuff.
Sometimes I also hear people discussing something I know or like a lot but I stay away from their conversation because they're being ultra spergy about it and sometimes even speaking very loud for everyone to hear.

It also happens regularly with one of my friends in class. He would suddenly start talking about some of the games he's been playing over the week or some other lore bullshit he found out about his favorite games or new stuff coming out for the games he plays.
The worst thing is that I don't play the games he talks so much about nor even care about all that dumb shit but he always makes sure to try to shoehorn it into any conversation or simply start talking about it out of nowhere.

>studying on my laptop and reading papers on the side, I'm also visibly taking notes so I'm obviously busy
>friend sits next to me
>starts making friendly chit chat about homework or one of the classes
>I answer to the best of my ability while I'm also working on my shit
>before I even realize it he's already giving me a lecture on the new street figher's meta game

[Anonymous No.3781170]

>PC-98
I'm guessing most people who join a retro club are into retro console gaming. You'd probably have a better chance mentioning the Turbographx-16.

[Anonymous No.3781182]

>>3779165
So what attracts a child like you to retro games in the first place? Why do you think you're better than the other children there?

[Anonymous No.3781206]

>>3781126
I'm ok with talking to slightly crazy or weird people, but I'm terrible at talking to spergs for some reason. I don't mind talking about specific details if it's necessary, but during casual conversation if someone starts talking about something too technical or trivial to be interesting I ignore them and try to escape. One of my coworkers was nice but I ended up hating him because he was obsessed with the game Smite and would go in depth into the meta, even though it was obvious I didn't care. I just can't stand it when people put to much emphasis on the details and refuse to get to the point.

[Anonymous No.3781236]

>>3781126
When I was in college, somehow I started talking to a guy about pokemon. It was fine at first. He wanted to collect the gameboy games, good for him.

But then he starts going on and on about the anime and the comic, like how ash doesn't deserve his gym wins and his team choices. I just nodded to be polite but I was thinking "I haven't watched the show since I was a kid. I don't give a fuck about any of this!"

[Anonymous No.3781257]

>>3781170
Are you tellin' me they don't 1CC visual novels on CRTs? Hah, what a bunch of babbies

[babbage's gramps No.3781274]

>>3781257
brb installing Moving Adventure Psy-O-Blade on my mame cab.

[Anonymous No.3781278]

>>3781206
My friend does this too but he compares ASSFAGGOTS games between themselves, giving lengthy and technical explanations about shit I really couldn't give two fucks about. I don't even play ASSFAGGOTS anymore.

>>3781236
He does something similar to this. He used to watch SU until he got fed up with it and now whenever the topic about cartoons pops up he goes on about how shit the fanbase is and how the show had a lot of potential and then he starts spouting memes nonstop.

He does this with every new popular indie game of the month as well.

[babbage's gramps No.3781291]

>>3781278
Sorry to have to be the one to tell you but your friend is a hipster. That's their defining type behavior

[Anonymous No.3781309]

>>3781206
Yeah it is pretty stupid. You have to be able to gauge when you should let up on someone. Maybe they like video games but they aren't obsessive so you have to reign yourself in a bit. The people that keep going on and on and on and on get fairly annoying.

[Anonymous No.3781338]

I was thinking about starting one but i realized I'm not that autistic enough nor do i feel like meeting pseudo retro fans who only prefer Nintendo or think 6th gen is retro. So I'll stick to shitposting here

[Anonymous No.3781347]

I'll repeat the statement I told my friend.

>I like anime, but I'm not a fucking weeb about it

That statement applies to games, or fucking movies, or cartoons, or whatever the fuck else.

This usually gets known as "concealing your power level" to normies.

If you talk pokemon, just be casual about it and don't go into an autisti rage about IV/EV's.

[Anonymous No.3781372]

>>3780915
Dude, if you want to be the guy to lug a fucking CRT into a classroom for a shitty college club, be my guest.

Your options are a small, lighter CRT that defeats the purpose of gaming at a college gaming "club" because people can't watch over the players, or a fuck off heavy one with a screen large enough for more than 3 people to watch at a time.

If you can't deal with gaming on an LCD using an accurate emulator (for post 16-bit era, just deal with an LCD set to 4:3) for gaming in a social setting, you need to work on your social skills.

Sperg all you want at your dorm/apartment, but the point of going to a gaming club is to socialize about your interests, not to protect the purity of the medium.

I bet you'd actually trust the spergs there not to break your classic game systems too.

[Anonymous No.3781381]

>>3781372
Whoops, meant to say that for post 16-bit, just bring the actual console and set the LCD to 4:3 mode. Emulation past SNES era tends to be buggy horseshit.

On emulators just set the aspect ratio in the emulator itself.

[babbage's gramps No.3781415]

>>3780142
>tfw I could put hd youtube on my 60" plasma and then walk into my kitchen and make a soy latte right now if I were so inclined

[Anonymous No.3781418]

Eh, I agree about not getting too spergy about stuff at inappropriate times, but I do think there are times when, places where, and people with whom you can talk about whatever to whatever detail.

Going on and on about Japanese PC games in the middle of a history class, at work, or with a coworker who you hardly know outside of a work context is more likely to be irritating or make you seem to lack social skills than anything. But, at a club dedicated to discussing and playing old games, it seems like something perfectly acceptable to bring up. There's also the fact that one should gauge the other person's interest or knowledge level, and adjust whether you talk about the topic in a casual, obsessive, or even a more informative tone, or if the other person doesn't care, don't discuss it at all and find a new topic that interests both of you. I'd personally be all for someone explaining the intricacies of PC-98 gaming to me, but since I personally know nothing about it, I'd be lost if they started to ramble on about specifics without giving me a quick run down about the basics of the platform or the best kinds of games available. Similarly, I'd probably try to shutdown the conversation if they started to educate me while I was trying to finish some unrelated task. If I were at an old game club, though, I'd see no problem with them trying to fill me in on something out of the blue, as long as they adjusted their style after I told them that I lack much familiarity with PC-98 and won't yet be able to carry on a conversation about particular shmups that were made for it.

If someone at a gaming club tries to act conceited for not knowing about some piece of old game trivia, it'd seem like they're the one in the wrong place and not the other way around.

[Anonymous No.3781420]

>>3779165
oh awesome! now you should probably jump in front of a speeding van.

[Anonymous No.3781451]

>>3780295
I'm just in it for the girls

[Anonymous No.3781484]

>>3781372
The people who are offended by old games being played on new TV's aren't really interested in games themselves to begin with. They like knowing about games and the Optimal 4chan Approved SCART Setup's.

Similarly, many audiophiles care more about sound systems than they do music. To them, music is a means to test a sound system. They spend more time on message boards discussing the minute details of DAC's and USB cables than listening to music.

Meanwhile Chad is having a blast listening to his favorite albums on his $50 Audio Technicas.

I'm quite sure that the people in the retro game club enjoy games far more than the cats around here who get stressed out at the thought of plugging their PlayStation in via composite cable. They just care about the game itself, not the hardware used to run it.

[Anonymous No.3781505]

PC-98 is a shitty weeb system though

[Anonymous No.3781513]

>>3780142
>calling someone still in university grandpa

How the fuck young are you people?

[Anonymous No.3781520]

>>3781484
There is a real palpable difference in response playing even as mid-tier an action game as SMB on an LCD. Hopefully OP didn't spill his spaghetti too hard about it and can just donate a CRT to the club at the next meeting and show them the difference

[Anonymous No.3781540]

>>3781520
I agree which is why I have a CRT but most people really don't care and/or don't notice. My friend just beat Ocarina Of Time on their huge ass LCD TV and had a great time. When we play smash on that TV it takes a few minutes to adjust and then it's fine. The echo chamber here makes it seem like playing old games on a new TV is impossible and you might as well not bother.

[Anonymous No.3781561]

>>3781484
>Meanwhile Chad is having a blast listening to his favorite albums on his $50 Audio Technicas.

Audio Technicas are entry level audiophile actually.

Normies wear $200 Beats if they want to show off and 5 dollar earbuds if they just want some background noise while they study.

[Anonymous No.3781574]

>>3781540
The -only- time I've had noticeable input lag was when I played vagrant story on my original model PS3.

I was unable to chain reliably. That being said, I still beat the game fairly easily.

Playing on a standard PS1 on a CRT the chaining was way easier. Even with my little PSone LCD display on it it worked fine

CRT's look better for really reasons that are hard to quantify in a youtube video or screenshots. You really have to see the difference.

CRT's are amazing. I have 3. Two are more for "display" around my games room, and the other one is my primary work horse since teh other 2 have smaller screens and only mono sound.

[Anonymous No.3781587]

>>3779165
Literally the only people outside of Japan who have ever heard of the PC98 are weebs and people who frequent weeb sites. The only people outside of Japan who care about the PC98 are weebs with no lives.

Good on her for not being weebscum.

[Anonymous No.3781590]

>>3781291
The hipster subculture went from 2009 to 2015.

Calling people hipsters in 2017 is like an old man rambling about those damn hippies.

The word youre looking for is `Numale`.

[babbage's gramps No.3781610]

>>3781590
No, numales have different tells. That behavior of searching for something obscure then being all about it until you feel like it's getting too popular then moving on to new things and trashing what you used to like is literally exactly what hipsterism is about. The aesthetic changes and a lot of modern ones are numales too but that's the very heart of what being a hipster is.

>>3781540
Zelda is less twitchy/precise than Mario

>>3781574
You probably just don't play twitch genres which is fine and not surprising that you would only detect it when a game in your genre uses a novel twitchy mechanic

I can't believe nobody is commenting on that sweet AV Club Cart I found to post. Two CRTs, a DVD/VCR and a laserdisc player and it sold for $10.

[Anonymous No.3781618]

>>3781484

I think there's a middle ground here. Playing on new TV's isn't the end of the world and people shouldn't get asspained about it you are right. But CRTs and optimal SCART setups have actual measurable advantages over the other options, as opposed to audiophile gold plated cable raisers that do nothing.. When I hear people talk about old games they used to like and say things like "the graphics suck now even though I used to think it looked awesome" or "the controls are clunky this really aged poorly" or something along those lines, I wonder how many only think this way because they are playing on new TVs.

At the very least anyone dedicated enough to start or join a retro gaming club should look into external upscalers like the XRGB.

[Anonymous No.3781631]

>>3781610
I almost exclusively use a CRT for anything SD so I'm not well versed in it. The only times I've played anything that had noticable lag on an HDTV was Vagrant Story like I said

>Assuming my tastes based on a single anecdote.

[Babbage's Gramps No.3781643]

>>3781631
Sorry. I guess I should have said "you don't play twitch games on HDTV". I'm trying to be as nice a guy as possible when I namefag but I really didn't mean anything by it. I don't play puzzle games but I don't feel like it's because I'm bad at them or anything. Some genres just don't get some people in the zone they want to be in.

[Anonymous No.3781994]

>>3781236
Could be worse, my community college has an Animation club that pretty much acts like Pokemon is the only anime in existence or something.

I think anyone who slightly gets into anime would realize that following the pookyman animu is pretty much a lost cause, as it's essentially for children and has a horrible fanbase.

[Anonymous No.3782038]

>>3781994

I won't put down the Pokemon anime (I watched it a lot back in its early days, I'd still gladly watch some of the early episodes, and it gave me my one true waifu), but hasn't it become a bit weak in terms of continuity? Like, don't they soft reboot it or something when they move to a new region? I don't watch it these days so I don't know if this is accurate or not, but something like that makes it seem like it would make it hard to get invested in it compared to something like, say, Dragon Ball that had hundreds of chapters/episodes that had a somewhat solid continuity from episode to episode.

[Babbage's Gramps No.3783116]

>>3782038
Yeah they soft reboot in sync with new game generations and you're right you might as well just watch indigo league. My pham loves it and Pokémon Go though so I'm cool with it.

[Anonymous No.3783127]

>>3779165
To be honest that's not that cringy of an answer. A lot of people don't know what Myst is.

[Anonymous No.3783134]

I still wonder what someone young enough to still be in school expected from a retro gaming club at a university. Obviously they're also going to be young people looking into old games. It's like he's offended it wasn't a club run by 40 year olds.

[Anonymous No.3783142]

>>3783127
she probably didn't say that and OP was just projecting his own tastes to make this thread and jerk himself off.

[Anonymous No.3783157]

>>3783134
That's not the ridiculous part at all. The ridiculous part is pulling the whole "haha get a load of this lol how clueless" routine because some girl at said club wasn't familiar with his obscure Japanese hentai machine that almost no one in the West knows of or cares about.

[Anonymous No.3783172]

>>3783157
Ohh the whole thing is full on pathetic.

[Anonymous No.3783174]

>>3779165
>Talking about vidya (especially old vidya) with real people IRL face to face.

>Especially with chicks

Why does this shit make me cringe so hard? I hate talking about video games in public.

You aren't supposed to reveal your power level, you fucking loser.

I don't give a shit about what Lets Players and E Sports have done for vidya.

Admitting you play vidya and talking about it openly with normies anywhere othe than online is not socially acceptable and never will be.

Don't do it.

[Anonymous No.3783185]

>>3783174
>Why does this shit make me cringe so hard? I hate talking about video games in public.

It sounds like the problem is that you don't feel comfortable with your own hobbies. People here at work of both genders from 20's to 50's talk about games openly all the time. No one gives a shit. Riding the train home in the evenings half the people there are playing something or other.

This isn't the 80's anymore, talking about games is no different than talking about movies or music, it's just another form of entertainment.

That said, expecting some 20something girl to have a favorite PC-98 game and getting pissy when she doesn't is comedy gold.

[Anonymous No.3783186]

>>3783174
>Admitting you play vidya and talking about it openly with normies anywhere othe than online is not socially acceptable and never will be.
Eh, if you work in a non-office job there's a high chance of younger people (early to mid 20's or so) talking about popular multiplayer games like Battlefield or Destiny. While talking about niche Japanese shit will probably get you weird looks pretty much everyone is familiar with popular games nowadays.

[Anonymous No.3783189]

>>3783174
I was at a classmate's apartment working on a group project.
Everyone was getting hungry so we drove to a nearby sports bar.
20 TV screens showing random sports.
The whole time we were talking about videogames and streamers.

It was fun. But the sad thing is, I was the youngest in the group and I didn't know anything about streamers before then.

[Anonymous No.3783193]

>>3779965
Most video game/anime/comic book/etc. clubs at universities are almost always full of cringey autists, like the kind that will wear fox tails or shit like that on the back of their pants

you almost never see any normies in them

[Anonymous No.3783202]

>>3783185
>It sounds like the problem is that you don't feel comfortable with your own hobbies

Eh, I was always treated like a shitty little loser for playing vidya.

I don't see why everyone else shouldn't be.

[Anonymous No.3783206]

>>3783193
That's because it's degeneracy, of course you only find degenerates there.

[Anonymous No.3783209]

>>3783202
Are you sure that wasn't because you acted like a shitty little loser? I'm in my 40's and have been into games most of my life. It's never made me feel like a pariah. It's a hobby like any other.

[Anonymous No.3783212]

>>3783185
I'm plenty comfortable talking about games online, it's just irl that makes me cringe.

[Anonymous No.3783214]

>>3783212
I know, I read your post.

[Anonymous No.3783215]

>>3779165
Joke's on OP, she was actually talking about Moon Mist

[Anonymous No.3783216]

>>3783209
Eh, I think there is a bit of weight to the "video games ruined my life" thing with me.

I haven't seen any of my "friends" in a little over two years, whereas I've rotted away playing vidya they have real friends, relationships etc.

It's a fucking shame video games are the only thing I enjoy doing anymore.

Buuut... that's just me, I'm pretty bitter, I'll admit.

[Anonymous No.3783219]

>>3783202
That's a problem with you personally though. At least in the US vidya has always been a normie hobby.

[Anonymous No.3783220]

>>3783185
I think the problem is that these are the kind of people who can't talk about anything besides videogames.

[Anonymous No.3783223]

>>3783216
I haven't seen my friends in something like a decade.

[Anonymous No.3783228]

>>3783216
Yeah.... I know this is an entertainment site about old games but a bit of real talk, I don't think they're your problem. But they sound like they're a symptom of a much bigger problem.

I love video games, but they can be bad. They give a sense of accomplishment from not really doing anything, but your brain doesn't always know that. So you'll find yourself seeking them out because it gives that boost of endorphins from accomplishment, but it's hollow. And when you look back you'll see that it hasn't added up to much.

It's entirely possible to play games and still have friends and family. It just takes balance. Going through life bitter will be horrible for you and unpleasant for everyone you interact with. You only get one go at this life, try not to waste it in misery.

[Anonymous No.3783229]

>>3783223
Yeah, there are a few I haven't seen that long too.

[Anonymous No.3783232]

>>3783228
>try not to waste it in misery.

Meh, it's a little late for that.

It's fine, don't even know why I'm going in depth here. I know no one gives a shit about me.

[Anonymous No.3783245]

>>3779165
>Walking past some manchilds

And you aren't one because...?

[Anonymous No.3783250]

>>3783232
It's never, ever too late to change your attitude. I care about you. Even though I don't know you, I want you to lead as good a life as you can. And there's really no reason to be content being lonely and miserable. Help exists and many people would be delighted to help you.

You are loved. Even if you can't feel it now, it's there.

[Anonymous No.3783251]

>>3779165
Shouldn't you be spending your time studying?

Fucking degenerate scum.

[Anonymous No.3783254]

>PC-98
literally what

[Anonymous No.3783257]

>>3783250
Yeah, whatever you say anon.

[Anonymous No.3783259]

>>3783250
It is too late for some of us.

[Anonymous No.3783261]

>>3783250
>It's never, ever too late to change your attitude

Not everyone is capable of doing this.

[Anonymous No.3783267]

>>3783250
>I care about you. Even though I don't know you

This, cut this shit out.

No you don't. As far as conversations on an anonymous imageboard, you and I may as well not even exist on the same fucking planet.

You don't help people by spouting empty platitudes like this.

Don't get me wrong, I've got nothing against you, but this shit pisses me off to no end.

It's the exact same as doing nothing.

This is why I hate shit like Fakebook.

[babbage's gramps No.3783270]

>>3783267
You might even argue that it's worse than nothing because at least people who do nothing feel guilty and that may motivate them to actually do something.

Nobody is completely beyond hope of finding happiness, but ANYbody who is getting older without having found it might want to develop more realistic expectations for life.

[Anonymous No.3783274]

>>3783270
>but ANYbody who is getting older without having found it might want to develop more realistic expectations for life.

In all honesty? I just want to die already.

Like I fucking YEARN for it. Too much of a coward regardless.

Probably par for the course for 4chan.

[Anonymous No.3783276]

>>3783270
Life isn't about being happy.

Sometimes even being happy is never enough.

[Anonymous No.3783282]

>>3783257
I speak the truth. If you want to spend the rest of your life miserable because you gave up, that's your choice. But at least don't fool yourself into thinking it's not a choice.

>>3783259
If you're still breathing it really isn't.

>>3783261
Some people have severe mental or emotional problems, it's true. But everything can be helped if they choose to.

>>3783267
>cut this shit out.

It's not shit, that's my whole point. Even though I don't know you personally I still wish you only the best in life and have nothing but love and compassion for you in my heart.

I am not trying to simply placate you with nice words, I am trying to illustrate to you that even though you think you're alone you don't have to be. The same way I care about your well-being even though I don't really know you, I guarantee there are others out there.

>>3783270
I truly believe that life isn't about happiness, it's about how you approach hardship.

I'll stop preaching at you now, but seriously dude. You don't have to go through life angry and disappointed. You really, really don't.

[Anonymous No.3783284]

>>3783220
That's something I hate specifically about talking about vidya with people.

That's literally ALL they want to talk about, and sure, I've been playing vidya all my life but even I get sick and fucking tired of talking about it.

[Anonymous No.3783286]

>>3783282
This is the first time I've ever seen a troll using positive instead of negative messages to fool others.

This topic is one of the reasons why blogging should be discouraged.

[babbage's gramps No.3783293]

>>3783274
You just yearn for an end of suffering. If you actually get to the point you thirst for death you'll be the freest kind of person there is.

>>3783276
>>3783282
>Life isn't about being happy
wew lads - what else could it be about short of changing the world?

[Anonymous No.3783298]

>>3783286
I know right?

It's fucking insane.

This guy'ss playing internet video game jesus and it's just... Ugh.

Unconditional, blind love is a meme. No matter how passionately you defend it.

Humans are complex animals, but at the end of the day, that's all we really are. Animals.

[Anonymous No.3783303]

>>3783293
>wew lads - what else could it be about short of changing the world?

Suffering.

We exist. to. suffer.

[Anonymous No.3783305]

>>3783286
That all I'm really saying is that you don't have to be miserable the rest of your life because you gave up and that makes me a troll in your eyes? Are you serious?

>>3783293
>wew lads
I know it sounds odd, but chasing only happiness has diminishing returns.

[Anonymous No.3783307]

>>3783293
I sincerely hope you think you're helping, for your own sake.

[babbage's gramps No.3783309]

>>3783307
Nah, I mainly just try to be a good role model believe it or not!

[Anonymous No.3783315]

>>3783309
No one wants a role model. I definitely don't.

[Anonymous No.3783585]

I was hella depressed and decided I was over it and started reading self help books and shit and am happy all the time now and life rules.
Worth a shot.

I think most folks are too afraid to try and be happy.

[babbage's gramps No.3783603]

>>3783315
That's cool, Bro. I'm not trying to make anybody listen to me. Just giving a little back to the nerd community.

[babbage's gramps No.3783609]

>>3783305
The scope of your happiness expands as you stretch it.

>>3783303
Yeah, I mean bleak nihilism is cool and all and can protect you from a lot of stuff but if you lose your heart of gold what is there to protect?

[Anonymous No.3783617]

>>3783315
Get a load of Sonic the Edgehog over here!

[Anonymous No.3783737]

>>3783305
I'm guessing you prefer to chase a chicken and get your happiness when you catch her

[Anonymous No.3783889]

>LCD

This is why my retro gaming hobby stopped being a social one. My autism is far too strong.

[Anonymous No.3784236]

>>3780029
What game is that from?

[Anonymous No.3784240]

>>3781338
It's not worth it.
The one time I ran a game club for a year, the only game anyone wanted to play was Smash. No matter what else I brought. The couple of times I forgot to bring it the club was empty as fuck.

[Anonymous No.3784275]

>>3784240
See that reason alone makes me not want too. I'm getting old to be an undergrad I'm 22 and barely a senior. Not alot of people to talk retro too. Still I'm ok with that cause i have this Cambodian shitposting fourm to resort too. But i have friends that emulate which I'm cool with and they only know basic tier games but I'm glad we talk about something.

[Anonymous No.3784298]

>>3783215
damn.. like it really is on OP.

[Anonymous No.3784610]

Why don't I have any friends?

[Anonymous No.3784845]

>>3783193
This
Why can't I find people into the stuff I am who aren't awkward losers

[Anonymous No.3784851]

>>3780989
You pay for connections
Not freinds

[Anonymous No.3784856]

>>3780029
This but I do it whenever someone is acting weird or autistic
It's mainly with fat weeb chicks tho

[Anonymous No.3784857]

>>3784845
Because "nerd hobby club" is a codename for "gamma/delta male meetup". It's a social crutch for them, not really made for discussion first. If you're looking the latter, I heard this "Forechin" site has a forum for people who like Doom.

[Anonymous No.3784862]

>>3784236
Busty Post

[Anonymous No.3784872]

>>3784857
Idk where to find people who are legit interested in nerdy stuff and isn't just an autist looking for friends
It's harder since I go to USC but live off campus with my freinds near Hollywood and there is nobody here remotely interested in nerdy stuff
Thank God for roll20

[Anonymous No.3784896]

>>3781338
I can't get my freinds to play anything but Mario kart 64, or golden eye. Fuck I would love to play smash with peeps. But I really wanna play super dodgeball, but nobody I know has even heard of it, let alone wants to play it with me!

[Anonymous No.3784898]

>>3784872
Online only. Give up on trying to find them IRL, either they are autists or live on the other side of the country. Look at how scarcely populated /vr/ is, the chances of finding anyone IRL are extremely slim.

[Anonymous No.3784906]

>>3784845
>>3784857
>>3784872
Be the LEADER of the awkward loser gamma/delta male autists looking for friends. Trust me it's totally worth spending one day a month with them, the more the better. SOME of them will be cool guys you can have as an inner circle you hang out with other times. Also, even those supernerds will have sisters not to mention regular girls who notice your menagerie and assuming you guys are really as cool and normal looking as you're implying they'll wonder why someone like you is spending time with all those weirdos and come to the conclusion that you're a real nice guy helping the nerds improve their social skills who's confident enough to rock his nerdy hobbies. This even gives them something very obvious to approach you about. Remember that if you're in a large setting like college and are even half way normal looking there IS a girl who's interested in you, she just doesn't know how to let you know without risking embarrassment - ironically, the same reason you don't reveal much about yourself.

and if all else fails, one of your minions will probably have a girlfriend he constantly tells how great you are that you could steal

[Anonymous No.3784910]

>>3781418
People don't think like this anymore, you have a thought process of a bygone era. Feel free to grab a hanky, cause.nobody gives a fuck any more. It is sad, but cash me outside how bout dah!


Seriously tho, I wish people were more like you. The world would be a better place!

[Anonymous No.3784960]

>>3784910
I think he doesn't understand the difference between talking about things as part of a conversation and "going on and on about Japanese games"

A lot of these people think it's the content of what they're talking about that turns people off, the reality is they could be going on at someone about their favorite subject and it would still come off as embarrassing rambles.

[Anonymous No.3784965]

>>3784960
I'm not so sure, this guy could be on the fence. He seems to get what settings are acceptable to be like this. Shit if i was in a club like that I wouldn't mind talking to some autist about the pc98 for a while, but I'd definitely shut them down once I got bored!

[Anonymous No.3784973]

>>3784906
So basically there's no reason to join these clubs unless as a means to get girls, and it's also questionably effective. Sounds more like a premise for some shitty comedy if you ask me. "HE ENTERED THE NERD CLUB JUST TO GET A GIRL HE WANTED. BUT HE WASN'T PREPARED FOR THE CONSEQUENCES"

[Anonymous No.3784980]

>>3784973
No, I'm just used to getting girls being anons top priority I forget that between the people who are already married and the ones who're given up and perhaps "going their own way" that the general consensus is that "girl r dum". You still are ignoring my middle section about selecting an inner circle from a large enough group of spergs. A certain percentage will be basically just like you.

[Anonymous No.3784984]

>>3784965
Ohh yeah I spent a lot of time in hobby shops and gaming (tabletop) clubs back in high school and university, there are certainly cool people in all of them who are interesting to talk to. But there's also those guys who make you understand the stereotypes that persist.

[Anonymous No.3784986]

>>3784980
>You still are ignoring my middle section about selecting an inner circle from a large enough group of spergs. A certain percentage will be basically just like you.
What kind of an insufferable euphoric prick would even go for this

[Anonymous No.3784992]

>>3784986
>What kind of an insufferable euphoric prick would try to meet a large number of people with common interest in hopes that some of them might become real friends
Obviously just the worst most screwled up individuals would do such a... manipulative (?) thing.

Sorry, I'm having too hard a time even guessing what your problem is to be sufficiently sarcastic about it.

[Anonymous No.3785003]

>>3784992
>>3784992
Not him but you sound almost as loony as the guy who was so upset about everything sucking in his like except video games that he wants to die yet at the same time talking like he's figured out the secret to the universe.

Joining a club so you can hope to be their LEADER because you think they're all a bunch of losers and hope they might have sisters you can try to sleep with is pretty comical.

[Anonymous No.3785004]

>>3779165
I would've answered sim copter

[Anonymous No.3785006]

>>3785003
You lack the confidence of your own convictions. If you're too cool to even associate with a bunch of "awkward loser gamma/delta male autists looking for friends"(their words) then you should easily be cool enough to lead them.

[Anonymous No.3785013]

>>3785006
I'm this guy >>3784984
I've spent a whole lot of time with those people, I don't see them as losers for the most part, they're just people.

[Anonymous No.3785017]

>>3785013
Yes well that's the healthy way to see them but sometimes you have to speak hyperbolically when trying to get concepts through Anon's heads. If they aren't actually as super cool as they all seem to think they are maybe it might help them realize it. Even I've gone through three separate nerd scenes that got sick of my attitude after a few years.

[Anonymous No.3785032]

>>3785017
>but sometimes you have to speak hyperbolically when trying to get concepts through Anon's heads.

I think this is where I disagree with you the most. Like sarcasm, hyperbole is hard to convey with short bits of text like this. Usually you just come off like a kid trying way too hard to be edgy and cool.

[Anonymous No.3785130]

>>3785004
Lol. I would have said " sorry man, I can't think of an pc games that came out in 98 off the top of my head".

[Anonymous No.3785140]

>>3784896
tfw you really cant have people to play Sega Saturn or Dreamcast with because they give you weird looks. Don't get me wrong I knew it was coming but Damn really wish I had someone to at least have those cool discussions with about retro in rl and let the autism out. Though I have maybe meet some /fit/ and /mu/ posters in rl and they're cool.

Life is truly suffering but at least we can play modern stuff together

[Anonymous No.3785468]

>>3785140
>tfw you really cant have people to play Sega Saturn or Dreamcast with because they give you weird looks.

Tell me the whole story.
Do normies really shun old consoles if they are not from Nintendo? Or did they simply not recognize the words from your mouth?

[babbage's gramps No.3785561]

>>3785468
Nobody wants to play Master System with Harrison Ford

>>3785032
Way too hard or way too not hard enough? Because I come even bigger when I'm not namefagging.

[babbage's gramps No.3785574]

>>3785468
Nobody wants to play Master System with Harrison Ford

>>3785032
Way too hard or way too not hard enough? Because I come even bigger when I'm not namefagging

[Anonymous No.3785634]

It's not just old videogames, the chances of people liking the same old movies or old tv shows you do are is also very slim. The reason is that there's a lot more in the past than there is in the mainstream now. Sure there's classics that are always on tv like Scarface or Pulp Fiction, even then young people won't know a lot of them. Who is really missing out from not being familiar with the PC-98, it's more interesting as an attempt at winning the console war than anything else.

[Anonymous No.3786003]

>>3785140
Really, dreamcast is like a rare thing to play! Fuck those peopl

[Anonymous No.3786089]

>>3785634
>Who is really missing out from not being familiar with the PC-98, it's more interesting as an attempt at winning the console war than anything else.

You`re thinking of the PC-FX. PC-98 was massively successful being the most popular Japanese computer before the Nips all moved to Windows. It had tons of software.

Does anyone know what year the native Japanese computers were basically supplanted by Windows PCs?

[Anonymous No.3786110]

>>3785468
Usually people are like oh cool and I mean its understandable because the Saturn wasn't so popular and the DC I know a few people that really like it and others where they're like PS2 right?

Typical Anti Sega remarks from like early 00s
>Sega's Dead who cares
>Well they aren't around
>Why?
>Sonic is the only good thing they make

I have one friend that really thought the saturn was cool we played Physic Killer Taromaru and it was the shit.
Also don't forget people don't shun Playstation because they have alot of nostalgia with people my age.

Usually these people look at le retr0gaemr eshills like AVGN or Game Grumps. So meh but again better to at least talk about NES and snes than nothing.

>>3785574
I would anon
>>3786003
it seems that way but I go to a big school so I'll find someone eventually and we can release all of our autism out together and maybe play Neo Geo together too.
>>3785634
>, the chances of people liking the same old movies or old tv shows you do are is also very slim. The reason is that there's a lot more in the past than there is in the mainstream now. Sure there's classics that are always on tv like Scarface or Pulp Fiction, even then young people won't know a lot of them.

True I mean thanks to the internet and watching re runs of siskel and ebert I become more interested in older movies and tv shows. Not to say le movies r ded meme but its seeing the difference between today and something made in the 70s besides the more obvious ones.

[babbage's gramps No.3786135]

>>3786089
'95 of course! With another nail in the coffin come '98.

[Cherish the Leaves !AnVbXjgZco No.3786201]

>>3784236
Popful Mail (Sega CD)

[Anonymous No.3786215]

>>3779165
>she didn't even know about Touhou
What a dumb bitch.

[Anonymous No.3786270]

>>3783250

You don't give a single fuck about strangers on the internet. Stop spouting feel good bullshit from your ivory tower

[Anonymous No.3787102]

>>3786270
I'm not in an ivory tower. I'm just saying spending your life being miserable is a waste. The things you said make you sound seriously mentally ill. If you never want to try and help yourself that's your choice, just don't go around acting like it's not a choice.

[Anonymous No.3787118]

>>3779171
American universities are expensive 4-year cruise ships. I've worked in higher education for a decade at multiple schools and they're all babysitting safe spaces designed to take your money, and lots of it.

[Anonymous No.3787229]

>>3787118
What about community colleges
Same thing?

[Anonymous No.3787232]

>>3787102
"I'm not in an ivory tower. I'm just saying <torrent of elitism that makes Singaporeans balk>"

[Anonymous No.3787246]

>>3787232
Okay what exactly did I say that you think comes off as a "torrent of elitism"? Because I was mostly responding to someone so depressed they say they don't want to live anymore and simply saying life doesn't have to be that shitty and help is out there if you need it. You think that's elitist?

[babbage's gramps No.3787253]

>>3787246
Depression is a hell of a drug

[Anonymous No.3787268]

>>3787253
It can seriously fuck you over it's true. But it's never insurmountable and it's never worth wasting the one life you have.

[Anonymous No.3787271]

>>3787268
>the one life you have.
>one

[babbage's gramps No.3787278]

>>3787271

[Anonymous No.3787431]

yeah bro you sure showed her dude you totally belong here so much good job

[Anonymous No.3787459]

>into video games since I got my PS2 as a kid
>start to get bored with newer stuff, look into older games
>liking what I see even if I've only just dipped my toes
>find out that there's a retro gaming club at uni, cool, maybe this can help me get more into it
>I just kind of fear what kind of people will be there
>most are cool but sure enough some autist is there REEEEEEing about how not everyone there knows every fucking thing about retro games
>stumbles up to some girl and barely keeping his spaghetti in his pockets asks her about some console that is niche even in online retro gaming circles
>she probably misheard him through all his stuttering and responded Myst at which point he forced an expression of shock and indignation
I was almost afraid that I'd have to ditch the club because I didn't want to have to be around this pretentious dickwad but thankfully he stormed off first, cackling to himself something like "Ha, just wait until the guys at vee arr hear about this! They'll think I'm cool for sure!"

[Anonymous No.3787469]

>>3787459
Should have done it from her perspective. Really build the picture of having a mouthbreathing weirdo trying to pick you up by mumbling about PC-98.

[Anonymous No.3787480]

>>3787229
Community College is high school 2.0. But take all those hard classes there there's especially the hard science based one for engineers and any health care and medical majors since its cheaper/easier than at a big school
Source former CC student now transferred to a big university.

[Anonymous No.3787486]

>>3781060
this

I had no idea what PC-98 was until coming on /vr/, and I considered myself a 'retro gamer'.

[Anonymous No.3787489]

>>3787459
No you got it all wrong
>be an irresistible alpha male
>have exquisite taste in art house visual novels
>see a bunch of losers daring to call themselves "retro game club"
>a weak 6/10 girl there obviously drools over me
>ask her one easy question hinting at my vast knowledge of the subject
>she answers some nonsence
>pathetic.jpg
>farewell plebians
>destroy that bunch dilettantes with other connoisseurs on /vr/

[Anonymous No.3788138]

>>3787486
You should probably consider yourself a bandwagon muhreeoh gamer. Guess PC-98 LPs aren't a big thing?

[Anonymous No.3788230]

>>3788138
What a nice division of retro fans to ebin PC-98 master race and subhuman mareeoh bandwagoners. Black and white fallacy, classic edition.

I might have seen PC-98 mentioned in some mag briefly. But why would I even bother, really? Some computer never released outside of Japan that has no gaems? And what would I play on it, really? Japanese VNs, are serious? I understand that back in the day you already got your belowed Rey pillow and had transcended gaijin entertainment, but thank you, I had a shitload of games to play already to need that weaboo shit.

[babbage's gramps No.3788237]

>>3788230
There are some novel tactical rpgs I liked on it

[Anonymous No.3788276]

>>3788237
This doesn't change the point. The whole platform is largely memed by weebs alone. Because 99.99% of other people in US don't care about visual novels and don't speak Japanese, contrary to what some strongly believe.

I do understand that when you're waaay into retro hobby, you've long beaten every good game on every popular and not so popular console, you hunger for more. But do you seriously expect people to be like that in college? They've probably barely played all the classics yet.

I'm glad OP wasn't an STG fan and he didn't ask the girl for her Garegga score.

[Anonymous No.3788710]

>>3788230
>being this assmad because you didn't know about a system.
I guess that's what happens when bandwagon collectors start to consider themselves knowledgeable.

[Anonymous No.3788723]

>>3788230

>Rey

Quit trying so hard to prove that you aren't wapanese.

[Anonymous No.3788731]

>>3781574
It depends on the tv, I used to have a crt and led next to each other for retro and modern games. I messed about seeing what the ps2 was like on the led at one point and also used it to test consoles since it was easier to get behind. It had a noticable lag and sime games it really did ruin. If you played sonic it almost felt like he was stuck to the floor.

But currently I just have a megadrive hooked up to a small led and it's fine. The imput lag isn't noticable, it doesn't look as good but I can live with that if the games plays fine.

[Anonymous No.3789005]

>>3783232
You're right, why should anybody care about you anyway? You should just crawl up in a ball and slowly decompose. Just like me.

[Anonymous No.3789014]

>>3783250
Worst post

You're a douche

[babbage's gramps No.3789227]

>>3788276
Well yeah I mean if OP really did his greentext he came off as a douchebag AT BEST. There's such a thing as context, even if you want to show off your knowledge. OP could have talked about SMB2J/Lost Levels/Vs.SMB or he probably could have started a pretty interesting conversation with those guys by bringing up Donkey Kong Picnic which is a pretty cringey topic on /vr/ but would most likely be fresh to them. Oppositely he might have even been able to inspire some discussion if he'd brought up upscaling delay and CRTs which is a much more cringey topic in real life than on /vr/ but MIGHT have made a decent conversation if approached correctly but to go directly to the most obscure topic he could think of is some ultimate tryhard shit and I half believe it to be bait although I also have no trouble believing there are plenty of guys on neo/vr/ that would do exactly that after skimming what they see as the most intense generals for a week or so.

[Anonymous No.3789378]

>>3789014
Have fun being a depressed grade A loser the rest of your life I guess.

[Anonymous No.3789452]

>>3780225

>monitors prefer PCM to fart noises

You wot m8?

I have a PVM...the fuck is a PCM?

[Anonymous No.3789698]

>>3789005
>Implying I haven't been doing that for almost a decade.

All I do is sleep in my spare time.

[Anonymous No.3789817]

>>3789378
> I'm a guru preacher of love and understanding and everyone else is a rancid swine
kys

[Anonymous No.3789928]

>>3789817
I preach that life doesn't have to be shit and love is a powerful force that can help in that. If you want to move past depression and misery there are many ways, and if you ask for help you will find it's abundant because the overwhelming majority of people are loving and helpful.

But if you want to ignore all that, stick your head in the sand and call me a douche that's your decision. I don't mean to be harsh but you are literally choosing to be a loser because it's easy and doesn't require you to better yourself.

I wish it wasn't so, and I wish you wanted to help yourself for your own benefit as well as those around you, but I can't force that on you. So yes, in the end I will give you a little tough love and leave you be. Wallow in misery until you die if you want, I can't stop you. But at least understand what you are doing and own the decision you have made as pathetic as it is.

[Anonymous No.3789963]

>>3789928
No one asked you what you preach, faggot. Take you enlightened ass back to your favorite safe space.

[Anonymous No.3789997]

>>3779165

>hear some nerds on campus talking about retro stuff
>chime in
>they ask me what my favorite retro system is
>"snes9x"

[Anonymous No.3790025]

>>3789817
>>3789378
>>3787246
>>3787102
>>3783282

Kid, please. Nobody cares about your naive ideology. Do yourself a favor and go back to your social media or blog whatever the hell you came from. You ain't fooling anyone with that holier than thou nonsense.

INB4 "Stop being so negative!", "You just have to try!", "believe in yourself" or some other empty wisdom response

[Anonymous No.3790095]

>>3783202
literally 4chan: the post

[Anonymous No.3790175]

>>3783250
>guy says it's never too late to a depressed faggot
>4chan attacks him
kek. just kek.

[Anonymous No.3790256]

>>3783116
Why do you permit spiritually damaging plebshit in your household?
Have you no concern for your family`s future?

[Anonymous No.3790265]

>>3789452
>having a meme display
>not knowing meme audio
Damn, you CRT autists are hard core CRT only autists.
>not knowing how to read the thread
>not knowing how to google
Damn. Just damn.

[babbage's gramps No.3790273]

>>3790256
I think Pokemon Indigo League is a perfectly acceptable intro anime. My wife watched all of DBZ:Kai with me when she was pregnant. She doesn't like war which is imo the best anime genre and I've slowly, slowly been building her taste for horror but I haven't come up with an anime that's suitably mindfucking (which she likes) without being too terrifying for her. She also has a hard time focusing on subbed stuff. Sadly we just really don't have the time for even a 30-some episode series.

[Anonymous No.3790280]

>>3783282
Tell me this Mr. Love Guru.

Nearly a year ago (this happened in March '16) I ate some bad food and my stomach got really fucked up. Had a horrible stomach ache for three days and was literally bed bound while it lasted. It passed but my stomach never really recovered. I'm now basically permanently fucking bloated to some degree (sometimes worse than others) and am constantly experiencing discomfort at the bare minimum and stomach aches are frequent. They can't find out what's wrong with me and are calling it IBS. Often get constipation too but it's not too bad.

A year ago today I was 15kg heavier and was muscular. I did have a problem with depression before I got ill but now I just feel like absolute shit. There is no cure for IBS; I'm going to be spending my entire life feeling like utter shit basically. Actually with post-infectious IBS there's a 50% chance that it will recover within 3-5 fucking years but I doubt I will be that lucky.

So yeah, I'm absolutely fucking doomed to lead a life of feeling like shit. What the hell is the point of living this crap? Don't give me that crap about allowing love to heal me or whatever. I have plenty of people that love me and I'm grateful, but honestly I wish nobody fucking did so that I could just kill myself and not hurt anyone. But here I am, utterly stuck and constantly in pain.

Idk. This life feels like total bullshit to me now. As I said, I did have a problem with depression before, but being like this is just the final fucking straw. Life is literally pain for me now, both mental and physical, and there's nothing I can fucking do about it. Fuck everything.

[Anonymous No.3790289]

>>3783585
it's amazing how positive posts are completely ignored on this shithole, to the extent that somebody encouraging depressed morons to make a change is called a troll

4chan is fueled purely by negative energy. what an utterly decrepit and hopeless place this is.

[Anonymous No.3790306]

>>3790289
You speak the truth. I recently came to realize that by browsing 4chan I'm actually thinking more negatively of myself and of others around me. I found myself echoing 4chan's sentiments and degrading others in my head. It's best to minimize use of this board for the sake of my self-confidence, and to avoid the shit-talking threads.

[Anonymous No.3790319]

>>3790280

I'm not even the guy you're referring to anon, but yes you can.

For starters, I hate that you're going through that, man. I really do. I'm in a similar boat, believe it or not. Last July, I got this sharp, numbing pain that shot down the left side of my body. My face, head, arm, and leg all tingled and was numb and sore for several weeks. I didn't know what happened. I went to a chiropractor, thinking it was something spinal, and I wasn't better at all after 6 sessions. My problem apparently wasn't major, so I should've been better by then. I will admit, the sharp tingling and numbness did finally go away, but now this dull ache that dances around the left side of my head/face just lingers, and sometimes my arm and leg feels very heavy. It makes me feel lethargic and not wanting to really do anything. People at work have noticed it out of me lately in particular.

And that was last July. This problem still persists with me. The sensations vary, but I'll say at least half of each day, I feel weak, unmotivated, and drained due to whatever the hell this is. MRIs, CT scans, X-Rays all reveal nothing. I don't know what's wrong with me. But guess what? I enjoy life. I love video games, that's why I'm here. That's why you're here too. I too have people that love me. Friends, family, a girlfriend I have all that despite this shitty whatever-I-have. I don't have depression, but I work in mental health, so I know what it looks like and what it can do. Don't let it do that to you, man. You're better than that. Everyone is better than that. Live the life you want to live, and enjoy some damn video games.

Not to scare you away, because this does just that to most folks, but have you tried church? It can be very empowering and you'd be shocked at the strength you find there. God is good, if you let Him be. But if that's not your thing, that's fine. I just want you to know that you CAN do this and that you're better than some dumb IBS.

[Anonymous No.3790327]

>>3790280

To add to my previous post, you say you used to be muscular? Work out again, brother. I'm starting again myself and I'm feeling really good about it. Eat your post workout meals with your favorite game. Make it fun. Last time I tried to workout, I gave myself a level up system. I'll raise a level with every passing 2 weeks I'd work out. Autistic? Yes. But it gave me a goal that's related to a hobby of mine. Have fun with it.

[babbage's gramps No.3790356]

Holy shit this thread. You just need to be ready for when life attacks. Get as strong as you can in as many ways as you can while you can.

[Anonymous No.3790364]

>>3790280
First, this is /vr/. Your talk is not really suited for here and you'd get better advice elsewhere. But, since you're asking, I can add my 2 cents.

Gurus will tell you that you can solve your pain in your mind. That's the usual guru talk. That's why they are called "gurus". They preach that if you just believe, you sure will be happy. You won't, you'll simply become a weirdo. Or in the worst case, sold snake oil.

Here's the only advice I can give. Try to abstract from mental stuff. Forget for a second about your depression, the feeling that you're doomed for your life, etc. It's the pain that causes these problems, not the other way round.

Then just work to eliminate the pain and its cause. Remember: your goal is not fighting depression. Your goal is fighting the cause of pain. Try and do exercise. Find diet that suits you most. If nothing works, seek professional help.

Don't focus on your mental stuff. It's just a placebo. Mental issues are always secondary. No pep talk is going to help you. No amount of courage will change anything, no peer support is going to matter. Don't think that it's about giving up or keeping "fighting". It's a routine, not a "fight". It's a real issue and should be treated with real methods, not belief.

Last but not least, remember that in fact no one gives a fuck if you get better or not. It's your body, and you work to feel physical relief. So forget seeking help online, that's the only real advice you can get.

[Anonymous No.3790381]

>>3790280
>>3790364
Forgot to say.

Don't forget to cover your basic needs. Get more entertainment. Always get needed sleep. Work out, but relax when you feel like it. Indulge yourself with food you like. You want to fap/fuck, always do it. These always come first.

[Anonymous No.3790385]

>>3790319
>>3790327
Man I lost the weight/muscle because I can't really eat properly anymore. I only eat two meals a day now. If I eat more, the pain and bloating get worse. When I used to go to the gym before I got ill I'd eat the whole fucking fridge after a session. When I've tried going to the gym since the illness started I now have no appetite even after a session. Lifting weights is pointless if you can't eat. Shit happens.

I also get horrible lethargy and just feel tired all the damn time. Have no energy to do jack shit anymore. Can't believe this bullshit happened but that's life.

Thanks for you post, hope you feel better too m8.

[Anonymous No.3790395]

>>3784857
>>3784845
>>3783193
>>3779394

>being this vain and self important you wouldn't join a club based around something you're interested in

No wonder nobody on 4chan has any friends

[Anonymous No.3790405]

>>3790395
The club is full of autists and socially awkward people so it would be awkward as fuck to join
Honestly it would be great if there was a group of people with nerdy interests near me that wasn't fucking weird but that's not the case

[Anonymous No.3790408]

>>3790395
We don't join gaming and anime clubs at colleges because we want to have freinds
Being in an gaming club wouldn't do much for a social life

[Anonymous No.3790427]

>>3789698
Confused

[Anonymous No.3790492]

>>3779171

In America, a University is usually a network of schools owned and ran by the same people, usually in the same region of the country. The term probably evolved here that way because of our sheer population and land mass.

[Anonymous No.3790681]

>>3790405
>Honestly it would be great if there was a group of people with nerdy interests near me that wasn't fucking weird but that's not the case


Explore the highest forms of literature, cinema, music, and vidyo, cultivating your soul and enjoying with true comrades the very best life has to offer.
or
Embrace normiedom and become another one of the pre-sentient herdbeasts. `Are you going to see the Emoji movie next week? OMG I`m so excited!`


Pick one and only one.

[Anonymous No.3790682]

>>3790681
>Explore the highest forms of literature, cinema, music, and vidyo, cultivating your soul and enjoying with true comrades the very best life has to offer.
more like watching a bunch of retards sperg over smash and talk about hentai

[Anonymous No.3790771]

>>3790682
Transcendant thought seems like boring nonsense to plebs, much the same as family discussion at the dinner table must sound like meaningless gibberish to the dog.

[Anonymous No.3790802]

>>3780029
my sister does something similar, the problem she has is that she cannot remember anything out in public but when it's with one of her friends, she nerds the fuck out nonstop.

[Anonymous No.3790835]

>>3780029
master b8

>>3790802
post you're sister

[Anonymous No.3790952]

>>3789928
Cool blog faggot. You're a colossal douche. Please fuck off to /preachingcunts/. We're talking about vidya here.

[Anonymous No.3790965]

>>3790771
you must be talking about something else, because if you think what goes on in gaming clubs equivalents to "transcendent thought", you've clearly never been to one.
also this post reeks of narcissism, are you posting without a trip Edgar?

[Anonymous No.3791119]

>>3790771
>tfw 2smart4retrovidya

[Anonymous No.3791159]

>>3779165
>Kid joins a retro gaming club
>Makes fun of the other kids cus they actually play games rather than watch YouTube videos about obscure systems.

[Anonymous No.3791734]

>retarded OP
>people make fun of OP
>thread turns into a Yahoo Answers-tier thread on autists whining about their social lives
This is possibly the worst thread I've ever seen on this board.

[Anonymous No.3791741]

>>3787278
Yo you think that when you die you can reincarnate but in a new game+ mode and you keep all your knowledge from your past life???

[Anonymous No.3791817]

>>3783250
>I care about you. Even though I don't know you, I want you to lead as good a life as you can

>You are loved. Even if you can't feel it now, it's there.

Then get over here and suck my dick or shut up.

[Anonymous No.3791836]

>>3781415
"Oh shit youre taking a picture!?" Dog drops controller for player 2, "Normal dog nothing to see here"

[Anonymous No.3791864]

>>3790280
do you eat a lot of dairy? still eat breakfast cereal with milk? you might be lactose intolerant.

[Anonymous No.3791914]

>>3790965
Just joshin ya, Ethan.
Clubs are full of cretins and basic bitches, I regret walking into the anime club in particular.
They were all gabbing about SAO, Attack on Titan, and Pokemon.
I tried to bring up some classic kino like Kamui no Ken, Roujin Z, and Golgo 13 and was met with blank, bovine stares.

[babbage's gramps No.3791920]

>>3791741
Rather just live the same one over again but I dunno if my score'll be good enough.

[Anonymous No.3791989]

>>3783250

This is the gayest thing I have read on the internet in the past decade. You are everything that is wrong with the world today.

[Anonymous No.3791996]

>>3791864
No I cut that shit out too man. They gave me a lactose intolerance test after I got ill and it turns out that I'm now lactose intolerant, too. Was fine before but now I can't have it. Also don't eat gluten anymore because that screws with me too. Doing this stuff helps but it doesn't completely fix me. Still experience chronic pain and bloating, but a bit reduced.

[Anonymous No.3792289]

>>3791996
Noting you do will completely fix you. Glutenfreefags need a fucking lobotomy, which is hard to do on yourself.

[Anonymous No.3792685]

>>3792289
Gluten in yeasted bread is different from gluten raw wheat like you get in pasta, , cakes, wonderbread etc. Wheat intolerance can be very real, but how it's processed counts a lot. Real bread is wonderful food.

[Anonymous No.3793126]

>>3791996
Maybe you're like me and BOTH lactose intolerant and fructose malabsorbant.

[Anonymous No.3794498]

>>3790280
I sympathize. My wife had low level undiagnosed Crohn's for most of her life which flared up almost overnight after a weekend of too much apples and garlic (no joke) into an extremely bad form of it. For almost two years, massive weight loss, daily vomiting, practically bed ridden. I watched her faint face first on a brick patio and thought she was dead for a good 30 seconds. Not to mention two incomes shrunk to one and responsibilities usually shared could only be done by one of us. Five years later things are better, but far from what they once were.

To live is to suffer. Every bit of you is perfectly tuned to detect it, if it's not your bowels today it will be something else tomorrow. Love helps because it connects us and helps us all support each other. It helps make the suffering worthwhile.

[Anonymous No.3794960]

I cannot imagine what it's like caring that much about CRT vs LCD for any game that doesn't require fast reflexes (rhythm or speedrun-level play of any game). It shouldn't affect it so much that you can't play on a non-CRT.

Do what you want on your own, but ignoring a club because they don't want to move around a heavy CRT?

Giving a pop quiz about an obscure console? So obscure even entry to mid level retro gamers probably haven't heard of it, let alone played one?

[Anonymous No.3795132]

>>3794960
OP is a fucking nut case

[Anonymous No.3795664]

>>3791996
I highly recommend looking into the fodmaps diet.
Things you never suspected can really with some stomaches.

http://www.ibsdiets.org/fodmap-diet/fodmap-food-list/

[Anonymous No.3795720]

>>3784275
Barely a senior in High school? That's nothing. I'm 27 and I'll be getting my Bachelor's this year, so even if you are only graduating this year and you transfer to a 4-year university, you'll still get your degree before me.

If you're "barely a senior" in college and you're complaining after what I just told you, you can just fuck off.

[Anonymous No.3795781]

>>3795720
No one in college or university gives a fuck what ages other people are anyways. There are always mature students in classes.

[Anonymous No.3795786]

>>3779165
>muh weeb platform
Kill yourself you autistic sperglord

[Anonymous No.3795818]

>>3795781
I loved this about college.

During high school or family life, people were just "better" because they're older than you. But during college I was 19 and talking to 20-30 somethings on an equal level.

[Anonymous No.3795928]

>>3794498
I'm so sorry about your wife. I was nearly diagnosed with Crohn's. The gastro was wrong though. First had a faecal calprotectin test and my level was raised to around 420 (normal range 0-50) which indicated inflammation in the gut. He was surprised himself at the result. They followed up with a colonoscopy and he thought he saw mild inflammation in patches throughout the colon. However the biopsies revealed some minor inflammation in the caecum alone, and it was deemed indeterminate, not indicative of Crohn's. Recently had another calprotectin test and somehow my level's fallen to 238 so that's good. Also had a pill cam endoscopy on Feb 1st to look for inflammation in the small bowel, still waiting on the result. I don't think I have Crohn's though. No diarrhea, no blood in stool, no fever, joint pain, etc. I've had an endoscopy and contrast MRI as well (both normal). Wish you and your wife the very best.

>>3795664
Yeah, this is what I'll have to go on, apparently it helps 80% of IBS patients. The diet fucking sucks but whatever. If it takes the chronic bloating and pain away I'm smiling. The thing is my doctor isn't done with tests yet (btw this has been going since July, NHS is so slow) and he doesn't want me to start on the diet until after he's done.

I don't get the low fodmaps diet though. I read that it's not supposed to be a long term solution because it ends up killing off "good bacteria" in your gut because of the missing nutrition that no longer feeds them. So then what's the point? Do you just go on this diet for weeks at a time to feel better, then start eating normally briefly again and go back to shit for a few days just so your "good bacteria" don't die? My gastro is talking about hooking me up with a dietician, really can't fucking wait. The very best case scenario is that they actually find (treatable) parasites in the recent blood test they took and give me some shit to zap it out of my fucking system. What a shite year it's been.

[Anonymous No.3796260]

>>3779445
Yeah we do, especially when typing. It's just faster.

[Anonymous No.3796269]

>>3780596
Japans can't pronounce L's doofus
it would be "irrerebanto"

[Anonymous No.3796485]

>>3781029

[Anonymous No.3797372]

>>3795928
Thanks, it is what it is. As things go Crohn's is pretty shitty but at least manageable. It made for some rough years but I think getting through struggles is what life is about. Pain, especially chronic pain can seriously fuck with you and drive you literally mad. That's why I talk about the power of love, it can make dealing with life's inevitable suffering a little easier. That doesn't only mean romantic love though, all forms can help.

The other is meaning. Finding whatever it is in life you find truly meaningful and work towards that. When you're engaged in something you find truly meaningful the suffering of existence seems less important. What that is for you though is only something you can find.

As for Fodmaps, I think it's a case by case basis. If you were normally able to digest those foods and your condition is mild then it might be a case of staying off them until you recover and should be able to handle them again so you'd want to be careful to keep those bacteria around.

In my wife's case most of the trigger foods were things she never digested well and her mother is very similar so it could be she never had a good colony of the right kind of bacteria for them in the first place. So even if she does recover a lot more the things she can eat will still be limited.

>>3791989
I think the opposite, it's the lack of understanding and compassion that is one of the worst things with the world today.

>>3790025
>go back to your social media or blog whatever the hell you came from

Hate to break it to you but I've been here for many many years and have no plans of leaving. 4chan is wonderful, if you need a safe space try somewhere else.

[Anonymous No.3797539]

>>3797372
>Hate to break it to you but I've been here for many many years and have no plans of leaving. 4chan is wonderful, if you need a safe space try somewhere else.

Nice try. Do you really think your projecting isn't obvious as fuck?

[Anonymous No.3797548]

>>3797539
Weak.

[Anonymous No.3797607]

>>3783193
>>3784845
>>3790405
YOU HAVE TO GO BACK NORMIES REEEE

[Anonymous No.3797710]

>>3794498
>tfw you will never be married/have a significant other whom you love and who loves you to face the world together with.

I know most anons shit on marriage and relationships in general but... Fuck does it make me jelly sometimes.

I sincerely doubt I'll ever get my shit together enough to actually be with someone, christ, I haven't even had a girlfriend in... going on eleven years.

Guess I'll just have to learn to look forward to struggling and dying alone.

I don't think I'll ever truly experience the love of a woman.

I wish I was dead.

[Anonymous No.3797814]

>>3797710
Now that I have IBS I also feel that no woman will ever truly love me. Women liked me before because I was strong and had an outgoing personality (before I got depressed anyway). I'll never be able to be that guy I used to be. I can't party all night anymore and don't even want to. I'm not ripped anymore, just weak and shitty. It's hard to even be positive about anything when you're constantly in fucking pain.

I think a guy can still love a woman if she's ill, but it's hard for a woman to love an ill man. A man is supposed to be strong. Also it's one thing to have a significant other before getting ill and having that person stay with you than it is to having someone truly fall in love with you after you've gotten sick. No girl is going to want to spend her life with someone who's constantly in pain. I wish I just got cancer instead so that I could just fucking die and get this bullshit over with instead of spending the entire rest of my existence in a pitiful state like this. I fucking hate everything.

[Anonymous No.3797821]

>>3797814
I'd give you a hug right now if I could anon, I really would.

I'm sorry you hurt.

[Anonymous No.3797947]

This board is now officially /vr9k/
God damn. Between you fucks and the /v/abies this place has really gone to hell.

[Anonymous No.3797994]

>Leave thread for days
>Come back
>Can't even bother reading through it as it's become pointless bullshit and blogging that doesn't even have anything to do with vidya at this point
Yeah, I'm out of here.

[Anonymous No.3798060]

>>3797947
nah. r9gay is straight poison for a man's soul. fucking disgusting place, quite possibly the single worst place on earth and anybody who goes there might as well castrate themselves. moot should have kept that faghole deleted.

[Anonymous No.3798392]

>>3779171
Universities always have had clubs related to members and their interests.

[Anonymous No.3798548]

>>3798392
I'm at UC Berkley and looking for a club for guys who were born guys who like to fuck girls who were born girls. Not a chance in hell of finding one.

[Anonymous No.3798887]

>>3797994
Awww so sorry to have offended your delicate sensibilities.

>>3797814
>>3797710


Not that everyone doesn't like to look at attractive people, but women in general care far more about self confidence, honesty and strength of character than physical strength. That's why I encourage you to step up and stop wallowing.

What makes you unattractive isn't that your bowels are bloaty and uncomfortable, it's that you let them ruin your life. If you are open and honest about your struggles but show that you handle them like a champ and persevere despite pain that actually makes you more attractive than someone who appears to not be struggling at all.

Everyone knows on an instinctual level that bad shit is around the corner. What makes someone attractive isn't that they've been lucky enough to have avoided adversity so far, or that they can hide it really well. What makes them attractive is how they deal with the adversity they've faced already.

You're right that you will never be that guy again, but you have the opportunity to be something better. It's not going to be easy, because life isn't easy. But that's the point. Do you let the shit that happens to you strengthen you or do you use it as an excuse to give up?

It's a decision no one can make except you, but I highly recommend strength.

[Anonymous No.3798948]

>>3781126
This is why I don't really talk about video games with people irl. Playing with people is fun, but unless you are into the exact same shit to the exact same intensity as someone else, the conversation is going to be mind numbingly boring for a least 1 person involved. At least on the internet you can congregate with people who want to talk about exactly what you want to talk about.

[Anonymous No.3798998]

>>3783185
I'm not really ashamed of being a "gamer", the problem is that I fucking hate just about every "gamer" I meet because video game culture is fucking retarded.

Throw in the fact that there's tens of thousands of games that someone could be interested in at any given point in time, and the fact that unless I have played said game long enough to form an opinion on it I will not give one fuck what they have to say, I just avoiding taking about games unless I'm actually playing a video game with a friend at that moment.

Even then it's iffy. One of my friends just bought csgo the other day and it was the first time he'd ever played a counter strike. I played with him for a few hours and kind of showed him the ropes. A week later he had like 100 hours in the game and was totally obsessed, and wanted to have in depth conversations with me about bullet spread and routes through Dust 2. Kind of hard to tell him that although I like the game, I don't give a flying fuck about all that bullshit

[Anonymous No.3799027]

>>3798998
lol wow

[Anonymous No.3799028]

>>3785468
I was a kid when those systems were relevant and considered myself a seasoned gamer but I never even knew anyone with a Saturn (not owned one myself) and the only people I knew who had a Dreamcast played nothing but the 2k sports games and sanic adventure.

I sought those systems out myself when I got older since I got really into shmups, so I'm not surprised or offended at all when into shmups tell someone about the Saturn and they've never actually laid eyes on one before.

[Anonymous No.3799053]

>>3798948
>i don't like to talk with anyone about anything irl.
desu ftfy senpai cancer

[Anonymous No.3799157]

>>3797548
im so stoned lmao

was hypnotized to this gif while this song was playing xD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU3472bvdHI

polite sage cuz i know y'all get mad

[Anonymous No.3799169]

>>3797710
>I don't think I'll ever truly experience the love of a woman.
why? fucking anyone can get a girlfriend.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.3799269]

>>3799169
His standards are too high. It's basically an epidemic.

[Anonymous No.3799289]

>>3799169
This. >>3799269 Go walk around a mall and see all the people breeding.

[Anonymous No.3799317]

>>3799269
So what, I don't want to fuck fat women, fucking sue me.

[Anonymous No.3799321]

>>3799317
If you want to be with someone who's not a fat loser you have to not be a fat loser first.

[Anonymous No.3799324]

>>3799321
nuh-uh, I've seen plenty of chubby/fat guys with hot chicks before.

[Anonymous No.3799326]

>>3799324
Those people have money.

[Anonymous No.3799328]

>>3799326
Not necessarily

[Anonymous No.3799330]

>>3799324
They're just fat, not losers. Not being a whiny bitch is the most important thing. Many women prefer larger guys.

You should lose weight because being fat fucking sucks, not to get girls.

[Anonymous No.3799335]

>>3799330
I'm not fat, fuck you. Fatty.

[Anonymous No.3799342]

>>3799335
I'm not fat at all, I just thought that was the problem you're having. So that's one less thing at least, just learn not to be a whiny loser.

[Anonymous No.3799358]

>>3799342
A liar as well I see. tsk, tsk anon.

[Anonymous No.3799369]

>>3799358
Nice sage, Kiddo.

[Anonymous No.3799884]

>>3799369
>being this assmad
>being this fat
Bumping for the lulz

[Anonymous No.3799929]

HEAVY MACHINE GUN !!

[Anonymous No.3800602]

>>3790280
smoke weed it helps with my IBS