/vr/ story thread

[Anonymous No.8237328]

Early 00s
Make friends with a kid at school
Talk about vidya a lot. We both love smash and pokemon stadium
Seems pretty cool
Eventually get invited to spend the night at his house
Figure we'll play vidya most of the night
Pack some of my 64 games and my controllers
Get to his house
Play some smash
His mom is kind of strict and his older sister is a cunt that keeps complaining to mom that we're too loud
His mom finally suggests we go out to the garage
O... K...?
Not prepared for what I'm about to walk into
Racks and racks of all sorts of different sodas
Chips, candy bars, and various snacks
But best of all: 2 arcade consoles and a pinball machine
One is Battletoads and the other is a Neo Geo cabinet that you can switch games in.
He's got a few different KoF games, metal slug, and some others.
Nearly shit my pants with excitement
He's pretty chill about it. I guess the novelty had worn off for him.
Turns out his mom is in pretty high at a local vending company
Spend the better part of the night playing various arcade games and eating snacks.
Stay friends with him for years
Eventually all the arcade games went back, but not before we got to play the shit out of them.

[Anonymous No.8237330]

>>8237328
And no greentext because op is a phone posting faggot

[Anonymous No.8237348]

>20 years ago
>come home from school
>throw backpack on bed
>YIPEE, time to watch Pokemon on Kids WB!
>Play my N64
>Talk to my friends on AOL
>Go to a birthday party at the mall arcade
>Wonder what I will be doing as an adult as I drift off to sleep in my pokemon/star wars/DBZ-studded room
>21 years later
>30 year old kissless, handholdless, never had a girlfriend virgin
>bald and fat
>still living with parents
>have never have a job, know my parents are ashamed of me but they never hurt my feelings by showing it
>all my old friends have long moved on with their lives, stalk them on social media that they don't even bother to update anymore. Probably have forgotten the times we had together
>Even my online-only friends have all since moved on and are never online anymore
>hate all new movies/tv/video games/anime
>my town is a boarded up wreck
>mall has since closed
>parents, the one people who remember me or love me, are becoming old and feeble
>The only thing I used to do, go out to eat and go to the movies (by myself often) I can't even do anymore due to covid
>wake up at 5pm to post on 4chan all day
>go to bed at 7am
>Dream about when I was back in elementary/middle school and happy
>Look at the mirror and know this is all a dream
>"I wish this was real so much" I say to myself, in the dream-mirror
>wake up and cry

[Anonymous No.8237350]

>>8237328
Awesome friend. I got my first arcade cab a decade ago and it was pretty mindblowing then, and still is to a degree - I can only imagine what that would've felt like as a kid, especially Battletoads since I loved the hell out of that game.

[Anonymous No.8237381]

I had a friend as a kid whose dad balled out and bought a couple of arcade machines for his church's youth building. He bought one of the cabinets, A DDR Extreme machine a good year before they actually built the building, so my friend just had one of these things in his living room until then. When he moved that machine into the youth building he also put a JAMMA cabinet with a bunch of Nintendo, Taito, Sega, Konami, Namco, etc. games, but I only went to his church once or twice so I didn't play much on that one.

[Anonymous No.8237396]

>>8237348
Jesus

[Anonymous No.8237448]

>>8237348
It's not too late to start. There's lots of jobs out there that just need a guy who will show up on time and work. Gotta start somewhere

[Anonymous No.8237638]

>>8237348
For your sake I hope you're just shitposting, but for my sake I hope you're not. You're basically the same as me, but I'm 33 and finally managed to shed the obesity a little while ago.
>>8237448
As indicated above I'm not him, but it can be hard to find even an entry level job as an adult NEET - I've tried and been shot down after an interview for fucking backroom work at Target of all things. They assume there's something deeply, potentially explosively, wrong with you (like you'll go on a workplace shooting) and they'd probably even prefer something pinpointably wrong like you were incarcerated for a few years and that you're now "turning your life around" or some other feel-good bullshit beyond you're a socially awkward, late to start NEET. Really tempted to scrub my resumee of any education and skills and just lie that I was in jail or that I'm disabled.

[Anonymous No.8237642]

commodore 64 games
best time ever

[Anonymous No.8237792]

>>8237348
>>Play my N64
>bald and fat
Checks out.

[Anonymous No.8237793]

>watching shit on youtube
>video pops up on my feed
>some wanna-be zoomer e-celeb shilling pre-loaded SD cards for those crappy emuboxes(15,000 GAMES!!!)
>talks about how his SD card with a Rasp Pi 4 is "THE ULTIMATE RETRO GAMING EXPERIENCE"
>tattoo's everywhere, even on hands
>selling SD cards for $40 markup because he copy+pasted roms onto them
>notice he has Nintendo roms loaded
>notice he has Dragon's Lair loaded
>report him to Nintendo and Digital Leisure since they are both sue-happy
I'm normally all for piracy, but I'll gladly call the copyright police on any loser trying to make money off of shit he downloaded from somewhere else for free. Even moreso when he was using romhacks as a selling point. Fuck your side-hustle, get a real job kiddo.

[Anonymous No.8237976]

>>8237638
>Really tempted to scrub my resumee of any education and skills and just lie that I was in jail or that I'm disabled.
I’ve heard there are services online that let you fake a job history by pretending to be a reference; someone calls them up to verify and they say nice things about you. might try that instead, you could apply to higher-tier jobs.

[Anonymous No.8237991]

>>8237793
you did the right thing

[Anonymous No.8238021]

>>8237348
Do you still have the pokemon/star wars/DBZ-studded room?

[Anonymous No.8238116]

>>8237638
>They assume there's something deeply, potentially explosively, wrong with you (like you'll go on a workplace shooting)
And they're probably right

[Anonymous No.8238171]

>>8237348
haha loser

[Anonymous No.8238186]

>>8237638
Retail work is all cliques. It's filled with high school kids or older people who have been there since high school. If you don't get hired, it's because one person doesn't want you in their clique, not because everyone thinks you're inept.

[Anonymous No.8238276]

>>8237793
not everyone has downloaded everything already, pat. you're paying for the convenience.

[Anonymous No.8238369]

Hello there folks. Console War Veteran here.

I fought in the Yoshi battalion 16. My biggest accomplishment, which I still remember vividly, was btfoing a bunch of bullies that were harassing me in the school's bathroom. I was there fixing my hair in front of the mirror. Suddenly, two classroom bullies, left their toilet rooms and the bigger one addressed to me with the words "Damn Bobby, you still here? You sure are slower than the freaking SNES, hah!". They believed they had me there, that I would walk away defeated. But nothing further from the truth. I looked them in the eye, feeling completely sure in what I was going to say was as true as life itself, and said: "Listen, Uniracers is way faster than any Sonic the Hemphog game will ever be. Next time think twice about what you joke about". They were completely paralyzed, as if their nervous systems were failing. Then, I left the room, leaving them behind, defeated, while saying "Hasta la vista, baby". Since then, they never dared to joke about neither Nintendo or Mario when I was around.

[Anonymous No.8238376]

>>8237793
The savior of retro gaming ladies & gentlemen; and I thought they were all gone after /vr/ changed the cut off date

[Anonymous No.8238403]

>>8237793
Based for reporting degenerate zoomers. Cringe for fucking up someone's hustle on "stealing" other zoomers cash.
I understand it in a way. I just looked up the prices for retro consoles and, apart from PSX, everything else is stupidly expensive, and you'll have to buy a flashcart/mod it on top of that. If you want every retro console you're looking at least at £500.
>>8238276
>archive org
>emulator pack
>click and download
>extract
>copy to sd
Jeez, so hard it made me sweat!

[Anonymous No.8238424]

>>8237792
Rent-free

[Anonymous No.8238446]

>>8238403
why does it bother you so much that people are willing to pay for a preloaded sd card? should we all stop going out to eat because you can google whatever recipe you need?

[Anonymous No.8238475]

>>8237348
Only you can change this anon.

[Anonymous No.8238478]

>>8238446
>why does it bother you so much that people are willing to pay for a preloaded sd card?
It doesn't. If someone prefers to throw money away instead of learning how to do it like a child, it's not my problem.
>should we all stop going out to eat because you can google whatever recipe you need?
Yes. All restaurants and cafés should be closed. Waste of money and space. Only good thing the plandemic brought. Shame big ones like McD aren't affected.

[Anonymous No.8238486]

>>8238478
>instead of learning how to do it like a child
I'm glad we can both agree that only poor, uneducated children waste time doing this manually instead of paying others for them to do it timely.

[Anonymous No.8238492]

>>8238486
The being a child part is related to paying people to do things for you. It's like little faggots that pay bullies their lunch money so they don't get a wedgie.
It takes 5 minutes to download shit and copy to a sd.

[Anonymous No.8238493]

>>8237348
>>8237638

Do something about this immediately. If you're complacent until you're 40 it's all over and you'll unironically kill yourself if you don't die of heart disease first.

I'm a highschool dropout. I went back to college at 23 and now I'm a software engineer making over 100k a year and married with two kids living in Japan, playing retro vidya while working from home because of the coof. My life is unironically excellent and it wouldn't be if I hadn't obsessively worked to flip my situation.

You have to do something about this today. It doesn't amtter what, start a workout routine, look into the nearest coding bootcamp (some are intensive 3 or 6 month things that will have you jumping into a $50k/year frontend developer job quite easily), but do something. You can always change your mind later but don't fuck around, you're already 30.

[Anonymous No.8238501]

>>8238492
>The being a child part is related to paying people to do things for you.

This is a poor retard's mindset. You think the rich people paying people to clean their mansion are childish or lazy? No, they do it because tey could either pay some filipino $20/hour to clean their house while they produce $400-500 per hour, or they could spend an hour of their time losing that earning potential to clean their house. Only poor unsuccessful idiots think people hire cleaners and gardeners because they're lazy.

[Anonymous No.8238507]

>>8238501
Except that in this case zoomies are paying and they're not producing those $400-500 per hour.
But hey, not my problem.

[Anonymous No.8238524]

>>8237793
Beyond based

[Anonymous No.8238554]

>>8238507

Yeah those people are just faggots but it's not because they're paying someone to do something

[Anonymous No.8238561]

>>8238501
Rich people don't produce shit, all wealth is created by lanour

[Anonymous No.8238806]

>>8238486
>People are wealthy because they constantly waste money.
That's called nigger rich.

[Anonymous No.8238825]

>>8237348
Please for the love of God be a shitpost

[Anonymous No.8239275]

>also early 00s
>middle school friend's dad has a construction company or something, very rich
>They have Jurassic Park and Addams Family Pinball and I think another more generic "sexy lady" pinball table
>Every time I go over, I'm just sperging out about these pinball tables wanting to play
>He's not even remotely interested, would rather play Goldeneye or Warcraft or listen to Metallica.
>Eventually, our english teacher tells my mom we smell like cigarette smoke at a parent teacher conference
>My mom spergs out on me and I'm not allowed to hang with him anymore
>It sucks but I think he was kind of getting sick of me anyway, he was a lot more well adjusted and confident, whereas I was such a little spazoid sperg like my mom apparently
I think about him from time to time, I hope everything worked out for him. He was the last friend I had for quite a while.

[Anonymous No.8239296]

>>8238825
I can tell it's not. How?
Because he literally described me, my life and my surroundings, one difference is that I never had N64.

[Anonymous No.8239309]

>>8237330
>nigga I’m on a phone now and greentexting is easy
>go back to masturbating to trannies with your shitty clogged mechanical keyboard and epic razor game mouse

[Anonymous No.8239327]

>>8237348
get a job and start working out
it wont fix all your problems but youll feel better

[Anonymous No.8239337]

>>8237348
>dude idolizes a time in the past
>can't get there anymore
do anything. ever.
go out and do something.
good or bad, you'll have a new experience to be nostalgic for. I'll never understand this. Even if you're trapped at home, you can go somewhere new, like /vr/ to learn new things. Nobody has made you become a dedicated consumer. You can make something. You can do anything. Good or bad.

[Anonymous No.8239403]

>>8239337
the past was literally objectively better though. There's nothing I have done in the past five years that has given me that feeling. Its just not enjoyable. The only thing I enjoy is when I can immerse myself in the past.

[Anonymous No.8239408]

>>8238493
In case you haven't noticed, moving to japan is bust.
t. missed the opportunity by 2 months
Fucking cough I swear. And why is japan even buying into the doom propaganda for this nothing burger? Surely they can see they didn't have it worse than with the flu?

[Anonymous No.8239410]

>>8238493
you life doesnt sound excellent to me at all. thats the fundamental difference i have that has lead me to getting to this state. how can i possibly give a fuck about that kind of 'success'

[Anonymous No.8239424]

>>8239408
Have you not heard of the Japanese cold?

[Anonymous No.8239431]

>>8237348
It's time to become an hero, anon. You've earned it.

[Anonymous No.8239447]

>>8239424
If anything that reinforces my point.
Why the fuck would you lock down a country over a simple flu? Japan doesn't strike me as an authoritarian country and they already had an excessively obedient population. The only reason I can think of is that like they usually never question authority, they consider the UN/WHO to be above them.

[Anonymous No.8239625]

>>8238446
cool analogy fail zoombro

[Anonymous No.8239648]

>>8239447
it's not a simple flu and japan is full of old people. it's a novel virus that can mutate, is not endemic, and it's vastly more transmissible than the flu. I hate lockdowns too but don't be retarded.

[Anonymous No.8239681]

>>8237328
And thats how I got molested

[Anonymous No.8239796]

>>8239410
I wouldn't want that anon's life either but I can at least respect his taking initiative even though we want different things. I don't know if I want to have kids, but I want to have a wife. I don't know if I want to have a prestigious job, but I want to do productive work and not be too much of an underling. but life doesn't always give you the perfect situation and you have to compromise, opportunities are ephemeral and you have to just take one and do what you can with it, and you'll end up discovering your path. otherwise it's too easy to end up completely on the outside, without even a foothold into the world everyone else inhabits.

[Anonymous No.8239903]

>>8237328
Early 00’s when Soul Calibur 2 came out was the shit. Went to the arcade all the time with my best friend to play. There were lines to play with tokens laid out on the screen and everything. Dudes all hyped, shit talk, crowd screaming at awesome matches, the whole nine. I was always Maxi and he was always Ivy and we could roll some faces and got serious clout in that arcade. I punished this one black guy who’d always talk shit during matches. It was round three, and after he got me with a Kilik cheese ring out in round 2 and started bix nooding that I was a pussy bitch, I perfect’d him with a ridiculous stunlock beat down that he couldn’t even get up from. He fucking screamed at the top of his lungs “FUUUUUUCK YOUUUUUU, NIGGA!!! IMMA FUCK YOU UP!!!” to which I just laughed at and the whole arcade went into an uproar laughing at him. Luckily mall security was right outside and heard the commotion and promptly escorted him out as all the guys around the machine chanted “YOURE A BITCH, YOURE A BITCH” it was pretty awesome.

But that’s not actually the story I was going to tell.

One of the arcade toadies was this fat as fuck flaming gay guy, who wore a black net tank top under his arcade vest, and had the hots for my best friend. We nicknamed him Guts (after the Toxic Avenger line “hey cigar face, let’s see if ya got any guts!”). He didn’t have a job at the time, so I always wondered how he had so much money to spend on tokens. Well, I learned he didn’t spend any money on tokens at all. Whenever he walked into the arcade, Guts would come up to him and give him a handful of tokens and flirt with him. It was very weird and he went along with it, even though he hated fags and especially trannies(which is a whole other story). So one time when I was there, we’re playing and Guts comes right up behind him like he was going to spoon him, and I look down and he’s slipping a handful of tokens into his front pockets and…
(1/2)

[Anonymous No.8239945]

>>8239903
2/2

…says something into his ear. Guts walked away and I’m like, bro…what the fuck was that? He’s like “He was telling me when his shift was over so I can meet him in the food court for a roll of tickets.” And I’m like “dude, he put his hands in your pocket, and you’re ok with this?” And he goes “it’s not like I’m gonna fuck him man, I just want the free shit.” I think he was gonna use the tickets to cash in for the Dreamcast on the prize wall or something, but I don’t think it ended up working out, because I think there was an *implication* that he’d have to take it further for the tickets. It was pretty weird, and we stopped being friends a while later for some other bullshit, but all in all, the SCII machine times in that arcade will always hold a special place in my heart.

[Anonymous No.8240286]

>1999
>mom drives me to a city about 40 miles from my village
>we go to see The Matrix
>the movie theater has a bitchin' arcade on the second floor
>we both play Area 51, House of the Dead, Tokyo Wars, Virtual On, Tekken 3, etc.
>afterwards we visit my uncle for a sleepover
>he's a damn cool dude, lets me play Half-Life, Delta Force 2, Tomb Raider 2 on his new PC with a Voodoo accelerator
>lends me a few gaming magazines from his collection
>best birthday ever

>2006
>the arcade got moved to a theme park
>the number of machines got considerably smaller
>Area 51, Scud Race, Gunblade NY and Time Crisis broke down
>still visit it every now and then

>2015
>my 20th birthday
>mom and I were driving home after doing some errands
>suddenly we remember about the arcade
>we reach the place and there's only one machine left
>play the absolute shit out of Tekken 3
>next day it's gone

Mom's not very good with setting up emus, but she still plays PS1-era games sometimes. She was very good with Nina back in the day and used to almost speedrun RE2.

[Anonymous No.8240289]

>>8239903
>>8239945
embarassing larp

[Anonymous No.8240541]

>>8238561
All hail the mighty Lanour!!

[Anonymous No.8240731]

>>8239410

My point wasn't to get you to work toward what ?I have. The point was that i consistently set small goals, made consistent, attainable efforts towards them, and years later it has snowballed into something I couldn't have imagined at the time. Just do anything to change what you're unhappy about, and work toward your own future. Otherwise, right now is your future. And that fucking sucks.

[Anonymous No.8240832]

>>8240289
It’s a true story, faggot. Sorry you never leave the house due to your pathetic crippling social anxiety, but some of us actually experience the craziness of life. Go be miserable somewhere else, pussy, or contribute a story to the thread that doesn’t consist of “simping as usual on twitch, see this 6.5/10, she said my name when I donated $5, stalk her for weeks, find her address, mail her death threats, she’s visibly upset on stream, I jerk off to my own satisfaction, don’t donate anything this time lol”

[Anonymous No.8241178]

>>8240832
You finally posted a story of yours that isn't a larp, I'm so proud of you.

[Anonymous No.8241186]

>>8239403
There's still plenty of life left for you to experience you big fatalistic dork. There are still lots of places you haven't been and people you haven't met. The past will only continue to be objectively better for you if you continue to do nothing about your situation

[Anonymous No.8242915]

>>8237348
>>8237448
Trust me anons, having a job, or even a well paid job will not magically solve anything, I lucked out after college with a great job on one of those big name companies, but I'm still a neet in mind and soul, just without the benefit of having free time. The only benefit really is that people will stop looking at you as a loser, just an eccentric (but still virgin and unfuckable) person, and your parents won't look dead inside.
Yeah I have more money than I'll ever need to consoom and buy retro vidya but I'm still a soulless husk of a person, no one sees me as a romantic partner and I can't bond with people and make friends aside from professional "colleagues".

[Anonymous No.8242923]

>>8241186
whats the point? i dont like going out on trips they all suck. I dont like touristing around. and I'm too unlikable for people to want to be my friend. I just wasn't born right or you can say I wasn't raised right. either way it feels entirely out of my hands unless i completely go against who i am and try to live a lie. which is a whole new level of misery

[Anonymous No.8242929]

>>8238493
>and now I'm a software engineer making over 100k a year and married with two kids living in Japan
larp or not you just remind me that a cute japanese exchange student I met in college that I tried and failed to date still randomly calls me to talk about random shit and always touches on the subject of dating, telling me she's not dating anyone at the moment. And you remind me you can't physically enter Japan anymore and probably won't for a while.
The only person remotely romantically interested in me, and I can't reach her. Life is suffering.

[Anonymous No.8243057]

>>8242915
bruh

[Anonymous No.8243060]

>>8242929
*also bruh
lol why
>>>/soc/

[Anonymous No.8243072]

>>8242929

Not a larp although whenever I post about it I usually get accused. Japan's accepting entries for work visas. If you have a bachelor's degree try and bullshit your way into a shitty english teaching job that will sponsor your visa.

Or marry her and get a spouse visa lol

>>8242915
>>8242923

You've been given plenty of decent advice and instead of even trying to just whine like a faggot, no wonder you're in your current situation. You need a shred of will to spark into action but if you're not even willing to look for it then shut up and enjoy your awful life.

[Anonymous No.8243080]

>>8242923
I wasn't raised right either man, but after a certain point in your life the onus to improve your situation rests squarely on your shoulders and yours alone. Doubly so if you know that your parents are content to enable you to be the worst version of yourself; a version of yourself that even you are disappointed in. You just need to start to make an effort. The problems you have with your life are things that YOU have decided about yourself, and the only person that can change those aspects of your personality is YOU.

[Anonymous No.8243081]

>>8243072
100k is pretty larp, barring experience. Mid-tier engineering salaries in Japan can range from 40-60k equivalent in USD, with the exception of large corporations.

[Anonymous No.8243091]

>>8242915
That sucks man. It sounds like both of you guys should maybe learn to love yourselves or something. You have to be capable of self-love before anyone will seriously consider being in a relationship with you

[Anonymous No.8243329]

>>8237793
Nintendo and Digital Leisure won't do shit. You just wasted your own time.

[Anonymous No.8243384]

>>8243081

That's bullshit, the lowest offer I got was 80k with 4-5 years of experience. Frontend bootcamp idiots are not engineers, they're codemonkeys. And the average japanese salary means nothing because they've cucked themselves by staying with the same company for far too long and have a subpar university education so that's no real representation for a proper engineer's salary.

My company is Japanese but they don't hire Japanese engineers anymore for this reason, only foreign engineers. One exception is that they'll train up Japanese engineers as juniors if they studied comp sci and they join as a fresh grad, but that's it.

[Anonymous No.8243385]

>>8243080
what aspects do i change? and why should i change them?

[Anonymous No.8243449]

>>8243384
The company you're pretending to work for doesn't hire Japanese engineers any more because they get them from China and pay them ¥80k

[Anonymous No.8243729]

>>8243449

There's no larp and there's only one Chinese engineer and he's fucking awesome actually so fuck you

[Dr Sbaitso No.8244171]

>>82433850
Some good answers itt. No magic needed.

Step 1: Take responsibility for your happiness. This takes at least mild ambition, and already makes you better to be around.

Step 2: identify things that appear to make you happy but do not; do whatever it is that makes you happy and cut negative things from your life (eg negative idle talk).

Happiness and sadness are feedback loops that you have some control over.

Step 3: care about others and help people unselfishly in your neighbourhood that are in need. This will give you a sense of purpose.

Step 4: be around like minded people. You will be accepted for who you are.

[Dr Sbaitso No.8244181]

>>8243385
Some good answers itt. No magic needed.

Step 1: Take responsibility for your happiness. This takes at least mild ambition, and already makes you better to be around.

Step 2: identify things that appear to make you happy but do not; do whatever it is that makes you happy and cut negative things from your life (eg negative idle talk).

Happiness and sadness are feedback loops that you have some control over.

Step 3: care about others and help people unselfishly in your neighbourhood that are in need. This will give you a sense of purpose.

Step 4: be around like minded people. You will be accepted for who you are.

[Anonymous No.8244184]

>>8239275
Were you actually smoking with him tho?

[Dr Sbaitso No.8244201]

>>8239681
That happen to you too?

[Dr Sbaitso No.8244208]

>>8240286
Lucky you remembering all that shit from when you were 4 with such clarity

[Anonymous No.8244385]

>>8243329
Nintendo hasn't said anything, but Digital Leisure wrote back the very next day to say thanks and that they were forwarding the info to their legal team since the guy's site was obviously "pure piracy". Nintendo may not do anything, but Digital Leisure goes after people for offering Dragon's Lair as a download, they'll love to go after someone charging money for it.

[Anonymous No.8244484]

>>8243729
>only one Chinese
>There's no larp
lmaooooo

[Anonymous No.8244821]

>>8239403
>the past was literally objectively better though
>your personal experience is the objective truth
your life sucks because you never intellectually progressed past high school. My life is infinitely better now then it was in my childhood because I progressed and excelled.

[Anonymous No.8244861]

>>8244208
>anon accidentally admits his cognitive deficiency

[Anonymous No.8244882]

>>8244181
Excellent advice. >>8243385, I think it speaks volumes that some total strangers on the internet want you to be happy. You should want that for yourself, too. You are capable of it

[Anonymous No.8245101]

>>8244484
>>8243449
>>8243081
holy fucking seethe, I've never seen a more salty anon here.

[Anonymous No.8245376]

>>8239903
Had a good kek at the black guy story. Vivid and comfy.

[Anonymous No.8245478]

>>8244821

there is no way to progress. nothing i can do. i am who i am. you've arbitrarily decided a certain set of traits is 'highschool'. i've changed plenty and what i've settled into is just how the adult me is.

[Anonymous No.8245538]

>>8237328
Arcade 1up will never make a DBZ cabinet with the three dbz arcade games from the 90's.
Arcade 1up will never port the best version of Mortal Kombat 3, (Mortal Kombat Trilogy) to one of its cabinets.
Aracde 1up will never put all three x-men games in a cabinet with 6 joy sticks. For 6 player X-Men.

[Anonymous No.8245549]

>>8239945
So, why did you stop being friends with him?

[Anonymous No.8245558]

>>8240541
Lanour is the fucking best! He always gave me pocket money when I was a child. Hope he stays long in this world.

[Anonymous No.8245567]

>>8239410
Compared to your life, he's like Bill Gates. Your life is so shitty that even a mediocre livelihood sounds like a dream next to your ways. Stop bitching and get to improve.

[Anonymous No.8245569]

>>8245567
Improve to what? why? i dont understand what is better for me anymore.

[Anonymous No.8245580]

>>8245569
>>8245478
Regardless of your ability to improve or change your life, I have to ask, why do you so vehemently defend your inability to succeed on a venetian spice trading forum? I've seen many such cases as you. Guys experiencing learned helplessness, and when they get advice, they go out of their way to respond to every single post and explain why they are beyond help. Why even respond and acknowledge advice intended to help you when you don't want it? I see it so often on this site.

[Anonymous No.8245591]

>>8245580
because i genuinely want help and advice. but people give advice that doesn't work for me so i need to clarify my situation more so people can give advice i can actually act on.

[Anonymous No.8245618]

>be 4 or 5 years old
>dad breaks his leg bad in a car wreck
>he's at home for months, can't go to work
>he doesn't really get out of bed except to use the restroom
>he spends most of the day playing nes games
>watch him play super mario, zelda, and final fantasy
>distinctly remember hiding under the bed and watching when he got to the hard parts
>flipped through the game manuals a zillion times. Looking at the art in the Zelda manual was my favorite.
Not very exciting, but the nes will always have a part of my heart because of those times.

[Anonymous No.8245623]

>>8245591
what does advice that would actually help you look like?

[Anonymous No.8245650]

>>8245569
Ok, I'm gonna spoonfeed you, but, whatever I or anyone say, keep in mind these two simple rules:

1. Every improvement takes time (in many cases, lots of), and it happens little by little, to the point you can't perceive the change happening until it already happened.

2. Don't be entitled. You, me, anyone don't deserve the greatest life. Good things happen, bad things happen, that's all part of it. Plenty of happy moments will arrive, so don't be a pussy when facing hardship.

Ok. Now, my tips. Even if your forget or disregard them, always remember the above rules. The rules are more important than the tips.

* Stop dreaming about the past. Of course they're "better", that's because you fucked up your present life, not because the past was magical.

* Being fat bothers you? Hit the gym. Do you need to be Conan, the barbarian? Fuck, no. Don't be entitled. Just lose some pounds, even if it's a single pound per month. After years, you'll feel better with your body.

* Go find a job, even a mediocre one. Your parents will be glad, notice you're trying to improve, and cease their shame. They'll also try to support you and your relation will improve.

* Try to be a nice guy to everybody who didn't do you wrong. By "nice", I mean "nice", not " subservient naive stupid boy".

* After a while, you WILL see yourself as a better person and gain confidence to improve your life further to a point you're happy with. You'll see things you CAN'T see now. You might get a chick, improve your sleeping habits, find new friends (or better yet, be comfortable with your very own company), move to a better town, whatever. Actually, be happy.

TL;DR: only you can do that for yourself, and find the patience and commitment to change everything that bothers you, because it won't be fast.

You only can't agree because you're too lost. No one here is asking for your agreement of our advices. Your agreement and acceptance will surely come, but much later. Just trust.

[Anonymous No.8245662]

>* Stop dreaming about the past. Of course they're "better", that's because you fucked up your present life, not because the past was magical.
i literally did nothing to fuck up my life. the past was just better. modern media is impossible. how can anyone enjoy that?
>* Being fat bothers you? Hit the gym. Do you need to be Conan, the barbarian? Fuck, no. Don't be entitled. Just lose some pounds, even if it's a single pound per month. After years, you'll feel better with your body.
i have no body issues
>* Go find a job, even a mediocre one. Your parents will be glad, notice you're trying to improve, and cease their shame. They'll also try to support you and your relation will improve.
i dont have parents and also entry level jobs dont want me. i've been fired from mcdonalds and from warehouses. i cant work a register because i suck at math. im a physically slow person and even when i think im fast its not fast enough so my bosses fire me for jobs like stocking or working in a restaurant.
>* Try to be a nice guy to everybody who didn't do you wrong. By "nice", I mean "nice", not " subservient naive stupid boy".
what do you mean by be nice? i've never been mean

[Anonymous No.8245718]

>>8245662
>i literally did nothing to fuck up my life. the past was just better. modern media is impossible. how can anyone enjoy that?
You did. You stood still and did nothing for yourself. When you're a kid and have loving parents, they will do the hard stuff for you. When you grow up, it's time to pave your own path to happiness.

>i have no body issues
Excuse me, who was complaining about being "bald and fat" again?

>* Go find a job, even a mediocre one. Your parents will be glad, notice you're trying to improve, and cease their shame. They'll also try to support you and your relation will improve.
Wait, ain't you >>8237638? You said you're on the same boat as >>8237348. If your case is different, then make a post elucidating all your context, instead of quoting another anon and saying "that's the same as me", lest you want to be completely misunderstood.

>what do you mean by be nice? i've never been mean
That's being harmless. It's good, but nice is that and more. Being polite, gentle and having an amicable posture and face. It's not being an hypocrite, trying to feign happiness while you're dead inside, it's trying to having the strength to cast aside your darkness (even if for a while) to show a good side of yours as a mean to gather comradery, so you won't have to face your hardships alone.

[Anonymous No.8246138]

>>8245101
If you don't want to seethe because people call you on your larping all you have to do is stop larping

[Anonymous No.8246197]

>>8246138
Goofy jealous faggot.

[Anonymous No.8246228]

>>8246138

We need a mod to come in here and tell you how much of a faggot you are for accusing like 5 different people of being the same person lmao

[Anonymous No.8246663]

>>8246228
I've only replied to 3 posts ITT, my larping little samefag. But thanks for playing.

[Anonymous No.8246689]

Told this one here before multiple times so if this sounds familiar that's why
>rent OoT as a kid without playing any Zelda before
>all three files have saves, start a new game in file 1
>wander around Kokiri Forest not sure what's going on but like the cheerful world and Kokiri
>don't know what to do to progress so reset and load file 2
>file 2 starts as Child Link but I can leave the Forest this time
>walk around checking out stuff and go to Hyrule Castle Town, in awe of the big environments and city
>after spending some time chilling out there, reset and try the last one
>start as an adult
>walk outside and the skies are dark and enflamed
>go into the square
>all of the friendly townsfolk are dead, turned into zombies
>flee in terror
>get this odd feeling of dread
>try going back to Kokiri Forest, not sure why I wasn't spawning there anymore
>get lost and end up going to Gerudo bridge
>in my little kid mind, think the bridge to the Forest is out and there's no way to return home
>all the Kokiri must be dead too
>the world is doomed
>turn off game
>don't play it again until it's time to return it to the video store
>years later reflect on the strange feelings of dread and existential horror I felt at the time, feeling as though everything had gone horribly wrong in the world and I had no control over it and no way to return to a safe place
I guess it would be sort of like if in SM64 you load a file and Bowser won and the Toads are all mysteriously gone while the castle looks decrepit. Spooked me out.

[Anonymous No.8246695]

>>8246689
>>get lost and end up going to Gerudo bridge
>>in my little kid mind, think the bridge to the Forest is out and there's no way to return home
>>all the Kokiri must be dead too
Also, given the Gerudo surroundings, I assumed that the entire Forest had been destroyed and the land was turned to desert. Not only was I unable to return home, home wasn't there anymore at all, it had been annihilated.

[Anonymous No.8246818]

>playing this game with friends
>best friend says no stealing allowed in this game or you get a slap to the head
>by that I think he means don't steal from the same plate
>at one point in the game, my character is next to his character and eat from the plate next to his character
>friend pauses the game and proceeds to slap me in the head

[Anonymous No.8246868]

>>8246818
Oh a wise guy huh?

[Anonymous No.8246904]

>>8246868
>you beat him in Ekans Toss
>get eye poked

[Anonymous No.8247197]

> love vr so much that I talk games all day with friends
> hear about an obscure jap console and search internets bunk and basement
> until I finally source one. It arrives with only one cart and an
> odd controller with a large red arrow pointing left and green
> one pointing right. It came with a handwritten note in dark red ink
> looking vaguely like blood but I'm pretty excited and dont
> read Japanese so no idea what it is about. Connect it all
> up to an old crt under the house. Miraculously it boots first go.

> The screen lights up and an unfamiliar logo appears but the
> screen goes black a while. About to turn it off when a loading bar appears
> "synchronising". A hot electronic smell hits the olfactory and I feel a strong
> field of static electricity building up. Starting to feel a little freaked out
> and I yank the power plug before something blows. The
> screen fades just as the game loads and an intriguing title appears
> it is a round green doll with no eyes. It is reminiscent of a wish doll
> but not sure it is quite the same. Something seems eerie about
> its expression. Is it smiling or gritting its teeth?

> Too worried something will turn to smoke if the console is used again
> so turn to the collective genius of 4chan to get to the bottom of
> this mystery. 5 minutes after posting several experts in retro
> gaming have kindly informed me I am a retarded faggot with no value
> to society and I should kill myself. Fuck that shit. I try the console
> again.

> The console goes through the same motions as before but the
> electronic smell has more a burning flavour to it this time and I swear
> the faint buzzing noise it is now emitting wasn't there before
> This time when the game boots I hit the green arrow and the
> game begins.

> A screen with keyboard and space to type appears. Must be
> a name entry screen. At least the keyboard has English letters too.
> Just then the neighbours cat Mario saunters up. This seems
End p1

[Anonymous No.8247283]

> like as good a name as any. After punching it in a message that
> looks a lot like a warning appears. No ideas what it says so just
> hit the green arrow. The console buzz suddenly rises to a crescendo and
> there is a burst of static on the crt, then everything settles
> down albeit to a louder hum and burning smell like roasting dog fur.

> the cat is gone, probably spooked by the warning signs of
> electrical failure. Also the game is still on the name screen. Maybe
> the name was invalid. Just for the sake of trying I put my annoying
> little brothers name in. This time I brace myself for impact.

> It isn't enough.

> No words could describe the pain inflicted by the aural onslaught
> emanating from the tv.

> Not the tv speaker.

> From the tube itself.

> Afterwards I would swear the ground itself was vibrating but the
> worst by far is the choking fume of high tension electrical arc
> combined with catastrophically failing diesel motor exhaust.

> abruptly the sound ceased.
> what remained was a tightness of my skin; a feeling like sunburn.
> and intense nausea. Moments later I experienced food
> deja vu

End p2

[Anonymous No.8247312]

>>8239410

This is one of the main reasons people end up in the state you're in. It's not because you're useless or lazy, it's because your standards are too high.

I have a friend exactly like you. His whole life, he's expected so much of life that he's crippled his ability to do anything. The effort required to achieve a moderate level of success is just too much for him. He never believes that it worth it, so he never gets off the starting block.

As an example, he refused an entry-level job in his desired field about six years ago because he found the thought of working as a grunt for a third rate company too depressing to contemplate. But if he had, then by now he would've moved onto to a much better job. Now he's 30, unemployed and lives with his parents.

What I've learned is that you have to embrace imperfection and radically lowers your expectations, and be willing to work at slow, gradual improvement over the course of many years.

[Anonymous No.8247315]

>>8245618
That's cute. Daddy's little cheerleader.

[Anonymous No.8247350]

> Dawning realisation of the commotion I just caused give way
> to pangs of guilt. I race upstairs to the house to reassure my mother
> all is well, or at least hardcore substances are not involved, if nothing
> else. Mom is busy preparing food, apparently oblivious to
> the goings on, so I decide to go back downstairs and tidy up. Don't
> want my brother Jeffie playing with my stuff.

> On the way back a casual glance into Jeffies room becomes a
> double take. Not
> only is his stuff gone but his bedroom now has a sewing machine
> knitting bag and rocking chair. No signs of sibling habitation.

> On any other day ending in 'y' I wouldn't give a juicy baked bean fart
> but Jeffie had my 3ds and all the games. I stumble back to the
> kitchen really feeling disoriented now. After 5 minutes of argument I
> still can't convince mom I had a 3ds. Or a little brother.

> Mom wears a visage of deep concern as she reiterates once more
> that I am indeed a nintendoless only child. Frustrated I once more resolve
> to tidy up down below but mom forbids it. So, I get on the phone and
> like a dog to vomit, hit 4chan once more.

> Sadly the advice garnered from the brains trust is again somewhat
> lighter on the mysterious console side, yet top heavy on the
> criticism of my apparent sexual predilections. Further reminders
> of my intellectual deficiencies and the fact that my demise at my
> own hands is absolutely necessary to better the remnant of
> humanity are also surprisingly persistent. In my humble opinion they
> are a little less welcome than usual too.

End p3

[Anonymous No.8247421]

> A sharp reply to this last anon is cut short by a knock at the door.
> My neighbour has brought a kitten over that they have just adopted.
> After some small talk I make eye contact and declare that
> Mario is going to love this guy. An expression of bafflement crosses
> their face. It is brief but clear enough that Mario is no longer a
> member of their family. Or maybe never was.

> Unable to contain myself I start another shiny new thread in
> my favourite image chat site to document my findings. Fellow Anons
> enthusiastically take turns addressing my apparent amnesia
> regarding my love of same gender partners, damaged neurological
> faculties and hesitancy at taking my fate literally into my own hands.

> Unironically.

> I decide to sneak downstairs for one more tilt at the console.
> It warms up with all the grace of a motorcycle club meet in an
> underground car park. Wearing a grin wicked enough to make
> Jack Nicholson cringe, I enter the name 'Faggot' in the entry screen

> My plan was to bolt before July 4 came by but the next I know
> I have woken to the dirty light of a new morning.

> The destruction is surprisingly localised to an imploded tv and a
> mound of unrecognisable plastic slag that presumably was the
> console.

> Hands trembling, I produce my phone and type the 4chan url.
> error 404.

> Google.
> no results for anything relevant.

> I can hear my neighbour whistling on his back lawn. He's fine
> and the dude is gayer than a pink miata. Can't have done any
> damage then. And hey, there is my 3ds. How did you get here, I muse.

> I decide its time to relax and enjoy some new found peace.
> With a practiced flick of the thumb I pop the 3ds and make to
> load up... Super luigi bros? What the fuck???

[Anonymous No.8247443]

>>8243385
https://www.chick.com/products/tract?stk=1178

[Anonymous No.8247685]

>>8239648
Yeah, no, bullshit, all of it. You're the only retard here for believing the globohomo even though you can see for yourself.

[Anonymous No.8247728]

>>8239447
>Japan doesn't strike me as an authoritarian country
Well, not anymore...

[Anonymous No.8247730]

>used to go to Wal-Mart with my dad as a kid and always hang out in the video games section while he was shopping, spending over an hour there just playing on the kiosks
>mfw thinking about all the times I could have been kidnapped

[Anonymous No.8247738]

>>8246818
>nooo you can't win!!
kek, glad I never had friends like that. But I have a vague souvenir of something close.

[Anonymous No.8247761]

>get really into Pokemon around 2000 when I'm about to go into first grade
>nobody else in my class gives a shit about Pokemon
>never touch a link cable for years and certainly don't own one
>never get to trade or battle
>never get to play with cards and show them off to my friends
>sit alone in my room playing Pokemon Stadium
>one day a teenage girl who lives in the apartment complex nearby sees me playing Pokemon and gets excited because she used to play it
>she trades me a Squirtle
>holy fuck now I have two starters
>end up collecting all the Pokemon games for GBC, have a Pokemon GBC and a Pokemon carrying case
>leave all of it on a bus one day and never see it again

[Anonymous No.8247803]

>>8247761
Man that's rough. When I was in 1st grade, pokemon was so popular that one day every week was pokemon card day where everyone would bring their cards and trade them at recess. You also couldn't sit on a bus without seeing someone playing red or blue.

[Anonymous No.8247840]

>>8247312
I will NOT do web.

[Anonymous No.8247849]

>>8247761
I had all that you had missing, and it didn't make a difference. In like 10 years we played only twice and one of them was in high school, 3 years after pokemon was at peak popularity.
Truth is pokemon was no more than novelty.

[Anonymous No.8247898]

>>8245618
Dad son bonding with vidya is always going to be kino. My dad used to love vidya until control schemes became too complicated and he started to become alienated from his peers at work for only thinking vidya... but that doesn't erase memories of him playing from NES all the way to PS1. One of the best memories I have was the WOAH moment when we finally figured out how to get one of the crests you need to open the well elevator in Resident Evil 1, after spending hours trying to find the item.
Another memory was accidentally overwriting my dad's Half Life saves, he never bothered to complete the game after that... I did. kek

[Anonymous No.8247982]

>>8247849
Given enough time, everything is a novelty.

[Anonymous No.8248017]

>>8247982
Empty statement. There are many things that are still enjoyable decades later even when there is no stone left unturned. This board is proof of that.
Truth is that Pokemon isn't one of them. It's only relevant today because it keeps spawning new iteration for each generation to have their first pokemon.
I say that as someone who was hooked until sapphire.

[Anonymous No.8248647]

>>8247685
lol at your tard babble. I bet you think flu deaths are being counted as covid deaths you mouthbreathing faggot.

[Anonymous No.8248653]

>>8248647
Suit yourself, slave.

[Anonymous No.8248662]

>be me
>90s
>play my fav fighting games and Capcom and SNK goodnes after school
>life was good
>2004 rolls in
>arcade gets shut down
>life is bad since then
>lurk 4chan since forever
>/vr/ gets created
>come to /vr/ to bully people that emulate games
>life isn't so bad anymore

[Anonymous No.8248935]

>>8248017
This board is also proof that the first two generations were not a novelty.

[Anonymous No.8248947]

>>8248935
Link to the pokemon thread then.

[Anonymous No.8249029]

>>8248947
Obviously you won't find it here, because pokemon has its own boards, but if you've beem around more than a day, you've probably seen someone mention the first few generations. Just off the top of my head, I remember a recent thread about gen 1 sprites that were cut and one about missingno.

[Anonymous No.8250208]

> worked hard earn money to buy NES
> parents hide it and forbid playing unless on school break
> find hiding place and take nes but leave empty box.
> set it up under brothers bed

> get caught and nes confiscated, hidden elsewhere.
> find it, use it get caught again. Repeat at least 10 times

> one day have some friends over for game session
> dad busts in and loses his shit
> starts seriously wailing on me, kicking shit out of me all over.
> friends shocked and do the dash.

> half hour later nes is smashed, room Is trashed and I can't go to school for a week due to injuries
> dad panics that authorities will find out.
> buys me super nes and games to keep me quiet

Seemed like a good deal to me at the time

[Anonymous No.8250232]

>>8250208
Poor LARP. They trust your judgement by having a part-time job outside of school and then let you buy something they don't actually approve of? If they were actual busybodies, they wouldn't have let you keep it in the first place. If they were permissive, they wouldn't have cared. The logic does not follow.

Sad zoomer, trying to fit in. Many such cases.

[Anonymous No.8250237]

>>8250232
Poor larp is 90% true.

You sound like a sad faggot with no dick that must insult others to feel better about having no sex.

Also > 90% true

[Anonymous No.8250246]

>>8250237
Many such cases

[Anonymous No.8250304]

>>8250208
I think your parents have serious issues.

[Anonymous No.8250454]

>>8250304
Ultra religious so yes, probably.

Bear in mind they couldn't stop me buying a nes and didn't really know what it represented until they saw games like faxanadu and Castlevania.

On balance, the part about getting a Snes was embellishment. They weren't that inconsistent.