Excessive gaming isn't actually fun, it's just escapism. What are you trying to escape, user?

Trying to escape America..

I am proud; you are my wife, my rock. I LOVE THIS WOMAN!!! Ha-ha. You complete me. You're an inspiration. You're profoundly intelligent, beautiful, caring. I love you. There is no one else like you. I want to be with you every day for the rest of my life. You are everything to me. I am lost without you. I love you.

My depression, my sadness, my feelings. These things, OP.. geeze.. I told myself I wouldn't do this..

Alright, look.. We're sad. We're crying. We're defeated. But that doesn't we. can. not. have. fun. Alright, guys.. keep your heads up. Be strong. Find that person that you are. Find him. Find him and say, "I'm gonna be happy.", "I'M GONNA BE HAPPY". Alright guys, take it easy out there.

>posts on vee videogames

You threw all your shit away because you're an idiot.

>Excessive gaming isn't actually fun, it's just escapism.
Tell that to the people who have not played a game before WoW and then ruined their life with it.
They did not escape something, they got suckered in. And no, it was not just losers.

I mostly look for these sorts of threads on the board, trying to help my fellow man.

Too many of us are stuck in pit of gaming and porn, we're smart guys and its sad to see all this ability that could be put towards changing the world get squandered on distractions. I just want to help user.

Everything.

persona and pokemon make the world disappear

I played FFXIV to keep myself away from studying because the thought of sitting down and being productive just doesn't work with me. Once I get rolling I understand everything and perform like a grade A student, and even enjoy myself to an extent, but getting started is just a massive mental effort on my part for some reason. I don't know if it's ADHD or laziness or what, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to keep it up for much longer.

I never got the appeal of Scott Pilgrim, especially not the movie.

How are you helping anyone?

>>>/tumblr/
and stay there

> What are you trying to escape, user?
Russia.

Go away, Tumblr.

Kim was the best girl anyway

My disabilities. On the internet I'm loved and adored. In real life being deaf prevents me from even properly communicating with others.

You sound like my older brother. Thanks

>depressed because I don't have any friends
>finally make a friend
>fall in love with friend who obviously doesn't like me in that way
like this if you cry every time

A quick question that is completely unrelated to the topic of this thread.

Didn't TotalBiscuit have cancer and if yes, isn't he supposed to die soon?

>its sad to see all this ability that could be put towards changing the world get squandered on distractions
>we're smart guys

Shit are you me? Right down to fiance, car and fucking games played.

>What are you trying to escape, user?

myself

M-mikkel?

So when i read, i hear it in my head. What is it like to read as a deaf person?

This guy

Woh, dude it's like normal shit isn't common.

>see all this ability that could be put towards changing the world
you realize 99% of people out there who have a job aren't "changing the world" right?

Hey OP i've been looking for you

>Haha us 4channers are so stoopid. See look I memed! XD
This has what ironic shitposting has bought us

Omgggg

Games like Mount and Blade Warband, The Sims 4 and Crusader Kings 2 are quite good for escaping reality. But once you get bored of them it wears off.

Thinking anyone here is capable of making any kind of substantial change is awfully pretentious. This place is full of oblivious white niggers & it's embarrassing.

why hasn't anybody posted that final fantasy tactics image about escapism here yet? I don't have it.

Ah yes. That's Ramona Flowers.

MEW is cute

>tfw you always fall in love with anyone that shows even the slightest bit of compassion for you

Learning to deal with Aspurgers and figure out how to be a normie one bit at a time. It's taken time, but over the years I feel proud that I'm not some neet that stays on his mommies couch all day and plays video games like they expected me to.

Secondlife

Losing my gaming pc was the best thing that ever happened to me

>he hasn't discovered Football manager (the sega one) yet

/gsg/ is nothing compared to FM

I'm escaping my boring life.

ArmA3

A very tedious life of work, eating, sleeping and little contact or socialising with actual friends.

>not wanting to escape reality

ITT

My life has been nothing but a nonstop ass fuck of bad luck bad friends and bad timing things were getting a bit better I lost some weight but whenever something good happens to me something worse happens

Been playing System Shock Remastered that's been pretty fun probably going to play through the Bioshocks too

Just got done crying kill me please

Again, go back to Tumblr.

Anxiety and generally being unable to socialize in a real life setting.

MMOs have always helped, with good ol Runescape being a constant fallback. Fallout: New Vegas helps too, since it's just a damn fine rpg experience. Also fun little platformers like Rogue Legacy or Spelunky, just as a short-term distraction.

Life sucks

when did you leave tumblr, maybe you should go back?

What in the fuck are you babbling about, faggot?

Same way as you do. I'm not completely deaf but it is enough to make it incredibly difficult properly communicating with others even when using the best technology has to offer.

I still think with sound though I probably do combine it with more imagery than regular hearing people

>have tonight and tomorrow night at work before weekend off
>can finally play all my videogames that I want to
>Basically, I'll shitpost on here, have 2 hour wank sessions and play Runescape all weekend and not play any proper games

dota 2.

paragon when I am too stoned to do well in dota.

>only game that gives me satisfaction....

My therapist says that while he understands why I'm trying not to play them anymore (because I have more important shit to do), refusing to give myself outlets for stress ultimately results in even worse self-destructive behavior, and if maintenance takes the form of gaming every night, it's much better than the alternative.

Dude's right. If you're like me and have been gaming since you were a little kid, it will probably always be part of you, at least a little. And that's ok.

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m.soundcloud.com/dekkar-945776773/empty-bottle

I'm trying to escape your ugly ass face.

Brain tumor.

WarCraft 3, Persona and lately God Eater 2 Rage Burst.

video games are a waste of life

you will regret losing all this time when you are older

osrs, I can do extremely boring tasks over and over again and saying im having fun, its perfect.

Enlighten me on what is important in life then, Voltaire.

Loneliness.

Any game that I can really sink my teeth into and just play for hours on end. SMT, Fallout and so on work well.

Time you spent having fun wasn't wasted

>when you are older

What about time spent wasted?

Uh, never.
Nothing truly gets me down because I'm a nihilist, atheist, and recognize that free will can't exist. If something about reality is shitty I just get euphoric on the absurdity of why it exists in that state.

Everything you do for "fun" is escapism, human mind can't simply come to terms with void of reality.

Then that's wasted, dummy

I wish I could even do that. I got my act together and learned how to get along with people properly, but I feel nothing for anybody. I'm so lonely but being around others make me feel even lonelier because it makes me question if I'll ever have a place where I belong. When I see people talking and laughing like it's second nature while I force every word and action out it makes me feel like I'm missing some very basic part of the human experience.

I'm like an empty bottle
Drained of everything left in my mind
Checking out life on the dark side
Riding down the road 'til the end of time

Good luck user, I wish you the best.
Before, I escaped reality in general; but right now Im trying to avoiud thinking about my ex

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>What are you trying to escape, user?
Responsibility and, moreso, commitment.

ROLLING AT THE SPEED OF SOUND

Both my parents died and I failed out of college

I sulked and played vidya for a year and now I've decided to cut down on the video games in order to clean out the house and clean up my life

>What are you trying to escape, user?

Gee, what do you think? My pathetic life going nowhere obviously.

Holy shit, are you me?
Are you going to be playing the new season of Deadman, user? If so, how do you feel about the changes?

user..

Everyone can make a difference you narrow minded fool

I'm not really escaping anything, it's just how I've chosen to live.

I had a relationship with a girl (who looked and acted a lot like Ramona Flowers, funnily enough) and she broke it off to be with her high school english teacher she was in love with since she was 14.

I weighed the options and realized I was happier alone, while I do miss the comfort of someone's warm, soft skin sleeping beside me, it's a lot easier to miss when I work all day and game all night and just pass out instead of drifting off to sleep talking to a significant other.

I still talk to friends and everything, but I have no romantic interests and my life is pretty stable and happy.

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Fiiiiiiiiiilllllllllllllllllllll
Meeeeee
Uuuuuuupppp
again.

nigger are you literally me
I'm going in for gamma knife treatment sometime later this month

except for WC3 being XIV we're the same

Feels fucking bad man

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My failure as a person.

Nothing seems to interest me, when im around people i feel like im somehow different and dont want to be there, my father before he left me told me to live happy and that has been my only goal for some time now but im at a point where i hardly feel any emotions or empathy towards anything and i dont know what to do

I love art from this period

Is shooting himself required to use act 3 or something?

Yes.

>What are you trying to escape, user?
commitment, future, existing

days go by and nothing seems promising, not even death is worth the wait and I am certain that it won't relieve me of anything, so I just give my life to someone else who needs more than I do

mobas and rpgs of all kinds, right now I'm playing through DDS, have Nocturne on halt at 100 hours

>world treats you like shit for most of your life, hate yourself, hate reality
>"user, why do you play video games? It's escapism. What are you escaping from?"
>mfw

>Excessive gaming isn't actually fun

>FUN THINGS AREN'T FUN

Nah. Fuck you, just because you wannabe normalfags latched on to gaming after you failed at life doesn't mean everyone else is like you.

Games aren't really escapism. I'm not escaping from anything, because in-between cumming, drinking and eating cake, I need to find other things to do

I am quite contented with my degenerate lifestyle. I'd quite like a gf, but that's about it

No More Heroes is a great escape

Shit, do you even have to ask? No friends, no woman, shitty job, ugly, stupid, getting fatter every day. And games are barely even helping anymore since eventually I have to stop playing, so I just remember all the shit. The only reason I haven't kill myself yet is because somwhere in the back of my mind I keep thinking ''Surely it will get better. Any second now I'l snap out of this nightmare and lead a decent life''. I don't think it will though. Give it a few more years and just end this shit.

Ian plz

I was doing okay until last week when my gf broke up with me because of a small fight. We were together for 2 and a half years, I didn't remember how wanting to kill myself felt.

no, it's addiction and obsessive-compulsion.

games are fun and real life is boring and takes too much commitment to get anywhere good.

>Also, list games you undoubtedly used when you couldn't face reality.

THPS 3
Witcher 3

Demon's Souls
About 2,1k+ hours put into it, 1200h on 1 char, rocking blessed knight sword +5 and knight shield with that cloud-something enchant I can't remember +4 - exclusively, just kept constantly going through the game with that stuff and doing PvP with just that. I got pretty good needless to say.
And then it was Warframe. Had tons of fun, been with the game since the very start which was SO good, and then Second dream quest hit. Absolutely ruined early lore, all the knowledge players had on who Tenno are, whole of what I and others from the community have worked to create within the universe. I stopped there and don't even want to come back, fuck DE.
And what I want to escape?
Family problems, alcoholic mother, no future if I stay like that. Trying my best but I don't even know which way to go with myself, so here I sit, clueless.