/r9k/ - ROBOT9999

Im 18 and feel similar. Its mostly because I have a lot to do with balancing work and uni at the same time, so whenever I play games I feel like im wasting a ton of time i should be spending on something more useful.

If I was a NEET I would enjoy games no problem. You'd get over the worthlessness feeling within like a month of playing vidya all day, and when it gets boring they typically make online friends somewhere and have a 'cord to shit up all day.

I just wish I could feel truly free once i get home. Instead theres always more work to be done.

naw you just feel immature and want to find a way to feel more grown up, but quitting video games isn't the solution. what actually makes you more mature is taking on responsibility in life

I haven’t played video games for a while

Not about being to old, I just do not enjoy them as much now. I have other things to do that take priority. If I came across a super fun game or friends wanted to play, I would not be opposed.

>>98871 (OP)
I don’t care I’m bumping this. Yes, I’m 23 and feel this exact same way about video games. I regret having ever gotten into them as a kid. I was never addicted but I wasted too much time on them as well as the internet. I 100% regret playing Siege and Roblox with my high school friends after school instead of actually going outside and making real life memories. I have nothing to look back on except for like two trips to the mall. Video games were all a waste except for playing local multiplayer games with family and friends as a kid.

I deleted my Steam account last year out of shame. 2/3rds of the games I owned were 3D platformers, Sonic games, and quirky indie games. I just felt incredibly embarrassed by it all. I think I’m okay at masking it but that account was a dead giveaway I’m autistic. I can’t enjoy that cartoony bullshit anymore anyway, it feels like troonslop now.

I don’t regret playing arcade games with my friends or Nintendo 64 with my cousins, because I was actually making real life memories with other people. Otherwise, it pains me that I was ever attached to video games. I’ve been tempted to pick up a Dreamcast or OG Xbox recently but I need to let it go.

>>98871 (OP)
Video games nowadays are made for kids and manchildren nowadays, you're not missing much. I find that the best games are really short and simple, something like Tetris or Pac-Man or any old Atari game does it for me. They are not wastes of time to me because there's not much to them unlike a 40 hour JRPG with BIPOCs and propaganda. You just play them for like 5 minutes and end it right there.
>>98945
I guess so, but OP could be playing some absolute brimstone
>>99655
Why regret the past if you can change the future? You liked spending time with your friends like that at the time, so that's still something. Don't blame yourself for being a kid and doing it, you did not know any better. All you can do now is accept that you did it and improve yourself, self-guilt never goes anywhere meaningful.