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>>471

"okay boomer, video games are just as legit an activity as watching TV or playing sports, I never hear your moldy old rock-a-billies wearing harley jackets while never having ridden a motorcycle in your life (lol poser) whine about those, you say I'm wasting my life well how many hundreds of hours have you pissed away whooping and hollering at the TV while stuffing your fat face with beer and nachos and hot dogs watching sweaty muscle-men crash into each other like dumb animals, and you call me queer for being a computer nerd lol lmao, you All-Work-And-No-Play puritan and anti-fun protestants sure are arbitrary and capricious tyrants in where and what you apply your so-called beliefs you flaming hypocrites and vipers; yes it's true that girls mostly hate video games and anime still, that being an insecure feelings-saddled social cripple is girl-repellent and they can smell if you're not a real man who accepts nobody gives a crap what he thinks or does like a good stoic, that instead you have to resort to anime and video games to push the pain of loserdom away instead of playing in pussy and enjoying real-world adventures of the high life social status it's a magical sense all women are born with, women can do cosplay and Twitch stream without sabotaging their social status because women are just magical fairies free of labels and can do whatever they please without the constraints of reason and accountability, yes I'm mad and jealous of all these double-standards and yes you'll have a much harder time getting one-night-stands telling her about your Digimon rolodex or your carefully cultivated heavy metal playlists instead of lying and dressing like you make seven figures as a bank upper-management executive (dating is all about lying and hiding who you really are, isn't it? that whole Tinder/OKCupid scene is so very toxic if you weren't lucky enough to be born 'normal' and well-off and socially-adjusted, that if all the good things in life didn't just fall into your lap without effort you're probably a genetic dead-end who should quit wasting everyone's time and resources and wrap it all up with a big dose of shotgun mouthwash?), it took centuries for reading novels to be accepted as legit entertainment without making your parents worry they won't get grandkids, everything will get better when the boomers finally die off and take all their crap like mindless prejudice against video games and smartphones with them, same way it took all the original slavers to die of old age before we as a society finally collectively decided 'hey, it's wrong to enslave all these black people while living under the "Land Of The Free" where supposedly "All Are Created Equal", so let's stop being assholes and let them off the plantations, even if we gotta murder 100,000's of each other in civil war to make emancipation happen', that's the only way things change on a societal scale is when all the old guard die off and quit shoving "that's not how WE did things when WE were growing up!!" peer pressure down everyone's throats, it's gonna take another quarter-millennium for everyone to drop the New Media Are Evil boomerist luddisms of hating on smartphones and chat AI too–"

Phew. All these neuroticisms and toxic thoughts need to go away and leave me alone so I can play my stupid digital legos without feeling so ashamed and guilty about doing it wrong in peace. I hate spending so much of my life worried that, no matter what I'm doing, I'm doing it wrong and someone, somewhere, is making fun of me for sucking and failing at life. Yes, I know I'm a low-value male who resorts to video games and anime, I know, I know, stop laughing at me and leave me alone! Go enjoy your money and your frequent easy sex, indulge in your privileges of being born with a silver spoon in your mouth and raised well with class and dignity, you don't have to shove it in my face that I'm a broken failed human who could have made better life choices despite being born with such a terrible hand, I already know, I already live it and have had a front-row seat to my crapsack life for nearly 40 years non-stop and I wish so badly to have never been born watching you all succeed so easily after being handed everything without asking whereas my life has been little more than suck and fail and toil and grind and little to show for it in between long bouts of "screw it I'll just piss my one life away on anime and video games I'll never have nice things in life so why bother trying to be better", let me and the rest of us low-value geeks enjoy SOMETHING instead of just killing ourselves like you apparently demand of us pathetic losers, our existence so very offensive to you hoity-toity jock bougies…

>>471

>wait 2 minutes to reply, type in captcha, "lel nope wrong captcha try again after 3 fucking seconds", repeat 4 or 5 times before I throw my hands in the air and give the fuck up, and was about to give up on this shit site too because of your stupid fucking captcha too

The classic oldfigs were right, captcha is cancer and there's an argument to be made that 4chan died the day they introduced it, decades ago now.

>WHY DO IMAGE BOARDS HAVE TO SUCK SO HARD NOW

Phoneposters, summerfags, people not lurking. You don't even have to go to 4chan to lurk now, the superior lurker lurks on archives like 4plebs and such where your lurking won't be interrupted by a thread going down, and you can dig further back into the past on some trail or other.

>Be thankful you were born with a hole and not a pole

They don't think that way, for the same reason that you and I aren't constantly thinking about how thankful we are not to get periods - anything you haven't experienced personally isn't real to you, that's why women don't get it and tell men to shower and be themselves.

>I hate when I'm trying to engage in some fun but pointless waste of time like video games or anime or youtube – and my brain will not STFU, I'm flooded with distracting background thoughts, when I'm trying to concentrate.

I get this too, it's the worst. I find certain types of entertainment can overcome it, or instead something less entertaining but more mentally engaging and slightly stressful and frustrating (like a tough game). I managed to overcome it a bit recently by dealing with some of the irl sources of the stress, but now I know that my brain can scream at me like that I'm prepared for if it comes back.

>"yeah, you're a low-value male doing a low-value male activity, lol, you could make the choice to suck less and make money and get laid but no, you've chosen to suck and fail and do it all wrong, to waste your one life on stupid crap like watching anime and playing video games instead of being normal and having a girlfriend

I choose to see it like this: how many men, throughout human history, have had sex/female companionship? It's less than a lot of people think, but it's still a lot, possibly even the majority of men. How many men will have had the opportunity to experience the internet as it is now, before it gets locked down? And to experience the games and anime that exist right now, before they're banned or become lost media in the future? We live in an age where countless treasures are being pumped out (most is shit now, I'm talking broadly about this current era, i.e 1953 to now) just in a blind corporate effort to keep people engaged, and most of these hidden gems will stay hidden forever… And most men are choosing to spend this unique time in history chasing the exact same thing they could get in any other period of history, something they could probably just wait and buy a sexbot to get by the time they retire. To me, it seems much more pointless to pursue something everybody has, rather than things very few people have. In the big-picture view, anime and video games and much else besides is simply far more valuable than sex by virtue of scarcity. Can I judge that for sure? No, I haven't had sex. But the data shows that the average sexual coitus is 2 minutes long and the average couple has sex once a week, so it can't be that good and I have it on authority from people who have had sex that it's not that good. Cope? Perhaps, but so is having children, or indeed any activity of any kind that isn't killing yourself - it can all be called meaningless so life itself is a cope.

>>471

>staying far from lady-repellent geek activities like a real man should, that you have such poor taste that you can't even enjoy REAL art and REAL culture you common-taste philistine profligate

This is a pretty easy one to puncture because I've engaged with what people call real art and real culture, and not only do I still love anime and video games, I love anime and video games that are supposedly for babies like Kyattou Ninden Teyandee and Super Mario Bros. I'd recommend checking out Wagner's Ring Cycle, it's basically like Lord of the Rings, the music is good and you can watch it online with subtitles like it's an anime. Regardless it's fairly easy to find a piece of 'high art' that you can stomach and consume it, and once you do I think you'll find it's not exactly world-shattering, some of it's quite good but it is still just art, it doesn't make comics and vidya seem as though it has not the merit to even exist as some people like to LARP.

>>472

>peer pressure down everyone's throats, it's gonna take another quarter-millennium for everyone to drop the New Media Are Evil boomerist luddisms of hating on smartphones and chat AI too–"

Perhaps I'm a boomer because I despise smartphones and AI just seems like a mental crutch for people who don't have enough imagination for tulpamancy.

> I hate spending so much of my life worried that, no matter what I'm doing, I'm doing it wrong and someone, somewhere, is making fun of me for sucking and failing at life.

Perhaps it's different for others, but I've found that in spite of my need for solitude, solitude does also fuel my paranoia. It's important to keep paranoia in check, or else one can end up like those gangstalking schizos thinking there's hidden cameras and sleeping gas set up in their apartment by bullies seeking to torment them.

> instead of just killing ourselves like you apparently demand of us pathetic losers, our existence so very offensive to you hoity-toity jock bougies…

I'd challenge them to come up with a better reason for existence. "Muh meaning, muh dick in hole, muh satisfaction" if your life is just made up of feeling good for yourself and ticking off the same life goals cavemen had, you're just wasting your life, not challenging yourself but simply going with the flow. Feeling fulfilled in your life and such is the body's way of chemically informing you that you are being a good little slave to it's biological imperative, that you're being a good animal just like it commands. I don't care if I or everyone else in spaces like these are only here because of circumstances and cope, if fate is what freed us from enslavement to biological determinism and race memory then at least we are now free and can pursue something we truly choose to pursue, rather than having it chosen for us. Even if we did not free ourselves, now that we are free I still maintain we are far better and more worthy of life than those wastes of flesh out there, the normalfag masses who simply go along with their instincts, like coomers but with social validation, like insects who follow pheromone trails and deign to laugh at those who don't want to live their insectoid hive life.