/v/ - Video Games

I'm 42.

It's all downhill from here.I used to play fighting games and shooters, now I'm having trouble keeping up with casual borefest garbage.

Truly, getting old sucks.

>>14707836

33 years old, the problem I'm facing is the opposite, I can't relate to old games that I haven't played, and it's damn sad when the magic that some anons describe, I can never experience, and fuck online gaming and the death of LAN.

>>14707836

>Am I the only oldfag here?

Do you see anyone who's happy or "peppy" on this board?

They either stick to themselves or they're busy having fun.

It's all a matter of perspective regardless of age.

>>14707871

>25

>cannot into vidya

At this point, you need to consider the possibility of illness. If your reflexes and mental abilities are declining so much by 25 then you have something wrong with you.

>>14707863

When I got Cuphead, I loved it. The challenge was immense and great. However, I gave up after I couldn't defeat the green dragon.

I also abandoned the final boss in Gianna Sisters: Twisted Dreams due to the tedium involved.

I think what it comes down to is perhaps tedium. I don't feel like engaging in repetitive motions for too long as if it's an endurance match for my reflexes.

To counteract my teenage years of being a huge casual and mostly playing baby first person shooter shit like tf2, stalker, and a bunch of hl/2, doom, quake mods or other slower action games like mount & blade I've moved onto games like god hand, devil may cry and not just casual playthroughs but the highest difficulty, striving for excellence in execution and rank.

I'm 25 now and so far it's been an upward trend, playing more reflex intensive games that are also more stimulating for my mind like rhythm games and shooting games. Keep your mind sharp and your muscles sharp too. I look forward to facing increasing challenges as I hit 30, 35, 40, 45.

>>14707881

Going to be dead by 30. Nofun.jpg. Picking up fishing for the next few years I have left until I'm bound to a hospital bed for the last month or two. Either that, or exitbag.jpg. But I digress, this isn't a 4 AM thread. :^)

>>14707836

I know that feel. Back in the day I could play Yarrs' Revenge for 10 hours straight without dying. Now I play mostly dwarf fortress or the occasional EU4. I still beat my friends in PES but get wrecked online.

>>14707886

The fuck? You got Huntington's or something?

>>14707869

>fuck online gaming and the death of LAN

This. Bring be back to the day of playing Quake 1 & 2 over a LAN. Packing up my machine, peripherals, and 50-pound CRT into my car and carrying it all in again to my friend's livingroom for an all-nighter was a time of greatness that will never be experienced again.

>>14707886

>exitbag.jpg

At least be a little more creative.

>>14707882

I quit Cuphead right after I finished the first island.

I got A+ ratings and beat the run and gun parts, but that's basically my limit.

I couldn't get past Beppi the clown and just fucking gave up.

>>14707886

It's better than a 4am thread: everyone is still anonymous.

>>14707896

>Letting technological convenience dictate your life

>Not using technological convenience to enhance your life

Literally just do that…and also connect to 5 other people through disagreement or something and have an all-night LAN/Online drinking-gaming party.

>>14707892

Early Onset of Alzheimers. Fun shit.

Maybe you have arthritis or something. Try some of these things:

>transcendental meditation

>a massage therapist who can work on your hands and fingers

>increase your calcium intake

>exercises

>take up the guitar

Dick Dale is an ancient man who plays guitar with a catheter and a colostomy bag and he can play it faster than he ever could because he's been exercising those muscles his entire life.

>>14707915

I've scored over 1 million points playing Robotron 2084.

My failure to master Cuphead isn't so much a lack of skill as it is my reflexes are now that of a middle aged man, I.E. shit.

Telling me to gitgud isn't going to make the arthritis go away, or restore the speed I once had.

I'm physically incapable of playing as good as I used to, and it'll happen to you too.

Just wait.

Bubble gun or max sword to kill the missiles. Otherwise just hop between the treads.

There are 50+ year old shred guitarists who can still sling facemelting riffs, and guitar requires a hell of a lot more speed and dexterity than gaming. Git gud you old farts.

>>14707857

>Even when I do I can't remember what it was to really be able to lose myself enthusiastically in one

I know that feel, the last game I played for more than a few hours was Factorio, most vidya is just so boring to me now and I have already played many of the classics which get recommended here.

>>14708164

How old is Buckethead?

>>14708169

Most games you can see the twists and surprises coming a mile away. Things are either dull and predictable or trite and contrived

>>14707836

Sup fellow oldfag. I turned 40 this month. I used to be absolutely godlike at Quake 1 and Tribes and I was able to keep up reactions through my 20s in StepMania (at peak, 13 notes per second without a 'great' via keyboard) but it started fading in my 30s even with constant practice. I didn't crash and burn like I expected, I can still do the hard stuff, but I'm now clearly mortal.

It's just life telling me I need to focus on other things. So I got a younger wife I'm knocking up and I'm going to teach my kids to grow up to be Hitler.

>>14708164

Guitar playing doesn't require reaction speed, it's a memorized performance.

tfw 35 and getting rsi.

don't play vidya

Now I just go to local board games meetups ==which is pretty good tbh==

>>14707836

Early forties, only set back has been that my memories of all the rpgs I played when younger are nearly all forgotten. Perhaps it was because I played so many and they all bleed together. I remember some highlights here and there and the ones that I can still remember clearly I guess were my favorite. My reflexes are fine, have to usually play on the most difficult setting to get value out of today's game. I don't regret the time I've spent, but I lament heavily the state of the industry today, but there has been some improvements of late.

>>14708219

fuck

Don't get too worried for getting your ass beat by the machine, it's probably one of the most bullshit bosses in the game.

>>14708236

Actually, right after this thread and a few posts, I took a dump, came back down, and beat it on the next try hardly losing any health.

Still old, though

Love for videogames does not necessarily demand reaction time, which is the biggest drop off as you age. Try playing turn based or other non-twitch reflex demanding games. Even when I'm an old fart I imagine I'll still be playing and making vidyagaems. I'm only 25

>>14708249

> Still old, though

Actually laughed

>>14707836

Just mod your console for cheating online just like everybody else. FPS are much easier when you can see through walls, have an aimbot and unlimited ammo. Games are pointless anyway, and are just designed to keep the working class slaves distracted.

It could be just burnout. I'm 26 and I have the same thing if I don't really care about playing at this moment.

Also try a healthy diet and stuff.

I'm just happy twitch shooters were never my thing. cRPGs and RTTs don't require lighting fast reflexes so I'm good.

>age

it decays some skill but you really shouldn't be having problems at 40 years old, OP. I can see maybe 50s and above when you're starting to get arthritic or some shit.

polite sage because this thread will be shit

>>14708214

technically vidya can be a memorized performance if you're a speedrun autist

>>14708220

I'm glad to have started saving caps and whatnot and having some archives of my discussions so I'll always have some memories of fun playing vidya

>>14707906

>online voice chat

>in any way comparable to real life interaction with friends while playing vidya

topkek

>>14708320

You missed out on an age of twitch shooters that might never be repeated. No mouse acceleration, zero motion blur, no pay2win or skinner boxes, no artificially lowered skill caps or free kills, no stats or levels, no turd worlders or normalfags, no lighting fast rounds preventing gaining control, no spending half your time waiting on the next round to start while having your ego stroked with meaningless rewards. Just pure skilled gameplay unapologetically for the elite.

Shooters today are so fucking shit that if you removed their dopamine reward progression systems they're littered with no one would play them.

>>14707836

I'm an oldfag too and I don't have your problem. Beat Cuphead not to long ago.

>>14708661

why the fuck did you greentext shit if you were just referencing the posts themselves, are you new to imageboard?

>>14708665

I hate typos like that.

Cave Story is not about reflexes though. It's about pattern recognition and muscle memory.

While it's true that with old age you won't be able to compete against young people in reflexes, in games like FPS, RTS or Fightans, but in games where enemies and bosses use the same telegraphs and movements you can just learn the thing and then repeat it mechanically without thinking.

Just keep replaying it until you beat it.

>>14708600

>>14708661

>>14708741

I think you kiddos don't understand what we mean by reaction speed. There's a reason we send you to fight wars.

>>14708747

>There's a reason we send you to fight wars.

Because they're dumb, desperate, and idealistic enough to actually go.

>>14708747

>There's a reason we send you to fight wars

That's because kiddos have an easier time killing than proper adults.

>you'll have to play fast-paced vidya on easy once you're past 40

It all makes sense now.

>>14708741

Give me the exercises then, missy.

>>14708661

>let me get this straight, there are 70 year old surfers and you are having problems pressing buttons on a keyboard or xbox controller?

38 year oldfag reporting… reaction time to instant things such as blocking an unexpected attack or shooting at an appearing enemy slowly goes up as you get old. It's not by much, but turning say a 0.18 second reaction into a 0.24 time can really hurt in some genres. It's due to nerve tissue aging and general neural decay in motor areas of the brain.

That's why you won't see any 30+ pro starcraft players for example. Pattern recognition, muscle memory, and general quick thinking all seem to stay fine, but you lose the razor sharp edge in the "see thing and instaclick on it" department.

>>14708747

>There's a reason we send you to fight wars

I don't see what being easier to indoctrinate with lies has to do with vidya reflexes anon

>>14708754

Jelq x 500

Kegel x 150

2 days on 1 off

Be sure to stretch!

>>14707836

I started with 2600, C64, megadrive, then PC.

I thought I was becoming too old to play, having left games completely for several years, and before that a few years of not touching them much, been overseas without a computer for 6-7 years now, so that is a factor.

Had a half decent computer for a few months recently, installed rainbow six vegas 2, and found myself dying constantly.

Thought my reflexes were gone, felt old.

Threw myself into it, played every day for 2 weeks, and I was becoming good again, soloing skirmishes. In one match my friend was observing me and saw me kill half a dozen in a second or two, said I looked like Robocop.

So the answer is, you probably stopped caring about games, as I did years ago. You can still play them but your heart isn't in them. Fighter pilots still work until about 40 or thereafter, they have the fastest reflexes in the world.

What matters is putting the time, the hard work and the emotional content into the playing of the game.

Sit at it, and focus on it, make it more important, play it until you are sweating from the adrenalin.

Become a machine, bypass the adrenalin and reach the zone where everything becomes automatic and fluid.

Aside from that, you are still young, physically speaking.

Human males can retain nearly the same physical performance until about 70, and sometimes beyond. You just have to work at it.

Take up a fast reflexes sport like squash, do it reguarly, take it seriously. Fight for yourself.

Stay in good shape, play a fast reflex game regularly. It makes a difference and a lot of it is training.

You don't have to put hours in every day to maintain it to a decent level, but it does have an effect on your neurology, positively.

>>14707907

Do research on it, there are ways to slow it massively.

Have your testosterone checked and if it is anywhere near low, have that boosted.

Apart from that, stay alert and active as possible, fight like a gladiator, don't retire yet.

>>14708862

>play a fast reflex game regularly. It makes a difference and a lot of it is training.

I was doing this with StepMania and the most painful 'youth is over' experience I've had was when no matter how hard I was practicing my score stopped increasing and started sliding. I was doing it at "holy shit how are you even seeing the notes are you even human" speed so I was really pushing my neurology pretty hard. And that made it very obvious what I was losing.

However, I think continuing to push myself kept me mostly intact. I just can't do that kind of absurd blink of an eye stuff anymore.

>>14708584

I was in Ultima in the first year too.

Wolf3d, Doom, Quake 1 which was the golden age of fps. Tribes 2.

Ultima will never ever be reborn or replaced, it is gone, and no one who wasn't there in the beginning will understand why it was so different and why it will never come again.

It was in large part due to the players themselves, they were new because it has never been done before, there were no rules, people made the game and there were no words for what people were doing, no self awareness that ruins everything it touches.

You played the game like it was another reality.

>>14708879

Maybe you weren't interested in it.

Focus on games with more than one element involved. Shooters for example, if you are good, you will have massive predictive capabilities that will cause people to kick you from servers claiming you are cheating.

Never give up.

It is like an 'old' footballer said some years ago when asked how he keeps up with the younger players, he replied that he doesn't run around as much, because he knows where to run to and which shots to take.

I found myself increasing in reflexes massively after a couple of weeks of intensive playing. Neurological changes on a larger scale take considerably longer, so if I were to play for months or a year, there would be greater physical changes.

You can also take mineral and vitamin supplements for your nervous system, magnesium, copper, zinc, manganese, and so on. Do some reading.

>>14708747

>There's a reason we send you to fight wars.

boomer detected

>>14708584

>Furfag thinks he has any right to talk about degeneracy

>>14708765

It does decline, but mostly due to lack of practice.

There are some training tools for reaction time.

Spend a few hours on them for a few days and guaranteed you will improve.

Do it for a few months, ten minutes a day and you'll be far higher.

>>14708883

I was pretty interested in those games and had probably put in a few thousand hours. I was known in the community and I also wrote the automatic stat tracking site for Super Dancer Online. Maybe you didn't notice a loss as you'd been a casual in your youth, but it's not like this isn't a well documented thing.

>>14707836

I'm 33 and although my reflexes aren't as sharp as when I was 18 they are still pretty sharp and I have no trouble with single player vidya. In fightans I'm not as good as I used to be, but that as well can be sourced to the fact that I simply don't have as much time to practice them as I used to.

>I am also drinking right now, but I don't think that's the problem.

That might as well be. Don't underestimate the ability for alcohol to fuck up oldfags. We just have enough experience to not drink enough to pass out and vomit on the carpet, but a single glass of Scotch right now makes me much more lethargic than one in my early 20s for sure.

But even then anon, you might have a health issue. Reflexes don't deteriorate THAT much with age. I mean, if you had great reflexes they will deteriorate into good reflexes and you should still shred through Cave Story no problem. Go see a doctor mate.

>>14708905

I wasn't a 'casual', I was playing shooters mostly, but have played from most genres. I didn't play any dance games.

My peak was in wolf ET, where I was constantly kicked from servers for 'cheating', I became bored with that and did trickjumping for a year or two, and was becoming pretty good at that. Any game I put effort into, I became good at.

Like I said, fighter pilots are still oked to fly up until 40-45, as long as they fulfil the criteria. Much of physical and neurological degeneration is due to non-use. You might have lost something, but more likely is that you stopped caring about them, or took a break for too long and didn't try to get back in.

>>14708747

>There's a reason we send you to fight wars.

Because you're jewish?

>>14708916

Not op, but I've not drunk since I was a teenager, and never drank much then, just a couple of times a year for a few years.

Might be why my abilities have remained more intact than most people. Physical endurance and strength too.

If you let it all go for a few months, then you'll feel it is 'age' taking you, in reality it is laziness or idleness.

Try harder.

>>14708895

Was that before they added shit like neon colours, pay to win, necromancy and the other tacky stuff?

Did you ever play on siege? That was real Ultima, until factions came and ruined it.

>>14707836

you just need to dust the rust off, but if you're an oldfag with responsibilities it'll be hard to find the time to do so

>In the end we all become old, out of touch

Abraham Simpsom was right and the older i get the righter he seems

>what the kids are doing seems first silly and frivolous at later threatening and alien

The kikes are making it so. Look at the cartoons, comics and vidya they push, it's objectivelly shit from every single stand point and kids are eating it up

>>14708892

You can stave off the deterioration with practice, but you cannot fully eliminate it. When you get old your brain simply isn't as sharp for quick reflexes as when you were young for very physical reasons. There is a reason why there aren't top performing athletes in any sport in their 40s and that reason has nothing to do with "they aren't trying anymore" or "they don't put much practice" and even monsters that get to the 40s performing well enough are of course not as good as their peak in the late 20s.

>>14708935

My physical endurance and strength are much higher now than in my 20s. I was a sedentary lanklet back then, nowadays I'm /fit/ and gained a shit ton of muscle. My reflexes are fine, but I know I'm not as good as when I was 18. I'd say I'm performing about 5% slower than in my younger days, which is fine for most vidya except for very precise shit like red parrying a chun super in 3rdS and punishing her with a SPD on hugo. I cannot do that reliably anymore through a combination of lack of practice and the small loss in reflexes making a bigger difference in this case, since it is such a precise trick

>>14708975

If you've lost 5%, you need to work harder to overcome that natural loss. You have experience and tactical superiority.

It is the same when they nerf something in a game, you have to find a way to play around it, or find a new game.

Also, 5% online can be affected by lag very easily.

If you don't have a 20ms ping, and the server isn't 5 minutes down the road from you, that will be a major element.

>>14708975

Do you play any fast paced sports? Find one, tennis, squash or similar. You might find the physical response helps your general reaction time too.

There are also reaction time trainers out there, little programmes where you can perform various tasks and customise them for what you require.

I used those for only a few days and had a noticeable improvement. Not biological changes, more like reawakening.

I'm 32 now. the main obstacle to playing games is more responsibilities and demands on your time. your brain should definitely be able to keep up. with that said, your reflexes gradually slow down with age and there's no avoiding this. all you can do is shift towards games that don't require lightning inputs.

>>14708928

>I didn't play any dance games

Then you'd not have noticed small changes. Being scored on 1500 notes over a couple minutes where each of them has to be within 20ms to have a perfect run is one hell of a test.

>>14709027

Better stop posting screenshots before the nostalgia reaches me.

I buried Ultima a long time ago, like Atlantis. It must be forgotten because it will never come again.

Saw a video a few months ago with lord British talking about how they had created a whole, living, self sustaining eco system in ultima - but due to how players just went around killing everything that moved in the alpha/early beta, then they removed it.

That's why they had all the bird varieties and so on.

>>14709032

You never played any shooters, at high level, right?

>>14709048

As I mentioned before, I was godlike in shooters. I stopped playing them when they introduced forced inaccuracy and other 'realism' bullshit to try to reduce the impact of skilled players. I also wrote the first Quake 3 Arena bot in response to Carmack posting in his .plan about how he'd added 'anti-botting code'. It took me two weeks and I had one up and running in the beta. I probably still have the code somewhere.

>>14708994

>If you've lost 5%, you need to work harder to overcome that natural loss.

And that I do. I just slightly changed my playstyle to compensate that natural loss. The most competitive and reflex heavy games I play are fightans and, well, I stopped playing execution heavy characters like I did back in the day because I don't have much time to practice them and because that loss in reflexes will make me drop a key combo or confirm one day. But yeah the lack of time to practice is the biggest problem here. I now tend to favor more neutral/poking/footsie focused characters with easy to execute combos and more lenient confirms as these characters plays to the strengths of knowledge and experience I have for playing this shit for almost 20 years. It isn't flashy, but it still gets the job done.

A 5% loss is marginal and only I can notice actually. To my friends I'm still an unbeatable beast in Street Fighter with any character. But it is annoying to get hit by something or fail to react to a throw by a frame and know that 10 years ago I might have reacted fast enough.

Still, as I said, OP problem is probably a health issue or it can definitely can be improved with practice because his reflex deterioration is too steep for just aging.

>>14708994

I've been playing tennis for the past 5 years yes. I'm thinking about starting playing Osu to try to stay as sharp as I can be with hand eye coordination + reflexes since it is single player and that can be snuck in quick bursts during work.

>>14709058

Yeah, that stuff was fun.

Surprised you never tried siege, it was how ultima was meant to be.

>>14707836

>I am 40 years old

child

>>14707857

>In the end we all become old, out of touch, and what the kids are doing seems first silly and frivolous at later threatening and alien.

I'm 22 and I feel like that now. Normalfags are the worst.

1.- Exercise to mantain your neuron genesis and mantain a healthy system. This won't make you younger, but you need to do it for maintenance in order to feel like youre in your 20s

2.- Eat healthy. Drop sugar. caffeine and alcohol altogether. All of this tire the brain out. Also, incorporate omega 3 and healthy fats into your diet. Eggs for breakfast, Avocado, put olive oil on your salads. Throw Garlic and olive oil to anything applicable, even if you're eating bread.

3.- Take ginkgo Biloba . It will increase your circulation and cell reproduction. GNC has some good brain health support pills that are neurologist recommended.

Do all of these and your reflexes and performance will increase. You can have coffee, but limit it to decaf and only 3 a day (decaf still as caffeine). Much better, drink green tea. The 50mg of decaf and flavonoids will boost your reflexes exponentially. make drinking green tea a habit

There you go, you can have a healthy brain and you will feel like you're in your 20s. You shouldn't feel a decline in your ability until you're 70 if you eat healthy and exercise. Exercise. no sugar/alcohol/caffeine. Omega3 and healthy fats. remember.

Lastly, try and sleep 8 hours every night and go to bed no later than 11:30.

t.- neurologist

In the end, those of us who like turn based RPGs win.

ENJOY AGING ACTIONCUCKS

>>14709526

I strive to be like you anon!

>>14709554

Do you fap a lot or have a sedentary lifestyle?

>>14709315

I tried it, but I considered it to be a grindy, neglected gimmick mode meant as an attempt at appeasement rather than suitable for play.

I actually am saving most of the slow games (tbs, rpg, pauseable real time strategy) that don't require reflexes until I reach your age and beyond. I'm mid twenties I think I've been getting steadily better at vidja these last couple years, probably helps that I'm trying to get /fit/ too.

also i remember having a bit of trouble with that boss at first when I was like 14 so don't get too upset about it, try when you're not drunk

>three tries

Come on now that's nothing. Took me at least 10 back then. Though I could do it easier now, certainly, cause I dventually beat hell and at least got decently far on a 3 heart run.

I'm 35, I used to be able to rip off 20+ and 30+ win streaks in fighting games so often that my friends started forcing various handicaps on me. Marvel Vs. Capcom 2, Mortal Kombat II and the original Killer Instinct were my best games. I stopped playing them for a while, tried to get back into them with Ultra SF4 and I can't compete with some of these guys online.

I have gotten better at action games and RPGs. I'm pretty good at Metal Gear Rising and Ninja Gaiden, and I just blew through the Witcher 3 on highest difficulty like it was nothing. Maybe I just have the strategies down pat for those kinds of games due to experience.

>>14709543

I chuckled.

>>14709526

It is funny because I feel much healthier today at 33 than 8 years ago at 25. Back then I was sedentary, ate only garbage food and slept 3am at the earliest.

I still drink lots of caffeine, though only in the mornings and occasionally drink some booze, but not much. But just exercising, sleeping well and eating real food had me a shit ton of impact. Still, like I said in the thread I feel that my rapid reflexes aren't as good as it was when I was 18. At that age I was capable of doing frame perfect tricks without much effort and nowadays I'm not as reliable at this kind of thing anymore.

>>14709547

You need to schedule well your life anon and having a good sleep should be one of the priorities. I mostly play vidya on weekends and holidays. You can do it.

>>14709554

Fuck. Hang in there anon.

>>14709756

Try playing Rose or some other slow footsie character. If you have the fundamentals down pat your decreased reflexes will not affect you as much on these types of characters. That is what I did. I got to Master rank in SFV playing a Menat so lame that make Infiltration's feel like an Ibuki.

Actually playing fast paced games is like learning to drive a bike, you never forget the skill. It's just learning a completely new twitch control game takes a bit more time than when you're younger. Motivation goes a long way, too! That, and too much free time.

>>14707871

This. What all the "old" fags in this thread need to ask is why is this 25 year old so much more realistic and accepting of the realities of aging than I am? (I'm also 23 by the way). Trying to cling to childish things in middle age is just peak boomerism and totally undignified (but I repeat myself). It's one thing to like vidya still, but wanting to binge play for 8 hours at a time when you're 45 is like soyboys in their 30s complaining about "adulting" and eating cookie crisp while watching harry potter, just pathetic

>>14709975

who gives a shit? is there a "correct" way to live? jobs, kids, cleaning the house - maybe that's it to you?

>>14709975

>Look how grown up and mature I am

I thought I had all my shit figured out and was a very mature adult when I was your age too. Guess what: normalfaggotry doesn't actually impress anyone, and after you've done it day in and day out, week after month after year, it's going to wear you down like water splashing on a stone. It'll happen faster if you end up in a job where you're expected to work 80 hour weeks all the time and you have a nag of a woman at home who complains that you don't spend any time with her.

>>14709975

>(I'm also 23 by the way)

That's why no one will take you seriously, you try to act sagacious when you really don't know shit and haven't experienced much. Go work for twenty some odd years at a job that grinds your fucking soul down then tell me someone that's possibly retired the way they should enjoy their life.

>oldfag suddenly is about age

and you fags say halfchan is the shittier website

>>14707888

>occasional EU4

Same, I wonder if reaching a certain age the brain changes how it gets rewarded so you are driven more towards making complex/stable things (a family, a career, a blob in a map painting simulator) versus twitchy short term rewards (cumming, BOOM HEADSHOT etc)

>>14710037

To be honest I don't get people like you. Do most people really not have the ability to play new games of different genres and become decent after a short time playing? I have noticed a friend I have kicks ass at any fps almost immediately, but he still moves around like a pile of shit in BoTW after dozens of hours for example, which just blows my mind.

44 this year. Blarghpost incoming.

The first console we ever got was Coleco TV Pong in the late 70's. My dad bought it to play with his buddies whenever they came over to drink beer or smoke weed. That was my first intro to vidya.

Soon after that, after my dad got a better job, we could afford an Atari 2600, and I played the fuck out of it. The recent announcement of Toys 'R Us going out of business made me giggle like a motherfucker, because their games were always overpriced as fuck, while department stores like K-Mart and Hill's were always running sales. I remember the Pac-Man port being complete shit, but I spent a fuckload of time on Enduro and River Raid. I think the last game I played on it was E.T. before I finally got bored with it. One of the kids up the street had well-to-do parents, so they bought him whatever he wanted, including an Atari 5200, which I really wanted at the time because it did somewhat faithful recreations of arcade games.

And brother, were there a fuckload of arcades during the 80's. In 1982, I was eight years old, and almost got lynched by a bunch of high schoolers for handing them their asses at Tempest. The local arcade in my little ass town was called Hoag's, but they shut down because I think they got busted dealing weed and coke out of the place. Not entirely sure. But there was a convenience store nearby that kept about four different cabinets on rotation, so that was the hangout for kids on our side of town. The one game they always had was Street Fighter II. That game made them so much money it was unreal.

We didn't get an NES at first launch, because my mom had recently divorced my dad for being a drunken wife-beater and had finally had enough of his shit. Therefore, she had to work her ass off to keep my sister and me alive. But she did try to get us some videogames so I would have more incentive to stay home and watch my baby sister while she worked insane hours at whatever factory was paying the most money at the time. She found a Sega Master System on sale somewhere, grabbed a couple of games for it cheap, and I got to play that for a while. The notable games I liked for it were Miracle Warriors, My Hero, and Phantasy Star.

Then we were finally able to get an NES and shit took off. The mom-and pop video store up the road rented games for 50 cents a day, so I spent hours and hours and hours trying to beat Castlevania and it's sequels. I grinded like mad on Dragon Warrior, and was the first kid in the neighborhood to reach and beat Mike Tyson in Punch-Out.

Around the time the Genesis and SNES were coming out, I was old enough to work, so I could start getting my own game systems. I was able to save up enough cash to get both eventually, but the Genesis was my platform of choice. One of the cooler things I remember was the Sega Channel, which was nifty as hell as it would stream games from your cable TV connection to your Genesis. We got it in '94, and I was twenty at the time, so vidya wasn't really high on my list of priorities, but my sister played the hell out of it.

After that, I had a PS1, PS2, Dreamcast, and a succession of toasters that I could barely play the latest games on. The last game system that really sparked my interest was the Dreamcast, because Sega was something magical up to that point, and when the DC died, Sega truly died with it.

Forgive the rambling. Just wanted to wax nostalgic due to the topic.

>>14709421

>>14707871

24 here. People say I look younger yay thanks!

I play Pump it Up in arcades and don't give a fuck. I still play old classics that I love and new 'hard' games.

It's just a matter of getting used to the games and learning the mechanics, but that is where the problem lies, not necessarily in physical aptitude but mental instead - you can't properly 'get into' the game and learn it if you're playing in short bursts or have stuff on your to-do work list that is hanging on your head, because it results in half-assed concentration.

I'm only 25 and I'm already feeling old and nostalgic, I can't imagine how you grandpas must feel

lol. grandpa. go to sleep.

>>14710216

Loved Woflenstine 3D, Doom, Duke Nukem 3D and Quake but once FPS became multiplayer and console focused I begain to hate them. Its the one genre that I doubt will ever genuanly be good again.

>>14707836

>I am a literal […] fag

Well at least OP was honest for once.

35 here, the years really snuck up on me. Looking forward to playing games with my two kids and getting my ass kicked as they get better while I get worse. If the problem is your brain then try nootropics?

>Thinks 40 is old.

Faggot your have 25 years till your an old fag. Fucking hell anon.

>>14708880

I think we'll recapture the magic with AI and VR, just never with other players again.

>>14708224

As a kid I laughed at that scene and thought nothing of it. As an adult I realize that it's spot on.

>>14710298

I don't trust computers that much, what will you do the moment they force PCs to be what kinect was but on steroids. Always on, always watching, always recording. Nope, fuck that noise, I will try and upkeep my old consoles for as long as I can.

>>14707836

>after the third try

Try again. Faggot.

>>14710317

>what will you do the moment they force PCs to be what kinect was but on steroids

>doesn't know how to use question marks

Install a Linux distro or OpenBSD, faggot. You can run newer stuff like Nier Automata and Titanfall 2 at good speeds in Wine with the right patches.

>>14710330

>install Linux and run automata etc

Brother, all I want is my old SNES games, don't think I want to turn my PC into a car and dump thousands of dollars to get graphics when I don't even want new RPGs, the old ones are fine.

>>14710341

Nigger, if all you want to do is play SNES games almost any hardware will do. You can emulate fucking Demon's Souls on the Ryzen 3 2200g's integrated gpu.

>>14710370

I don't know models nor anything.

But I just googled and no. I got rent and bills to pay I'm not going to waste cash into that expensive mess.

>>14709526

Been doing this for a while and now I'm starting to cook with lard. I'm 29 and have mad energy more so when I was a teenager and my reflex hasn't gone down. The whole reflex thing I remember reading that it's proven to be a myth, your reflex doesn't go down into maybe your 60s. It is something that needs to be constantly practiced.

>>14707836

>I AM 40 YEARS OLD

<OLD AS FUCK

For one, you aren't on a "young board" for "young men", you are on an autism forum. Remember this point, taking it into your heart, then never return, and get into politics and real estate investments.

To resolve your issue, I suggest you exercise moderately to vigorously every day, to create the ideal environment for your brain and nervous system to become "adaptogenic". You want this ideal environment to make you better at adapting to what is demanded of it, instead of being a STIFF. Alcohol is often to cover up the fact that you're a STIFF, but you shouldn't drink to stop being a STIFF, but to be a STIFF that drinks STIFF drinks. YA JIFFY?

Play some reflex video games, call it reflex training. There's a Unity game on Newgrounds or somewhere called "Accelerate" or "Acceleration" that involves you just avoiding obstacles whilst steadily accelerating through a tunnel. Play that. DDR or some rhythm game would be good as well. Find 2 more high reflex games, whilst performing your high reflex fitness training, and get into politics and real estate investments all the while.

>>14708887

<thinking that anon is a furfag based solely on a random GIF

<(1)

Quit being retarded, spaz

Reaction times go to shit at late 30s (although the decline starts on 25 or so), as oldfags noticed, but it's still better than the reaction time of young women, men's reaction only gets worse than those once you're like 60 or 70. Which is the reason women can't play shooters or drive.

>>14709526

>omega 3s

Just to add.

Omega fats accelerate aging, omega 3s can be anti-inflammatory but will lower your immune system (which is why some people recommend it for autoimmune disease) and still accelerates aging, at least spoiled omega fats definitely do (and they spoil if you cook it, which is most omega fats on store shelves, cooked fish, partially why the Japanese eat fish raw they've frozen long enough to kill the parasites in even though it's fucking retarded). If you start taking some form of omega 3 fat that's been overcooked and stop you'll definitely notice accelerated aging, though people will say it keeps them looking young if they continuously take it (I can't say if uncooked omega 3s are any better since the stomach cooks food anyways). Omega 6's make you sterile and gay. Avocados are high in omega 6. Saturated fat is healthier than omegas since your brain can use it like sugar for fuel, fish oil capsules are poisonous since they're made with alcohol so you're dosing your brain with alcohol mixed with overcooked cancerous fat, shit will lower your I.Q instead of magically increasing it. Avoid vegetable oil, embrace saturated fat with the least amount of omega fats as possible if you really want fat. Too little carbs will make your muscles and your brain atropy, aim for 100grams a day (350-400 calories of carbs) minimum unless you're doing keto shit, though nobody can actually say if the cortisol magically disappears when doing keto or not, the increased cortisol causes your muscles and brain to atrophy and shrink. Try to avoid Ginko from China. Rest of the advice is ok.

>>14710586

Is it alright to honk your horn at people going 5-10 miles below the speed limit even if they're old ladies who are driving? I'm already at the end of my rope when it comes to slow drivers.

>40 is old for a gamer

Lmao. Average age of gamers is 35 now

https://www.gamesparks.com/blog/the-average-gamer-how-the-demographics-have-shifted/

So back in your cage, child. You don't know SHIT about gaming unless you were lining up to play pong at the arcades back in the 70s.

>>14710415

You could use a dell dimension from the early 2000's. SNES emulation needs barely anything, I think he was just giving an example.

People give/throw away computers daily that would be capable of emulation of old consoles.

>>14709677

It never felt grindy, it just increased the chances of dying by a player, and had an almost entirely played based economy. For those same reasons, it meant the gameplay was a lot more exciting, and you had to rely on your friends and/or become good.

>>14710286

maybe you're right

>implying I won't live to see the singularity and won't have to ever grow old

>>14710610

>underestimating the amount of soy-addled male gamer girls bragging about getting every last 'cheevo™ in the latest walking sim

Also back2leddit:^)

>>14707836

>claims to be 40 while whining to kiddies on a chan board

I think you being a casual at video games due to your "advanced age" is the least of your problems, you fucking loser.

>>14710610

I always estimated the average age of people on 8/v/ to be in their late 20s to early 30s (which are people old enough to be oldfags on 4chan at the time of the exodus) so a 40 years old anon is old for the board. But that is just a guess.

>>14710691

Fish oil you refrigerate like Nordic Naturals is preferable if you're more daring than me, fish capsules are pure fucking poison.

>>14709526

With olive oil, you'll want to spend money on quality as rancid shit will deteriorate your body instead of rebuild it.

You'll want the organic, cold pressed, virgin olive oil if you can afford it. Organic goes without saying, chemshit is chemical warfare on the goyim. Cold pressed is ideal since if it isn't the heat will make it go rancid. Virgin since you want the first press as oil made with subsequent presses will become more and more rancid as they oxidize from air exposure.

We can't just be autistic about games, we should also be autistic about our food quality and health!

>>14710760

Coconut oil is also ideal for cooking your food with as it can handle the medium to high temperatures without going rancid.

>>14710888

what kind?

>>14710888

Why can't I respect my elders and still be yiffy?

>>14710590

>>14710760

Of course.

>>14710766

Yes, Coconut oil is also very good to intake. use it when cooking your grilled chicken. It is much healthier.

>>14710590

Omega 3s on supplements should be of high quality. At the worst, you don't absorb much of it, but it won't rot your brain or accelerate aging. That's a meme. Avocados are healthy too, don't be stupid. If you're going to make statements, back them up with actual sources and not memespouting.

Besides that, yes it is important to consume your 300-400 carbs every day. Keto works for losing fat weight, but even in keto I'd recommend eating low glycemic value Carbs, like quinoa or sweet potato.

You do well in being wary of the shitty processed products though.

>>14710888

step aside grandpa, it's time to make way for the new.

The past is wack!

>>14710162

>24 here. People say I look younger

>yay thanks!

I bet you bleach your asshole, don't you?

>>14709526

>neurogenesis

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2018/03/14/rip-neurogenesis/#.WsRiM5dlDOh

>a new study, published in Nature, has just poured cold water on the whole idea. Researchers Shawn F. Sorrells and colleagues report that neurogenesis ends in humans some time in childhood.

This is all great advice though, listen to neurologist-anon.

idk anons, I'm 32 and I have better reflexes than ever. I also eat properly, get 8+ hours of sleep every night, stay in shape, rarely drink alcohol, don't do drugs, etc. You brain and reflexes need to be trained. As you get older, you need to train them more, and if you have an extra 30 pounds of fat, don't sleep like you should, drink a lot, smoke weed, etc, you're going to really, really feel it.

When you get older, you have to take better care of yourself. It's all downhill after 30, it's' up to you if you think drinking booze, smoking weed, eating like shit, etc is worth spending the rest of your life getting worse at doing things you've loved to do all your life.

>>14711042

>>14710766

Coconut oil is no healthier than butter, anons.

http://archive.is/m3umG

Article itself is a bit sensationalist but there is a link to the original study if you prefer to read that shit.

>>14711135

>You're welcome to bleach my asshole if you wish, however.

To me, with age, I wanted to focus on my career. I'm 30 now and have worked many jobs. None, of which I liked. I finally decided that vidya was getting in the way. Not to say playing games is bad its how I prioritize the time spent gaming. So, most of my time spent on gaming is on the weekend or 1 hour after work, if that. Honestly too much gaming at this age, is fucking bad. Unless you have a constant stream of income. Gaming 24.7 just won't work. you'll die in you're own filth. Weird thing is I have had the best sleep in years since started working two jobs/ 1 class a week. Though it will be different with each person.

tl:dr. You got mirrions of dorrar? you can neet your whole life with out batting and eye. You dont have dorrar? Better get focused and disciprined. Other wise take the lead pill.

>>14711165

Commercial diary products are all absolute dog shit because of the filtration process, pasteurization and the shit food and shit living conditions the cows are reared in.

The pasteurization denatures the protein and changes the shape of it, thus changing the initially beneficial function of the milk proteins into unhelpful, and to a common extent, damaging gunk.

Then the filtering of these milk proteins threw the fine mesh breaks these gunk proteins into tiny chunks so you have a "smoother" drinking experience but on the downside is that these big milk proteins are broken down into such a small size that it's easy for the milk protein to be absorbed from the s.intestine and into the blood stream undigested. This happens because of people's shit eating habits themselves mechanically, and chemically due to the shit eating habits weakening the body's ability to digest the protein.

Then the gut lining becomes more pours due to the undigested food reaching the intestines where a population of microflora will eat the undigested food and grow to unwanted proportions and in their growth they will deteriorate the integrity of the gut lining due to their acidic excretions.

This leaky gut phenomenon is horrible since your immune system freaks out when the food protein slips through and is found in the blood and the immune cells thinks the body is under attack so inflammation kicks in to speed up the immune cells movement to swarm the area of "infection." Unfortunately, the proteins will dilute themselves evenly through the body, often getting stuck in small capillaries (which if small enough can permanently dam it and kill it and the surrounding tissue) and the immune cells will carpet bomb anywhere it finds the protein, leading to tissue damage and irritation.

THEN the immune system registers these milk proteins as dangerous proteins and since some of the body will use the milk proteins as building material, any trace of the "enemy milk protein" will be enough evidence for the patrolling immune cells to attack that cell, thus auto-immune symptoms manifest.

However, Raw Organic Dairy Milk is a safe super food that everyone should devour! That is why raw milk is banned in first world countries and this poison is peddled out as "healthy."

tl;dr

Avoid Refined Dairy

>>14711225

I'm very, very wealthy and even then I don't go full NEET. That shit kills you even if you have the money to sustain it.

I play vidya and shitpost here on weekends mostly, especially if it has bad weather like this one.

chi kung helps

>>14711250

fair enough. I know I was reaching a point in my neet life that I was constantly drinking everyday( 1 liter of whiskey/day) sometime two. It really is unhealthy. Luckily for you that you have wealth. I am slowly building up towards it as my goal. Though I wont probably ever be very, very wealthy. I will at least reach a place where im comfortable with my situation.

>>14711302

Once i started concentrating on a career path and stopped playing vidya 24/7 my father started respecting me. Give it a try fag. Thne again your father may o may not be a fag which in case he is a fag.

>>14707836

I'm 36 and still kick ass, hope the next 4 years don't fuck me.

>>14711302

Sorry to hear that anon it's not actually that good

>>14711304

I have the same problem.

>play a casual game

>bored because i don't feel like i'm doing anything

>play a hard game

>bored because i keep getting my shit pushed in and can't wrap my head around the advanced mechanics

>>14711355

> (the colder it is: the better your body will absorb it)

hwat. also I drink 3-4+ liters a day. and water is pretty much the only thing I drink, very rarely I'll make myself a smoothie or get a milkshake, like twice a month sort of deal

>>14711355

Your body has to warm the water close to it's own body temperature before it can be absorbed, so no, you want it at room temperature.

Just use tap water and buy a berkey filter with the fluoride attachment.

Xenoestrogens and phytoestrogens will both fuck you up. Berkey cannot remove the estrogenic compounds but it can get practically everything else out. To remove estrogen you would require a reverse osmosis filter, which is expensive.

>>14711355

1 gallon minimum. I have a camel bak bottle 32oz. Drink about 5 of them a day during work. Gotta stay hydrated mayn

>>14711387

What, does distilling not remove them?

>>14709760

>Is it intuitive, no it isn't.

I set my 7 year old nephew on that tutorial and he got it in 2 goes.

>>14711400

Not at all, the estrogen compounds are too fine. I even called up Berkey to verify it and they agreed, their shit can't get out the faggotry.

They'll filter out ebola but not the gay.

Enjoy your man boobs

>>14711430

running and push ups, eat more smaller meals instead of fewer large meals, dont eat fast food

>>14711387

My town is actually one of the few that doesn't put fluoride in its water. It does, however, put lots of chlorine in it.

>>14711437

Not him, but I've also got extra weight.

Due to health conditions, I can't really run (only walk with a cane) and live quite a sedentary lifestyle. Any advice?

I've tried keto, which seemed to work for a time, but I feel like it's not really enough or maybe not the best course of action.

>>14711430

stop eating garbage

20 minutes of cardio before breakfast

keto diet

>>14711448

stop pussying out

>>14711448

>>14711437

Would one of those foot pedal thingies work if I put it under my desk? Like one of those fake bike pedals?

>>14711437

whoops I meant to say sit-ups, but push ups are good too

>>14711448

walking is fine, you just have to do it for a longer duration than running. can you do sit-ups? sadly there's no workaround other than actually just being active and getting your heart rate up.

>>14711387

So is there no merit to drinking cold water? I was lead to believe that it helps cool your body down.

>>14711477

Well obviously drinking cold water is going to make you cold, thats just basic physics.

>>14711470

I can't really walk for very prolonged periods of time without tiring myself out.

I mean it would probably get a little better with time, but there are still limits to my ability and I won't probably cover even half the distance walking as most would running.

So I don't really know what to do here.

>>14711448

Avoid foods that slow down your metabolism. Starch, grains, bread, nuts. Lifting is healthier than cardio generally, unless you're Zyzz.

>>14711477

>>14711484

Nigga, your body cools itself down with sweating.

Cold water is just taxing and slows down digestion because now all the cells lock up due to the change of temperature and they need a specific temperature to function, and outside of that the colder temperature slows them down.

THEN the adjacent organs and tissues in the stomach also slowed down in efficiency due to proximity to the cold area since temperature dilutes itself in the body. So blood coming in and out of the lungs is slower, liver and kidneys filter and prepare proteins slower, ect.

Your body functions at a very specific temperature and any deviation from that is immediately corrected since EVERYTHING will be slowed down. The body can handle higher temperatures like during a fever since now the body just operates faster, but too high and the body tissues begin to break down.

You got fucking meme'd friend.

>>14711495

That's basically what I've been doing on keto.

It kinda helped, but not nearly to even half an extent it should've. Maybe my metabolism is so shit, I dunno.

>>14711468

cardio after an 8 hour fast immediately starts breaking down the body's fat reserves. yes, lifting is important, but cardio before breakfast is a quick cheat weightloss trick

>>14711355

I do exactly the same but I pour their water out and refill with tap.

>>14711387

>Your body has to warm the water close to it's own body temperature before it can be absorbed, so no, you want it at room temperature.

>Drinking room temperature water

If it's cold then you use (minimal) calories warming it to body temp so it might as well be icy.

>>14711417

>Water bottles giving you man tits

This is bullshit, the only thing giving anyone tits is their lack of self control.

>>14711430

Try to keep in mind there's no such thing as 'a diet' trying to insta-revolutionise the way you eat is a surefire way to wash out and go back to old habits, do the easy shit: Drop white bread, switch to seeded/brown, drop all sugared soda and switch to hard liquor for boozing. Eat fruit, get into strawberries and bananas instead of bars of choc. Oatz of course are a good ballast, also there's some genuinely nice protein shakes out there, I use em cos I can't eat like a hogmiester, you could use them to replace meals.

Don't buy fast food, limit yourself to one instance a week and you'll soon realise why as you feel the sweat begin to form on your forehead and a feeling of slow death creeping up on you.

>>14711500

Nigger if you're overheating yourself cold water is obviously what you're going to use, all that bullshit is irrelevant if you can still walk.

>>14711510

Aren't bananas choke-full of calories?

>>14711430

I swim erry day and lift when I can, done so for 4 years and it's turned me from dough into a low level superhero at my leisure center.

>>14711513

The idea is to use said calories not sit on your ass.

>>14711500

That's autism. Drinking cold water has a negligible effect, and it also tastes better so you're more likely to drink more.

>>14711503

>more meme advice

It's all about your macros.

>>14711489

Exercise bike, chair yoga, walk what you can do comfortably and consistently. Get up every 15-30 mins for a bit of a walk and stretch to get blood pumping.

It's more important to become a health nut with your diet than a lot of cardio. Aim for local, organic food and make your meals as unprocessed as possible. Hit the local farmers market and live off of meat, eggs, leafy greens and fruit.

Eat fruit first before the other food as the sugar is absorbed directly in the stomach as opposed to the small intestine. If the fruit juice is waiting for it's turn to digest on top of your other foods it will begin to ferment and go rancid quickly from simple exposure. This becomes more toxic to your body and is food for the living gut flora in your stomach which are friendly in their small size, but fuck shit up once they begin to grow from the abundant "free fermenting sugar." Their excrement is toxic and acid to your body and will erode gut lining.

Fruit first! Not for desert!

Avoid snacking as much as you can. It fucks up your body's ability to replenish the stores of acid for digestion and without that you will have food pass through that is undigested leading to leaky gut and gut flora that has too high a population and they will toxify and erode where they are.

You can eat the fat too through long-term fasting. Just be sure to drinking salt and minerals with your water and research what you're doing extensively.

>>14711510

>eat fruits and protein shakes

I always thought those were bad because of the amount of sugar can be high. I know natural sugar is different from the kind in candy, but it's still sugar in the end, isn't it?

>>14711520

You can feel cold drinks chill your gut.

The cells speed is in direct proportion to it's surrounding temperature.

>>14711510

Your body will have to warm the water up then it can be absorbed or else it is too upsetting to the integral balance of the body.

If you're overheating, dunk the cold water on your skin since the hot blood is pushed to your skin to cool down with sweat.

Don't do this if you have a fever though, or the body will freak out and double down on heating you up and now you're really fucked. That's why you have tepid baths, baths that are slightly colder than the patient's body temperature and you keep gradually reducing it.

>>14711502

If you cut out carbs entirely it could help, I could never gain any weight just eating meat, olive oil and butter. Mind it's not healthy for your muscles or your brain but it's there if you need to lose weight fast. Coconut oil also increases your metabolism. Vitamin E could help (as long as it's not mixed with bad vegetable oils), anything pro-thyroid. Having a bad thyroid will kill your metabolism.

>>14711513

>>14711517

>>14711543

See this is why some /fit/ advice can seem contradictory. I want/need high cal high protein shit cos I'm 170lb and knock the shit out of myself every day so what I eat and why will be different from someone in a morbid belly situation.

If you dropped the evil shit you consume you would want to use what I do, that needs to happen first.

>>14711553

>upsetting to the integral balance of the body.

Virtually everything does this, the system self regulates.

>>14711560

With that in mind a decent thyroid medicine would probably help, cunts like Hillary Clinton go for the real stuff since it isn't completely worthless like synthetic shit.

>>14711590

You can help your thyroid with dulse flakes as that's full with iodine that your thyroid needs.

>>14711604

You need to balance out the iodine with selenium if you go that route, and watch out for hyperthyroid symptoms, otherwise you'll get a lump in your neck that may or may not go away. Just don't OD horribly on the iodine, gauge how you feel.

>>14711625

Interesting you note that, I take 2 brazil nuts a day for selenium anyway which are soaked to remove the phytic acid and I recommend other anons here to soak and eat pumpkin seeds and 2 brazil nuts a day.

I do have a recent, mystery condition where I'm feeling full after meals and I only get hungrier. I would suspect the dulse after your comment but I've only been having it once a week or less lately of one teaspoon.

>>14711650

*I feel full after meals for only a short time, then I get even more hungry.

>>14711658

They go hand in hand in thyroid health, I imagine the brazil nuts are probably healthier than taking a supplement. The selenium probably helps the iodine from tanking your thyroid.

I get the impression all 40 something anons simply don't try as much because their time is more valuable, we need to make an actual study. maybe an oldfags vs newfags gamenight.

>>14711766

I'm not telling him to run a marathon, obviously you'd take some small incremental steps in a routine.

>>14711776

I'd rather tell someone to fast and count calories instead of doing cardio to be honest, it's not really all that healthy, you just get skinny fat from the cortisol and become a skeleton with a big stomach. Weight lifting doesn't turn into cortisol.

>>14711795

i wont argue that, counting calories is most likely a better solution than just working out like I suggested, especially since I've never experienced being obese/overweight before. I think I should have advised just being more active and walk more in general rather than run, since that's all I do.I still firmly believe that doing body-weight training helps out a lot though as it did in my case, just doing pull-ups, push-ups and sit-ups had a major affect on my health, weight and stomach

>>14711058

I'm saving turn based stuff for when I'm too old for real time. It kind of sucks because there are tons of TB stuff that I really want to play like Advance Wars, Final Fantasy Tactics, Jagged Alliance, X-Com, Master of Orion 2, etc.

Also it's so nice seeing all the work out and diet advice in this thread, I would fucking love to see fitness become an inseperable part of nerd culture. Eating junk food, soda and microwave garbage will do nothing but slow you down mentally and physically which is bad for any pursuit deemed nerdy like gaming, programming, engineering, astro physics, etc. Intelligent people should understand the value of having your mind and body running at peak efficiency instead of giving in to lazyness and living in a fog.

>>14711830

Walks are ok, just don't jog or run or anything.

>drink alcohol

>have a good relationship with your children

Choose one

>>14711849

I hear that the impact of walking or even light jogging can wreck your kneecaps over time. Apparently those personal trampolines work your whole body and cardio, and are non-destructive, so much so, that NASA trains their astronauts with them

>>14711859

I started getting along better with my dad when I started drinking with him

>>14711874

Either someone gets smarter or someone gets dumber.

>>14711136

I am better at 30 than i was at 20. No drugs and alco tho. It makes no sense you'd be slower, can easily beat kids half my age and up at any quickshoot fps even if i havent played it before.

>>14712148

Aren't American breads sweetened as well? Isn't bread fibrous as well, or is that starch?

>>14712177

Starchy, and yeah - even our white bread has tons of added sugar in it. You don't get any appreciable fiber unless you stick with something whole grain, and even then, it's usually not something that's really going to make a ton of difference in your diet. If you need fiber, then stick to vegetables and fruits. Bread is just carbs.

>>14712148

>Oxygen is healthy for you too, but a high/pure oxygen environment will fucking kill you. It's the dose that makes the poison.

This is completely wrong. High/pure oxygen enviroments will not kill you and in fact will improve your physical performance greatly. Don't fall for the pharmicitical (((jew))) saying you need more shit pills.

>>14712216

You should avoid bread in general, or limit to small amounts. I only eat bread if I go out to a restaurant and I grab one loaf as appetizer, but there's a lot of amerifats that love bread in burgers, sandwiches, etc and it's just empty carbs.

Vegetables, protein, fruit, healthy fat. That's it. If you feel like treating yourself to a sugary dessert, it is either home-made or no thanks. no one should buy ANYTHING processed.

Also Remember that if you're gonna drink Tea, don't be a pretentious hipster drinking herbal to relax. If you're aiming for health, go for green tea. Make sure to read the ingredients because some brands like to add shit to it. That's a no no. The only ingredients should be Tea and if they add lemon, it should say lemon. nothing else. Always decaf if possible

>>14707836

Nah, I'm getting close to 33 and noticing reflexes don't jive as hard anymore. Maybe I'm just not autistic enough as my younger days, but it's something that comes and goes. Some days I can dominate and some days I can't get it going. Puyo Puyo Tettris is a wall for me since I hit a high score endurance of 7 CPU's beat via tetris but lately I can't beat one or two cpu's

post 40fag checking in..

Imho, I just don't have the drive to GG at a game like cuphead

it's just not interesting enough. If I was 15 and it was the first time

I ever saw something like that I would just grind skill. Most new games don't offer any kind of incentive to give a shit tbh.

>>14712436

I found that the majority of games, you need to set further goals to create a challenge. Like do a complete run without dying etc or set it to the highest difficulty. Being old sucks though, I have trouble with extremely scary games, because it is likely I will actually shit my pants and/OR have a heart attack. This is your future, kids, and why the Germans mostly play farming and driving simulators.

>>14707836

Faggot but also

>git gud

Im playing terraria and lost my shit more then a few times. Died probably around 50 times at the very least in normal softcore. Some games are just difficult, some people are just bad at video

>>14707836

>I am also drinking right now, but I don't think that's the problem.

Drinking and lack of exercise in your life is the problem, mental illness or being cursed to turning senile will also contribute. Giving up games entirely because of your worsening reflexes isn't a good idea though because chances are good the games are what is keeping your mind sharp.

>>14708747

Jesus Christ, way to remind me that I hate boomers. Fortunately my dad is too young to be one, since he was born late.

>>14710278

Hell, I felt ancient already at 25.

>>14708747

I'm sorry that I wasn't retarded enough to die like a bitch for israel, gramps.

>>14707882

>>14707915

cupheads a cool game but it suffers a major flaw

there is no variable jump. (or atleast not on the copy i played months ago) you jump just as high when tapping the jump button than when holding it. you can't really dodge some projectiles easily without having that ability to control how long and how high you jump for.

>>14712885

keep in mind, the original megaman and mario both had this feature

>>14708214

>>14708214

>memorized performance.

not necessarily for improvisational musicians. Trey Anastasio and I'm sure others, jazz musicians and such react and go along with their bands but that in and of itself is an acquired skill that is in turn based off of a lot of dedication.

>>14713083

yeah, well im no where near as god as him, having played against interntaional players like that before, i can safely say they're on another level. being the best at your local fgc or even state is nothing compared to these international guys, you barely get to touch their characters.

>>14713466

I REMEMBER FAPPING TO THAT GIF LIKE 1000 TIMES

34.

Ultima Online was the closest thing to my ultimate thing.

Second Life is second because it doesn't really have any gameplay mechanics.

>>14707836

tbh I probably had more trouble with that boss than with any other boss in that game I wouldn't feel bad. drinking and vidya gives me motion sickness

>>14713485

i had the game crash and my save corrupt at that boss once

my biggest issue with cave story is that i never remember all the steps to get booster 2.0

>>14713476

Fine American Dining ™

>>14713476

That's just fucking disgusting.

>>14708188

Buckethead was born in '69 iirc. Brent hinds, pat o brian, dave mustaine are probably all in their 50's too

>>14712338

>but there's a lot of amerifats that love bread in burgers, sandwiches, etc and it's just empty carbs.

It's also a matter of what is available. I stopped eating almost all bread and bread products this year and it made me realize just how much of the typical diet is this shit. Like 90% of all food is sandwiches, wraps, pasta, pizza, pastries, or some form of bullshit loaded with refined carbs. That and massive sugar amounts make food shopping a complete minefield. After cutting a lot of the shit from my diet I feel so much better and have more energy. If any of you oldfags feel like shit, seriously evaluate your diet and find ways to limit the bullshit.

>>14707900

>I quit Cuphead right after I finished the first island.

same here. although, I just got immensely bored with it after fighting the first few bosses on island 2.

>>14711841

well the good thing about that turnbased stuff like advance wars is you can emulate it on your phone and pick it up and drop it as necessary.

been thinking about getting a w10 tablet if I can play GoG copies of old games with the touch screen instead of the mouse but I doubt such a pursuit would be entirely worth it.

>>14707857

Spoiler, you will live to see agenda 21 come to pass, the government taking under control all spheres of life, intense miscegenation to create a race of obedient el goblino that love big government, eating meat will be once a month, driving your car will be illegal, masculinity will be illegal, soy boys games will be enforced, families will break down with ever more degenerate "new" forms of families that doesn't last for the life of a single child, women will become ever more neurotic, immigrants will become ever more violent, the successful ever more deceitful thinking no one can see through them, and this will bring famine and death. And only few will learn anything from it as long as (((they))) exist.

Am I the only one who wants to make games about middle age washed up adults giving up on life because their child dreams were crushed by reality?

I got a fucking middle age life crisis and I'm just 29.

that shit sucks.

>>14710498

t. lizardfucker

>>14708879

You weren't really playing the game for the game anymore, perhaps the realization of getting old made you tilt too.

Everyone has loss streaks or just randomly suck at a game for a week for no apparent reason, human brain has lots of variables.

>>14710246

I remember playing the shit out of that game on the C64. Played it later as a flash game in the late 90's for the nostalgia.

>>14713083

Haitani is a fucking monster, but I'd say he and most of the older legendary players are way past their prime, with the exception of Tokido. And even then, Tokido wasn't exactly famous for his reflexes more than his yomi, which is one of the fightan game skills that actually increases with age/experience.

Just see that beasts like Haitani and Daigo (and Momochi, Sako, etc), that are past their 30s, are having a really hard time placing high in tournaments, losing to young kids in their teens like Punk, Knuckledu and MenaRD.

>>14710590

>Omega fats accelerate aging

That must be why nations that eat a lot of fish and whale, like the Japanese and Icelanders live so long…

I'm not worried, i was always shit at vidya. Nowadays i can't even put the energy into a game.

I think people seriously overestimate the importance of reaction time in action games in general. Is it important for competitive games? Sure. But in singleplayer games knowing what to expect makes a bigger difference than anything.

>>14713805

Yeah, no. It's kinda obvious when things change after 20 years of doing them. It'll happen to you, too.

>>14707883

Dont worry anon. All games will be interactive movies and walking simulators by then.

>>14711859

Are you one of those people who despises all things masculine?

>>14713476

>American flavored

Gross

>imitation pasteurized process cheese food

Was that shit made in China?

>>14707907

senility at any age is an intolerably unfair thing

>>14715992

Not if you just pointed your newsreader to your ISP's local NNTP server. The alt.binaries newsgroups had more porn than you could realistically download overnight over a 28.8K modem. A whole lot more than you'd find on some obscure web sites that were far away with lots of hops (and packet loss).

And if you didn't want to download in batch, you could just use Netscape, since it had a news client built-in, and would show the pretty graphics.

>>14715992

>You had to suffer over geocities porn sites, oldfag

>Geocities porn sites

>Suffering

Nigger, you obviously never had to download your porn from a local BBS (so it wasn't even good shit), having nothing but a text description to go on, and spending 8 hours getting a 30 second highly pixelated clip without audio (at least for me, at the time I only had PC Speaker/squaker) over 2400 baud modem. Only to have your fucking aunt call 10 mins before the download finished because she shouldn't remember the name of the actor who played the sheriff on GunSmoke. Meanwhile you're sitting there cock-in-hand waiting for the payoff, and that call breaks the connection - forcing you to send the next hour and a half constantly redialing to get an open node so you can start the whole process over again.

Yeah, yeah, *70 or add +PCW=2 or whatever to the init string. Shit never worked reliably for me. It would ignore the call waiting properly, but the connection always fucked up anyhow.

>>14708747

You're either a boomer or Jewish. Either way you're going in the oven.

>>14707836

I know that feel I used to have lightning quick twitch reflexes helped me a lot when I started boxing irl which made competitive shooters fun to play. Now though it feels like I'm playing with 400ms+ latency and everything is more difficult so I now rely more on strategy than reaction time. Don't have any issues in action/hacknslash/curahzy yet thankfully

>>14711766

How to quit soda:

Seltzer for the fizz, coffee for the caffiene. Never add sugar or creamer. Get used to the taste, it's not that bad.

>>14709460

It feels kinda concerning that kids have to be taught that buttons even exist and not every screen is a touch screen.

On a related note, I know I'm heard a story of someone who had one of those Amazon microconsole things and brought up Angry Birds on to their TV screen. After doing that their young cousin immediately ran to the screen to play the game by "touching" the TV screen (which doesn't have touch input obviously) instead of using the controller.