Honestly, what difference is there between a man who spent the last 20 years playing R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 and a man who devoted that time to a career. They'll both die in the end and assuming the guy playing R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 enjoyed himself for those 20 years, who are you to say it's a waste? Who are you to say it was wrong?
"B-But you should plan for the future!" Why? You could get terminal brain cancer next week. You could get hit by a bus. You could die in a fire. Why plan your life to be 50 years of work and toil and your reward is 10-20 years of "retirement" when you're old, broken and too tired to do anything? I don't get how anyone could defend that as if they're the big man, they're hot shit because they threw their best years away to be a slave so they could fit in in society. By all means do it, but at least be honest that it's a shitty awful life.
Natural selection is supposed to be about genes more likely to propogate.
Blake Rogers
Why should I care about natural selection and my genes? No one of that effects my life
Jayden Nguyen
Because heaven is real
Alexander Diaz
Do whatever you want. Lifes not a race to see who can live the longest, nor is it what anybody else says it is. Do what you wanna do. Also how the fuck do you play the same game for 20 years
Evan Thompson
Prove it
Wyatt Bennett
Not all true statements can be proven. You use faith every day. Why not use it for the greatest possible meaning?
Gavin Cook
>Also how the fuck do you play the same game for 20 years It's unlikely but there must be at least one person who's done it. I'm sure there's a child who was locked in a basement somewhere in 1998 and hasn't left it in the past 20 years. People go missing and are never found, who knows what ends up happening to them?
Kevin Bell
>assuming The thing is that there's no person in the earth who wants to play video games all his life or for 20 years. Yes, it might make someone happy playing video games, but every single one of those people are fucking incels, who would swap that life in a second for something like a wife and a family, because every human's main instinct is to have offspring and that is the biggest source of fulfilment a human being can achieve, which is why at the end of the day the man who devoted his life to not being a retard, studying and having a career, is in a way better position to achieve all this.
Joseph Barnes
I take that as "I don't have any proof"
Luke Gray
You just finished The Stranger, didn't you?
James Murphy
We've all been playing the same game for years and years. It's called life
>You use faith every day. For things I can see and touch and feel and that for practical purposes it's unnecessary to pursue absolute proof of their existence. >Why not use it for the greatest possible meaning? Because that's literally just making shit up.
The wind blows and I feel it on my face and see it move the trees, I don't need to prove it exists I'm convinced enough it does on the faith of science saying it's hot and cold air currents mixing. "There's an omnipotent being responsible for all life" is too far of a reach to make. There's no input to associate with it. I could equally say "There's an anime girl controlling everything in a VR simulation" and you'd have nothing to disprove me.
Josiah Rogers
>assuming the guy playing R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 enjoyed himself that's a huge fucking assumption considering video games are so unbelievably boring that most game design is concerned with how to trick your brain into not quitting five minutes in, and an entire industry has sprung around other people playing games for you and pretending to enjoy them. you're comparing putting a bunch of effort into building something that will eventually crumble into dust with putting that effort into a gaping black void where it is disintegrated immediately in front of your eyes, every minute of every day. i'd legitimately rather spend my life doing real chores for other people because it would be more stimulating than doing imaginary chores for a chore-generating software toy.
Kevin Hall
>posting the same stuff in two threads
Someone sure is desperate
Lincoln Hall
Ok, Brian griffen
Daniel Kelly
Why would I not? What kind of lazy response is that?
Joseph Evans
the cellular automaton or the board game?
Brandon Bell
You honestly think it's possible in the 21st century to live a fulfilling family life?
>Daughter brainwashed by media and society into being a whore >Son brainwashed by media and society into being metaphorically castrated >Wife brainwashed by media and society into believing she can leave whenever things get hard and she can't be bothered anymore >Worked to death your whole life, barely make ends meet even on good money, struggle your whole life to provide a decent life for your family and your reward is watching their corruption and destruction
Hudson Collins
>reddit
Austin Davis
>i'm such a fucking coward that i'd rather do nothing than do something and risk disappointment i guess you took inspiration from all the "what's the point of writing a novel if the sjw publishers might reject it" threads and applied it to every part of your life
Daniel Sanchez
>how to trick your brain into not quitting five minutes in But this describes everything in life.
Hunter Howard
as for yet
Evan Sanders
>Disappointment That doesn't even begin to describe how you'd feel moron. And besides, you're romanticising family life. It's awful.
it's not even family life specifically, if you can't even have a relationship because you're too scared of her leaving you then how are you going to handle any undertaking that carries any sort of risk? like i said, you're a coward that insists he must stay hidden in a dark hole at all times because leaving the hole might cause you to "feel bad". you're scared of your hypothetical son being "metaphorically castrated" but you've already castrated yourself willingly by rejecting the basic foundation of masculinity which is going out there, accepting risk and fighting even when the odds are against you. "i can't have a son because he might grow up to be weak". of course he will with a dickless father like that for guidance.
Samuel Butler
if you went to college you wouldn't have picked the gay board game
This, everything is actually boring and disgusting and everybody is just pretending to enjoy things but enjoyment is impossible outside of imagination. They do it just because they want to feel that small release of dopamine from imagining that other people are envious of them.
Would you be "brave" if you invested time and money in a literal scam?
Nathan Gonzalez
>assuming the guy playing R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 enjoyed himself for those 20 years I doubt he would be enjoying himself. There's a reason why most NEETs are depressed incel-manchildren. Your brain is wired to give you pleasure when you achieve something which furthers the existence of your species. There's another way to happiness though, which can be found in spirituality. Monks, for example, "haven't achieved anything", but they're still happy.
Charles Bennett
the fact that you think all of life is a conspiracy aimed against you and the only way to thwart it is to hide in a corner until your flesh rots away is precisely the problem. fatherhood is not a "literal scam". your son wouldn't be an agent of a plot to steal your penis, you already gave up your penis.
Asher Jenkins
i'd rather die a confident, accomplished person with a modicum of self-worth rather than some dopamine-addled, chronically depressed, SSRI-gobbling NEET who relies on the government to live.
you can have a 9-5 job and have time to enjoy video games, by the way.
Jason Hall
I'm not that user, and what i meant is that modern day marriage is a scam for men. If you want to get divorce raped then go for it, i just don't really see the benefit of doing so.
Blake Gonzalez
>you can have a 9-5 job and have time to enjoy video games, by the way Spoken like someone with no job >a confident, accomplished person No such thing, only narcissists are confident >with a modicum of self-worth rather than some dopamine-addled, chronically depressed, SSRI-gobbling You mean like every wagie who needs pills to make it through the day?
Angel Morris
The most confident and free people in this world are criminals.
Aiden Evans
believe it or not, i work 8 hours a day and make 75k a year as a business professional. i get home at 4:30 and have a solid 5 hours to play games or read if i wish. I'm not on medication or therapy.
Carter Rogers
Confidence is a meme. It's what you get indoctrinated in American education. I always see so many American tourists here who act all confident even though they don't have a clue. They're all on mount stupid.
William Adams
Bruh, you cant be reasoned with
Parker Moore
>believe it or not, i work 8 hours a day and make 75k a year as a business professional I don't believe it.
"business professional" is not a job title by the way. >a solid 5 hours To eat, bathe, clean and THEN do whatever you like at the end of the day when you're fucked from working all day and getting up at 7am
Zachary Fisher
guys, there's a distinct difference between outward and projected confidence (arrogance) and knowing your capabilities, skills and strengths.
Asher Wright
then sign a prenup or live unmarried. and that guy was talking about refusing to do anything that might get his feelings hurt, which has nothing to do with whether you actually marry or not.
Liam Long
how about you try first?
Parker Cox
my specific job is niche and i'm not going to discuss it here. but dude, c'mon. eating, bathing, cleaning, that's just shit you have to do. you're going to have to get over it if you want to live.
Colton Hill
This is your brain on liberal democracy. Find Allah.
