Why don't games make me happy anymore?

Take better care of yourself and take a break from gaming. Also dont be a coomer.

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When you're chosen form of escapism becomes the norm, you no longer get those jolts of dopamine from playing. Take a break.

holy fuck, based.

That seems like a waste of the money I don't have.

>le tireddddddd brooooo who relates
Slit your wrists

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They never made you happy, they simply distracted you from shitty reality.

Is that the best way? I've been thinking about going out to the woods and doing that. I'd like not to leave a corpse though.

KEK

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I think it is partially because as we get older we are experiencing less and less new things making current games seem less unique. Also when you combine the curiosity and wonder of child to the equation it becomes more apparent.

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You’re biological clock is catching up to you. You don’t feel accomplished for beating games anymore. Get a job, go to school, be a workaholic and build up your investments.

the best way is a shotgun blast to the head. If done right it will result in instantaneous loss of consciousness and certain death. Only downside is the mess.

yea so I've read, but how does one get a shotgun when he lives in yurope

Pretty much this unironically.
When you're younger of course most things give you a sense of wonder because they're new and strange.
As you get older those things become just everyday mundanities and so life seems to lose a lot of its wonder.

Move to a country were therapy is cheaper. Just claim you are a "mental health refugee" and they will probably buy it.

You need to play good games.

Have sex

Black market. Try to find a tor site or something and buy it with bitcoins. What are they going to do, execute you?

>Get a therapist
>Get a doctor
>Get a therapist
>Get a therapist
>Get a therapist

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You stopped paying games for fun and started to try and use them as a surrogate for happiness.

Adopt a regular sleep schedule, that is more important than how much you actually sleep. Go to bed and get up at consistent times.

Find another hobby or something else to do. If all you are doing is playing video games, you are going to burn out on them.

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eat a bullet

Incorrect, they should Dr Jordan B Peterson to solve all their life’s ills

>I would rather stay miserable than support da joos

I find it almost impossible to enjoy anything but my doctor diagnosed me with some mood disorder a decade ago and suggested counseling.

You're probably getting old.
A. Get a job and you'll appreciate games more on your free time.
B. Take a solid break from vidya or play some old classics for nostalgia.

lift weights.

CLEAN YOUR ROOM

And you didn't go through it?

But mooooom! I cleaned my peen last week already!

Because you're gay

Because you are no longer able to enjoy video games intellectually or emotionally, and probably never were.
You are simply a dopamine junkie who can't mindlessly get his high by staring at lights on a display anymore.

Does anyone on this board even like video games at this point?

i like videogames

>you live in your dick

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I like videogames at a purely intellectual level. I can appreciate good level design and new ideas being done well. It's pretty much the only media in which I can analyze stuff at any deeper level.
But the exhilarating joy of gaming I had in my youth is gone.

Thank God. I thought I was the only one for a second.

>Being circumcised

yes. Yea Forums is still a neat place to find recommendations about games you might miss, and its great fun to jump in a circlejerk over a game you don't like.

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Not OP but is dopamine more active as a kid? I have brief moments of the same child like excitement for games if I'm high, but that pure joy as a child is a type of happiness I can't seem to recapture.

>Get a job
oof why does this terrify me
slaving away just to make a living depresses the fuck out of me. Then again, I know that's what people who support me are doing currently and they're not being whiney bitches about it. Should I just kms

yeah, people get increasingly numb as they age

Dopamine doesn't give you happiness. It's basically an impression system. If you do something and get a reward, dopamine is released in your brain. This is basically your brain remembering that doing that specific thing = reward/good. That said, you should definitely look into exercising. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise#Health_effects

What do you think the foreskin is used for after circumsion? Its like a big tent when you air it out

Developer's lack of creativity and regression is effort. Although a small part of it is you getting older and not being as easily impressed.

Because you make terrible life choices and don't look after yourself.
Go to /fit/ and check out /sig/ the self improvement general and better yourself.

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Also, I forgot to say, but playing games while self imposing conditions is a good way to get high. Action games on high difficulty with no dmg, for example. That shit gives you good rush when you start coming close to/achieve your goal.

If I did my mom would have just made fun of me more than she did as soon as we left the doctor's office. She even got my brother to laugh at me for it as well.

>fulfilling career

Dude, just get a good job lol

What a shitty mom. Go get that counseling anyway in secret.
If it works you will not care anymore if you are ridiculed about something so stupid. If it doesn't work you can always kill yourself.

reminds me of the girl dying of cancer and the guy who kept commented bane memes without the mom knowing

Where to get one of those?

Nobody said it was easy, but even if you have a job you hate you can still be happy if you have all the rest or maybe even just a fulfilling hobby.

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Because you thought you could get away with not following the golden rules of society. Getting enough sleep, regular exercising, eating healthy, following the guidance of your parents, being financially responsible, doing well in school, socializing with others, and avoiding drugs. You thought you were special, but you're not. "I don't need any of that," you told yourself. "I have video games!" Now you're paying the price.

I have everything from that pic but the romance and a good job. No girl wants to fuck a broke-ass Uni student who works part time at a dollar store

You also got a real hobby?
And I'm not talking about passively consuming shit like video games or basic hygiene like exercising, I mean a real hobby.

I do.
I don't use them as escapism though, that helps!

Sleep apnea?

Not really. Between school, gym, and muay thai there's not much room for hobbies. I read when I can but that's about it.

Two pipes, A nail, And a shell. Done.

That could be the problem then, dunno about everyone else but I go nuts if I can't do something creative, even if its just painting up some miniatures for tabletop wargaming

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How's painting supposed to get me laid user? Goddamn at this point I'd just fuck one of you incels

>A. Get a job and you'll appreciate games more on your free time.

>Use to work customer service for years
>Never felt like playing vidya; always too tired and dreaded the next day of work
>Finally snag a sweet Mon-Fri 9-5 office job
>Start to remember how great it is to have weekends
>Playing vidya all day on a Sunday is surprisingly comfy
>Job just started offering over time on Sat/Sun
>Not sure if I want to sacrifice previous video time for easy money

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Its supposed to help you live a richer, more fulfilled life.
I don't even give a fuck about women these days because I can't see how adding one to my life would improve it that much.

>And I'm not talking about passively consuming shit like video games or basic hygiene like exercising
it's funny, every time I stop passively consuming shit like movies/video games I get the sudden urge and creativity to draw. I can draw for hours then. Should I just throw my PC out of my life?

The west has this addiction to escapism it is ignoring the build of garbage politics and social issues and now it's the trash has piled up to neck

I'm honestly thinking about actively making a change and not having my default be "sitting in front of a screen", I just got back from 3 weeks where I was physically unable to access a computer and man it was great, I felt so much more switched on and actually did stuff.

When I was a kid, I liked "video games." Even genres I wasn't a huge fan of, I would still end up enjoying. As an adult, I like the particular games I like but feel nothing for the vast majority of them. I'm probably never going to play another FPS in my life, for example, and drop many RPGs when I get to the time-wasting grind section.

It's just a matter of getting older and less mentally flexible, in addition to major depression or anything else you might have. Remove as many barriers as possible to your enjoyment, focus on the specific things you enjoy, and forget about everything else.

>I felt so much more switched on
I know exactly what you're talking about and I feel sad because I haven't felt like that in years. It's time I put my foot down and start using my devices instead of letting them use me

Take HGH

>dude just go to school for years while indebting yourself to the government to have a CHANCE at getting a good job LMAO

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Therapy is a fucking scam

I'm so dead inside that nothing makes me happy any more. Lately I've been trying to pull myself out of this, but it's only time before I get sucked back in and end up killing myself.

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As usual, seek therapy. If you are already thinking of becoming an hero you can at least try it out.
Maybe the Jewish mind-altering drugs actually work, maybe they don't. Doesn't matter if you are already at your lowest.

get sneed

I already tried the drugs for my problems, but the whole process is so fucking complicated and there were so many bumps in the road that I gave up. Either I find happiness myself and learn to live with my mental problems or I kill myself, it's just how it's gotta be.

why do I not get aroused unless I watch a girl fart

you need less deep sleep

smoke weed

>>Not sure if I want to sacrifice previous video time for easy money
well, it's not like it's mandatory. Do overtime one week, then get a week of vidya. easy money AND plenty of vidya time

There are other kinds of therapy, so make sure you try those if you haven't already.
Just remember to try everything before you give up. You got nothing to lose.

I dunno, I really don't think it's for me. I've never felt more miserable than when I had to deal with the stress of actually trying to get help.

I use them for escapism and still like them

you're drinking caffeine before bed and/or staying up to late. Don't have caffeine in the 8 hours before bed and go to bed an hour earlier than you usually do. Changed my life.

I like to discuss about them of course but I never ever play them. Lost interest and I always think that there are better things I could be doing, including visiting this site.

It's good to have threads like this once in a while considering many of you guys probably suffer from the same problem but are too shut in to seek for help, vent or anything. I like to think that at least it helps some people here for some hours of their day and make them remember to not let this situation guide you to the wrong path in life.

Wholesome user

I had several, they were all lazy fat slobs who told me to breathe while they could barely breathe themselves while idle. Therapy is a scam.

If thats the case, how is it so many of us are old now? Hardly anyone is having as much fun anymore.

>to have a CHANCE

Get a nursing degree and you can essentially trip into a job

Does therapy even diagnose you, recommend meds or anything? I went for some while but all I did there was to talk about the same things, I didn't feel relaxed or any difference even if I still thought about my situation as my teraphist wanted me to.

These kinds of threads only remind me I don't have it as bad as others and I have no right to complain about my own shitty life. That doesn't stop me from hating my life anyways though.

How do you "diagnose" something based on purely subjective analysis? Psychology is a scam, don't ever take their drugs it'll fuck you up even more

Blogpost thread?
>used to give a shit
>realized it's all about sucking dick and dude just know a guy lmao
>now just go with the flow with a few contingency plans in case shit hits the fan

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Imagine being so ignorant

but i dont wanna

>don't ever take their drugs it'll fuck you up even more

Boy do I know a few clinically depressed people who would tell you to go fuck yourself

You need something actually meaningful in your life, something tangible. Games are fun but not what you should rely on for happiness.

You got older and smarter/more experienced so the gimmicky shit that used to keep you enraptured doesn't really work anymore. Your brain is more quick to break the game down into its raw components and optimize solutions and when you do that the magic sort of is lost. Especially in the context of being an adult and having other shit to do with your time. As a kid what makes games so fun is the wonder that comes from not being able to efficiently optimize solutions quickly and having tons of time to get lost in the wonder of something novel. This isn't really a bad thing unless you want to be an eternal child.

I need a gf.

that won't give your life meaning

Almost every school shooter has been on SSRIs.

You have to sleep in a bed you own stupid

I would assume that's because they have problems those medications don't address and that even therapists aren't willing to talk about.

I have three of these and I'm still depressed as fuck, nigger. I want my money back.

I know people is going to call me a coomer, but I honestly can't play a game unless it let me rape or abuse women.

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Even if you had all these you'd still seek out ways to destroy it all.
The fundamental thing about human life is that we always want what we can't or don't have.

>rape or abuse women.
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I would assume it's because those drugs suppress your emotions instead of addressing the underlying issues, allowing them to fester until they finally snap

It's most likely a short term thing. If you are gonna keep up at anything, it should be this.

Yeah that's why I don't like therapy shit. They don't fix you, they try to duct tape you together in the hope you'll last a good 60 years or so to put tax money into the system.

based

I know people would be sad if I died but it's not really worth living the way I am honestly. Sometimes when I'm in my car it's all I can do to not just slam my foot on the gas and close my eyes.

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>work environment that's mostly women

enjoy getting accused of rape because Stacy wanted some facebook likes

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>BOOOHOOOOA WAAHAHAH GOOGOOA GAGAG
Have sex.

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I really don't want to go to work tomorrow. I called out sick in May, is it too soon to call out sick again you think

Yeah, nah. I'm almost 30 and while I don't have as much free time as I'd like, all of my hobbies are just as fun as when I was a kid, if not more fun because I have more money to spend and am better at things.

reddit in the house

Get a job. Video games made you happy as a kid because you had to deal with school. Now that you're a virgin NEET with nothing to do and no hardships to put things in perspective video games have lost their appeal.

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Play porn games.

What three things

Sex doesn't fix my serotonin production

>spend 6 weeks in plumbing/welding trade school
>make 80k starting and swamped with offers

or

>spend 2 years at community college getting IT training

Takes a bit longer but the work isn't nearly as backbreaking and if you're intelligent/persistent can make way more money than most other professions.

Happiness is but a fleeting emotion. You should seek after the Kingdom of God, and the mercy of our Lord, Jesus Christ.

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>6 weeks in plumbing/welding trade school
>6 weeks
Why lie to kids like that, it's mean.

cause youre a mentally ill faggot
unironically

You only lose what you cling to.

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It's true. Most plumbers and welders are boomers that are retiring, and kids today don't want to do manual labor. These jobs are in desperate demand.

Until technology catches up in the near future and the issues plumbers would once need to fixed no longer occur.

>and the issues plumbers would once need to fixed no longer occur
We all thought out cities would be made of glass and flying cars by now in the 70s. It's almost 2020 and nearly all of America is still working with water and sewage delivery systems that were substantially built in the 19th Century. Anyone alive now will be long dead before there's no work for plumbers.

Find other things to occupy your time with and focus on enjoying one game at a time rather than going through your backlog like a checklist.
I'm currently only playing WoW Classic, even though I'm only able to play it every couple days I'm having a lot of fun.

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>1970: dude why be a mechanic in the future we'll have flying cars that robots pilot and maintain lmao

Nobody knows what will happen in the future

>it is impossible to infer what might happen in the near future based upon history
Were you dropped on your head as a child.

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It's literally impossible to know for certain.
Any sudden change could occur. There's too many possibilities.

Because you play shitty games. Play something good, like Resident Evil 2

Yeah but considering the sad sacks on Yea Forums (At least one of which admitted in a thread they only shitpost because they can't enjoy anything anymore so nobody can) I wonder fucking why.

Whoever listens to him = retarded
Therapist = literal bluepill, they'll put you on drugs to pretend everything is fine. Keyword = pretend
Might as well become a stoner.

steamcommunity.com/id/tomoko/

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You're right. We're totally going to replace plumbers with robots that can barely walk up a flight of stairs tomorrow.

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It took until 2015 for someone to take "tomoko" as a steam id?

Fuck off you psychopath. You use people for sexual pleasure and discard them afterward.

Cause you're gay

No I don't.

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Lol

I'm 34 and I can tell you I will never forget the feeling I had in the first two years of the PS3 gen when I realized gaming was never going to be good again. I went "wait, this is gaming now?" and that sudden realization never left me. I still cannot believe it. It was the first gen I could afford to be a day-one idort, and that actually made things worse.
Now I only play on PC, but nowhere near as much as I used to.
All they said is quite possibly wrong. It's far more likely you don't give a fuck about anything that you do and lack of meaningful things makes your brain wake up and stay "uninterested".
Quality of sleep is 1% sleeping place/time of day/quantity of sleep/how long you've been awake, 9% during which sleeping cycle you wake up and and 90% state of mind.

Eh, everything's short term in the grand scheme of things. I'd probably kill myself even with the help, but at least without that stress my last days will be pleasant.

you need a dream, kid

Taking shrooms will help. I microdose, and then take 15 grams every couple weeks to basically baptize my mind.

Dreams don't mean shit if you can't achieve them.

Actually it's even worse if you have a dream and cant achieve it. You would be even more suicidal. It's better stay without one.

I have all of that and still feel like shit.

you have a sony system, you need a switch since it has actual game releases

Correct.

Yep, it's terrible. I wish I was just retarded or some shit and lived day to day.

>therapist
Retard alert

;_; such a bittersweet feeling.

I don't trust the Nazis because the Thule Society seems to be Kabbalist in nature. And looking into Termudi and Fritz Springmeier's book leads me to believe they may have been Zionist puppets all along.

But... I don't hate him...

Based.
Have consensual straight marital sex faggot.

Do something else.

Eat well, exercise, go to sleep on schedule. Stop smoking weed and drinking coffee.

Yeah, I said that out of my own experience. All I can say is that if you decided that it's time to give up (in life) like I did, you might just as well wait and work until you give the first step and see how things play out. You have nothing to lose anyways since things are already shit for us. Even if you fail and there's no way to get what you want you can always back to the original plan and kys.

I went to a therapist once.
It didn't feel like he was helping me get happier but rather trying to patch a broken cog in the machine.

Shut up with your Normalfag bs

I'm too mentally fucked to make any serious progress towards anything in life.
This thread has just reminded me how much I want to kill myself. At least it's something to look forward to.

Because you chronically masturbate and that causes depression

I am in a similar situation but funnily enough having a dream is what is pretty much keeping me alive and being productive towards it. Maybe having one is only good in the sense of keeping you alive but it is like a double edged sword.

jokes on you, I already replaced plumbers with shitting into two-liter bottles

Some times it helps me keep going on but I doubt I'll ever achieve anything even close to it so like, why even try? It'll just end up hurting me and then I'll just feel worse.

>not taking up a trade instead
Imagine being able to fix your one shit for cheap, meaning you save money and charge other people out the ass to fix theirs.

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This. I dialled back my gaming over the last year and got back into tabletop wargaming. Doing something creative that has tangible results instead of RSI and some "achievements" is much healthier. Plus you spend time with real, actual people - some are a bit weird but its better than being online all the time.

It's fair. My kind of mindset pretty much is that if I am going to not make it I guess I would at the very least in my final moments be happy to know I tried really hard than pass away knowing I never ever gave it a chance to begin with.

sauce?

I wish I wasn't an artfag so this kind of stuff could have some effect on me. Instead, I look for hobbies that arent related to art in anyway or have no artistic vision (which video game does) and then you realize how like 50% of hobbies likes online have something to do with art.

I literally can't try, executive function problems are a fucking bitch.

Lord shepherd guide my sides back to your kingdom.

Then they were a good therapist. You have to make yourself happy. Therapy just gives you the tools to do that.

You sound like you wanted a friend not a therapist.

kill yourself, /r9k/

Then fight like mama or hema or something? If you don't like fighting, or creating, I'd say try building, fixing engines. If none of that appeals to you then you've got chemical imbalances.

These coomer & dopamine trolls are starting to get to me. I want to quit porn but it's hard.

Mma*

well, get on with it

Should there be a depression board for bros to help eachother out with advice and company?

There's /adv/ but truth to be said that is more like an "incel" board so people won't really care unless your problem have something with genders or sex involved.

I had some success with only looking at softcore images. Eventually it creeped into /hc/ back into streaming. I don't think porn in and of itself is bad, I think being able to see as much of anything you want effortlessly fucks you up though.

I got ED with a hot ass stripper because I jerked it a few times the day before and didn't sleep more than 4 hours. I still got a half chub and fucked her but it COULD have been the best sex of my life. Shit is real bro.

A big part of it is opportunity. If you are can jerk off in peace its harder to resist than if you're in a starbucks. If youre getting your shit done in public it wont even enter your mind to look at porn, obviously.

/r9k/

I have no idea how porn can be so addictive to some people.

Because you are a loser that needs to get his life in order. Be better.

profile names != account names

because sometimes you need to work on something other than making yourself happy

this picture is the big gay.

you ever seen taxi driver?

What gets addicting is that for however long it takes to jerk off, you're not thinking about how lonely you are.

Your dopamine receptors are burned out, stop masturbating

The more you give in to something the stronger it gets, that includes resisting impulses, whenever you have to make a choice visualize the situation where you resist, accept that it implies suffering and convince yourself that's where you want to be.
But the sad reality is that sex is a physiological need, your aim should be to achieve better self-control and use masturbation more than it uses you, as in, to control anxiety and sperm levels.

Hydrate, eat well, have a sleep study done, only use your bed for sleep and sex
>implying user has sex

you're growing older
you now have or will have commitments that will take your time and thoughts away from gaming
having experienced more of life, you have more to think about and more worries that take up space in your mind
some of these worries are worth keeping and others aren't, but you can't discern which is which

your comfort zone and games are still there, they're concrete hardware and software after all
but you are what's changing
it's still possible for you to rearrange a schedule to play games like you once did, but it will take work to let the worrisome thoughts go, even just for a few minutes

hang in there

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opossite here, I only enjoy singleplayer

I used to

Because everything in life has diminishing returns, and you've worn vidya down to the bone. Become busy doing something else for a long stretch of time, and vidya will become fun again.

You have depression, could also be sleep apnoea.

Why can't i get horny anymore?

ITT: Depressed coomers.

doomie coom
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zoomie zoomie
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