Has vidya influenced your social life?

Has vidya influenced your social life?

yeah they turned me into an autist

dota 2 & csgo destroys friendships

sadly yes

Video Games gave me autism.

7/8 of my friendships i've had have been through vidya so yes.

Seriously what is it about games that causes autism?

games dont cause autism

autists are attracted to games

they make you stop giving a shit about real life because it's so boring compared to the game worlds

Yep, I have none since 'm a fag that choose to play games instead of going out on the little free times I have outside work.

chad get out

Game mechanics teach you self importance and black and white thinking.

what's it like to be that hot?

Does Sup Forums count as social life? You guys are the only people i talk to other than my parents

Das rite

The mass effect trilogy in many ways formed my sociopolitical views as radically liberal, anti-traditionalistic and overall globalistic.

Feels just right.

Mmmm not really and if so not in a negative way

What's your life like?

Nah I don't believe you, irl I have self-doubt so take my word for it.

Seriously?
I've had 8 friends in my entire life and none currently, am I really chad material?
I'm like you but I think we're really fucked.
Can you still function normally around strangers/people you barely know?
I know I can't.

Yes, Some of the vidya I played, such as visual novels and dating sims taught me many of my social skills and also vidya gave me characters to look up to and emulate.

I may not have many friends but I have many aquaintances

>wake up
>play vidya/study/read/shitpost on Sup Forums all day
>go to uni
>come back
>sleep
>repeat until suicide

is that bruce wayne

What a bullshit

Who do you emulated and how?

My two best friends, one in person and one online, and I bonded over endless hours of gaming and vent conversations that went on for hours. They showed me what its like to really have a friend and genuinely enjoy each others company while acting like myself

Not that much, but anime completely destroyed my chance of a normal life.

Thats pretty cool. I never managed to keep an online friendship alive for more than a week.
We would always talk less and less until we werent talking at all. Nowdays i dont even try anymore.

id look like this if I didn't have acne

accutane soon

I found lots of cute boys to tie up and abuse from playing games!

London?

canterbury

Yeah, me and my boyfriend both love video games and it's one of the major interests we share. It's probably one of the reasons we got on so well at the start.

If it weren't vidya it'll be something else. Doesn't matter.

Finding a good online friend is like capturing lightning in a bottle. I randomly decided to join a sandbox gmod server with 1 guy in it, he ended up being a technical genius autistic furry who ive been talking to on and off for a few years. Another guy was just loudly shit talking and mic spamming in CS which I found hilarious so I joined in, added him later, and we're still good friends who ended up sharing some real life interests.

Yep, met one of mynoldest friends in WoW, and my best friend in LoL, I also play/talk vidya with my friends from time to time.

You'll find something else to hate about yourself.
t. Exerpience

Well lets not completely disregard it, what is the objective to every video game?

It's all self centered.
>you save the princess because YOU are the hero
>you keep yourself alive because YOU are necessary (obviouslly for the game to conitnue)
>you kill the enemy because they impede YOUR objective
>you keep your city/town/village running because YOU benefit from it
>you have to win because YOU are not a loser

Me me me, I I I, myself myself myself
It's all what video games are

And most game give a binary way of seeing things.
this guy is good, that guy is bad
these items are good, those items are bad
this area is safe, that area is dangerous
this ability benefits me, that ability prevents me from doing what i want

Obviously not all games, but the majority of games, especially ones autists are drawn to stick to these principles.

Like Minecraft, Sonic, Mario. Simple games, for simple people.


More complex games (like victoria, world of warcraft, city builders etc etc) where games have an innumerable amount of factors attract a different kind of autist that are different from the simple autists.

Simple autists are most vocal, they are the most pparent, they are the ones you might usually confuse with a retard.

What social life?

>social life

You're either born autistic or you're not. Wtf are you on about?

stfu turbo-autist

Good post.

Well yeah, most of my closest friend circle I met through vidya gaems.
The only ones I didnt really are my two best friends from school and my girlfriend.

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how?

Not really
I don't like people, so I wouldn't have socialized all that much without them

Through Dissidia 012 i bonded with a stranger who is now my best friend, without him i would probably be a basement dweller, we're moving in together soon.

u fags?

Reading this thread makes me feel pity for all you non-normies.

But then again, having a social life is pretty mentally exhausting since I'm naturally introverted (not shy/awkward, just introverted).

>best friend
>moving in together
You're just friends?
Not that I'm judging, the idea of a couple of friends living together always sounded like fun to me

what social life?

I don't see why someone making a different choice to yours would generate pity. It's a different lifestyle for a different person
If anything feel pity towards the ones that lament their lack of friends

Games awoke the inner autist in me.

Yes
All my friends are online friends I've met in games

Yeah, we got the Idea from HIMYM

Ah, I should've been more specific. I was referring to the latter.

Nope, both got GF's
Mine is the better one because i only spent time with her because she is as autistic as me about video games : ^)

You would rather move in with a guy from the Internet than with your girlfriend?

It actually makes sense. Living together puts more strain on people's relationship than one might think at first. Doing it with a friend first as a test of sorts can be smart

>And most game give a binary way of seeing things.
thats why i really loved spec ops the line

Me and him went to the same school, but i never talked to him (or even noticed his existence) until i saw him playing on his PSP

I only have friends who play games because what would we do when they come over otherwise, watch TV like faggots?

thanks for the advice, so it isn't as stupid like everybody else is telling us

It isn't stupid, it can be a good thing to do and a learning experience. Or just fun with a friend
The only thing is that I hope it works out for you, because living together can be rough

Can't influence what never existed.

Yeah, i'm already imagining that some things might be hard, if he isn't going to take up the mantle of the woman in the house we both are going tp have a hard time

I feel that I'm more social/in more "real" friendships than normies these days thanks to vidya.

I work in psychiatry and having spent my life on pc's since 1998, mostly gaming, it helps me to build trust and bond with patients who play vidya.

>World of Warcraft
Holy shit i can see it now, the kinds of Autists you dont notice are either cool or alright to play with or autists who overanalyze the game down to every detail
and then there are the Rp servers...

With rope??

Expecting someone else to do something you don't want to is a recipe for disaster
The fairer thing, at least from my point of view, would be to set up a schedule and having one, say, do the dishes "x" day and the other "y" day, and stuff like that

rip

This is fair, I thought about this too and it makes sense that when you are constantly dealing with 1's and 0's, true or false, black & white it has to skew your perception of things until you fully develop.

Absolutely. I spent my entire childhood and teenage years playing video games instead of learning valuable life skills. I got bad grades in school because I never studied or did my homework. I also had no social life because I'd rather play video games than socialize and somehow my retarded parents never saw this as a problem. I worked my ass off during my early 20s to get out of the mess that my life turned into. I don't blame video games though. They are just a tool for having fun. I blame my selfish inconsiderate piece of shit parents who couldn't sit down and think for 15 minutes and realize that just feeding your kids and letting them have fun isn't going to turn them into productive members of society.

What's your relationship with them now?

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The reddit spacing must be intentional here.