At what point did you realize you wasted the majority of your life playing video games?

At what point did you realize you wasted the majority of your life playing video games?

Give me a moment alone with the games...

Its not wasting if youre having fun

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>not wasting if you're having fun
>not fun if you're wasting away

i don’t play video games because i have nothing else to do i play them because i enjoy them

About a year ago.
Started watching anime again about 5 years ago, and watching characters having this interesting lives started to slowly give me the realization that my teenage and young adult years have been wasted in escaping reality.
Still watch anime, but I'm not watching any slice of life or drama, just comedy now.

Yes it is. you have to be learning a skill or doing something you don't really care about to impress people who don't love you. Don't you know anything about being an adult, user? Quit being selfish and sacrifice your one short life for the machine.

Actually as I'm getting older I'm beginning to really appreciate playing vidya. If I play by myself I can relax and grind numbers for a few hours, when I'm done I feel good since I usually get so wound up about work.
When I play with friends, it's always a good time. My friend recently got me L4D2 and we've been going through the campaigns. I modded the hell out of the game since Zombies spook me really bad, so now all the zombies are either Scoutbots, silly anime girls, food items, or Shrek.

Vidya is great! But moderation is key.

Life is a waste inherently so you might as well fuck around a bit.

i wanted to write something mean until i read the irony. it is early here

But the majority of your time shouldn't be fucking around. That should be the smallest part of your day

I'd rather waste my life with video games than waste it any other way.

My manager at work is younger than me with fewer years of seniority yet has a wife and child and owns a home and has the right to tell me what to do.

19 probably.
Then I lived the normie life and eventually realized I would rather be a vidya nerd.

not majority. but a good chunk. been relatively slow since about 20 ish. 21 ish. saving up good boy points for a switch though

And how does that make you feel user?

My past actions are that of the past

Puting myself through mental anguish now would be stupid

Sounds like something a roastie would say

After playing WoW for 3 years straight.

But then I remembered I'd still rather spend my time playing videogames and watching movies than watching cable tv and fishing for attention on social media like everyone else I know.

Go ahead and be unhappy.

If you think it was a waste it was, all of life is perception. You don't have to regret your past, as long you improve your future

You can be unhappy because you realize you wasted your youth, the high point of your life, and not living a fulfilled life. That's plenty to regret and be unhappy about

What state are you in?

I wasted my life sitting around and thinking about playing video games, but not actually doing anything for 16 hours a day

>the high point of your life, and not living a fulfilled life.

You're putting too much emphasis on your youth, think deeply about what might have changed if you went a diffrent route.

You think working out and chasing girls would be a better use of your time? Well it isn't relationships at that age is misery all around.

Let your past be the past, you can regret it, but don't hold on to it.

If your life is unfulfilled now that's something you can actively change one step at a time. Do you really want to be posting one Sup Forums for then next couple of years at 3am talking about about how you wasted your youth, or do you want to make a better life for yourself and not waste your future.

>childhoom friend graduated lastyear and is moving to another country with his cute gf and a great job lined up
>im a fucking failure at life who never acomplished anything and cant even move out of his parent house

i have fun and I make money from videogames. the opposite of waste

Hedonism is the not the way to live user

Kill his wife and child, that'll show him.

I'm more concerned about the time I spend on Sup Forums

never
i wasted it reading about videogames and arguing about videogames, but genuinely never playing videogames.
kind of regret it because i feel like now i have nothing in common with other people socially, which makes it impossible to communicate even if i wasn't also autistic, i just have nothing to talk about. (well, except politics, but it's not modern politics so even that doesn't interest anyone.)

Solution:
-Go to work
-Get fit and stay physically active day to day
-Start reading books about history
-Read the bible
-Play vidya