That time of the year again, I am bored, friendless and want to fill the void by buying something

>That time of the year again, I am bored, friendless and want to fill the void by buying something
>oh wow the 1070 surely looks like a cool deal! Just 500 euros! much better han the 670 i have!
>look at myself in the mirror, realize I am 23 years old nerd who hasn't been outside in the last 4 years
>no, fuck this. Buy a 300 euro metal detector, 100 euro pinpointer
>get a government permit to scan for artifacts

now I get to stay outside in the sun, walk in the woods, dig up ancient coins, ww1 and ww2 weapons, militaria, all kinds of awesome stuff.
at the end of the day, I have something to show, I have been outside, I have been new places, and I can tell people (adults) about my findings and they won't consider me a loser.

Stop buying gayming stuff, get an outside hobby. Grow up. You will be so much happier, healthier and more popular.

what Metaldetector does Sup Forums advise?

metaldetectors are technology

You can still be a gaymer and have other hobbies user, please don't project. Also this should probably be on Sup Forums and Sup Forums since more NEETs lurk those boards. Good on you though for trying something different and liking it, I'm proud of you son :)

the new Garrett 400i seems cool.

I have the EuroAce, which also rocks, but doesn't have the signal number display

Protip: If you feel you have to append "X is technology", you're not gonna get good answers here.

>they won't consider me a loser.
so naive

Plot twist: OP is still a loser, it's just that more people see him now.

>hey man, what hobbies do you have?

>I play videogames
vs
>I am an archeologist

pretty obvious

you're not an archeologist though, you're a random shmuck running through fields with your metal detector. Do you honestly believe normies don't think about you as a freak?

no, I got an archaeologist license. That is required to get permission do to metal detecting in belgium.

So I am an officially recognized archaeologist with an ID.

suck on it.

yeah you still sound like a fucking loser lmao

wow, sure doesn't take a lot to be an "archeologist" in Belgium then. Usually you have to have at least studied it and have some qualification to make any excavations. But hey, I guess it's worth it for your government to issue useless licenses for money in exchange for destroying the context.

p.s. I'm not sucking anything, you faggot.

>government permit to wave a stick
Sorry Euro, you're definitely still a loser.

Thats's great news user! You shoul be proud of yourself!

>I am a guy who digs old bottle caps out of the ground with the help of my beeping stick.
*fixed

So if you play Fallout both options are pretty much the same.

No, Gaymers have no life.

You can be a normal person that enjoys games now and then without obsessing about specs, those people have other hobbies.

>issue useless licenses for money
you don't have to pay, but you must do an exam to prove you are familiar with the legislation and with practices of archeology.

listen bud, why don't you stop talking out of your ass about thing you know nothing off?

well, that's because we are still filled with explosives from ww1 and ww2 and is anyone could go dig up metal artifacts there'd be deaths nearly every day.

>his country has no history
The things I pull out of my grandmothers backyard have more history than your entire nation

you're not an archeologist, that's all.

I don't care what you consider me to be or not to be. It's a hobby and I don't take it seriously.

however, it's better to be called an archeologist than a gaaaaayyyyyyymer such as yourself

Cool shit OP, I like it :) Will probably bring you lots of value (not meaning monetary) over the years to come.

Now you're just a loser with a tan.

Very nice, I would like to get the fuck off my computer as well (I work all day in a fucking computer, and when I come back home, I'm on the computer)

I need something more.

Don't listen to this faggots, if you were misserable playing games and this makes you feel good, you can never be a loser.

jelly much?

>more popular
So you care more about what people say about you and what you do than about what you actually do? Yor a loser anyway then.

So the government in Belgium considers him one, but an anonymous poster on a shitty imageboard doesn't... he probably isn't then!

I don't game though, see. It's just your faggoty superiority complex I find amusing.

this was meant for

I left it as the last positive attribute but it seems like that was the only thing your autistic sperg brain managed to register.

fust fuck off you imbecile.

Nope, I'm just glad I don't need to brag on some anonymous chinese cartoon imageboard trying to not sound like a loser like you.

>posting on Sup Forums
>not being a loser

Pick one.

>I can tell people (adults) about my findings and they won't consider me a loser

Holy shit what a faggot.

>>get a government permit to scan for artifacts
This has to be satire. You have to ask permission to use a metal detector?

I used to dig metal pieces and old bottles in my yard (obviously didn't use a metal detector for the bottles). Cool stuff OP.

you are projecting, veeery hard my friend.

could it be that you are.... butthurt?

may you perhaps be... assblasted?

is it possible that you suffer from being... rearwrecked?

>implying any worthwile artifacts haven't already been dug up

>>>>>>caring about people judging you

I don't see how. Didn't you make a thread declaring that your hobby is better than another hobby?

only if you are looking for historic artifacts.

>used to live in a basement for 4 years.
>suddenly walks outside
>"hurr durr you're all loser gaymers"

Every hobby is fine, as long as you don't rub it into everyone's face like monkey feces.

Metal detectorfag here

I hang around college campuses picking up girls telling them I'm an archaeologist. Been doing it for 3 years now gotten a couple dates out of it plus I've found plenty of scrap metal which over the years has been paying off. Recently cashed in and get 40 bucks from copper coins and such.

>6 years of total, utter war where 60 million people died

>metal detectors exists since little over 50 years

>somehow a very small group of hobbyist metal detectors have dug up millions upon millions of artifacts in just 20 or so years since it became a hobby.

99.99% of war relics are still in the ground.

I kid you not, when I got my metal detector, I tried it out in my grandmothers backyard (6x3 meters) and found 2 rifle cartridges from 1816 (ww1) and a german Kriegsmarine button (ww2).

This. But I obsess about specs because I love to OC not because of games. I don't think I even play any new games?

>Grow up. You will be so much happier, healthier and more popular.
This post sponsored by:

I said you should do it to be happier yes. It's more fulfilling, but I said so about a hobby, not about me vs you.


cunt.

for all you people wondering, yes this is a troll.

if you told me you walked around with a metal detector digging up old coins I'd think you were a loser

do you wear a fedora?

>coins

I did like to OC, but after a while its always the same shit.

First it was like "oh man, look at this I move this jumpers and I can get 30Mhz extra! Quake 2 moves more smoothly!" (True story)

Then "oh man now I can do it from the Bios, and can control vcore and try different stuff!".

But that's it, I already had my fun, that's all there is to it.

As for games I play new stuff, but with console settings generally, if the game has 30fps lock, I don't give a shit, its just to kill time.

I think I'm gonna get into electronics for fun, and who knows, maybe even get a job (in the area) in a few years if its not too late (I'm 23 yo code monkey).

Sounds interesting now go to school for it so you can get a degree and do real research in archaeology

lmao if you're diluted enough to believe this

Just lmao

This. OP could have had a nice thread about metal detecting, but then he went and spent half his post going on about how gaming is somehow objectively inferior. Now 80% of the posts in this thread are pointless arguing.

nah man, I am a Biochemist. I've had enough of college.

yeah i'm not impressed

I'm so much more impressed by your k/d ratio

He does seem a bit... bootybothered.

>I think I'm gonna get into electronics for fun
Do it. I only ever did software but I ordered a bunch of random shit from Adafruit and Digikey and had a great time messing around with it. Best thing so far was building a simple game entirely from discrete logic (no software involved).

how a troll can fallback from an aggressive stance he took to an innocent one 101

FUCKINGTEXTBOOKTAKENOTESFAGGOTSLEARNHOWTROLLSOPERATE

sweet man.

hobbies where you also develop a skill / have something to show are the best.

aggressive stance? where? you being agresive and me fending you off is defence, not aggression.

rhetoric 101, take notes children, else you won't pass kindergarten

You don't understand how the world works. At all. That starts after 27 for most people and can peak anywhere between your mid-thirties and however long you gonna live. But now you're at that "I'm an adult (tm) and have it all figured out" age that makes you annoying to talk to (unless they're the same age) and will make you feel embarrassed for yourself when you look back this shit in 10 years.

so, I am wrong in thinking playing videogames is something unproductive that is shunned upon as a hobby?

or what exactly is naive about my thinking?

>aggressive stance? where?
Seriously?

>>That time of the year again, I am bored, friendless and want to fill the void by buying something
>>look at myself in the mirror, realize I am 23 years old nerd who hasn't been outside in the last 4 years
>I can tell people (adults) about my findings and they won't consider me a loser.
>Stop buying gayming stuff, get an outside hobby. Grow up.

...

>hey user, get a new hobby

>aaah stop agressing me! aaah where is my gaymer safespace I am triggered by your high energy agressive text!

seriously?

You can't project on to yourself you fucking idiot.

>unproductive
Sure, but only marginally more so than metal detecting.

>shunned upon as a hobby
What decade are you living in? Even the chaddiest of frat boys are playing Madden and CoD these days.

>or what exactly is naive about my thinking?
Mostly this idea that your opinions are fact and other people ought to stop liking things you don't like.

Try reading the rest of the OP. You know, the part where you strongly imply that anyone who likes things you don't like is a friendless loser manchild? Does that not sound to you like the writing of someone who is deliberately trying to offend?

+1 crying over here

Do you just walk on random people's land and take whatever you find? That's called trespassing and theft.

How 'bad' something is purely subjective. And how is digging up old stuff productive anyway? I don't mind that you enjoy it, but I do mind when you talk like it's a 'better' hobby than video games, like there's an objective ranking or something. Also, and most importantly: people are stupid and what's 'shunned upon' makes absolutely no sense in most cases - it's arbitrary bullshit and the only reason why anyone cares is tribal instincts, e.g. the need to 'fit in'.

>Sure, but only marginally more so than metal detecting.
I am not even talking about the artifacts. Although they are awesome in and of themselves. I am talking about the physical activity, the journey, the knowledge you gain about history and culture.

>What decade are you living in? Even the chaddiest of frat boys are playing Madden and CoD these days.
you live in an imaginary world where all "gamer girls"and chads spend 10 hours a day playing until 4 am like most Sup Forumsirgins.
In reality chads do things like "hey wanna come over and have a 4 player xbox game? yeah we'll play SUPER long like an entire hour LMAO and then we will drink and fuck for the rest of the night"

>Mostly this idea that your opinions are fact and other people ought to stop liking things you don't like.
I was A) talking about myself or B) citing the general consensus. I really gave no personal input whatsoever.
I am indeed very sorry that your fragile phyche couldn't handle reality. go play some more vydia or watch anime
P.S. If i didn't like gayming I wouldn't have spent over 2000 hours on steam in little under 3 years

>the part where you strongly imply that anyone who likes things you don't like is a friendless loser manchild?
EEEERRRR wrong. I didn't imply that, i was making a confession about myself. and that adults shun upon gaymers is not a mistery. Stating the truth is not offending, however offensive it might be.

Looks like they got some nice JUICE over there

>diluted
LMAO you're deluded if you think you're not an absolute retard

Just lmao

no I do not.

thanks for the definition though, very informative!

>2 rifle cartridges from 1816 (ww1)
Man, even WW1 happened earlier in Belgium than in the rest of Europe. You sure are a special bunch.

>how is digging up old stuff productive anyway?
last week i helped discover the secret ww1 german intelligence position stationed in Meerbeek. over 100 years we did not know where the german headquarter was located during the battle for Brussels, now we do. I did so by finding the Funker badges and materials near a 1700s house.

*1916
>LMAO HE MADE A TYPO WHAT A RETARD

be a cunt, get treated like a cunt. Cunt.

And this is productive in what way? What have you produced?

very, very, very weak bait.

apply yourself.

something like "lmao who cares about ww1 history, that stuff is for fags and nerds"would have been better.

Got pics or articles m8? Sounds interesting.

He probably meant 1916 retard.

>I do mind when you talk like it's a 'better' hobby than video games, like there's an objective ranking or something
This. By default nobody gives a single fuck about your hobby unless they're into the same thing. Hobbies that normies understand (which increasingly includes vidya) might be easier to talk about, but if you put a little thought into it, you can explain just about anything in a way that sounds interesting.

It's not just a hobby it's a mental illness with people who don't leave their basement just to play videogames. Nobody gives a fuck about hobbies but they sure do pass judgement regarding how pathetic it is (gaming till the dawn and twilight definitely is).

nothing publicized about it yet, all the data is stored on onroerenderfgoed.be/ but you need archaeologist login to access the data. I don't have the stuff here with me right now, but picrelated is the button I found moments after I dug it up. as you can see you still can't recognize anything, after cleaning via electrophoresis however I was able to restore it as new.

>I didn't imply that, i was making a confession about myself.
It's possible you didn't intend to imply that, in which case you really need to work on your communication skills. But I find that pretty hard to believe, given you explicitly say gamers should "grow up".

of course I forgot to append picrelated

>get a government permit to scan for artifacts
Whaaaat.
What fascist shithole do you live in?

a country the size of Maryland with 4 governments and 3 official languages

a bureaucratic hellhole

Sounds pretty neat actually. Too bad your low self esteem prompted you to spend half your time bashing gaming and stirring up a shitstorm rather than actually discussing your cool new hobby.

I'm glad you have a hobby that you enjoy, OP. Let's not pretend that it is any more productive or any less antisocial than playing with gay men in your basement. You are at least getting some (nominal) exercise and some vitamin D I suppose, but walking around with earphones on and a big metal detector is hardly any more 'normal' than gaymen.

guys, i made this thread not because I wanted to brag, or insult.

I made it because I have lots of regret in spending so much time and money in a hobby that gave me nothing back but a wasted youth and lost possibilities.

I am 23 years old, and 1 year ago I had my first kiss. I can quite confidently say this is because of my introverted nature which I think was caused by being a shut-in gamer.

they are called Sup Forumsirgins for a reason.

I wanted to help others. that's all.

Fair enough. But your discovery has absolutely no value for literally 99.99% of all people.

>guys, i made this thread not because I wanted to brag, or insult.
Well, you did the worst imaginable job at that! So, congratulations?

>they are called Sup Forumsirgins for a reason.
And you just keep going...

>It's not just a hobby it's a mental illness with people who don't leave their basement just to play videogames.
I'm pretty fucking sure video games didn't cause that shit so what's your point? They might as well do whatever and it wouldn't make a difference.

>>they are called Sup Forumsirgins for a reason.
>And you just keep going...

well yeah, that's kind of the entire point.

>I think was caused by being a shut-in gamer.
Are you stupid fuck not aware that people will simply do something else within their homes if you remove video games from the equation? They most likely will start reading books or draw or kill themselves. Hopefully in that order.

or become the Fuhrer of the Third Reich

And even he killed himself!

yes, he read books, then he drew a bit, then he did something else (spoiler: ww2), then he killed himself

>gaymer trash reading books
They'll probably die of masturbation-induced dehydration, which is a good thing because they don't have the mental capacity to compute the need to rid the world of themselves

>guys, i made this thread not because I wanted to brag, or insult.
Then you fucked up.

>I am 23 years old, and 1 year ago I had my first kiss. I can quite confidently say this is because of my introverted nature which I think was caused by being a shut-in gamer.
I would actually guess that it works the other way around: people play video games (instead of doing more social activities) because they're introverts, they don't become introverts because they play lots of video games.

kek

Look, you're a kid that came to Sup Forums of all places to make sweeping generalizations about people who indulge in video games as a hobby, telling people to 'grow up', even though you're to me what a 10-year-old is to you. You act like you had expected us to be amazed at your insight in the human condition and now you're butthurt because we call you out on your shit. Your naivity prevents you from seeing how naive you are - it's almost too ironic.