Sup Forums, what is today's opiate of the masses?

Sup Forums, what is today's opiate of the masses?

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it's the liberal media because i disagree with it but at the same time watch other network news

memes

air jordans

Facebook. Self-indulgent social media.

Opiates

>posting cards against humanity questions to Sup Forums

what an faggot

You mean besides TV?

This. Or professional sports.

It's a communism reference you plebeian. "Religion is the opiate of the masses"

Where do I buy opiates

Video games.

you were dying to explain that weren't you.

benzodiazepines and cheap carbohydrates
also opiates literally literally

these it's like you have to go outside and get off the internet to avoid it

without a doubt it's this and if you think not then your a bigot

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>liberal media
it's an interesting term that gets thrown around a lot. So I have to ask, which news outlets do you consider centrist media? (which is what all media should ideally be)

U smart
U so smart

I itched my nuts and accidentally twisted one. Everything sucks now.

Try not turning on the TV for a while. You might find you don't miss it.

videogames. it always blows my mind to see how much time and thought and energy people waste trying to get good at playing with what's essentially an electric toy. you could've learned how to change your oil, you couldve learned how to cook for yourself, you couldve been building a better mousetrap, but no instead these guys just sit on ass all day, spending thousands of dollars a year doing literally nothing. people caught onto it so they started calling themselves gamers and making some kind of psudeo-religion/lifestyle image around their crippling addictions.

fuck, man. i mean, sure play tetris on your phone or some game on the web from time to time, but being great at videogames means being worthless at something important.

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It's pain meds, son. Make up an injury and talk to your doctor.

Not much in the way of "centrist" thankfully, fale balance is one cunting annoying bias.

But pre-spin media would be reuters.

Fair right wing: national review, daily wire, federalist
Fair left wing: nyt... Uh that's all i got sadly they have really fallen off the deep end.

For libertarian you got Reason.

communism

I think most people play games as a pastime. I play video games in my off time, I also work, go to school, and I'm told that I'm a pretty good cook.

*false balance.

>posting this on a mongolian basket-weaving forum
I agree with you though. Video games were my opiate during childhood, but it's fucking bizarre seeing working adults spend the majority of their free time on probably the worst hobby available.

Noy really.
There are people with time management skills that get great at vidya with more time to spend on important shit than retards who spend half their day scrolling their phone or Facebook or even Sup Forums. Competive gaming is still strategy, often timed teamwork, reaction time and other skills thst translate into the realworld. Not to mention it is a hobby with a social aspect. Besides literally any retard can cook or change their oil. I've never seen anyone say, no I can't do easily googleable things cause i play league or whatever.

Entertainment. All forms of it that aren't artist driven and most that are. It takes a great skill to make truly transcendent work and great skill requires, in most cases, great dedication which most people lack. Without the dedication and a work-withable amount of natural skill/inclination, the chances of your work feeding into the mind control paradigm are pretty deng high, meng.

A prime example of this is the Fight Club film. It failed to capture the underlying message of how (outwardly)smart, well connected and charismatic people can lead others on, convincing them that these ridiculous tests and goals are set to better them, when really they're clever ploys plotted to play on these people's will and want to "fix" themselves. They become slaves to an end-game that they don't get to see. Living for a goal that they're not even actually aware of. They're told to walk west and they do because they trust the voice telling them to, though the voice gives them no honest reason to. The character of Tyler Durden came off as extremely likable(intentionally) and this halted most peoples' delve into the deeper themes of the story. Because of this small error in judgement a movie that was intended to be about mental and social liberation became a war-call for the very the very paradigm it meant to fight against.

tldr; You are as long as you use involve yourself with sites like this. "Open" forums made of "closed" minds make no actual progress. They just get that old historyh ball rolling again. How's that saying go? What's done in shadows will be held to the light. Again and again and again for both and all ends. Something like that.

the opiatrium

This
Gamers are all sad virgins who never leave their parents basements

LOL triggered neckbeard

I really don't care.
I just thought it was an interesting discussion as vidya gets taken more and nire seriously these days.

Sometimes i will spend 2 hours pissing away on the internet and realize I'd have rather been playing vidya. I imagine that's a reasonable hierarchy. Videogames are something people complain they don't have enough time for, while social media and shit is stuff we don't have the time for but use all day anyway.

Man, I'm a long time gamer myself and I cringed s little bit st that.

Don't kid yourself into thinking your hobby is anything more than it is, a distraction from ... Sadness, real life, work, boredom and of course the ultimate finality of your own life.

this. I'm 26 and I've known almost 10 people who od'd already. and I'm from a relatively affluent area. cant even imagine what it's really like where it's bad in wv or western pa.

Far left:
Washington Post
Huffington Post
ABC
CNN
MSNBC
Comedy Central

I never had a problem playing too much games until phone games started becoming popular.
Fucking puzzle and dragons

Well vidya is a wide gammit.
I mostly play single player shit which is basically just the equivalent of reading or watching a movie. Nothing more nothing less. Shit like phone games might fit your description. I play multiplayer stuff more as a social thing, like you would a board game or something over beers. Just hanging out with friends.
But i don't think there is anything wrong with any of those.
And i don't think the Lcs needs you to cringe on their behalf while they make millions.
As for real world skills act as cool as you want, but a WoW guild leader is going to get management skills, shit like that.

I mean fuck me i spin pouring beer into cups for interviews but admitting on the internet you got skills from vidya is cringe?

Yeah but i said fair.
None of those are fair.
WaPo at best but even then "DEMOCRACY DIES IN DARKNESS LE TRUMP MAN!"
Difference between right and left media these days is right seems to be alot more open about their bias.

>Sup Forums, what is today's opiate of the masses?

Social media.
Finding worth in how many fake online friends you have,
getting likes, and obsessing about the minuscule details of your life and everyone elses.

Painkillers.

You are fat aren't you

I don't cringe because of any of that you spastic loner. It was your answer that did it.

Also, this second paragraph has pushed your life from cringe to absolutely depressing. I'm sorry man, I'll leave you alone. God speed, noble Autist.

>Far left
Jesus Christ Amerifats are retarded

Social media has evolved to something worse. A political circlejerk.
People surround themselves with chearleafers only and then viryue signal their hearts away, deleting and blocking any opposition.
Nope nice projection though.
Well I'm having fun.
Sorry you base your views of vidya on what cable news said in the 80s.

Agree, as soon as a preference "yeah I like computer games" became an identity "I'M A GAMER", an entire generation of young men was lost to their parent's basements.

Religion, Partisan Political, Nationalism

Being more open about your bias lets you have more of it. That's why they do it.

>but a WoW guild leader is going to get management skills

lol, keep telling yourself that, gameboi

Are you seriously going to sit here and tell me gamer isn't a real gender you racist homopbobe?

Cellphones, we're completely addicted.

cvs pharmacy sells opiate meds but not the over the counter opiate antidote.

perscription pills are the masses opiate. older generations clinging to life.

I said originally that I play, I've played since the 80s, I play all the damn time. I don't have any views other than a clear perspective... It's a timekiller, nothing more or less.

Sure but the problem is with left wing bias they do the bullshit "reality has a left wing bias thing"
I have a friend who only reads The Guardian and refused to believe they have any bias. Say what you want about fox news, nobody is under the illusion they aren't a right wing mouthpiece.

This guy is kind of right... Sort of.
>The men are repugnant and never fuck; making them not really men.
>The women are repugnant and never fuck; making them not really women.
Gamers are genderless.

I play games and fuck, it's not hard to balance the two. Also I'm 150lbs and my face is decent.

>you could've learned how to change your oil, you couldve learned how to cook for yourself
I play videogames but I guess I'm not a fucking mongoloid like you. it's sad that you aspire to "learn" the modt basic thing of everyday life. Seriously, learn to cook? Cooking is fucking simple and if you don't knoww how to cook you deserve to starve to death and thin out the gene pool a bit. change oil? really? that's enough mechanical skill to wow and amaze you? remove oil filter drain oil new filter new oil W°W h4x

It's sad that you value vidya so lowly yet still have nothing better to do with your time. I consider phone games a "time killer" so i don't play them in my limited day. Understand some of us actually gain utility from games.
Confirmed never been in a serious guild.

Psychic here.

Your 23
Live at home
Chubby
Have friends (even online) that own fedoras even tho you think you are to cool to wear one.
Like edgy music
Eat shitty food.

From left field predictions now.

Child of diverse, live with mom.
Has had sex... Once
Last job was... In retail.

>never been in a serious guild.
>proud of a >serious guild
>this autistic

fucking

Psychic here

You're a faggot

From left field predictions now

Suck a dick

>Works of fiction and memehood
>I play games and fuck

>everyone's a virgin because I am

(you)
So you admit you know absolutely nothing about WoW, running a guild or the skills associated with that then? I too enjoy making posts about things i don't know.

>Cooking is fucking simple and if you don't knoww how to cook you deserve to starve to death and thin out the gene pool a bit

>ate pizza rolls for lunch and hot pockets for dinner

Doesn't reality have a left wing bias though? At least a little bit? Right doesn't believe in climate change, wants to defund planned parenthood because less than 5% of what they do is against what a 2000 year old book says, wants to keep guns in mentally handicapped people's hands (look it up, Trump actually passed a bill allowing this), and they think vaccines cause autism. Call me crazy but as far as these issues go, the right are objectively wrong.

You've got the wrong meme, son. Keep going; you'll get there eventually.

I don't think it's an insult what I have been saying tho. The industry is worth billions, the people worship their favorite consoles/franchises, it's not going anywhere .

The whole idea is to waste people's time.
The game developer that is the most successful are the ones that can get people to waste the most time.

It's true, it hurts your little gamer heart, but it's true.

>projecting this hard

ooohoohohoo i knew this would rustle some jimmies!

> :*

>pic related

Thinking vaccines cause autism is more of a left-wing thing and the gun bill was revoking of an Obama-era regulation change that allowed the government to deny SSA beneficiaries their second amendment rights without due process.

Nice comeback. Post a timestamp and selfie and I'll take back all my predictions if you don't have a neckbeard, double chin or a stained t-shirt

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>So you admit you know absolutely nothing about WoW

lol, not me, you're getting your posters mixed up.

But anyway,
being a good WoW guild leader is a skill.

Thinking that skill relates to anything other than being a good guild leader is a self-indulgent lie no-life gamers tell themselves.

Word

50% you hit ratio
come on user you can do better than that

>continuing to defend muh wow
enjoy your hand

facebook and twitter, plug yourself in for 20 minutes, read a few poorly written clickbait articles the pages link to and BAM there's a political identity based off nothing but made up nonsense from clickbait or facebook echo-chambers.

See what i mean?
Fucking more brainwashed than the breitbart droolies.
"the right" is not a single person. Almost all believe in climate change, some debate what exactly mans role is. Many agree with "the left" many are just sceptical of sacrificing the economy for no evidence of actually achieving shit with policies more aimed at looking good and back patting. People like Micheal moore with 0 scientific background spouting the world is gonna end if you drive to work or whatever are worse. Not to mention not believing in biological sex is an interesting stereotype you could through the other way. There are plenty of decent non religious philosophical arguements against abortion. And as a pro-choicer i personally think it's fucked up to force prolifers to pay for your abortion, though i understand the dilemma of poor people shouldn't have babies but can't afford abortions... Still if the left is as obsessed with abortion as they claim. They should have no qualms privately funding pp as a charity. No elected republican or writer for any outlet i named thinks vaccines caude autism. And gun control doesn't magically make criminals obey the law. Because if it did, it wouldn't be needed. Murder is already a crime.

GLAMOUR.

its interesting, around 1999 my little brother was diagnosed with autism. i dont mean aspergers but cognitive deficiencies, and a permanent inability to care independently for himself. i remember him being 8 and still watching blues clues and wondering to myself "i wonder what it will look like when these people become adults and big companies catch on that they're a demographic to market to"

looks like i got my answer

rule of Sup Forums: if you can find a cut, shit in it.

You described all hobbies you autistic nigger.

It's not a time waster if i am having fun though. I eas legitimately excited for persona 5 and have been having a blast. I love discussing it on Sup Forums and i have fun playing league every other week with my buddird from the town i grew up in. I'm sorry you can't have fun with them. But don't blame me. I made a vow to stop wasting time, cut out social media almost entirely, cut back on Sup Forums substantially.
>i respectfully disagree
>HAHA TRIGGERED I GOT YOU!
ebin.
Not really there are legitimately skills pertaining to managing a group of 50+ people organizing events scheduling, recruiting, interviewing, vetting etc. Not every single skill is unique and not passable on to other things.
Literally only thing you got right is that i do infact enjoy edgy music. Keep projecting though. Maybe you can convince yourself you are cooler than an anonymous guy on the internet!

Games, pornography, Facebook are the biggest opiate for sheep in this time. Think about it famous inventors used all of their time to think and create. While every person in modern times spends it on their fucking ass doing what we're doing. people need to start making decisions not these rich corporate bastards. Unfortunately people are to happy and complacent getting by with just enough

Last I checked, being right wing was about having a stance on economic policy. I'm right wing and I believe in climate change, am pro-abortion, and am well aware that vaccines cause autism. Please don't conflate economics with this irrelevant bullshit.

Lmao seems like you have the opposite of a clear perspective.

vaccines DONT cause autism* was typing too fast

Not the original guy, just saying, as a tax payer sometimes you have to suck it up and pay for things you don't believe in. I don't think a lot of my tax money should go towards paying for useless wars, but it does. It doesn't matter though because the government is going to take the same cut of your money anyway, just pretend your dollars go to veterans' programs and boarder patrollers and I'll pretend all of mine goes to the EPA and PP.

>and am well aware that vaccines cause autism

Murrica..

I don't think half the shit you said is strenuous to learn in any way. Both completely mundane things that only spaghetti faggots would die not knowing how to do. Games are time killers and bring you joy good memories and pride if you care enough for them. Same return as any hobby. Ya people waste their time doing them like sad fucks but the same could be said for people in sports who aren't great and waste time trying to aspire to go to national leagues

literal opiates?

Well in today's 2 party system you can't be economically right and socially left in the voting booth.

The opposite also.

Not really.
Right wing can typically get conflated as social conservatism.
While whst you describe is more liberal economic policy
But can be considered right wing today. It's a very complicated. I like the grid chart better but even then classifications like this are just a quick and sloppy barometer, or way of making it like sports teams for retards.

>vaccines cause autism