if you're bored-

[Noblewine]

I usually just play with people or try to arrange a meet-up. I'm interested in the picto-chat and plan to play more because
of it?

[Alex305!]

Does this topic really need a new thread?

[Vintasticvin]

We should be able to piggy back ride on CAST

I am no-ones chauffeur!

Yeah that sounds just as fun as Photon Chairs and don't give us that crap *makes a lame impersonation of Cornelia's voice* "Oh Enny could I have a piggy back ride please?" LOL You'd let her mount you in an instant xD Best I could do is give a loli or someone just as thin as I am since Im a Caseal and all and um... Uhh not as dang not sure how to put it without offending you >_<

[darkante]

My CAST would be pretty selective on who he lets up on his back.
Considering he is a wandering lunatic (reason for that), he still have a sense of moral.
Impaling people and see people bleed to death is also fun in his opinion.

[Cyclon]

May i enquire why strangers wasting their lives is your problem exactly?
If you're bored with the negativity of this place, well I am too, but don't tell people how they should or shouldn't live. We have different sensibilities, your experience isn't the one of others. And while we all judge each other in secret, this is the sort of things you keep to yourself.
You can't help people that don't ask in the first place anyway.

[Mystil]

imo something is missing in your life and it's up to you to find a new proper activity to start moving forward instead of stagnating.

Can tell you've never hit a bad point in your life, eh people like you take your good lives for granted. Otherwise you would know this is not that simple. .

guys like rock have it figured out. he only plays with friends i think which is always fun, and when he gets bored of games he just draws or something.

First of all, oh please. Popular people naturally have it made. Some people don't have that. And doing something else can be even less fun cause the lacking in an area most important to you is still there. You use him as an example, but while he's drawing, he still has something to look forward to when he logs in and thats his social group. You can badly want someone serious about you in that way and then people join your games and there's zero chemistry. Or someone says hello you on a block and nothing happens from there, they just wanted to say hi and then run off.

quit holding yourself back. quit stagnating. there's more to life than the color of video games, which always seems to be vibrant upon first sight, but never fails to quickly fade into an all encompassing, dull, gray.

Again..it's not that simple. And being psuedo assertive(aka "kick in the ass") about it to someone is not going to magically make their lives as thriving as yours. For some people who play games that are boring, first of all boring isn't really the issue here, more like that feeling of emptiness. Anyhow, the game or games maybe all they have to keep themselves together. Furthermore it is not always the person that is causing stagnation. They could be doing what they can to force positive change in their lives, but keep falling on their ass everytime before coming to the conclusion that this "something" that is missing is not something they can obtain through strong effort, but it has to come on its own..

[soulpimpwizzurd]

May i enquire why strangers wasting their lives is your problem exactly?
If you're bored with the negativity of this place, well I am too, but don't tell people how they should or shouldn't live. We have different sensibilities, your experience isn't the one of others. And while we all judge each other in secret, this is the sort of things you keep to yourself.
You can't help people that don't ask in the first place anyway.

i agree, you can't help people that don't ask. hopefully it's at least an eye-opener, something to help them be more comfortable with asking.

"Can tell you've never hit a bad point in your life, eh people like you take your good lives for granted. Otherwise you would know this is not that simple."

my opening post says the following: "but to the others that audibly complain that the game is boring, they make me suspect they are similar to how i was, just continuing to play games even though they aren't even having fun anymore. a way to literally kill time, since they don't know anything better or more fun to do."

i'm clearly saying that just as my target audience, i too had my fair share of problems with video gaming on the computer.

i'm trying to wake those that may need it up. i also have already stated that i recognize a majority of you do not have problems with video games, but i'm sure many of you do.

the reason i made this thread is because i legitimately feel bad for those that may be in the position i describe, because i've been there, far worse than them. i used to be addicted to a game called s4 league and i've probably dumped over 2000 hours into that game. 2000 hours is a lot of time. i've spent a good amount of extra time on top of that regretting i wasted so much time on something so trivial. i always think about if i spent that time playing piano, working out, increasing social skills, drawing, singing, dancing, cooking, anything, even working an extra job, what i could have gained. there is very little to show from the ~2000 hours i spent on s4 league. that is the biggest reason i am bitter about it. i've gained so little from putting in so much time.

i've dropped computer games altogether and my life has suddenly become much more freeing. i only play games now when it's on my gamecube whenever friends decide to come over and drink. we then proceed to play mario party/mario kart/super smash bros.

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"They could be doing what they can to force positive change in their lives, but keep falling on their ass everytime before coming to the conclusion that this "something" that is missing is not something they can obtain through strong effort, but it has to come on its own.."

i honestly pity your self-defeatist attitude. it kinda reminds me of how some people get insulted when you call them naturally smart.

because a lot of the times they are not naturally smart. they worked their ass off to be educated, and you're calling them naturally smart, claiming they simply have something in their genes or some shit. but that's not true. this is my main argument towards you saying it has to come on its own.

another example would be michael buble. he has a gorgeous voice and is immensely successful, do you think it's because he just had that "something"? no. that's bullshit. if you read up on him, you'll see that he went to many small and trivial gigs like singing in malls, until he finally got noticed. he did not have that "something." he worked hard, and got noticed. he wanted to become a singer and went out of his way to sing in public places.

how many times have you heard of people saying they wanna be something but they never actually are serious about it? like "manga artists" that never study human anatomy, or "aspiring singers" that haven't even gone to a single open mic?

many things in life do not come to you on their own, you have to get it yourself. it also makes me earnestly sad you want to keep pushing yourself back down, deluding yourself saying you are missing that "something," and on top of that, deny the voices or hands of others reaching to you to try and pull you back up. to be honest, this is the one kind of thing i cannot relate to very easily. i've never had a self-defeating type of personality. i'll admit that much. but it doesn't mean i haven't had my fair share of failure. i firmly believe that although life may not be "fair," we all experience a roughly equal amount of stress and negative emotion somehow in someway. a rough example would be although i don't have a self-defeating type of personality, i do have an incredibly terrible medical condition that prevents me from doing a fair amount of activities, and made me feel like i'd be on a leash. but i've learned how to deal with it suitably.

you have a self-defeatist attitude, but perhaps you are also blessed with better health than i? and with that better health, you could be potentially more outgoing than me, if you learned how to deal with your self-defeatist attitude suitably.

don't know how to address your popular thing, other than suggest you read books on socializing. which to some might seem demeaning / degrading, but they're pretty damn good. once you read enough you start recognizing recurring subjects and before you know it, you're suddenly much more sociable and popular (if you want to be that is). all the ~2000 hours i spent on s4 league were mostly when i was in school, so i missed out on a lot of social development. i got pissed off not being in control of social situations, so i read a bunch on socializing, actually went out and practiced, and i did get a lot better.

i'm disappointed you took my post so negatively, but i do not blame you for doing so. your response lets me understand somewhat as to why you have trouble receiving my post in good light.

[SociableTyrannosaur]

We should be able to piggy back ride on CAST

I wanna piggy back ride on newmans

serious note: FKL this thing before the fighting really starts.

[Syklo]

the reason i made this thread is because i legitimately feel bad for those that may be in the position i describe, because i've been there, far worse than them. i used to be addicted to a game called s4 league and i've probably dumped over 2000 hours into that game. 2000 hours is a lot of time. i've spent a good amount of extra time on top of that regretting i wasted so much time on something so trivial. i always think about if i spent that time playing piano, working out, increasing social skills, drawing, singing, dancing, cooking, anything, even working an extra job, what i could have gained.

Oh man, S4 League was sooooo fun when I played it.

Quit after iron eyes....because of the training weapons it gives you instead of the traditional.

There is one thing I think you didn't consider: Just because you spend a ton of time in a game, doesn't mean you can take out knowledge from that spent time; the time you spend isn't just locked into that game.

I too was in a similar situation, until my school starting encouraging us to consider future careers and then I thought, why did I want to be a game designer? Then I thought, why did I play games?

That last one was probably the biggest question. I first thought "for fun, obviously" but what was fun? Story? Gameplay? Analysing animation+art? Pretending to immerse into the fantasy?

It's probably what made me get a start in drawing every now and then.
Why am I posting here? I should be spending this time completing my tacos.
irony.

Tl;dr - Gaming shouldn't be a chore.

[_Nue]

Welp, back to IIDX