I'm here to preach enlightenment to you, Yas Forums. A few years ago, I was addicted to video games. When I would lose at them I would become intensely furious: break my controller, punch my monitor, destroy my mouse, whatever the case may be.
One day I was playing Dark Souls, doing the same boss again and again and again, getting only a little further in my progress each time. I calculated that I'd need to sink several hours into it in order to get past it. I then suddenly asked myself "Why don't I sink those hours into something better?"
I started investing in playing the piano, going on walks, reading. I later went back to university and studied deeply and got to the top of the class. Over time, I became truly happy. The less time I spent in video games, the better I felt. I realized that the rage I felt during all those years was an inward knowledge that I was wasting my short time. In video games every achievement felt hollow, but in life, progression is lasting and satisfying.
I didn't bother reading, but considering that image and that wall of text, I'm just gonna say "cringe" and move on.
Andrew Miller
>>I'm here to preach enlightenment to you, Yas Forums. A few years ago, I was addicted to video games. When I would lose at them I would become intensely furious: break my controller, punch my monitor, destroy my mouse, whatever the case may be.
>One day I was playing Dark Souls, doing the same boss again and again and again, getting only a little further in my progress each time. I calculated that I'd need to sink several hours into it in order to get past it. I then suddenly asked myself "Why don't I sink those hours into something better?"
>I started investing in playing the piano, going on walks, reading. I later went back to university and studied deeply and got to the top of the class. Over time, I became truly happy. The less time I spent in video games, the better I felt. I realized that the rage I felt during all those years was an inward knowledge that I was wasting my short time. In video games every achievement felt hollow, but in life, progression is lasting and satisfying.
Smacking keys and walking to nowhere are just as productive as Dark Souls
Henry Baker
somehow i managed to do all those things while still beating dark sous 1-3 with keyboard and mouse ||as a fucking girl which means im automatically terrible at video games||. Sounds like you were just angry at how horrible at it and decided to run away from your insecurities rather than deal with them. Oh and, this is not a good bait post, way too obvious
Ethan Flores
Don't worry the wall of text is indeed cringe
Levi Roberts
I'm here to preach enlightenment to you, Yas Forums. A few years ago, I was addicted to movies. When I would guess the plot points wrong I would become intensely furious: break my remote, punch my TV, destroy my Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound System, whatever the case may be.
One day I was watching Primer, watcing the same loops again and again and again, getting only a little further in my progress each time. I calculated that I'd need to sink several hours into it in order to understand it. I then suddenly asked myself "Why don't I sink those hours into something better?"
I started investing in playing video games, going to game stores, reading strategy guides. I later went back to university and studied deeply and got to the top of the game development class. Over time, I became truly happy. The less time I spent in cinemas, the better I felt. I realized that the rage I felt during all those years was an inward knowledge that I was wasting my short time. In movies every story felt hollow, but in video games, progression is lasting and satisfying.
So don't get comfy; just get gud.
Oliver Allen
I'm here to preach enlightenment to you, Yas Forums. A few years ago, I was addicted to ASS.
I'm here to preach enlightenment to you, Yas Forums. A few years ago, I was addicted to anonymous blogposting. When I couldn't post I would become intensely furious: break my keyboard, punch my monitor, destroy my mouse, whatever the case may be.
One day I was writing another preachy post to massage by paper-thin ego, fishing for (you)s again and again and again, getting only a few more each time. I calculated that I'd need to sink several hours into it in order to get even one anonymous poster to respond seriously. I then suddenly asked myself "Why don't I sink those hours into something better?"
I started investing in playing the piano, going on walks, reading. I later went back to university and studied deeply and got to the top of the class. Over time, I became truly happy. The less time I spent arguing on chinese cartoon imageboards, the better I felt. I realized that the rage I felt during all those years was an inward knowledge that I was wasting my short time. On Yas Forums every (you) felt hollow, but in life, progression is lasting and satisfying.
>it's EITHER having a life OR seething at video games git gud at life
Jason Russell
i know, i fucked up, im so sleep deprived i actually used discord spoilers instead of Yas Forums spoilers. it really was unintentional
Cameron Peterson
how many pails of water can you get from Denial River?
Andrew Watson
you got some sauce for that friend?
Ryan Reed
>I'm here to preach enlightenment to you, Yas Forums. A few years ago, I was addicted to video games. When I would lose at them I would become intensely furious: break my controller, punch my monitor, destroy my mouse, whatever the case may be. >One day I was playing Dark Souls, doing the same boss again and again and again, getting only a little further in my progress each time. I calculated that I'd need to sink several hours into it in order to get past it. I then suddenly asked myself "Why don't I sink those hours into something better?" >I started investing in playing the piano, going on walks, reading. I later went back to university and studied deeply and got to the top of the class. Over time, I became truly happy. The less time I spent in video games, the better I felt. I realized that the rage I felt during all those years was an inward knowledge that I was wasting my short time. In video games every achievement felt hollow, but in life, progression is lasting and satisfying. >So don't get good; just get out.
git gud isn't just a phrase on the internet. The idea that the world has to be changed to fit your stupid self-entitled tastes instead of you just not playing something you're shit at isn't anyone's fault but your own. "Git gud" is just telling you to either git gud at it or shut up and stop demanding the world change to meet your slow pace.
Git gud, scrub.
Cooper Ward
I'd rather enjoy the technology that no ancestors of ours could have even dreamed possible
Perhaps you might have wanted to work on your root problem of anger, it's not like playing the piano or reading fiction is any more "productive" than vidya.
Practical advice can be found, among other places, in stoicism (one of the key works is Of Anger by Seneca) and meditation (Sam Harris has made some good resources for secular meditation, including the Waking up app, or the book of the same name).
Brody Morris
google says >Sabrina Hypnotized Into Believing She is Someone's Pokemon Partner better than nothing i guess
Tyler Cooper
>impliying I still play games I just fap to the porn.
James Kelly
wtf how did they make the basedjack do this?
Christian Clark
You are suffering in a hell of your own making.
Thank you.
If you are suggesting Seneca's De Ira, I will recommend to you in turn his letters on wasting time, and his work on the Shortness of Life.
Luke Green
git gud lmao
Lincoln Nelson
Dark Souls isn't hard lmao git gud
Jace Cruz
>One day I was playing Dark Souls, doing the same boss again and again and again, getting only a little further in my progress each time. I calculated that I'd need to sink several hours into it in order to get past it. I then suddenly asked myself "Why don't I sink those hours into something better?" The solution to Dark Souls encounters is just turning left when you've been turning right nonstop against a wall.
Ryder Lewis
Well said brother. Yas Forumsirgins will seethe, and I see many seething comments already.
Shit, this is pretty much Ricky Gervais at the Oscars levels of annihilation. Yeah, you soulsfags. Git gud at life, goodnight and take your drugs.
why do all that gay shit when you could just git gud instead lmao
Ethan Barnes
>I'm here to preach enlightenment to you, Yas Forums. A few years ago, I was addicted to femboys. When I would cum I would become intensely furious: break my controller, punch my monitor, destroy my dragon dildos, whatever the case may be.
>One day I was playing Dark Souls, doing the same boss again and again and again, getting only a little further in my progress each time. I calculated that I'd need to sink several hours into it in order to get past it. I then suddenly asked myself "Why am I so gay?"
>I started investing in playing cocks, going on sexcipades, reading doujins. I later went back to university and studied deeply and got on top of the class. Over time, I became truly happy. The less time I spent on Yas Forums, the better I felt. I realized that the rage I felt during all those years was an inward knowledge that I was wasting my short time. In Yas Forums every achievement felt hollow, but in life, progression is lasting and satisfying.
at least I'm not so motor challenged that I can't beat an easy game lol
Ryder Flores
I play competitive games, and “hard” games like Souls. I beat them without any overbearing time investment, and without raging like an autist. I exercise, read almost daily, and make a very substantial amount of money for my age.
Youre just a retard OP i hate to tell you
Justin Bell
Sounds like you never liked video games in the first place, and just wanted to be good at something
>I'm here to preach enlightenment to you, Yas Forums. A few years ago, I was addicted to video games. When I would lose at them I would become intensely furious: break my controller, punch my monitor, destroy my mouse, whatever the case may be.
>One day I was playing Dark Souls, doing the same boss again and again and again, getting only a little further in my progress each time. I calculated that I'd need to sink several hours into it in order to get past it. I then suddenly asked myself "Why don't I sink those hours into something better?"
>I started investing in playing the piano, going on walks, reading. I later went back to university and studied deeply and got to the top of the class. Over time, I became truly happy. The less time I spent in video games, the better I felt. I realized that the rage I felt during all those years was an inward knowledge that I was wasting my short time. In video games every achievement felt hollow, but in life, progression is lasting and satisfying.
>play dark souls >beat every boss in a single try >never struggle >tfw you'll never learn to play the piano, go on walks or go to back to finish school. I've really been oppressed by the weight of gitgud_/spoiler]
Yes, I'm talking of De Ira. I can't claim to have benefited from it or any other work because I had already conquered my own anger by the time I started reading works by stoics (I started with Meditations, since I was interested in how an alleged philosopher king thought about the world) but I do think it makes a good argument on why anger is fundamentally bad in book 1, and some of the practical advice in books 2 and 3 are things I've recognized myself utilizing. Besides, more so than contemporary works of fiction, ancient works genuinely might broaden your horizons, being written by people from thoroughly different kind of world (except where you realize nothing has changed), and even if it doesn't, it at least provides entertainment in form of fascination. And some people DO claim to have found it useful.
Ian Cox
Your mistake was to assume that because you were a sad cunt then everyone is. Didn't they teach you at school, correlation isn't causation? If they didn't, I just gave you some homework.
