Nothing like waking up on a summer morning when you're addicted to an MMO or game and get to start your day knowing you have all the time ahead to play
This makes me even sadder than that time some anon on 4chan replied to someone asking them ''but dont you have any friends anon?'' ''you guys are my friends''.
@@thewhitecj1013 it's never too late to turn your life around man, we're all still learning something new regardless of where we are. Its just up to us to actually carry out what we know is right and in a timely manner
i always told myself “this is going to be the summer you aren’t addicted to youtube. you aren’t going to watch 6 hours EVERY DAY. you’re going to hang w your friends”. never happened. every single summer i layed on my bed, addicted to youtube. i am 21 now and still here.
@@Tempusverum i actually have never been into video games thankfully. it’s just youtube. it’s a never ending source of entertainment and i never get tired of it. good to hear though hopefully i’ll be done with this shit and find more exciting things to do with my life before the end of the year
The computer isn't the problem for many. It's not that they had friends and health and happiness and girlfriends and money and sunlight and chose to leave them, it's that they never had those things to begin with.
i agree, but the computer is not the way out, its keeping you in the situation just like heroin is keeping people a junkie. Games are not fun anymore, i just feel like im wasting my time and life and the truth is... i AM.
@@adamrules01 Games are just a way to fill the void. For some it's booze, others drugs or TV or casual sex or religion or work or education. Just pick your poison. They're all a waste of time. Just do what makes you least miserable.
@@someonesomeone25 Nope, the best and most satisfying game is levelling up in real life. People deep down know this, but the problem is, there's no instant gratification designed to keep you hooked like with video games. By far the best feeling in the world I have experienced, is connecting with somebody I'm also sexually attracted to, it enhances every other second of life and makes you desire to soak up as much of it as possible. When that is taken away though, the lows can be just as extreme to the uninitiated. Some never recover.
@@booshank2327 Not everyone gets the same experiences and feelings from real.life as you do, or maybe you just haven't got bored of that game yet. I've lived a full life, but it's all boring to me. Same with sex and relationships, I find them unsatisfying and have given them up for the superior alternative of tulpas. Everything becomes boring and meaningless quickly enough, assuming you are fortunate enough to even be able to have things like a good job, travel, sex, health etc to begin with.
I don’t regret my time playing games and learning stuff on RUclips as a kid in the summer, it was a lot of fun. Now in my 20s I’m more concerned with going out, and going out is more fun now that I have my own money and car, that’s fine with me I don’t regret anything
I don't regret it too, even now in my 20s, i still "waste" my life in front of the computer, i never liked going out even when my friends forced me to go, i was there for an hour and i couldn't stand it so i went home walking for like 15 km at summer nights, i liked to run so i ran few km to arrive sooner, i don't drink, smoke, do drugs and i don't listen to music, i have zero pleasure from going to the club or somewhere, although i like going to the gym or drive a go kart, i just don't have the money to do it frequently, especially now with this pandemic going on i lost my job almost a year back and i'm broke, so i spend all day in front of a pc playing skyrim and csgo.
@@krejziks3398 Nice man, I'm not always a fan of the club or whatever either. The problem here is people are too fucking concerned with what they think society wants from them and other people think of them. If you want to play a pc all day great. Do it. If deep down you feel like its a waste and you should be out having adventures or meeting girls or whatever GO DO THAT. This shit is not complicated lol. Do whatever the fuck you want be true to yourself as long as you aren't shitting on everyone else DO WHATEVER YOU WANT. Here is a tip for depressed "losers" according to them, the people that talk about you or that you perceive talk about you dont think about you for more than 5 minutes man lol.
@@zachz699 what if I'm 23, no degree, no job, living with my parents? I don't care about friends, going out and shit like that. I just want a job but I have 0 skills because I'm wasting time playing video games all day. I guess I have to start coding, streaming and hit the gym?
@@krejziks3398 what if I'm 23, no degree, no job, living with my parents? I don't care about friends, going out and shit like that. I just want a job but I have 0 skills because I'm wasting time playing video games all day. I guess I have to start coding, streaming and hit the gym?
I lost my youth... Was 24. Lost my house and my job. Became homeless, lost my id's, lost everything. Lived that way until I was 30. It sucked. Now trying to regain what I lost during those years so it'll be like it never happened. Hopefully. Just thought this video was relatable to me however a bit different. These depressing videos hit home for me. I don't know if that makes me a doomer.
I don't regret spending most of my time on the internet. My friends just drifted away from me as time passed. Also i live in the middle of nowhere where there isnt a single place to go out and have fun. I can't make new friends even if i wanted to. Most people today are fake and they just pretend to be your friends. Sooner or later they betray you. Sometimes i have a lot of fun on the internet. I made a lot of great memories being on the internet. One day something will happen that will make me go out again. Things change all the time.
I realize that it's a problem and I'm doing nothing with my life. Just working a shitty job then play wow all day. Depression doesn't help either, just watching life pass waiting to die
I also play wow all day, and i'm almost 27 too, embraced stoicism ideas that we are not in control of life, and as you said "just watching life pass waiting to die"
I'm 35 and starting to pull shit around. I'm even flirting with women (gasp!). Try to expand your hobbies, watch enough Star Trek to give yourself confidence (that statement won't make sense until afterward) and above all try to go easy on yourself. You're not John Wick's Dad, you're just a regular human and that makes us all dumb and pathetic, which is fine. Your journey is your own and there are many ways out of it. Also if you have over 1000 hours in a game, start playing something else. Just get some variety in there so it doesn't look like your second job.
@Eternal w Crusade It is the same. You can argue you gain social skills from playing as a team in a WoW raid,Overwatch group. You can argue that you gain the appreciation skill for hard work(grinding). If you are having fun, it isn't time wasted is it? I tried the whole being a kid while young but I simply enjoyed myself playing video games more and ultimately 15 years later in my life I am extremely happy i didn't peak in highschool
@Eternal w Crusade You can't develope any real social skills talking on a mic behind a computer screen Vs talking to anyone in real life, work is better that way, the bosses may be ass holes, but people meet lovers in work, you'll flirt with cute work girls daily at the office or shop, ect. They'll ask you if you're going out tonight, you'll see them in town, you'll hang out, you'll have a real social life. Play games to kill the depression when you're down and lonely, when you're not in work and you have free time on a weekday. I go out Saturday night and game all Sunday.
Eternal w Crusade I doubt it. My friend worked as a waiter, I’m a salesman and we’re both as bad with social situations as when we started. Perhaps even worse.
Thats really fucking sad. People should not live their lives without friendship. I know on the internet people joke about loneliness a lot. They think it could be worse or that loneliness is not that big of a deal, but it is. It kills people. People give up because they have nobody to talk to no friends no family. In an age without real interactions. Everything is on the internet nowadays. The lack of real human interaction is the real pandemic.
@@indertat3104 it is what it is my man (or woman) I didn’t really want it to be that way but shit happens and I just don’t care to try and change it anymore🤷♂️
@@user-qd6zn6wr9b you do care but you don't know how to change it. That's my problem too. Once you fall far enough down the hole it is almost impossible to climb out.
(Covid is not considered in this comment) Is there any clubs or similar of your interest in your country/area? Fishing, chess, whatever. You would be surprised how fast you can meet new people. If you don't increase your chances, your chances will stay low. Find something in rl (a hobby) you are passionate about and go to places where people with the same interests are. Best wishes to y'all!
I had the opposite problem. My friends grew up, got into video games and social media, etc., but my parents had this idea that kids should only play outside, so I was left behind and never got to make that connection with my peers. I didn't get any of my own tech until I was 16, and by then I was already alone, friendless, and it didn't matter.
I love my years with my n64 playing goldeneye, banjo, or mario 64, my years with sonic and kid chameleon on sega gen, the awesome memories of combat evolved and grabbed by the ghoulies on xbox. I love my gaming years , dont regret them only miss them.
True. So _so_ many awesome memories. I think people just don't remember them well. Sit down and take time to actually bring up all your awesome memories from the games you played and folks you played with. I dare someone to call that spaceship ride wasted time.
Yeah me and my friends played all those too, but we also went out and rode bikes, explored in the woods, fought other groups of neighborhood kids, broke stuff, make fireworks bombs, did dumb stunts and shit. All equally balanced. The 90s and early 2000s was a great time to be a kid. Best of both worlds.
@@williamdraken6018 I grew up in the country myself, i moved too often to make permanent friends but always had a couple. Did alot of that stuff too, i agree .
I've been gaming for 21 years and sitting on the internet for the last 15 years. Here's just a little snippet/unorganised rant of my story. Gaming, computers, the internet, gave me more of a life than I could ever have had otherwise. I was always different than other kids and as an adult today I am extremely different than others. Everyone around here sucks. They just like sports and alcohol and have no real interests, passions or hobbies. Growing up my parents tried so hard to force me to be normal, especially my dad. I was extremely shy, had no friends, and wasn't interested in nearly anything that other kids were. I had a strong passion for music, and for technology, and not much else. Naturally I got into gaming early on in life and I have been doing that daily ever since. I've met so many amazing people. Created so many amazing friendships. Had some of the best times of my life. All while sat at a computer. That's not to say I haven't had my fair share of adventures in the real world too though - oftentimes to go meet these amazing people that I have met in other parts of the world over the internet. Now with the rise of VR, I am more connected to people than ever. I am more outgoing and social and confident than I ever would have imagined, and I get to socialise probably ten times as much as the average joe does. Spending so much time on computers allowed me to build a very successful IT career, and has given me so many opportunities that I would never have even come remotely close to if I had just spent every weekend in the pub watching the football like every other normie. I do not regret my life choices to be a complete shut-in *whatsoever*. It has made me strong, confident, full of character, outgoing, and most importantly to me - different. Unique. Someone that isn't just another cog in the machine. If you let yourself get swallowed by negative vices, sure you can spend 12 hours a day watching youtube and just playing games. It's so easy to view that in a negative light and sink into a huge depression. People lose sight of how marvelous technology and the internet truly is. These are tools that you can use to better your life in ways that would be completely unimaginable to the generations before you. You can't just waste them. Even if you don't do anything "productive" at least try and meet like-minded people. Get involved in communities. Make friends. Share your experiences with others. Talk with people. There are hundreds of thousands, no, MILLIONS of people trying to do the same thing as I type this. Even gaming and browsing the internet is something you can easily do and enjoy with others these days. Never go it alone and wallow in your negative thoughts. But most importantly, at least to me - don't be afraid to be DIFFERENT, friends. And don't get legitimate hobbies and passions confused with depression, laziness, procrastination, lack of motivation and discipline, and other mental issues. It's easy to point fingers and blame things on this or that, but much harder to actually deal with your problems in a meaningful way. Get help for what's bothering you and work on yourself, but never stop doing what you love. If things are going wrong, computers aren't the issue, games aren't the issue, YOU are the issue. That's hard to accept but you have to accept it, and you also have to realise that it is OKAY. Your mindset and mentality is absolutely everything. You don't need to "fit in" with this flawed society to be happy. You CAN carve out your own spot in this crazy world, you will just need to fight hard for it, that's all. tl;dr "computer bad" is a load of fucking bullshit
The computers are not the problem. People like me never had the option to have a life Computers are just a coping tool to deal with a deeply depressive,hostile and a paranoid shutin society Besides... I had a life when i was a kid
This used to be me, now i paint, write poetry, cook awesome meals, and play guitar my life away, i feel good, im sort of happy i dont have many friends, cause else i wouldnt have as much time for my hobbies, sometimes it does get lonely tho, but im forming connections with fellow artistic people and doing projects with them at least every week
Imagine being a defective member of "the society" without a pc. It's not like 30+ years ago there were no losers around. F to all those brothers who had to exist like that.
Well i think that they just drank alcohol all night long and then went to work at the morning, at least in the early 90's it was still quite common here in Finland :D
@Scrooge McDuck Till college? Wow I wish you good luck with that. It's going to be super difficult though because of how technology is moving on so quickly. Games look more realistic than ever and are super engaging.
That's literally how I have spent the past 7 years of my life. Turned 18 in 2014 now I'm about to turn 25 and I literally just spent my youth in front of a computer.
damn bro, I mean I'm 16 almost 17 and I've spent most of my teen years in front of a computer bc of covid, and the lack of irl friends but as soon as I turn 18 I'm going to try my best to make the most out of my 20's because I want my 20's to be the best years of my life, I already wasted my teen years in front of a computer, I can't even BEGIN to imagine doing the same in my 20's
I threw my youth away playing video games online between age 11-15 until age 16 when I finally got my shit together, lost weight and got comfortable being with other people in real life. Now I‘m 19 throwing opportunities away because I‘m a stoner but no longer. Addictions come and go as long as you‘re willing to fight and see that you‘re wasting your precious time.
Fucking good on you that you realize that at this age. I have friends who stil smoke weed at 25. They get by allright by doing a medium payed wage cuck job but they'll never be succesfull. Weed drains the life force and drive for better things out of you without you really noticing
Weed is the killer of ambition. I was poor all my life, got successful at 18, had my own business until about 23. All went downhill because of weed and pointless pursuits. Weed is an ambition killer, never forget that. 28 now, looking for shitty jobs, no perspective. Meanwhile all my friends that were deadbeats when I was crushing it, landed great jobs and now live amazingly well.
Im 19 too man, i played games when i was young, i still do but im starting to get out there now. Im talking to more people irl ahaha. I just hope i can get into collage and get away from the minimum wage life
I did an experiment when i was 10 yo. I ceased to ask "friends" to go out and play to see if they reciprocated my friendship. None called back. In fact now i'm 31 years old, discovered i'm an Aspie with ADHD, maybe was that kind of weirdness that never animated others to wanting me. Or maybe its Just the world an uncaring cold Place to live. In exchange, learning how to play Caesar 3 or Rome Total war were the best sensations in my life. I am not complaining, i've had my fair share of things in life; but other people? Not as great as they are pictured
@@TotalNigelFargothDeath based yes, but not NEET at all. I'm still confident enough in people and in future, i'm searching job and GF. Just concious that in life there is no wrong answer, mine first
ADHD doesn't exactly make it too hard to have friends and socialize,i have ADHD too,but i can be social,i'm learning more about social skills,you should do the same
Being an Aspie with ADHD sucks (in regards to social achivements). There really is something odd about those "regulars" (from my perspective) and i am damn sure that it goes both ways. Im 24 years old trying to get a bachalor but its tough. I have recently cut a lot of bad people out of my life and am for the first time in a decade having a decent time.
I wasted so much time when I was young trying to fit in by smoking joints and drinking with my so called friends. But then I got computer, stopped smoking and drinking, learned english and my narrow-minded world disappeared.
I always try to distance myself from my PC, I hate it wasting my life on it and losing time with my loved ones. But still even i completely get bored or stressed when i use my PC, i still use it every day for hours and hours...
yeah I'm 24 and it's kinda like this, I have no idea what I'm doing with my nights and weekend. It's like I don't remember because of how uneventful and meaningless they are. As soon as I'm vaxxed up I'm going to the gym and start talking to people, I'm tired of my fucking bullshit
I don't know about this. I never had friends to begin with. I was bullied threw out my school year. Rejected multiple time by girls. My pc was my only escape, hope, friend, etc. It help me get out of debt, i learn new skills, it allow me to connect with many people that had the same experience as i did.
that's rough. if you are in the bottom of hte barrel in the social heiarchy.... computers/tech have provided a outlet for people like that which did not exist before.
@@joeswanson733 I'm 29 now. I don't hate society as much as i did when i was younger. I read a lot of self- help and investing books. Financially, i'm in a better situation. Made some gains during this 3 year bull run. I'm going to buy a house this year :)
Gonna be honest with you ,i would've offed myself a very long time ago if it wasn't for the entertainment a simple piece of technology can provide ,litteraly the only reason that just keeps one going ,i have nothing to look foward to except what new things are released on pc
That can’t be, surely there’s something you’re interested in, besides gaming. Maybe you haven’t tried it yet. I may suggest practicing a musical instrument if you don’t already.
@@turolretar one thing i wanted to do was smithing ,but i am unable to given how little free time i have and how tired i ussualy am overworking myself to keep up with the expenses i need in life aswell as not having any room or tools for the job i feel like life is just an endless cycle of working for the greater good of our species before eventually dying and hoping the next ones will have it better...
This is pretty much the story of my life, except far as I know, my previous friends never became chads, let alone ever bothered to come and see me again, which is fine. Also, many of them did wind up getting married, and were miserable and broke, envious of my single status. Main culprit, the event horizon of marriage, that I never see them again.
Haha it's kinda funny to sometimes hear those old friends talk about how their life has changed and now their girlfriends and work issues take all of their time and money and if they are lucky, they have about 1-2 days per week to even play some games or watch some movies on the computer
anyone have that 4chan post, attached pic was chizuru from yuru yuri, basically guy told his story of how he wasted his teens and twenties on anime, talked about how he had so many memories from anime but none from real life, ending line was something like "i didn't live my life"
tbh, I too was a big time no-lifer, but after 16 it stopped. Just had too much of it, games were NOWHERE near as fun as they used to be, and I started actually socializing. I still do play some vidya FROM TIME TO TIME. Lot more enjoyable that way. But the biggest change was improving on myself in real life. The time and energy I would sink in my WOW characters to make them as great as possible, i sink it into myself now.
I love my close friends, but hanging out with them cultivated a toxic atmosphere that they would go on to refer to in later years as "trolling." I think the problem is that modern society presents too many problems for youth, and all too soon in their lives, while also offering easy yet dangerous solutions that only end up cascading the effects of the initial problem (ie, the urge to feel accepted leading others to do drugs and become involved with gangs).
This is something that I have to face on a daily basis. Back in High School in my Freshmen year, I stopped playing games before coming in to start a new life. A friend of mine showed me a game and I got instantly hooked on it and spent days and days on it. I spent nothing else of my time on it and I even used the time from Spring/Summer breaks just to play it. When I close to graduating High School, I left it because I want to spend some time with my friends. However, due to COVID, I wasn't ever able to spend the chance to be with my friends. I don't have any memorable High School moments besides Wrestling which only lasted above a month. I regret spending that much time that I'll never be able to get back. As of right now, I'm currently at college aiming to be a Registered Nurse, I'm hoping to get a certification to hopefully get my life built back together before it's too late.
Seeing a lot of comments on here talking about how they miss the naivety of being a kid and being an adult is tragic. All I can say is that depression takes its form in this negative outlook and it’s important to go and seek help. After losing one of my best friends a few months ago I finally caved and talked with a therapist and my life has improved in more ways than I can write here. Not every day is easy but stopping the loop of negativity and realizing I don’t have to spend my short time on earth in emotional pain everyday has been life changing. Even if nobody else is there for you right now, I believe in you because I’ve been in the same dark spot most of my life.
I remember my youth in the summer and it was awful. I hated the summer camps I went to, hated going to summer school and I hated unwanted family members coming to my house and bothering me
Meh, I don't regret spending my youth playing WoW. I simply liked myself better and I met really cool people and learned great teamwork skills. And critical thinking,analysis. Nowadays 15 years later. I'm very happy with my gf, my dog and a 6 figure job in IT
This hits hard for me Im 17 and in a few months I'll turn 18 I feel like I've wasted many years of my life. When I was 12 I developed many insecurities and trust issues, so since then I have avoided any social activities. Worst part is that I have had several friends that have invited me to hang out and go to parties, I have had a handfull of opportunities to have a girlfriend (Me being completely sure they had a crush on me) and all I did was isolate myself, playing videogames and watching RUclips all day long. I never tried overcoming my low self esteem and insecurities. This last month has been tough for me, I feel that the only friend i have ever fully trusted is growing apart from me, and dont even know if that is what is trully happening or if it's just me being a paranoid dumbass. Either way, this shit that has happened to me last month made me realize my situation. I want to fix it, but i don't know how. With the pandemic, my friends dont even call me anymore (There can't be groups of more than six people on the street). And if I manage to hang out with a couple friends, I feel I'm just boring them, and that they are with me just for pity. Plus, as i said, the only friend I feel really enjoyed my company in this last year is growing apart from me.
When the alternative is to force yourself to hang out with people you are friendly, not friends, but friendly with (such as your coworkers or people you sit next to in class) I don't really see it as a complete loss. Having no friends is much better than fake friends.
Well guys, I don't know about you but I've learned some pretty good English because of the time spent on online videogames and internet surfing. I'm now 19 and fortunately I stopped playing videogames for a while and I agree that it was a waste of time that I could have used in a much better way, but every cloud has a silver lining.
If you are addicted person and think thats a weakness. You are dead wrong. You need to redirect that addicting energy into something productive. And you will be the master in that field.
Yup. Happened to me too. Have a total of 3000 hours on empire total war but somehow maintained a relationship and a Job and now having a kid but dammit I'll probably never stop haha
I waste a lot of time on RUclips watching things like this that are entertaining but I also spend way more time watching RUclips for learning purposes and have learned so much from RUclips. It’s been an amazing resource for me
Im spent five years suspended in this kind of solitude after high school, but I've been happily married for 9 years now, so I can safely say that it can get better if you try.
best would be to just have a balanced life but ofc theres nothing wrong with playing videogames if thats what makes the person happy its only wasted time if u didnt had fun
This was my life until one day I met a girl who I thought loved me. She was my highschool sweetheart. She took a year and a half away from me, I lost another half a year to being deep in the trenches of depression and existentialism. Last 3 months, I had a fling with an actual model. Lost her about 2 weeks ago. Its very depressing. I must go on however.
Its only too late to turn it around when you are too old to physically do so. Nobody is keeping score. Get your shit together now no matter how "Far gone" you think you are.
If it's fun, if it makes you happy... don't be ashamed of it. If you feel like you have problems that you're distracting yourself from, try your best to explore those feelings.
thing is, the times when im social just arent any better but i would say that wasting my time here on youtube or internet forums just is a bad habit and i should work instead. The times i'm productive feel slightly worse but at least im going somewhere then and im improvind my skills.
A kid in 2014 -> 2020 "wasted youth", give me a break. You can do something else. NOTHING lasts. You can adopt nihilism and play or you can do something else and fool yourself into thinking anything you do matters. ' Same result.
I'm glad my dad didn't install internet until I was 13 and I didn't get a PC until I was 14, yeah I wasted my brains on video games but at least I went outside and I went to school but I never had friends to begin with, only acquaintances. I still go outside every dad for an hour at least to walk and be isolated with my thoughts for meditation
Both my high school buddies are divorced and live paycheck to paycheck. Gaming kept the wenches away and I learned about crypto early from gamers on twitter. I now own a single bed apartment which I paid with cash. I am still working long hours but having some extra money in the bank and being free of rent/debt makes life much more comfortable. I believe a modest, quiet life is the best. Thank you video games.
Divorce rates in my city are literally over 100% (as an example, for each 1000 couples that would marry, 1100 will divorce each year, I don't remember the exact numbers but you get the idea) Marrying in one's 20s is like a gamble or a lottery, in which most people lose. On the other hand, not marrying at all might be detrimental psychologically in an old age (single old people lose sanity and die way faster). I think marrying in ones 30s or even 40s would be a better approach, because having someone who will support us emotionally is a very good thing to have, but in your 30s and 40s you will not be as inclined towards marrying by emotions and sexual lust which lead to stupid decisions usually. And still, marrying in one's 40s also has a problem, because most people of that age who are single probably already experienced a divorce, an a divorce increases the chances of another divorce statistically. Also fertility might be lower and the chances of a genetical defect, while still being low, are increasing exponentially (a rise from 0,5 to 1% in 20 years might not seem that bad, but it's a double increase nonetheless). I guess marrying in one's 30s to a partner who has never been married would be the best approach.
To me I never had the option of going outside. In the city if you are unlucky like many of us your parents were over protective (for me it was my grandparents because I'm from a broken home). I also struggled making friends because of how alienated I felt. So no friends and stuck inside with a hovering grandmother yeah I chose video games as my escapism
I'm glad I'm not the only one who spent all my free time playing video games and watching movies and anime. These videos make me feel like there are many like me.
yup that is me. 2011-2021. All day playing. All day or night watching tv series movies ... youtube...streams and po*n ... Then health problems kick in. Depression.. Suddenly you are 31 years old.... All of my 20s are gone and so the money i had. but i just forced myself to go out.. even i do nothing... then found older friends i can cope with. I did sports and 3 years later i am new guy new life. Starting from zero.
Video games aren’t as interesting as they were when I was a kid and now I’m more looking forward to holidays to other countries and trying new things. Unfortunately, here in the UK, we have tyrannical government stripping people of their rights so until that ends, I can’t do much.
The problem is addiction to technology, not the technology itself. A lot of people, myself included, use it for escapism or to numb ourselves from how miserable we are in the real world. Like any addiction, it is unhealthy and we must break away from it, no matter how painful it may be.
Its not! Just imagine yourself at 80years old thinking about all the stuff you missed out on, just to get a dopamine kick in front of a screen! Start living your life, yea its hard, but its fucken real and really beautiful things will happen once you go out there and start to get over your fears, i promise you! You cannot sit in front of a screen your whole life anyways. Eirher you go out there on your own terms or reality will invade your small little save space, and believe me then it wont be so subtl!
@@AlexanderTheFarmer No, but everybody has the chance of living a good life! Theres always someone who has more money, a more beautiful girl and a faster car etc. If you compare yourself to others constantly, you will never live a good life my friend!
As a kid, 4th-5th grade i was starting to use PC's. I've only played freerealms/wizard101/AOE 1-2 during these times throughout middleschool. Ive done sports here n there but I was lacking friends, meet ups et. I've only spent once with a friend at there house, you know what im about to say- he had MW1 on playstaton 2-3 (i cant remember shit correctly it been long), he then showed me an interesting game called minecraft I was like wow thats cool! I think this was during 6th grade golden era for the net as u may say. All im saying is I wish could've done more communicating instead of being antisocial.
@@deltaphil yeah.. that something I did from 18 to 21, it was really fun and the best time of my life, but then I moved to another city to start law school and got all over again additcted to social media ... my Tipp: never fall in love with someone you meet online, I wasted so much time of my life waiting for someone who turned out to be Gay, ghosted me in the End or just wanted to be friends but did Not Tell me in First Place
i have this. i get scared by how much my phone has taken over my life, tell myself ill put it down and give it a break. i could live with just a flip phone and a sim i know i could, get a burner with no data to download songs to easy. but i dont do it, im always messaging people random stuff, probably annoying them, trying to talk to girls to get laid etc. i realise i wake up and look at my phone straight away its fucked. also wanna become a law student lol
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Nothing like waking up on a summer morning when you're addicted to an MMO or game and get to start your day knowing you have all the time ahead to play
i spent my summer mornings sleeping, and summer nights playing:)
miss that feel honestly
This is basically 99% of my nostalgia for Skyrim :D I remember spending my entire summer vacation day and night exploring and fighting dragons
Yeah but usually if you go the full day playing, not just morning or just some hours, at the end of the day you feel resentment and emptyness
I love having a three day weekend and just knowing I've got so much time to game
This makes me even sadder than that time some anon on 4chan replied to someone asking them ''but dont you have any friends anon?'' ''you guys are my friends''.
Fuckin rip
ruclips.net/video/utddDvJ1Rvo/видео.html
@@thewhitecj1013 wtf language are you speaking, is that english or some new / language I haven't heard of?
@@memesleeb2214 Naïvité
@@memesleeb2214 /pol/ and /b/ are boards on 4chan
Bruhh this is literally how I always spent my summers
Bro I tried it. And then my life turned upside down. Don't do it. Go outside get socialize f* some bitches. You won't regret it
@@erensky484 if she pregnant you will
@@thewhitecj1013 it's never too late to turn your life around man, we're all still learning something new regardless of where we are. Its just up to us to actually carry out what we know is right and in a timely manner
Hahahaha amazing
@@JugsOnMySack be scared of life if you prefer
I legitimately tought that his friends would come to play on the computer aswell...
Yeah him telling them to leave after he just got it was a bit weird.
His friends have a life lol
TheWhiteCj Real talk
Haha given the title it def not gonna workout for the best.
what the hell do you think this is? 80, 90 and 00's? this time is over my guy
i always told myself “this is going to be the summer you aren’t addicted to youtube. you aren’t going to watch 6 hours EVERY DAY. you’re going to hang w your friends”. never happened. every single summer i layed on my bed, addicted to youtube. i am 21 now and still here.
Are you going to be 31 and still there?
@@apebass2215 i really fucking hope not
21? That's peanuts. I'm 30, and I can tell you the novelty of RUclips and video games dies. I haven't played a video game in years.
@@Tempusverum i actually have never been into video games thankfully. it’s just youtube. it’s a never ending source of entertainment and i never get tired of it. good to hear though hopefully i’ll be done with this shit and find more exciting things to do with my life before the end of the year
look up chad on youtube. he will guide you
The computer isn't the problem for many. It's not that they had friends and health and happiness and girlfriends and money and sunlight and chose to leave them, it's that they never had those things to begin with.
i agree, but the computer is not the way out, its keeping you in the situation just like heroin is keeping people a junkie. Games are not fun anymore, i just feel like im wasting my time and life and the truth is... i AM.
@@adamrules01 Games are just a way to fill the void. For some it's booze, others drugs or TV or casual sex or religion or work or education. Just pick your poison. They're all a waste of time. Just do what makes you least miserable.
@@someonesomeone25 Nope, the best and most satisfying game is levelling up in real life. People deep down know this, but the problem is, there's no instant gratification designed to keep you hooked like with video games. By far the best feeling in the world I have experienced, is connecting with somebody I'm also sexually attracted to, it enhances every other second of life and makes you desire to soak up as much of it as possible. When that is taken away though, the lows can be just as extreme to the uninitiated. Some never recover.
@@booshank2327 this isn't real life
@@booshank2327 Not everyone gets the same experiences and feelings from real.life as you do, or maybe you just haven't got bored of that game yet. I've lived a full life, but it's all boring to me. Same with sex and relationships, I find them unsatisfying and have given them up for the superior alternative of tulpas. Everything becomes boring and meaningless quickly enough, assuming you are fortunate enough to even be able to have things like a good job, travel, sex, health etc to begin with.
I don’t regret my time playing games and learning stuff on RUclips as a kid in the summer, it was a lot of fun. Now in my 20s I’m more concerned with going out, and going out is more fun now that I have my own money and car, that’s fine with me I don’t regret anything
yeah I agree, being a kid and playing PS2 and Gamecube with the homies was the best lol.
I don't regret it too, even now in my 20s, i still "waste" my life in front of the computer, i never liked going out even when my friends forced me to go, i was there for an hour and i couldn't stand it so i went home walking for like 15 km at summer nights, i liked to run so i ran few km to arrive sooner, i don't drink, smoke, do drugs and i don't listen to music, i have zero pleasure from going to the club or somewhere, although i like going to the gym or drive a go kart, i just don't have the money to do it frequently, especially now with this pandemic going on i lost my job almost a year back and i'm broke, so i spend all day in front of a pc playing skyrim and csgo.
@@krejziks3398 Nice man, I'm not always a fan of the club or whatever either. The problem here is people are too fucking concerned with what they think society wants from them and other people think of them. If you want to play a pc all day great. Do it. If deep down you feel like its a waste and you should be out having adventures or meeting girls or whatever GO DO THAT. This shit is not complicated lol. Do whatever the fuck you want be true to yourself as long as you aren't shitting on everyone else DO WHATEVER YOU WANT. Here is a tip for depressed "losers" according to them, the people that talk about you or that you perceive talk about you dont think about you for more than 5 minutes man lol.
@@zachz699 what if I'm 23, no degree, no job, living with my parents? I don't care about friends, going out and shit like that. I just want a job but I have 0 skills because I'm wasting time playing video games all day. I guess I have to start coding, streaming and hit the gym?
@@krejziks3398 what if I'm 23, no degree, no job, living with my parents? I don't care about friends, going out and shit like that. I just want a job but I have 0 skills because I'm wasting time playing video games all day. I guess I have to start coding, streaming and hit the gym?
I lost my youth... Was 24. Lost my house and my job. Became homeless, lost my id's, lost everything. Lived that way until I was 30. It sucked. Now trying to regain what I lost during those years so it'll be like it never happened. Hopefully. Just thought this video was relatable to me however a bit different. These depressing videos hit home for me. I don't know if that makes me a doomer.
I don't regret spending most of my time on the internet.
My friends just drifted away from me as time passed.
Also i live in the middle of nowhere where there isnt a single place to go out and have fun.
I can't make new friends even if i wanted to.
Most people today are fake and they just pretend to be your friends.
Sooner or later they betray you.
Sometimes i have a lot of fun on the internet.
I made a lot of great memories being on the internet.
One day something will happen that will make me go out again.
Things change all the time.
@@RandomHero374Thanks for the honest comment man.Keep the faith.Things change.Appreciate every moment.
@@RandomHero374 I just want to say that i never chose to be on the computer all day.The thing is that i dont have a choice.
I realize that it's a problem and I'm doing nothing with my life. Just working a shitty job then play wow all day. Depression doesn't help either, just watching life pass waiting to die
@william a 27
I also play wow all day, and i'm almost 27 too, embraced stoicism ideas that we are not in control of life, and as you said "just watching life pass waiting to die"
@@Baxa125 that happens when you play WOW or LOL
I'm 35 and starting to pull shit around. I'm even flirting with women (gasp!). Try to expand your hobbies, watch enough Star Trek to give yourself confidence (that statement won't make sense until afterward) and above all try to go easy on yourself. You're not John Wick's Dad, you're just a regular human and that makes us all dumb and pathetic, which is fine. Your journey is your own and there are many ways out of it.
Also if you have over 1000 hours in a game, start playing something else. Just get some variety in there so it doesn't look like your second job.
Start exercising
I feel the same except instead of logging all those hours I worked BS jobs.
All that gaming time wasted
@Eternal w Crusade It is the same. You can argue you gain social skills from playing as a team in a WoW raid,Overwatch group. You can argue that you gain the appreciation skill for hard work(grinding). If you are having fun, it isn't time wasted is it? I tried the whole being a kid while young but I simply enjoyed myself playing video games more and ultimately 15 years later in my life I am extremely happy i didn't peak in highschool
@Eternal w Crusade You can't develope any real social skills talking on a mic behind a computer screen Vs talking to anyone in real life, work is better that way, the bosses may be ass holes, but people meet lovers in work, you'll flirt with cute work girls daily at the office or shop, ect. They'll ask you if you're going out tonight, you'll see them in town, you'll hang out, you'll have a real social life. Play games to kill the depression when you're down and lonely, when you're not in work and you have free time on a weekday. I go out Saturday night and game all Sunday.
@@NewOrderOfAlexandria no cute girls in my work, only bs, backstabbing and pain. 😀
Eternal w Crusade I doubt it. My friend worked as a waiter, I’m a salesman and we’re both as bad with social situations as when we started. Perhaps even worse.
Can’t waste friendships if you never had them :)
Thats really fucking sad. People should not live their lives without friendship. I know on the internet people joke about loneliness a lot. They think it could be worse or that loneliness is not that big of a deal, but it is. It kills people. People give up because they have nobody to talk to no friends no family. In an age without real interactions. Everything is on the internet nowadays. The lack of real human interaction is the real pandemic.
@@indertat3104 it is what it is my man (or woman) I didn’t really want it to be that way but shit happens and I just don’t care to try and change it anymore🤷♂️
@@user-qd6zn6wr9b you do care but you don't know how to change it. That's my problem too. Once you fall far enough down the hole it is almost impossible to climb out.
@@indertat3104 yeah you’re speaking the truth my friend wish you the best
(Covid is not considered in this comment)
Is there any clubs or similar of your interest in your country/area? Fishing, chess, whatever. You would be surprised how fast you can meet new people.
If you don't increase your chances, your chances will stay low.
Find something in rl (a hobby) you are passionate about and go to places where people with the same interests are.
Best wishes to y'all!
I had the opposite problem. My friends grew up, got into video games and social media, etc., but my parents had this idea that kids should only play outside, so I was left behind and never got to make that connection with my peers. I didn't get any of my own tech until I was 16, and by then I was already alone, friendless, and it didn't matter.
they did you a favor..
Video games are a waste of time
Trust me, not having a computer is not the reason you are friendless
I love my years with my n64 playing goldeneye, banjo, or mario 64, my years with sonic and kid chameleon on sega gen, the awesome memories of combat evolved and grabbed by the ghoulies on xbox. I love my gaming years , dont regret them only miss them.
True. So _so_ many awesome memories. I think people just don't remember them well. Sit down and take time to actually bring up all your awesome memories from the games you played and folks you played with. I dare someone to call that spaceship ride wasted time.
@@gubzs exactly. Time spent being happy is a time well spent I say.
Yeah me and my friends played all those too, but we also went out and rode bikes, explored in the woods, fought other groups of neighborhood kids, broke stuff, make fireworks bombs, did dumb stunts and shit. All equally balanced. The 90s and early 2000s was a great time to be a kid. Best of both worlds.
@@williamdraken6018
I grew up in the country myself, i moved too often to make permanent friends but always had a couple. Did alot of that stuff too, i agree .
I've been gaming for 21 years and sitting on the internet for the last 15 years. Here's just a little snippet/unorganised rant of my story.
Gaming, computers, the internet, gave me more of a life than I could ever have had otherwise. I was always different than other kids and as an adult today I am extremely different than others. Everyone around here sucks. They just like sports and alcohol and have no real interests, passions or hobbies. Growing up my parents tried so hard to force me to be normal, especially my dad. I was extremely shy, had no friends, and wasn't interested in nearly anything that other kids were. I had a strong passion for music, and for technology, and not much else. Naturally I got into gaming early on in life and I have been doing that daily ever since.
I've met so many amazing people. Created so many amazing friendships. Had some of the best times of my life. All while sat at a computer. That's not to say I haven't had my fair share of adventures in the real world too though - oftentimes to go meet these amazing people that I have met in other parts of the world over the internet. Now with the rise of VR, I am more connected to people than ever. I am more outgoing and social and confident than I ever would have imagined, and I get to socialise probably ten times as much as the average joe does.
Spending so much time on computers allowed me to build a very successful IT career, and has given me so many opportunities that I would never have even come remotely close to if I had just spent every weekend in the pub watching the football like every other normie. I do not regret my life choices to be a complete shut-in *whatsoever*. It has made me strong, confident, full of character, outgoing, and most importantly to me - different. Unique. Someone that isn't just another cog in the machine.
If you let yourself get swallowed by negative vices, sure you can spend 12 hours a day watching youtube and just playing games. It's so easy to view that in a negative light and sink into a huge depression. People lose sight of how marvelous technology and the internet truly is. These are tools that you can use to better your life in ways that would be completely unimaginable to the generations before you. You can't just waste them. Even if you don't do anything "productive" at least try and meet like-minded people. Get involved in communities. Make friends. Share your experiences with others. Talk with people. There are hundreds of thousands, no, MILLIONS of people trying to do the same thing as I type this. Even gaming and browsing the internet is something you can easily do and enjoy with others these days. Never go it alone and wallow in your negative thoughts.
But most importantly, at least to me - don't be afraid to be DIFFERENT, friends. And don't get legitimate hobbies and passions confused with depression, laziness, procrastination, lack of motivation and discipline, and other mental issues. It's easy to point fingers and blame things on this or that, but much harder to actually deal with your problems in a meaningful way. Get help for what's bothering you and work on yourself, but never stop doing what you love. If things are going wrong, computers aren't the issue, games aren't the issue, YOU are the issue. That's hard to accept but you have to accept it, and you also have to realise that it is OKAY. Your mindset and mentality is absolutely everything. You don't need to "fit in" with this flawed society to be happy. You CAN carve out your own spot in this crazy world, you will just need to fight hard for it, that's all.
tl;dr "computer bad" is a load of fucking bullshit
good speech there mister, thank you
Agreed.
" never stop doing what you love." ok
You have no real friends.
@@Taneubas You have no real sense of friendship.
The computers are not the problem.
People like me never had the option to have a life
Computers are just a coping tool to deal with a deeply depressive,hostile and a paranoid shutin society
Besides...
I had a life when i was a kid
at least wojak had friends
Now that’s a cope
Cope
@@z1ll4jr53 cope
@@bobbyhill1110 poce
This used to be me, now i paint, write poetry, cook awesome meals, and play guitar my life away, i feel good, im sort of happy i dont have many friends, cause else i wouldnt have as much time for my hobbies, sometimes it does get lonely tho, but im forming connections with fellow artistic people and doing projects with them at least every week
Beautiful
That's great man. I hope to get to this point eventually.
It’s never too late to turn it around, trust me. No matter how low you feel you can always change and your friends will support you
You are under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Friends?
That's if you have good loyal friends that will be by your side. Not everyone has that and without support, you're alone on this
@@tatsuostatic8567 you can make friends, find people with common interests
@@CloudlessStudio How?
Imagine being a defective member of "the society" without a pc. It's not like 30+ years ago there were no losers around. F to all those brothers who had to exist like that.
Well i think that they just drank alcohol all night long and then went to work at the morning, at least in the early 90's it was still quite common here in Finland :D
@Scrooge McDuck good luck with that everything is going digital
@Scrooge McDuck Till college? Wow I wish you good luck with that. It's going to be super difficult though because of how technology is moving on so quickly. Games look more realistic than ever and are super engaging.
It's not 0-1 situation but statistics show that nowadays we have more "losers"
That's literally how I have spent the past 7 years of my life. Turned 18 in 2014 now I'm about to turn 25 and I literally just spent my youth in front of a computer.
Same here
2006-2011
My middle school and high school years...
I'm still kinda introverted and spend way too much time in front of the computer
damn bro, I mean I'm 16 almost 17 and I've spent most of my teen years in front of a computer bc of covid, and the lack of irl friends but as soon as I turn 18 I'm going to try my best to make the most out of my 20's because I want my 20's to be the best years of my life, I already wasted my teen years in front of a computer, I can't even BEGIN to imagine doing the same in my 20's
also didn't u try getting a job or something when u were 18? u really just sat and played games the whole time?
@@iiCounted-op5jx well if it makes you feel any better im 33 and still spend majority of my days on my PC online and alone
I threw my youth away playing video games online between age 11-15 until age 16 when I finally got my shit together, lost weight and got comfortable being with other people in real life.
Now I‘m 19 throwing opportunities away because I‘m a stoner but no longer.
Addictions come and go as long as you‘re willing to fight and see that you‘re wasting your precious time.
Fucking good on you that you realize that at this age. I have friends who stil smoke weed at 25. They get by allright by doing a medium payed wage cuck job but they'll never be succesfull. Weed drains the life force and drive for better things out of you without you really noticing
Weed is the killer of ambition. I was poor all my life, got successful at 18, had my own business until about 23. All went downhill because of weed and pointless pursuits. Weed is an ambition killer, never forget that. 28 now, looking for shitty jobs, no perspective. Meanwhile all my friends that were deadbeats when I was crushing it, landed great jobs and now live amazingly well.
@@milosv123344 if you built a successful business once you probably can again
Im 19 too man, i played games when i was young, i still do but im starting to get out there now. Im talking to more people irl ahaha. I just hope i can get into collage and get away from the minimum wage life
I did an experiment when i was 10 yo. I ceased to ask "friends" to go out and play to see if they reciprocated my friendship. None called back. In fact now i'm 31 years old, discovered i'm an Aspie with ADHD, maybe was that kind of weirdness that never animated others to wanting me. Or maybe its Just the world an uncaring cold Place to live. In exchange, learning how to play Caesar 3 or Rome Total war were the best sensations in my life. I am not complaining, i've had my fair share of things in life; but other people? Not as great as they are pictured
Based NEET
@@TotalNigelFargothDeath based yes, but not NEET at all. I'm still confident enough in people and in future, i'm searching job and GF. Just concious that in life there is no wrong answer, mine first
@@zioMav89 good job man
ADHD doesn't exactly make it too hard to have friends and socialize,i have ADHD too,but i can be social,i'm learning more about social skills,you should do the same
Being an Aspie with ADHD sucks (in regards to social achivements). There really is something odd about those "regulars" (from my perspective) and i am damn sure that it goes both ways.
Im 24 years old trying to get a bachalor but its tough.
I have recently cut a lot of bad people out of my life and am for the first time in a decade having a decent time.
I wasted so much time when I was young trying to fit in by smoking joints and drinking with my so called friends. But then I got computer, stopped smoking and drinking, learned english and my narrow-minded world disappeared.
You had us in the first half, ngl
@xeraph02 What was your native language?
Are you Slav?
I always try to distance myself from my PC, I hate it wasting my life on it and losing time with my loved ones. But still even i completely get bored or stressed when i use my PC, i still use it every day for hours and hours...
yeah I'm 24 and it's kinda like this, I have no idea what I'm doing with my nights and weekend. It's like I don't remember because of how uneventful and meaningless they are. As soon as I'm vaxxed up I'm going to the gym and start talking to people, I'm tired of my fucking bullshit
I don't know about this.
I never had friends to begin with. I was bullied threw out my school year. Rejected multiple time by girls. My pc was my only escape, hope, friend, etc. It help me get out of debt, i learn new skills, it allow me to connect with many people that had the same experience as i did.
that's rough. if you are in the bottom of hte barrel in the social heiarchy.... computers/tech have provided a outlet for people like that which did not exist before.
@@joeswanson733 I'm 29 now. I don't hate society as much as i did when i was younger. I read a lot of self- help and investing books. Financially, i'm in a better situation. Made some gains during this 3 year bull run. I'm going to buy a house this year :)
I feel called out.
Getting that computer was the worst thing that ever happened to me. The laptop should've been all I had.
Gonna be honest with you ,i would've offed myself a very long time ago if it wasn't for the entertainment a simple piece of technology can provide ,litteraly the only reason that just keeps one going ,i have nothing to look foward to except what new things are released on pc
True. The only thing that continues to improve and progress over time is video games. Literally everything else in the world is getting shittier lol.
Expand your mind be open to new hobbies that challenge you to create and better yourself. Just my two cents I've been in your state of mind before.
That can’t be, surely there’s something you’re interested in, besides gaming. Maybe you haven’t tried it yet. I may suggest practicing a musical instrument if you don’t already.
@@turolretar one thing i wanted to do was smithing ,but i am unable to given how little free time i have and how tired i ussualy am overworking myself to keep up with the expenses i need in life aswell as not having any room or tools for the job
i feel like life is just an endless cycle of working for the greater good of our species before eventually dying and hoping the next ones will have it better...
This is pretty much the story of my life, except far as I know, my previous friends never became chads, let alone ever bothered to come and see me again, which is fine. Also, many of them did wind up getting married, and were miserable and broke, envious of my single status. Main culprit, the event horizon of marriage, that I never see them again.
Haha it's kinda funny to sometimes hear those old friends talk about how their life has changed and now their girlfriends and work issues take all of their time and money and if they are lucky, they have about 1-2 days per week to even play some games or watch some movies on the computer
"event horizon of marriage"🤣🤣🤣
I don't know why I found that so funny.
@@josephbrennan370 Because marriage is a black hole.
anyone have that 4chan post, attached pic was chizuru from yuru yuri, basically guy told his story of how he wasted his teens and twenties on anime, talked about how he had so many memories from anime but none from real life, ending line was something like "i didn't live my life"
Still...not owning a computer doesn't automatically make you a chad.
not using it for yt, reddit, pornhub 6hours a day makes you chad
tbh, I too was a big time no-lifer, but after 16 it stopped. Just had too much of it, games were NOWHERE near as fun as they used to be, and I started actually socializing. I still do play some vidya FROM TIME TO TIME. Lot more enjoyable that way. But the biggest change was improving on myself in real life. The time and energy I would sink in my WOW characters to make them as great as possible, i sink it into myself now.
I love my close friends, but hanging out with them cultivated a toxic atmosphere that they would go on to refer to in later years as "trolling." I think the problem is that modern society presents too many problems for youth, and all too soon in their lives, while also offering easy yet dangerous solutions that only end up cascading the effects of the initial problem (ie, the urge to feel accepted leading others to do drugs and become involved with gangs).
This is something that I have to face on a daily basis. Back in High School in my Freshmen year, I stopped playing games before coming in to start a new life. A friend of mine showed me a game and I got instantly hooked on it and spent days and days on it. I spent nothing else of my time on it and I even used the time from Spring/Summer breaks just to play it. When I close to graduating High School, I left it because I want to spend some time with my friends.
However, due to COVID, I wasn't ever able to spend the chance to be with my friends. I don't have any memorable High School moments besides Wrestling which only lasted above a month. I regret spending that much time that I'll never be able to get back.
As of right now, I'm currently at college aiming to be a Registered Nurse, I'm hoping to get a certification to hopefully get my life built back together before it's too late.
Seeing a lot of comments on here talking about how they miss the naivety of being a kid and being an adult is tragic. All I can say is that depression takes its form in this negative outlook and it’s important to go and seek help. After losing one of my best friends a few months ago I finally caved and talked with a therapist and my life has improved in more ways than I can write here. Not every day is easy but stopping the loop of negativity and realizing I don’t have to spend my short time on earth in emotional pain everyday has been life changing. Even if nobody else is there for you right now, I believe in you because I’ve been in the same dark spot most of my life.
Same also happens when you dedicate yourself too much to school, work, bad relationships, balance is the key.
Right.
I remember my youth in the summer and it was awful. I hated the summer camps I went to, hated going to summer school and I hated unwanted family members coming to my house and bothering me
Meh, I don't regret spending my youth playing WoW. I simply liked myself better and I met really cool people and learned great teamwork skills. And critical thinking,analysis. Nowadays 15 years later. I'm very happy with my gf, my dog and a 6 figure job in IT
Do you have muscles tho?
Dude my Gmod RP memories will be making me smile when I'm fuckin 80 and you can't take that away from me.
This hits hard for me
Im 17 and in a few months I'll turn 18
I feel like I've wasted many years of my life. When I was 12 I developed many insecurities and trust issues, so since then I have avoided any social activities.
Worst part is that I have had several friends that have invited me to hang out and go to parties, I have had a handfull of opportunities to have a girlfriend (Me being completely sure they had a crush on me) and all I did was isolate myself, playing videogames and watching RUclips all day long. I never tried overcoming my low self esteem and insecurities.
This last month has been tough for me, I feel that the only friend i have ever fully trusted is growing apart from me, and dont even know if that is what is trully happening or if it's just me being a paranoid dumbass.
Either way, this shit that has happened to me last month made me realize my situation. I want to fix it, but i don't know how. With the pandemic, my friends dont even call me anymore (There can't be groups of more than six people on the street). And if I manage to hang out with a couple friends, I feel I'm just boring them, and that they are with me just for pity. Plus, as i said, the only friend I feel really enjoyed my company in this last year is growing apart from me.
Dont worry 17 is still a baby age (for adults and parents) you got a very big life ahead of you.
Usually the very good friends attend church :)
yeah this is like me minus the invites and girlfriends lol
you're still incredibly young. people on the internet act like life ends at 30 and you're a boomer past 22. it's never too late to act, but act now
If anyone reads this: *It's not to late, it's never too late*
We’re all gonna make it brah
When the alternative is to force yourself to hang out with people you are friendly, not friends, but friendly with (such as your coworkers or people you sit next to in class) I don't really see it as a complete loss.
Having no friends is much better than fake friends.
That time isn't wasted it is well invested
this one hits home
This is so true, thank God i woke up at the age of 26 and started working hard to achieve things in life
Well guys, I don't know about you but I've learned some pretty good English because of the time spent on online videogames and internet surfing.
I'm now 19 and fortunately I stopped playing videogames for a while and I agree that it was a waste of time that I could have used in a much better way, but every cloud has a silver lining.
If you are addicted person and think thats a weakness. You are dead wrong. You need to redirect that addicting energy into something productive. And you will be the master in that field.
Spent my youth online and have no regrets so far because my reality is here.
A large portion of normal life will take place in VR and AR soon enough anyway.
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Yup. Happened to me too. Have a total of 3000 hours on empire total war but somehow maintained a relationship and a Job and now having a kid but dammit I'll probably never stop haha
I waste a lot of time on RUclips watching things like this that are entertaining but I also spend way more time watching RUclips for learning purposes and have learned so much from RUclips. It’s been an amazing resource for me
We were all brought here for a reason
Im spent five years suspended in this kind of solitude after high school, but I've been happily married for 9 years now, so I can safely say that it can get better if you try.
best would be to just have a balanced life but ofc theres nothing wrong with playing videogames if thats what makes the person happy its only wasted time if u didnt had fun
Why be creative when you can enjoy the creations of others.
This was my life until one day I met a girl who I thought loved me. She was my highschool sweetheart. She took a year and a half away from me, I lost another half a year to being deep in the trenches of depression and existentialism. Last 3 months, I had a fling with an actual model. Lost her about 2 weeks ago. Its very depressing. I must go on however.
Its only too late to turn it around when you are too old to physically do so. Nobody is keeping score. Get your shit together now no matter how "Far gone" you think you are.
This comment hits home. At 34 I think it’s too late but there’s still time
If it's fun, if it makes you happy... don't be ashamed of it. If you feel like you have problems that you're distracting yourself from, try your best to explore those feelings.
Time well spent I say. Also there is a major plot hole there. Chads are born, not created.
From Pokeymans to Doomer videos. This channel has grown.
thing is, the times when im social just arent any better
but i would say that wasting my time here on youtube or internet forums just is a bad habit and i should work instead. The times i'm productive feel slightly worse but at least im going somewhere then and im improvind my skills.
A kid in 2014 -> 2020 "wasted youth", give me a break. You can do something else.
NOTHING lasts. You can adopt nihilism and play or you can do something else and fool yourself into thinking anything you do matters.
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Same result.
I'm glad my dad didn't install internet until I was 13 and I didn't get a PC until I was 14, yeah I wasted my brains on video games but at least I went outside and I went to school but I never had friends to begin with, only acquaintances. I still go outside every dad for an hour at least to walk and be isolated with my thoughts for meditation
Can you tell me how you shared your 2nd first video?
It was during lockdown when I had that sudden realization of “what have I done”
Me but I started in 2008 and not 2014 and I regret nothing. I only wish I could do it over again.
I think as an introvert this is fine, life on the outside is not as great as it seems (example: relationships, jobs, families)
Ooof yea this hit home. Lucked out tho, got severe headaches from a game and quit cold turkey at 19, it was at that point my life finally began.
you just gotta balance it.
There was one summer that I wasted in my life, but thankfully I knew it early enough before it will negatively affect me!
Both my high school buddies are divorced and live paycheck to paycheck.
Gaming kept the wenches away and I learned about crypto early from gamers on twitter. I now own a single bed apartment which I paid with cash. I am still working long hours but having some extra money in the bank and being free of rent/debt makes life much more comfortable. I believe a modest, quiet life is the best.
Thank you video games.
Divorce rates in my city are literally over 100% (as an example, for each 1000 couples that would marry, 1100 will divorce each year, I don't remember the exact numbers but you get the idea)
Marrying in one's 20s is like a gamble or a lottery, in which most people lose.
On the other hand, not marrying at all might be detrimental psychologically in an old age (single old people lose sanity and die way faster).
I think marrying in ones 30s or even 40s would be a better approach, because having someone who will support us emotionally is a very good thing to have, but in your 30s and 40s you will not be as inclined towards marrying by emotions and sexual lust which lead to stupid decisions usually.
And still, marrying in one's 40s also has a problem, because most people of that age who are single probably already experienced a divorce, an a divorce increases the chances of another divorce statistically. Also fertility might be lower and the chances of a genetical defect, while still being low, are increasing exponentially (a rise from 0,5 to 1% in 20 years might not seem that bad, but it's a double increase nonetheless).
I guess marrying in one's 30s to a partner who has never been married would be the best approach.
It's not dude. Find a companion for life.
@@CatholicSoldierX no thats gay
To me I never had the option of going outside. In the city if you are unlucky like many of us your parents were over protective (for me it was my grandparents because I'm from a broken home). I also struggled making friends because of how alienated I felt.
So no friends and stuck inside with a hovering grandmother yeah I chose video games as my escapism
These cartoons hit some real truths , i know ppl like this
I'm glad I'm not the only one who spent all my free time playing video games and watching movies and anime. These videos make me feel like there are many like me.
this hits hard...
Damn this was me until I realized I was wasting my life away. Sad thing is I still have a friend who is still the same...
unless you achieved extraordinary things for 90% of people its born, something happened in between and dies.
I live that life, and I'm happy with if, nothing good outside
Kept me out of trouble. No kids. No debt.
What should i do to stop this ?
Hey dude, no need to call me out like that.
I love the welsh accent on the Wojaks lmao. Somehow makes it sound even more believable
I don't know who you are, but you have a better understanding/vision of what is going on in the world than 99,99% of the so called specialists.
yup that is me. 2011-2021. All day playing. All day or night watching tv series movies ... youtube...streams and po*n ... Then health problems kick in. Depression.. Suddenly you are 31 years old.... All of my 20s are gone and so the money i had. but i just forced myself to go out.. even i do nothing... then found older friends i can cope with. I did sports and 3 years later i am new guy new life. Starting from zero.
Perfect music choice 😩👌
i swear those videos... they hit hard :')
That’s truly depressing
Video games aren’t as interesting as they were when I was a kid and now I’m more looking forward to holidays to other countries and trying new things. Unfortunately, here in the UK, we have tyrannical government stripping people of their rights so until that ends, I can’t do much.
Funnily enough, the only times I had consistant, genuine social interactions with friends was online
Those are some good friends
The problem is addiction to technology, not the technology itself.
A lot of people, myself included, use it for escapism or to numb ourselves from how miserable we are in the real world.
Like any addiction, it is unhealthy and we must break away from it, no matter how painful it may be.
isn't technology supposd to be a tool ?
Finding true friends and loyal gf is so hard nowadays, spending time gaming and watching Netflix is far better than disappointment and betrayal.
Its not!
Just imagine yourself at 80years old thinking about all the stuff you missed out on, just to get a dopamine kick in front of a screen!
Start living your life, yea its hard, but its fucken real and really beautiful things will happen once you go out there and start to get over your fears, i promise you!
You cannot sit in front of a screen your whole life anyways. Eirher you go out there on your own terms or reality will invade your small little save space, and believe me then it wont be so subtl!
@@Gaphalor Speak for yourself, not everyone has the same chances in life.
@@AlexanderTheFarmer No, but everybody has the chance of living a good life! Theres always someone who has more money, a more beautiful girl and a faster car etc.
If you compare yourself to others constantly, you will never live a good life my friend!
Especially loyal gf
Just had this realization a week ago :/ feels bad man
great video for coming out on 4/20
As a kid, 4th-5th grade i was starting to use PC's. I've only played freerealms/wizard101/AOE 1-2 during these times throughout middleschool. Ive done sports here n there but I was lacking friends, meet ups et. I've only spent once with a friend at there house, you know what im about to say- he had MW1 on playstaton 2-3 (i cant remember shit correctly it been long), he then showed me an interesting game called minecraft I was like wow thats cool! I think this was during 6th grade golden era for the net as u may say. All im saying is I wish could've done more communicating instead of being antisocial.
I wasted it all, and I still am. I fucking hate myself
ow yes, that nuclear winter music love that one
Thats how I spent my life from 13 to 18 ... later I Switched from Computer to iPhone - I‘ll turn 27 next month :/
I was expecting something like I stopped using the computer and got me a social life drinking and taking drugs with old friends ;)
@@deltaphil yeah.. that something I did from 18 to 21, it was really fun and the best time of my life, but then I moved to another city to start law school and got all over again additcted to social media
... my Tipp: never fall in love with someone you meet online, I wasted so much time of my life waiting for someone who turned out to be Gay, ghosted me in the End or just wanted to be friends but did Not Tell me in First Place
i have this. i get scared by how much my phone has taken over my life, tell myself ill put it down and give it a break. i could live with just a flip phone and a sim i know i could, get a burner with no data to download songs to easy. but i dont do it, im always messaging people random stuff, probably annoying them, trying to talk to girls to get laid etc. i realise i wake up and look at my phone straight away its fucked.
also wanna become a law student lol
the worst part is when people don't think this is an issue.
0:48 song?
Bach- Air
Damn I knew people like this.
I often wonder how it is that we all fall into this trap, one so expertly crafted by someone so machiavellian, so ingenious, and so terrible, that they can hold us there every waking moment, perhaps forever. Ourselves. We are the perfect prison wardons. The perfect guards. The perfect prisoners. unable to escape our destiny, or rather, the uncertainty of it, we attempt to escape the notion of it, if nothing else.