ITT: We discuss ways that technology has fucked over society and our personal lives. Video Games, Internet and Porn have been a disaster for young men. Is it possible to reverse this trend?
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Have you heard the way young kids talk?The average little zoomie can barely form a coherent sentence because they're so used to communicating in internet slang, ghetto slang (same thing), and emojis. Among so many other things ruined by the internet, the death of language is what I'll lament the most. i don't care if it makes me sound gay.
video games led me to forums which led me to Jow Forums which let me to being redpilled on the kikes
Smart phones have obliterated moments of boredom.
They are valuable, so you keep in on you perpetually. When you have a dead moment, endless internet distraction is only a couple thumb movements away.
Moments of boredom usually lead to thought. Thought leads to introspection. By keeping our minds constantly occupied with trivialities we fail to achieve the realizations and profound thought that would otherwise naturally occur.
There are many ways a parent could avoid these things, but I don't think there is any way to reverse this on a global scale.
LMFAO @ that pic
Weeks long pic related jags still grab me and waste my life.
We lived in a much different time 15 years ago
Just the fact the number one occupation that kids want to be is: You Tuber is enough to make a person lose faith in the current state of modern technology.
As someone who works for a triple A developer I can tell you that people in the games industry have a very rosy and one-sided view about the social benefits of video games.
Interesting, Hopefully in the future the video game industry will end up like the tobacco companies. They are literately creating media to be more and more addicting.
Games and sexual fantasies were always s thing, internet was good whe only people capable of using PC were on it. I blame smartphones and social media.
is that the guy that shot up that gaming tounament?
When you look at the people that go hard with gaming they usually end up being total psychological and emotion wrecks. Especially the speed-running community. It probably isn't well established what kind of effect this kind of activity has on someone's mind.
Remember the 14 words:
"The industrial revolution and it's consequences have been a disaster for the human race".
It let idiots mingle with normal people.
People pay money to sit in an arena and watch other people play video games.
Fuck this world.
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I agree. Perhaps you are aware that George Orwell believed the collapse of a nation begins with the collapse of language. Joseph Conrad believed this too. Maybe they were biased because they were writers, but it does seems to be a useful barometer. Plus, the life experience of these men--who witnessed totalitarianism first hand--should be given attention. That being said, mediocre language is a hard vice to quite. I'm just as guilty as anyone.
>Speed-running community
So, social media as I said. There were no such problems when you played on NES or HoMM3 with your bro.
Something else I find interesting: one of my friends is a highly talented programmer who openly states that he thinks books should be burned because they are useless. I wonder how he would feel if the next populist uprising burned computers, which is something he loves, instead.
>achieve the realizations and profound thought that would otherwise naturally occur.
Come back when you realize those profound thoughts are blackpills you would do anything to forget.
Speed running adds a whole new stress inducing hormonal thing in my opinion. Not to mention they will run through a whole game hours on end trying to shave off a few seconds.
Reverse? No. Use to our advantage? Yes.
Personally, I think everything after the external combustion engine was a mistake
Social media and dating apps have destroying dating dynamics. Women now have access to endless men and now price themselves out the the market because they're too greedy to "settle".
Been there, done that.
Despair is just another shackle to keep us slaves. The blackpill serves only to create nihilistic degenerates and NEETs. Without hope, nothing will be attempted. The blackpill is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
imagine if the internet just stayed a "novelty" and wasn't the main area of everyone's life
the thing is, if both genders offered up a "no internet" truce, I think men would take it in a heartbeat where as women would categorically reject it. The new social media-driven dating paradigm is simultaneously hell on earth for 99% of men and heaven on earth for 99% of women. Technology has spawned a gender war that's only going to accrue exponential momentum as time goes on. This will NOT end well for the west.
The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
That’s a good observation. I agree with the notation that technology is driving the gender war. Basically technology maximizes women’s sexual imperative and minimizes men’s. What the internet has done is taken the social order between genders and flipped it on its head. Could there have been a happy medium? Perhaps, but that’s not the world we live in.
People pay money to sit in a room and stare at a screen
People pay money to sit in a room and watch other people dance
People pay you money to exist, you absolute fucking mongrel.
Pornography turns men into complacent cattle. Libido is the steam that drives the engine of the Will to Power - achievement, creation, betterment. When people sit around wanking all day it depletes their drive to do anything productive; it literally drains their life force. We’ve all seen the sitcoms where the man can’t wank / have sex, so he becomes super productive, fixing things around the house etc - there’s so much truth to that. This is why the Israeli’s used porn as a weapon in the West Bank.
Porn is also a Skinner Box. You associate the most intense reward there is (orgasm) with whatever is on screen. This is how fetishes are produced and it’s how “they” induce demographic change - through Blacked, incest, and tranny porn mostly. Also, before the internet, how many times do you think you would have seen another man’s erect penis? How many times would you have orgasmed looking at one?
Porn is the WORST thing affecting the West right now.
The internet use to be a place where you discussed things going on in the real world. They were two completely separate entities. Now it feels as if the real world is catered and shaped to appease the internet. Everything is done for the likes and the upvotes or to go viral. Nothing authentic happens anymore. It's like the internet has become the world stage and everyone is performing their own little act to get those views.
Jow Forums is 1 negative .
>possible?
Sure. Explode an EMP device over the US.
That'll refocus your kid's priorities real fast.
Social media destroys women. Porn destroys men.
>kid watching pron
Read from the Unabomber
>manifesto
>"Industrial society and its future".
>speedrunning community
Why has this blown up last few months, I've heard about speed running several times today alone
What's your opinion on asmr?
To me the only real ASMR is unintentional ASMR. People going out of there way to try and make "tingles" are fucking faggots. ASMR Thots are cringe.
This.
It's all instagram slang and it changes every month.
>Pornography turns men into complacent cattle.
Porno has been around for a long, long time. Social media is very new.
You can't really compare multiple tabs of HD fucking vs. your friends dads nudey-mag that he hides out in the barn...
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We are rewiring our language processing by way of Jow Forums
where most of us say far more in text than in our daily speech
>You can't really compare multiple tabs of HD fucking
Who the fuck does that? I still just choose one vid and go with it.
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>Negative aspects of Technology
its 5 am and im not even tired yet
The personal car is the real trouble. Computer and phone technology is fine and balanced and extremely useful as long as you still walk your own journeys and carry your own burdens. By the time the average man comes to sit down in front of some porn or other degeneracy, he has no will to resist it because his soft lifestyle has left him with no spine. Reliance on the car breeds fat, weak, flaccid men an also is the hief enabler of this false doctrine of equality we have, without the car mot women would not even make it to the workplace if they had to sweat to do it. The false strength the car brings an individual, is ruining meritocracy.
yeah you aren't giving your brain a chance to produce melatonin because of your computer screen
force yourself to realign your sleeping patterns
unless you are working on something and want to be awake for days
Depends, there are some that are basically e-thots begging for momey and there are some who just calmly explain things like history stuff or science facts. I like those sometimes.
I've been saying this for years, and its only recently that people have stopped saying I'm being a lunatic.
Instant, constant access to internet porn as children has absolutely fucked up this last generation.
They don't have personalities anymore, they have a list of fetishes. The bios of teenagers on social media read more like a fucking fetlife profile than a bio.
When I was a kid we would describe ourselves with shit like
>Dude that likes videogames and cartoons. Zangief main in Street Fighter, Canada.
not
>Demi-panromantic otherkin genderfluid girlboi, sub/dom switch, loves bara Don't tease me I'm just a baby uwu
Kids are fucked now, their lives revolve around their genitals.
Biggest issues in politics? Identity and gender politics related to not feeling bad for their stupid fetishes.
Biggest issues in videogames, comics and cartoons? Not enough representation of their preferred race and or body type.
Current fad? Being fucking trans
What do kids talk about when they talk about cartoons? Who is fucking who, which characters are gay. What do kids talk about when they talk about videogames? Zeldas fat ass, which lord in Fire Emblem they'd let rim out their ass.
People are fucking retards now, the cumbrain meme isn't even wrong, it just got spammed too hard.
I hate it so fucking much, it used to be kinda funny when Jow Forums was one of the few places where people acted like this, but now its EVERYONE. The entire fucking world is absolutely obsessed with their genitals and what they want to do with them. To the point where laws are being passed if you don't respect how someone gives themselves an orgasm enough.
Its so fucking stupid, I don't know why we let sex be so fucking important. Its not that big of a deal, holy fuck, get a god damned hobby, go outside, get some friends, stop playing with your fucking dicks and telling everyone online about it.
Jesus fuck I miss talking about my hobbies much, why are there so many perpetually horny zoomers
what colour is the dress?
Psy-Op
I have misophonia so ASMR just pisses me off immediately
Disgusting fuckers just smack their horrible lips in the microphone like a bunch of degenerates.
>s it possible to reverse this trend
just nuke 7/8's of humanity.
What??
There is no blackpill, it’s just an edgy nihilistic phase for cucks. They grow out of it usually
Today’s porn is nothing comparable. even in the past finding a magazine and finding a place to jerk was an adventure in its own
This is a great post. Great description of the current situation.
Where are the real kings and jacks?
>Emotion wrecks
The ironing
I bet you negroid apes think pol is all gravy tho
>Oy vey, my jew wrists cannot bear this shoah
It's hard for me to fathom how parents just give their kids iPads and laptops with no parental filters. It's time to completely ban porn and social media for anyone under twenty-one.
You're right. I played vidya my whole life, am 30 now, never noticed any of the problems being noted in this thread. However I do see it in the young zoomers. I blame Sony and Microsoft tbqh.
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It has more to do with kids growing up being groomed by literal pedos and shit online.
Think back to when you were a kid on your computer, probably one sitting in the family living room, and you'd sneak out or stay up late to be able to look at porn and maybe talk to a cam girl.
Kids have fucking phones, they can do this kind of shit all day from their bed. They have apps made specifically for sending pictures that can't be saved, anonymous chats that can't be traced, and countless dating/hookup apps.
Even the non-hookup/dating apps are flooded with predators looking to talk to teenagers still being mindfucked by puberty and hormones because they're too pathetic to get anyone their own age interested in them.
The tranny shit isn't because of videogames, its because of autism, no meaningful social contact, and a "grass is always greener" attitude from beta males that have put the pussy on such a huge pedestal that they're convinced life is simply just better as a woman even if you aren't actually a woman.
All they have to do is toss on a pair of programmer socks and suddenly people are complimenting them and saying nice things, which are the sorts of things beta male shut-ins don't normally get to experience.
That all sounds about right. At risk of sounding like an eternal boomer, I really don't think playing Goldeneye 007 had a negative effect on my childhood brain. They sure don't make them like that anymore...
Will someone please think of the children??!!
Kys conformist kikesucker
>t. Mothers Against Pornography
You seem upset,
Are you one of those guys that knows that he's too pathetic for any woman his own age to ever pay any attention to him, so you have to try and message younger girls that wouldn't know any better?
Honestly I think this is the biggest reason for the apparent "rise" in online predators, I don't think most of these men are actually malicious predators, I just think they're lonely and pathetic and they know it.
They know that only someone who's brain is literally not finished developing and can't process abstract thought would think that your affection isn't something to be repulsed by. Probably the same reason why you see so many posters say that a woman is "ruined" if she's ever had a boyfriend before or isn't a virgin. Not because it actually makes a meaningful difference, but because it ruins the verisimilitude of their fantasies. They can't actually get off to that character anymore because they know deep down that if she had been with anyone else she would have liked them better, they would probably have been more attractive, in better shape, more charismatic, have better personal hygiene, been a more interesting conversationalist, and had actual ambitions and goals in life aside from getting a GF.
I think lolifags are very similar, except they're on a whole different level and can't even imagine cartoon women their own age being interested in them, they're so pathetic that even in their imaginary fap sessions an adult cartoon women would reject them and its more believable to imagine a loli that is too stupid to know any better than to associate with someone like him.
I genuinely feel sorry for pedo/lolifags, they're reprehensible, but I feel like its an issue of excessive failure to launch, rather than simple malicious intent. I really doubt there are any lolifags or unironic cunny posters that have a shred of self respect or self confidence, its like the ultimate cuck fetishes.
I could be wrong though, this is just conjecture.
>tfw just inside the threshold for gen z
feels good
Games sparked my interest in IT which eventually let me to both here and my career. The problem isn't games, it's the way they're psychologically design to be addicting and give the "ten more minutes" feeling, and also designed to fleece you. I personally very rarely play any game released after 2010 because of all the modern bullshit