So, it's been a pretty shit decade for older robots. Jow Forums has gone to shit, the internet has gone to shit, most, if not all, subcultures/niches have gone mainstream, movies are just mostly trash now, geekdom now belongs to the normies, social isolation is that much more debilitating, etc.
The old internet was full of opportunities that we didn't take full advantage of. I really should have went full autist and joined an online fandom, no matter how stupid it was and do meetups but I didn't and now geekdom is closed off to me because this new generation of geeks have assimilated into the normie crowd. They're not fake nerds/geeks, they just got dealt a MUCH better hand.
We're basically complete outsiders, a new subclass of losers that are probably only exist for a short period of time and disappear. Even furries have gotten their shit together and those freaks are probably no more than 5 years off going fully mainstream.
There's gonna be an unexplained mass of suicides of late 80s/early 90s kids.
"Movies are all trash now", says man on Internet who only watches trashy action movies once every few months
Josiah Williams
Don't be so pessimistic. You can still join fandoms centered at an older audience, and if you are truly desperate there's still wizardchan.
Lincoln Morales
this is a shitty OP for a 25+ thread please use one of the other ones
Parker Robinson
I think OP needs to give the new a age a shot. Movies have been feeling a lot less ''corporate'' lately, feeling more like director's cuts than the typical Hollywood reedits we've gotten used to.
Samuel Wood
Up yours, I start a decent chunk of the 25+ threads. There is a reason I pick this image. We are LOW.
I have a season pass I watch films most of the day when I'm not working.
Nathaniel Phillips
I promise that if they make another fucking superheroes movie I will shoot myself at the cinema.
>Not bumping your thread. Make a better OP or fuck off. Alright then. Go away.
Julian Hall
I think I'm in an even lower position because I don't have any hobbies or interests. My life is so bleak and I don't have the will to find something I might like. All I do is lie in bed and wait for death but he/she/it seems to be running late.
John Butler
Don't watch them then fucknut
James Martin
>their brainlet
Ryan Murphy
I don't. They are still everywhere, seems like it is not enough for me not watching them to stop the situation.
Caleb Harris
I think, like hand drawn animation, 00s internet culture was purely due to the restraints and lack of tools that made it less accessible than it is now.
We're never going have anything like that again.
Noah Clark
There's no "situation", if you don't like something then don't watch it. They still put out shitty Tyler Perry movies constantly, but I don't watch them and it doesn't affect me
Josiah Carter
Start listening to music. It takes no effort to simply enjoy it, and is quite an interesting pastime. I'd advise you to stay far away from /mu/, the board approaches reddit-tier faggotry.
Charles Myers
Who cares they've got rock-hard abs and actually fit girls participating in their dumb fandom with professional quality suits.
Putting all your energy into something, even if it's dumb, will eventually pay off.
Christopher Sullivan
Is it okay if I post a planning space in this thread if it stays up till midnight-ish?
Carter Hall
I do but I really can't get into music because there's so much stuff out there that just thinking about it gives me a panic attack also music snobbery has really put me off. I also have pedestrian taste in music.
Jace Perez
OP pick brought back some memories so I'm going to share some furry shit, going to be a long one.
>be me less than 10 years ago, can't remember what year, propably 2010-2012 or earlier >be around 20 y/o >browsing the chans, mostly /b/ because newfag >furry friday spam etc >think nothing of it at first >enter a thread, open a pic >confusedboner.gif >cave in and fap to the stuff >newfetish.jpg >start browsing furry porn sites and forums >join a really cringy forum and make a "fursona" and everything >nothing much comes of it, a couple of people contact me, some guy wants wants to cyber so I freak out and delete everything
>browse a local furry forum >apparently they hang out in Second Life a lot >download SL, make a furry avatar >follow a thread and find some people from my cunt, go chat up with them and hang around >mostly act like I would in a real life bar, just sit and barely chat, mostly reply when talked to >a lot of them are cybering and shit, being really gay >I feel like the odd one out and too straight and normal for this, but I stick around because they are okay people I think >after months of this we got a semiregular group of friends in SL >we slowly get a plan for a RL meetup in a rented cabin innawoods >thiscantbesafebutIamlonelyasfucksoImgonnago
>exchange phone number with one guy who lives nearest to rented cabin, we're gonna meet up in his city >cross half my country in a train, anxious as heck >arrive at city, phone the guy and he drives to the train station >like 4-5 of us furryfaggots there, all guys no surprise, everyone looks pretty normal, but quiet and reserved. I'm the youngest of the group by far, I find out later >we pile in the car and drive to cabin >unpack our shit >someone brought a tv, vidya consoles, snacks, booze, etc >but the party ain't starting, I guess everyone is really on edge because its a fucking furry meetup between total strangers >I decide to break the ice and boot up some shitty memes, vidya and open a beer
cont.
Hudson Gonzalez
>girls They're gay dumbo. You think three straight men pose nude together on a bed and erect?
Don't go into graphic detail into the sex parts please. Just tell us what came of it.
I meant in general and not the pic you fuck.
Nicholas Stewart
>I go upstairs and open my suitcase >put on trap clothes, thigh-highs, miniskirt, tight t-shirt >first time I've put them on in front of anyone >ask one guy for a detachable tail to add to my outfit >all the guys are staring at me in awe >attach the tail, take a sip of beer and ask who wants to play some video games >one guy agrees and we play some Worms or something >I'm usually a very introverted and reserved guy so but since I decided to let loose, they all start easing up about it >why the fuck would we agree to meetup and come all the way here and rent a cabin if we're not going to do anything with it >the evening starts to turn alright, people are getting drunk and having fun >we play vidya, watch stuff and chat for a whole weekend >go swim in a lake, take a sauna, all that good stuff >some of the guys are getting pretty touchy with eachother, headpats and cuddling all around >I get hugs and headpats too, but nothing too lewd >two of the guys spend the night in a king-size bed, don't want to know what went on in there >surprisingly I get to sleep undisturbed and my anal virginity intact
>after the weekend is wrapping up, we pack up the guy's car and drive back to the train station >tearful goodbyes all around, waiting to get back home and spend more time in SL together >many of them thank me personally for breaking the ice on the first night and we all laugh about it >met up with quite a few of those guys and some other furries too every now and then >had a couple of more meetups in their homes and such
Eventually I stopped going to SL and fapping to furry porn, guess it was just a weird phase. Just like those trap clothes were too. But I am glad of what I've done, and the friendships / gayships I helped create. Its funny how my most successful social interactions have been with gay dudes who are into some really degenerate porn, and that was what connected us, at least back then.
Zachary Rivera
Don't fucking avatarfag, jesus
Jace Murphy
Furries that fit. Holy shit those weirdos can definitely get more pussy than any of us.
Benjamin James
What's become of you nowadays?
Bentley Robinson
I just wonder what is going to happen to us. We're not geeks, nerds, gamers, goths, emos, furries, nothing, just sacks of meat taking up space.
That was that shock jock guy on the internet right? I have very very vague memories of him.
Isaiah Perry
you need to find your niche you enjoy. I only listen to one artists for a year and his music is so chill it totally destroys any stress or anxiety.
Hudson Ortiz
Moved into my first apartment today. I'm 28. The TV doesn't work yet and the cable guy has no idea what's wrong, so that sucks. My internet speed is 170 mbps though, that's great. It feels fucking weird to be on my own though. I've lived with my mom my whole life.
I have to smoke at the bus stop because there's no balcony. I heard some screaming earlier. I live downtown and it's a pretty dodgy neighborhood. I hope I can get used to it without being paranoid all the time. There's lots of shit nearby though, a grocery store, a gas station, 3 bars, 2 liquor stores and a train station. There's always people walking by my apartment and I'm on the ground floor. It's quite noisy. I'm not used to this. My windows are ground level, like a basement.
>The TV doesn't work yet and the cable guy has no idea what's wrong, so that sucks. Who watches the telly these days anyway man?
>My internet speed is 170 mbps though, that's great. You know, finally getting high speed broadband is not the great feeling it used to be.
John Butler
I watch TV, use a desktop computer with a full sized keyboard and play world of warcraft, and don't use my smartphone for anything but text and voice. Because I'm old, I guess.
I've always had 15mbps so this is a huge upgrade.
Jacob Allen
>I watch TV I guess American telly is different to UK telly to warrant viewing.
Grayson Hall
It's for relaxing. You don't have to plan what you want to watch, you just turn it on and it keeps playing and you lay back and have a drink and maybe have a nap.
Luke Lewis
>bad decade >implying >can rice the shit out of my machine and even unjew winjews >can get any media I want without even needing to torrent (xdcc, madokami, 4kvd, bookzz) >tons of amazing music on youtube (that I can then simply download for free, instantly) >everything is available online, from pizza delivery to shopping to job applications >phones are now mini-computers >you can use shit like meetup to make friends you otherwise couldn't, no more social cliques shut off from you >travel is cheap, moving is cheap and easy >laptops are aesthetic and lightweight, super powerful now >tons of how to and instruction videos on jewtube, learn anything you want >guides online on how to do anything you could imagine >health food and fitness are normie now, tons of choices available >can stocktrade on my phone for free for god's sake THIS is the internet age. >m-muh fake geeks Who cares? Their dollars support my anime, I get more anime. Win win.
Bentley King
Those furries are are fucking hot! I want them to do things to me!
>you can use shit like meetup to make friends you otherwise couldn't, no more social cliques shut off from you Does that shit even work for social retards our age?
Jace Powell
>geekdom now belongs to the normies
This is the one hurts that hurts me the most. Mostly because I still want to enjoy it but it's crowded with normies, and contrarians who used to enjoy it, but now hate it 'cause of the normies, reject me because I still cling to it, making me feel lonley.
Liam Reed
>>The old internet was full of opportunities that we didn't take full advantage of. I really should have went full autist and joined an online fandom, no matter how stupid it was and do meetups but I didn't and now geekdom is closed off to me because this new generation of geeks have assimilated into the normie crowd. Yeah, pretty much.
I always made fun of the actual internet autists, but now even the other people who made fun of them (SomethingAwful goons for example) got accepted into SJW circles and now bully people like me.
Jace Johnson
Not him, but it kinda does, people on meetups are usually very welcoming and understanding.
Ian Ward
Why are you projecting your failures onto the rest of us?
Aiden Lopez
just the signs of the times user a most miserable sign of the times
Noah Cooper
KILL NIGGERS AND JEWS
Jacob Ward
>projecting your failures >not being able to empathize with OP Haha, it's funny because you don't belong here. Fuck off, normie.
I was wondering how many of you think fear and doubt has ruled your lives?
I've been looking back at my life and even a couple of years back doubt held me back. I started (or tried to) a small business which was *relatively* niche thing to do with vidya. I made and sold a couple of items and made a small bit of money. Thought about doing it on a slightly bigger scale, researched it, looked at competitors, worked out the costs and put it on the back burner because I was too afraid of putting the money forward from the very small sum I made from wageslavery.
Two things happened after: one of the competitors I kept an eye on (who started in exactly the same position as me making the product at home) got bigger and bigger and was able to land a deal with local game shops and even made into their local newspaper. The small sum sat in my account doing nothing, cos I never used it.
It's not like you would've succeeded anyway, did you have all the contacts and backing that they did? I doubt it.
Adrian Barnes
>It's not like you would've succeeded anyway Wouldn't have matter if I failed, it would have been at least an attempt. The fact is that I didn't even try, I was too scared of losing money I don't even spend.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. I mean, I had another idea before that, a youtube idea, I even bought a domain, registered the name on twitter & facebook to start this thing. And it was a stupid idea that I had in my head for years, and the fact it was a stupid idea, again I put on the back burner for fear of being laughed at. Then someone sent me a link to some guy who had the same idea (years later) and his channel has millions of views and he got sponsorships.
Everything is lost.
Brandon Ross
I've thought about going to either a MtG meetup or a social anxiety meetup. I more scared to go to a social anxiety meet cos there seems to be pretty people at it.
Kevin Rogers
>be me >work at memebucks with a bunch of staceys >standing in the back office in a circle listening to them talk >quietly sipping my beverage without talking just listening >a new stacey comes up and addresses me >"oh guess what user i finally got that thing i was telling you about" >nod my head to acknowledge her >suddenly she goes "what was THAT face" >all the staceys start chiming in >"oh that's his i-don't-care face" >they all start making the same face one after the other laughing >i start looking at all of them, swinging my head back and forth >they're all doing the same face >lips pursed together, raised eyebrows and averting eyes down and to the side >"that's his face that he does when he wants you to leave him alone hahahaha" >tfw you're so autistic that everyone knows how to impersonate your autism face what did i do to deserve this why am i so retarded
Gavin Taylor
i am living at my parent's house but i'm going to apply for my dream job (i dropped out of college), but i'm going to take classes at the same time just for interest in physics
Luke White
Well on the plus side they don't hate you, so you're doing better than 99% of autists around stacies
Blake Bennett
Don't give a fuck about those thots
Julian Sanchez
I don't think they're being mean, purposefully anyway. On the other everyone knows your a sperg.
Juan Garcia
Hey 25 ning like b
Isaac Carter
Would it be better to suicide at or before 30?
David Cooper
Current life for me in a nutshell >car dies >get fucked over by two different mechanics while trying to have it fixed >have to get a new (used) car >missed one payment on my student loans so the car loan interest is ridiculously high >get new job to pay for it >the job pays a bit more and is higher in status and what I studied in college but x10 in stress >constantly broke paying off debts >working my ass off and still can't move out of my parents house >ah well, at least I have a spiffy new (used) car to cruise around in >yesterday >getting rent money from the bank >scrape the curb at the drive through ATM >big scrape and dent the rocker panel >body shops are all closed by the time I leave work and I can't afford to miss multiple days of work to drop it off and wait for the repair >working this hard just to look like I'm driving a shitbox again >mfw
>wasting money on cosmetic repairs you deserve to be financially struggling desu who gives a shit that there's a dent in it are you a boomer or something?
Carson Butler
You do realize rust spreads and fucks yo more things over time right I live where it snows, salt will eat that shit right up
Angel Brooks
why does it seem as if I am totally invisible to people. people totally and completely ignore me wherever I go. a lot of roasties just straight up look at me with contempt if their eyes happen to cross my path. just today I was at Starbucks and the person who took my order didn't treat me in a friendly way. they didn't even make eye contact. I even threw my change into their tip jar and i made sure that they would notice it but they didn't say thank you or acknowledge it.
people definitely used to be nicer, I'm trying to figure out if the general mood in society has changed or if I simply went from somewhat autistic to completely autistic. I might as well be invisible to people and I know for sure the world used to be a lot more friendly and easy going than it used to be.
Landon Brooks
>trap
You wanna know something hilarious? Even if you get desperate enough to lower your standards to include men in dresses, traps are in just enough demand that they can reject you?
Carter Roberts
>or if I simply went from somewhat autistic to completely autistic. Sorta, all those ticks and odd mannerisms you have been compounder by age.
Those same mannerism *might* have been seen as cute and awkward when you were younger are probably seen as really odd now.
Jordan White
I never mastered the fake smile. I will admit it. there was a time in my late teens where I was working retail where I almost got into the swing of things but by the time my early 20s rolled around my face just felt inelastic. thus I was totally unable to fake smile any more.
still though. it seems like something is in the air. black people especially seemed more easy going and approachable when Obama was in office. I don't know what it is. I don't look too significantly different than I did five years ago but it seems as if everyone looks at me as if were a leper. people just seem more on edge in general. I can't put my finger on it.
Jose Hughes
>I never mastered the fake smile Neither did I. I think lost it actually.
Juan Collins
All the photos I take come with a neutral expression.
Ethan Green
I know that feel user. Except every three or four months some very good looking roastie makes eye contact with me and smiles. It totally throws me off and I spend weeks wondering why she bothered to smile at me like that.
Carter Kelly
Its sounds like if you stopped being an uninterested asshole youd get along with them. Youre never gonna fuck them but you could at least be friends.
Adrian Price
First I have to congratulate you on your quad dub dub.
Anyway, this is where you inexperience has fucked you over and you'll forever be wondering if they saw something in you or not. And your self-sabotaging mind which won't let you believe that other people might like you as a person.
Andrew Davis
Is it really sabotage if I know that I am unattractive? You call it self sabotaging, I call it realism.
Hudson Robinson
Sure, but how can you succeed in anything if you always have a self-defeating attitude?
Justin Hernandez
>Name is Ben, full name is Benjamin >Cute girl at work always calls me Benjamin >Think it's cute >Talking about names one day and I mention how I like my name and how I think Benjamin sounds kind of formal and professional >She laughs and says Benjamin sounds like a kids name Suicide now or later gentlemen?
Lots of 25 plus people are normies and happy with life though. Not all 25 year olds are robots.
Brody Bennett
Here we're lamenting the loss of time and all your issue is that a pretty girl thinks your name sounds a bit childish.
Dominic Rivera
Sounds like bantz user.
Robert Gray
...I was just talking about the 25+ robots not the normies.
Jackson Davis
No problem too small, too petty
Anthony Hernandez
getting a programming job without a degree is just another pipe dream isn't it
William Phillips
Unless you can somehow demonstrate that you're a programming wiz, then yes. Plus, a lot of times a degree is just a sign that you're a well-functioning adult and can actually commit to something.
Brandon Edwards
I hear if you have a porfolio and certs it'll help.
Nathaniel Cook
How good are you at it and what languages do you know?
Nathan Rogers
I'm depressed and it makes it difficult to be interested in anything, much more their little stories. I don't think it makes me an asshole. I'm not an asshole to them I'm just aloof. It seems like you just wanted to insult me for some reason.
Parker Rogers
Why would you want to be friends with a woman? If you can't fuck them what's the point?
Colton Powell
>what languages do you know C/C++ >how good are you at it I don't know, I haven't made anything that wasn't trivial. I did AoC with Jow Forums this year and it was the most fun i had in a long time, but implementing MD5 was probably the hardest thing i've done
I was looking at job listings earlier and every entry level position required a degree, 3+ years of experiance and knowledge of a bunch of techs/frameworks
Kevin Reed
>Their dollars support my anime, I get more anime. Win win.
I haven't had the ability to watch shitty anime in a long time. I remember in the 00s I could watch any old anime trash and be entertained.
Thomas Lewis
>pseudo parkinsonian symptoms as a side effect of the psychiatric medication I take >constantly shaking and twitching; basically look like a 90 year old Parkinson's patient as a young man of 27 >keep on getting fired from random landscaping jobs I'm given purely out of pity from landscapers who live in my neighborhood >psychiatrist tells me it's a permanent side effect of the medication I take, even if I stopped the meds it wouldn't go away (and i can't stop the meds anyway because the schizophrenia would come back) >constantly miserable if only I could drink everyday it would make life somewhat tolerable >old out of touch borderline geriatric father says that I should not drink and that i should go to church instead and that if I continue to get drunk everyday he's going to kick me to the curb every day I pray for the courage to commit suicide
Tyler Collins
>psychiatrist tells me it's a permanent side effect of the medication I take, even if I stopped the meds it wouldn't go away (and i can't stop the meds anyway because the schizophrenia would come back) Christ. I'm sorry man.
Charles Sullivan
you're not hot. sorry bro.
Jayden James
I thought i finally met a foreveralone fembot.
It turned out she has wild sexual fetishes, experience, friends, a life, everything.
Fuck this gay earth. How am I to meet a fat ugly friendless shut-in who doesn't whore herself out at this age?
Connor Robinson
a better question would be why do you expect random strangers to acknowledge you or take special notice of you in any way?
Justin Reed
He's probably hoping for something out of a movie to happen.
Easton Gomez
Not him but there's a whole spectrum between people totally ignoring you and people bowing before you as if you were a living Roman god. At the very least a person at Starbucks not making eye contact with you/not acknowledging your tip is definitely weird.