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>Not to mention that after 29 women completely disappear from the internet.

Glad someone else noticed this. Almost feels like there's a smaller population of women than we're being told.

because this shit makes me laugh
maybe helps you lads
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What regrets do you oldfags have?

I regret not joining any fandom. I should have joined any fandom. Literally any fandom. I mean, there's a crappy /d/ artist, who's been around for yearsm I follow on twitter, has about a 1000 followers and fewer on his patreon. And yet he still gets nearly $1K each month and is able to make friends with other /d/egenerates and meet women in his very narrow niche (admittedly very few but greater than zero).

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I very much see this being my future. I actually am in a relationship though, however if I'm being completely pragmatic it would be a very foolish decision to marry her. She has hundreds of medical bills racked up from incurable illness, and her family is poor white trash who don't know how to manage money, themselves or each other. We wouldn't be better off than our families because she is just like them and doesn't understand how fucked her lifestyle is. I'd go into serious debt, our kids would be socially awkward and probably autistic. Her parents would make terrible grandparents, honestly. And my parents are dead. I'm quickly approaching a life of mediocrity and I'm scared.

Why are you with her then? Just lonely?

You need to actually do things to earn money off fandom. Source: have been a member of fandom for years, didn't get anything out of it except for online friends I still talk to every now and then.
>meet women
look bud, if you can't do it outside of the fandom, you won't have much luck inside it as well

Regrets indicate that I would have some way to fix things. I don't. It's just a long running joke.

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She's very sweet and has shown me consistent kindness since we've met. However, she isn't great with empathy so it hurts that she doesn't relate to me. Think of how your pet will cuddle you when you're sad, but obviously doesn't have the tools to understand or elevate you when you feel that way.

I do care about her best interests, but I did enter this relationship because I'm very lonely. Now I'm just lonely with someone else.

I won't be a minimum wageslave, but I will be alone got a long time, I imagine. Me and a middle school friend used to joke that we'd end up as 80 year old alcoholics. He married a fat whale and has two kids now. We don't talk much anymore. At all, really.

You should drop dreams about kindred spirits, those only happen to meet in Hollywood movies, which by the way have done a lot of harm to our views on how family should look like. Reality is far more mundane.

I'm realistic enough to know that I won't meet a soulmate, however we're polar opposites. We don't have anything in common, and we don't see the world the same way. I think she's in love with me because we took the other's virginity. I probably would have felt the same, but after dealing with death and everything just months before I'm mostly numb in this relationship.

I could've drawn shit, I would've learned to draw at least at the level of the worst of them by now.

And even having a few friends would've been great.

>You need to actually do things to earn money off fandom.
I understand that, I was just implying that dedicating time and effort to literally anything, no matter how stupid or niche still (somehow) yields results.

>look bud, if you can't do it outside of the fandom, you won't have much luck inside it as well
Judging by his profile(s) he was socially anxious and I guess meeting people inside his fandom helped to grow outwards.

>dedicating time and effort to literally anything, no matter how stupid or niche still (somehow) yields results.
This is actually true, I was into retro video games ever since I was a kid and started to collect them and buy them for cheap.
Now a decade later and I'm selling them on ebay for profit and living it up as a NEET.
I dunno how but getting into retro games is what is funding my life right now, even if it's just selling all the shit I've autisically collected.

>What regrets do you oldfags have?
Taking a humanities degree instead of accounting, and quitting my first job, which was the best paid job I ever had.

But things might have been bad anyway, so I don't feel too bad about it. I'm so lackadaisical that I feel like I would have been fucked regardless of what I did - except if I were born into money maybe.

>which was the best paid job I ever had.
Which was?

>tfw one of the high school kids at work found out that I'm 29 and now he keeps asking me when I'm going to have kids

Sounds like your ready to bounce. i don't know you, but i'm guessing you're not a high value male. This could be the only relationship you ever get.

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Retail wagecucks, I just started a job where they want me to be on my feet all day, and I can't do it. What happens to me if i just bring in my own stool, not even counter height just to kneel on?

Yeah basically, it was 24 years of being a virgin in my prime. It's only downhill from here, since others are getting married now.

>he bought a stool to work
Do it you absolute madman

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If you can't stand for 8 hours then you should have told them that you were disabled when you applied. They usually ask questions like that.

You get used to it, just push through the pain

>What regrets do you oldfags have?
get the fuck out you little cock sucker

This answer makes me uncomfortable. What's the worst thing that could happen?

I work in the Customer service part of the store. There's some cubicles back there and no one told me I'd be standing. Turns out those desks are for Mr. Shekelberg and Co. I'm doing all office work, but standing up.

28 and I'm starting my new job tomorrow after 18 months of NEET-dom. I'm about to kill myself.

>What's the worst thing that could happen?
Are you seriously this socially retarded? jesus christ man, you dont bring your own fucking furniture to work, it's not your house.

>This answer makes me uncomfortable. What's the worst thing that could happen?
youtube.com/watch?v=Bsxiz7DFHuI

So then here is what will happen
You'll have to tell them that you are physically incapable of performing your job and ask permission for special accommodation. They will probably get upset because they think you are trying to jew them. Also you are posing a threat to their work model because if they make accommodations to you then everyone will want a stool also. So they will probably require you to submit medical documentation saying that this is necessary for you.
That's the most optimistic scenario.
They could also just tell you to fuck off and fire you if you persist.

Ahahahaha is this really how jobs work in America? Holy fucking shit are you people that insane? What the fuck. It's just a stool Jesus Christ. Who would even force a guy to stand and why? Are your brains really that cucked to the Jew?

Dudes things can get better over time. I was heavily depressed from 25-30. Had some issues. Saw no fucking future. I'm 31 now and I have a job. A startup company that is doing well. I am going to buy some cattle and work even more in my startup. I might reach 1% earning (In my country that is not the US) I'm in great fucking shape for my age specially compared to my friends. I'm kind of a loner but I am happy with that. I learned to accept things I can't change and do what I can to be productive and do stuff that I love. A full day for me is like the antidote for depression.

It's crazy. In my country the work dep would bend over and anal rape any company that denied a worker something as simple as a stool if they had to stand for long periods.

Plus= Stop fapping, stop porn, if you like being on the computer do something productive while at it. (I learned english that way) workout! Your body is designed to be athletic and strong. Please do it. It will change everything inside and out. Make habits. Please get up and go to sleep at the same time every day regardless. Humans are creatures of habit. Avoid social media. If you use stuff like instagram follow stuff that is constructive, don't follow instagram sluts.

Yes, it's real. Even people with ankle injuries don't get a pass, one girl was fired in part for sitting on a stool too often because of an injury. It has nothing to do with the ability to do the job, in this case typing orders into a computer behind a desk, but ensuring submission and compliance in the employee. I could hear older employees and management cursing under their breath when they saw someone younger sitting on a stool. They worked 20 or 30 years on their feet getting varicose veins and permanently swollen feet so they feel the younger people should go through the same insane regimen of submission. It's one big cycle of abuse, thank God I broke out of retail.

Not an entry level wageslave but with an actual job that pays for a somewhat decent life.
Still a failed normie, which is the worst feel ever (you desire to have a family and a cute gf, social hobbies, friends - but can't have any of it due to autism and not understanding humans like you were some kind of robot).

No. The above poster is just getting his dick hard by sounding smart. If you brought a stool in, literally no one would give a fuck, or, at worst, they would be like, "hey could you take that stool back home"

I make 8 dollars an hour more than a wage slave, but still feels the same.

Taking a History degree instead of just going to a technical school and getting an IT degree.

I could of saved 3 years of my life.

Nobody ever really asks me about my relationship status. I suppose I am not surprised to be "that guy" but as a teen I always had a lot of anxiety when trying to picture my future.

Sometimes I worry about the far future, when I'm old, but I figure if I start to reach the point that I can't care for myself that I'll just shoot myself.

I regret spending as much time on Jow Forums as I have.

I'm turning 29 in 4 days and am a total NEET. I need to get a job in one week or I think I'll off myself. I'll even flip burgers, fuck it, I can't stand being so useless and feeling unfulfilled. I used to draw stuff for a bit of cash but lost all my motivation and creativity. I kinda want to go back to school since i never got a bachelors but i have no money and dont know if i can get a loan with bad credit. I have one best friend of 16 years who even offered to be roommates if i can scrounge up $300 a month to cover under half the rent but im flat broke. I could make that in a week with a min wage job too but here I am sitting in bed. It hurts, lads.

Studying memedicine.
I should have gone for an actual STEM career

>Studying memedicine.
The fuck is wrong with studying medicine? It's like a guaranteed NHS job at the end of it AND you get to put Dr at the front of your name.

Its the people, I dont have the empathy to actually care about my patients beyond a professional level. Its like I just want them to get better to prove myself right and because a complicated case is usually a lot more work.

I dont care about curing or helping people, I just want my scientific curiosity to be sated.

>I dont have the empathy
Edgy.

Not him, but how are you supposed to express a lack of empathy without being called edgy? What if it's genuine?

Being a psychopath is edgy.

What does edgy even mean, then?

26 here. I got an aggravated DUI Friday and probably lost my job because I have 3 no call no shows when I was in jail. My extended family knows because they were here to visit. I'm about to spend $500 to get my car from towing which is almost all my money. My court date is in June and I can't leave town until then. Fuck me. I deserve it though. Life was going good until I took a day off work to drink.

>I deserve it though.
Why would you ever believe you deserve something negative? Why would you punish yourself? Change your mindset my man.

Dang that sucks dude. Were you drinking at a bar and got caught on the way home?

I just say that because I was the one to choose to drink and drive.

I went out of town to drink. I live near the border and got caught at a border patrol stop.

>almost 28
>can't get into old gaia online account
>make new one
>kind of overwhelming
>thinking of spending $100 to get gay cash to buy stuff rather than spending my time grinding
>remember i'm 28 and this website is filled with insane tweens who write paragraphs about how you can't copy their catgirl avatar OC

Damn it. why do i have to have nostalgia for such a craphole?

Good thing they caught you before your drunk ass caught another car, killing or crippling innocent people.

>Damn it. why do i have to have nostalgia for such a craphole?

Cos it was a time when possibilities seemed infinite.

Yikes. You really should have thought that through, especially if you gotta deal with border shenanigans.
This sort of shit is why I'll only drink at home or somewhere I can crash for the night.
I'm sure you've learned your lesson though, granted you did it the hard way.

>I just say that because I was the one to choose
So what? It doesn't benefit you to accept guilt.

If he's guilty about it then he's unlikely to do it again. Why wouldn't he want to feel guilty? I'd say it's beneficial in this case.

Is Jow Forums actually falling apart now? That massive read text at the top seems foreboding.

Or, they aren't really women at all. Lots of trannies about, including your favourite actors, political leaders, and your boss.

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You know something terminally wrong with Jow Forums when even nu-Jow Forums trolling doesn't make sense.

Man, I'm an old loser, but you guys have me beat. You all are one giant bag of human misery.

you fuckers need to get into sales

sales of wat

>Jow Forums the imageboard
>*now with images
fuck that jap retard

really doesn't matter...most sales jobs will take anyone and train them, then it's just a matter of doing that shit, getting paid, rinse and repeat

He's not a retard, he's probably realising that it's not profitable to keep Jow Forums running. I think the Jow Forums-influx must be slowing down now.

Hey guys, I've been NEET for over 5 years, any other veteran NEETS here?

How are you sustaining yourself?

Not pursuing any hobby so that I would have friends.
It's not too late, but I'm already past the point where such things would feel natural.

Faking a mental illness (depression). Probably

10 years ago i tried to kill myself and backed out so i regret that.

27. part time min wage night job. alcoholic junkie. avoid everybody all the time. criminal record, recently arrested for stealing liquor and carrying a weapon. in court soon. family despises me. no friends, whatsoever. no real hobbies, skills or talents. downfall. downfall. downfall. downfall

i get paid tomorrow, i'm buying a few new bits of camping gear then going to live in a field. i can afford a permanent pitch there with my job, still eat and pay for mobile internet. bought some turbo yeast to make my own booze. if i live, i will do this for a while, save up for a van, maybe a trailer, and truly leave society. work on my art skills so i can sell porn, start growing dope and selling that on the DN, i don't know, something

i need to pass an MDT to not go to prison so i've actually been sober for a couple weeks. this has only reinforced these ideas

true misanthropic downfall. fuck life

22, full time wageslave. I still live with my parents bc rent is insane here. I want to off myself.

>but I'm already past the point where such things would feel natural.
Oh yeah, I thought about anime/manga clubs but like I detest most anime these days. It's not like before where I could watch entire series of utter shit without being bored.

why do you drink so much? i don't get alcoholics.

liquid courage. it helps you say "fuck everything, i'm a badass, let them come" when things get bad. alcohol can actually make dark times kinda fun, temporarily. but if you're a certain kind of person it does get you into a lot of trouble

not other poster, but for me it's something to do, it's always been a social thing for me (get drunk at bars, meet other drunk people at bars), helps me with creativity, gives you a nice warm buzz feeling, makes u think about shit you wouldn't think about sober

I regret not cleaning myself up more in high school. I didn't shower, didn't take care of myself. Once I started cleaning up in College I had girls all paying attention to me but I had none of the required social skills to do anything about it. Then I dropped out and went into the Army, then got kicked out for being out of shape. So really I fucked myself in high school by playing CoD all day instead of using the easy years to Chad up.

sorta had a feeling life was going to end up like this since i was a kid, always knew i was never set up for being chad with family

Admin assistant, paid like 22k bongbux a year and I only had to work 35 hours a week. It's not a lot compared to American salaries, but I didn't have to do much and it's a lot better than jobs I've had since.

I admitted that I'm lonely at work and now a colleague said I'll go with them next time they're drinking.

The thing is, I don't feel comfortable with that. I don't speak their language fully and I'm too timid around huge groups of people. I also have this heavy feeling in my chest that's weighing me down and I don't feel like engaging in anything. But this might be the only chance for me to find friends in this country for the rest of my life.

I wish I hadn't admitted that I'm lonely.

You're so pretentiously edgy it's reaching critical levels of obnoxiousness. Chances are you're not even finished with your degree or just starting out.

>those only happen to meet in Hollywood movies
No, they don't. They happen in real life. It's a game of chance.

Just go and make the most of it. Be someone else for the night.

That's an interesting thought.
I also faintly remember never thinking about having a family and children. Moreso, it kind of made me embarrassed to think about that so I just ignored it. I fucked up.

I was so naive to study painting in college. That route is for geniuses who will show in galleries, and I'm perfectly average. Wound up working a bit over minimum wage in a wood shop cutting jigsaw puzzles. Tried moving up in the world and got a job at a print shop. Learned a lot about industrial printing, but the boss was like a stereotype of a fat cat boss. Very condescending, short temper, micromanaged everything I did, would never listen to me and assumed I didn't know how to do anything. I'm dyslexic so sometimes things are more difficult for me as I have to correct my own mistakes. The guy fired me last week, not even a "thanks for the hard work" from him. Guess I'll write to the puzzle shop asking if they need help still. They're good dudes. But the work gets so boring after a while. No idea how I'm ever going to move up in the world and gain autonomy over my own work and put a roof over my own head. I feel like a character in the movie "Elysium", or like a replicant out of Blade Runner: scraping by in a dying world, part of a hated underclass, fighting tooth and nail not to get ahead, but to keep from sinking lower

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Why do Americans marry and have kids so young? In southern Europe most people with 25 still live with their parents

>underclass
Don't worry man, the dystopian future is really not that far off.

>be someone else
Never be someone else. Do you know how arduous it is to pretend all the time? That's literally what "be yourself" is about. Don't try to be something you aren't, because it won't bring you anything in the long term if you can't keep it up for the rest of your life. It will only complicate things.

My problem is also that I can't be myself, because I'm fucking pathetic. Not even I would be friends with myself under these circumstances right now. I actually do have to pretend to be someone else at work and generally, because I am just so empty, cynical and bland.