30+ Thread
I've been wondering what happened to our female counterparts? Not just on Jow Forums but IRL? Like maybe it's cause I live in a gentrifying part of London but I swear all the ugly-to-average girls (and dudes now that I think about it) have been culled.
You can't have ugly people into a gentrified city. It'll scare away the investors.
they leave...
go up north, they have all moved there to "be around friendlier people"
Is it really all that friendlier? I haven't left London in...30 years.
I've never seen a proper witch, I do remember the tripfag WitchKing mentioning he had met one once, she was 43 iirc, he gave a very compassionate description of her, being a woman and ending up like that is probably even worse.
The dating pool in an area like London must be immense though, if you use all the available sites and social media.
Nothing, they're living great lives. They are usually into BDSM or some other creepy fetish, and they just fuck people and get into weird sexual arrangements until they die.
>The dating pool in an area like London must be immense though, if you use all the available sites and social media.
No idea. And honestly I don't think things like tinder were designed for people like us. Maybe if this was the 00s when online dating was the haunts of cat ladies and dorks. Everyone seems like they're doing something active with their lives.
Does anyone have WitchKings posts I only have a few?
Lads, what anime should I see next, gimme some recs.
Serial Experiments Lain
I don't watch anime, but Lain is fucking great, I need to re-watch it thou
I think you came to the wrong thread, this is the 30+ thread. I don't know how you're still watching anime at 30+. The joys of anime and vidya died quite a while back in my mid 20s.
Already seen, it's a great show though. I think Boogiepop Phantom was made by the same people, it's got a very similiar touch if you want something more like it.
I guess you've grown up more than me, user. I'm 37 and I watch it erryday. Haven't played vidya ambitiously since the days you plugged a cartridge into a box to play or had to edit config.sys and autoexec.bat to get sufficient xms and ems memory for the game to run.
Yeah if it was me and I was suffering from excruciating loneliness I would probably not do tinder, but rather try to meet people on facebook or the likes, the sort of site that isn't exclusively for dating, then just try to find a group of friends and do stuff together, get a hang of the social stuff and see if I had any luck from there on.
>I guess you've grown up more than me, user. I'm 37
You're like 6 years older than me and you still enjoy anime?
Maybe you can help me with me theory? Cos I think people born past '91 to be part of the "geek is cool" wave bar exceptions like people who were super isolated. I also believe there's a lower band where geekdom was one of the few refuges of the social reject but I don't know where that lower band is.
Did it work for you?
What do you need help with, the theory is correct. If you were born in the 80s, you're part of the loser crowd, and even completely autistic and weird people born in the 90s will judge you and think you're a creep.
>You're like 6 years older than me and you still enjoy anime?
There's a lot I really like about it, it's at times very imaginative and offers niched stories that can't really be found elsewhere, the artwork is at times a feast for the eyes, the amplified violence is fun as hell, many characters offer a great opportunity for self insertion, cool and at times surprising soundtracks, I'm very fond of the japanese language and nip culture and customs in general, shinto shrines, tombs, buddhist temples, castles and famous gardens, kabuki and noh theatre, rakugo, tea ceremony and ikebana, martial arts and sumo wrestling etc. and it's all right there in the shows.
>Maybe you can help me with me theory? Cos I think people born past '91 to be part of the "geek is cool" wave bar exceptions like people who were super isolated. I also believe there's a lower band where geekdom was one of the few refuges of the social reject but I don't know where that lower band is.
Really can't comment on this, I grew up in the middle of nowhere, countryside schools with really few pupils, someone who grew up in the larger cities probably had it easier to observe stuff like this. I feel like I've encountered "weirdos" from all generations but I don't have a sample base large enough to detect trends.
>Did it work for you?
Never tried, the thought feels futile as fuck and a bit humiliating to be honest.
The part I need help with is the bit where I think is that there's a lower band maybe '85/'86(?) for who enjoyed the fandoms still being a niche thing into their 20s (and possibly early 30s) and enter one in their 20s without having to redesign themselves. Like I could try and enter a fandom now but I'd be the outcast since everyone in the fandom these days have regular social skills.
>someone who grew up in the larger cities probably had it easier to observe stuff like this
I grew up in a really shite part of the city, funny thing is though the surrounding boroughs (I found out much later) were also as violent and poor (or even more) but they had so much more going on and even had comic book shops and shit.
Are you going to try?
>I grew up in a really shite part of the city, funny thing is though the surrounding boroughs (I found out much later) were also as violent and poor (or even more) but they had so much more going on and even had comic book shops and shit.
Did you never spend time outside your district? If you're the London guy, wouldn't be super easy to get around via the subway? In '99 I spent 2 weeks in some apartment on Kings Road, made daily excursions all over the place, so easy to get around, although some places were pretty creepy and riddled with homeless people trying to get ones money.
>Did you never spend time outside your district? If you're the London guy, wouldn't be super easy to get around via the subway?
I was a really weak and introverted kid with overprotective parents in an area that was always on fire. Plus I was 10 in '99. I was pretty much a recluse by the time I got to college and uni. By the time I was a little more independent I was 25 and in a dead-end job that sucked the next five years of my life away.
>The part I need help with is the bit where I think is that there's a lower band maybe '85/'86(?) for who enjoyed the fandoms still being a niche thing into their 20s (and possibly early 30s) and enter one in their 20s without having to redesign themselves.
Well I'd say late 80s are probably fine. Early 80s and you're fucked.
I think you mean the inverse.
So late 80s-'91, if you were a geek born during that period and you didn't go find the nearest fandom/meetup/con/gathering at a young age, you were fucked.
From what I've gathered a bunch of them are dead from heroin or pills.
Some are in prison.
Some are parents
Lots of them are dead though
None of them have become successful though.
From what kind of sources did you gather that?
I wish I had gone to a board meetup back in the days.
Good evening you old fucks, what should I do to avoid being here in some years?
@49813467
Every goddamned thread. You Jow Forums for that shit.
That board is absolute garbage, I want to hear from people I can relate to.
@49813521
No that board will give you the same exact answers we'll give you. Take this piece of advice and then fuck off: Do what YOU want to do, cos someone somewhere will always be disappointed in you, just make sure that someone isn't you 10 years down the line.
Now fuck off.
Aight, noted.
>don't @ me bro
Any 30+ anons still around?
How many of you live in London? Cos I've thought about going to one of the rare /britfeel/ meetups but the attendants are all teens and early 20s.
Yeah I'm here, what do you want?
Just some older user to talk to man.
Well I'm listening, what do you want to talk about?
I don't know, advice, hope at jumpstarting your life at 30 when seemingly the entirely world has moved ahead, even the damn fandoms?
I wouldn't mind watching some anime with you on rabbit my friend , also 30+ here of course
Right here , how is life treating you ?
I guess I am a witch, since I'm 31yo khv. I have a normal job, no pets, small clean apartment.
>26 now
>that's just four years away from 30
>from thirty it's just a countdown to 40
>when you're 40 you're just as good as dead
help me deal with this please
>grandpas on Jow Forums
>"female"
>"counterparts"
>"gentrifying"
>"culled"
*sighs*
No pets? Why?
I would like to say something to you but like most, if not all, zoomers are gonna make it.
A/S/L/interests/other relevant info please, thanks.
What's rabbit? Also what kind of anime? I haven't watched any in years.
I think it's streaming site with a chat box.
oh cool, that sounds like fun. I think I only watched Black lagoon and a few other animes.
Got my first job as a bartender at the age of 21. Loved it at first. I learned how to make drinks, how to talk to people and I made pretty decent tips. The restaurant was also booming at the time. Now it's shit. We lost a lot of good workers and have all these druggy high school kids working here. I've been here for about 10 years now and I just want to leave, but I don't know how. I tried school, but I failed and dropped out. I've thought about getting some kind of cert online, but idk if that is a good plan. I just hope I can find something in 2019. The tips have gone down and I've slowly become an alcoholic just by working here.
Social life is good I presume?
Nope. I haven't talked to any of my high school/ college friends in years. The customers at the bar are all like 20+ years older than me. They're too busy with their own lives. I'm also not even that great being a bartender.
>Age gap
Seems like everyone our age is somewhere else. I swear everyone I work with is super old or young and still at uni or even sixth form.
What else on the internet do you look at? I keep coming back here to Jow Forums despite hating almost fucking everything I have looked at for years.
I just dont know what else there is. I am too old to spend time on traditional forums making that cliquey rapport those fart huffers all have, so thats out. I just dont know. I didnt expect to be in this situation. I remember when I first found Jow Forums thinking this is all the internet Ill ever need. Now I have nothing else and hate it here.
I cant not use the internet. It is all I know.
That's the story of my life. Even where I live everyone is in their early twenties or 40s.
>hope at jumpstarting your life at 30 when seemingly the entirely world has moved ahead
What makes you even think it is possible to play the game at this point?
I think we NEED to meet real people somehow, cos honestly I don't think I can stay here much longer, in life or Jow Forums.
I'm just trying to think what is low-entry these days?
Whether I can or cannot, life cannot continue this way. It's just too unbearable.
>The joys of anime and vidya died quite a while back in my mid 20s
Don't know about you, but that's when I moved out of my mom's home and actually started enjoying anime again. Now I cherrypick what I want to watch each season and I'm actually enjoying myself.
My experience with anime can roughly be summarized as follows.
>Mid teens
>"WOW! I LOVE ANIME!"
>Late teens/early twenties
>"Wow... a lot of anime is really trash. Do I really like this?"
>Mid//late twenties
>"WOW! THIS ANIME IS TRASH! I LOVE ANIME!"
Watch this season's UzaMaid. If it doesn't bring a smile to your face, you have no heart. It's just incredibly fucking stupid and ... well, it's shit. But I'll be damned if it doesn't bring a shit eating grin to my face.
Nothing at this age. Sorry dude.
Whatever I had in my teens that let me go through 100s of episodes of a shit anime, I don't have it anymore.
I work a shitty job as a cook and everyone is mostly ten years older or ten years younger.
>The joys of anime and vidya died quite a while back in my mid 20s.
This is a sad reality of 30+. I moved about six months ago and still haven't set up my TV at my new place. I was thinking about getting an SNES Classic and geting the TV set back up but I know I'd just be disappointed.
How do you watch that cutesy stuff?
Maybe it's anime fatigue, maybe you don't like anime or maybe you've just outgrown it. That's fine, my dude. Just find something else you enjoy. If you've tried that for a while and it doesn't work, try coming back to anime. Maybe you'll have a different perspective on it after sampling other forms of entertainment. Or maybe not. Or maybe you're watching the 'wrong' anime (ie. genres you don't enjoy). That's the great thing about hobbies: you enjoy what you enjoy, nobody can tell you otherwise.
I don't know, I guess it's 'healing' in a way? After having worked through a hard week at a shit tier job, it's comforting to see cute girls doing cute things.
I guess that makes sense. Same way I feel down after watching a dark movie.
>tfw I replaced my video game hobby with manga for older women
>tfw I recently started collecting some of them
>tfw I'm a guy
>Maybe it's anime fatigue
I doubt it. I even got a crt and bought old manga films. It's not the same.
>manga for older women
What's that? Does that mean you're gay?
It's called Josei. Not gay, but definitely weird.
Josei unironically have pretty good writing though (compared to most other manga). Nothing to be ashamed of.
Guessing the equivalent of romance novels?
My car broke down and I'm totally fucking stuck. I can't stop thin king about it and how all these kids I know have people who just give them cars for free and they don't do anything with it and just smoke weed all day. It's so fucking unfair and shitty
Yeah, my shitbox is on its last legs so I only drive it to work. Meanwhile my younger sister got a 2018 jetta.
Wow what's wrong with your shitty parents
She's the youngest and their favorite.Also paying for her worhthless degree in journalism.
I'm not OP, but I live in London. I imagine a lot of us live here because like 1 in 8 people in the UK live in London, and Brits are the second most common nationality on Jow Forums
I'd never go to one of those meet-ups though, I already regret the two times I met up with someone I met on Jow Forums
Any 30+ discords?
Also where my Ameribros at?
Yeah I worked 3 jobs over the summer, get A's in school, work my ass off constantly and get pretty much no help. I don't have to pay rent which is great but then again I'm biking to the bus every day at 5 am in the winter and I haven't eaten all day so life still really fucking sucks. I'm not even gonna get to use my degree since my shitty family is too poor and stupid and can't just give me a car
That sucks. I had to drop out because I couldn't pay the tuition and my parents started charging me rent because of that. I also live out in the middle of nowhere.
>I already regret the two times I met up with someone I met on Jow Forums
Why what happened?
These are post-2014 meetups, so I guess you can't expect much from them.
>Why what happened?
Nothing dramatic, but both times they came from overseas and it was just a little awkward/exhausting hanging around with them for so long. I would have preferred to just meet them, chill for an hour and then have gone home, but they were a lot more sociable than me and seemed oblivious to the fact that I wanted to leave after a couple of hours (I was too beta to assert myself and just go, plus it would have been pretty impolite)
How old were they? I get the feeling that at the very few remaining modern meetups they're mostly young people and not really autists in the classic sense.
What did you talk about?
Fallen asleep?
This night-shift is gonna kill me.
WitchKing most likely expired himself or has finally shed the decaying skin that is Jow Forums. I am very quite sad because I'd love nothing more than to dine on his words in return for feminine affection.
Were you around when he was posting?
Bumping at 0157
Yes! But it has been so dreadfully long since he last graced us with a beautiful exerpt, attestment to sorrow and woefully crafted. I enjoyed his flowery prose and religious usage in his descriptions of wizardry.
counter parts? they've banged dozens of dudes non stop since she hit puberty (conservative time estimate).
she's banging like 3 dozen guys and might consider actually talking to you since those guys won't return her call anymore
Did you ever reach out for him?
I am always hours late after he's posted. So he's never responded to me.
Tell me about yourself. Maybe if your situation is...not great....maybe it's worth seeking him out (stalking him)? Did he say where he lived?
Still working at 0253
In a less antagonistic way, you're right in the sense that I think our female counterparts are a lot smarter and less selective than us. I think most of them settled down earlier than us.
They didn't "settle down" they just rode the cock carousel and got pumped and dumped a few times. Now that they shat a few kids out or either likely are settling in with their 'fur children' cats. They're interested in all the guys they spent the last 10+ years talking about how they're pieces of shit losers because less and less younger chads are buying them free drinks at the bar for a lay every night and their womb is literally dying and telling her
>'stop using me as a circus side show attraction for a line up of a bunch of strange mens dicks, pump out a kid quick before they all turn into downies. I'm dying and I can't do it much longer anymore'
Some fucking idiot would be a schmuck to settle with a girl like that, what you spent 10 years in your 20's getting mocked by these cunts and playing video games and jerking off to porn alone while they've been partying it up with their friends laughing at fags like you.
Even if I thought like you, you're not even talking about the right girls.
All girls are the same, all guys are the same. Nobody is a special unique snow flake. If you think people suddenly give half a fuck about you after years of them proving the exact opposite you're more gullible than a fool. I have no fucking idea what kind of word could describe a person more gullible than a fool but I think you're name would be synonymous with it if you fall for that bull shit.
>They didn't "settle down" they just rode the cock carousel and got pumped and dumped a few times. Now that they shat a few kids out or either likely are settling in with their 'fur children' cats
My heart breaks for this one grill that I could have been with. She liked me and this is literally her life.
What the fuck are you on about?
origia
thank you, thats the nigger i was looking for I believe a month ago. What was the other one, SkeletonJW?
imagine being 30+ and still thinking like this lol
Is it theoretically possible for one to get back on the track of normalcy at this point? I mean university / job qualifications + some social life (not relive his post-puberty obviously).
I remember reading on the papers stories of people that get their life started again
I'm 33 years old and a neet of seven years
I dunno what to do, the only social life I have is a childhood friend who is still a raging alcoholic who works as a security guard. I honestly don't like hanging around him I feel I outgrew him. I'm thinking of getting a job doing construction in January but I'm probably just gonna spend the whole month doing nothing as I have done countless months before.