Has lifting and gaining muscle changed your personality?

Has lifting and gaining muscle changed your personality?

>used to game all the time
>havent for months
>starting to hate gamer and nerd culture
>starting to hate people who talk about games
>starting to think its a juvenile waste of time

I still play video games just as much as I ever did, if not more. I've always hated gamer/nerd culture and I've always hated people who talk about video games.

Not all people who play video games are hurr durr autistic "gamer" "nerd" faggots, I cringe anytime I'm out in public and I overhear some dweebs talking about video games, the fuck is wrong with you people?

The whole gamer/nerd culture thing is fucking disgusting and cringey as fuck. But I still play video games, I just don't tell anyone, it's my own little secret.

You're probably just a faggot that does X activity and then you suddenly make your whole identity about it, now that you lift, I bet you're a full "lifting zyzz brah". Your whole life is probably wrapped around lifting now, because you're a weak minded little faggot who can't simply do an activity without having to make it your entire fucking life.

I've been lifting since 2012.

Started having gamer culture ever since I got new hobbies and branched out and started learning about different shit.

I still play games occasionally since they're still fun, but my entire conversation doesn't rely on it like before

You probably have fucking shit taste in games.

Lmao what's wrong with talking about games among others who play them? You're acting like it's tranny midget horse porn

Either you guys use the word hate too liberally or you're full blown autismos.

You probably don't have or know anyone who does have something interesting to say about games. Games are super interesting, there's a lot to talk about them. It's better conversation than movies or television by a hundred times.

thats just called growing up desu

i actually dont at all. i dont tell people i lift unless they ask, i hate bodybuilding culture too.

i only lift because it makes me strong, look better and feel better.

I've been playing video games my entire life (i'm nearly 30).

What I am trying to say is that I've never seen myself as a "gamer" like the hordes of autistic faggot numale manchild betas out there that adopted "gamer" as an identity. It is fucking pathetic, hence why I keep the fact I play video games to myself. I don't want to be labelled with all your "HURRR IM A GAAYYYYYYMURRR" faggots with your autistic cringey "gaaaymer" lifestyle/identity.

There's nothing more I hate than an unaware manchild numale whose super open about their interest in games/comics/autistic childish shit. Fair enough you like it, but don't make it out to be like that's your fucking entire identity. It's obnoxiously pathetic.

stop being so insecure you numale faggot

Becoming fitter and more active has improved my life. It's really developed me as a person. I'm happier, healthier, and more confident, and things are going good.

As for my interests, they've developed too over the years. I think that most importantly, my social circle has changed dramatically (I guess this is normal when you leave school, college, so on). So with meeting new people, I've been introduced to new activities. Just because this is the case, I don't feel any disdain for 'the old me' as it were. I recognise that circumstances are better now, yes, but the memories of me haunting Xbox live each night I'll never regret.

Not really. I still enjoy video games and DnD. Lifting is just another thing I've come to enjoy.

>go to Veeky Forums
>lift
>get wife
>play games all the time
>wife leaves and takes kids
>lift even more to rid myself of feels but not playing games anymore
>hate women
>hate self
>hate gaming
>But I can bench 2.5pl8

Vidya games are degenerate.

As an incel who shitposts on Veeky Forums, i dont find pleasure in vidya.

Why not become a well rounded person who lifts, eats properly and games sometimes?
Are you too autistic and you can only focus on 1 thing in your life at a time.

Mad gamer detected. Don't worry you'll wake up eventually and realize the identity you latched onto to compensate for your lack of personality is a fad then you'll hang yourself because you wasted the best years of your life on shit.

>2.5pl8 bench
I'd give up my love of life itself to push that shit. Fookin noice.

Why do you Americans always act like what you do is your identity? Is it because you work retarded hours every day with no holidays and work is all you have? Or are you all that vapid and uninteresting?

Ever since I watched a video of someone "coming out" as atheist I feel like I am watching 10 year olds deal with their first crushes.

I'm German

>be /pol/fag
>overly concerned with politics and constantly pissed off
>become Veeky Forums
>too caught up in gym, diet, and school to care about politics anymore
>go to metal show
>group of literal Neo-Nazis try to recruit me
>fat, skinnyfat, skinnyfat, covered in tattoos
>all I see is a group of degenerates instead of new friends

275 is a good bench. But it's not some insane unachievable number.

why did she leave you?

Yes. I used to be an anarchist. Now I'm a communist.

iktf. all of my friends are gamers too, so I made new friends who are into the gym and working out. but i still hang out with the gamers. and i get so bored.

I started hating weed and became distant from my stoner friends

>Itt: fit learns most people are really just playing dress up and have no legitimate reason for existing, have no true struggle, and no story worth sharing
Try harder beta faggots

> go from twink video game nerd to ottermode to builtfat lifter
> getting ripped now

It has changed my life, I never had time for homework and dropped out of high school. Could have been avoided but that's how it happened.

Was it because you are a manlet or you neglected your calves?

>be lifter who plays vidya and d&d
>wear baggie clothes all the time because weather and hiding my body
>once my nerd friends found out i lift, they all got butthurt and insecure. stopped inviting me places, start insulting me rather than bantz, and i hear through the grapevine they were spreading bullshit about me to our mutual female friends and their own circles
>meet fellow lifters
>literally all they talk about is lifting, bodybuilding, macros, and women they'd smash along with constant pseudo alpha male posturing
fuck. both ends of the spectrum are fucking faggots. nerds are insecure betafags that hate everyone who has the slightest bit of confidence and muscle, and all the lifters i know are equally insecure closeted homos who live in a dudebro impression 24/7. honestly, i'm at the point where i'd rather be alone. i hate feeling like people are constantly trying to one up or compete against me, rather than just chill as bros, and that's just not an option right now.
desu i wish i had some friends who could act like adults rather than giant manbabies

>implying lifting weights isn't also a juvenile waste of time

I hate sharing what I like other people, unless its artistic stuff.

Call me a hipster all you like but I've never seen a community so close minded like the geek culture and the fitness culture.

I'd rather talk to an autistic manchild than you tbqh

I've had to change from chubby to shredded (by normie standards). Nerds gravitate to one another because they're weak/flawed and see those flaws in one another, and stick together to survive. Now that I don't look like hammered shit anymore, I'm not accepted in.

I'd be your friend user

You do realize Zyzz was a gamer and would openly discuss gaming... right?

self-improvement often leads to unrealistic expectations for everyone else in the world
>obese guy drops down to overweight
>begins judging every fat person
>hoarder cleans up one room
>detests other people's clutter
>smoker/alcoholic quits
>starts being a prick to smokers/drinkers
>moron studies for the first time
>scoffs at anyone with a lower grade
etc. Self-improvement is fantastic, but it can have a nasty side effect of becoming arrogant about things that you yourself used to be guilty of. Try to keep in mind you were once the same as the people you're judging.

He played a few games on play-station and a bit of WoW.

A gamer isn't someone who just plays video games. A gamer is someone whose entire identiy is wrapped up in gaming, they have gaming merchandise, clothing, tattoos, they goto "gamer" bars (yes they exist), they goto video game events, they collect gaming stuff, their lives revolve around games.

Again, just playing video games doesn't make you a "gamer". I'm so sick of you "gamer" faggots calling other people gamers just because they play video games, 99% of people play video games don't fucking make it their lives or make it their entire fucking identity.

zyzz literally talked about his addiction to runescape and how it made him want to lift.
he WAS a gamer. he was a massive fucking nerd. that's why he became so over the top.

Apparently. I'm in school 4 days a week and the other 3 I'm working. On top of that I lift 4 days a week and bulk properly. I barely have enough time for friends as it is, and the other time I have is for the ladies.

I've come to the conclusion that I can either commit time to video games, or sex/relationships. Whats the better choice.. you tell me.

Dude I'm not entirely against your tangent against people who identify with hobbies but Zyzz played WoW like 12 hours a day. He made a youtube video of himself playing WoW. If you want to rant that not everyone who plays vidya is a gamer then fine, but most people don't upload youtube vids of themselves playing vidya either. This is dumb semantical bullshit.

>started working out

>soon as the gains starting coming I became more and more dedicated

>increased the supps and watched what I bought at the grocery store

>stopped gaming so much and spend all my free time binge watching Athlean-X, Strength Camp, Alan Thrall, Buff Dudes etc.

>Completely lost any and all interest in politics, pc gaming, magic the gathering, x-wing

>stopped watching porn and fapping for mo'gains

>relatives always mirin saying I look so much better now that I can fill a shirt etc

Thanks Veeky Forums

M.W.

So what do you do now?

I published some great papers when I only occasionally went rock climbing. Since I lift almost every day (natty high intensity low volume) I find it tedious and hate my job. It's too cerebral, it's not satisfying. I'm considering starting to work with my hands, but in my business those jobs have hours that are incompatible with lifting.

Not really. If anything it's made me more humble. After a year or so into lifting, I started to get too cocky and didn't like the person I was becoming so I decided to turn it down a bit.
>Never think less of yourself - but think of yourself less

I was hating video games before I started lifting. Lifting was just an excuse for me to stop playing them

Don't like the term gamer that much either, but you've got an autistic aversion to it.

> Current year - 1 + 1
> Being this insecure

Dunning-Kreuger effect

so much insecurity, lol.

...

I was never one to play single player games a lot, but I do so even less now. Almost all of my time spent gaming is with my close friends, and we always have a great time. My dad got me into gaming but if I ever have kids I'll probably steer them away from it. I turned out alright due to some very specific life experiences but most that grow up "gamers" do not. I want to spare my children from being autistic losers like I used to be.

i feel disgust towards sugar drinks after work outs
also holy fuck its hard to enjoy a game for even an hour these days i´d just rather do anything else like maybe read a book, lurk, get out or watch a movie

You called out OP correctly, but if the videogames you play are not conversation-worthy, then they're not worthy videogames. I like to think of them as some sort of art, and if it doesn't make me cry by the end of it like MGS3 did, it's not a game I'm replaying any time soon.

That said, OP, you're a massive giant faggot if you seriously dislike one activity simply because others like it too.

I hope I'm more mature than you when I reach that age.

The calves thing. She said I put too much attenttion to vidya, but I know that's just girl talk for "you're not giving enough attention to one of your body parts". Calves are the only muscles I can think of that are lacking.

Same, user, but add college people who dislike me because all they want to talk about is feminism. Guess it's my fault for going for anthropology.

>coworker vapes, plays video games, has a fidget spinner, is a lazy piece of shit
>play games with him because i know hes a depressed loser at heart and hes the only one i can remotely relate to
>i start playing less and less, realizing how embarrassing it is and how unfulfilling and frustating it is
>no other interests but self improvement
>feeling pretty good to grow out of it just like growing out of junk food
Took me a while but im getting it, stay positive friends

Careful there Milhouse

I lift, watch anime, play games, watch TV shows. You're just narrow minded

Happened the same to me, as soon i started lifted some of my nerdy friends stop talking to me and even tried to embarrass me because i started lifting...

Crab mentality, if I'm stuck here you're staying here with me

>used to smoke ciggies (quit a year ago)
>used to drink 2-3 times a week (drink moderately 2-3 times per month now)
>used to game all the time
>havent for months
>starting to hate gamer and nerd culture
>starting to hate people who talk about games
>starting to think its a juvenile waste of time

pretty much the same senpai, altho i do like to play some games now and then, but not 5h per day like i used to

Shut up, nerd

Fuck off old man, you are dead soon anyway

>I vape and have a fidget spinner
>still lifting and little to no vidya
I guess I'm just autistic

>still kinda awkward around girls
>I look better
>I still jerk off daily, watch anime/play videogames but not as much

Its a ridiculous number are you serious, especially for someone who isnt even doing this professionally

in high school I looked down on most football players as stupid meatheads who were just fat.

i have a lot more respect for them now. i generally base how much I respect other men on how muscular they are

>lose fat
>make muscle
>create routines to maek even more muscle but also to become generally more athletic also in other sports
>"whew, why I havent I done this before, this is actually extremely easy"
>"no user, its not easy, its like super hard if you work 40 hours a week, its totally impossible!"
>gain 40 hours a week jobbo
>just keep doing it
>actually manage to remove a running injury and not give up through physio therapy in the meantime
>use additional funds to remove one of my last health issues due to soda consumption before sportiness

so, starting to think that most other people are full of shit. So in turn I started to hate them. They constantly keep throwing excuses as to why they cannot do these things. But those excuses are all wrong and dumb.

Jesus I just realized how many actual losers and failures at life there are. Being alone and without friends has huge benefits. It allowed me to build up working, mental routines and ways of thinking that are extremely healthy for myself.

How can one deal with the realization that other people are mostly shit? I still am struggling with it.

Fat me read Marvel.

Fit me reads DC.