So many fucking hours wasted on video games in my youth. Tens of thousands maybe.
In that time I could have already quite easily reached my goal body, and I would look better still as I would have been a teenager when I started.
So much damn time wasted. It was fun, yes, but having that body already would be a lot nicer.
Anyone else have similar sentiments?
>tf2 5000 hours spent playing tfw
What if I told you that you could have both if you were strong enough to avoid turning either into an unhealthy compulsion?
40 hours a week at work, 24 hours a week at the gym, 24 hours a week playing vidya (or whatever your fucking hobby is), 56 hours a week sleeping (assuming 8 hours of sleep per day), and you still have a whole day's worth hours left over to do whatever the fuck.
I see that now, but when I was younger, I didn't have that ability to schedule my time.
lol did he just say to do things in moderation. what a fucking loser.
>24 hours a week at the gym
nigger that's three hours + a day
way too much time in the gym
maybe 14 hours a week in the gym, tops
>too much time in the gym
no such thing
But my job is pretty demanding, I work a lot more than 40 hours a week
Sucks, dude. When I was a nightwatchman, I worked 84 hours a week every week.
I was actually a very energetic kid when I was younger and was skin and bones. I remember exercising with my dad when he had a home gym. But as we moved, we had to start selling stuff like the equipment and I started to lose friends I made so I became more of a lazy shut in. I feel like too much vidya was an effect of that.
There isn't a day when I don't dread spending past 10 years on this gay "hobby". Whenever you game you're like a rat in a maze with a reward at its end put there by somebody else. Not to mention the modern "gaming culture" of pasty nerds makes me hate it even more, pic related.
>5000+ games of Halo 3 online
Zero regrets. Honestly, I think going through a terrible shut in period of life was what was needed to achieve this. It certainly makes any gains accrued feel more earned.
It does no good to dwell. Acknowledge what I don't want to do? Sure, but I don't regret it. I made some friends, had a fun time, and learned what I want to avoid as an adult.
I still game casually, but not 8+ hours per day.
tfw 4000+ hours on CS:GO alone from 2014-2017
Probably another 8,000-10,000 on other games since 2002
>Anyone else have similar sentiments?
Aye.
Call of Duty has stolen thousands of hours from my life.
If I could trade it for anything it wouldn't be lifting, it'd be time behind my drum kit.
I'd actually be good by now.
Tfw was a active kid throughout my elementary and middle school then started vidyas in hs.
In first 3 years of HS I literally wasted my life on League, literally.
I only started lifting and going out on last year but it was too late, no real friends.
Now I am in college, CS, got no real friends, I am hating all the geek&&gamer culture I used to live for and have no connection to the most people here.
Sad.
Autistic to think that way, in my high school video games were required to socialise, even among the top ranks of the "cool kids". Sure, starting to lift earlier would have been nice but i don't regret it that badly.
2k here
Yes and no. A lot of time I spent playing games I was playing with my best friend, so I can't say it was all bad.
I know that feeling. Runescape got me as well.
>dad used to work for Sega
>been playing games longer than I can remember
>used to stay up at night playing Bli$$ard games instead of sleeping
>tons of youth wasted in Diablo 2, Starcraft: Sunken Defense, Warcraft 3: DotA
>used to rip on people all the time for still playing games after they graduated high school, living at home, not even owning a car
>we used to go to a cyber cafe down by the movie theater to play Counter-Strike in a LAN environment
>we would lie to our parents and get money to watch movies which would be spent on time at the cafe
>was placed on probation
>started playing WoW
>became shut-in
>unsubscribed after 1.5 years
>became competitive in Counter-Strike, DotA and the spinoffs (HoN, LoL, DotA 2)
>game industry became overwhelmed by greed instead of focusing on art
>began hating myself
>finally quit playing games after 27 years of being alive
>haven't played a game in 6+ months and feel greatest I've ever felt in my life
>begin lifting for first time since playing football in high school
we're all going to make it
>just turned 29
>always been skinny fat
>started working out about 6 months ago and finally got to the point where its a part of my regular routine and rarely requires forcing myself to do and my workouts are something I look forward to
>seeing solid results
I hate myself for not doing this earlier.
I never really got into gaming, but studying really got me bad from a social perspective.
I did around 4 hours a night during high school, and up to 6 each night during exam time. Weekends were probably 50% study.
Results wise it paid off, and I’m studying an amazing degree and have the best Internship I could ask for.
But socially I fucked up.
>tfw only 2-3 friends in high school
>only seen 1 of them since graduating
>never a gf
>doesn't count time spent cooking, cleaning, shitting, with others, driving, etc.
I don't regret playing all the video games. They were a blast and I still.enjoy playing them today. I just wish I learned how to manage my time a little better and to start lifting earlier.
>24 hours a week at the gym
Fucking lel
That's what the literal 24 hours of unaccounted time is for
>He isn't in the gym 4 hours at a time, 6 days a week
DYEL?
Nice work user. I'm 28 and still trying to get to your level. I've been very off and on (more off than on) for the past year or two but finally feel like I'm starting to get consistent with it. How many days per week do you go?
4-5 days a week. Twice on the days I don't work. (Obvi not just doing the same routine/areas each time.) I get really stressed out if I miss an opportunity to go. Its probably an unhealthy level of obsession Ive gotten for it.
Vidya is good for engaging your brain when you need to distract yourself. Use it as a tool to keep away from negative activitys. It has worth depending on when you play for instance when you need to tell someone to buzz off instead just say “ im going to play video”
It could be said that because of the time you spent in those games you came to regret your decisions and have changed your life for the better. Though, I don't think vidya is bad, just don't sink time into a timewasting game like League or CS:GO unless that time is spent having fun with friends.
>It has worth depending on when you play for instance when you need to tell someone to buzz off instead just say “ im going to play video”
what did he mean by this?
>unironically learned how to take responsibility for my teams performance from 2000+ hrs of dota2
>instead of blaming others I looked at what I was doing wrong
>went from toxic crybaby to a decent leader
>stopped cold turkey because my friends didn't believe I could
At least you enjoyed wasting that time. Are you enjoying the time you're wasting right now regretting past choices?
I honestly had a great time playing online games with my friends and I don't regret it at all.
I used to tell my dad I want to get fit and he would shame me for it saying if I got to big everyone will want to fight me. He was hypercritical of everything i did so i never tried and i sat in my room playing video games all day.
I haven't seen or spoken to him in years since I left home.
In my youth I didn't have my computer so it was just countless hours on Nintendo portables but I look back very fondly on them and wouldn't trade that for anything. As a young adult it was starcraft and then DotA that overtook my life but I had fun then too. I didn't get passionate about fitness until I was 24, last year.
I don't really regret it because it's what helped me make so many friends moving to a new place at 8 years old. Gave me something to talk about, and something for all of us to do together. During high school I was lucky enough to have a Weight Training class that I took several times over. The only shitty thing is that I wouldn't keep it up over summer and lost a lot of gains between years. Senior year my squat started at 135 and ended at 315.
Its a bigger waste of time regretting it.
Appalling.
I don't regret the 3500 hours spent playing H3, or the 1500 hours playing BFBC2/Gears, but I do regret wasting my time on post-MW2 Call of Duty and other various mediocre games.
But on the other hand I didn't have money to pay for a gym membership, nor did I have a car.
>playing video games
I suppose you could say I grew out of it as I just started high school. As a kid, social life was more worth my while than video games. That’s not to say I never played them; fifa and super smash bros are played at parties. Not sure if those really count, though, since you’re required to play with people in your immediate vicinity. Video games are simply a toy, and they should just be treated as such.
This.
You know its possible to do both right?
>Anyone else have similar sentiments?
Yes, I should have focused more on social gains and body gains in my teens, instead of dumping 5000 hours on steam games + 3000 hours in other sources. I wouldn't completely stop gaming tho, but I would cut at least half of those hours
I don’t really regret it. It helped me with what I wanted to do which was, at the time, escape reality - I played a lot of MMO’s since I didn’t have any real friends. I just regret not keeping contact with the ones I made online.
Lifting is part of my job now though, and I’m proud to take it as a hobby, even if I never really wanted to do it.
you gonna feel the same about lifting and most hobbies you spent a lot of time into really. there are very, very, very few people who lift for more than lets say 5 years and even some of them regret starting because of the body dysmorphia.
Sure, that's a common regret. I spent too much time doing this, when I could've done this. And it's not inherently wrong to think these things.
There is a point, though, where you dwell on these things, and it becomes an impediment. You can rely on not having spent time doing the 'right' thing, as an excuse to never do the right thing.
I regret not caring about math in high school. I went to community college for a year holding on to the thoughts of "I suck at math, and to do computer science you gotta do math. I'm gonna do English". I did ok in my classes, but then realized, what the fuck am I gonna do with an AA in English?
I took that summer and fall off to reexamine some things in my life. I went back to Community college, and got my A.A. in math. I transferred into a university to complete my B.S. in computer science, and now I live a comfy life working 9-4, working out, and having nothing for want.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, holding onto regrets will cause you more regrets in the future. Don't use not working out in your teens as an excuse to not work out in your 20's. It's cliche, but someday you'll wonder why you ever were worried.
btw I had a couple of beers with friends earlier so I have no idea if this is relevant at all
I don’t regret at all. When i was younger, my imagination turned video games into something truly epic and amazing in my mind. I really felt like I was in those worlds, and it something my brain now can’t even comprehend anymore. I grew up and eventually became thinking to existentially to find pure joy in games, and now that time is past but i will never forget or regret it. I regret trying to chase the feeling for awhile, games lost theirs fun after 16ish but I forced myself to play them for a few more years when I should have just accepted I was done, but otherwise it was great.
Vidya and fapping were the only things I had...I was homeschooled, socializing in meat space seemed weird.