I followed the tutorial so 18-25 was easy mode. 26-35 was a blur mostly making money for other people. 36-40 was realizing the tutorial was a goddamn lie, going to therapy, trying to make up for missed experiences, and balancing work with reward. Now in the 41-45 phase and wondering what it will look like when I reflect back on it in a few years.
Username kinda checks out
Aww, thank you 😊
Well, good news: in the more developed nations (that haven’t gone dystopian), work-life balance has a high priority for young people. They learned from their parents’ errors.
I’m seeing this and it makes me very happy.
45-50: It starts to dawn on you that grinding is a waste of your time and life, and that it only makes the game makers richer and richer by keeping you bound to a game that you have grown to loathe. You also start to realize that the loot you have made from grinding is mostly worthless crap that you have no use for. Who cares for achievements and PvP medals when your back hurts, your eyesight is all shot to hell and you keep having these migraines?
I felt this way too viscerally.
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I read your first sentence without knowing this was about gaming, and I was knowingly nodding my head because I thought you were talking about life and the corporate rat race
Porque no los dos?
Finding out you are trans and respeccing to a different class and all of sudden your build comes together so much better.
This thread is just making me want to take 1 point in ranged weapons so i can use a shotgun to reroll with another character.
I send hugs?
+40 - look at all those youngsters taking things so seriously. They’ve forgotten it’s just a game.
I just want to quit
i believe in you and i think it will get better for you
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Thanks, that does mean a lot
Hmm
Tfw you realise RPG mechanics is based on real life mechanics.
Being ultra-wealthy is like having “save game” whenever you need it.
If you screw up, you can always start again.
It usually comes from starting a New Game+
16-? You have no idea what’s going on and you just go with it because nothing makes sense anyways…
Hoping a revolution occurs before the consequences of my decisions start to matter…
16-20: you think you have the game figured out but you don’t realize you’re still in the tutorial.
Insert meme: You guys have a tutorial?
40-45: you’re stuck in the intense endgame grind and wish you could go back to just whacking shit with your sword.
Anybody know what a stealthy archer build is irl?
Scam artist
Probably involves too much interaction to qualify but pretty warm
Tech worker probably
That’s probably the closest. A work from home (or on the hoof) tech worker.
It really felt true to be, but I’m not entirely sure why
…sniper?
Thomas Crooks isn’t exactly flourishing
Politician
Is there such a thing as a stealthy politician
It’s more the idea that you’re acting as a representative of your people while disregarding them entirely to get whatever you want.
I meant it as more as “Stealth archer build is the cheese option. Politicians cheese everything”
All good points. They are the champions of cheesing life. But it still lacks the solitary, unobserved, nature of the stealth archer.
In that case I would say shareholders.
Ugh… That’s got to be it. I was thinking something like a lobbyist probably fits the bill but a shareholder is better.
Turn up to the AGM once a year and demand more profits even if it kills the business and beggars the workers. Cheese O’Clock.
35-40 You realize you’ve spent so much time trying to level up that you haven’t done any of the fun quests and crafting you really wanted to do, so you start focusing on those.
40-45 You look around and realize you’ve somehow managed to accrue skills and experience and loot and feel cringingly compelled to give advice to other players who are newer to the game. “When I was your level…”
35-40 You realize you’ve spent so much time trying to level up that you haven’t done any of the fun quests and crafting you really wanted to do, so you start focusing on those.
I’m on the upper end of that range and this is very true in my case. You also realize your body is no longer equipped with the right health/mana/stamina points to fully enjoy the fun quests.
I feel for you. I was so terrified of this happening that I spent my whole life until 35 basically doing all the crazy quests and collecting all the pointless loot I could.
The fact that I managed to stick the landing at 40 is basically a glitch/exploit.
Yep, that’s why I plan my suicide on 35th birthday
988 suicide hotline… You’re probably just joking, but just in case
No jokes. Want my steam library?
I don’t not want it… When’s your 35th birthday?
It’s in a year
Feel free to DM me… Or do call 988… Whatever is troubling you, there’s help available. Don’t take yourself out before you get to do the the fun side quests!
Do not worry, really. I’ve been in therapy for a long time and it’s my decision that I’ve made back in 2020. I’m absolutely sane
I’ll be 36 later this year, and I’ll be damned if I don’t keep swinging my sword for the rest of me days!
40 is when swinging a sword makes your back hurt
I can’t be the only one who misread this as boeing and thought this was a weird analogy for boeing models.
