I hate everything in my life. My figure, my mind, my job, my schooling, my everything.


So that's a no.

The only thing I've ever enjoyed was military service. I was pretty good at what I did and I got to meet a lot of important people and took part in parades and special occasions due to my skill. Was featured in the Defense Forces' website twice, and on its official newspaper three times. But alas, that part of my life is over.

So you can't opt for a career within the army in Finland?

The only thing about my life that I am not 100% happy with is my income. I posess a bachelor's degree but haven't found work to use it. So I'm doing monotonous work for cheap.

Other than that, I live in the best city on earth with my two best friends, and my girlfriend lives in the same city. I have very little to complain about. Everything is great.

However I do not, and never have fallen into a neat little breakfast club stereotype. I was a goth-kid in junior high, I've always been a huge metalhead, but I was born on a farm. I played football in Sr. High, and I love sports. Soo I don't fit the mold. I just love life and want to experience as much as possible before my flame burns out. Of course that requires a good soundtrack .

I could have had a shot by aiming for officer training, but I decided to do what my heart tells me and I applied for tank training, bearing the rank of Private (supposed to be PFC, but some statistic error meant a certain incompetent, arrogant [censored][censored] got the promotion). Once you decide not to aim higher, there is no turning back, and with all the cuts in defense budget they won't be taking new guys in anyway.

That svcks. You could of course sign up with a PMC, if that's possible.

Ain't a whole lot of patriotism or pride in being a security guard or merc though.

I'm fine with how I live right now. I have friends, I do things other than game.

If I could, I'd join one. Besides, I'm not a patriot. I'm a self-preservationist.

Well, I dont mind my lifestlye, but not exactly happy with it.

TLDR at bottom, life story ahead

Since i left school, i rarely see/talk to any of my friends (not sure i could call them friends anymore, after 4-5 years of seeing none of them? )
I go to work, Come home and play games/sleep, and then back to work. I do everything i can to avoid having to leave the house other than for work.
Even at work i only really see/talk to the same group of 3-4 people. (One my dad)

I sometimes think id rather be diffrent, and go out and socialise etc, Then other times i see people and just think "If thats what going out/socialising/ having fun is, Im fine sitting at home"

Ive often thought about a career in the military.
When growing up, the military was what i wanted to do, but then i left school and got a job and stuck with it since. Ive thought about doing it still though, thinking it'd be good to get out and see diffrent things ( i know the risks), meet people and probably become a more confident person (which i lack a bit).
But then i just never really get any further than thinking about it. As id have to leave the house and talk to people.

Still got time to change though, only 20. Just whether i will change or not. (Which i doubt)

So TLDR is

I dont mind my lifestyle of sitting here alone playing games, Id rather be playing games than having to go out to the pub etc etc.
But id much rather have a more active outgoing lifestyle, or have the willingness to do so. :shrug:

I love video games AND I have friends.

No I don't like it. My life is pretty much at a dead end. "I got nothing" best describes it.

But I'm dealing with it. Deactivated facebook and left a few MMOs..and just..doing random things by myself. Isolation because I was being isolated anyhow.

Lovelife? Great girl left me, and I'm stuck with the lingering pain that wont go away.

But brightside is, most of "me" has come back.

This is my [censored] life:

Work > Home > do stuff online > Sleep > Work > Repeat.

Lame.

At least I have my games.

Exercising is a good way to improve you mental and physical health, at least a bit. The feeling after a good execise is great.

Who needs girls when you have us? :happy:

I have work, I have friends, and I have time for games. I'm good.

Yes, I do. I'm studying to go to University within the next 6 months, I go out socialising all the time, have a great family and friends and am generally really happy. I also mod in my spare time, not something I keep a secret

I'm 25 years old, playing games for the last 15 years or so.
I've been able to mix my social life and my true life ever since I was a kid.

I never had problems with friends nor with getting girls. I used to go to parties and pubs, and hook up with girls and all that crap that boring people do.
I always, Always, felt fake and empty. I would try to hit on some girl while thinking to my self: "Such an idiot, i could have been raiding Molten core". Problem is, I never had geek friends as a youngster, so i kinda needed to blend in with the friends I did have.

I swear to god, if i had to keep only one life style i would lose that social, fake, loser, douchebagy excuse that people call social life for my gaming life in a heartbeat.
But, i can't, and you are not supposed to. You're supposed to mix the two, never go extreme to any side, in any part of your life.

The fact that you go out for a beer with your "geek" friends, and not with the "cool" guys, doesn't mean you are in any way a lesser man.
The fact you don't date some bleached hair, silicon [censored], fake nails, reality tv watching girl, but instead a nerdy, smart, glasses wearing girl that laughs at your wow refrences, imo, make you and her, more real, then all the people that have a "rich", social life.

You ARE privileged to have found the gaming world. Your inner mind is full of dragons and fire balls, megaton and space ships. their's are filled with what sort of shirt should i wear to that party.
I feel sorry for people that will go their entire life without ever playing a video game.

Long live play.

I honestly don't know what my life style is. I like to talk to people, but don't like to have more then a couple good friends. I love video games and fantasy stuff, but love to rock on the drums and have been in bands that have recorded songs and what not. I have a very attractive girlfriend, but wear glasses, and walmart clothes. (Pretty sure she wants me cuz I'm a drummer :wink_smile:). The funny thing is, is that I am totally happy with all of. I wouldn't trade it to be labeled as something. My friends even have a hard time placing me into a group.

If anything I am frustrated I do not have more time for gaming lol. Between my friends, my girlfriend(biggest and 2nd most worthwhile time dump), School(Next biggest and the MOST worthwhile time dump), reading, internet, drinking, my 3 times a week need to go surf, pooping, bathing, sleeping, eating and family, I have very little time for gaming nowadays. I take it where I can get it. If I could get rid of one of those and get away with it I would toss out sleeping lol. Such a waste of time. Why can't my body be 1000 times more efficient? Oh that's right...it is not 1 million years in the future yet...

Seriously though. Nowadays gaming is the most common form of entertainment in developed countries. Is it that shocking that there are many people who have social lives and gaming lives? As the mod said, it isn't 1996 anymore. Revenge of the Nerds is now nearly pointless.

Wow. I get that it's easy to get defensive over lifestyles and things like that, but I don't get the hostility towards people who may like to spend their time differently. I have plenty of friends who don't play video games, and enjoy a night out (I definitely do, despite enjoying a night in gaming as well), and that doesn't make them vacuous or losers. Different strokes for different folks.
Saying that someone who likes getting dressed up and going out dancing with friends only has thoughts about what their next outfit is and where their next hook-up is coming from is in the same vein as those people that think all gamers are fat no-hopers who will never get out of their parent's basemant, and are too busy raiding and grinding to shower imo.

Word. The sooner everybody learns that lesson the better.

I'm sorry, I got a little carried away, I agree. Not All people that aran't into gaming are shallow and stupid.
I do believe though that a lot of them are, and I think the OP feels, or feels for others, that by playing, he is missing something spectacular that non gamers are experiencing, and that, I honestly believe, as I've seen first hand, is bs.

Not all of them, but a lot of people that read books, and enjoy mature and sophisticated movies, most often then non enjoy video games.
Never met someone who played a tes game which was an [censored], I've met a lot of people who don't, that were.

I was some what aggressive cause I tried to make a point. I'm sorry if I was offensive, or misunderstood in any way.
Also I'm sorry for typos.