Gonna play any cool new games this weekend, anon?

My mom and brother love the Office and re-watch it almost daily on Comedy Central. I can't stand it. I wish Michael Scott became destitute and was forced to live under a bridge where he was then beaten to death by homeless drug addicts.

"Roy's gonna fuck you good this weekend too huh? *snickers* bye Jim"

I'm going to play sex with your mom.

Why do my coworkers keep asking me what I did over the weekend when I always just answer that I stayed home? What kinda lives are other people living where they go out every week?

Hey OP! I heard in the news that you can have virtual sex in some of those... Metaverse... Television games you are aways playing?

So like... If you know what i mean... What is "allowed"?

Sure bro, you guys wanna come over?

I'm filing a report if you keep picking on me Jim

Yes, in between fucking my gf. What are you and Roy doing Pam?

You sound dangerous. I hope you never attain any kind of power.

And just like that, their holiday bonus is no longer in the budget.

We're going to Candy Mountain, OP.

Yes, I might play [niche game you're currently into] after [hobby] if my [family/girlfriend/friends] aren't up to anything this weekend :)

Only if you're insecure you'd get mad at the thought of people thinking what you like. If anything, coworkers acknowledging your interest is something good.
Correct response also Dwight is the soul of The Office and it would be a flop without him

You reluctantly teaches Creed how to browse Anon Babble, after five hours you get the impression that he learned nothing

one week later you discover a bunch of electionfags got baited into a paid "redpilled" alternative chan that fished all of their credit card information and sold their data to the FBI

You notice that Creed bought a new car

"Nah, I'm just gonna play more HOI4. Maybe start another New Vegas playthrough."

I get this question from my desk neighbor who's from the Philippines and in his 40s right after he tells me he finally 100%'d sekiro. I don't know why people think adult workplaces have middle school dynamics.

Not really new, I'm continuing doing endgame content in Granblue Fantasy Relink. Pretty fun game despite lots of repetition. Probably will work on my custom scratchbuilt scale model, however. Why you ask, want to join? Get some recommendations?

After all, why should I feel ashamed of how I spent my free time? Honest question.

this

I haven't had any time. Did you do the yard check or do I have to do it again?

Yes

No I'm gonna be racist online

Vanilla ck2.

Creed was the fucking best character. All of his creepy line drops were golden.

If you don't understand then you're probably autistic and socially inept

Maybe. Would you explain then?

NTA but there are worthless / childish hobbies that reflect poorly on you.

You guys gonna pay someone to cook your food and spit in it? Cool

Creative hobby like scale models is childish, huh? And which hobbies are for adults? Let me guess, drinking, watching football and clubbing?

So are you saying if someone is otherwise competent, interesting and talented, the fact that they play video games would reflect poorly on them?

Right move. If you say anything snarky back they will most likely just whine to the HR.

Jim

chases a red head who is already engaged, kisses her twice.

dates Katie, super fucking hot, gets self conscious dating a chick who did cheerleading in higschool

vastly hotter than Pam, yet gets dumped on a fucking boat meant for drinking and partying.

Dates Karen as a rebound to Pam

gets her to fucking move states, dumps her, gets with Pam.

Jim is a faggot.

Creative hobby like scale models is childish, huh?

Honestly, yes. Scale model building is literally for children.
It's okay if you don't like drinking or watching sports but you aren't replacing them with anything valuable or mature either.

No one who plays videogames is competent, interesting and talented. The kind of people who browse Anon Babble or openly talk about videogames in social media should be proof enough.

Videogames are to the post-2000 what watching in front of the TV all day was to pre-2000 society.

probably gonna play some switch games with my girlfriend

It felt out of place when they made Dwight a GAMER that was into World of Warcraft and then quietly dropped that character trait.

he never explicitly mentioned that he played world of warcraft but he did play starcraft

think the office is going to be bad because every insufferable normie girl I've met is obsessed with it

watch a few episodes

it's actually pretty funny

"Yeah I'm playing that game where I cook a bunch of food and get wasted. You want some?"
You have to throw their bullshit back at them and see how they respond.
Most normalfags can't handle being put on the spot like that. You have to out-autism them by figuring out how they want you to respond, then do the opposite.

why did jim pick boring pam instead of this hot mutt

It is funny to a certain point.
If you like the humor, you might also like the show "superstore".

It's a pretty enjoyable shut-your-brain-off kind of show that doesn't seem to even be trying that hard while still being funny. I've watched it all the way through at least 4 times.

It's not high art or anything but if you don't mind something more basic, it's not bad.

NTA, what a sad world you live in where you avoid doing something you like because you think people will perceive it as childish and immature.

kill both of them.

you were stuttering a lot anon, could you repeat that?

*about to burst into laughter*

desperate ones where they think they are still teenagers and believe they will one day breed and be happy (they wont)

Just lie bro

I've lied before and they kept questions about what I said which leads me to believe they knew I was lying. They know I'm a loser with no friends or social life. Somehow they just fucking know

I don’t think that’s his point, you can do these things it’s just that those things will have perceptions and views with them since typically vidya is a solitary activity.
Balance is key

Are you dumb or something? No one ever said not to do those chidish things, they said don't talk about it to your normalfag coworkers because they will 100% consider you an autist and it will reflect poorly on you and make your life more difficult.

So the video games themselves are irrelevant. Someone won't magically become less of a fag if they stopped.

i felt this way about King of Queens

I unironically wish I still had a job
t. been applying for almost a year with absolutely no luck

These threads made sense when vidya was still somewhat niche but now it just feels like anons LARPing that they have a nerd hobby and finding a way to sperg out about how everyone's judging them while playing one of the most popular forms of entertainment out there. Especially in the context of an office job.

Tell me you're an IT faggot without telling me you're an IT faggot

Why would anyone care about opinion of some normalfag sad excuse for people who cannot even enjoy themselves because of "muh reputation"?

Imagine if you just told the truth and answered their followups earnestly. Maybe you wouldn't be a loser with no friends.

dunno if it helps but lots of other people are struggling too. entry level workers are the ones getting decimated the most right now since outsourcing is making them completely obsolete.

everybody plays videogames, it's not a big deal.

Maybe they dont play them as much as you do but it's not 1993 anymore.

Same here. Good taste.
Same shit happened to me. Just walk in places instead. Helps you find out if places are actually hiring, or if it's just fake job advertisements.

Shit sucks, I was also looking for work whole whole year because I finished my PhD studies right before pandemic hit. Also pretty annoying to have recruiters contact you via LinkedIn and every single one of them asking "...but do you coooooooode?". Fucking hell, is everyone supposed to be coders these days?

Obviously. My point being that if someone is a sperg, they're a sperg. Videogames are an irrelevant factor at this point.

I don’t where you live but this isn’t the 80’s anymore, walking in doesn’t work it’s all automated now

There's no one at my job who plays videogames.

I'm gonna finish Killer 7, it's a trip dude.

Imagine if you just told the truth and answered their followups earnestly

Then they would judge me. I don't know what point you thought you were making. No they wouldn't magically become my friends

he's a normalfag, ignore him

My field literally can't be outsourced but landing a job still requires jumping through so many humiliation rituals that it can become disheartening.

You shouldn't divulge into gaming if you're talking about doing endgame jrpg shit or whatever, they want to hear that you play Fortnite or 2K. Its the same thing with any consumer hobby like listening to music or movies, your average coworker doesn't give a shit if you're going through Takeshi Kitano films or listening to Children of Bodom. You need to have surface level tastes to find common ground with normal people

Games good, game only gets trippier

kek

Nigga, literally just look at the numbers. I know plenty of people doing all sorts of jobs that play video games. And knowing them means knowing other people that have relatives and friends they love who play them even if they don't themselves. That HR rep you're dealing with might have a husband that calls me a nigger when we play fighting games.

*snickers*

Thanks, I was getting hungry!

companies have started doing these gay "one way interviews" lately. any time i see that i instantly close the tab.

I'll be developing my game.
*flex a 'cep*

Then they would judge me

You mean the thing you're still worried about them doing? Except even worse because instead of just being an asocial nerd you turned it into being a liar on top? How is that better exactly?

No they wouldn't magically become my friends

Did they magically become your friend after you lied to them?

"yeah"... then walk away while crying

Dunno man, I work in a bank and unless my coworkers are all lying about what they do when they go home, none of them play video games. Every time in a thread like this where I see people saying "everyone they know" plays games I assume they work in IT or they're literal teenagers working at Pizza Hut or Walmart.

The median coworker is not thinking about emulating PS1 era jrpgs when they're asking you what games you play.

I gonna play cool games alright.
M.S.X games.

And i'm not talking about metal gear.

my girlfriend in middleschool looked like her but brunette and a nice ass. good times.

so you're the loser at the bank that refused to cash my check?

god I wish I could play Uwu Loli MegaPantsuQuest Yandere Edition with anon

I'm an accountant, not a teller

also we both know you don't have any money so that check was fraudulent

Do you play video games?

it was not an attempt at fraud, DIE you bank scum

HOW DO I GET A FAKE EMAIL JOB I CANT WORK MINIMUM WAGE ANYMORE I'LL EITHER STARVE TO DEATH CAUSE I CANT AFFORD RENT AND FOOD OR MY BODY WILL BREAK FIRST

When I worked at a restaurant, a lot of my coworkers played games. When I moved to accounting, almost none of my coworkers did. Now I'm working remote doing accounting and about half of my coworkers play video games.

have you tried asking your parents friends? that's how we all got ours

The brutally honest truth is you missed the boat. Outsourcing and AI are making these jobs more and more scarce. Go to community college for 2 years and transfer to a state university for something bullshit like communications and network. Get on welfare if you're that poor

Kek at that image

Someone has to spread Democracy

Its just the truth that video games is "low level" culture designed to attract the masses. The higher up you get on the social ladder the rarer it will be to find someone who still participates in it

It’s the time commitment on top of that, it’s high time commitment for minimal social benefits

Yes, and at work if someone asks what my hobbies are I don't lie about playing games, but the response I always get is "oh that's interesting, so do you play like Call of Duty? my kids play Roblox, do you know what that is?" or something to that effect, but never "oh cool I play games too". So either they're lying or none of them play vidya.

Naah, think I go for a ride with my big block Corvette instead.

NTA but getting mad you can’t cash a check is a gigantic red flag. Why can’t you just deposit it like a normal person? What are you doing that you NEED cash NOW?

it’s my money I want it, none of your business

Absolutely fair but as a society we’ve realized people who want to rush monetary transactions are either doing something illegal or being scammed themselves. If you can’t wait a single day that’s a (You) problem.

Yeah, I've been playing DOOM: The Dark Ages. It's pretty fun. It's no DOOM Eternal, the previous DOOM game, but I like it more than the DOOM that came out in 2016.

Because these are the people you interact with on a daily basis and their opinion of you matters for things like promotions or getting invited to shit?

And how many of them do you think have relatives and friends that play them? Maybe even just you if they like you. I'm not saying everyone plays them. I'm saying it's not a niche, weird hobby anymore. You can find plenty of groups that don't read books or watch sports or whatever but unless you're in high school you're not going to find anybody that really looks down on you for that.

Yeah because it’s acknowledging vidya in the work place is basically just pic related.
I’m sure you get some people who do at higher levels but they know at a higher level you cant afford the image

Laughed at first, then cringed. All in all classic Office experience, good job.

What kinda lives are other people living where they go out every week?

My co-workers. Most of my co-workers are middle class constantly going out but also on holiday/moving house/renovating etc. They just be family wealth or something because they seem to have inexplicable amounts of money based on what their jobs are.

Me from a poor childhood into an above average wage IT job its eye opening how big the class divide is and how impossible it is to actually close the gap by working when your wealth is 100% of what you're earned. I was mind-blown when a co-worker told me his grandfather left him 200 grand.

Why don't we just create more jobs than we do babies?

I feel like we're over this kind of dissing now
People realized staying home and playing vidya is among the best things you can do on your free time. It used to be comical for your typical chad and stacy (who are now pushing 40, with several kids from different dads and who both hit the wall from too much partying) so now everyone silently agreed with this. Plus gaming is where the money's at when it comes to entertainment so everyone is trying to get their slice

Reading isn't one of my hobbies nor would I claim it to be but I still read occasionally. I'm not saying your co-workers are all playing katawa shoujo and getting number 1 victory royales after work but video games themselves are as common now as watching TV or playing sports, maybe even more common than the latter at this point.

Yeah gonna play naked twister with your
*ihnales*
mom. Who knows I might be your
*takes a shot from asthma inhaler*
new daddy when you walk into the
*voice crack*
office on Monday.
*walks away manually*

It’s less the time commitment as it is people using video games as a replacement for success in life. I still play games some largely out of habit, I’ve been doing in for 30 years, and I still shitpost here while I’m pooping, but my gaming time is probably less than 2 hours a week because the false sense of pride and accomplishment that video games have become incredibly adept at tricking my brain into still pales in comparison to the real things in my life that give me purpose and meaning.

They just be family wealth or something because they seem to have inexplicable amounts of money based on what their jobs are.

A lot of people are also in massive amounts of debt.

AAA slop

Pass.

anon, Im just going to give you a life lesson. People like other people who are authentic. Maybe you dont become their friends because you dont have shared interest but authenticity goes a long way.

big the class divide is and how impossible it is to actually close the gap by working when your wealth is 100% of what you're earned

It's just a question of living expenses vs earnings. My parents are poor immigrants but I was able to live with them while working for a little over two years and that was enough to have 200k in savings. That's obviously slowed enough now that I'm paying for my own living expenses but it's definitely a lot more circumstantial than just how much money your parents, grandparents or so on had.

You guys get I voted to shit together? What kind of perverted stuff is that?

I thank God Almighty every day that everyone I work with is intelligent and respect others hobbies and private life.

I'll be masturbating to gay furry porn again

Ah, you must work at Blizzard.

#

When I worked at a restaurant

Idk where you are but I've worked on three restaurants here in NYC. all of the waitresses, bartenders, and wait staff were huge normalfags. Living exactly the type of life those kinds of people are known to live. None of them cared about vidya

normalfags will turn on netflix and scroll on instagram instead of playing videogames.

I still think that videogames is better than that but I guess it's up for debate.

but authenticity goes a long way.

Will it get me laid ?

Why do you all care so much about what normalfags do ?

long but not THAT long

the only way to get laid is to be hot

What are you doing that you NEED cash NOW?

Those JG Wentworth commercials ruined an entire generation

No everyone just scrolls social media or binges whatever midbrow showa are popular right now like White Lotus or Severance, they're not much better than you. Quit Quentinposting

Naw imma build a 50 cal ammo can into a bluetooth speaker then gonna hang out with my militia buddies

later normalfags

gonna hit the casino

c-can it join?

Tbh the most popular trend among office workers are sports gambling

damn

Being dismissive and deflective isn't a good show of your intelligence. This is teenager behavior.

This can't be real, right?

Do you really want to relive your experience as “that guy” back in school?

patapon: wagie edition

Yeah, going to continue my Morrowind playthrough.
Hope you have a good weekend as well!

Yes, I am going to play Yakuza 4, I still got substories to do.

Didn't this guy made this girl make out with another guy to to prank someone?

but I have a structured settlement....

I punch a wall and disappear for a season.

I want to fuck Jim so badly
femanon.

I did occasional outing with girl at work and her male friend she always brings along to say they're not dates. My patience for that shit has run out though so I told her I'm not in the mood for more then one person so next outing has to just be us so we'll see if she ever hangs out with me again.

Not retarded enough to think that will let me get with her after this many years of her always bringing other guy along, just don't want to be friends with her if she's never going to feel safe around me alone.

don't talk about it to your normalfag coworkers because they will 100% consider you an autist and it will reflect poorly on you and make your life more difficult.

Fake and gay. Normalfags don't give a shit. They'll call you a nerd but it's literally just banter - you're supposed to call them names back.

t. Works construction with literal rednecks, farmers, and dudes whos only hobbies are drinking, women, and cars.

tfw fell for the "study what you love" meme

majored in philosophy like a retard

been stuck at my minimum wage retail job for a year after graduating

do I have to go to law school or get a PhD if I ever want to not be poor?

I feel like the days of a degree getting your foot in the door in an unrelated field are over since everyone and their mother has a bachelor's these days

"well philosophy teaches you soft skills like how to critically analyze and-"

listen, companies don't give a fuck about "soft skills". they want someone with experience who's competent, and I am neither

It's called Assetto Corsa Competizione, you wouldn't understand.

Drive home in my E92 M3

You can go onto law school, you can work in academia, be a consultant, start a business. Philosophy is a very useful degree that people respect, trust me you'll be a breath of a fresh air compared to some soulless MBA or stemlord dipshit if you know how to sell yourself

majored in philosophy

LMAOOOOOOOO

AYO THIS DUDE MAJORED IN ASKING STUPID QUESTIONS THAT SERVE NO PURPOSE!

AY LIL BRO WHAT IS A MAN

Shame the Pharmacist just vanished early on.

It’s bottom left isn’t it?

STUPID QUESTIONS THAT SERVE NO PURPOSE

yeah, because who gives a fuck about why we're here or the meaning of existence right? everyone should just be a soulless finance bro or an autistic stemcel

Fuck off Faggoon

>>/agdg/

Go to college

Giga brained at databases, logistics, and finance. Straight A's and even went to academic contest as school rep

Leaf economy so shit that I now use elite analytical skills to be #1 error spotter at warehouse.

Unemployment rate continues to spike while government continues to flood us with more Indians to make things worse.

Have to hold onto bottom tier job for dear life.

as a young autist you don't necessarily realize this but this show could only be written by normies with really good social skills because they know what's awkward or not

Life is what you make of it. There, I saved you four years of your life.

*walks away manually*

yeah, because who gives a fuck about why we're here or the meaning of existence right?

That's the spirit champ! You're now unburdened and free to pursue life how you want to!

I've been looking for over a year and decided to just go back to university, looking for a job feels like a lost cause for me right now. I also hated my last job and feel like I'd hate any I managed to get anyway.

Nothing matters bro, include the need to answer those questions. plus they don’t hand out jobs for mental flagellation