What genre is the best for escaping the real world?

To be fair they're better than most people who ERP

If there's a single valid use for AI text completion it's to jerk off to the most specific combination of fetishes you have.

Games like rust, ark and dayz.

Job Simulators

Space Station 13/14 MRP. Unironically.

I thought SS14 was supposed to be awful?

escaping the real world

Fucking boring ass concept.

Isekai

MMO’s

It used to be awful two years ago, but now it's actually decent if you stick to MRP servers. Especially the whitelisted ones.

This and this but it will also ruin you. I played hardcore ark and rust for like 5 years, like 10-18 hours daily while consuming copious amounts of edibles. Great times but damn do drugs and games like that fuck you up long term. Came out of it with psychosis and severe depression but I’m doing pretty good now. I still play Rust casually, wish I could play ark but it’s such a grind to play official servers

I feel like that genre is basically dead these days. Even WoW has managed to circle back on itself with classic to being shit again. The only other active MMO is FF14

Booze can knock you out for 10 days straight but you need to grind your binge drinking skills first to get to that point.

Maybe in the 2000s, playing WoW did feel like jumping into a parallel universe. But shit sucks now and social media killed the magic of online interactions with strangers.

Try obscure MMOs. There's dozens of them around and they give you a refreshing experience.

ywn experience peak WoW because your parents were too poor to afford the subscription fee

Alright fine you win this time.

Eventually OP is going to reply to his own OP saying "QRD?" and post the entire comic strip and he will reply to that post 50 times acting like the comic is so deep. This happens every time OP's image is posted

What are some good AI chatbots for such degeneracy anyway?

Dating sims

No I'm not going to do that this time

Post the comic.

QRD?

Vr unironically

More like he will get 25 replies saying its so true and wrong and the worst thing they have ever seen in their entire life and its the most brutal thing anyone could ever think of their entire lives
And another 25 replies saying "whats wrong with this"

There, surprisingly, haven't been any VR RPGs yet. Which is probably the only thing that might come close to achieving that.

Can anyone explain what's bad about medical grade drugs? They're safe. They're not brewed in a basement. It's just medicine.

Minecraft.

The one you write yourself

Recommend some. All I need is a healthy player base, doesn:'t matter if its small

nothing really, but people get mad at teh idea of medicine used to chase a high and complain that the effort should be put less into recreational stuff and more into health advocacy type.

Fucking TOYMY.

Well then, the best one I can recommend is Monumenta.
Yes, really.

VR RPG would eventually have an end. If you go into the rabbit hole of vr chat you're gonna stay there for 9000 hours.

I never got the appeal of VR chat, there doesn't really seem to be much to do beyond jerk off with fellow obese furries pretending to be cat girls

Any competitive esport type of game does the job. Say what you will about League of Legends, but when you're in that game there's way too much shit happening to think about anything else. Play a few games of League and suddenly it's 2 hours later.

Is this crystal therapy?

The best VR game would be one that you have to scan your real life body and face for. Then no pretenders. Some fat fuck with a revolting face wants to talk to you? He should go play some make believe game.

It's full on a 3d chatroom with infinite content. Put on the headset, go dancing, go to a live concert, go watch movies, go world exploring, meet people along the way.
All of this makes you ignore your shitty flat and moldy bed.

Life/cosy sim, autism management of your choice or immersive MMO.

Or all of them combined, Star Citizen. In all honesty its one of the first games that, even in a broken unoptimized alpha, gives the feel that is talking about. A dude flew a half an hour to pick me up when I was stranded on a planet, and then helped me finish the limited time event. I would pass it along by helping out another anon later on, and give people rides in my fancy ship.

PAY2WIN HURRR

Every month there's a "free fly" where even those without game keys can play. All you need is one key for the game itself and one for the related single player campaign WingCommander story mode (if you want - its optional and a separate yet relatedgame) called Squadron 42 that's coming out next year. All the other stuff, even most cosmetics are available by playing the goddamn game. Also the amount of people who sperg out about this shit yet defend gacha make no sense to me. Don't get me wrong, I'm really worried that all the zoomer gacha monetization autism will somehow break the dam of Chris Roberts 40 years of immersive autism, but we won't know until down the line.

You need some hellspawn combination of roguelite, idle game, and social sim to escape reality.

Yeah but you can't actually do anything, you're just sort of in a chat room. It's not really a game as much as it is just VR MSN messenger.

Only way to get all *your* fetishes in there. You'd have to completely rewrite anyone else's chatbot anyway since no one ever does it right.

Those adventure lifesim sandboxes where you just live out the life of a more interesting character in a more interesting world. Shit like... Uhm... Uh... Kenshi? Soulash 2? There's dick all in this genre and that makes me fucking mad.

One Ubisoft game, just pick one and take your time with it.
I recommend the following

Wildlands

Far Cry 3

Assassin's Creed 4

Once you get into the rhythm you'll look just like the kid in the webcomic.

How many times can you genuinely subhuman retards have the same discussions every fucking day? Is the argument you are making about this comic being the same as it was yesterday when OP posted this bullshit last time accomplishing anything? Ironic that some of you will argue against the comic but you spend your life every day all day replying to the same off topic threads over and over and over

Buy a shit ton of edibles instead and now every game is an escape

Kenshi got close but I feel it desperately needs fleshing out to make each faction a bit more unique. It feels a bit raw when every city is basically the same with only surface level cultural differences. I wish someone would just gift that dev a billion dollars to make his dream game.

Well right now it's the only vr game that hooks people like crazy so... I mean I fucking hate the game but that's just the reality of it. People are hooked on the social interactions and the small content around it.
All the good memories I've got from MMOs back in the days was 70% social interaction and the rest being mixed social + game mechanics and that's what they managed to capture there. Grinding boars just for grinding boars in vr all by your lonesome doesn't work that much anymore.

this has been deboonked because people actually like to suffer and there are deeper psychological needs than pleasure

t. agent smith

What the fuck happened to this place. Why are there so many fucking tourists lmao

Unironically only if the suffering has pay off to something better. If your life just sucks balls and gets worse people will just descend into nihilism, hence drug addicts.

I don't think its all tourists I think zoomers are just pathetic and need to have the same retarded copy and past discussions every day because dopamine abuse destroyed their ability to think critically

Which would be based. Same shit we did.

thread reposts work because there are different people on the site at different times of the day
the only ones who throw a fit about it are losers refreshing the catalog for 10 hours a day

I see your point, anon. I hate my job. I work for a shitty company that cheaps me out on hours and pays me a mere sixty cents above minimum wage. But if I'm going to be miserable, I'd rather get paid for it. Don't give up, anons. Beer will taste sweeter after a day of work. You may live at home in your 20s, maybe even your 30s, but nobody will be able to tell you that you haven't tried. Work, and save your money. Save as much as you can.

No we didn't do that. This place wasn't copy and paste the same threads and topics for years. Zoomers do that

escapist fetish fantasy

it's the most horrifying shit

Why are they like this

No the ones who are annoyed are annoyed because this is yet another off topic thread that you made

FPS-RPGs. get high and play for long enough and you'll forget the keyboard and mouse even exist

Should i make a gul dukat thread where he asks why the federation has no star trek games? How about a thread discussing why arthas was actually correct in stratholme? Like the fuck you on mate.

No you stupid zoomer just make the same off topic copy and paste garbage because growing up on twitch chat requires you now to constantly piss in the wind hooping someone acknowledges your existence otherwise you can't get your dopamine hit and will consider suicide

I've been here for 17 years bud.

this guy is so butthurt lmao

The thread was literally on topic until you joined in and started spamming and seething. You basically only have yourself to blame

Dragons Dogma Online just had a resurgence of a few thousand players because some streamers got into it, could try that out

Sure you have zoomie

kys zoomie

Your thread that you made now 10000000 times is never on topic since it is never about video games. How can you retarded zoomers have the same room temperature IQ discussion about this topic a million times saying the same thing?

isn't Anon Babble still doing their mmo hopping adventure?

thread happily talking mostly about video games for 40 posts

anon turns up, his autism causing him to froth with rage because the OP image upset him

proceeds to force the thread off topic in a full blown sperge out

proceeds to then froth with autistic rage that the thread is now off topic

It's basically gmod for vr with how easy it is to prog4am things into vr. There is a ground inn/vg/ for it and then 2 offshoot lewder groups which are furry and anime respectively that are intermingled. Usually furries and everybody else are kept separate.

Now, there are lots of shit to do, lots of game maps, ttt, prop hunt, murder, experience worlds, story worlds, souls likes (this works well), rougelike multi-player shooters, rhythm games, ect. Or yes, you can give anons hands free orgasms as you fuck them. Their lovense plugs vibrating as you thrust in and your onahole being activated as they go down on you. I've genuinly came harder in vr than with my goth bpdemon ex who I dated for 5 years, and I've also learned I can orgasm both without cumming, and with cumming hands free. There are groups for everything. You want slave auctions? You want strip clubs? You want to cuddle in a group of anime titties as they jerk your shota cock off? Do you jjst wanna shoot things? Ect.
Only buy in is a good pc, good hmd, full body trackers. If you 3 point cripple, desktop, or be a questie, you will hate it.

T.5k hours

Work, and save your money. Save as much as you can.

aa a 26 years old zoomer, that is the only advice I'm taking (also leechmaxxing in my parents house) and I aim to retire at 35

Your thread isn't about video games its about a stupid comic like the 10000000 times you made this thread before. You have legit brain damage needing to talk about this topic every day

I lost like 6 years to wow vanilla through wotlk. All I remember from that time are world of warcraft things. Still don't regret it. Although I skipped classic since I think I did just about everything the first time around, and that time I did it with people I liked not numbers autists.

It was literally video game discussion before your sperge out. You literally created the very problem you whinge about because you're an autistic retard. Should have been gassed long ago.

save

You have to invest or you will not beat inflation

I keep trying to set up some scenarios and basicly walk the bot trough things I want it to do and say at times and it just keep fucking up by coming up with its own shit or it just keeps repeating itself. SOMETIMES it works but most of the time its like flipping a coin.

The economy will crash in the next 30 years and basically take all of your savings with it if you overinvest. Index funds rely on the stock market growing infinitely, which they won't.

Sorry but you are too retarded or your using a retarded bot

It was never about video games its the same off topic garbage where you make a pretend on topic OP then talk about a stupid comic that you talked about 1000000 times before you retarded subhuman zoomer

any game with short gameplay loop, they are like heroin.

dredge

darkest dungeon

Just use your imagination.

This.

You could've had free peak if you jumped into private servers, but I'll assume your life had progressed too much by then.
The 2019 and 2024 official releases weren't it tho, even if you were in a perfect spot in your life to enjoy, true.

all the posts literally about video games up until the tard rage

I hope one day Trump cuts your neetbux and you finally starve to death

That's the irrelevant eye-catching lust image to the genuine thought provoking question.

All the posts are about that stupid comic strip which was eventually posted you brain broken subhuman zoomer

From what I gather from friends who did play it it's basically been ruined by metatards at this point and it's not really the same as it used to.

Honestly, asking the old ass gen x n boomers that really raided back in the day, it really isn't that much more metatarded. Sure there aren't literal children running around struggling just to level, but the raiding scene was just as toxic back then. Gamers weren't total morons 20 years ago, despite what zoomies want to believe.
The literal children and housewives struggling just to level and do casual bgs were the soul of the game tho and they're absent.

A friend was telling me there's weird social apps people use to basically block you from everything if you don't play along these days, which they seemed to imply has shit up the social aspect of the game.

of course I'm not just letting my money sit there, I'm investing in meaningful assets (precious metals)

ok, where?

Dating sims

captcha: h4pyr

stories powered by miscommunication are gay

The brain is getting stimulated though, stupid ass robot

It's not virtual reality or matrix crap anon, there is an arrow pointing at the brain and it says "pure pleasure". The robots is nicely explaining that the long term result is naturally the same as if the arrow said "pure pain" with the obvious truth being that experiencing only one kind of stimulation is fatal in the long term. Try to keep up.

Modded Bethesda slop does the job for me.

Pure pleasure is still stimulation, just very one sided stimulation.

one type of stimulation is a brain under-stimulated, try to keep up

Not necessarily, it can be overstimulation. Fact is its still being stimulated and thus not dead

Necessarily yes because it makes you dead. It can be scientifically measured that one type of stimulation is under-stimulation because it makes you dead. The result is that you are comatose at the hospital and the screen shows a flat line it says you're legally dead. Try to keep up anon.

Dead would be no stimulation at all.

actual high functioning autist here. let me explain to you what's legitimately wrong with the pleasure cube:

first, the issue is not the whole 'you essentially become a vegetable' thing. think of all the times you experienced pleasure or sheer motivation in your life; would you call yourself a vegetable for having gone through these things? of course not. as an example, let's say after some unspecified amount of time of being in the pleasure cube, you were ejected out of it arbitrarily and suddenly. what would you think in that moment? you'd say it was fucking awesome, staring at this steel wall, there was no other steel wall like it. but then ask yourself this: how much time had passed? was it a day? a year? you'd have no idea. time flies when you're having fun, because that's how the brain is wired, focus is put on the activity or pleasurable sensation and away from the perception of time. and so this is the first problem with the pleasure cube: time speeds up dramatically in it. but what's the problem with that? the light that burns brighter burns quicker, but who cares if it goes by faster, right? but then there's the other problem. (cont)

secondly, entertain this principle for a little while: "consciousness emerged once. it will emerge again". in short, time flies infinitely quickly when there is no observer, and so the infinitely re-occuring universe (whether it be cyclical or multiversal), will keep re-iterating itself until a universe is able to sustain self-aware life. this does not mean that time is tied to consciousness, to the contrary: who knows how many trillions of universes have birthed and died, what inconceivable amount of time passed during our unconsciousness, before our consciousness emerged. but emerge it did, and in doing so it 'slowed down' time to what it always has been. let's say you were to die right now, but you had to live another 60 years: those 60 years would pass instantly in unconsciousness, and so would any other amount of years following it until a new consciousness would re-emerge. do note that there is no connection between this life and the next, it is two different consciousnesses that emerge. there is no guarantee of returning as a human being. there is no soul. and here is the second problem with the pleasure cube: entering it is akin to returning to a singularity, where pure potential and energy is condensed to such a dense point, that it just speeds itself up to its own explosion.

in conclusion, the pleasure cube is essentially an intensely pleasurable death. you enter it, and speed your way to the moment when no life can be sustained; only to return to consciousness again. you might as well never had entered it, unless somehow this pleasure cube could last from universe to universe.

and let me say this as well: if everything is meaningless, then suicide is meaningless as well. meaninglessness is meaningless. question everything, including nihilistic hedonism, it is not the ultimate descriptor of reality you think it is.

This why everyone hates you faggots. Dude clearly mention "don't see the point being jerking fat dudes off" and then you go on a schizo tangent painting it perfectly clear why no one should even boot the game.

pirating erp sessions from homos

pirating tits from one artist onto flat girls from another

yohoho youll never get my cum

BLAH BLAH BLAH

Nope. Not leaving this chair.

How do I get rid of anhedonia bros

It's like you didn't even read half the post

feel free to die on that chair. maybe next life you'll live in spite of the chair. but we both know that chair is not nearly as pleasurable as the pleasure cube. i'm not saying you should get a job as per societal expectation, but i am saying that you're not truly living according to your own principles.
question your desires, or lack thereof. what do you want in life, truly? why do you want nothing whatsoever? there are answers to both these things, neither of which are fundamental to the fabric of reality. objectivity was always an impossible standard, no matter what you think you want, it will never hold the divine significance you wish it had, even if there truly was a god. instead, seek the truth, and never stop seeking. but then wouldn't that mean we won't ever stop seeking the truth? exactly, until you realize there is no perfect truth, and stop seeking it. you will never find the perfect reason to do anything. to act against reason would be foolishness if done in ignorance, but it is enlightenment when done in wisdom. we meet upon the level, and part upon the square.

think of all the times you experienced pleasure or sheer motivation in your life; would you call yourself a vegetable for having gone through these things?

Stopped reading there. You aren't autisting enough. No it does not make you a vegetable because that pleasure is brief. Stepping on a lego does not turn you into a vegetable but it's not a legit argument that torture doesn't fuck the human brain. Being in an always-pleasure cube or always-torture cube will result in the same outcome, you will cease being conscious and your brain will smoothen. You will soon become brain dead.

keep reading, i am agreeing with you the whole way.

BLAH BLAH
Where's my dinner?

it's where you left it.

STUPD DOG
OOOGABOOOGAOOGAAA

I lied, I partially read the next sentence that goes "when you leave you'd say it was awesome", and that's when I cringed out and politely refrained from further disagreeing by saying "no you wouldn't say anything because your brain fucking stopped". I won't read further srry.

VR games literally do this
Too bad there are so few good ones

ignorance often comes in clotheless garbs. but then again no objective universe depends on your coming to awareness, lest we be doomed.

go ahead and link those studies of people being in the cube and their brains shitting off

This is precisely what I'm trying to escape

FFXI

If you don't know you died are you really dead? If you die that slowly from a general blanking where is the line?

why is the full comic kind of hot to me

I jumped in with the TBC classic, all the meta retards boosted to level 50 so the vanilla part of TBC was actually really comfy then
made some good friends
miss you batwings

attractive girl in vulnerable state: neuron activation

its not that deep.

girl reduced to a drooling hedonistic bliss

Well yeah obviously

It's not deep but it's fucking depressing.

Phantom Thieves would hate the pleasure cube but not because of the infinite pleasure or the situation it puts you in, but because having bad things happen to you builds character and they will make sure every single person on earth has enough character to go around.

They'd endorse a rape cube though

Of course they would. That would build character

Someone tell me why the Pleasure Cube and the Maruki ending to Persona 5 Royal are actually bad besides muh character and freedom

LMAO

This. Fent is amazing, you should try it. Real cheap too.

honestly i'd agree
good things are meaningless without the contrast of bad things
if there's no contrast, why care?

On the off chance anyone here's interested in a deeper exploration of the pleasure cube question and related concerns, the recently released book Deep Utopia provides a very thought-provoking survey of all different kinds of utopia and various 'problems' with them. It's by the same guy that did the famous scary owl book about superintelligent AI.

Specifically regarding the pleasure cube, we could consider the desires of a person weighted across time. Suppose that the time traveler girl is indifferent to a life of drug-mediated bliss vs the exact same neurological cocktail produced through genuine adventure *while actually experiencing said drugs*. From the standpoint of the version of her after she's started taking the drugs, there's no problem. But from the perspective of her past self from before starting the drugs it might seem like something's wrong. A technologically mature society should be able to account for both value systems - the present/future perspective which wants a life of bliss and the past perspective which desires some innate 'interestingness' or 'purpose' or some other criteria unfulfilled by a pleasure cube existence - by carefully and deliberately crafting actual real-life adventures that the time-traveler girl can go on which would satisfy both the desired neurological states and the other values.

then why is a matrix type society even bad

Sorry incels, real world experiences are always better.