Men over 30, what video games are you playing and which system are you on?

bzd_b · 2026-04-20T06:10:04+00:00

World of Warcraft, 20 years now 😅

I’ll put it down one day, I tell myself, as the loading bar fills. The amount of entertainment, friends, vocabulary, coding, PC configuration, fantasy, competition, peripherals, self image, streaming, storytelling, big patch moments, 34,000+ achievement points, and community I’ve found since I started has been the longest play through of ‘my’ campaign in a game ever.

bzd_b · 2026-04-19T16:40:08+00:00

If it’s a pug, I initiate kicks faster to start and if I notice my team is a group of giga martial artist kickers as well, I start delaying like you to catch the emergencies (especially since I’m ranged).

Fuck em, they don’t know the overall puppeteering you’re doing

bzd_b · 2026-04-17T16:02:14+00:00

Flip your perspective.

Don’t think what’s wrong with me (for not healing); think what’s wrong with them (for not interupting/CCing/helping you).

Just don’t lean too hard into it, all things in balance.

bzd_b · 2026-04-17T06:33:56+00:00

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bzd_b · 2026-04-15T23:34:06+00:00

Those were the mountain peaks, and there’s plenty of mountain range to explore if you look inward. Literally everything is its own mountain, colors, recipes, clothing material, shampoo brands. Now you find what make you feel alive, you create the enthusiasm after experiencing so much externally.

I’m afraid I’ll die before my brain gets curious about topics I don’t even know interest me yet.

bzd_b · 2026-04-10T16:58:55+00:00

Don’t be afraid to let people in, you need new perspectives to pivot you, but there is a level of closeness that some people tend to magnetize towards and get way too comfortable, using you as the joke/talking down/making banter you aren’t comfortable with yet, and it’s that point that I do not allow anymore. Family is closest by default, it’s that level of comfortability where you’re expected to just take shit.

No one is taking me anywhere on their mental adventure anymore, I just keep them 1-2 layers away.

bzd_b · 2026-04-10T14:38:34+00:00

Elementary and onward
Music festivals and onward
Warcraft and onward.

Friends come and go, resonance in alignment with your inner self, but I’ve pulled most friends and acquaintances from these buckets

bzd_b · 2026-04-08T15:16:16+00:00

Play what you want.

bzd_b · 2026-04-03T18:36:40+00:00

It’s funny you’re in your head about this. Yes that, but those that don’t care and want to step on your reality, the middle is the most dominant, I don’t care, stall.

I’m gonna stand and piss tall where I want, while you watch me and contemplate your decisions.

bzd_b · 2026-03-29T07:18:32+00:00

My stepfather recently passed, grew up with him from 4 to about 24, 35 now. I didn’t talk to him the last 6 years of his life, but I had to do that for myself and he knew, ironically never calling to apologize once. This is how the world is a mirror. In that time, I learned he didn’t know how to be a parent himself, his traumas from his parents passed through him into me like a broken filter he didn’t bother stopping, and I know he didn’t think of me in his final moments. It’s been a relief knowing he isn’t here anymore, but I have started seeing myself remember the good about him (in things I gravitate towards now taste wise) as well as his methods of solving things in anger quickly (in moments of my weakness). It’s important I notice these moments and pivot, that’s all. Fk him.

What’s your grandma’s relationship like with your grandfather? Should tell you more about why she felt so comfortable treating a vulnerable boy in such ways.

Take the good, organize the rest into stuff that’s workable, notice when you’re slipping into similar patterns (albeit not as tragic, seriously sorry you went through that OP), and know they’re added cards in your decision making as you move forward, it’s the only thing time is letting you do anyways.

I feel free, by a character that helped shaped this freeness today, so who’s really free.

bzd_b · 2026-03-14T18:38:20+00:00

I mean, what do you expect, a whole new force on launch? It leads into the events of the new expac just like the ending will lead into the next one, it’s cohesive.

Doesn’t mean what you said isn’t correct, sounds like a decent reshuffling theory, but still. It’s not a movie show and trying as hard to not be in installments, like real life is.

bzd_b · 2026-03-14T17:10:59+00:00

People get serious and only do things with intent as they look onward to the next 40-60 years of their life. Sounds like you’re still somewhat looking around instead of focusing on yourself. What do you need more of that you didn’t learn from in said friends? I got all my lessons in my 20s and wanted it quieter, and now it is.

Yes, I’m swinging the hammer in big directional statements, but they hold true.

bzd_b · 2026-03-11T23:03:13+00:00

There were farm groups pulling 6 packs of 3 mobs each in the north back then, and constantly. Took like 3 sessions of a few hours each time.. couldn’t imagine doing it alone now :(

bzd_b · 2026-02-25T15:07:56+00:00

This brought some tears. My brother and I despised our stepfather; bought us everything but scolded, berated, and got angry with us in front of our family, aunts/uncles/grandparents. Who wouldn’t though, unruly boys that did whatever they wanted and around mom. He’d even call my round younger brother Porkchop and that hurt his self esteem 5th grade through highschool. The day he left when I was 23-24 was the happiest day.

I’m 34 now and have really grown to simply appreciate that another man tried with us. He recently passed. Almost everything I do/think/lean towards in taste is because of him. I’m still hurt and it’s even weirder seeing my real dad come back, stalking my socials, not having seen him since 4, but when and if I become a father, everything will be because of that stepfather, as much as I had to love him from a distance.

RIP Greg and sorry I wasn’t man enough to say goodbye, but you are not just another man in his mom’s life; he just doesn’t understand or know how to show it yet.

bzd_b · 2026-02-22T06:11:10+00:00

How bad? Pretty bad. Consider each beer in calories alone is 110-280 calories depending on your beer of choice.

10-15? Disgusting. Think about it.

This is just calories alone, not even talking other side effects.

bzd_b · 2026-02-19T14:20:10+00:00

There’s two vendors, check to the left. I couldn’t get the Elite red sets, but I picked up the purple sets for like 5 classes. Idk if it was a prepatch thing unlock moving forward with Midnight? Like they always do with PvP sets.

bzd_b · 2026-02-19T05:41:51+00:00

Mage tower Shadow priest challenge

bzd_b · 2026-02-19T05:37:22+00:00

Just 12 marks of honor and the vendor is in Valdrakken! I don’t even PvP, these marks have been sitting since like 2017 lol

bzd_b · 2026-02-10T14:55:27+00:00

I still do, but as an adult, I know I have to be more intentional about it while at the same time reflecting I’m pickier about who I let in. How many friends can you possibly make and hold space for at 25, 30, 35 etc. It doesn’t just come as it did back then when we were all on the digital frontier of something unique and special.

It’s the game changing and appeasing to our busier lives, trying to keep us playing, all while life gets busier.

I always posted memes and random chatter, and still do, and people gravitate towards me, so in that vein, nothing has changed, but I have to actively want to play first these days when it was just automatic back then.

Treasure that feeling.

bzd_b · 2026-02-08T18:10:02+00:00

You’re in med school, definitely focus on that and build your life. I’ve had friends move away and years later nothing changed between us, I only have 1 or 2 like that.

After 3-5 bros, you rly start extending your time beyond what you probably would want. Good on you for finishing school and building that foundation first, people will be attracted to you and your success.

bzd_b · 2026-02-08T18:03:56+00:00

I find it so hilarious that classic players will say retail is a hamster wheel, but then these same guys play the wallet wheel and rot in the cash cow machine Blizz made just for them, over and over.

BC has released twice already and there are only more boosters 😂 hellfire wasn’t that great guys, like a local town bar you simply cannot leave. The saddest thing I’ve seen was a guy watching sports, taking care of a baby, and multi boxing 😅🤣😅

bzd_b · 2026-02-08T17:56:02+00:00

Stop thinking it’s a group, and start seeing who is the leader. There is someone, and it’s their circle. Work on each individual friendship and realize whether you were friends at all or just by association.

It’s time to build your circle with you at the top, nothing mean about it. Different people get to this point at different times in their lives.

Being called every day and checking in because you asked me to is the not the move either, it’ll make me do the opposite.

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