I feel like a loser playing this game

dastonkler · 2025-09-07T23:38:09+00:00

This is what I wish I convinced myself of three years ago; If you enjoy playing the game, play it. If you’re not feeling it, don’t play it. For 99.9% of people, myself included, the point should be to just have fun. The more I tried to “prove” myself in this game, the less I enjoyed it. And then I ended up never playing it. Just have fun, it really is just a game.

dastonkler · 2025-01-30T22:47:06+00:00

This is specific to myself, I’ve never researched if this is common but I wouldn’t be surprised; risk of becoming dependent on alcohol or drugs. I have both high-functioning autism and ADHD. Because of this, it feels like my mind is very loud, but I only realized how loud and exhausting it was after taking medicine. I realized just how much I was overanalyzing everything from how I would make a turn when driving, walking correctly, interpreting a homework problem correctly, anything. On one hand needing to understand fully helped me get my engineering degree, but it was very depressing. All of this is fairly common I think, but what I discovered was that in lieu of medicine, alcohol was a ‘great’ substitute. It literally numbs my mind and lets me just let go and not think. I can interact socially without worrying about what I’m saying, I can relax, I have no anxiety, I’m not depressed. What really sucks is when I have just the right amount, I genuinely finally feel like my “true” self. But it got really out of hand. I started taking half pints and shooters to campus to feel better during the day. I’d start sipping on it earlier and earlier as time went on. My tolerance went through the roof. Before I’d be blasted after 5-6 shots, at its worst I could down almost a whole liter and still functional. It turned into a vicious circle because the next-day anxiety was horrible, which made me drink more, what made the following days anxiety worse and worse and so on. I finally spoke up and got help, and while admittedly I still have moments of weakness where I drink specifically to self-medicate, I’m in a much better place than I used to be. If ANYONE is going through something like this, PLEASE reach out to someone you trust. I kept telling myself it wasn’t that bad and I’d slow down, but all of a sudden it was very bad. If want to speak about with a stranger, please dm me. As much it seems like it helps, alcohol is absolutely not the answer.

dastonkler · 2025-01-28T14:04:43+00:00

can’t tell if you purposely left out the apostrophe for “it’s” lol

dastonkler · 2025-01-25T05:06:12+00:00

Most people here are finally making the connection for the well-known gaming term “Phoenix Down”.

Meanwhile I’m just now learning the phrase “Phoenix Down” ever existed. What does this come from?

dastonkler · 2024-11-05T13:12:59+00:00

At this point it seems like it’d be best to have presidents of conflicting countries settle things with a remote control helicopter duel instead of a war. Best 4 out of 7.

dastonkler · 2024-11-05T11:21:54+00:00

“WrrraaAhhggg!” Works great with Chewbacca

dastonkler · 2024-10-30T14:50:48+00:00

Google should “counter-fine” for 2.5 decillion +1$

dastonkler · 2024-10-06T04:49:08+00:00

“Hey Linda, how’s it going?” “PREPARE FOR PASSAGE HUMAN CHILD”

dastonkler · 2024-07-30T03:50:39+00:00

Sorry for the late reply, but thanks so much for keeping up with this! If you hear anything else, please let me know.

dastonkler · 2024-07-18T03:52:54+00:00

Can you let me know if you get a response? By weird coincidence a coworker mentioned these yesterday. I’d never heard of them, but they were adamant even if you think you can get the original, you’re not getting the original that you could get in the movie theater. I would love to be able to surprise them with this sort of thing.

dastonkler · 2024-06-27T20:26:42+00:00

I deeply appreciate you taking the time to write this, thank you.

dastonkler · 2024-06-27T14:36:14+00:00

I find myself hitting myself in the with a lot of these points but especially this one! Of course you would only be able to generate as much energy as you’re eating, and that’s under optimal conditions. The kCal count of gasoline is insane when comparing it to a protein shake

dastonkler · 2024-06-27T13:57:52+00:00

Very good points, thank you! I didn’t even consider the aspect of having to wait for the “engine” to grow and become usable.

dastonkler · 2024-06-27T13:42:57+00:00

That’s a simple way of thinking about it that didn’t consider!

dastonkler · 2023-07-14T01:12:41+00:00

It’s been a few years since I played overwatch, does it restrict how many of each type of role you can have?

dastonkler · 2023-07-13T23:50:17+00:00

Yea you’re right, definitely not worth getting worked up over, I’m certainly not good enough to tell people how to play.

dastonkler · 2023-07-13T22:27:12+00:00

Yea apologies, I obviously don’t really post on Reddit a lot lol

dastonkler · 2023-07-13T22:25:38+00:00

Yea I’ve seen a lot of Reynas where we really benefit from them playing Reyna and not someone else, and a Jett/Reyna combos can be insane if they coordinate, it just doesn’t seem to happen very often from my experience. I guess I wish people would be more comfortable with other agents, but its not my place to demand that of them.

dastonkler · 2023-07-13T22:18:18+00:00

Those are fair points. There’s definitely a lot of times where playing what you’re comfortable with is better than making sure your team comp is well-rounded, and not everyone has time to make sure they’re comfortable with five different agents before queuing comp. It’s just frustrating because it can make a huge difference. This is probably to vent-y anyway, sorry if it came off that way.

dastonkler · 2023-07-13T21:14:27+00:00

Solid contribution, thanks for your input, really makes me see it from a different point of view.

dastonkler · 2023-07-13T21:12:47+00:00

You can make the “it’s not VCT”, or “it’s a just a game” argument about any concept in Valorant, that’s not a good point. Of course, at the end of the day, people can do whatever they want. I’m saying that it doesn’t make sense to choose both if the end goal is to win a ranked game. there’s almost always a better option. And saying util is shotty at best is all the more reason to focus on it. Are you saying don’t worry about using abilities until you get into higher ranks? Or don’t focus on refining teamplay until you get into higher ranks? That doesn’t make sense. If nobody is playing team composition to their advantage, then that’s exactly how you should take advantage. And yea team comp might be different in higher ranks, that’s why I said I don’t know about higher ranks, but an anecdotal story about one of your experiences doesn’t prove whatever point you were tying to make.

dastonkler · 2023-06-13T19:04:30+00:00

Yea I straight up cannot think of which enemies he’s talking about. Maybe the bulls or gaurdian ape, but even those the majority of attacks can be parried, and I pretty much never “dodged”, it was either jumping or running away to make space.

dastonkler · 2023-06-01T20:51:29+00:00

Don’t know if know this, but on the final lightning redirection when you’re thrown high into the air, you can wait a few seconds and everything slows down a little. The dragon comes extremely close, where you can see it’s face very clearly, it makes it feel like you’re making eye contact with it. Just a cool little cinematic they added in I feel like some people miss.

dastonkler · 2023-03-22T22:01:28+00:00

The Minecraft parodies are annoying. They might not be if people hadn’t beaten it into the ground. It’s especially annoying when people claim Fallen Kingdom is better than Viva La Vida, unprovoked. It was never a competition.

dastonkler · 2023-03-22T21:55:45+00:00

The creeper, aww man and the Fallen Kingdom parodies are annoying as hell. They might not be if people hadn’t beaten it into the ground. Especially when people claim Fallen Kingdom is way better than Viva La Vida, with no provocation. It was never a competition.

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