retiring + moving on

where are the good cs go servers at? everytime i try to play its always shitty maps etc

i used to love counter-strike but wasted so much of my life and opportunity in college and afterwards taking it way to seriously Scrimming and Lanning on teams. I'm sure these days a little GO every once in a while isn't going to hurt you but I was a lot more productive and happy once I stopped playing video games for the most part.

but hey if you don't plan to quit because who cares it's not crack then at least you are making a huge improvement. DOTA is lame CS is way better

Maybe try something aside from video games as your hobby.

Kinda sounds weird but, you're playing video games for years and years with nothing to show for it. Maybe pick up running, or some type of social activity that allows you to get out of the house.

Unless you're making money in the gaming industry, it's not worth wasting a ton of hours gaming when you're not a teenager anymore.

On October 15 2015 22:29 PuertoRican wrote: Maybe try something aside from video games as your hobby. Kinda sounds weird but, you're playing video games for years and years with nothing to show for it. Maybe pick up running, or some type of social activity that allows you to get out of the house. Unless you're making money in the gaming industry, it's not worth wasting a ton of hours gaming when you're not a teenager anymore.

i think this is funny advice considering we are on a poker site, which is a subset of a video game site. but great assumption. by this logic, we should literally have no hobbies unless we make it profitable.

On October 16 2015 00:14 Into Infinity wrote: Show nested quote + On October 15 2015 22:29 PuertoRican wrote: Maybe try something aside from video games as your hobby. Kinda sounds weird but, you're playing video games for years and years with nothing to show for it. Maybe pick up running, or some type of social activity that allows you to get out of the house. Unless you're making money in the gaming industry, it's not worth wasting a ton of hours gaming when you're not a teenager anymore. i think this is funny advice considering we are on a poker site, which is a subset of a video game site. but great assumption. by this logic, we should literally have no hobbies unless we make it profitable.

Nah, didn't mean it like that exactly. I was just speaking from experience in gaming, so I was trying to give you some advice. Also, I don't play poker.

Anyway, do whatever makes you happy, I guess.

At least playing poker you gain skill at poker which is a moneymaking skill in and of itself.

Poker is probably better mental exercise than most rote games as well.

Puerto Rican did not mean profitable necessarily he meant productive. When you run you improve your body. You do something social you make friend's (if this has value to you). If you knit you end up with blankets.

If you drop 10k hours into a video game, that is time spent you could have become an expert at something else. Getting expert at a game can be rewarding to some extent in that you can derive some self worth or ego satisfaction from being able to beat other people at the game but it doesn't go much further than that. The skills are non transferable from outside of gaming and eventually the game you play fades into irrelevance and then so does all that time you have spent. I have personally been there so I don't play anymore. When it comes to poker at least it has paid for large chunks of my life and if I'm ever desperate for $ I could always find someone to go heads up

On October 16 2015 00:14 Into Infinity wrote: Show nested quote + On October 15 2015 22:29 PuertoRican wrote: Maybe try something aside from video games as your hobby. Kinda sounds weird but, you're playing video games for years and years with nothing to show for it. Maybe pick up running, or some type of social activity that allows you to get out of the house. Unless you're making money in the gaming industry, it's not worth wasting a ton of hours gaming when you're not a teenager anymore. i think this is funny advice considering we are on a poker site, which is a subset of a video game site. but great assumption. by this logic, we should literally have no hobbies unless we make it profitable.

Video games are hardly profitable nowadays. If you want to become successful you'd need to commit full time on it, and that's hard when you get older. When that time comes, I feel like it's better if you do something you don't particurlarly enjoy it but has good pay (talking about stock market for example).
Video games are just... ugh... Better play it for fun while you can. Or better maybe, a new game that can be the next esport (Fatality anyone ?)