To the older NEETS. The fuck do you guys even do?

My truck has been in the shop for almost 2 weeks at this point. Everything everywhere online online is so fucking repetitive. The same arguments, talking points, EVERYTHING.

How do you guys not get bored to death?

factory games, MMO's, all of the seasonal anime, sorting image folder, answering stupid questions

Keep myself busy.

but-

Rather than aimlessly work so I can thoughtlessly spend; I focus on minimising costs (cooking, gardening, careful shopping etc) and maximising comfort (cleaning, vidya, music, organising files etc, browsing while eating / listening to music), with occasional social activities (fitness, dealing with the cat, occasionally meeting up with old friends etc). I don't live a poor life either, rather, I invest excess expenses, which I also spend time looking into.
The hardest few weeks of NEETing is roughly 3-9 weeks in; when you're still hooked on the mindset of serving others than yourself, lack a way to stay sufficient without relying on others and lack progress in long-term goals or skills of your own to fill that time with. I'm not a NEET in the strictest definition, I work 3 months during Summer (usually less) and that keeps me sufficient for the year with some change to spare for personal stuff, but only because I prefer it over gibs. Survival is surprisingly cheap once you eliminate subscriptions and minimise personal waste.

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The normalfag sanitised internet is deliberately like that, more niche hobbyist areas that serve interests you can afford to invest in (when you have more time) have more varied things to talk about. Again, the hard part is making use of the extra time to expand your horizons - once the independence wheel is rolling, you're fine.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be working on patching AetherSX2 to NetherSX2 so my bootloaded privacy-focused phone can run PS2 games offline, in preparation for when I "work" this Summer. I hear 10,000 Bullets was an unsung hit. At the same time, I'll be repainting my fence since it's April, sorting out the metadata for the Lupin the Third OSTs for my own convenience (all downloaded via yt-dlp), selling an old tent, reheating a meal I made and froze in advance, before beddie time. Continuing anything I don't finish today, tomorrow, and the day after etc.

i've just hopped from one mmo or otherwise grindy treadmill game to the next for like 12 year
it's also given me brain damage which is why i had to remake this post

It's really is pretty bad, but whatever I just doomscroll, read imageboards, and check up on streamers. Sometimes I play wow, but that's pretty borign

well I use the excuse that I'm trying to start my own small business, which I am, but my schedule actually looks more like me doing about 10% of my business work for the day and 90% going to the gym or playing videogames. I can only do this because I've saved up about 100k from waging that is currently sitting in crypto.

Though I should be able to start selling my product soon so that will help stall my eventual return to being a miserable wagie. If I'm lucky maybe I can do this for a living instead

i'm 33 and a 'neet' i am an executive at a record label and run a financial services company

am a neet

is quite literally not a neet by any stretch of the imagination

absolutely devilish

sorting out the metadata for the

via yt-dlp

Holy shit just use soulseek to get the FLAC versions with metadata included, are you intentionally making things harder?

yeah wow sucks, I have no fucking clue how people ruined their lives on this game when its just raidlogging twice a week for loot nobody cares about

I have hobbies. It's sad that people are either uncreative, or have been conditioned to be wagie drones, to the point where their lives just fall apart without clocking in at work. They need to be whipped like animals or else their lives fall apart. This is what 18+ yrs of education does to people. I know because I was like this too and for the first 5 months of being a NEET I was a coomer and wanted to kms before learning how to live as a NEET.

It was easy to avoid ruining your life on it for most expansions, but that artifact power grind in Legion had me sleep deprived and the rest was history.

Yes, I prefer doing my own cover art & including the original title along the translated title. Letting it automate just ends up with me changing almost everything anyways; and I don't care about the difference between ~247kbps and 320 kbps, and I personally think FLACs are wastes of space with less compatibility.
Because I have the luxury of the time to do so.

legion had me slamming 10 alts all week long but ive been on classic and it fucking stagnates so fast.

i lay around a lot and ocassionaly fantasize about doing cooler things. which i then attempt for about 20 minutes before giving up

Boredom is lack of stimulation.
I no longer seek or crave stimulation, so I no longer become bored. I simply am.

play video games, big guy

I probably have about 3k hours logged across all of my platforms, I just doesn't hit the same. Idk, after reading this I was reminded of the new cuphead DLC. I'll beat it.

I'm basically under house arrest rn unless I take an uber. Sort of wish I had the freedom to travel to fuck off somewhere outside of my moms house.

I don't do anything. I've been a NEET since 2007. I briefly stopped being a NEET in 2009, but relapsed after a couple of months. In the beginning, all I did was play vidya. I lost the ability to do that several years ago. Lost the ability to watch tv shows and movies. I don't do anything. Life is just constantly looking at the clock and waiting to go back to sleep. No interests, no hobbies, no fun, nothing. Even if I want to do something, I can't/don't for whatever reason. Now I feel sad. My existence, and that's what it is, not a life, an existence... sucks...

Watch YouTube and play video games. Often both at the same time.

I started reading, learning japanese and exercising. Eventually I got a part time job and started working a few hours a week.
Being a depressed NEET just going between sleeping, fapping and gaming eventually just got extremely fucking boring so I felt compelled to change. I didnt become a whole new person but im just no longer existing in a state of waiting to die. The boredom and anhedonia became almost like scary or something. Like it was existentially frightening maybe.

"3k hours logged across all of my platforms"

meanwhile terraria alone in my library is already a little over half that

i guess you haven't found something you like yet, have you?

I no longer seek or crave stimulation

liar

Life is just constantly looking at the clock and waiting to go back to sleep.

Goddamn, that feels relatable.

do you read or have any creative hobbies?

Hobbies like growing vegetables or mushrooms and fermenting things such as kombucha or yogurt gives me a sense of achievement. Long running episodic entertainment like pro wrestling, anime, and sports watched alongside people on discord or Anon Babble gives me something new to look forward to a weekly basis. Working out and cleaning makes me feel productive. Taking care of my parents dog gives me a bit of responsibility. Tons of escapist entertainment combined with dispensary weed if I get really bored. Yeah, it's not the ideal life, but it still beats wageslaving.

if chatgpt is freaking out over NEETs even existing, say you're retired and bored

35, on permanent disability for mental stuff

wake up with bf to cook for him while he's in the shower

clean around the house

cook dinner for us both (and lunch for me)

buy groceries

take care of the cats and play with them because they get lonely and start acting out

daily exercise for a couple hours

usually take a nap in the afternoon

watch stuff with/talk with bf once he's home

if I don't go to bed at the same time as him then I sit on Anon Babble/KF, read a book, or watch youtube alone

Sometimes I also just put music on and sit and stare at the wall while I listen to it

do you read or have any creative hobbies?

Not exactly reading but I do listen to tons of audio books passively. Most creative I've ever been was play trumpet in middle school. Not the creative type 2bh.

Don't know what you meant in your post but I asked chatpgt picrel.

This looks very interesting thank you anon.
I'm reading through LOTR right now.

I'm curious what is it you wish you could be doing?

There's some hiking trails I want to tackle, but it requires that I have a functioning car.

do you wanna do something more social?

No

What's your take on cobalt tools for audio rips? I don't care for soundfile fidelity too much either.

3k hours on all platforms? My baby, I have somewhere around 15k on a single game. Mind you, that's client open so not counting the vast amounts of reading and watching youtube matches/educational content.
Other games combined must be North of 10k hours too.

I probably have far more than that on other consoles that don't account for it/emulators. That 3k number came from steam with 1k and 2k on a ps4. The 3ds was my main console for like 5 years. I'd love to see how many hours I have logged on it if it wasn't broken.

Watch YouTube and play video games. Often both at the same time

I do this a lot. All of my siblings including me do this kek.

To the older NEETS. The fuck do you guys even do?

I spend the days on the laptop and some vidya.
Get groceries once a week, and go to the park once a week.
I give no fucks; other than that I wish I could have frequent sex with a woman.

How do you guys not get bored to death?

Easy. I think of my one year of wage-cucking and how miserable it was.
As an autist, I am more than happy to have spent almost 20 adult years without it.

How do you afford to live like this? Parents, welfare? Are you American? I wagecucked for 10 years and it was hell and I'm a NEET now.

NEETbux in bongland.