/biz/ - Business & Finance

>famous cryptotraders
>highly successful people

Pick one

>>16551166
>I've heard that successful people don't waste their time playing video games
Successful people do what they need to do and dont adhere to meaningless blanket statements like this. Success isn't about depriving yourself of pleasure or enjoying your free time it's about not letting these short-term shallow pleasures get in the way of your goals or take up too much of your time

>>16551166
Bitcoin is one of the greatest MMOs ever made.

I spend my day mindlessly playing what good maps are left in wc3 customs. I am not successful by any known metric.

>>16551283
lul tru

>>16551296
>wc3 customs

That's still a thing? I thought it was at least 15 years ago?

>>16551302
Yes but they’ve been pretty dead recently since people are waiting for reforged and blizzard’s “updates” make less and less maps work.

>>16551357

You radiate depression and hopelessness.

>>16551166
>I've heard that successful people don't waste their time playing video games.
Stop talking to boomers. Most people game or have some other time-consuming hobby, and most people aren't successful. That doesn't mean one prevents the other.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2019/04/29/meet-matt-calkins-billionaire-board-game-god-and-techs-hidden-disruptor/

>>16551365
So does the game ;)

>>16551374
nice read! wish i was playing hero quest right now

You wont make it if you never played a Zelda game.

>>16551374

That's a lot of games

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>>16551577
>iM bAtMan
>iM a wiZaRd
>iM a wArHeRo hAhA pEw pEw
Manchildren

>>16551166
MOBA players are the biggest bugmen on the planet, they are trapped in a Skinner box which literally steals their mind.

I only play Call of Duty like a man

>>16551374
Board games are relatively cerebral and require a considerable amount of dedication both in terms of ressources and concentration to play.
They're a social hobby too, nothing close to braindead MOBA addicts.

>>16551963

Every person I've met who's hobby is board games has been a massive basedfag.

>>16551945
Kek, dota is not though. Dota 2 is literally the best game of the last decade, it's like chess and sports rolled up into one game. The custom games are top notch too.

>>16552023
any game that demands rapid micro is pretty fucking annoying in my book. too much of a sweaty nerd vibe.

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>>16552051
>iM bAtMan
>iM a wiZaRd
>iM a wArHeRo hAhA pEw pEw
Manchildren

pretty sure most of his days involve getting paid by exchanges to make shill posts to the absolute scam that is crypto margin trading

>>16552086
don't look at me man my opinion is pretty much nobody should be playing any video games

It depends on you're definition of successful. Once you have enough money and deploy it wisely then you can basically fuck around and do whatever.

>>16552086
Do you feel better now

>>16552123
Mashallah
>>16552150
take a look at yourself

>>16552051
Micro is the "sports" aspect of dota, item build, hero picks, and playstyle is the strategy "chess" aspect. I can't do micro worth shit but I still have a ton of fun just playing right click line-up and strategy dependant heros.

Board games are great. The problem is that is really hard to find a crew of friends to play with. People barely have time to do anything.

Videogames are fine if you play it with moderation I guess

>>16551374
Listen bucko. Don't try to act smart. Just watch niggerball and talmudvision, and grill bugburgers on the weekend like an upstanding successful citizen.

>>16552023
playing the boomer version of moba doesn't make less of an addict
How many hours did you lose on this shit coombrain and what is the ROI?

>>16551296
>wc3 customs
a man of culture I see

sergey is/was a gamer and he's about to become the wealthiest most powerful technical innovator in modern history

>>16552317
Money wise its a waste yes. My ability to wrangle 5 retards, with varying degrees of English ability and in varying states of intoxication, in a general direction to accomplish a goal is nearly perfect now though, which has translated into professional managing skills. Not that wagie watching is something to strive for.

video games are pure evil and will make you waste your entire life never becoming successful because you played video games.

>>16552316
"Meth isn't heroin so it's ok"

>>16551166
It is true to an extent. People who play games (or engage whatever entertainment) all day aren't productive. They might have a passive income stream, but usually it's their only income stream, it's not secure, and they assume they've "made it" and have no further need to work. They have set a limit on their productivity using various excuses but don't acknowledge that they're being lazy.

Depends on the game. MMO, MOBA and Battleground-style games? Yes, waste of time. Basically just something to do while you talk shit with your friends. Story-rich single player games? Not a waste. Like reading a good book.

Been playing Disco Elysium lately, feels good man.

>>16551166
I worked part time for a blockchain software dev company. Most of the day was spent playing video games in thr office and passing the controller to another for like PUBG, rocket leauge, etc.

We had a big open area in the lobby that also served as video game time.

>>16551166
I play Chess (online and with friends IRL). I don't pew pew anymore. My anxiety is now lower than ever and I'm on track with my long term goals. The 1 hour of vidya a day max meme is real. Don't waste your life away on vidya unless your are pulling in a revenue in doing so.

>>16551166
IN THIS THREAD: Lack of self-control. I play every now and then. It's more enjoyable when it's an activity that doesn't impede.

>>16551296
As long as Island Defense is still around I don't care

>>16551166
I rarely to never play vidya anymore, but I still play a few games socially to keep in touch with old friends. But for the most part I work on projects in my spare time.

>>16551166
>famous cryptotraders

>>16552260
i'm the exact oposite of that. I never win but I always have fun losing

>>16551296
Oof, that was the best time in my life unironically, footman frenzy all random with imbawülf, twilight fucking eve, hero x siege n shiet. Society has degraded so much since then.

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>>16551302
Hell yeah bros wc3 reforged customs are sick minus the random crashes

>>16551166
these guys are not traders they are scammers

When I trade there isn't really enough to constitute what I'd call a proper income? Like I work my ass off (2 hours per day) to realise $40 on 9k stake, I accept that 9k isn't 90k and thus $400 a day would be liveable, but I've only 9k and as such ... I'm just telling you as it is. I'm happy to be up that $40 and some days? Like I've been up $70 sometimes, but I've been down $50 other days. I'm just being realistic.

>>16552086
>trying to insult this hesperian candle dipping forum with pictures of console gamers

do you know where you are??

>>16552852
How much did your company raise in its I ICO?

It’s as bad as porn

>>16551166
Kek. This guy is so full of shit. Being successful at trading in a market that's open 24/7 and is manipulated as shit is one of the most stressful things imaginable to me. Only retards think that it's easy.

>>16551166
traders are not successful people. Financial success is the most superficial and least respectable form of success

Also besides dota being the best fucking game to ever grace the face of this god forsaken planet, let me shill you these two extremely based /biz/ games again:

Capitalism Lab's, pictured to the left. This game is amazing, you are the CEO of a corporation set in a sim city like simulation. Your goal is simply to collect as much money as possible. Possible methods of enrichment include raw resource wholesale, Factory capitalist producer, large scale retail, any combination of the above to specialize in hundreds of products supply chain, research and development, real estate, media, software or internet services, local government, and of course equity trading. This is a game they use to teach MBA's at Princeton. If you like supply chains, business valuation, product development, or any of the billion things that go into making a business this game is fun as fuck. My personal favorite strategy is the "Pump and Dump", you have your parent create a subsidiary, and then create a second subsidiary for the first one. You give all your cash to the first subsidary, then you take out a loan on all that cash and do a capital injection into the second company. Then you IPO both of them, the first company will be valued very highly because of the startup capital and loan, the second one will be valued extremely small because capital injections don't count towards valuation. You buy up all the equity of the second company and merge gaining all their capital, then you sell all your shares in the first subsidiary letting the PC eat the losses on the bank loan default. Ta-da you now have a little more then doubled your money.

The second game is wallstreet raider. If you've ever dreamed of financing and trading your way from a fledgling internet services company into a trillion dollar insurance corporation this game can't be beat. This game is so in depth it is hard to explain, and I'm out of typing space, but basically you buy credit default swaps until you crash the economy. Fun

>>16553634
i did insult them, and its the truth

>>16553634
"i play cooler videogames than u"
manchildren

>>16554070
I play factorio, it allows be to hone my process engineering skills in a fun simulated sandbox environment.

>>16553124
>Don't waste your life away on vidya unless your are pulling in a revenue in doing so.
T R U E .
There are successful "gamers" though, they just do it on their (sometimes limited) free time.

>>16553664
There's nothing wrong with pornography. Video games are also great. Both inspire.

>>16551296

Based. I don't play much wc3 anymore but I watch wc3 twitch streams/youtube tournament vids all the time. It's probably the most fun competitive game to watch, extremely comfy

>>16551296
Lmao literally me, but I am playing diablo 2 right now because the ladder reset last week.

>>16554235
I shilled Factorio hard on /biz/. They are finally coming out of early access.