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Friendship has been commodified, people can just listen to podcasts if they're lonely. This on-demand artificial social interaction means that "friendships" today are transactional more often than not. Unless you are a normalfag or get lucky having good childhood friends you are SOL

>>740296134
>Friendship has been commodified
No it hasn't. You're just a friendless loser.

>>740296273
lmao

>>740295513
Yeah, but hard finding something new and fun to play

friends?

Yeah but there's five of us and its exceptionally difficult finding something all of us like equally

>>740295513
No, I'm an adult with a job. The last thing I want to in my free time is dedicate it to the whims of someone else

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>>740295513
>friends

>>740296442
I play different things with different friends for this reason. If more than one of them could commit to fighting games we could have some fantastic lobbies but they can't deal so it's 1v1s for a few hours with the only friend with balls.

>>740296134
>Giant Rei
Once again proving that Japan is based for making best girl giant

>>740296478
>>740296442
>>740296134
>>740295513
Why not be friends with each other right now!
Drop your toss away email or discord and game up anons.

>>740296442
Same here but theres 3 of us. One guy only games on the PC he bought for work.

I used to have a lot of friends I met from here but over the past 10 years I basically only have 1 person I can talk to and play games with, its quite lonely.

>>740296472
we all got jobs too and play vidya with each other because it's fun

>>740295513
>having friends in 2026
normie

>discord
this thread glows, kill yourself OP

>>740296541
Fighting games unfortunately produce hurt feelings especially with skill gaps.
Dead genre unless u wanna do tourneys imho

>>740296612
Okay then just use a toss away email.
I use discord because why should I use Skype or something ancient like that?

>>740296563
>discord
I'm not trying that again, everyone just ends up being gay or underage or both

Last time i tried to be social in games, I played Valorant but there were just so many super normie high school kids in the lobbies, I could not relate.
I do play some co op like Peak with one of my IRL friends but its a hard sell to find new co op games. Divinity 2 for example was a bomb even though it looked promising.

My friends abandoned me over false pedophile allegations, which was really weird because there where actual pedophiles in the group and they all where fine with it for some reason. Really makes me wonder why the fuck I was even in that group to begin with.

>>740296648
Nigga no one uses email in 2026

>>740296541
We do this too, but whenever all five are on at once (as infrequently as it occurs) we often sit arguing over what to play for like half an hour
>>740296563
I made an ass of myself on a shofu stream 10 years ago and now im extremely apprehensive to putting myself out there online

>>740296719
C____z, is that you bro?

>>740296682
Unfortunately thats a large amount of gamers online.
Chat rooms/groups/etc make it an online hive for shutins or autists to congregate.
But its so much easier than using steam friends or smth else.

>>740296736
Its just a toss away cus its 4chan. Other people are whining about using discord. What would you guys want if not those two?

Don't have friends? Join some kind of club. Like a board games club, sports club, outdoors club, etc. Smile, be friendly, don't pretend you know stuff about things you know nothing about, be interested in what others are talking about, and say yes when they invite you to something.
Once you have friends, be sure to maintain the relationship. Make contact, invite them over, ask if they wanna go to local events, etc.

Lucky/unlucky my buddy and I have not had similar tastes in games for decades. First he was into WoW, then Smite, now sim racing.

>>740296761
We're you in person on the nigger stream or just online/in a call?

No one knows who you are so just cringe on and learn from your mistake.

>>740296829
I'm too lame, boring and retarded to have friends. They're better off without me

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>>740296614
not dead but perpetually niche with many entries dead in the water
You're right though about the hurt feelings, at least two of my bros get very salty when they get rekt and don't have the attention span to lab even one combo or think about theirs or any other character's win condition
One is an eternal scrub who finds one cheese strategy and stops playing when it gets countered, and another just has no interest
My fighting game bro will always be 10-15% better than me at most fightin we play but that's fine

>>740296761
when we're all on it's just two groups playing a two different things but yeah it's not usually the case that we're all on

>>740296134
You're a retard if you think podcasts are even remotely comparable to actual friendship. Even if you delude yourself into thinking podcasters are your friends that illusion is shattered when you realize they can't hear you.

>>740296867
Kill yourself or make something of yourself

>>740295513
I know the term is a perspective thong, but in my expirience, the people that play multi with you are not ypur friends. With some exceptions hobby friends =/=yoyr real life friends.
If you have a friend and both of you will pick up said hobby, than it can still be a real friendship. In other instances, in 99% of the cases, people just want yheir fix and its more like a superficial friendship.
Given the passage of time, you will loose most of your friends to real life, ethier family, kids, work, ect.
In 20 and 30 its a mirrage that suddenly comes true as youre nearing late 30s.
You can still try to make almost lifestyle out of it, like some dads gamers in mmo, oe some other discord based community, but in time it will pass.
Theres so low amount of new games that spark interest in olderfags, I even see that in some communities that Ive been a part of couple years ago, people which gave all of their free time, 10, 15y of their time, this communities are now barren, deserted.
This is also a fact when it comes to tabletop and papaer rpgs, people just got no time to invest when they have just dozen hours per week to enjoy themselves.
I usualy just talk with my friends, watch a bad movie, eat and drink some stuff and if were in mood we will play tabletop or some fighting or racing game, but it happens less and less, because people have kids or are in zombie mode after work.

>>740295513
Yes.
I've got a group of friends I hang out with ON DISCORD and we regularly play all kinds of games together.
I've got a different group of friends that organise to play X game once a week till we finish it, then move onto Y game.

>>740296867
Its better to have a +1 than not. Unless ur more cringe/bring negativity than passive observer gamer type.

>>740296907
Other than hurt feelings, my issue is that most people drop the new fighting game and move on to the next one every month or less usually.
If ur a researcher u have to relearn frame data or combos. If ur a noob ur skills dont transfer over.
Not to mention buying the new game costs money in the first place.

They are fun and I used to be competitive and travel for it, but I always felt bad personally when I stomped people, even at tournaments. Im a coop chuddy at heart ig.

Yes but not as often which is alright, I feel like I lucked out.

>>740296945
There are people who in a group never talk. Maybe they are too shy or autistic.
Anyway, those people replace friendship where they just watch people with podcasts.

>>740296865
0% chance anyone on the planet remembers it but me, I know. But I cant help but dwell on every stupid thing I have ever done
>>740296907
>two groups playing a two different things
I can't imagine us doing that. We all want to play with each other and joke around together like we always have

I have three friends I play with. But it’s hard as fuck finding games we can all agree on. One guy has financial issues and can’t buy games on a whim like the rest of us. One will play competitive games but absolutely refuse to play ranked. The last one is a girl and has girl tastes and mostly just liked friendslop. There’s a bunch of games I want to play like Remnant II or Elden Ring Nightreign and I can not convince any of the three of them to play these types of games for different reasons.

>>740297132
Dwell on it is w.e, but its more important you learn from it.
We cringe on brother. Everyone has cringed and been cringe before.

Develop yourself instead of giving up over past experiences.

>>740297035
I don't mind relearning things because of how much crosses over, but that does only exacerbate the problem of the huge gap between people who are entrenched in fighting games and recognize the thru-lines and get very good very quickly at any new game, and casual people who don't give a shit and will get endlessly bodied in a way that's not fun for either.
Very hard to get someone from point A to point B because it's not a fun road for the vast majority of people

>>740297178
>>740297132
But actually it seems like you have a group of friends at least. Thats better than many people itt. So like whatever lole

>>740297209
Exactly my fighting friend. A middle of the road or worse player will never catch up skill wise in the first place.
This is why the genre is dead (to me). Ill be a god at da game and everyone i know personally will be bad when I play against them, ruining the exp.

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>add someone from here on Discord once
>try making small talk, bringing up various /v/ cultural stuff at certain points
>doesn't know what Tails Got Trolled is (tell him he can catch the threads on Christmas "Oh I never browse here on the Holidays I'm with my family")
>doesn't know what jimmies rustled or lemon key is
>didn't catch any of my deus ex references
>didn't know about "this hole was made for me"
>never heard of "fatlus" and didn't know what it stands for
>didn't know about the deep sea threads
>or the 7 vaginas
>never heard of the 4AM threads or chocolate pudding
>meanwhile on his side he also talked about various stuff I had no idea about
>at some point he's talking to me about some "funny streamer" making very exaggerated rage reactions when he was losing
>I ask "Oh kinda like DPS?"
>"who's DPS?"
Felt like I was on some boomer humiliation reality show. Never again.

I'm just a grown man from europe that likes videogames and movies. im not gay but i like trannies. hmu

>>740297330
yeah discord sucks, it's just a bunch of kids

>>740295513
used to but because i made the mistake of getting into a relationship with one of them and fucking it up i struggle to hang around them without worrying that i’ll feel like shit
and nobody else from there has done much effort to keep in touch with me so perhaps that says more about them then me.
which is that, while the podcast shit is retarded, this anon >>740296134 ain’t wrong about relationships being transactional more often than not. people can claim it isn’t, but notice how quick people are to drop others for being occasionally retarded? acting like they’ll always be like that or some shit

Male
31
Dick size 6 inches
Canada
Hit me up we can play games together

>>740296945
many people these days are unfortunatley very retarded
they treat streamers and podcasts and youtube essayists as their number one form of social interaction because it's readily available and takes no effort on your part
this has also lead to people becoming more and more socially retarded where they can barely carry a conversation since someone else is always doing the legwork

>>740297497
You want me to hit your up by affecting your dreams you nigger?

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>>740296563
>add anon
>either gay and wants to fuck me or underage

>>740297330
kek I don't mind that too much, It's funny showing things like that and seeing someone's first time reaction to it.

>>740296134
>transactional
no, they are reciprocal
it isn't transactional to only want to be friends with people you actually have a good time with and who aren't trying to fuck you over.
transactional would mean people are looking to get the most they can out of others and that they are keeping track of how much they put in vs what they get. That is very different from reciprocal.

I think you, and a lot of people who think this way about everyone, don't actually understand the different relationships you will have with other people that get lumped into "friendship".
the only people who are your friends, as in actual friends, are your close friends.
not to say there aren't people out there who treat others this way and expect relationships like this, but its very obvious and very different.

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>>740295513
Generally no, but I do sometimes 'play' walking sims with the gf, and we're doing a LAN party tonight with oldschool friends. Other buddy mentioned something about a resurgence of CoD2 servers, so there might be that later on too.
Nonetheless, 99% of my game time is solo. Not that I mind at all, I prefer to do shit my way, in my time.

Kinda funny how there’s so many friendless losers on /v/ that want friends but doesn’t just decide to get together and become friends with each other.

>>740297689
I can hold conversations but I'm horrible at maintaining friendships. It's a miracle I have friends (even online friends) as is

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i dont want "friends" halfway across the globe. I want there to be the possibility of us hanging out and playing games together at my apartment

We play WoW and other autism MMOs

>>740297689
I am friendless and don't want any.
Its so much more free to just have a bunch of acquaintances you go and do shit with occasionally and just rotate through people.

Never need to deal with peoples shit, can just have a good time, never get sick of the same people, lots of people to try to organize shit with, and so many more things.
I have a functional life on my own but I like socializing with people, having more casual "friendships" just works so well for me

>>740297843
>bunch of acquaintances you go and do shit with occasionally and just rotate through people.
Retard those are friends

>>740297178
I've been working on learning to move on. I know its stupid to worry about shit like that.
>>740297234
Thats exactly why I've never felt the need to make friends online. I still have my friend group I made in middle school. I have been thinking about it more and more now that we all have jobs and most of us have wives so we can't play together all of the time. I don't really have any other hobbies and starting a new one is daunting

>>740297843
NTA but i feel i honestly can’t understand having that sort of mentality, and i don’t mean that in a negative way. i almost envy it because i get way too bothered by not having others to hang with more often

>>740295513
I haven't had friends since college, years ago.

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Finding friends over 30 is nearly impossible anyway.

>>740297926
Keep what you have but if you have tons of dead time that you want to develop into something else like a hobby or new friend group, trust the plan.

>>740298079
Thanks for the sincere chat, my man. These feel non-existent on here anymore

>>740297897
No, they aren't.
People will say they are friends, but we are not friends, I am not there for them, I don't do things with them to spend time with them.
They are just people I do things with.

My colleagues at work that I am closer to and talk to every day are not my friends, we are acquaintances. People I know from my hobbies are not my friends, we are acquaintances.
How do I know this? Because if I stop working there, we will stop talking, if I stop doing that hobby, we will stop talking. It doesn't matter that we hang out a lot, it doesn't matter if we take trips together, etc we are just not close. Same as people you know from school, from the gym, or you meet in other random ways.
we COULD become friends, I have made friends like this, but the reality is that we are simply not that close.

>>740298017
Nah I understand, I used to think like you, I just wanted a couple of close friends, I and I had that for a really long time.
But I just found it suffocating, I hated friends constantly hitting me to go play this game, go to this thing, see this thing, come watch a movie, come do this, lets go do this, and so on, it was fucking exhausting for me. Its a pain to always have to turn people down and then deal with people getting moody about it when u turn them down a bunch, and it always ends up like this.
I just want to do the things I want to do in my free time, sure a lot of the time that is socialization, but I prefer to have things be a bit more a la carte where I can go to things with, organize things, still get invited to things, but we are simply not that close that its a big deal w/e choice any of us makes.
Sure, I get invited to way less stuff, I do a lot less social stuff with an individual person, but holy fuck is it so much less pressure and shit to deal with, and it being less from an individual just means I can find more individuals to do shit with.

But I have always been really good at making friends.

so much love and friendship to give but no one that wants to receive it anymore

>>740295513
Anyone else make online friends that turned into IRL friends? The 6 of us became friends through /v/ adjacent shit and all sort of happened to be on the east coast.

>>740298313
I even dated some girls (irl) I met via gaming.
It happens for sure.

>>740298313
the only people I met up with from here were hookups and relationships i met from lgbt and soc

>add someone from a steam friend thread
>hey anon im gooning to Brazilian fart porn right now, wanna control my Lovense while I call you daddy?
Why can’t you niggas just be normal.

>>740296829
>implying I have time or money to join clubs.
>Implying they will also put in the work and effort to maintain the relationship.

I used to think being a kid sucked but I'm not sure anymore.

>>740297330
Dont you mean... DSP?
Did you take your meds this morning, grandpa?

>>740296563
i'm fundamentally unlikable and no one wants to be friends with me because i'm extremely quiet and boring. i yearn for friendship but i find interacting with others exhausting and miserable and only makes me feel more isolated.

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>>740295513
I play random vidya with 2 highschool bros about once a week.
Right now it's rift breaker.
I have friends from the tf2 days I talk with most days. I'm currently not playing with them, well, we talk about path of exile a lot. We might start a vintage story server up again maybe autumn.
I have one college friend who I could get to instantly play anything with me, but man, he plays through so many games so quickly, I can't keep up at all.

>>740298273
If by love and friendship you mean bpd anons with warped and ill intentions towards their special person, then yes.

>>740296273
>proving the point
lmao

All my friends are losers with no control over their lives now so they can't even play video games

>>740298518
Okay what genre of games do you like? I can hang out with you and play games if ud like.
Tossaway discord is rapalla99. Im at work tho rn.
>inb4 groomed
Yeah, to be a better person maybe.

>>740298229
for me, i got a taste of how it is to have that sort of life around from aug 2025 to jan 2026. chatting weekly, usually playing games together, or just relaxing in a voice call with one another. it’s something i can understand finding insufferable, being tied down to the same few people who are so demanding of your time, but for me it felt great to consistently have people in my life, especially with how it feels like i always drift away from my old friends. but then the shit i mentioned (>>740297473) happened and all of that went down the drain for me.
that’s why it’s hard not to be envious of how some people are so content, even enjoy, being by themselves. because for me, it just feels like i’m doing nothing with my life

Truth is I'm just a fucking shit friend.

>>740298737
yep thats what happened to me the past 6 months. I was her "favorite person" and she broke me down until there was nothing left to break anymore.

>>740298406
>/soc/
Gay I assume? I briefly skimmed /soc/ trying to find any women to start a relationship with and it's 99% Indian scammers. Just another reason why Rapeape needs a nail driven through his skull.

>>740298890
>finding a """"""woman""""""
>on 4chan
even if you did you'd wish you hadn't
hiring an escort is preferable

>>740298890
>Gay I assume?
"straight" that doesnt mind trans

>>740299063
so you're a fudgepacker?
I respect it but you're still a faggot don't get it twisted

>>740295513
Sometimes, I have a friend who seemingly wants to hop from game-to-game, but won't leave a game installed for longer than a few days sometimes.
Other than that, my other homies are pretty chill, playing Abiotic Factor with one and SR2 with the other.

>>740298842
you're supposed to flush that down, anon... what do you expect me to join in with you?

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I'm old now, I don't have any friends left. Everyone got married or something. I feel most people socialize and meet on social platform sites which I'm not on. It's sad to see I'm the only one left of my friend group, maybe I just never grew up while they did.

>>740296945
Parasocial relationships are fucking insane once you have the illusion shattered.

>>740298798
>what genre of games do you like?
i don't, that's why i'm posting on v

>>740299126
>but you're still a faggot don't get it twisted
thats why no one but me needs to know my girl is packing a dick

>>740297330
>or the 7 vaginas
maybe he knew about more?

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>>740299060
>have your first experience of intimacy be with a blown out crackwhore who hates every moment of it
I never understood this advice, doing that won't fuck people up even more AT ALL. I know plenty of people who had (bad) sex one time and hate women even more than virgins do since they no long place any value in pussy.

Genuinely don't know if this meme is a glownigger psyop or what.

>>740297330
Don't make 4chan your only identity either, kinda boring to talk to people who only communicate in memes. But yeah aside from that sounds like it's just a very young person, wouldn't the site die without new blood too? Still don't like em zoomoids despite what I just said

>>740299591
can I have my first experience of intimacy with you, ame-poster?

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>>740298065
this, you have more chance of becoming batman

>>740297689
We want real stable and supportive friends, not just to hang out with anyone. I used to go on soc and join discord servers and groups and I can't fucking do it anymore. I'm sick of haning out with trans alt righters who just bully lolcows while still sitting behind their computer and do fucking nothing with their lives. I don't want to spend another night walking on eggshells because the Brony rapists will get upset and call the server owner to force everyone to like them. I don't want someone to leave for the bathroom and instantly have the entire group shit talk them to hell and back and then go back to pretending that they are totally bffs with them as if they didn't just say they wanted them dead.

There's a bible verse that goes along the line of "it's better to live on the edge of a roof than with a horrible wife". At this point in my life I'm just accepting that people are worthless, specially on here, and to just accept being and dying alone because it's better than being with a bunch of psychopathic and emotionally stunted 4channers who's entire goal is to just find people more retarded than them to bully and be their simp army to make up for their unresolved high school truama.

Nope, he has a gf now

>>740299881
I like you anon. God bless

>>740299881
*blows you a kiss*

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I make friends very easily because I have an extroverted, dominating and playful personality. So much that I get invited to play games even though I really suck at them. No joke, there isn't a single game I'm good at.

anyone from central europe wants a friend

>>740300004
You're good at the game of life

>>740300004
What if for sake of argument, I considered socializing to be a game... at that point, you'd be the best at it clearly... by your own emission too... guess you lost this round...

>>740300004
KALIMERA KALIMERA!!!

>>740299770
no i'm fat as fuck, poor and not gay. A fatal combination for anyone seeking relationships in this day and age.

>>740300147
Okay but what if I'm dying and have cancer and my make-a-wish is to have sex with a fat as fuck, poor, and not gay man. Would you do it for me then?

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i haven't had one friend since the year 2012 which is when highschool ended for me, and obviously no gf. but i stopped being so lonely a couple years ago, think something in me finally died and it became much more bearable.

I try to when I can but we're old now and most have significantly less free time than I do. I miss WoW

>everyone i don't like who is different to me is a schizo

>>740298828
Its a shame that happened.
Hope you can find some more people you can get close with in the future, there are definitely more friends out there for you!

Lots of people try to get closer to me and want to be closer friends, but it isn't for me, most people are like you and want that consistent group of friends to do shit they like with.
Takes time to develop that type of relationship with others, it wasn't that long ago for you, so keep your eyes open for people you know that you might end up closer with, you will have some close buds again sooner than you think.

>>740298065
>>740299870
This desu. I lost most of my friends due to covid and drifting apart. Now I'm just working 70 hours as week and focusing on the grind to survive and get by. I literally don't have the time for hanging out on any kind of schedule. That combined with my poor socialization and social skills means I just end up on my couch watching YouTube when I get off my job at 11pm after working since 7:30am

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>>740297604
literally last night I made an interest connection with a random dude over deeprock, got invited to his discord, and its all under 16 spastics quoting memes

were we like this?

>>740299213
Marriage isn't for everyone.
I had a friend who was so desperate to be a family man it was affecting our friendship, he'd never actually get serious but whenever a girl showed interest he'd act as if she was the one.
I cut him loose.
He's also getting so much ass, but with all the problems it's caused him, I'm just not even interested in sex unless it's with a fictional character.
Try to find friends who won't let marriage dissolve the friendship I hear some bros don't let it happen.

>>740295513
I lost all my friends after I got married anyway

>>740300090
yeah when he plays on easy

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>Run a side bracket at a Smash local
>Bracket is a random game every week
>Get to subject people to whatever dipshit local multiplayer game I want
Imagine not having a gaming oriented adult friend group

I don't want to "hang out" with people anymore. I think I grew out of it. Seems ridiculous.

>>740297172
I didn't play nightrein or the erdtree dlc either and I got all the cheevos on elden ring base. Im just tired of playing from games

>>740295513
Not often since we're all wagecucks now and have conflicting schedules, on top of that they're all normalfags and rarely play anything other than cod and fifa. Once in a while we do manage to get a group going though, four of us are playing through divinity original sin 2 right now

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>>740300524
That's the thing though, I was always a reject and friends with similiar people. People from bad families, fat guys and weebs. My online friends I made were MMO addicts like me, yet I'm the only one left standing. I dunno, maybe I'm just not that interesting of a person to talk to. I can talk at length about my interests but I got nothing going on irl for the most part, I live alone and will die alone and it might takes weeks for my family to find out. But people have it worse than me so I should be happy about the stuff I do have, even if friends is not included in that list.

2 friends once a week each. what we get into varies all the time.
It's better than having no friends but it's definitely not enough of a social circle for a 35 year old man

>>740295513
I was literally bottom since kindergarten

>>740300741
Doesn't seem ridiculous to me

>>740296442
My friends are starting to reach the age where their T levels plummet and they don't want to play any game thats slightly competitive and only play fotm friendslop. Its bleak.

>>740296134
You're right
I feel lonely abd desperately wanted internet friends, then I realized what I actually wanted was a female friend who I can fuck even if just virtual, they call it situationship or whatever.
So whatever they want from me, they weight if it's worth it to have me around.

>>740300979
Okay kid

>>740300927
Do you talk to people about their hobbies?

If we get together we’ll end up playing smash. Mostly I play with my daughter and her friends they’re juniors in high school and play smash pretty neat that young people still play it

>>740296134
Listening to someone isn't the same as having a conversation about whatever you want with another person, you can't replace human contact with YouTube.

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>>740295513
No.

>>740295513
That's basically the dating experience.

>>740301097
Most of them just play vidya from what I know, so yeah. I'm not into MOBAs and competitive games these days which is what most of my friends drifted towards playing sadly. They just have less time and better friends too I assume. Raising kids and spending time with wives takes extra hours out of your week too. it is what it is.

>>740299060
Believe it or not, there used to be a sizable portion of women on /soc/. But then the faggots and trannies took over the board and drove them away (like anywhere else on this site)

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my only friend only plays wow

>>740301327
Last game I played with my buddy was Sparking Zero. Its hard to play with friends after everyone got married with kids

>Add anon as a friend
>Make a little conversation every night, even if I'm mainly the one talking
>Anon makes throwaway comment about other friends
>Lose all interest in pushing the boulder uphill any more, just lay down and die

>>740295513
No, I miss them.

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I'm boring as fuck and have interests that are boring to 99% of normalfags. I don't intend to start doing things I don't like to please them or for validation. I reached acceptance that I'll die alone as a penniless virgin when I was 25, and I'll be gone shortly after my parents.

We are not like most people. We were not born to be part of their world. Acceptance will set you free. 90% of the world is enduring infinitely worse fates, even when they have sex (cobalt miners pass disabilities they got mining to their children).

>>740297791
I've both had friends from across the globe at my house to hang out and i've been at their place to hang out. It's not that hard.

>>740301376
I'd just say keep eyes open for potential friendships, if someone treats you poorly don't try to stick it out, immediately leave.
Sorry if I'm giving you generic cope advice.
I hope you find a friend who won't let marriage become his personality and hobby.

The only game my friends and I really played together was League of Legends and I refused to install CCP spyware, aka Vanguard, on my PC so we haven't played anything together since that was implemented.

>>740301583
>CCP spyware
The CIA already spies on everything you do, what difference does it make if China does it too?

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>>740295513
>Do you still play games with your friends?
IRL no? But I could if I wanted to, but they only play CS and WoW.

>>740299870
If you're working 70 hour weeks over 30 you might as well just kill yourself because you're more automaton than person. The only time and place that is slightly justifiable would be if you're a fucking banker expecting to retire at 26.

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>>740299213
honestly if you end up here it's already over for you.

>>740295513
Yes and I’m a cult leader. People actually pay tribute to play with me.

>>740301508
>I reached acceptance that I'll die alone as a penniless virgin when I was 25, and I'll be gone shortly after my parents.
Based

>>740296134
You sound autistic all my current friend group got together as adults.

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>>740301984
this, so much this
We're in overville here

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>>740295513
I intentionally avoid making friends because I hate feeling obligated to interact with someone.
I'm bad at it because I'm just a good guy I guess and I keep making friends only to ghost them when my tolerance for interacting with people is empty.
Or basically, this image.

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>>740301519
Yeah, thanks. I'm just way into my 30s by now so it's hard to find new people at times. There's worse fates though and nobody is entitled to have friends, I just felt like venting a bit.
>>740301984
I mean maybe? I've been here since 2004 or so. I think there's always been some "normal" people in here. Site seems slower these days so maybe it doesn't attract much new blood anymore

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>>740302517
Could be worse, you could be an extrovert that has social problems and be stuck here while craving human contact

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>>740302687
>extrovert that has social problems

i think i have a personality ill-suited for making friends on the internet
i don't go out of my way to talk to anyone but i tend to reply when i'm messaged if i'm at my pc
which works fine for my existing friends but the times i've tried to get to know new people it just doesn't work out
but it doesn't bother me enough to change that about myself rofl

>>740295513
all my friends are MMO fiends and are incapable of enjoying games in a non-MMO way
I played DOS2 and BG3 with one of them and it was afwul

>>740302632
>I think there's always been some "normal" people in here.
no fucking normal person sits on 4chan to be here you have to be abnormal.
>Site seems slower these days so maybe it doesn't attract much new blood anymore
because zoomer sit on TikTok, Twitter and such, but general speaking normal people spent little time on social media they spent their time living.

>>740295513
Nope. Every time I make friends they don't really call me up to do anything it feels like I'm expected to initiate everything. Shit sucks.

>>740302715
There's so many things that could happen, like trust issues, trauma causing you to never have anything to say because that's all that's on your mind, becoming avoidant because of bad experiences with people

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>>740302808
cringe doomer

>>740303051
change my mind you can't

>>740296442
Civilization is always a hit

>>740301410
Honestly, good. Women are bigger danger for a community with lonely fucks because female attention is like crack for them.

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>>740296563
Discord natives are frequently menhera / toxic and will either wordlessly ghost you despite being active and enthusiastic or reveal that any "friendliness" they were showing you was performative and coldly drop you the exact moment you don't engage with their delusions of making you their e-bf. I'm never trusting random anons with Discords again. It's not worth the bother.

>>740302808
There's normie boards on this website anon, always has been. And tourists boards too like /b/, that's what newbies will take a look at first. But yes for the most part if you'd rather discuss things on 4chan then you are probably a little bit of a weirdo

>>740302808
i'm a normal person on 4chan
i've been here since 07
there's always been a few well-adjusted normalfags around
i hate to inform you post-2012ers but back in the day normal people would visit hobby forums

>>740303228
I'm actually the guy who can't stand those kinds of games

>>740303381
That's a lot of people nowadays. Faggots will flip the fuck out over minor disagreements most people wouldn't give a fuck about.

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>>740295513
Nah, the only thing we played was Street Fighter and then when SF6 came out and I realized its core mechanics were retarded I stop talking to him. I kept seeing him still play on my steam friend list for a couple of months and then abandon it too.

>>740302808
There are Anons here who are married. Some are married with children. Many of us have jobs or even careers and make lots of money. Some anons only come here once in a while, like once every few months (I'm here every day of course). But it all depends on what you consider "normal". Not everyone who ignores social media is 100% well-adjusted and mentally healthy.

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I'm 29 years old and I have zero friends.
I've bought several friend slop games that has remained unplayed for years, just sitting in my library.

Why do online stalkers tend to be introvert.

>>740303468
I don't believe you simple
>>740303441
most people early 2000-2010 came for /b/ later maybe for /v/ if I google hobby website there's no way /tg/ shows up.
>>740303576
Maybe 1% of the userbase you're like an anomaly. I can't imagine how fucked up your children will be if you still browse this place after getting married and having children, when I had my normal phase I was basically never here.