Do you ever wonder what happened with all those online friends you made playing vidya online during the 2000s?
>>748590024I know that three of them are dead. The rest I'm not sure on. At least 4 of them are still alive and suffering.>Natural Disaster>Car Accident>Some sort of medical condition, probably some form of terminal cancer I can't remember
>>748590024I think about it sometimes. I used to play Rockband a lot on PS3 with some dudes, I hope they're well. One of them had Stone Temple Pilots as his favorite band. There was also some brony who was mad good on drums, always hated it when I picked Good Mourning/Black Friday lmao.
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Of the few that contacted me later down the line>most became LoL addicts>one became a CS addict>one became a survival crafty addictAll but the survival crafty guy immediately ghosted me when they learned I never played their game of choice. He was alright. Also seems like he changed over to vampire survivor likes.
>>748590024i met someone from 4chan in like 2013 and i met him a few years agoit's nice to keep track of the friends we made a long the way
>>748590467>I know that three of them are dead.I had a friend on Neopets as a kid who said they were dying of a terminal illness. I think they were lying though. Also my old guild leader on WoW apparently died of the coof.
>>748590024Nope, and I don't really care.
>>748590024im afraid not, same as i dont think of all the kids i played with during recess.
A lot of them reached out to me a decade or more later asking how I was doing but my life turned out bad so I don't want to reply with only negative things to say.
>>748590024Do you ever wonder about asking a more relevant question?
Half of them killed themselvesThe other half turned into trannies
>>748590024Only really had one notable online friend. He thought I was more internet famous than I actually was so he latched onto me. Ironically it was him who ended up being internet famous, but we basically drifted apart before that.Other than that I had a real friend that I was with throughout middle school, who ultimately trooned out. Shame.
no idea what happened to them. i'm sure they'll be back soon.
>>748591704This. The friends I miss the most pretty much all were just too busy with life or raising a family, but at least I know they're only offline now because they have their life straight. The ones that stayed started drinking the kool-aid.
>>748590024No, I had one that went off into the deep end becoming a /trash/ poster and trooned out.
>>748591665No
They're dead.They're all dead.
>>748590024Not really
>>748590024How often do you think they think about you? Like once a day, once a week, at least one friend always thinking about you? Do you think you have like 10 friends or 100 or like the whole state of California? You've never had a friend that intentionally ruined a dnd campaign before right?
>>748590024I literally have 0 friends now. I don't know how I got here. I can't tell if it's my fault or if it's the internet's fault. It's not like I cut anybody off or anything I don't even remember how I drifted away from anyone
>>748590024I reached out to a couple of them recently.One was a guy I played in a clan with in the mid 2000s. He remembered a very complex troll name I used to use online, and literally nothing else about me. I sent some screenshots but nothing jogged his memory. He was friendly at least.There was a girl I used to chat with and play some games with back then too. She stopped coming online about 2008. We were close enough that she would e-mail from her work and I had her full name, where she worked, etc. I sent her an e-mail but heard nothing back. Maybe dead or married. I searched using her full name and city where she lived but found nothing. I could probably keep searching until I found them but they probably wouldn't remember me like the first guy.
>>748591704this, almost all dead or trooned out and became horrible peoplemy friend circles now are funny 4chan old heads, people with good vidya taste and people with money to party withi couldn't imagine trying to try private circle friend groups in this day of age. you had to have been there type of deal
>>748591704You're still here, so that must mean...Oh nyo...
How the hell would you even know if an Online friend died?
>>748590024Funnily enough I have at least a few who played picrel with me that followed me to Star Citizen today.
>>748597347Damnit, forgor picrel
They got married and had kids. Although they still play videogames, they either moved on from Ragnarok, City of Heroes, and Maple Story, or simply too busy to talk to anymore. Our interests and lifestyles changed so much that we don't have much to talk about anymore.
>>748591704I recently checked in on an old forum I used to post on a decade and a half ago. Fucking ALL of the remaining users there are trannies now, including all the admins and mods
>>748596962I got S.W.A.G.!Stylin’ while a gamer!
>that based friend who trooned out and became absolutely insufferable afterwards
>>748590024I've never made a friend playing games online and I've been playing games online for 20 years. How do you make friends?
>>748590024i played LoL in-house 5v5s with some of you fags nearly a decade ago now and it was some of the most fun i've ever had. miss you guys
>>748599009It's easy to make friends through gaming, anon. If you meet in-game you two already have something to bond over. From there it's just about reaching out often and expanding the bond. Reaching out is the most important part, as a lot of people are shy or feel like they're pestering when they ask to chat or play.
>>748590024I still keep in touch with most of my 2003~2022 MMORPG friends.
>>748596962I think my DayZ duo partner died. We played a whole bunch of games together since around 2010 or so. Once in a while he'd drop off the face of the earth for a month or two if RL got busy and he'd come back like nothing, but he has completely dropped contact for over a year now. Pretty sure he's died. Got another old Eve Online corpmate from 14 years ago who even back then was in his 70s, blind drunk on a bottle of whisky every night and complaining about Goonswarm. he still sends me a message every xmas.
>>748590024All my old irl friends either became normalfags with families or in the case of at least 2 of them, got sick of life and ended it all. The only internet friends I knew from 00s era 4chan all either trooned out or just disappeared completely. I still have a couple of friends that I met online from outside of 4chan (from conventions mostly) that I talk to online on Discord but outside of that I don't have any friends irl that I talk to about vidya.
>>748590024I reqlly do think most of them died. The rising morality rate of men isn't as dmall of a deal as people think. Suicide with men a yuge right now
>>748602435Well don't let me stop you
>>748590024I used to have a childhood friend who was also really into the Sonic games. Shadow the Hedgehog was the last game I remember playing with him.I lost contact with him long ago, but I wonder if he grew up into a normie or is still a bit of a Sonic autist to this day.
>>748590024I just assume most them either killed themselves, got normal lives or are still posting here.
I stayed friends with some of the guys I played shit with back in 2007 and am now both online and IRL friends with them 20 years later. Friends are important in life. It's not subjective. You aren't the special "lone wolf" that you think you are. Keep your friends close, /v/.
>best friend turned into a theater kid and I never saw him again>other best friend moved to the netherlands or something>everyone else was a retarded skater faggot or druggy usually both I'm 36 and have no friends now.
>>748597575>>748591704>>748597495>>748602363sensitive, nerdy, introverted men have been obliterated by HRT. What the fuck bros.
Oh I'm retarded you said online friends, well I never really had those because I just assumed they were all retarded faggots.
>>748602716HRT to nerd communities is like crack to nigger communities
When I played WC3 I had some online friends, one in particular was a really cool dude and I always thought he was going to go places, but he got wasted one night and asphyxiated in his sleep. Just another example of the unfairness of life, I guess.
>>748602716I used to play fighting games and everyone but like 3 people that used to go to my locals that didn't give it up trooned out. It's actually insane how damaging the tranny movement has been to autistic and nerdy men in niche hobby spaces. They also became completely insufferable to be around and started only ever talking about gender bullshit or throwing out surface level shitlib political takes
>>748597495SomethingAwful? Yeah.
>>748590024One of them died from a fent overdose. One assaulted his wife so she divorced him. One is a detective in Trinidad. Two of them were hoes that became housewives. Weird world y'know.
>>748602716they would not have done this if they had attention from womensub 6 women get fucked by chad and think they can get with him. they never settle, thinking they can marry chad. this generation is fucked.
I don't have any friends
>>748602435lets not talk about that people might realize what's happening we don't want them to notice yet
>>748602716>>748603519It's either they outright trooned out or they turned into hipster fags with mullets and moustaches, but both of them are basically the same>Used to be very edgy but now have melties about people saying slurs>Became hardcore leftistsYou can't even say "they grew up/matured" because one guy I know that's like this is almost 30, from a bumfuck redneck town, and he constantly whines about how Genshin Impact is racist for not having brown characters
>>748590024I continue to cyberstalk the ones whose digital footprint I managed to trace while they've probably all forgotten about me
>playing WoW with this cool dude I met 3 months ago>”brb my parents are at the door” >hasnt been online since
>>748590024Sometimes.>>748591238Too cool for friends?
They're still around and I still have most of them added on steam but we don't really game or talk anymoreMost of my them are cool dudes from 2008-2013 /jp/
Tom Ellis getting fired was hilarious
>>748596962His mom messaged me and told me he died, I looked his name up and he had an obituary
>>748596962Someone in my FFXI Online friendgroup died. She was a cool as fuck chick in a wheelchair. She wasnt online suddenly for a week, then her sister logged on her account and told us she'd died of the flu because she didnt want to bother anyone by going to the doctor.
>>748602435>>748603849Fuck off samefag.
>>748590024We still goon together.
>>748590024used to play with a group of ruskies back in 2008. prolly ended up as some splatter in drone footage by now.
>make friend in counter strike back in 2005>chat all the time>buy him several games over the years>stop using steam because busy with work and too tired to play games>quit job during covid and log onto steam>he unfriended melol
>>748602716I don’t get it either
>>748590024I used to have a little friend group in SRB2 online back in like 2008. Instead of actually playing the game we'd hang out and roleplay which wasn't allowed back then. Looking back we were probably the advent of the "casual" online mode that currently exists. I assume they all got married and became normies leaving the Sonic fandom behind. Every now and then I still return to play it browsing random servers.
>>748597575>>748591704>>748592467>>748596440>>748597495>>748602716WHAT CAUSES THIS? What life/childhood situations cause wanting to become a woman? Why is it so prevalent online?
>>748590024They're still there somewhere. Sometimes I find them in weird places of the internet.
>>748612436it's weird how i never even hear about troons outside of 4chan. almost like it's pure delusion here
>>748590024Not really. I had the habit of not keeping friends. Whenever I got bored of an MMO or online game I had friends on that'd be the last I'd see of them.
>>748590024I like to imagine they lived happy lives, but slightly less happy than me, yes, I'm sure that happened.
>>748612436Being a woman is just easy mode unless you're ugly, so I kinda get the desire. What I don't understand is how so many people got psyopped into thinking trooning out and acting like a deranged faggot is comparable.
>>748602716>sensitive, nerdy, introverted menThen why I'm still a guy?
Not really. Somehow, most friends i made in my teens turned into massive egocentric dickwads in our twenties and basically just stopped talking. I gathered a cool group now i can boom' with in my 30's. I still wonder why people in the past just do a complete 180 on their mentality and turn into destructive assholes out of nowhere. Probably ded, homeless, or still living with garbage family.
>>748590024I never played online with friends because I was living in the countryside, basically in a forest, and my internet was this USB stick with GPRS. It took minutes to send a single post on a forum or an imageboard. But I frequented them quite often anyway and was watching people talk about having fun playing games. I could at least experience them vicariously. I read their posts and imagined myself being one of them. That went on for a few years.
>>748590024The moment everyone started working in different shifts, the whole community fell apart. The few remaining NEETs I could talk to became insufferable "everything is bad, everything sucks, I hate this, nothing is fun" type of people who aggro at you whenever you dare to enjoy something. So, I just left, and now I'm completely alone, have been for a few years. I basically never talk to anybody outside work and 4chan.
>>748614434>The few remaining NEETs I could talk to became insufferable "everything is bad, everything sucks, I hate this, nothing is fun" type of people who aggro at you whenever you dare to enjoy something.I still don't understand how so many NEETs think along these lines.I've been a NEET/borderline hikikomori for the past 10 years. I guess I'm lucky because I get disabilitybux for mental illness and welfare is incredible where I live, but still. As a NEET you should be enjoying life, not living your life so negatively and pessimistically.If you get a payment from the government or have someone paying for all your shit without complaints, you're living the good life because you're not forced to be a wageslave for Schlomo Shekelberg. Honestly. NEETs thrive off of feeling negative. I've seen it firsthand too, because I am a pretty well-known user on a NEET forum. It's just bothersome and annoying.
>>748614987After being unemployed for whole year I dare to say that people need some kind of work to feel good. When you are a NEET, your subconscious knows you are just a parasite on others and it materialises in those negative feelings and thoughts. Once you do something for others and yourself, instead of just consuming shit, you will once again feel good. That's how it works.
>>748590024>1transitioned and started e-dating the guy they always played with. recent lurking shows porn got cranked up to maxx and unironically favoriting stuff that would get posted on here>2still being a normal dude, but it is weird when you start learning what real life is and see that he's just a guy. seeing his job status update to something menial and not Software Engineer at Google was weird>3already was a bit susceptible to bullshit and had a vac ban, started doing drugs and also transitioned. still cool, though not a heathy relationship to reconnectand then the last guy has remained pretty stagnant and went from poland ball wojak guy to just the evolved form of that, with a video of him shooting a gun on his youtube channel. interesting seeing the zesty friend of that cohort also, transitioned.i'm on my way out too. had a bunch of mental health and school bullshit but finally looking for work because i want it and ready to build a real life and make my own money and get away from my lame family. after you move on for realsies and not for clout its a bit weird to see people, still playing the game you NoLife'd? its like wow i'm glad I cut that out>>748591704real
>>748590024I lost most of my friends due to time, difference in interests or just drifting slowly apart because adult life happened. My closest childhood friend I knew for 20 years backstabbed another lifelong friend within the same group for homewrecking pussy, ended up becoming a social pariah and had to move out from the county with the homewrecker because he received death threats from everyone he ever knew, his parents and siblings also hate him now.To borrow a quote from Adachi with a twist - I'm fine with being alone most of the time now, its easy and lets me do whatever I want. I still occasionally play MMO's but never find any good friends and just do my own journey. I find single player games to be my home now. No online friends needed, I have a few in real life I meet once or twice a year and we never act like strangers.
>>748612436>early unrestricted internet access>0 male teachers in USA, every faculty in school and out is female. 0 real male guidance>PORN. all of it. e621, rule34, danbooru. everything.>becoming a tranny being the latest meme in gaming like being a brony was>intelligent guys know being a woman is an "out" where you can put shit off because society doesn't expect much from women like they do man (with suit+tie)>neckbeard is obviously and publicly ostracized in '10s internet which is the age of most trannys>would rather be a decepticon which is constantly validated and told they matter vs a fedora with a gross meme to bootI'm not some conservatard Fuentes enthusiast, but this shit is pretty objective mang. I do know some introverted nerds who aren't trannys and don't associate with it, but they fit into the "nerd male" box and can be rejected by women and society, still, for liking comics or having batman be your north star for morals and masculinity. if you become a tranny hooked on porn everyone validates you, says you matter, and if you start liking dick then you can have easy judgement free sex with other people who are fundamentally like you. here's a five nights at freddys picture off google which also fits into this entire neurodivergent equation. lots of autism.
>>748616647>would rather be a decepticon which is constantly validated and told they matter vs a fedora with a gross meme to bootThat's probably it. It's infinitely better being told you matter at least by some people than being reviled equally by everyone with no exception. People who end up in such a situation and can't deal with it either suicide or transition.
