I'm a 39 year old male and I'm so tired of nearly all my friendships being these silly "gamer buddy" friendships. These aren't friendships based around love, they are really just based on silly games (board games, DnD, tabletop RPGs, Yu-Gi-Oh, Heroclix)I've had so many of these relationships over the years, and every time, it ends up the same. The friendship only really lasts as long as the games do. The day my tabletop RPG game master moved, the gamer group broke up and we only hung out like twice afterwords and then never spoke to each other again. These friendships feel empty. I do enjoy playing games with these people, but we are really just there to consume entertainment together at the end of the day. If I need something or want to talk about my feelings, all I get is "shut up and play games." None of these people are going to ever help me meet women. None of these people care that I'm happy or not.
Yeah you were supposed to spend your 10's 20's 30's finding a partner to build a family with but instead you spent it on gooming
>>34334910Don't really have advice for you, but I'll bump and rant a bit, since I feel a very similar kind of loneliness.I never really had gaming buddies, I'm the THAT guy, the one that refuses to pay WoW retail and will instead play solo on private servers because fuck blizzard (just example but you get the idea). Same goes for most normie activities like parties, sometimes I go but even then I just sit and wait for enough time to pass so that I can leave.I used to have drinking buddies but as soon as the person that used to organize the drinking outings stopped none of us bothered contacting the others. There was "anyone seen (organizer)?" in group chat after a month of inactivity and then nothing. I actually stopped drinking entirely.I used to be in a band and while I enjoyed having regular practice sessions it was also kind of frustrating because nobody else actually tried. Often times we just smoked and went over some older songs because half the people "didnt have time to learn the new song" which is total bullshit since they were just sitting on couch playing video games or drinking/smoking. But again it was enough to keep me going, but then our "frontman" found a gf and she was a bit crazy so a lot of drama ensued and we split up eventually, not on the best terms.Sometimes I think that maybe its kind of my fault, that I should show more interest in people and maybe plan something together, but I just cant help myself. It just feels so disingenuous and pointless acting like I like things that I dont enjoy and borderline hate. And I just know nobody is interested in the things I enjoy or in me.I really wish I had someone to talk to about what interests or troubles me. At this point I'm kind of giving up on "deep" relationships, maybe the "empty/shallow" ones are the best you can get.>>34335816I wish this was the case but in real life your partner is just a person like everyone else, at least that is my experience, it only works like that in movies.
>>34334910yeah no shit, loser, you're supposed to have a wife and kids by now, not a fucking D&D group.
