>>738708552
Have forced sex

>>738708552
Link, I don’t think that’s what they meant by “four sword”.

>>738708552
Very carefully

>>738708552
You play social games where you blow shit up together. You keep showing up every day. People get to know you. You become friends. That's the key part, you gotta show up

>>738708552
You don't. Everything now is just fags looking to erp. I hate them so much.

>>738708552
just b anyone else other than urself

>>738708792
ive never had that happen to me.

>>738708552
at best they talk to you for a week then ghost you forevermore, worst they are scum that try hacking/scamming you. Just avoid making online friends

>>738708552
You don't. Only mentally ill fags make friends online.

be good at a game

>>738708749
this. Relationships must be cared for with honest effort.

>>738708552
So who exactly is that seamen demon on the right?

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>>738709129
You want to know who she is? MY MOM!

>>738708552
youre supposed to make friends irl and then play games with them

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>>738708552
online "friends" are not real friends
so don't even bother

>>738708552
http://bing.com/images/create

>>738708552
Make real friends irl. Online friends are garbage, just a waste of time

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>>738708552
>How do you make online friends
You need an interesting personality to attract other people. You aren't born with your personality, it is shaped by your surroundings and what you do with it. If all you do in your free time is play Valorant and watch anime, you can imagine how you are rotting yourself that way. You have nothing of interest to say to anyone, how do you expect people to be attracted to you and stay around?

>>738708552
Plan a flight for them with the agency

i type a single letter and friends flock to me. observe:

N

>>738708552
Share a common interest with people in some community. For /v/ poster it's probably some game. Go on some /vg/ or /vm/ board and start lurking and work up the courage to join a koko. Takes a long time to become a "regular" but eventually you'll get in if you're not a totally annoying poster/chatter.

>>738709719
O

>>738709273
Get off 4chan son you're too young for it.

>>738708552
You don't anymore
Discord is full of loony troons and no one uses game chat because you get perma banned for fuck all

I want videogame friends but 99% of what I play is singleplayer so I don't really meet anyone.

>>738709619
>implying OP made this thread because he wanted an actual answer
Threads like this are all he's got, anon.

>>738708552
keep trying to befriend basically everyone and anyone until you find people who actually like you
>yes you will likely also run into people who are assholes and don't like you

when are we dropping 'cords sisters

did everyone forget about gamedate already?

>>738709803
Regular Show was 28 years ago, anon.

>>738709619
>You aren't born with your personality
actually you are born with your core temperament.

>>738710068
Still knocking up his mom.

>>738708552
You don't. If anyone shows interest its because you are useful. The better you are at a game the more retards come out of the wordwork wanting to be your 'friend', the more hoes want to fuck you, but none of them deserve it. Not a single crumb of your attention. The one that does, is that annoying fucking retard you can't stand that wants to play with you no matter what. Don't make the same mistske I did anon, treasure him or her no matter what.

>>738708552
738708552
download telegram, search for 4chan related rooms like /g/, /g/b/, slashbiz are some

Almost every online-life person plays games but I don't know many who make it their entire personality, you make friends through other hobbies then get invited to private rooms, maybe try asking people or searching for game related rooms but if you see any jeets just leave and find another. Eventually you'll make friends. Watch out for furries too, but at least it's not chock full of leftists like discord, they don't care about n word or sticker packs of hilariously offensive stuff.

>>738710358
>mfw i was once that annoying fucking retard
>we're both 34 and still hang out when we can

>>738708552
there are basically two types of people, the ones who get invited into lobbies and the ones who invite people into lobbies. Either always answer the call, or be the person who you want to meet and make connections by yourself. Sometimes it's awkward, but it's just the part of the experience

>>738708552
i know you don't want to hear this, but discord
join a discord for something you enjoy and actively participate in it
chances are pretty high you will make friends

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>>738710769
I can vouch for this, somewhat.

>~2018ish
>become obsessed with finding an NTSC-U .EBOOT of MediEvil II that has working music
>can't find shit online; get a lead that suggests the unofficial MediEvil Discord has what i'm looking for
>fuckit,whynot.jpg
>it's basically just 5 guys with MediEvil avatars talking about random shit
>nice bunch; they were about as weird as one would imagine a small group of hardcore MediEvil enthusiasts to be
>i finally managed to get an .EBOOT from one of them
>it's the PAL version
>mfw

Moral of the story is that, from what I saw, Discord is a great place for friendless spergs.

>>738710501
Treat him well, he needs it. No homo.

>>738708843
>>738709371
>>738709490
You sound hurt.

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Friends don't exist online. I know you don't want to hear that but someone has to tell you. The only friends that exist are ones you interact physically. In real life. Not online. No exceptions.

>>738711310
I find it kinda sad that anyone presumably 18+ would need to have this spelled out for them.

first, hit yourself in the head repeatedly. all the most popular people online are stunted and never shut up

>>738708552
>How do you make online friends
just ask
>play online game
>use voice chat or text chat
>have fun with someone
>add them so you can have fun together again
i've also found that curating my profile helped

>>738709619
How do you develop a personality later in life? I was masking for most of mine and I didn't even know what masking was until somebody mentioned it like 5 years ago. I thought I was just playing catch up, when in fact I'm actually an undiagnosed autist with ADHD. So now I'm in my 30s and I don't exactly know who I am. Thankfully I have a fiance but if it wasn't for her, I'd be a friendless freak with nothing of value.

>>738711486
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGowa8UHFWE

>>738711486
I am almost exactly like you, but no fiancee, just gf. I'm trying to insert into various social interactions and understand what it is I like being, but the jokester facade always comes up as the best defense. No closeness or empathy

>>738708552
Be a friend to make one. If you just ask random people how they are doing and say nice things to them and then invite them to play again, one of two things happen. They ignore you and maybe say something mean like telling you to fuck off, or they open up and talk to you. In my experience, the latter is actually pretty common, especially in games that are designed to have a social aspect like MMOs or shooters. Tons of people online are very open to the idea of someone being their friend, but they just don't want to be the one putting out the effort for fear of rejection or because they don't think it could happen.

I used to play CS casual matches a lot and never talk. Then some days I would get drunk and just chat to anyone who would listen. I would wake up the next day to like a dozen friend requests each time.

>>738708552
You don't. It's not 2005 anymore.

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>be into souls likes, indie and fps
>no vidya friends besides some CS2 folk
>twin brother is into games, but mostly horror and jrpgs
>lives 12 hours airplane ride away

>>738711398
>samefagging so obviously
Its more shocking that an 18+ fag wouldn't notice what you're up to. Its not even subtle.

>>738711691
Well, the good news is that you're completely wrong. The bad news is that I have absolutely no idea who the hell you're even claiming I am samefagging as, kek

The guy I replied to? Are you actually stupid, anon?

>>738711760
Are you? That's a whole lot of cope.

I truly honestly do not want friends. Anyone else feel this way? I was an incredibly social person up until my late 20s but then I just got tired of it. Like been there done that and also I started to resent how much people would eat up my time. I'm still friendly with coworkers and other acquaintances but I draw a line between that and my private life. It honestly feels so fucking good and I've accomplished so much since I ditched everyone.
I guess the only drawback is that I'll probably never have a nice little family but to be honest I've always been horrible at maintaining relationships with women because even when I was socially inclined I found it difficult to commit so much of my time to my partners. I know this isn't a very nice thing to do but I'll probably just have children out of wedlock and not actively raise them. Haha I know, I know. But it's honestly not that bad.

>>738711576
Same. I'm friendly enough, I just struggle at sealing the friendship and even when I do manage to, I'll usually lose touch after we both don't message each other for a while. I'd like to be more social but a lot of the time, I don't know what I can bring to the table. I've grown out of a lot of games and now that I'm in my 30s, it feels like that time to make online friends is over.

>>738711440
>just ask
kek, everyone laugh at the incel having to initiate

>>738711864
I don't don't want friends, but i've always had a pretty low social battery and my capacity just keeps shrinking, i'm going out less and less and i'm feeling pretty good about not saying a word for days, downside i guess would be that i'm getting more irritable torwards shit people say that i don't agree with and i don't want to be some thin skinned faggot

>>738711818
I'm too confused about what you're even accusing me of to press this any further.

At the very least you've done an outsanding job of presenting everyone ITT with a perfect example of how NOT to make friends online kek

>>738711929
>36
>into vidya and programming
>get into vidya dev
>go to local gamedev meets
>90% is under 25
>cannot relate

It's like a weird limbo

>>738712026
Oh man, I remember this feeling back when I first started studying programming. By the time the pandemic ended i was in my early 30s and in classes with kids who were fresh out of high school kek. Shit felt weird.

Seems like I've gotten over it, though. The age difference is something that barely registers to me anymore, but that's probably because I'm taking junior/senior classes now.

>>738708552
Screw online friendships. How do you meet Goth girls like that IRL in a place that has an almost non-existent metal/goth scene?

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>>738709882
Sounds like a good place to get something of value then, if all someone has is a shitposting thread on /v/.

>>738710075
While that's true, it doesn't mean much in real life. If someone gets born with curiosity to find out things but life pins them down to a routine of boredom and repetition, it's all for nothing. It needs either a lot of inner strength or a hard reality check slap to realize what is going on and start improving yourself.

>>738711486
>How do you develop a personality later in life?
You need to understand that nobody other than the 5-6 people in your inner circle and family, gives a fuck about you. Coworkers, bosses, old friends that you haven't seen since high school, don't give a fuck about whether you live or die tomorrow morning. They don't care if you spend 10 hours per week in your hobby about model trains, knitting, or flying kites. So, start spending time on them, for a start. Afterwards, try to get into more hobbies, even if you have to force it, especially if you have to force it. Go to the gym, learn a new cooking recipe, get into woodwork. Really, try things out, you can't say you aren't into books if you haven't read a single non-academic book in your entire adult life. You have to figure these things by yourself, not whatever some temporary friend may tell you. You have to learn yourself.

>>738712026
I relate more to 50 year old niggers complaining about taxes than these subhuman brainwashed NPCs with zero self preservation and fanatical devotion to their oppressors. We're so fucked its unreal. Most sweeping conquest over the peasantry in the history of man. Checkmate with a capitol fucking C. Their kids deserve this level of suffering and original sin.

>>738711486
>>738711576
>>738711929
fellow autist with adhd here. Best way to make friends as an adult, I've found, is to insert yourself into autistic hobbies. Play Warhammer, tabletop rpgs, or board games at the local game store. Civil War reenactment. Go to a scifi/fantasy book club. Join local smash tournaments. Buy a camera and find weird old people who like birding. Once you show up repeatedly at these type of activities, you'll meet people on your wavelength and possibly become friends.

>>738712459
Explain this "birding."

>>738708552
Get into a niche.

>>738712516
He probably means bird-watching

>>738709619
A catposter saying you aren't born with a personality, lol lmao.

CS has been the only game I get requests from because I try to be positive/provide info. Just takes a little ice-breaking and after awhile you get a list of people to play with and get to know better

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>>738708552
look like the right

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i hate the modern world
i hate discord, discord users, discord culture.
every single discord server is exactly the same with the same people in them.
the internet has never been worse than it is today.
i grew up watching and making content on newgrounds, ytmnd, and neopets. we simply made things because we liked them and because we could and we never charged a dime or judged people. banning people from things was akin to death and we were not wrong for believing this. the current rulers over all things online saw this and relished in killing people, their spirit, crushing their dreams and selling out in every way, gouging every service and product, turning things into products. they betrayed us all and you worship and love them and join them and give them your money and time and worse of all you change for them and shape yourselves to better fit in with them. extreme loneliness hurts but at least I still have my soul.

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>>738708552
>>738715016
every boy needs to meet a girl like this at least once during their childhood

>>738711864
>>738711992
The only positive aspect of "having friends" and "maintaining relationships" is when you need references for contractors. Having stupid shit break down in your house and you need a guy to fix it urgently but not knowing anyone is awful.

>>738708552
goth shit is so trash. They are whores that tries to act like they aren't
That's even worse than honest whores

>>738711992
Same. There was a time when I just wanted to be everyone's friend, and I kept attracting the wrong kind of people, so eventually I just got sick of it, and I got sick of people. I have a couple of online friends, I have some people in real life who occasionally poke me with a stick to make sure I'm not dead, but other than that I just want people to leave me the fuck alone.

>>738708825
Wanna fuck?

>Wanting a woman to be taller than you, ever
Low T cuck beta basedboy behavior

>>738708552
get a time machine to the late 90s early 00s. you can't make friends online anymore unless you watch YouTube live

>go to a /soc/ discord thread, post about yourself there and talk to anons
>find ONE small discord group about your favorite game, stick to it and interact there daily
>create OC to post on steam (guides, workshop, artwork, etc)
>Have a flavoured avi about the show you like
>Be nice, fun and friendly
>Share your porn stash and help each other cum if the conversation leads to that

>>738715016
I had a girl that always brushed her fat hair and it's on my back when she was asking what I drawing. the only problem I had was I couldn't stand up for at least 15 minutes. I'd end up poking someones eye out

>>738717461
>her fat tits
stupid autocorrect

>>738712459
I've already done the Smash tournaments thing. Met some cool people but also a lot of dicks. Ot my gf/fiance out of it, so can't complain but I don't think I can go back. I don't have the drive I had back then.

>>738708552
I wish goth girls were real

>>738712459
I don't have any such hobbies

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>>738708552
I dance and play songs with people in fortnite
Usually works when you find a guy who can jam with you

>>738708776
>You play social games where you blow shit up together.
Like what?

>>738717641
>>738717818
instead of coming up with hobbies you have no interest towards, you just show up and interact in the ones you already have interest in

>>738708552
Sex chat rooms.

>>738717818
I've met many little pals on Helldivers
Shitting yourself together through war builds bonds
Still get invites here n there from some but we never really talk
Just feels good knowing you can trust a player even if youre both not super good at the game

>AIslop OP thread still up after five hours
I guess its a slop board now.

>>738718532
ANON SAMA NOOOOOO

>>738718532
Friendly anon..
See you in 3 days...

>>738718532
nta but you sound awesome, my discord is pikerfn before you get banned

>>738718532
I don't get it, why is this bannable? Inb4 newfag

>>738719334
Ponies beent banned for a long time now
Hopefully he survives

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>>738719334
its against the rules, 4chan was flooded with ponies during the mlp hype of 2012 and it annoyed people

>>738708552
OP pic is me autistically talking about warframe lore to the new girl at work

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>>738717332
what if I want to get cucked though

>>738719418
people forget. man, horsefucking cucksoy millenial retards were worse than furfags at one stage. posting their autistic shit everywhere all over the fucking internet. fucking queers can never keep their shit to themselves, man

>>738718657
>>738718648
>>738718589
I'll be fine guys trust.
>>738719407
>>738719418
Ponies are fucking awesome, they can't take that away from me. I'm technically still on topic so they shouldn't ban me.
>>738718657
Thank you bro, sent. I'm the @ symbol.
>>738712310
>you can't say you aren't into books if you haven't read a single non-academic book in your entire adult life
It turns out that I do like to read books. I just had to find the right genre. I've been getting into extreme horror and all that gore makes reading interesting for me. Unfortunately, I don't think it's socially acceptable to be admitting that irl. I don't think I'm able to join book clubs because of the type of books I enjoy.

>Dude the reason you have no friends is because you're boring, get a personality! xD
At the peak of my online Discord presence I had maybe 150 friends, the majority of whom were failed normies using anime, furfaggotry and mental illness to masquerade their surface level interests. This applies to niche channels too, in fact it's probably worse when it comes to those. I'm so glad I deleted my account, Discord is a waste of time.

>>738715327
Pretty much the only reasonable post ITT

>>738719639
Its ok pony brah just gotta watch your step around these turbo spergs ykno
>I don't think it's socially acceptable to be admitting that irl. I don't think I'm able to join book clubs because of the type of books I enjoy.
Women unironically love torture love smut books its all they read

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>>738719580
I honestly forgot. I'm not gonna force you to like ponies man, I don't normally talk about ponies outside of /mlp/ because of embarrassment. /mlp/ is my home in this vast internet, it's a place where I can talk about ponies from the comfort of anonymity.
>>738719745
Yeah, I've seen a lot of YouTubers who cover this type of stuff are women. It makes me feel out of place. But I guess that's just the price I pay for being in a niche like that.

I made connections with people over F-list and drag them onto Steam to play video games with me.

Im not sure. As soon as I enter voice chat I go silent and dont say a word. Ive done this my entire life and only feel comfortable using text

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>>738720096
>chat with gamer pal
>is nice and we kinda chat
>join game with him and his other friend
>they're insanely close and laugh together and have many inside jokes
>completely different happier person with him

>>738715327
the internet was cooler when it was harder to visit.
the best thing to do is to put up barriers to casuals. one chan I go to has anime characters as their captcha. if you don't know Lum then you can't post.

>>738709619
>If all you do in your free time is play Valorant and watch anime
I don’t even do that much. I basically just doomscroll 4chan all day. I’ve been thinking about rewatching Code Geass but still haven’t. It’s crazy how much the average person does, they have so much to talk about just from their daily lives.
The guy who plays Valorant all day is more interesting than me, and at least he forms a meaningful connection with the game to appreciate how it changes overtime and all the little things you would only be able to notice and appreciate from immersing yourself in something for so much.
Is it productive? Not really ig, but it’s like training a muscle, and you get something out of the experience.
I don’t do anything, and the apathy is killing me

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>>738708552
As a man who lived his social life majorly through the internet for about 10 years, I don't recommend it. It's lonely.

>>738711486
you're too old to have friends, you pulled so don't worry about it

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>>738720180
hello retard child, i have a tip for you that most normal people learn in grade school:
you can participate and even contribute in groups where you aren't the most important one

>>738715327
I miss the old internet so very much

>>738718532
Discord is shit, we're shit too
||Y4rnqS7EB||

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I’ve had this one /v/ friend on discord and Steam for over a year and he just refuses to play with me. We chat like twice a week and get along swimmingly, but the dude just cannot find the time to play vidya with me. It’s like I’m his personal chatbot or something. I really really really just wanna play Black Ops 3 Zombies with him but his boomer ass would rather just replay WoW for the 500th time. Never befriending a 40-something year old again. You really can’t teach an old dog new tricks

>>738711864
I kinda get it. Part of me would love to be the center of a friend group and always get invited to vidya every night, but a bigger part of me just wants people to shut the fuck up and let me play vidya by myself. I’ve struck a balance though thankfully, where the few friends I have don’t constantly bother me, but there’s enough of them there for me to not feel alone. I see them watching movies together on discord and I only feel slightly bad about it. There used to be a time where I’d have a panic attack whenever the shortest conversation would happen without me, but now I just (mostly) don’t give a shit

>>738711992
People like you piss me off. I know a guy that also gets angry and argues over every little thing, sometimes even dropping the friend group only to come crawling back a week later. Anon, you have to come to terms with the fact that people on the internet are fucking stupid. Not everyone is gonna get along. You have to learn to ignore those people

>>738708552
By never having firends ever -normalfag
My loliwife tulpa is all i need

>>738715016
I remember I had something like this where this school whore with an emo getup would randomly pick on me for whatever reason. One time she even said she’d let me touch her boobs if I let her touch my moobs, but I of course refused. Good Lord, she was hot, but you could almost see the STDs crawling all over her body

i thought joining the world of warcraft retail 4chan guild would help me find frens but 4channers outside of 4chan are cringe as fuck

>>738715327
There is an argument to be made for how the normalization of the internet ruined it. There was a time where’d you’d have to sit down on your PC and take the time to make a reasonable post. Now every fucking normalfag third worlder’s got an iPhone and can barge any time they like into what was once a world populated almost exclusively by autists. I blame twitter and instagram. At least facebook was originally used on PCs, but instagram normalized people walking around with smartphones so they can say stupid shit all the time, and twitter just made that even worse.

>>738717818
In all seriousness, I recommend every autist here to play Arma Reforger. Just hop into any community lobby and play by yourself and listen to the autists over the game chat. It’s the closest thing you’ll get to old fashioned GMod, and it’ll help you unravel and open up to people. Most of the players there are too high to judge you no matter how autistic you are.

>>738723212
I met a guy here that only play coop slop. He invites me to whatever flavor of the month garbage is out. I decline 70% of the time because the game look genuinely so shit and I want some time to play single player stuff but I still like him a lot.
We're both in our 30s.

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>>738718532
>Probably because they are bronies. But I'm also an outcast, I should've fit in with them.
Hell, almost the exact same thing happened to me. I befriended this dude on /v/ who brought me into his /b/ friend group until I eventually ghosted them a couple years ago. I realized too late they were the only people I could possibly get along with, but I don’t even want to either. Something about them just really bothered me, even though they felt like my “kind of people”. They’d hang out in VC for hours and be cynical and boring just like me. We’d play vidya sometimes and that was always fun even if I always felt terrible about having to be constantly carried. I got along decently well with them but it just never felt right for some reason, like I just didn’t think it was worth giving them my time and energy. They also tried getting me to watch MLP with them and that was the nail on the coffin for me. I just couldn’t associate with them anymore. Makes me think about how, if I ever somehow cloned myself, I would probably not get along with myself

>>738723668
it's always been like this but group chat amplify all the issues as well
that's why discords suck too when it gets too big

>>738719418
which this could be for redditors, twittards and futa trannies too

you cant pick and choose otherwise you will look pathetic so just be yourself and naturally at least someone will want to tag along with you. if not, oh well.

>>738715327
Godspeed anon
Discord is heavily responsible for people being like this online nowadays. Talking to anyone online outside of this website is agonizing.

>>738720368
>I don’t do anything, and the apathy is killing me
You have already pinpointed the problem, you did the difficult part. Now it's time to fix it. There is only one way to do this, and that is to force new habits. You won't wake up one day magically with the energy to do what you want. You have to force it at first. No matter what it is, it will always suck at first. It's in our nature to stick to habits, both healthy and unhealthy. So no matter what you decide to do to break the monotony, no matter if it's a gym membership, learning origami or watching an anime, it will feel like shit at first because your mind wants to maintain the monotony, because that was the habit it got used to.

Even in the days where you feel like you don't have the energy to leave the bed, that's exactly the days you have to force it to go out for a walk, watch a movie, cook a burger, do anything.

>>738711864
i always wanted friends but have eventually accepted i'm literally just a uggo autismo who cannot understand other people.
i think if you are a autist but at least hot you can get a pass, but (male) uggo autists are essentially invisible until you decide to play warhammer or whatever MMO freaks like yourself enjoy.

i get friend requests in elden all the time but I never accept any because there are some psychos out there, my profile has been private since ps3 thanks to hackers sending MY MOTHER blackmail threats because you can't tell device ID's apart (kill yourself). and you should have seen the shit someone sent my friend during covid, /x/ tier shitposting about mercury or some bullshit, it was like a fucking essay

i enjoy coop but if you want a social club make some real friends. also discontinuing couch coop has been disasterous for mankind.

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>make internet friend
>inseparable for years, play games and talk every day well into our late 20s/early 30s
>he grows an MMO addiction and occasionally brings up gender dysphoria out of nowhere
I think it would've been better to just have been alone for the past 10 years than watching him self destruct like this.

>>738715327
cluster Bfags and normalfags ruined the internet

>>738715327
me too anon. I will never install discord, i hate them enough on /vg/. its just even less secure MSN for zoomers anyway.

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>>738708552
Talk to the people who are actually talking in chat, since those are the ones actually interested in being social, from there its all based on how compatible your personalities are.

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Anyone wanna be my friend we can play 100% OJ together

>>738723624
This. You have to be careful. When I was in senior year, a girl who I had never spoken with ever suddenly was up in my face flashing her black lipstick smile and pressing her breasts against me and for a few days my friends and I couldn't figure it out (completely different cliques, no previous contact at all, her interactions didn't seem to be going anywhere) - that is until the fourth day where she did the same thing again but this time tried to steal my wallet while she was doing it. I instantly grabbed her arm and she dropped it, got mad and she never interacted with me again (obviously).

I certainly like goths now that I'm a refined old gentleman, but back then I wouldn't even have given her the time of day.

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>>738708552
Give crumbs of attention to affection starved Discord gremlins.
Fair warning, you could be talking to products of broken homes(underage)
What is the morality of grooming teenagers to play videogames with me?, May or may not guilt trip them into doing what I say.

>>738708552
draw OC

If any of you are interested here's my steam friend code, feel free to add me or shoot me a message, ill be down to play some stuff later today if any of you want to, about 3pm EST.

343771098

>>738715439
>every boy needs this
I've been deprived

>>738726520
I refuse to believe this

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>>738711662
Is the only thing you can do with online friends is play games with them.

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>>738727231
which part

>>738711486
>>738720573
I hate to say it, but this anon is right. Your 30's is when friends start fading away, because people are set in their careers, are busy with their families, and have more or less figured themselves out and know who they want in their social circle and who they don't. People aren't going to parties in their 30's, and they're not looking for new friends. They have all the friends they want, because they've spent their entire lives figuring out who is in their circle. Age and habits have set in, and people aren't looking to "expand" at this stage in life, they're looking to develop what they have.

Anyone who this doesn't describe at this age is a broken person. Basically, it's over. You can really hurt yourself trying to fight this reality but you'll only give yourself poisonous hope. It's better to accept what you have and try to live your best life from here on out, and stay open enough that you don't miss the scarce opportunities for new connections that will come.

>>738708552
Imagine what her crotch smells like

>>738727376
whats the game even about

>>738727545
The seven stages of grief

>>738727639
is it fun

>>738726083
Fucking save him, anon. Tell him you're worried, that you feel he's going down a dark path and that you're there for him, no homo.

>>738727434
Lavender

Post Saria's puffy 1000yo hag pussy already

>>738727434
Artificial grape.

>>738726584
people like you need to be shot

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>>738708552
You guys are my only friends.

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>>738711486
>undiagnosed autist with ADHD
>I have a fiance

I don't know how you guys befriend people here, every time they turn out to be weirdos, unsurprising.
I made a rule for myself to make friends that happen to use 4chan, not make friends from 4chan itself.

You don't really, you just build familiarity with other users. Unless you meet, friendships won't form.

That isn't really possible on 4chan, and I wouldn't really recommend it even if you could. Most people on here are clearly mentally unstable in some form.

>>738720368
I wish I could give you an easy way to fix on this but the onus is squarely on you. You need to find something that you can be passionate about. And not just to make friends or score, but because it’s something you truly want to dedicate time and effort towards. You need to care again.

This won’t solve your problems by itself but when I hit a rut I reorganize the furniture in my room. The new perspective can feel like progress and help me start something I’ve been putting off. It’s kind of a meme but maybe you could try that as a starting point.

>>738708552
I ghost people and see if they try to talk to me anyway. If they do they were my friend

>>738730560
how am I as one of the mentally unstable 4chan users supposed to make friends then

>>738724189
You’re being a bad friend. The game being shit is literally not the point. If you really wanted to spend time with the guy playing a garbage game together would be just as fun as playing a good one, they’re both conversation points. And what are they, like 8 bucks each?

>>738730708
no they just want your money

>>738708552
I became a vtuber and created a small circle vtuber friends I collab with and viewers that I play with during community game nights. I’m not even remotely successful by any stretch of the imagination. But I still have a group of people who wants to play video games with me for a few hours every week. If you guys are legitimately lonely and want people to play video games with I suggest becoming a vtuber.

>>738730909
that works for people who are ugly but have nice voices but what if I'm ugly and have an ugly voice?

>>738731000
Make your vtuber a tentacle monster

>>738715016
goth girls are trash once you get to know them. But what women isn't, am i right

>>738708552
By going to the club and fucking bitches.

>>738708552
Begone foul BPDemon!

>>738729807
What, I'm bored as hell.
I have been both the lil bro and the big bro in couch coop, I firmly believe this is what early Zooms and Alphas need.

>>738708792
I think my experiences with TF2 and Counter Strike when Valve made them F2P and added the market, left such a sour taste in my mouth due to all the 3rdies and trade bots, that the idea of trying to make friends on the internet disgusts me. Then you have most people online just acting inhuman towards each other and I have no interest in that if it became the standard. I'd rather just join a church.

>>738712459
Honestly I would also say if you're an undiagnosed adult beyond like 30... just don't. There is no real help if you're not young, and you've probably outgrown most of this user's mentioned hobbies, and to do them would require hanging around a bunch of much younger people which can and will cause its own set of social problems. You've likely been brought up to "fight" the traits, and by now you're too headstrong to adapt. Trying to adapt to the "embrace it" of the modern day is often very stressful if not detrimental to mental health if you are too old to form it.

Honestly, providing you have let go of the hierarchical obsession of childhood (Easier said than done for most of us. The bullying is usually more the issue than autism, and for us it often feels like yesterday), adults are far less judgemental and generally will accept you somewhat if you mellow out and learn to communicate effectively and openly.

I'm sure maybe some can benefit, but honestly it's not worth it imo. All getting a diagnosis at 38 did was bring me complete and utter misery, and basically denying outside of being maybe borderline at best was the only way I could get out of the major depression.

>>738731000
It depends on how bad your voice is I guess. Mine isn’t perfect. I slurl certain words together when I get excited and I have a slight lisp. I don’t think anyone really minds. That being said I have met some people with really unfortunate voices. Like the 40-50 year old white guys who sound way too old to be voicing a teenage anime boy character. My suggestion is to find a model that would be the most passable with your voice. Again all this comes down to how bad your voice actually is.

You don't. You build familiarity and pretend, while ignoring real interaction and being dangerously isolated.

It's a trap a lot of us are in.

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>>738708552
>How do you make online friends
you don't, most people on the internet are schizos.

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I love internet friends!

>>738732592
hi iliiiliiliii

>>738732668
yo btchi

>>738708552
Most people I have met online have turned out to be really bad people that for some reason always start talking shit of me behind my back. Never again.

>>738711486
Masking doesn't exist you just weren't being autistic. You have no personality regardless of that.

>>738733109
Exact same experience here. I also think that people treat internet relationships extremely casually, like at the slightest discomfort people cut things off.. Even if it has been a years long thing. I think it takes people a few of these fake internet relationships before they just stop engaging in them at all

>>738708552
Am I too old to make friends online? I'm 25 going on 26

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>>738708552
>How do you make online friends
Just join online groups/servers/communities. It's all about receive/give/exchange. Ask for information or help, some people love to help others, or be that person and help others with your knowledge. And there is the simple exchange, just exchanging opinions and discussing. he learns something, you learn something. Just play your favorite game and talk with others. It's online, you are just a fucking pixel on the screen. Don't be afraid, nothing happens... omfg.

Just start fucking talking, don't be afraid nigga, play together. LFG. Discord.You guys play the same fucking game, there is always a reason to talk. I wish I was a sub 100 IQ anime gooner like you guys... you can shit up an anime discord and talk with people all day.

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>>738733768
Naw.

>>738733768
No thats perfect. You can hang out with slightly younger peeps and also chill 35+ dudes. You are in the best range.

>>738733768
Not yet, although it will be more difficult since you are older than college-aged people. Late 20's to early 30's is when it is actually too late, barring rare exceptions that prove the rule.

>>738734685
So where are we the 30 something old guys go then?

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I haven't had friends since high school which was 18 years ago.

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>>738733768
hell no
I had a group of people I played with back in the halo 3 days when I was just 13 and most of those guys were 25-30. you might not be able to befriend kids tho, different times. now people are so afraid of age differences

I have met a lot of people on League whom I talk to this day and we got talking when I was 25. now im 30

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>>738734957
unironically you need a gf. There's no point being friends with other 30+ year olds, and it becomes grating talking to 30- year olds. As a 34 year old, it feels pretty biological

>>738735551
i dont know how helping me cum makes find a gf

>>738715016
>>738715439
>>738723624
It's not fair bros... The only alt girl I've ever known was a creepypasta obsessed landwhale who's probably dead by now.

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>>738735730
sorry anon it is what it is

so many miserable faggots in this thread, you can have online friends and irl friends, cheer up loser, its just videogames lmao

>>738735980
guhhhh

>>738708552
If you have to ask you already failed. I've had a the same friend group since 2006, met on CS source

>>738736103
>you can have online friends and irl friends
What if I have neither?

>>738723928
Realest post ITT. Choose a town on the frontline, keep respawning there and talking with the surrounding randoms. Before you know it you'll be rolling 6 deep with the homies.

>>738708776
I did that in several different online games, for a few years at a time.
Zero friends acquired.

>>738731114
fkn retard. you dont interact with hood rats in goth girl dress up. you need to be in a wealthy white city where the upper middle class girls do goth girl dress up. everything else is a farce.

>>738736425
see >>738726924

>>738708792
I miss the times when we frowned at them, now they are everywhere.

I would assume most people who reach their adult hood with no friends at all either online or irl has something seriously wrong with them and is a red flag

>>738737003
I hate how people always assume it's somehow always the person's own fault. Imagine being a victim of circumstances and nobody giving you a chance because of red flag.

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>>738737003
And what do you assume about someone that hangs out with that kind of people?

>>738708552
I don't believe in friendship. It can not be done.

>>738737003
Yeah unlike normies who are overwhelmingly wholesome and rarely do bad things

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>>738708552
Discord
>inb4 tranny
nope and enjoy having 0 online friends

>>738727793
do you like mario party? It's like that, but more dice rollan and uguu

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What's it like to have friends?

>>738736558
i don't care where my dog comes from

>>738738053
Depends on the quality of friends you keep, it can range from hell when it's horrible friends to boring when it's shitty friends and to heaven when you actually have friends that give a shit. Hope this helps. Find the right friends

>>738737576
Tranny

Goths are a child's fetish

>>738734957
We don't "go" anywhere. We go to work, focus on our career, come home to spend time with our family, and our wife/gf maintains our social circle and organizes meetups etc for us (because we're busy and fuckin tired from the grind).

If you're in your 30's and you don't have a family, and if you especially don't have a gf/wife, that's pretty much it. Being sub-8/10 and single in your 30's is a red flag that makes people suspicious of you (especially women) that is NEVER removed until you get a gf. When you're young and dumb and stupid, people are looking for friends, people are open, and generally nobody really knows who they are yet. But when you're older and people know who they are and who they want to associate with, you being this weird unknown factor without a family or a significant other is enough of a suspicion that they generally don't want to waste time on you.

Not surprisingly, the male suicide rate skyrockets once men enter their 30s.
>It's never too late bro!
Yes it is. Life is a game of musical chairs, and you CAN lose.

>>738738692
Fetishes are children's traumas

>>738739013
My preggo loli fetish comes from my childhood?
Oh no, wait, that actually makes sense.

>>738733993
>bottom image
too real and they keep calling me unc too

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>>738738779
No, I'm turning 30 and I'm still a NEET. My online circle is 26, 27, 33, 34 years old. + my IRL friend, who is 1 year younger. It feels like we are still kids, but 2 of them are working and they get always mad, when we play the whole night and are asleep and they come home from work :/

Still the same people, like when we used to be 21. Fucking Anime, Games and trash talk in voice. Talking about literal who topics. NONE of them has a Wife/GF. Not even my brother and he is smart + good looking. This world is fucked, but we are "happy" in our small circle.

I just hate that some of them are gachacels. I HATE gacha games. And all of them have have chuddy views, mostly racist + anti women. I'm a faggot and I wish we had more faggots in our group...

Time for some Deadlock, boys!

>>738708552
I don't

>>738739986
>I'm a faggot
I can realize that just from the starting lines.

>>738737265
Were you born in the middle of the woods or something?

>>738740135
Thanks for reading my story, anon.

>>738715327
Will you be my discord friend anon?

>>738738779
this guy never met anyone but his parents and weird uncles and it shows

>>738708552
uhhhhhhh

>>738708552
can women control their queefs? my exes only ever did it during the thing as fart as i heard

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>>738722421
Do you not know how to put text in a spoiler?

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>Get adhd meds from kindergarden to HS
>Made me socially retarded and gave me a massive porn addiction
>Trying to learn how to draw and trying to fill the void
>Very difficult to make friends
Anyone else got drugged in their formative years and feel like the only way to fix is to rope?

>>738743978
Why don't you go to doctor to check if you actually need your current meds? Why not go and at least reserve a time for a psychatrist to talk things through if you are worried?
Like you got nothing to lose except like ~50€ or smth or what its in dollarinos.

>>738708552
You really dont anymore honestly. You get either people with npc souls or mentally broken poorly adjusted people.

>>738708552
you have to join d*scord servers about video games

>>738743978
>my meds forced me to consume10s of thousands of hours of porn and stay inside.

>>738715016
>girls were so much hotter back then that goth chicks were considered weird and ugly

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Does anyone wanna play PoE2 with me and my friends?

>>738711992
My escape was somehow turning my social battery into a social dynamo.
Hanging out in the right crowds and right people where i didn't have to mask a lot allowed me to gain energy from socializing and to slowly build up my capacities and social stamina which allows me to branch out more and more

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>>738708552
Play online games that you enjoy. Add players you enjoy playing with. The next time you play, try to play with these people you added. Keep playing with them frequently. Grow a bond as you play together. Invite them to play other games you think they might like. Ask them about their hobbies or game interests. Become good friends.
All of this is expedited by having a microphone and talking with the people you play with.
You have to understand that men form bonds and friendships very easily, mostly by proximity and similar interest/camraderie through shared hardship. All you have to do really is reach out, people are more than willing to talk if you give them the opportunity.

>>738708552
Go to a porn sharing site. Post some decent porn. Put in your bio you just want to find some people to game with. Profit, and maybe ERP too.

>>738711486
Ignore that guy saying it's too late. The more i go out the more i just naturally run into people in a similar situation. People who aren't completely socially inept and left behind but people who still realign themselves and figure out what they like in their late 20's early 30's.
Even outside of those, you'll always have people falling out of their pattern, breaking up, losing their job, rediscovering themselves etc. It won't be as easy as socializing in your early 20s but it isn't impossible as long as you find the right community and stick around long enough to slowly build a social network.
The more you grow your network, the more you also expand yourself, discover adjacent interests, hear experiences of likeminded people etc.
The big question is what kind of person your fiance is?
In the best case, she is a huge boon, someone who provides you stability and supports your growth which will make it easier to go out and to recover from setbacks.
The worst case is that through your growth and self discovery you distance yourself from being the person she expects you to be, but i suppose in that case the relationship wasn't meant to last anyways and was based on superficial behavior

>>738709882
At least he get replies, I make an earnest thread about vidya related shit and 2 people give a reply. I'm way past the stage of giving a shit so I shouldn't bother pointing it out

>>738708552
I’ll be your fren

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>>738708552
you used to just play games and add eachother after matches

now you have to jerk off together before you play anything

>>738733768
25 is like the last good year to start socializing.
You'll need a few years to properly build up your social life and develop so you still have a few years before you're 30.
30 isn't as hard of a boundary as people make it out to be but it will change the way people percieve you

>>738745254
>Just be the rare exception that relies on having natural charisma and a pre-existing social network you simply haven't utilized yet
Stop feeding people poison.

>>738744251
vyvanse is a hell of a drug

You don't. People get jealous and turn on you. Especially if you are of no use to them.

>t. Punished YouTube celebrity of ten years ago.

>>738746118
Minecraft youtuber?

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Personally, I have come to a realization that I was not actually looking for a friend, but for a new thing to distract myself with. I'm constantly on the run from what I've become.

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>>738746118
>>738746313
>Minecraft YouTuber
>/v/

I’ll be 30 soon and I haven’t had friends or even acquaintances that aren’t blood related to me since middle school.
I play a lot of online multiplayer games btw.

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>>738736558
>wealthy white city where the upper middle class girls do goth girl dress up
attention whoring when you're already well off just doesn't have the same sex appeal as being vulnerable or actively on the outs with your support system

>>738746896
Doesn't matter. Poor people are also low quality people with low control over dark desires and impulses.

>make friend 3 years ago
>we both bond over being losers, lost in life, dissatisfied with the world
>keep talking about our ideas for games
>in 2025 finally learn game dev skills
>put together more and more prototypes
>he never has anything to say about the stuff i make, no feedback, just responds a long time later with unfunny jokes
>want to show him my demo on stream, "just screen record it and send as a video bro, i'm busy" (he's a NEET)
>stops even replying to the art i send
Fuck it. I just started ghosting him, I don't care.

>>738747629
Dude he had a perfectly good worthless friend just as useless as him
and you shove all your progress in his face? He could probably barely stand you by that point.

>>738746772
Welcome to being an adult man. 31 and no friends since I left my home town some time after high school.

>>738708776
>>738744851
>I show up
>I barely find anything to say as conversation flows at Mach 5 around me
>time passes
>I leave
I love videogame threads

>>738747507
don't disagree. you enjoy your diet goths, I will be over here continuing to ruin my life for cheap tricks and trashy chicks

>>738749018
Yup. 34, moved to a different state when I was 30 for a business opportunity, have not made a single friend since I've been here. The only time I socialize is when I fly home 2-3 times a year to see my friends and family.

>>738708552
play toram with /torg/

>>738747629
What if he's busy developing his own game? Have you tried to talk with him about it?

>>738745864
when did it become so difficult....?

>>738747629
I had a friend who wanted to develop a vampire hunters clone. Thank god he hasn't sent me anything on his progress

>>738752454
>What if he's busy developing his own game?
He's not. Said his last project was good but has no interest expanding it out to a full game. I even sent him a UI I made (well, just a single PNG but it was a sick pause menu design) for him to keep and use on the project. Even for his own project he couldn't care.

I mean, he's age 23 so I understand being young and naive. But if I was 23 and I had someone older and more experienced than me who's rapidly improving at game dev and who's sending me free quality assets and encouraging me to work on my projects, you can bet I'd be going along with it. But screw it. He can get drunk and play all the multiplayer slop he wants, whatever he does, my patience is out

>>738749390
I've had this "problem" all my online life. I think it's just that some people are simply meant to lurk, and there's nothing wrong with that. Another thing though, talking your ass off non-stop is for kids, women and fags.

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>>738730747
Start talking to yourself until someone or something manifests.
For best results, do this in public spaces.

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>>738732592
>he will never be your gaming friend

>>738735019
We are your friends anon.
Hop the fuck on Darktide right now.

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>>738747507
This. Rich people are objectively better people and make the world a better place. Trump and his friends for example, AI datacenters, ballrooms, and more money for military industrial complex. Well of course people in [my income bracket] are also good. But the millionares in the end have worked hard and honest job from the bottom to achieve their riches. Anyone not on top or [my income bracket and above] are just lazy and bad with momey. Work harder for a corporation. What? After the walmart wages you are still barely making enough money for your family? Well get the foodstamps you lazy piece of shit that the tax payers pay for and the stamps give that tax payer money to Walmart that doesn't pay you enough...
Don't think about it too much, commie.
Work harder and pledge your allegiance to the flag like you have been since you were a child.

Find the fan forum for whatever niche anime you have an attachment to.

>>738755746
Extreme binary thinking is a sign of low intelligence.

>>738757273
Agree. Just look at >>738747507

>>738757693
Not understanding what "binary" means is a sign of VERY low intelligence

>>738745967
Oh please spare me that.
i have started from zero a few years ago completely abandoning my existing circle of friends and i am an awkward fuck that worked his way up slowly by just applying my autism to socializing by enduring a bunch of awkward encounters. I am still quite the sperg, i just know how to target the right spergs now.

>>738708552
I made all my online friends by being open about my fetishes

>>738708792
Your own fault if you go to the literal fag discord spam thread on here to make friends

>>738736558
>its only goth if it's rich white girls
goth is literally a punk subculture. Just say you want a spoiled e-girl with black lipstick

>>738746896
>wealth disparity and corruption in the economy will never go away because people fetishize poor people and money + love bombing them

hate isn't a strong enough emotion for what I feel because it's beyond anger or emotion. I feel nothing.

>>738737265
I mean both can be true. It can be completely out of your control what happens to you in life and as a consequence you end up being a fucked up individual.
The problem is in our current society most people just try to get by and lack the energy and time to help someone underdeveloped.
Thats the sad thing, it's just the "smart" thing to do to avoid someone who's too far behind.
If we would be less in a rat race, then maybe we could collectively set up structures to those who are behind, but sadly this shit is only discussed on the notion of gender and races on both ends of the spectrum.
There are people who in their nature can't avoid to help people though even if it's at their own detriment and there will be other broken people left behind so it's still possible to find a way upwards for those that set their pride aside and accept people similar to them

>>738708552
I met a bunch of pretty casual dudes from a /vg/ general
I know the same general has at least 4 other discords besides the one I joined, at least 2 of them seem to be groomcords from what I heard

>>738709412
so, how make real friends then?

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Be genuine, but don't be clingy or an open book.

>>738708552
by joining my discord.

>>738727421
how sad for me to read

>>738708552
Why is this off topic AI slop shit still up?

The trick is to rape them. They submit to you after. This is how real life works.

>>738760796
I can confirm it, I raped this anon and now he's my bitch.

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I miss game forums, Homestar Runner, and Red vs Blue

>>738760909
This is true. I am living proof of this. And I’ve raped too. We make a rape centipede from time to time.