kek this was me but in WoW after I had been gone for 10 years. The only person who kept me on their friend's list was a guy I used to be friends with irl too as well as in WoW, but I immediatey deleted him because I had no interest in rekindling that friendship.
Yeah this shit is moronic. "Last online 10 years ago", but their phone is in their hand all day. They just can't be fricked recovering their steam password to say hi to their "best friend"
>steam account turned 20 earlier this year >signed up with my bros so we could play cs:source at our lan parties
>joe enlisted into the army >went to afghanistan >never came back
>jason went to college >got married >now he's a facebook dad who disavows ever having played video games
>steve overdosed on fent five years ago
>girl i was seeing ghosted me >is in a marriage with kids now
>still the only online user in the group >still regularly playing video games
Not the kind of thread that I expected to be my first response to during my 40th birthday, but here we are.
>be me >loser
at least i didn't die for israel or get fricked by a drug dealer lacing my drugs i guess
>steam account turned 20 earlier this year >signed up with my bros so we could play cs:source at our lan parties
>joe enlisted into the army >went to afghanistan >never came back
>jason went to college >got married >now he's a facebook dad who disavows ever having played video games
>steve overdosed on fent five years ago
>girl i was seeing ghosted me >is in a marriage with kids now
>still the only online user in the group >still regularly playing video games
Not the kind of thread that I expected to be my first response to during my 40th birthday, but here we are.
I turned 23 last Sunday
You haven't moved on? I've abandoned/been abandoned by every group I was a part of (was in Boy Scouts for 13 years and can no longer have my hypothetical son experience it in the same way I did, lost my Catholic faith after Pope Francis basically told the traditionalists to frick off with Traditionis Custodes, a fandom I looked up to turned out to be just a bunch of coomers, hell I even got banned from my college's Discord in my first year of a 5 year degree program [graduating in less than a month] for saying Israel belongs to the Church)
And yet I've found at least 2 (two) friends I can trust
Ask yourself - do you really want subhumans that die for the israelite, become facebook dads and overdose of drugs as your friends? They did you a favour by removing themselves
First of all Happy birthday! I'm having a very similar situation to you, think about it that way: would you want to swap with them? Probably not, launch your favorite vidya and have fun on that special day. Staying true to your hobby and having fun with it is also worth celebrating.
Ganker ate my post so this might double post, built anyways yeah, basically. Having people in your life that you love and love you is a game changer. It puts lots of things in perspective and makes you really cherish your time on earth.
> Having people in your life that you love and love you is a game changer. It puts lots of things in perspective and makes you really cherish your time on earth
By having 4 kids ?
Nothing eats your time and energy away faster
But like you said, whatever suits your narrative
2 months ago
Anonymous
It's your choice what to do with your limited time and energy alive on this earth. If you want to spend it playing video games, that's your choice, but I'm not sure if you're going to find that it was a good use of your time in the end.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Says the guy who spends his time making these bait posts/threads
lol
lmao
2 months ago
Anonymous
That's a weird assumption to make, but I can tell you're just looking for something to snap back with to have the last word. It's all yours, buddy.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>weird assumption >while posting death bed Stock footage
I accept your concession
2 months ago
Anonymous
I mean, unless you know something that the rest of us don't, you'll be there one day like everybody else. Death and taxes, and all that.
2 months ago
Anonymous
This is what you're saving all your time and energy for?
2 months ago
Anonymous
See:
Says the guy who spends his time making these bait posts/threads
You'd have a point if he wasn't a "facebook dad" as anon is describing it. The only reason why anyone would envy him is "grass is greener" reasoning.
>Haha I'm a dad, don't play much >Helldivers 2 is fun though
I'm going to level with you but you are the picture of the dad in regret. I once read a story about a married dude without kids and every day his coworkers would joke and ask him when he's having a kid of his own. One thing he couldn't figure out is why all the dads at work showed up early and almost relented leaving early. Until it clicked.
None of the dads wanted to get their kids ready for school or deal with any of the afterschool work like music/sports or homework. Games these days need an auto-kick feature for "dad gamer" behavior in multiplayer games. It's like Helldivers 2 is the place for washed up dads go to because they don't have the time for single player games or parenting, so they eat this flavor of the month always online multiplayer slop. A walking neon light that you are strangled by your semen ejaculation practices.
Not my problem. Go cook dinner and clean up your house before you join a multiplayer game or browse social media because you know in your heart of hearts that the moment you sit down and try to play an old boomer 90s game or a modern game that isn't multiplayer FOTM, you will get interrupted by your walking semen demanding attention. To that I say: Not my problem, gamer dad.
Ask yourself - do you really want subhumans that die for the israelite, become facebook dads and overdose of drugs as your friends? They did you a favour by removing themselves
>2 ended up dead >1 ended as up a lifeless husk >woman
You're doing great my man
Mate, you ended up better than all of them. Happy birthday.
I'm not saying you have no time for it. You have a limited amount of time in a day and you should be spending as much time with your family as you can, tbh. I used to do big 8+ hour gaming binges in my teens and eaely 20s with the lads, but not anymore. My priorities are family > IRL friends > hobbies/online friends, and I think that's the healthiest balance. I really only play vidya after the kids go down for bed or at work if it can run on my midrange laptop. I still go out for drinks Friday night with IRL friends and we play tabletop every Monday evening at my place and it feels like everything is in place in a way that makes me and my family happy.
Not saying you shouldn't be, unless you're not spending enough time with your kids.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Kids arent the sole reason to live, they will grow up and move on. You shouldnt sacrifice yourself, theres a balance in living for others and yourself.
2 months ago
Anonymous
I'm really not sure where you're getting these extremes from. You can (and should) spend time with your family after they turn 18, too.
>jason went to college >got married >now he's a facebook dad who disavows ever having played video games
This is almost me lmao, turning 30 soon and just had my 4th kiddo, I spend 10x more time on Ganker than playing videogames anymore, mostly because I've been disappointed by games I waited a long time for, Dragon's Dogma 2 being the last nail in the hype coffin for me. Helldivers 2 is fun tho, going to be playing that for a while, I think.
>Haha I'm a dad, don't play much >Helldivers 2 is fun though
I'm going to level with you but you are the picture of the dad in regret. I once read a story about a married dude without kids and every day his coworkers would joke and ask him when he's having a kid of his own. One thing he couldn't figure out is why all the dads at work showed up early and almost relented leaving early. Until it clicked.
None of the dads wanted to get their kids ready for school or deal with any of the afterschool work like music/sports or homework. Games these days need an auto-kick feature for "dad gamer" behavior in multiplayer games. It's like Helldivers 2 is the place for washed up dads go to because they don't have the time for single player games or parenting, so they eat this flavor of the month always online multiplayer slop. A walking neon light that you are strangled by your semen ejaculation practices.
Not my problem. Go cook dinner and clean up your house before you join a multiplayer game or browse social media because you know in your heart of hearts that the moment you sit down and try to play an old boomer 90s game or a modern game that isn't multiplayer FOTM, you will get interrupted by your walking semen demanding attention. To that I say: Not my problem, gamer dad.
You gleaned all that from 2 sentences? You have a bright future as a therapist, anon. Being serious, you should stop being so negative and cynical. Life is good and good things come to you when you put time and effort into it.
Based. I'm only 29 but all my old friends did the same basically except they became trannies, drug addicts, or "facebook dads" as you say. I still get excited about video games but none of them do. I just want to play video games for gods sake.
I'm turning 30 soon and I've already had similar experiences to this. Shit fricking sucks man. Everyone else has moved on or plays games but rarely. I enjoy video games and I won't stop playing them until my hands fall off and I die of old age, so all I can hope for is that I can pass along the joys of vidya to my children.
>Triggered by a few sentences that reflect upon existence and don't try offend anyone.
I have nothing against religions or religious, and don't argue about it with anyone, but you obnoxious homosexuals make it really hard not to hate you. Truly a mind virus.
I don't even check on people I know from school. Either they're a complete failure/dead and I get sad, or they are super successful, have a family with kids and I get depressed.
>Turned 23 last saturday >After shitton of randoms slur messages over online games in the last four years, found a grill who actually digs Ds2
Posting my luck so that one day everyone can find a friend to enjoy your games with.
I only have 3 friends on steam, but those are irl friends I have had for nearly 18 years.
I'm the one that moved on tho, wife and kid. Always feared to be the one left behind.
I typically don't delete anyone unless they give me reason to, but when they start getting into like the 6+ year absence I consider deleting them since if they come back they'll be significantly different to the person I became friends with.
My friends list has atrophied from around 36 down to 21 just from random deletions. The majority of those were people who I only talked to once or twice and I don't care about. I only realised today when looking through my list that my long-time quake buddy deleted me, which kind of hurts a little bit but ehhh, whatever.
>be 31 > haven't spoken guy in forever on steam >out of the blue suddenly talks to me >converse a little bit >'hey man, why don't we meet up, would love to see your family'
Told him the typical 'haha maybe later g2g' thing and deleted him later on. Don't need more people in my life to remind me I fricked up.
Even so, does it make a difference? I am content with what it is. It's like accusing someone of wearing glasses as a coping mechanism, because he cannot see well.
>Sometimes I meet the same names online, we have fun and work together to win a game >Dude decides to add me, we talk for 10 minutes and that's it, I'll never meet him in game again, we're probably too autistic to invite each other to play >Already happened several times, at this point someone adding me means losing someone to play with
I understand him because of a different situation I can relate it to.
My best friend has started "moving on" from our relationship and has been spending more and more time with other people, even at times where we always used to hang out online. I think what that anon means is that he creates an expectation of having a friend to play with, but time passes and that never happens, so you kinda "lose" someone.
I honor them by not removing them from my friendslist, because I want to be there and welcome them when they return home some day. Even after death we will still be friends.
>dude I played DS3 once with messages me out of the blue yesterday >we talk like 3 sentences >starts talking about how he's 30+ unemployed and an immigrant in some shit country with no family or social circle
🙁
Couldn't care less. I don't collect friends that I don't interact with on regular basis. If someone doesn't talk to me in exactly a month, I remove them from my friends list and I block them.
Had a guy from an insurgency sandstorm group who stopped playing all of a sudden, the group had gotten worried and tried to get in touch with him... He suddenly passed a few months ago.
We now cleanse insurgents in his name. Rest in peace, Fu2
I used to talk to, roleplay and play games with people in the late 90s and I have no idea where any of those people are or how I could ever find them or if I'd even ever want to find them, so Steam is less sad by comparison.
funnny, kinda reminds me about all the kids I went to school with when I was a small kid and then some just disappeared from my life completely, like they never existed
To all of you homosexuals crying about online friends
You only have a steam account because you're shit and no one wants to hang out with you
Got a friend invite from a reddit tier homosexual and he would always say hi and strike some conversation only to say how he was better than me
Brushed it aside no fricks given. This fricker wouldn't even talk about any other thing other than the game for a few months holy autismo. A few years later instead of getting any better he made up a whole idea of how he was alpha and all women were b***hes and how he was a neet with a gf that loved being called a b***h. Meanwhile he would tell me i was a loser
You tards are like this homosexual for sure so stop crying. No one wants anything with you because you're not even real in your mind
>You only have a steam account because you're shit and no one wants to hang out with you
What does this even mean? A lot of PC games only make use of a Steam account. If it isn't steam it's probably something else like Epic Launcher or Battlenet. This isn't Facebook where the sole objective is to socialize. Why did you write out all this shit, trying to make people feel bad and then flub the very first sentence of your FUDpost?
Guy is probably a turbo normalhomosexual and wants to write some kind of epic own but doesn't realise what the frick he's talking about, I stopped reading after that line.
Do you guys just add random people you meet in online games like shooters after a match? I never really "got" that, you're likely to be awkward in chat or never speak again. Whole thing is odd to me.
Yes in Overwatch 2. I have texts and voice muted because you can get banned for saying "gg" on that game, so instead I just shoot out random friend requests to people I liked after the match.
90% get ignored and I understand why, it's weird to receive a request with no warning and they probably assume I am just gonna flame them because that games community is a dumpster fire, but it works sometimes.
>they got offline and most likely most of them are either enjoying other things in life or are making lots of money and spending time with their families
I'm the one who is fallen
This is me. Vidya ain't really worth it due to the modernization and gay politics being forced down my throat. Only so many times I can play old vidya, before I moved on to pursue other things. I still out of habit come to this place usually there is a reprieve from the shitflinging.
I'll make sure my kids play the good classics.
I regret deleting my friends list when I thought I should grow up from video games when I entered Uni.
Over a decade past and I do wonder if I I kept my friend list, would we still playing together to this day.
>move away from hometown in elementary school >visit old friend on a trip back to there about 10 years ago >hang out with him and my old friends like nothing ever happened >find out a few years back that my closest friend from back then died less than 6 months after I just saw him
I could never bring myself to remove him from my Steam account friends list
Ive kept this one person in my friends list who went offline for years on everything. Used to play with him almost daily, always assumed he died until a week ago he went online again, he hasnt explained why he was offline for so long but Im just glad hes not dead honestly
I don't know how you guys have any steam friends at all. On console it was almost a guarantee you would get friend requests from most games since people added you a lot and even invite you to play again. On PC it seems like you have to be the one to initiate the request. How do you guys usually get them or are you adding IRL people?
People are less social online than they were 10 years ago. It used to be so easy to make friends, but now I can put triple digit hours into an online game and only meet a couple people who will add me back and continue to play later. I don't think I'm the only one who is noticed that change.
Coming from the old days of IRC and AOL chatrooms the internet and the people in it are completely different
Key difference is people used to be socialized normally with real people, but now kids are socialized by the schizophrenic computer God in the machine and it's beloved economic monoculture, which naturally pushes product worship over people
God, I despise this. I haven't changed my name in 10+ years those this very reason. If you change your avatar, you should be obligated to keep your alias for 3 months, and vice versa.
I just remove people if they've been gone for a month or more tbh
I also remove people that I have no more connection with, if we added over a game like TF2 but eventually graduated to playing entirely different genres, there's no reason to stay added.
>Friend I had since like 6th grade >He disappears after high school >Re-emerges somewhere in his mid 20's with a wife, house, kid >He tries adding me on steam again
idk if I can accept bros hes in such a different world now
I'm in the shoes of the other guy in your situation, and it kind of sucks. I would like to spend more time with my friend, but I really only play up to 2 hours a night, maybe four or five nights a week, and the time I do play isn't in games he's interested in, the game he wants to play are either huge time sinks like Warframe or don't appeal to me at all. Feels bad. I wish we could be IRL friends instead of online friends, the stuff I do nowadays which I really enjoy with others is almost all IRL. I feel what you mean about different worlds.
>Moving on is what I did >It's been a long 18 years since then >Most, if not all of them moved with their lives >I'm probably the only one still playing frequently >Damn it
I have never managed to get gaming friends, the only people in my contact list are the ones to invitied me after matches, played once together and then never again. I'm a boring loser both IRL and online.
Talking with people is difficult.
I deleted everyone from my friends list a couple of years ago. Some were randos that I happened to play with on some occasion and some were people I went to school with. The thing in common with all of them was that I hadn't seen or spoken to them in years and I really wasn't going to do so in the future.
Most people that haven't been on steam in a while are either dead, in jail, hacked or they are email locked out of their account.
You know how many hundreds of thousands of gmail accounts have been locked out because of their moronic 2FA checks where they have to hold your hand like a baby and even if you get the checks right it still will make you do extra verifications if it REALLY thinks you're a different person.
I eventually remove them off my friends list and forget about them. Call me a monster all you want.
>finally log back in after years
>search my friends list to see if old friends are still active
>they deleted me
kek this was me but in WoW after I had been gone for 10 years. The only person who kept me on their friend's list was a guy I used to be friends with irl too as well as in WoW, but I immediatey deleted him because I had no interest in rekindling that friendship.
Yeah this shit is moronic. "Last online 10 years ago", but their phone is in their hand all day. They just can't be fricked recovering their steam password to say hi to their "best friend"
remove them. move on. they sure did.
they died bro
is that Toji?
>be me
>loser
at least i didn't die for israel or get fricked by a drug dealer lacing my drugs i guess
block and delete
>steam account turned 20 earlier this year
>signed up with my bros so we could play cs:source at our lan parties
>joe enlisted into the army
>went to afghanistan
>never came back
>jason went to college
>got married
>now he's a facebook dad who disavows ever having played video games
>steve overdosed on fent five years ago
>girl i was seeing ghosted me
>is in a marriage with kids now
>still the only online user in the group
>still regularly playing video games
Not the kind of thread that I expected to be my first response to during my 40th birthday, but here we are.
it's over.
CRUELEST DREAM
REALITY
I turned 23 last Sunday
You haven't moved on? I've abandoned/been abandoned by every group I was a part of (was in Boy Scouts for 13 years and can no longer have my hypothetical son experience it in the same way I did, lost my Catholic faith after Pope Francis basically told the traditionalists to frick off with Traditionis Custodes, a fandom I looked up to turned out to be just a bunch of coomers, hell I even got banned from my college's Discord in my first year of a 5 year degree program [graduating in less than a month] for saying Israel belongs to the Church)
And yet I've found at least 2 (two) friends I can trust
What a boring person you must be.
Joe discovered his love of Afghanistan and never wanted to leave. He’s happy.
I'll more or less be you in 8 years
Looking forward to it!
I DON'T MIND THE SUN SOMETIMES
THE IMAGES IT SHOWS
Happy birthday anon
Hello future me
Ask yourself - do you really want subhumans that die for the israelite, become facebook dads and overdose of drugs as your friends? They did you a favour by removing themselves
A harsh but real truth
happy birthday
Happy Birthday
my 33rd birthday was just yesterday
Happy birthday bro
This is Joe, I swapped dogtags with my CO who got killed and now work in advertising in New York City
First of all Happy birthday! I'm having a very similar situation to you, think about it that way: would you want to swap with them? Probably not, launch your favorite vidya and have fun on that special day. Staying true to your hobby and having fun with it is also worth celebrating.
Happy birthday bro
happy birthday anon! i’ll be 40 in a couple months. my steam account turned 19 last month, i wish i still had access to the one i used for hl2.
>2 ended up dead
>1 ended as up a lifeless husk
>woman
You're doing great my man
Mate, you ended up better than all of them. Happy birthday.
>the guy who graduated college and started a family is the lifeless husk, not the forever alone 40 year old gamer
lol
>dude just poop out some kids and you won't be a depressed homosexual anymore
yeah stay in school kid
Ganker ate my post so this might double post, built anyways yeah, basically. Having people in your life that you love and love you is a game changer. It puts lots of things in perspective and makes you really cherish your time on earth.
Hell yeah brother.
you must still be in high school because you have no idea what the frick you're about
Whatever you need to tell yourself, my man.
Based fatso
Hell yeah dude
2 boys and 0 circumcisions.
God bless you anon
make sure they don't cut your boys
> Having people in your life that you love and love you is a game changer. It puts lots of things in perspective and makes you really cherish your time on earth
By having 4 kids ?
Nothing eats your time and energy away faster
But like you said, whatever suits your narrative
It's your choice what to do with your limited time and energy alive on this earth. If you want to spend it playing video games, that's your choice, but I'm not sure if you're going to find that it was a good use of your time in the end.
Says the guy who spends his time making these bait posts/threads
lol
lmao
That's a weird assumption to make, but I can tell you're just looking for something to snap back with to have the last word. It's all yours, buddy.
>weird assumption
>while posting death bed Stock footage
I accept your concession
I mean, unless you know something that the rest of us don't, you'll be there one day like everybody else. Death and taxes, and all that.
This is what you're saving all your time and energy for?
See:
i dont get it
hes a big guy for us
You really think I made a thread and posted in it for 7 hours?
Meant for
You dont have to abandon your hobbies and friends to be a dad. I have 2 kids and i have time to game with lads and do some gamedev.
I'm not saying you have no time for it. You have a limited amount of time in a day and you should be spending as much time with your family as you can, tbh. I used to do big 8+ hour gaming binges in my teens and eaely 20s with the lads, but not anymore. My priorities are family > IRL friends > hobbies/online friends, and I think that's the healthiest balance. I really only play vidya after the kids go down for bed or at work if it can run on my midrange laptop. I still go out for drinks Friday night with IRL friends and we play tabletop every Monday evening at my place and it feels like everything is in place in a way that makes me and my family happy.
Im quite happy playing vidya in my free time.
Not saying you shouldn't be, unless you're not spending enough time with your kids.
Kids arent the sole reason to live, they will grow up and move on. You shouldnt sacrifice yourself, theres a balance in living for others and yourself.
I'm really not sure where you're getting these extremes from. You can (and should) spend time with your family after they turn 18, too.
You'd have a point if he wasn't a "facebook dad" as anon is describing it. The only reason why anyone would envy him is "grass is greener" reasoning.
>triggered
Cope however you would like.
I actually have no response to this, I don't even know what you mean by it.
just go join a community server and play until people recognize you, or you think you'd get along with somebody
>jason went to college
>got married
>now he's a facebook dad who disavows ever having played video games
This is almost me lmao, turning 30 soon and just had my 4th kiddo, I spend 10x more time on Ganker than playing videogames anymore, mostly because I've been disappointed by games I waited a long time for, Dragon's Dogma 2 being the last nail in the hype coffin for me. Helldivers 2 is fun tho, going to be playing that for a while, I think.
>4th kid
wtf is your wife's ass that phat?
>Haha I'm a dad, don't play much
>Helldivers 2 is fun though
I'm going to level with you but you are the picture of the dad in regret. I once read a story about a married dude without kids and every day his coworkers would joke and ask him when he's having a kid of his own. One thing he couldn't figure out is why all the dads at work showed up early and almost relented leaving early. Until it clicked.
None of the dads wanted to get their kids ready for school or deal with any of the afterschool work like music/sports or homework. Games these days need an auto-kick feature for "dad gamer" behavior in multiplayer games. It's like Helldivers 2 is the place for washed up dads go to because they don't have the time for single player games or parenting, so they eat this flavor of the month always online multiplayer slop. A walking neon light that you are strangled by your semen ejaculation practices.
Not my problem. Go cook dinner and clean up your house before you join a multiplayer game or browse social media because you know in your heart of hearts that the moment you sit down and try to play an old boomer 90s game or a modern game that isn't multiplayer FOTM, you will get interrupted by your walking semen demanding attention. To that I say: Not my problem, gamer dad.
>phoneposter is a massive weeirdo
You gleaned all that from 2 sentences? You have a bright future as a therapist, anon. Being serious, you should stop being so negative and cynical. Life is good and good things come to you when you put time and effort into it.
Happy birthday bro, I just turned 30 and I'm getting married soon, I would rather be in your shoes.
> I would rather be in your shoes.
Just... call the marriage off?
Sounds so easy but there's a kid on the way and im not a African.
toxic glue
what does that mean
I see. Well if a kid is in the picture then you gotta do what you gotta do. Give him a good role model anon.
I'm a CNA in assisted living and you really, really don't want to be in the position where you're old and never had a family.
Happy Birthday anon
Based. I'm only 29 but all my old friends did the same basically except they became trannies, drug addicts, or "facebook dads" as you say. I still get excited about video games but none of them do. I just want to play video games for gods sake.
I'm just going to say what none of the other anons are willing to say, America has a fricking fentanyl crisis
we knew that already
Happy birthday
me except i never had any friends to begin with
>look at me I had friends humblebrag
ONE NOTHING WRONG WITH ME
Happy Birthday. Did you gain any extra wizard powers?
RIP Jason and Steve
I'm turning 30 soon and I've already had similar experiences to this. Shit fricking sucks man. Everyone else has moved on or plays games but rarely. I enjoy video games and I won't stop playing them until my hands fall off and I die of old age, so all I can hope for is that I can pass along the joys of vidya to my children.
>bea arthur
>10 years ago
>bea arthur died 15 years ago
My irl friend was arrested for raping a woman at gunpoint.
he went on one hell of an adventure.
8 years is a long adventure
>satanist self-worship drivel on his profile
>rapes a woman at gunpoint
checks out
>Triggered by a few sentences that reflect upon existence and don't try offend anyone.
I have nothing against religions or religious, and don't argue about it with anyone, but you obnoxious homosexuals make it really hard not to hate you. Truly a mind virus.
>noooooo the way you present yourself has nothing to do with how you present yourself!!!
moron
what a moron we came from our moms
>depressed homosexual commits crime
hmm
Was he black?
I don't even check on people I know from school. Either they're a complete failure/dead and I get sad, or they are super successful, have a family with kids and I get depressed.
>lost my old friendlist to some russian dude that somehow got around steam guard
>Turned 23 last saturday
>After shitton of randoms slur messages over online games in the last four years, found a grill who actually digs Ds2
Posting my luck so that one day everyone can find a friend to enjoy your games with.
bea arthur quit when she broke up with gatmasta
>friend x haven't been online for 100+ day
>delete x from your friends list?
>yes
Many such cases
I only have 3 friends on steam, but those are irl friends I have had for nearly 18 years.
I'm the one that moved on tho, wife and kid. Always feared to be the one left behind.
have none
The only friends that are permanently offline are fricking dead and it fricking kills me to know I will never speak with them again.
>see friends list has -1 friend
>dont even know who it could be who deleted me
>get mad for some reason despite that
I typically don't delete anyone unless they give me reason to, but when they start getting into like the 6+ year absence I consider deleting them since if they come back they'll be significantly different to the person I became friends with.
My friends list has atrophied from around 36 down to 21 just from random deletions. The majority of those were people who I only talked to once or twice and I don't care about. I only realised today when looking through my list that my long-time quake buddy deleted me, which kind of hurts a little bit but ehhh, whatever.
>be 31
> haven't spoken guy in forever on steam
>out of the blue suddenly talks to me
>converse a little bit
>'hey man, why don't we meet up, would love to see your family'
Told him the typical 'haha maybe later g2g' thing and deleted him later on. Don't need more people in my life to remind me I fricked up.
My Steam account is 12 years old and I have 0 friends. I have 0 IRL friends too. It just doesn't mean anything to me.
You've convinced yourself it doesn't mean anything to you as a coping mechanism
Even so, does it make a difference? I am content with what it is. It's like accusing someone of wearing glasses as a coping mechanism, because he cannot see well.
Proof?
same here. I havd irl friends but I ignored them and am now friendless. I honestly don't mind, more time for vidya
>tfw haven't talked to anyone in-game or online in almost 10 years now
you talk to anon all the time you frickin'.... DORK LIAR
anons don't count because they aren't human
beep boop
>Sometimes I meet the same names online, we have fun and work together to win a game
>Dude decides to add me, we talk for 10 minutes and that's it, I'll never meet him in game again, we're probably too autistic to invite each other to play
>Already happened several times, at this point someone adding me means losing someone to play with
>someone adding me means losing someone to play with
am I moronic? what does this mean?
I understand him because of a different situation I can relate it to.
My best friend has started "moving on" from our relationship and has been spending more and more time with other people, even at times where we always used to hang out online. I think what that anon means is that he creates an expectation of having a friend to play with, but time passes and that never happens, so you kinda "lose" someone.
I would immediately block any homosexual who puts shit like "korea is good" in their name
I honor them by not removing them from my friendslist, because I want to be there and welcome them when they return home some day. Even after death we will still be friends.
Loyalty unto death, good work anon
only good anon itt
>dude I played DS3 once with messages me out of the blue yesterday
>we talk like 3 sentences
>starts talking about how he's 30+ unemployed and an immigrant in some shit country with no family or social circle
🙁
that's where you say "what a fricking loser lmao" and block him
>Relatives and old friends on Steam have the same game as you
>They have 20 hours of gameplay
>You have 400
this is true lol. I dwarf most of the people on my friends list's playtime. I literally go to work and come home and play vidya, nothing else
Couldn't care less. I don't collect friends that I don't interact with on regular basis. If someone doesn't talk to me in exactly a month, I remove them from my friends list and I block them.
Had a guy from an insurgency sandstorm group who stopped playing all of a sudden, the group had gotten worried and tried to get in touch with him... He suddenly passed a few months ago.
We now cleanse insurgents in his name. Rest in peace, Fu2
man I had a coworker friend who just randomly drove out to the woods and blew his brains out
shit sucks
what stops you from doing the same thing
Knowing my existence and middling success with women manages to make incels and virgins seethingly frothy mad
I used to talk to, roleplay and play games with people in the late 90s and I have no idea where any of those people are or how I could ever find them or if I'd even ever want to find them, so Steam is less sad by comparison.
funnny, kinda reminds me about all the kids I went to school with when I was a small kid and then some just disappeared from my life completely, like they never existed
To all of you homosexuals crying about online friends
You only have a steam account because you're shit and no one wants to hang out with you
Got a friend invite from a reddit tier homosexual and he would always say hi and strike some conversation only to say how he was better than me
Brushed it aside no fricks given. This fricker wouldn't even talk about any other thing other than the game for a few months holy autismo. A few years later instead of getting any better he made up a whole idea of how he was alpha and all women were b***hes and how he was a neet with a gf that loved being called a b***h. Meanwhile he would tell me i was a loser
You tards are like this homosexual for sure so stop crying. No one wants anything with you because you're not even real in your mind
ok but how do you pet the dog??
firmly and like you're not afraid of hurting it
>You only have a steam account because you're shit and no one wants to hang out with you
What does this even mean? A lot of PC games only make use of a Steam account. If it isn't steam it's probably something else like Epic Launcher or Battlenet. This isn't Facebook where the sole objective is to socialize. Why did you write out all this shit, trying to make people feel bad and then flub the very first sentence of your FUDpost?
>thread about steam friends list
>writes autismo
>'i dont want to socialize i only want friends on my friend list'
>'you are fud'
holy crab
Guy is probably a turbo normalhomosexual and wants to write some kind of epic own but doesn't realise what the frick he's talking about, I stopped reading after that line.
Do you guys just add random people you meet in online games like shooters after a match? I never really "got" that, you're likely to be awkward in chat or never speak again. Whole thing is odd to me.
Yes in Overwatch 2. I have texts and voice muted because you can get banned for saying "gg" on that game, so instead I just shoot out random friend requests to people I liked after the match.
90% get ignored and I understand why, it's weird to receive a request with no warning and they probably assume I am just gonna flame them because that games community is a dumpster fire, but it works sometimes.
I add people who frequent the same servers as I do so I can right click -> join if they're playing and I'm in the mood.
>they got offline and most likely most of them are either enjoying other things in life or are making lots of money and spending time with their families
I'm the one who is fallen
This is me. Vidya ain't really worth it due to the modernization and gay politics being forced down my throat. Only so many times I can play old vidya, before I moved on to pursue other things. I still out of habit come to this place usually there is a reprieve from the shitflinging.
I'll make sure my kids play the good classics.
I try to get access to their steam accounts.
I regret deleting my friends list when I thought I should grow up from video games when I entered Uni.
Over a decade past and I do wonder if I I kept my friend list, would we still playing together to this day.
I did the exact same thing anon...
I think I made it to like, Season 2 of Seinfeld. Frick it anon fine. You want me to watch the rest of it huh? Fine. I'll fricking do it.
>move away from hometown in elementary school
>visit old friend on a trip back to there about 10 years ago
>hang out with him and my old friends like nothing ever happened
>find out a few years back that my closest friend from back then died less than 6 months after I just saw him
I could never bring myself to remove him from my Steam account friends list
Ive kept this one person in my friends list who went offline for years on everything. Used to play with him almost daily, always assumed he died until a week ago he went online again, he hasnt explained why he was offline for so long but Im just glad hes not dead honestly
I don't know how you guys have any steam friends at all. On console it was almost a guarantee you would get friend requests from most games since people added you a lot and even invite you to play again. On PC it seems like you have to be the one to initiate the request. How do you guys usually get them or are you adding IRL people?
Before smartphones and social homosexualry people used to interact in online games.
People are less social online than they were 10 years ago. It used to be so easy to make friends, but now I can put triple digit hours into an online game and only meet a couple people who will add me back and continue to play later. I don't think I'm the only one who is noticed that change.
Coming from the old days of IRC and AOL chatrooms the internet and the people in it are completely different
Key difference is people used to be socialized normally with real people, but now kids are socialized by the schizophrenic computer God in the machine and it's beloved economic monoculture, which naturally pushes product worship over people
no one talks in game anymore, using voice chat is considered cringe and instant mute
>using voice chat is considered cringe and instant mute
it is though, nobody wants to listen to your bullshit, shut the frick up
Zoomers don't even talk...
good, that saves them from being slammed into the wall
>going through the effort to delete someone just because they dont login
woman moment
all the steam friends i made from playing tf2 over the years have changed their avatars and aliases so many times i don't know who is who anymore.
God, I despise this. I haven't changed my name in 10+ years those this very reason. If you change your avatar, you should be obligated to keep your alias for 3 months, and vice versa.
I just remove people if they've been gone for a month or more tbh
I also remove people that I have no more connection with, if we added over a game like TF2 but eventually graduated to playing entirely different genres, there's no reason to stay added.
>broke up with a friend years ago
>can stalk his steam and see him playing games that I have
>wish I could play it them
Reconnect and apologise, dumbass
maybe he misses your moron ass, who knows
don't be such a pussy, and good luck
I sent him a message 2 years ago and got nothing, waited 8 months and sent another message, still no response
I'm not gonna send a third
good on you anon
you gave it a shot, it didn't work out, time to move on
he was also my only friend who I played games with
I haven't played with anyone since
>Friend I had since like 6th grade
>He disappears after high school
>Re-emerges somewhere in his mid 20's with a wife, house, kid
>He tries adding me on steam again
idk if I can accept bros hes in such a different world now
either accept or decline, don't leave the friend request in a state of limbo, it's just frickin' rude.
Stop projecting your situation onto him
uhh, did you reply to the wrong person?
You obviously sent a friend request to someone and they didn’t answer it
Stop projecting
alright anon
I'm in the shoes of the other guy in your situation, and it kind of sucks. I would like to spend more time with my friend, but I really only play up to 2 hours a night, maybe four or five nights a week, and the time I do play isn't in games he's interested in, the game he wants to play are either huge time sinks like Warframe or don't appeal to me at all. Feels bad. I wish we could be IRL friends instead of online friends, the stuff I do nowadays which I really enjoy with others is almost all IRL. I feel what you mean about different worlds.
I have a friend who died a few years ago in a car crash and I wrote a heartfelt speech mourning his death in his Steam profile.
If anybody's wondering why "that guy" has been offline for a few years, try looking at their profile comments. You might find something like that.
>Moving on is what I did
>It's been a long 18 years since then
>Most, if not all of them moved with their lives
>I'm probably the only one still playing frequently
>Damn it
I have never managed to get gaming friends, the only people in my contact list are the ones to invitied me after matches, played once together and then never again. I'm a boring loser both IRL and online.
Talking with people is difficult.
play an mmo, join a guild and raid. you'll be talking with them 10 years later even when no one plays anymore
Only trannies play MMOs, ESPECIALLY if they are raiding
Half my friends turned into trannies and homosexuals and enablers. I don't do friends anymore.
Friends don't let friends get axewounds.
I deleted everyone from my friends list a couple of years ago. Some were randos that I happened to play with on some occasion and some were people I went to school with. The thing in common with all of them was that I hadn't seen or spoken to them in years and I really wasn't going to do so in the future.
>bea arthur
Plot twist, they're not dead, they're just invisible. Pic related is my account, I'm never going online again.
why
i'm becoming that friend
>moved to another country
>barely have time for games now
>only have a laptop
frick i miss being able to play vidya
no need to honour when they had none. The 2012 tribe can rest in peace and if i see those 20 bastards ill shoot them both.
I had a drink for him considering one of the last games he played before he got rekt by a brain embolism was dogshit.
behold the most autistic thread in all of vee
I delete every friend with no recent activity last 2 weeks :/
Anon I had cancer I'm sorry I just wanna game with you again
Most people that haven't been on steam in a while are either dead, in jail, hacked or they are email locked out of their account.
You know how many hundreds of thousands of gmail accounts have been locked out because of their moronic 2FA checks where they have to hold your hand like a baby and even if you get the checks right it still will make you do extra verifications if it REALLY thinks you're a different person.
I don't have any steam friends
Because you only play singleplayer games or what?