i got a gaming pc and an expensive mic 5 months ago and I still haven't made any friends online
what are some good video games for meeting and befriending strangers?
serious answers only please
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vrchat unironically
I dunno, i'm anxious about that sort of thing, how would i go about trying to find normal people and filter out the literal children? im turning 30 next year
Go to the general and not be a homosexual.
which general?
i'm bad at shooters but I can have a look at it, its fun yeah?
The thing about ARMA is that it's not what you would think of when you think of shooters. It's not a game for ADD teens like Valorant or CSGO, it's a milsim so it's a lot slower, and weapons are realistically (in)accurate so even if you have perfect twitch reflexes that doesn't mean much because communicating with your team and proper positioning will win the fights.
And you can basically do whatever you want anyway because the games are so large. Squad is another one like it, people do things like this just to give you an idea
DCS World is different, it's a massive simulator where strategy is more important but in the end people play it to have fun, not to win so they won't be mad at you if you're bad
Also those games I mentioned are full of boomers who aren't all that great at games, they're more about the community and the gameplay than about chasing a rank or mmr
It's not like WoW where a nasty caffeinated moron will sperg out because you stood over a glowing puddle for 0.5 seconds
i dont sperg out over it but i also cant comprehend how people who played the game a decade still cant avoid standing in fire. Makes me doubt general human intelligence.
You should've said you were a boomer
WoW if you like fantasy RPGs
ARMA 3, DCS World are full of 30-50 year old boomers and are surprisingly kino games
>30
>boomer
I hate dumbfrick zoomers so fricking much
Every generation below tends to treat the one above them as old hat and that's been true for ages before we were born.
t. fellow millennial born just in time to catch the pre-digital era when hanging outside with neighbors was a common activity.
30 is the new 50.
You are not a normal person
he is
>im turning 30 next year
It's too late, you're fricked.
You don't just end up 29 with no friends. people didn't value you.
Just accept you're garbage and you're going to be alone. I did. it's painful but it's real.
No! I will be alone, but there is still hope for you two. The fact that you are here and trying to help each other proves it. Don't give up like I did. There are people out there that would love to get to know you. It is just a matter of finding them.
I wish that were true.
I gave up socializing to focus on career/self improvement and not being a fat neet, but im still a friendless loser at 30.
If you didnt even have 1 friend and you are past college you're done.
Too old to meet new people outside of work, and nobody in my age group at work
Too old to socialize online and having a dedicated presence without worrying about daily obligations and wageslaving
I just wanted one friend who I can relate to.
The closest I ever got was joining a rare non-troony discord group but there was clearly a "main-circle" that talked to each other and I was only an extra.
I guess I suck and can't make anyone like me since I dont create content like an artist and such. Those were the only people that got any sort of respect there. Eventually left since they made me feel more alone than actually being alone.
But at least Im a debtfree $100k/yr wageslave woohoo. I think about eating a bullet every day and the only thing stopping me is not wanting to make my mom sad.
I'm you except I am financially ruined with no future. It could always be worse.
>Too old to meet new people outside of work, and nobody in my age group at work
Have you ever heard of a website/application called Meet Ups? It's great for friendless losers such as yourself to meet like-minded individuals who would be interested in group activities but have no friends to participate in them with.
Not him but the avg age of meetup users near me is legit 55+
I wish dating apps weren't so fricking cursed for our age bracket, including for non-romantic purposes
55 sounds based if they're good company that knows how to have a good time. Maybe go shooting with them or do some kind of archery with em or make clay pots with em'.
>Those were the only people that got any sort of respect there.
Sounds like you just need to find the right jobs. Everywhere I've gone I was able to mingle enough to learn a good amount about the older workers at my department store and restaurant jobs. I even interact regularly with some grocery store workers who recognize me and greet me whenever I run into them. I'm pretty unsuccessful in life in general and not a creative either though so I can say this much that you don't need to be artsy fartsy to learn how to do basic socializing. You just have to not be afraid of rejection. Turn that dedication to your job towards socializing for abit and you can escape the hole you put yourself in.
Money really does make you miserable. I’m poor as frick with all of your problems, but it doesn’t bother me a bit. You’re too high IQ for your own good. They key to happiness is dumbing yourself down a lot.
I'm assuming you work from home like me? I find it hard to make new friends, tho I have many I've kept from years ago, tho slowly they fade away for one reason or another. I go to the gym and church and other shit to get social interaction and get out the house. Buy a motorcycle or something, it's a good conversation piece. I get compliments on mine often. Just be careful if you do, people don't care about bikers anymore.
>inb4 bike gay
I'm just a dude with a cruiser bike whose also lonely and trying help. Drop a burner email and ill try being your friend. I'm sure you're not as annoying as you think you might be.
or you know, you could just make a new friend.
>what are some good video games for meeting and befriending strangers?
Any videogame that you have fun playing will have a community surrounding it, seek them out and the friends will come naturally as you participate
VRChat is full of insufferable people. Do NOT do this if you don't want to be around people who are trying to be epic all the time
>Any videogame that you have fun playing will have a community surrounding it, seek them out and the friends will come naturally as you participate
i don't really think that's true at all
I suppose it depends on the community but I've found friends from every videogame community I've been apart of. Particularly if it's a multiplayer game since you can just play together.
Grooming cult.
GTA RP. Learn the rules, don't be a weirdo creep or fail to understand it's not second life.
Aren't they all trannies, groomers and degenerates?
I'm sure to you they will be anyways.
Die prostitute
MMOs (WoW, FF, Eve), especially doing high end raiding in WoW
Fighting games, but you have to go out of your way to join communities.
Niche games with small tight knit communities like Europa Universalis
a mongoose
>Pixiv pic
Awww darn it and here I thought it was a h-doujin.
Games with clans, required teamwork are the go to places.
Then you can also join Discord groups of sandbox games, that are not grooming kids, and share/critique showcased builds.
Casual groups exist all over and bare participation is good enough for them. Just dish out a few compliments here and there and only give good vibes.
>expensive mic
Hopefully you don't sound like Kermit the Frog.
I'd hang out with Kermit the Frog so I guess it depends
>play game
>join troonycord or be a social outcast, sweaty :^)
>implying you can't socialize through game
My number one recommendation would be to avoid anything online relationship wise. Sure have some friends to play with but that's it don't bother getting too close to them. I had an """ebf""" from /soc/ and I had to literally beg him to get him to even voice chat with me. (he did once then ditched me the second time to play games with his friends).
But idk I was recommended guild wars 2.i used to make lots of friends on Runescape. Those might be good options. People are scared to interact with you online because you can't say anything anymore without risking losing an account you sank 3000 hours into. Mmos generally attract sweaty tryhards now days. Back before MSN and Facebook etc people would use mmos to socialize and make friends online like a 3d chat room. That's pretty much dead now. Idk join discords that surround topics you enjoy. Play stuff like gw2 maybe you'll find a nice active guild.
a krystal thread died for this
frick you anon im a real person god dammit
don't get me started
homosexual
How do I make non-crazy, non-fetish, mentally stable friends in VRchat?
>anon wants to start with dante must die difficutly
I'm not interested in interacting with anymore mentally ill people, I did that enough irl
just be my fren anon
But I thought I was your friend 🙁
MMOs. Private servers for them are good if they're something like Everquest or Final Fantasy XI. Spergs will be more than happy to teach you everything if you let them know that you're new but most private server MMO players are a bit crazy so I'd stick with official servers. Final Fantasy XIV is probably the best in that regard, their community is more welcoming than WoW.
Just treat EVERYONE you meet as a guy regardless of what gender they say they are. It's much better that way.
i put 100 hours into xiv and never managed to make any friends, tried my best to talk a lot during (i think they were called duties?)
Did you try joining any Free Companies or whatever guilds were called in that game? That's the best way to get to talk to people but I guess XIV might be starting to have the same issue that WoW does then where people just go through the motions without talking much.
Something like FFXI that requires people to group up to level would be better there if you play a useful class like a tank or support but you'd want to play on a private server for that. HorizonXI was the biggest one but you'd be hard pressed to find many users on there under the age of 30, so if you're in your early 20's then I'd stay way.
MMOs are pretty bad for making friends, because the only friends you'll make will be people who only play that MMO 10 hours a day.
I feel bad for the fact that I actually meet people in games constantly and blow them off
>so tired of gaming the only time I enjoy it is playing H-games that are story heavy
>after cooming I have to stop for the day
>only thing to look forward to is playing it again the next day
i hate my life so much...
Read the Bible. The stories are kino compared to Jappa H-game slop.
That's not true at all, I've read the whole thing dozens of times and while it's got good lessons it's FAR from kino and not particularly entertaining. It's basically a millennia-old manual on how to live life.
same. modern games are such dogshit nowadays I mostly look forward to h-games now than I do new games.
Thats why I keep telling people to look for older games
Either buy the original hardware, emulate, or look for remasters that haven't been fricked around with
same but ntr and femdom only
nobody wants to be friends with a pc redditor, sorry
just because im not very smart doesnt mean im a reddit homosexual
>posts thread about video games
>GOD FRICKING DAMMIT CAN PEOPLE JUST TALK ABOUT VIDEOGAMES FOR ONCE. Black person TRANNIE JANNY
lol at your pathetic life
Pick an mmo and join a raiding/pvp static. You'll need Discord though, as that is what all reasonable people outside of this shithole use and have zero issue with.
Wait a minute why is that girl naked?
What do you mean naked? She's literally wearing socks
SHE FRICKS SHOTAS
what are some free games i can ERP anonymously with strangers in?
garry's mod, team fortress 2, csgo
any game with community servers, especially casual games with player counts of 16-30
Seconded for Garry’s Mod. DarkRP is great for making friends. If you like a niche sub genre like Star Wars RP, you’ll meet some likeminded people quickly.
TF2 and CS:GO are OK, but you have to pick and choose your servers depending on who you want to be friends with. CS:GO MM can get really toxic, and TF2 has a younger audience that is hard to filter out - especially when the most social servers are ones that kids frequent (pl_hightower, ctf_2fort, etc)
>CS:GO MM can get really toxic,
Go back homosexual
I’m sorry, but if you are trying to make friends online playing on ESEA or Valve comp with people telling you to blow your brains out is not the place to do it. Or if you don’t have Prime, have fun matching with Mexicans and cheaters. Jailbreak is fine, surf is fine, making friends in matchmaking is a toss up.
I recently made a friend in comp, he's pretty sweet and even left me a cute comment on my steam profile, people don't do that anymore, the last time I made an online friend in a videogame like that was probably 2017
i dunno guys, im just sitting here twiddling my thumbs, idk wtf im supposed to be doing here
try autismo games with a niche following of diehard fans but also a ton of noobs. For me, it's Mordhau. Great playerbase, TF2 was excellent for meeting like-minded people, but i haven't played since 2017 so I can't be sure anymore.
kinda unrelated complaint but
>get into new game alpha
>discord is full of weirdos
>one channel to dox yourself where they post their age, job, interests
i dread where things are going
>Socializing online
>2023
Good luck with that. Unless you get groomed by a group of lunatic troons you don't stand much chance of having even casual online conversations these days.
Deep Rock
Phasmo
MMOs
what is phasmo?
i tried deep rock for a long time, could never get anyone talking to me on the mic, fun game at first though
Phasmophobia
try Forewarned too
I wish there was non competitive multiplayer games that I actually liked that are even remotely popular these days. The only ones that have aesthetics I enjoy are MMOs and I just hate the gameplay loop of MMOs. Where do fans of anime and such go to make new friends that aren't crazy?
Anime fans are inherently crazy; that's why they like anime in the first place.
end of the year might release a non competitive mmo called palia. I dont know what it really is but looks like animal crossing mmo.
Genshin
There's nothing to do in Genshin. It is just minmaxing autists. I was excited when it came out because I thought it would end up having clans and other ways to socialize with people, but it's basically a single player game that gets content twice a year
if thats what youre after just play a private server old mmo like tera or ragnarok online.
Then Tower of Fantasy is more your speed since its basically an MMO.
Wuthering Waves too, when that finally releases.
Snowbreak seems to be heading down the way of clans but it'll be more like stages rather than an open world.
unironically mobile games. there's a strong sense of community there and a lot have guilds and such and mobile games attract a more casual crowd, even the weeb ones.
It's all gacha stuff or really watered down MMOs though. Gacha games unironically have the aesthetic and community I want, but I just hate the gacha gameplay loop and philosophy. I wish there was some sort of cooperative third person game like deep rock or monster hunter or lost planet or something, but with gacha styled designs that got content/new characters often and had a community
The gacha and MMO gameplay loops are very similar, so yeah that's my bad I should have assumed you'd dislike gachas as well. Not really sure what's even a good option then because most other online games don't have the level of character or account building those games have which are conducive to discussion and having people guide you and help you and then becoming friends w/ them. That doesn't really work for other popular games like Apex or Valorant.
Pls sauce? I don't see many doujins with women like that
in my experience, older games that still have devoted fans, like Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 (NEVER touch Versus for making friends), maybe TF2 and such games
None
Online gaming is so shit now that it's actually possible to get $60 stolen from you just because you said something that offended some butthole from either California or Bangalore and the homosexual mod in the game server location banned you.
Never mind that discord and teamspeak have killed it entirely as entire groups of people can just meet up in their own servers
The golden days of online gaming are long over
>give money to company
>money stolen
Such as things are when companies sell you a service disguised as a product
what game are you referring to
Pretty much most online only games or games who's main draw are for multiplayer and only have a bare bones single player mode.
Free to Play doesn't count as you didn't have to pay for anything, so getting banned doesn't really sting unless you're one of those people who spent over 2k hours or something
discord was still old world
your server your rules
>discord
teamspeak
dont even know how i fricked this up so bad
Well thats the point I'm trying to make
With so many online games becoming so draconian it's better to be in a discord or teamspeak server with friends
>agree not to say the N word
>say the N word
My money was stolen!!!!!
>stale copypasta
shouldnt even exist
I agree, however, it is quite funny seeing how people are so bad at banter that they just resort to saying Black person. Then get upset when they're banned from the game they're playing.
we are way past beyond Black person getting you banned. I think the worst one was tournament player getting heat for "gg"
Don’t play the wrong fighter either
oh that reminds me one lol player lost the match for his team because he bought an item that was bugged in a tournament. Billion dollar company cant fix their game nor block the items from buying so punishes the player.
>this is the only reason anyone is banned!
>ignore the 99% of other cases that people are actually talking about like news, politics, or culture
Yawn. Is it tiring to be so stupid or is it a natural talent?
>news, politics, or culture
communities know the difference between current events and thinly veiled /misc/ copypasta
>waaah i can’t say homosexual or Black person in my online game!!
you will never lose your virginity lmao
YWNBAW
I made all my online friends playing AoE 2.
Many of those went on to be real-life friends.
i did try checking out modern age of empires 2, i was fricking terrible at it and got curbstomped every game
For me it was mainly Halo Reach on the 360 and Dota 2 on PC
granted some of those people were friends I already knew IRL
heard the newest version has daily quests.
Noped out with that.
>daily quests
What? There are some events where you can get dumb shit that nobody cares about like player icons, but most people just ignore them.
how does that even work in a 1v1 game like AOE? I could see myself play it because I loved it as a kid but I just don't see how you would be social in it.
>1v1
A lot of the community plays lobbies which usually cap at 8 players. It's really fun, specially games with open diplomacy where you can switch allegiances.
Custom scenarios where you don't even need to know how to play the game are also very popular.
Found my friend group on all crits mario kart map on tf2 when we'd take over the skybox.
We live all over the country but try to get together to hang out every now and again.Wish I had as much luck with romantic relationships as I have with friends but having bros for life is still the best and I woulsn't trade em for anything.
Except the one who went crazy playing final fantasy and fricked off to pretend to be a catgirl online all day.
source?
ive met my best friend on FFXIV and ive played with her on various games like genshin, apex, and phasmophobia.
ok ya but like, HOW did you both meet? what was I doing wrong?
Look ima be real with you, it was purely by chance. I was trolling this bard in game and this girl that was in my free company saw me and we both started both trolling this bard. Then that night we both stayed up all night and started chatting. its cliché but you have to be yourself. Be social and talk with people who share the same interest as you. Just be you is what im trying to say. Dont overthink it.
That is wonderful! Congrats anon! I always pray I can meet new people that become important friends to me online, but it is hard
I believe in you, i think you got this.
go on /vm/ find a game and joing servers/groups
Any good vidya to meet a cute american gamer girl? t. europoor pretty boy
Oh you'll find one alright
one thats 300 pounds and with a wiener
Women are more and more into video games, i'm sure there are games out there with a significant female playerbase.
name them
>Women are more and more into video games
No they aren't. The ones who play, play popular multiplayer ones due to the social aspect, and like with Tinder they already have a billion men kneeling to them.
Stop dreaming fantasies of "I found my significant one playing vidya", that shit only happens in anime or videogames.
I'm literally married to a girl I met on TF2 14 years ago
Cope, seethe, dilate, etc.
Women are playing husbando gachas, MMOs, jrpgs and farm sims. So if you don't like cute boy gachas or XIV you're kinda fricked.
do people ghost when you get on mic
I turn 28 soon and have one friend left from high school that I can feel myself drifting a bit further from. I’ve always had a couple of irl friends until recently and kinda feel a little lost. I’ve been working a job for the last four years where I have no coworkers, and the bars in the town I live in are the only real places to socialize here and just aren’t my scene. I’m really hoping that when I move later this year that I can meet some other likeminded people, hopefully through playing fighting games together.
I’ve never made friends online before and honestly find it more daunting than meeting people in real life even though I’ve spent most of my life talking to you guys and random people on forums.
IKTFB
I am in a similar position to you anon. I'm thirty and all I've got left is a handful of friends I had met in school. Obviously we will drift apart eventually, but once that happens I will truly be alone. I also play a lot of fighting games, but for me they are a chance to prove myself and I never perform so I am very self conscious and it makes me hard to play it with friends and make friends through it.
If something does come up make sure to make an effort to say yes and go along with it (within reason). I'm a few years ahead of you guys in this situation, opportunity for friend finding situations is all it is.
Yeah I've come to realize how important people are in my life. I have crippling depression and the loneliness is unbearably painful sometimes, enough so that I sometimes just sit in my chair crying. I used to shoot down socializing opportunities in college because I felt like it was too much of a chore when I already talked to these people multiple times a week in class, but now I think of opportunities to meet with people as precious.
Unfortunately for me, I am a terrible person so there isn't much reason for people to want to socialize with me.
I don't believe in myself, but I believe in you and the others in the chat. I have been noticing these pessimistic threads lately and have been really happy seeing what comes across as genuinely passionate posts of people trying to help each other. I think you guys will end up just fine, including the OP.
are you the anon that got mad because his dad invited him to see the fireworks in the 4th of july?
No, that's a different mentally ill asukahomosexual.
You bet I will, anon. I know I’m capable of it; I’m just a little lonely right now.
I think there’s still hope for you yet to make new friends. I’ve found a great source of inspiration in watching an uncle of mine completely turn his life around in his fifties. New friendships, a new girlfriend, a solid job. I truly believe it’s never too late to pursue what we want in life. In any case, treasure your friends while they still have time for you.
>You bet I will, anon. I know I’m capable of it; I’m just a little lonely right now.
Good stuff, it happens just don't let yourself get too down.
I'll be turning 30 in 4 years my man, in a more normal era this would be when you, I and that other anon who replied to you would be paired up and maybe have a kid or two already
But alas thats not how things go these days
I would love to play video games with my own children if I could
I’m not too worried about not being married yet, honestly. The way I see it, the woman right for me is probably in a similar place in life as me right now, and we likely won’t meet for another few years at the soonest. I’ve been in a couple long relationships already and don’t see dating in my thirties as a hopeless prospect.
I have my doubts personally
But yet again my parents didn't meet each other until they were in their mid 30s
Which is hilarious as dating only gets easier as you age because people (both sexes) drop all of the pretenses that muddy up relationships when you are younger.
I was petrified to start dating again in my 40's as a widower with a preteen son but every single woman I met was great. No bullshit and they knew what they wanted, I knew what I wanted and either we were willing to do just that or shrug and move on. It was an incredible difference from dating in my early 20's. I unironically have a big titty goth GF and she gets along great with my son.
In before "cool story grandpa" but frick you, zoomers - the internet belongs to my generation.
>big titty goth gf
you are living the dream anon. is she also in her 40s? the idea of some tired OL going home and putting on goth makeup for her boyfriend is amazing
Yeah, same age as me. Don't get it twisted, though. Goths at my age just have dyed black hair and wear band t-shirts as their casual clothes. Close enough.
Legitimately heartwarming stuff, anon. It's a relief to know that I have the right idea about dating, because that's exactly what I suspected: that it gets easier with age. You sound like a great dad.
A shitty friend I just cut loose recently was starting to get worried on my behalf because I don't have casual sex with women and haven't been looking to date anyone for the last few years. I'd rather be single and work on myself for a while longer than make my problems somebody else's and set myself up to get used as an emotional punching bag in the process.
Makes me glad to know, I've had some shit happen since I started dating when I hit college and it's such a mess. Best relationship I had ended when my girlfriend lost her frickin' green card got sent home and her parents took the oppurtunity to force me out and put her in an arranged marriage.
I'm glad i've got time to figure more out and find someone to truly love and share my life with. I got a big heart and dream of finding someone to let in again.
>arranged marriage
>you are forced to marry and live with literally a stranger for their money or status
Such a weird concept. I wonder how it even works successfully in many third world countries.
If you take two sheltered young adults and put them in close proximity to one another for an extended time, they inevitably start knocking clogs.
Choosing a mate is a modernity thing.
I am not talking about the sex. How will they even live with each other, if they turn out to be utterly incompatible with each other in terms of personality, likes and dislikes? You get only one life and imagine sharing that with someone who despises you and vice versa just for social safety.
>feel bad for her and miss her
I don't know anon but somehow I feel that you dodged a bullet there. There are plenty of fish in the ocean, some with less complications and issues than others.
Sex also not being the physical act of love is another problem with modernity.
The natural process is attraction and infatuation leads to a long term partnership.
But there's modern stuff that interrupts that and gets in the way.
The natural order is that two young people meet, they smash their bits together, the happy chemicals take over and they're stuck together.
Anything else is modern devilry and an inflicted evil.
If it was some hundred years ago, I would understand a man knocking up a woman who he doesn't even know much about with 10 children and running a family without caring about her qualities. Women didn't have rights back then and were subservient so they had to adjust with the men, the division of labor was quite clear with men bringing home the money and women taking care of the household and children but things are radically different now.
You actually have to have a reliable and dependent woman as your partner (if at all any) cause they now have the power to make mens life absolutely miserable.
Yeah this stuff about qualities, labor and money and households is all nonsense that shouldn't rightfully be anyones concern or even exist, but are necessitated by living in a massive society.
Like have you ever thought why some women are just plain awful? Were they born awful or were they made that way?
I'd argue that the vast majority of women are good people and when they do bad things it's for pragmatic reasons, or they don't understand the consequences.
> they now have the power to make mens life absolutely miserable.
I think it's more that they have the power to make their own lives not miserable. Like you said, they didn't have rights so they lacked the ability to do this before.
Weird that you framed this in the context of men, when you're discussing a woman's perspective.
>I think it's more that they have the power to make their own lives not miserable.
If you look back at the past in modern perspective, I suppose it could be considered as one person (the woman) in the relationship sacrificing their freedom (and in turn living a miserable life) for the happiness of the family as whole but such perspective didn't exist back then and it was only natural. People of both genders might have been relatively content by the order of things I presume until self actualization phase set in leading to modern society (which is frankly so chaotic even if objectively better in several aspects)
Her parents pretty much just decided it for her, had to cut shit off because it was going from long distance and possibly getting back together to, parents cut her off from me only tp have her come back and just go "Yeah I'm married now..."
Feel bad for her and miss her, the only positive thing I guess is a relationship for me most likely won't have a worse outcome than that.
> I don't have casual sex with women and haven't been looking to date anyone for the last few years
That's not normal. You're just a loser. Women never, ever do this.
Care to elaborate?
Honestly more power to you anon, casual sex is neat but an attachment to someone makes a well of difference.
Yeah, that's why I have no interest in it. The one time I slept with a woman I wasn't already dating it just felt too transactional and impersonal for my tastes.
I get why people do it, but I just don't want to be someone's therapist and force them to be my therapist, you know? I'm just not up to the task right now.
>I don't have casual sex with women and haven't been looking to date anyone for the last few years.
You're making the right choice. I don't know why anyone would want to get tangled up with women in le current year.
similar age to you with similar feelings, gl anon
I'm starting to think people here aren't pretending to be pathetic losers.
Did posting this make you feel better about yourself, Anonymous?
Probs vrcjat, the era of making friends in games is over
I literary play a Maple Story pre Big Bang private server and I have ton of friends from different parts of the world and even met a couple of them in business trips I done over the years.
One of the closest friend I got is a woman from Singapore who works as a college professor and she even asked me to stay at her place while I was doing business over there.
The easiest way I found to make friends fast is to add people from here, but of course, you are adding people from here.
I posted my tag on /soc/ and I met some of the most moronic homies ever. When I posted on this board I met one guy who I talked to for a week and then he had a meltdown over banter.
i built one to play games but instead i just use it to shitpost and watch 720p anime
>meet some people way back in 2014 playing tf2, still friends with them
>somehow got a semi-sane friend group from one dude adding me on Ganker
it is what it is. I actually had this thought recently, that it's way harder to make friends nowadays, especially if you're a bit on the older side. Most people already have their established friend groups and don't want to bother adding more.
Also it's hard to get people to talk when they're in a discord call or something similar.
Sorry to tell you anon but unless you got into those games years ago there really isn't any way to make friends online these days. You pretty much had to be there at the right time. Nowadays, everyone is already in friend groups with their private discords and what have you. Unless a new game comes out that is really niche (i'm talking sub 1000 players) you will not make friends in 2012+11
this, unfortunately for op
A lot of players don't communicate often in games because of the possibility of getting banned. Now you won't get banned unless you say something like Black person, but it discouraged people from communication nonetheless.
Community servers not being "popular" anymore is also partially to blame, not to mention the MMO genre getting socially gutted with the groupfinder (there are other aspects to it, but I don't want to get into the details).
Joining existing community servers is also a huge gamble, but atleast it's worth a try if someone has an ample amount of free time.
Go to /vg/ and scout for online games. Genshin, Fortnite, FNF are all super popular. Adults play these games too, but I don't see why it matters anyway
/vg/ is where you go if you want to hate a game and its community
The best way for an adult to make friends is unironically to join the army
You're going to suffer and hate it but so is everyone else, so you'll make some friends
Then you'll VR in a few months and never talk to them again, content with being alone
Nice try recruiter, but nobody wants to be a loser in a war again
ARMA 3
>Can't play with mic because all my life had little privacy, even now that I have it
>Usually type in chat but most of the games I like don't have it
>The few people who add me do not talk to me, nor do I see them again in the games we met
>The few people who add me do not talk to me, nor do I see them again in the games we met
Thats the norm in a lot of cases
>Can't play with mic because all my life had little privacy, even now that I have it
are you me
use push to talk
>Can't play with mic because all my life had little privacy, even now that I have it
Aw man. Same here. I’ve never mustered up the courage to voice chat with strangers before.
>in my teens
>typical milf body anime girl is the hottest
>in my twenties
>back to desiring young looking anime energetic anime girls that remind me of youth
>in my thirties
>desiring a hard working committed OL who needs someone to talk to after a long day at work
life is weird
Really fricking need the source.
it's a picture of me :3
You’re a Japanese woman with a cute ass?
I forgot saucenao exists.
>Pivix original
Fricking horseshit.
I'm unironically considering making a Reddit account just to try to find new friends that share my interests. That is how desperate I am.
dont
the type of friend you get depends on the type of game you play
>vrchat, most mmos and "social games"
you will end up befriending insufferable homosexuals for the most part, who will hound you constantly for attention
>eve online
you will befriend boomers and some sociopaths, eve is a very friendly game, contrary to popular belief, most likely game where you can meet someone "important" (celebrities, politicians, etc) due to there being only one server, and the game being the way it is
>fps games
your best chance at befriending someone normal, however most players are in gated communities with long-established friends, you need to have a personality and something approaching charisma (which im guessing you dont have) to stand a chance at being "let in"
if you're good at it you can make shit loads of friends playing warzone
im not a shill BUT battlebit its pretty decent for finding le funny people
Warframe is where i got a friend group that i was in for like 3 years and got a co-op buddy from it for 5 years that i still play with and talk to every day
>what are some good video games for meeting and befriending strangers?
>play fighting game
>get decent at it
>go to local FG spots
>chat to the dudes there
>profit???
sorry im not interested in befriending wannabe street thugs
FGC Blacks are based
lmao the black people who go to locals are the ones who carry around their yu gi oh binder and wear shounen t-shirts
do fighting game people have any interests besides fighting games though
i want to make friends that like other game genres and stuff too but it seems like fgc people talk exclusively about fgc shit
Of course, yeah. I love fighting games but can't say I'm very concerned with what the FGC is chirping about on Reddit or Twitter on any given day, and I play a lot of singleplayer games. Not everyone who loves fighting games is a 2016 and on e-sports hypebeast,
Yes. Most of them (even the will known top ones like Daigo who sometimes streams Fire Emblem from time to time) are into non-fgs too since just grinding all the time would get mind numbing and dull most people's brains.
Why are her panties clean? They should be filled with piss and shit stains!
Héroes of the storm
I'm being serious
I still play vidya now and then with my school buds and I'm touching 30
I'd rather be touching Kaguya!
You can't buy a personality, idiot.
Are you a girl or a boy? Serious question.
I'm lonely too. Been trying to look for a job so I can finally move out and get some autonomy in my life and try to get my needs met but suddenly my parents have a fight and now my mom wants to move in with me whenever I get a job. At this rate I'll never escape her and her two annoying dogs.
Video games.
Love your mom. One day, she won't be around.
You're right. She's been there for me so I should be there for her too.
This is what I want to do.
classic normalhomosexuals
>what, you mean you have a bad relationship with your family? that's not real bro
just set some boundaries with your mother and appreciate her while she's around
>This
Set boundries. I failed to do that and my brother left rotten dishes in the sink for a month. Good thing he doesn't touch my vidya.
Also, what ever you do, DO NOT FRICK YOUR MOM! It will feel great, but you need to find a real woman your age.
>It will feel great
Are you saying this from personal experience?
choke slam your mom why screaming rules of nature and make sure she knows you're the alpha with a bugatti.
Stay with your mother. Trust me. You don't realize how much you are going to lose if you start living alone. All my friends who did it regretted it. You cannot accumulate money meaningfully. You're stuck in a small apartment either alone or with a roommate and all your money just goes to surviving. Love your mother. Get over the petty differences. She won't always be there. Try to befriend her. Mothers are precious.
>You cannot accumulate money meaningfully
I lived alone for 4 years with no family. I regret those years despite earning a lot during that period. I don't find any meaning in being alone, simply making money and living a life without any objective. Atleast living with family means you have to take care of them and have atleast some meaningful presence (from their eyes) in this planet.
I hate my mom and would be happier being completely alone, but I have no job so I will continue living in this hell.
>All my friends who did it regretted it.
I didnt. I love my mom but I love personal privacy even more
Don't you have your own room?
I did but I still lived in a building with 2 other people who could have something to say at a moments notice. I prefer this more
You're afraid of people talking to you?
not afraid, I just dont like it when Im in the middle of something and I get interrupted which happened quite often. I still call my mom and visit her weekly though, now I just have a lot more space and time for myself
It makes me so sad when people are so quick to want to leave their parents. Imagine raising someone for decades just for them to leave you now that you are older and now as capable of comfortably living alone. If your parents are splitting, your mother needs you now more than ever. Be there for her.
People need space to grow
I want to leave my parents too because I want my own space
I can't raise a kid or two in my own tiny ass room
maybe they should think about that themselves before acting
I want to call bullshit on things not getting better when you move out of your mom's, but I left home about five years ago now to join the military and I really just miss my mom. Even though I get like 30 days of leave a year, I only really get to see her once a year due to deployments and the cost of flying home. I tried to make friends with normies at work, but honestly unless there's someone else dumber at work I'm always the moronic guy at work, and not only does that get tiring when I do not fricking care about my actual job but nobody really makes an effort to hang out with me either. I have a few online friends I made over the years from drawing but I feel like any day now those guys are just going to start dropping off like flies because real life got in the way. A lot of them are already too busy for me.
The only person in this world that really loves me is my mom.
>The only person in this world that really loves me is my mom.
This very much. Mom, dad and my brother are the only people who actually love me. I can't think of living in a world devoid of them, it wouldn't have any meaning to me.
Is this a good idea?
>get good at 3DCG and start making nsfw animations for my niche fetish
>make discord server and shill it on my posts, so anyone who joins will at least have something in common
>maybe make money too if I get good enough
>Loner
Check
>Posts anime shit
Check
>Social anxiety while speaking to a bunch of literal monkeys and women who fake their personalities online
Check
You new here?
You are on fricking Ganker you moron
Fighting games, retro games and ERP
tag: dollie.dollie
In all seriousness though, just hop on discord with that shitty attitude and you'll be posting futas with dozens of like-minded anons.
I always see people complain about no friends on here, at the very least do none of you gays have cousins at similar ages?
I can only count three cousins who are my age or younger
everyone else is either the two cousins I have that are 2-3 years older than me respectively, and everyone else is 10+ years older than me
I have nobody. No friends, neighbors, coworkers, or relatives.
You have freedom my friend, cherish it.
Doesn't mean anything when you're a prisoner of your mind and body.
what kind of games do you like, OP?
I streamed myself playing il-2 sturmovich hardcore for a while on twitch and nobody ever turned up
Honestly don't care, I will play anything as long as it gets me talking to someone.
Try streaming a game that's not so niche and you might get some traction in your chat. Cool game though.
Try streaming something OP. Maybe folks in the thread will stop by and say hello.
Not competitive games, that's for sure. MMOs are probably the best, I still have friends I met in 2008 on Mabinogi.
>moved to the middle of nowhere
>very few opportunities to meet people
>unable to find anyone online that lives nearby
>game events and such arent held here unless I drive an hour away
Please tell me that you can at least go outside and shoot shit right?
I once made an online friend from Australia while playing realm of the mad god. We even started a guild. I was addicted to that game so much that I used to spend 14 hours in it everyday. One day I stopped playing it since I realized it was ruining my life. I had completely forgot about my friend at that time and I have never made any online friend since. I should have asked his steam.
it does have a lot of younger morons but I get a decent number of requests in CSGO because I'm not an butthole. Also found the group I've played with for 8ish years from a reddit post asking for 18+ people around my country who arne't looking to tryhard
it is harder now since everyone is on private discords that hate new people and if they don't there's probably lots of annoying people there
Arma 3.
Unironically it is the best multiplayer experience you can get.
Broma and ECD are the Ganker communities.
have a nice day
Online vidya is fricking dead. If you arent being blasted with ads to buy battlepasses and shit, you're probably banned for offending some moron or picked up a game too late and it's infested with ADHD zoomers that literally only play said game
>playing triple-A trash
that's your problem
Sounds like you're not trying hard enough to make friends. There are bazillion MMOs, even low population ones with active communities that are willing to let you into their friend circles if you put in enough effort to find them.
>demoralization gays itt
To make friends and have people value you, you must provide value to others. You are capable of learning some sort of skill that does that at any age. It's really that shrimple
I look exactly like this except my breasts are much larger, my butt and hips are much wider and I weigh about 100 more pounds.
same
i am almost transitioned btw
You're disgusting and biologically male.
all my friends from growing up and school are into drugsdeadprison. 34 now and know nobody and just lost my job. just about ready to commit sudoku tbh
New job time. Sucks but the alternative is being homeless/dying before you see some really whacky shit happen in the next few years, and not necessarily restricted to video games.
well that would be great, applied to 100 jobs and not a single answer back.
ive worked for some of the largest scientific companies in the world and cant even get a call back. will def be homeless soon because theres no way to pay my bills now
didnt even lose my job from something I done, they were relocating and I couldnt join them that far away
It's time flip burgers or sweep floors my guy.
Omit your qualifications.
Begin downsizing.
There's levels of survival you can sink to.
If you have parents you can go live with them till you get a job.
both dead, dont have anyone, I was happy just working earning good money now thats all been taken away
Ngl that kinda sucks anon. I would head straight to my parents or my brothers place if I got fired. You could try couch surfing if you had friends.
If I was you, I would just live in my car and use the restrooms at McDonald's and WiFi at the library, till I get a job.
>34 years old
>no savings at all
how does this happen?
living in london, rent prices each month are 2k for 1 bedroom nothing
SMELLY DUMB
NEET FUN
god she's perfect
>tfw so atomized i have no real desire to make friends or hang out with anyone
Has anyone else reached the apathy point? I feel like a zombie. No social life, no real purpose, just to my work and then come home, take care of aging mom, take care of house chores, vidya for a few hours, then repeat.
I’m not sad, but I’m not happy. I just exist in my own little bubble, with my same routine everyday.
If you consider it a problem and want to change, simply pick up a hobby that might require learning from others. That's the fast track method to finding new people to talk with.
>Almost all of my IRL friends I've met first online, at conventions, or through friends of friends
>Make efforts to see them in person at least once a month
>Autism bux makes travel easy
Normalgays hate me. Other NEETs envy me. It's a good life.
I don't know anon. 90% people who play online have issues like some are extremely competitive, trying to dominate people online to mask their real life insecurities or desperate homosexuals who crave attention all the time. You'll make lasting friends only if you make them casually, if you however try actively to make friends it will lead to you befriending bad people.
>haven't made a single new friend since I dropped out of college
>turned 25 today
>don't even have the courage to talk with a mic online
>the loneliness is really starting to get to me
life sucks