When was the last time you talked to your Steam friends?

Real friends? A couple days ago.
Others? A couple months ago.

I don't add anyone on Steam. If I get a friend request I just block them even if they were cool. It isn't worththe headache of getting attached to people who will leave you or become parasocially attached to you. I almost lost an irl friend because some faggot he played League with tried to murder suicide him because he didn't return his homo feelings.

>>715328692 (OP)
About a few days ago. I've been reconnecting with some old DoDS clanmates. Been getting in various games with them like the good old times.

>>715328692 (OP)
WHEN YOU CAN'T EVEN SAY

>>715328692 (OP)
i cannot be stopped

I talk to people all day at my job. When I am home playing vidya I don't want to talk to anyone.

>>715330131
I just like to have cool dudes in my feed showing me new video games

Like a half hour ago? But he's an irl friend.

>>715328692 (OP)
a few days ago to bug them to play vidya, but they never want to play vidya with me.

>>715328692 (OP)
I only have irl friends

>>715328692 (OP)
just few hours back
the people i do talk on steem do know that im the invisible cunt so they msg me whenever and i respond when i can.

>>715330024
ummm based
also what game is the badge from?

>>715328692 (OP)
the only person I have added on Steam is my little brother
we texted a week ago about the new Black Clover anime

>>715330496
五月茉莉

how do you make IRL friends after school?

>>715330578
honestly hobbies
ive made few friends after uni and they are
>randos from friend threads on /v/ that i started talking about vidiya
>few people irl due to both being car guys.
just went up and started talking bout cars, bam ended up being friends.

>>715328692 (OP)
All of my Steam friends are people I know personally. And I hang out with them at least once every few months. Except one guy who I only hang out with once every year or two.

>>715328692 (OP)
Yesterday

Is it not scary or insane to anyone else that zoomers and gen alpha think online life is real life? Everything about their lives revolves around the internet, it is as if they have no soul and are mentally ill.

This is not only limited to any 1 country, I think every from the west, the east, even the most hidden away african and indian zoomer. The internet is their God, their everything. They sincerely are the worst generation that will doom the entire planet. They are the first generation of humans who aren't human.

I ghosted all my Internet friends after repeatedly embarrassing myself by saying I'm going to make a game and failing to make any kind of notable progress.

>>715330994
Many such cases. All you had to do was take baby steps in making flash tier clones of classic games and not fall for the VN trap.

>>715331116
>VN trap
Never fell for it.
What is making 100+ shit flash game clones gonna do?

>>715331413
>What is making 100+ shit flash game clones gonna do?
Progressively make you better

>>715331413
Give you experience?

>>715331472
>>715331497
In making really basic games. The experience is only useful up to a point, making 5 Pongs isn't going to prepare you for an FPS.

>>715331904
Modding DOOM or cloning Golden Eye will. Set your goals appropriately.

>>715328692 (OP)
All my old friends from 15 plus years ago don't play games anymore. One guy works for google, makes six figures and spends more time playing golf.
Another guy is a nurse, married a nepobaby 4/10 bitch spends every weekend at the casino.
My old best friend joined the military 10 years ago, served for 8, came back jacked and very very homosexual. Married another jacked guy and lives some bumfuck no where in Canada.
The only guy that is left active on steam developed TDS, worships Hasan, and schizo talks about how Israel need to exterminated.

>>715332289
>worships Hasan
worst outcome from all those you listed

>>715332145
Modding DOOM, not really. Most of the framework and basics are there for you already. The groundwork is the hard part.

>>715328692 (OP)
I stopped having real friends. Will I regret this choice? Yeah probably. Do I enjoy it very much? Oh yes. I guess at least I can say I did for a time. It was a fun time. It also sucked a lot.

Most of my friends on steam aren't people I actually know or particularly like. Some of the ones I am cool with are no longer active. Seriously, I wonder if some of them are okay.

>>715331904
You're not supposed to create the same game over and over again, anon. You're supposed to create one for each genre, and progressively make more and more complex ones.
You mainly gain valuable experience when you challenge yourself.

>>715332373
>The groundwork is the hard part.
People rarely do any groundwork at all anymore. If you're using a game engine a lot of work is already done for you. Which is probably for the better.

>>715333047
Well yeah obviously, but I was exaggerating to make a point. If we're talking about the realm of classic Flash games then the complexity reaches a hard cap pretty quick. It's still a large gap to cross over to a "real" game. Granted, some people get lucky and find success with stuff like Balatro and Number Factory.
>>715333162
>an engine does a lot of the work
An engine doesn't provide an NPC system, weapon system, saving/loading, etc. like modding an existing game does.

>>715334029
>complexity reaches a hard cap pretty quick
You do realize there were MMORPGs made in Flash?
https://www.aq.com/

>>715328692 (OP)
I never go invisible but I use "offline" if I am playing singleplayer video games.

>>715328692 (OP)
last night when we got together to play tabletop simulator

>>715328692 (OP)
I don't have steam friends.

>>715334289
You're talking about a pretty obvious outlier. Also please realize that it was only the client. They didn't have the servers running on ActionScript or anything.

>>715328692 (OP)
I dunno, like 15 years ago? I make tons of online friends in MMOs and discord for fighting games np whenever I play them but on steam idk what I'd even have friends for other than CS which I stopped playing.

>>715334537
Post profile.

>>715334572
For what purpose?

>>715334650
To satiate my curiosity.

>>715334345
same

>>715334425
>pretty obvious outlier
Ah yes, I forgot it's literally impossible for anyone else to make an MMO in flash. Can't be done at all.
>please realize that it was only the client.
No shit.

>>715334650
so anon can monitor your steam profile

>>715334650
So he can scan your profile with steamhistory.net and stalk you.

>>715334671
Hmm no, last time I added someone from 4chan it wound up being a crossdresser that stalked and harassed me for like 6 months.

>>715334697
I never said it's impossible. "MMO made in Flash" is not the the average Flash game. Most "classic" Flash games were arcade style replayable (but short) experiences.

>>715334831
I wasn't planning on adding anyone.
I just like to observe.

>>715328692 (OP)
I just deleted everyone a couple of years ago. I hadn't spoken to any of them in like 5 years. Some were online randos and some were old schoolmates.

>>715335176
But you do have discord friends, or other friends, yes?

>bought fren & his kid some gamer shit in japan
>get home and realize it'd be very rude to give him stuff and have nothing for his wife
>no idea what to get her
>its been 3 months and the stuff is just collecting dust in the corner of my room
>i havent spoken to either of these people in 3 years
im too retarded to have friends

>>715334963
What do you think AQ is but daisy-chained together short experiences built up over time? Back to the original reply anons need to rid of thinking they have to make a magnum opus on the first go around and just make shit if game dev is an aspiration.

>>715335674
wtf.

I don't have any friends. So like 15 years ago?

>>715334963
What's your point? You said "complexity reaches a hard cap pretty quick" when it's demonstrably false with the example of AQW or even a 3D MMORPG like Sherwood Dungeon. "the realm of classic Flash games" includes AQW or even the single player versions of it (Adventure Quest, Dragon Fable) considering these were made 20 years ago.
There were a fuckton of live service and multiplayer Flash games, which is probably the peak of game complexity when it comes to indie dev. Yes, an MMORPG is probably something you wouldn't want to make in Flash, but an RPG or a simple multiplayer game is still complex enough.
So, you can make a "complex" and "real" game in Flash if you want to. There's literally nothing preventing you from doing so, aside from the fact that it's probably a better idea to move to a modern game engine/programming language.

>>715335458
>discord
Lmao, no.
>other friends
My friendship with my childhood friend fizzled out, so no. Life threw a bullshit bomb and I'm still dealing with the aftermath, I just didn't have the energy to maintain the relationship properly.

>>715335674
haha I like you

>>715328692 (OP)
Most of my steam friends are from dota and I stopped playing that a few years ago

>>715336973
A few years
how did I forget to type that

>>715336504
Because strictly within those MMOs the Flash client part were still relatively simple, and the complexity was for the connective tissue if everything else.

>invisible
fake mentally ill
offline or bust

>>715334831
why didn't you fuck him?

What are Steam friends? The only person on my friends list is my gf.

Had an online friend ten years ago and got too attached to him. Had an online friend three years ago and got too attached to him. Had an online friend two years ago and got too attached to him. Had an online friend eight months ago and got too attached to him. All these friendships filled me with heartache and stressed the absolute shit out of me and gave me back nothing but pure disappointment. I’m done getting attached to people and expecting things from them. Everyone I’ve made friends with has disappointed me in some way or another. I’ve given them everything and they return jack shit. From now on if someone reaches out to me I’m just gonna be that apathetic friend that doesn’t give a shit about them because I know they don’t give a shit about me either. If you wanna be my friend and do things together then sure, but if you’re just gonna waste my time and emotional energy then I’m not gonna beg or cry for you either. You’ll just be yet another name I crossed out

I met this dude playing tf2, we stopped playing years ago but we still talk on almost weekly basis because we got busy with life and other things, we're planning to meet each others sometime in the future with the whole online friend group

I deleted my friends after highschool and have had an empty friends list since. Best thing I've ever done

>>715344119
this except it was the worst thing ive ever done

>>715328692 (OP)
>implying

>>715344119
This except it wasn't that bad because none of us were really that close in the first place.

I stopped talking to people on steam 7 years ago. I don't regret it and I wish I did so earlier. I also never adopted discord which probably helps.

I have a lot more time now that I can use on more important things.

Honestly just set yourself on invisible, delete discord and other social media. Restrict 4chan to only use on your smartphone so you use it on the rapper exclusively.

Other tips are use ublock origin and sponsorblock to minimize time wasters online. Use video speed controller and watch all videos online at 2 - 4x speed. Life is way more efficient if you do these things. You won't miss internet "friends" in fact I think they are a negative influence.

>>715344384
>try listening to a full mix on youtube without ublock origin
>constant midrolls fucking with the overall flow of the music
Adblockers should be mandatory just for this shit alone. Nobody wants to hear about whatever garbage you are trying to hock off tonight with your blocked nose accents. Throw yourself in front of a freight train for pushing this half baked trash.