>that one fren you used to play everything with
What happened and why, anon?

I got a gf and started ignoring him.

We all grew up. Some of us joined the military, some of us wageslaved, some of us went to different universities/colleges. We made new friends there and the rest is history. I sometimes miss the times back then but it’s just another memory

>>715500031
very fake
you should have been his boyfriend instead

shes cute. whats her name op?

>>715499642 (OP)
i fucking hate him he's so boring

>>715500620
Nao from omega strikers, a very popular game with lots of players :)

>>715500837
im glad that game is popular. hopefully it gets a sequel

We liked completely different types of games from one another. In general we were complete opposites. I do feel bad that we broke things off but its been so long

>>715499642 (OP)
He found his autistic obsession and replaced me with people who share it. I will now die alone, as he was my only friend for 20 years and none of the connections I've been able to forge with people since then have compared or satisfied.
This man, and videogames, stole from me my youth and have inflicted upon my heart a wound that will never heal. That's what happened.

>>715499642 (OP)
he made me lose a bunch of money and then he became a furry

Team Fortress introduced matchmaking, and our Arena server just died a very slow and painful death. It was a small community of regulars with a large number of randoms coming and going, and that was awesome. Having new players that we haven't seen before that also were not noobs, while having the notorious players being almost like a captain was incredibly fun. But it all disappeared when randoms could just play quickplay. I miss it so much.

>>715499642 (OP)
He started getting too conceited for no apparent reason, and he's become a "pop culture enthusiast" so he speaks only in the most retarded zoomerisms. It got too exhausting having to deal with that.

>>715502697
>This man, and videogames, stole from me my youth and have inflicted upon my heart a wound that will never heal. That's what happened.
Don't you think you might be exaggerating things a bit anon?

>>715505674
We were inseparable. What we had was a bond closer than those of brothers and lovers, alike, until he evolved as a person and I didn't. I gave to him my time and those parts of me no one had ever seen, and now they are gone with him.

>>715499642 (OP)
Dude started behaving strangely, probably because of the drugs he started taking.

>>715507508
They aren't gone, anon. They're still a part of you. You shared those things only momentarily. You didn't give them away. Don't let the memories drag you into despair.
Everything in this world is finite, that doesn't mean it isn't beautiful while it lasts.

>>715507508
gay

>>715507995
...Thanks, anon.

>>715499642 (OP)
Only plays crap like CS, WoW and extraction shooters now.

He works while I am unemployed with all the time in the world.
But we still play whenever he shoots me a message, and depending on the game, I try not to grind myself to max while he doesn't have the time to play.

We live together, but we play different kind of games. Rarely sometimes tho there's a game that comes out we both like.

>>715499642 (OP)
Got married, had two kids. his kids are old enough now that we now play all the time again, play mario kart with his kids sometimes

>>715510189
No problem, anon. I've been in a similar situation myself.

we stopped playing the same games. he kind of kept up with what all was coming out, but there were times i half-dropped the whole hobby. by the time i had re-engaged, we were on different systems, had nothing in common anymore. we'd say little holiday greetings at each other, but he and i both forgot sometimes, and then some year we mutually stopped. i hope he's doing well.

I cut myself off from him and all of my other close friends I've had since high school and used to play with every day for years. All of my accounts are set to offline and no one has messaged me for the better part of a year at this point.
>but why
Shame from NEETing for too long, going insane and not wanting to talk to anyone, having nothing to say in conversation because I don't do anything, self inflicted isolation from really bad anxiety, many reasons most of them stupid. I only talk to immediate family and anon e-mooses on 4chinz

>>715499642 (OP)
The servers to that one mainstay game that kept us together shut down and we gradually drifted apart after failing to settle on something new.

>>715510690
>having nothing to say in conversation because I don't do anything
Weirdly I have this exact same problem but it's because my interests are too fuckin niche and all I have other than that is work. So I can talk about some fuckin game none of my peers have even heard of, or just work stuff. I cannot give a single shit about F1 racing, which I guess is now popular.

>>715499642 (OP)
Homie lives in another country now for work, occasionally hit him up or he hits me up to shoot the shit but timezones make it hard to play vidya nowadays.

>>715499642 (OP)
he got an asshole friend who always came first, even before himself.
i have nothing to do with either of them now : )

>>715510848
>I cannot give a single shit about F1 racing, which I guess is now popular.
Yeah what the fuck is the deal with this?

Last friend I could watch anime with moved away but we still stream. See him once a year. I always try to show him obscure stuff. Tried to show Gushing over Magical Girls and he said 'youre the only guy i know thats into this crazy shit". I responded "its just otaku things", to which he responded "Im haven't been an otaku for years." It hit me like a ton of bricks. Last friend who the last person I was comfortable with, basically calling me a freak. Felt like i lost my friend. It was my birthday and dude also promised me a bottle and didn't bring it.

Reminder that after school and being an adult it's IMPOSSIBLE to make new friends except for maaaybe at your workplace.

>>715511165
Damn, that hurt to read. Sorry bro.

>>715510517
>live vicariously having the experience of having children through your friends
This is what half of millennials will go through. Cursed with Peter Pan syndrome

Want to make some friends online I can be somewhat close to but I don't like to sit in VC as I have a thicc accent and don't just like sitting in VC as I have to keep full concentration on the call and can't relax.
People that share my interest also always seem to be way too gay, especially people from here.

And I've been playing MMORPG's for over 2 decades and still never managed to make any real close friends there, it really makes me feel autistic.

>>715499642 (OP)
I just realised we didn't have anything in common anymore. He never had a job in the entire 7-ish years we'd known each other. He had no hobbies or interest and his tastes in games gradually shrank to just FFXIV and mobas and I find them to be insanely boring now. If I tried to talk about other games he just didn't seem to care or have anything to say. TV/Movies/Anime? Doesn't watch. Rarely I could get him to watch something with me and it would be fine. But pretty much unless the topic was something about FFXIV, League, memes or jerking off to futa porn he had no interest in anything. It really annoyed the shit out of me and I just moved on and made other friends. I'm sure he's happy since all he did with his time was log into FFXIV and masturbate with other guys pretending to be girls but damn did he really piss me off towards the end with how pathetic he became.

>>715512838
>And I've been playing MMORPG's for over 2 decades and still never managed to make any real close friends there, it really makes me feel autistic.
That's pretty autistic. What interests do you have that are inhabited solely by homos? Don't say ff14...

>>715513439
I don't know, every time I've tried to make friends on /v/ they're always gay.

>>715513496
For me it's
>gay
or
>entire personality is saying nigger
At least in recent times. I think all the fun people left this godforsaken place ages ago. Or maybe I'm just old.

>>715499642 (OP)
he simply drifted away, got more into IRL etc.
fucker ghosted me when I was in his city

>>715513496
This is a huge problem with /v/ and it's been this way for 17+ fucking years now if not longer. Of course it depends largely on the game you try to make 4chan friends with; but MMO's ALWAYS and I mean ALWAYS have the gayest fucking faggots you can find here. Usually sexually frustrated, jobless and completely lacking in any social skills and real world experiences whether they're 20 or 30. Give these retards a bit of attention and they'll fall in "love" (read: lust) with the idea of you if you play a character they find attractive like a female Miqo'te in FFXIV. It's why e-dating and drama is so rampant in places like /xivg/ and it's because they all fall under this umbrella.

Hell it's not just MMO's. Back in the day the old /sft/ had the same shit and it's because they'd fall in love with anime girl avatars and "a-anon......~" posting styles. The precursor to modern day Discord e-dating for the same damn reasons. I'm sure the cripplingly lonely love that shit it's not an answer or solution to your problems and every failed e-relationship with a grown ass man just further fucks their already damaged brains and self-worth.

>>715514259
Yeah I had this happening with people I've tried to play Dota 2 with here...
And I don't have anything much against "flirting" and such when playing an MMORPG, the problem is that everyone turns it way gay and want to start e-dating or whatever. Instead of just treating it as some senseless fun.

>>715514259
I think it must have to do with the fact that if you're playing a social game and feel the need to come to an image board to make friends in that already social space, you probably have ulterior motives. That said, I do miss when /v/ used to get together and play games more often.

>>715499642 (OP)
trooned out and is just a black hole to talk to
everything sucks, their life sucks and there's nothing he can do about it

>>715514679
>And I don't have anything much against "flirting" and such when playing an MMORPG
Flirting with 4chan people (and people in general, honestly) in FFXIV is just a not-so-subtle sign of wanting to do even more. Most people fail to distinguish between a character and the person behind the character and so it melds into one. So when they inevitably goon/erp/e-fuck someone, they think it's "real" and this leads to a strong desire to e-date. It's pathetic but that's always how it goes. I spent far too long in that space to know this dumb shit.
>>715514779
I'm sure there's plenty of other games that /v/ plays together which aren't like this. Just the social anime-girl themed MMO types will always attract the worst of the worst in comparison to say, a male-only milsim or shooter.

>>715515010
I hate how people can't distinguish between the character in-game and player playing it. Wish more people could actually do this.

>>715515124
As a person who RP's a lot and tends to fall into a character when playing stuff like this, I always fall into the same problem of people getting infatuated with the character and thinking I must literally be like that all of the time 24/7 and IRL too. Then again the concept of RPing is lost on most people. Especially with how FFXIV's social scene has effectively turned into Second Life. With all of Second Lifes faults.

>>715515738
Last time I RP'd I did it as a fat ugly bastard so this problem wouldn't happen to me.

it ended up happening to me anyway

>>715499642 (OP)
He got a gf and she hated that we'd say slurs while joking around. She made an ultimatum of her or me, and he chose pussy. I don't really blame him, he married her and has a kid now. It still really hurts though. Sorry for the /r9k/-tier blog post.

>>715515942
Did you get roped into NTRing someone?

>>715516123
I did at some point but that was all fun and games. It was actually some faggot with a bear fetish that became obsessed with the character I was playing and assumed I was also a fat hairy fuck in real life. I had to set them straight on that one.

>>715515738
Kind of crazy how people expect the person behind the catgirl in FFXIV to actually be like a catgirl IRL.

>>715499642 (OP)
who

I have bro that introduced me to a little headcanon he had. I helped with lore building around it. Characters. Places. Stories. Powers and themes. This went on for years, hanging out with him. Talking daily.

He's stopped contributing to it.
Spends more time with others, on other projects. Other hobbies that are completely different.

Still talk to him. But I am lucky to get his attention a couple times per month. Sometimes less. It used to make my weekend just to hang out, and watch movies, and play games.

It hurts alot desu, senpai.

>>715499642 (OP)
He got a girlfriend and decided anime and vidya were cringe.

>>715499642 (OP)
He left the country and didn't want to maintain contact. Weirdly enough most of my friends left to clean toilets while I who always wanted to emigrate stayed pursuing a career in my slavlands.

I got a job, working 12-hour shifts non-stop. They're still unemployed, collecting NEETbux. Moving onto other things, as I work too much.

No matter how fast I run, I can't keep up. And I am always tired.

>>715499642 (OP)
Nothing but we don't have that many games to olay together so we just hang out and watch danish mads mikkelsen movies

>>715520431
in his defense, they are

he is in a mental hospital

>>715499642 (OP)
he fucking died

>>715499642 (OP)
I don't even remember. People just drifted off until nobody was playing anymore.
I hit up my best internet bud a few years back and he was just about to graduate Med school, so good for him.

Do any of you people actually make new friends anymore or have you submitted to entropy?

>>715499642 (OP)
One got a boyfriend, the other got a girlfriend. For a while that was even each other.

>>715499642 (OP)
A fren? Never had any

>>715510690
>going insane and not wanting to talk to anyone, having nothing to say in conversation because I don't do anything, self inflicted isolation from really bad anxiety, many reasons most of them stupid. I only talk to immediate family and anon e-mooses on 4chinz
Just pick up the phone and call someone. Force yourself to do it before you can talk yourself out of it. The words will come. It'll more than likely work out better than you'd think.

I did the exact same thing for 9 months after suddenly breaking things off with my ex and ghosting her. She knew my friends, my house, and my work, so I cut all of that out, too. Offloaded my entire life practically overnight. I didn't have an actual conversation with another human being who wasn't my parents for 9 fucking months. Last night I got an urge to call my ex, got her voicemail, and left a message. She called me back today and we talked for hours. Turns out she hasn't gotten with anyone else the entire time, because she was hoping I'd come back. Similar scenes repeated with two other people I called tonight. Don't think about it, just do it.

Video games.

>>715520913
I actually see older guys just hanging outside by themselves all the time but am not about to befriend them,am 30 and my only friend is 41

>>715499642 (OP)
My friend trooned out and got paranoid there was a MAGA death squad soldier at each corner trying to undo his transition(there are no refunds) and end him. I was tired of being corrected on pronouns and just walking on eggshells in every conversation to not trigger another gender rant.

>>715521774
shocking amount of posts in this thread about best friends trooning out

>>715500837
Is she a cf? Did she betray?

>>715522212
BEST Friend? Almost, he was the one friend available most of the time for some multiplayer games(we played EDF a lot).