Thread 717873310

Do you still play games with your in-real-life friends? I never had any friends.

>>717873310 (OP)
Maybe once a year and it'll be some retro PS2 era stuff.

I guess I never really had friends. Just drinking buddies. We'd hang out and chat and have a good time but all of us were getting to the point that the drinking was becoming a problem. Took me a bit, but I quit the sauce. Once that happened then we all just stopped hanging out.

How do people even make friends IRL?

>>717873310 (OP)
I'm in my early 40s and host a weekly dinner and movie night with the guys I grew up with every single Saturday night. It used to be a board/card game meetup but we started watching Neil Breen movies and decided a potluck + funny bad movie was more fun. We also have a pub trivia team that meets once or twice a week, we actually are going to the championship for the first time later this month. Really the only time we play video games together is our annual winter cabin trip where ~8 of us rent a cabin in the mountains for a weekend of games. I feel pretty blessed to have friends this good for this long, especially since half of them are married with kids and still manage to regularly attend this stuff.

>>717873731
How are you still in contact with the people you knew as a kid?

>>717873541
Dunno really i just post anonymously on a pre historic image board

>>717873826
By going out of my way to keep the friendship going, I always tried to be the guy behind the scenes arranging the events and inviting people to hang out. Friendships take work but I've literally been hanging out with some of them for over 30 years so there's a lot of good will in the bank too. I think most people want a social group but don't realize that someone has to be the one to make things happen.

>>717873310 (OP)
i just did last night

>>717873731
damn boomer got connections fr

>>717874080
With my mom? She seemed to be really happy from what I’ve heard.

>>717873471
You didn't have any interests or anything in common while doing drunk bants? I no joke have a friend that is still hanging there after 15+ because of wrestling and gangster movies,

My friendships are dropping like flies lately

>>717874030
I lost contact with everyone I knew in elementary school by the time I was in high school, and within a year afterwards, I had lost contact with everyone I knew in high school.

>>717873310 (OP)
Video games, no. I do play board games though.
I feel old.

>>717874343
If you had any close buddies in high school maybe reach out and shoot one of them a message, see how they're doing. People love that kind of thing.

>>717874480
That was over a decade ago, and I don't have any of their contact information anymore.

>>717873310 (OP)
Yup. Have been for 20+ years now.

>>717873310 (OP)
my irl collegues only play fifa

>>717873310 (OP)
>Having irl friends ever
couldn't be me

I don't even play video games anymore

Wait so the people who spend all day calling each other faggots don't have friends in real life? No way...
Did you all ever think that maybe you get what you deserve for being evil unlovable freaks?

I made friends with two mexican dudes at work my own age and Im pretty sure one of them posts here after I revealed my powerlevel on accident. I think Im gonna friend them on steam so we can play some fps together or something

>>717873310 (OP)
We need more board-tan art

>>717873310 (OP)
SOVL

>>717874860
I'm a evil lovable freak actually seen all my friends are on my pc

>>717873310 (OP)
I haven't played with people I know irl since the early 2010s. All they wanna do is play games like Fortnite and Marvel Rivals, it's cancerous. The 00s were so much better when people were happy with variety.

I messaged the only people I know who live like 5 minutes away from me that I got a switch 2 and to hit me up if they wanted me to come over and bring it with me to play something
they never responded

once again the internet and my stuffed animals are my only real friends

>>717874232
I guess not. If it didn't involve getting smashed no one was interested.

>>717873310 (OP)
I did, it got annoying because the nigger wanted me to play with him every hour of the damn day he wasn't at work and would spam my phone for hours if I told him I didn't want to play, so I spent like 6 hours a day for a year playing Fortnite with him before getting tired of his bullshit and telling him to fuck off. Now I don't have close irl friends but it's better to being tortured like that.

>>717873826
I'm 33 so not quite as ancient as gramps there, but my best friends in the world are still the guys I went to early primary school with in the late 90s. I was the best man at one of their weddings last year

Yup, driving down to see them in a couple weeks, too. Close friends that stretch back over twenty years, good times. Make sure to keep in touch with the people who are important to you, faggots

>people seriously have the same friends their whole life

must be nice. i moved like 5 times as a kid. taught me to never get close to anyone, very nice.

>>717873310 (OP)
Yes. A guy who was a friend of friends during college and I have been drinking and gaming once a week for about 6 years now (we're 35) and he's pretty much my best friend now. We live far apart but hang out more than I do with my other college friends who ended up moving to the same city as me. Feel lucky to have him.

>>717873310 (OP)
I wonder if board-tans are still popular enough to be remembered

>message someone about a movie coming out
>oh yeah I'm probably going to see it with (group of friends you don't know)
how are you supposed to respond to this

>>717874264
I've lost most of the people I used to know due to life. People just get so busy and connections essentially just die naturally due to lack of keeping the connection alive. Other than ending on bad terms so we're not talking anymore even.

>>717874802
Why are you on this board then? Just to chase the glory days of playing games?

>>717875482
This.

>>717875638
Say you wanted to check it out and ask if there's a slot open. Worst thing they do is say no or you go and don't click with the group and then you don't have to try again. Not much to lose.

>>717875170
Who is that semen demon?

>>717873310 (OP)
My irl friend just got engaged so its over.
Thankfully I started streaming months ago in preparation and now I also have online stranger friends

>>717875854
well I already responded and didn't say that and it was a day ago now so I don't know what to do
I hate being autistic so much

>>717875973
I'd say it's worth following up. Take a risk

>>717875506
Sex with /toy/ and especially /an/. Nerdy redheads are my kryptonite. Boner-inducing minxes they are.

>>717875716
Nostalgia is one hell of a drug.

>>717875170
Sure, but you did talk about something while smashed right? Politics, music, sports, recent news, Monica shat herself while carrying a vase? Something to carry a convo while sipping?

>>717873310 (OP)
I played puzzle fighter, bbcs2, wizardry lyllgamyn saga, and some psp monhun with my friends today

>>717875973
Hey dude my plans fell through, mind if I roll with you guys to [movie]?

i lost all of my irl friends during covid
just didnt mesh too well online compared to irl

>>717877186
Did they move away or what?

>>717876891
but I can't drive...

>>717877221
If they say yes, the way that's phrased it perfect for following up with "might need a ride if that's cool". Otherwise take a bus? I dunno your options or proximity to your friends house/the theater

>>717873310 (OP)
friends?

>>717877221
Go get a license dude, it's super easy and useful and driving is fun. I got mine on my 16th birthday, couldn't wait to get behind the wheel

>>717873310 (OP)
The
>I'm not a nerd I'm 100% otaku
shirt goes kind of hard.

>>717877592
i have severe anxiety, being in control of a car freaks me out because i trust no other human being on earth

>>717873310 (OP)
Yeah usually a couple of times a week.

>>717877221
Get your license dude, take it from someone who put it off until he was in his late 20s. It improves your life immeasurably and I was kicking myself for not getting it earlier.

>>717877653
If I may ask, did you experience some sort of major trauma that gave you this condition? Are you working with a professional to get better?

>>717876479
how about your neighbor board? they come as a pair

>>717874480
Works for a week at most before the conversation dies down. I wish I wasn't so socially hopeless...

>>717877741
my parents hit and yelled at me a lot as a child
I went to therapy recently but all it did was make me hate them more (I still live with them)
I have a subconscious defensive reflex whenever I see movement out of the corner of my eye because I think I'm about to get hit
heading footsteps coming down the hall makes my heartrate spike
I can't even sneeze or play video games in my room because my mom is across the hall and yells at me for being too loud so I spend every moment of my life constantly worried about making noise
I'll be listening to things with my headphones and then take them off constantly and listen to the noise I'm making to make sure it isn't too audible

>>717877218
yup
normally we'd visit eachother still but
>le quarantine

>>717873310 (OP)
No, we all got jobs and/or moved away and/or had kids. i only did the first one but that's better than none of them i guess

and making new friends is difficult because again, jobs and moving and kids make scheduling hangout times tough.

>>717878013
Holy shit dude. Well, clearly you've got some issues to work out. The good news is that exposure therapy works pretty well, taking baby steps towards confronting what we're afraid of until it loses power over us. Stick with the therapy if you found someone you like, working through that anger is good, far better than burying it and letting it fester. Talk with your therapist about helping you make a plan to get you on your own two feet- a job, moving out, driving, the whole deal. You can save yourself by developing inner strength. You will look back and be proud of how far you moved forward, by how much strength was in you all along.

Not irl no, making friends online also sucks because the friendly and outgoing people who clearly enjoy being with you are always Americans or are from somewhere that speak Spanish, so I always get close to someone only to realize we have at least 6 hour difference between us, I wish europeans were friendly like that

>>717874030
see, i tried to do that - go out of my way to keep friendships, host group outings, be a shoulder to cry on, all that good stuff - but they were annoyed with me and when i needed my friends the most they all regrouped and became better friends without me.

>>717873310 (OP)
No, nor am I even in communication with any of the real-life friends I had growing up. Sure, I have what some would call friends, but they're mostly co-workers of my wife so we're more like acquaintances at best; the people who I felt like I could be the most of myself around I haven't spoken to in almost a decade.

>>717873310 (OP)
I lost all my friends during covid and then I graduated and I've just been alone ever since. I don't know how to make new friends at this point

>>717875506
Who is that fucking string bean DYEL pretending to be /fit/?

>>717873310 (OP)
we all drifted apart after high school, now i only play with online friends who live in different countries

>>717873541
You just impose yourself in somebody's life and hope they don't shove you back out of it.

Haven't had IRL friends in years. Did meet someone on /soc/ that I've been playing Pokémon with and we meet next week so a bit of a reversal if all goes well.

I will pin this one

Are people here actually pathetic friendless losers and not just pretending to be?

Haven't been on a date in two years lads

Haven't had sex in nearly four :(

I have some friends. But I don't talk to them too much. They invite me to do stuff with them, or just chat on discord. Literally the only server I belong to. But I usually can't because there's always something that's stopping me from doing it, most of the times bad timing. Or maybe bad luck. And when that's not the case, when I could perfectly say yes, I can't because of self sabotage. There's something extremely wrong with me, i don't know how to change it, and I should be more grateful because finding new friends is difficult. It's strange that they don't forget about me, and I don't feel like it's because they feel sorry for me because many times they aren't forced to consider me in something and yet they do it anyway. I could lose them, I don't want that

>>717878985
I'm about 32 and have never held a girl's hands.

>>717878013
>I went to therapy recently but all it did was make me hate them more (I still live with them)
Your best bet is to get out, especially if you want to have the space to break out of those nervous reflexes.

>>717873310 (OP)
KILL ALL SHARTY UESLESS NIGGERS

KILL ALL ZOOMTARDS

KILL ALL UNFUNNY GROTESQUE MUTTS

>>717879085
You're saying that just because of /co/ and /tv/?

>>717877806
2U

>>717873310 (OP)
yeah, it's fun
did the jellyfish sovereign thing in nightreign

>>717879052
my dad is literally in the hospital getting treated for cancer (again)
he can't get groceries or go to the laundromat without me

>>717878985
My dude I went from high school sex-haver to being in a LTR all through college to breaking up and then not having sex for a decade, don't follow in my footsteps, work HARD to put yourself out there while you're relatively young

>>717878273
I literally was told I needed to find someone outside of my network because they weren't specialized enough to help me
which means I'm never wasting my time in therapy again

Uhh, (You) don't get to bring friends.

>>717878881
i fucking wish dude

>>717873310 (OP)
Outside of fgc and smash locals I never really played people in person and I haven't gone to any since moving to a small town in the middle of nowhere.

Sure.
Monhun games with my highschool friends and Battlefield with the guys from university. Me and the uni guys used to play more stuff but ever since most of them got too busy, it's all I got to play with

>>717873310 (OP)
not anymore
all they ever play is whatever fotm for a week and league

>>717877653
I'm in a similar situation. My uncle got ran over by a semi truck when I was in high school and I've had a phobia of driving ever since.