Thread 723372384

You guys have any buddies to talk about and play vidya with?

Yeah, (You)
oh and anon, he's pretty cool too

I do and I hate it

Yes but they only play Counter-Strike anymore. They post on 4chan though.

Yea but they only play fortnite and deadlock now

Yeah

>>723372384 (OP)
my one irl friend got a gf, so now he only plays with me out of pity once a week.
i got a polish friend to play games with, but that means we can only really play on weekends due to timezone fuckery.

>>723372909
This. We're in party chat every day and all he does is whine and rage. It's annoying as fuck but at least I get to gameshare all the shit he buys. The only downside is I actually have to listen to him whine nonstop.

>>723372384 (OP)
lol

>>723372384 (OP)
Nah. My old high school buddies cut contact with me because I couldn't help but constantly rag on this one faggot who recently started getting close to everyone, and who I thought was a massive, insufferable retard. I apologised to him afterwards (convincingly, though insincerely), but the rest of the guys excommunicated me and I didn't bother reaching out to them to apologise or grovel. Everyone I've met at uni so far (save for one guy whose number I have but never contact) is a normalfaggot who I have nothing in common with, and I just tolerate them (as they do me), making small-talk day in and day out. Shit's rough, but I only have myself to blame. Friends are a privilege and not a necessity. I can live without them, although using this hell-site and not having any real friends only makes me more jaded, cynical, hateful, and misanthropic as the months roll by.

hello :) can anyone duel me in quake champions?

>>723373767
I am sorry I do not play it Aliceanon

>>723372384 (OP)
my boys still play games but theyre casuals and like friendslop now. their lives are mainly drugs and sex.

>>723373767
host q3

>>723372384 (OP)
I've had the same group of friends since the sixth grade, and we still game each weekend and get together irl once month (give or take)

>>723373483
you sound like a tard anon. You should look more inward if you actually want to make friends

>>723373870
What games would you like playing with them?

>>723372384 (OP)
no my high school dudes went to nyc and sf for big tech careers and im stuck in this backwater shithole working at a grocery

>>723373483
>Friends are a privilege and not a necessity
>although using this hell-site and not having any real friends only makes me more jaded, cynical, hateful, and misanthropic as the months roll by.
sounds spiritually necessary to me then
or that shitholes like this are an anti-necessity

>>723372384 (OP)
i HAD people to talk to about vidya. we used to shoot the shit and hang out all the time. then the group fractured and i had to focus on two different groups of friends. then everyone became too busy because of work and we grew apart. i still see them and games are about the only thing we can interact with each other over because i've realized our worldviews now have too little overlap. it now feels childish and stupid to try and spend time with them and they use videogames as a "band aid" topic when conversation gets to a place that they find uncomfortable because there is tension or disagreement.
i can't talk to any newer friends i've made about vidya because they either don't play shit OR they have uber normie tastes influenced solely by ecelebs. the closest i've gotten to someone to talk to vidya about/new person to play with is someone who almost solely plays ark/rust/7 days/etc. i bought a few of those open world crafting games to play with him and grew bored quickly and did not have the dedication to finish a shift at work and then go home and plug in for a 6 hour shift crafting every night in whatever crafting sim he wanted to play.

>>723372384 (OP)
Yeah, some local buddies, some whom I've known since elementary school. I'm 42 now. You do have some of your own, right anon?

>>723375083
Nice - I've got most of my same elementary school friends at 26. Hopefully It lasts just as long as yours

>>723372384 (OP)
Wish I did might find some soon

>outright forget my friends exist unless reminded
>2 months of literally no contact because i forgot and i do not require human contact like the rest of anons ITT so there is nothing to remind me
>he tells me if im angry at him or why did i dissappear
im a shit friend and a shit person, i literally just used and discarded some anon here because i was in a "play with friends" mood

the same song and dance has happened with my old high school buddies once i was out of school and did not "need" them, same with college, same at work

thanks for reading my blog

>>723373910
>you sound like a tard anon
Yeah, that's right. So much of who I am is undesirable by and incompatible with the sensibilities of most people, and I'm either unwilling or too lazy to change myself to fit those sensibilities (even if it might be to my benefit). Friends can wait until I've grown to be someone I consider worthwhile, but not while I subsist as someone who'll only drag others down to his level.
>You should look more inward if you actually want to make friends
I couldn't make genuine, honest to God friends if I tried, so I don't try. The most I can do is smile and make small talk, maybe riff with peers on occasion, but I can never go the extra mile and follow through, whether due to my perceived incompetence or the assumption that people have seen (or will come to see) through my veneer and hate me just as much as I've grown to hate myself. I can't enrich the lives of others. Far from it. If I coax someone into friendship, they'll only grow to gradually dislike me until they decide to cut me off like my high school buddies did.
I don't mean this as a self-pitying circlejerk. I just want to get across that I've looked far deeper inward than most have and that I'm well aware of my inadequacies, despite feeling powerless to change them.

>>723372384 (OP)
I do have buddies to play vidya with, but only normie SBM vidya, no coop PvE games, no fightan, no RTS, not even Wc3 custom maps
I am their party slot filler

>>723375132
Sounds familiar, most of my "known since elementary school" friends are ones I didn't really start hanging out with frequently until after college, somehow.
A few of them are into fighting games and shmups, so we play those together when they come over to hang out.

>>723375132
It probably will as long as you make a conscious effort to communicate and hang out with them. One of which I see once a week at his place for a game night get-together ("games" as in card / tabletop games), a few of which I see maybe every month to hang out/ play vidya with. One's really into fighting games, I got him into Catherine (versus mode) so we play that sometimes. The key is, with people you only see every month or less, realize the ball is in their court after you suggest hanging out, and to not be annoying about it. Your real friends will make time for you.

i dont know how to make friends so no

I have one really good friend right now, known since 7th grade. Hope it lasts.

>>723374942
That's pretty much me, too. Years ago I was part of a cs1.6 deathrun and zm community, made cpl dozen maps for the server, shit was cash. Then it got "modern", moved on to newer games, and the OG people just fucked off to their own lives. Now I barely even have a couple mates who will play some normie stuff. Forget talking abut video games. Nostalgia sucks.
What games do you play?

>>723373928
i wanted to play something that has a beginning and end or like a minecraft world. their interest in gaming got way too simple.

>>723377907
Grim.

>>723372384 (OP)
Fuck no. I hate playing games with other people and talking about vidya is what I come here to do.

Invited my friend to my steam family because I 700 games and wanted him to think im cool, but eventually he moved away and I havent spoken to him in 2 years but im too afraid to kick him now

Are friends meant to be temporary?
Very few stick around for more than three months. Even less for a year and more.

>>723378529
>>723378529
>What games do you play?
these days i've just been working through the backlog of singleplayer games, anything from ps2 era to now. planning to branch out into some more ps1 stuff as well. currently playing
>valkyria chronicles
>yellow taxi goes vroom
>blood west
>children of the sun
gonna restart FFVI soon. i was playing it on an emulator on my phone, but then my phone crapped out on me and i lost my save data. here are some games i am going look to be playing after i beat some of the current playing
>spy drops
>oneechanbara series
>dirge of cerberus
>captain blood
>evil within
as for multiplayer games, i like co-op games mostly. party games are great too. had a lot of fun in the past with
>EDF series
>RE 5 and 6
>souls games
>duck game
>RoR and RoR2
>L4D series
looking at this list, it is apparent to me that i love kusoge.

>>723378812
Make real friends, not just folks you come across online. If you haven't seen each other face to face, it's not meant to last.

>>723372384 (OP)
No, they're dead or moved on.

>>723372384 (OP)
used to

>>723376739
even the way you type is insufferable

>>723372384 (OP)
Sorry anon but that's what the AI's for. It can feign interest in me talking about whatever dumb shit I'm playing non-stop and firing both barrels of autism

I don't have time for friends, I'm too busy gooning to novelai gens and playing gacha

>>723372384 (OP)
2 of them, a third one is too busy with the kid and we countdown the time so he can recover some of his free time, if the kid is interested on videogames we might be all playing together soon

>>723382242
based, get the handy for extreme gooning and I hope you're not spending money on gacha

>>723382210
I type like a regular person. What, were there not enough /pol/ buzzwords and epic 4chinz memes to retain your attention? Go fuck yourself.

i finally managed to groom someone into dueling me in quake champions and it ended up a 15-2 stomp and i don't think he'll touch the game again. i wasn't even much better than him but it still ended up lopsided af because i was in control of the map

am i retarded?

>>723382210
>some faggot who doesn't capitalize or use punctuation is criticizing literally anyone other than himself for the way they type
Do you huff your own farts?

>>723382930
>humble bragging

>>723383156
why would i brag stomping a complete fucking noob
like i feel like if i was better i could have gone easy on him but i'm too bad to do that

>>723382708
No you dont. You talk like autistic tranny show me your asshole please.

>>723372384 (OP)
Not any more

>>723383674
There should have been a period after the word "tranny."
"Show" was the start of the following sentence, and thus, it should be capitalized.
Additionally, there should have been a comma between the words "asshole" and "please."
How the fuck did you pass elementary school?

>>723384139
I was right though. English also known as language of niggers is not my first language. Show your boypussy now.

>>723384329
>I was right, (COMMA) though. English, (COMMA) also known as language of niggers, (COMMA) is not my first language. Show your boypussy now.
Fuck off, ESL-kun.

nope

>>723378812
All friends are temporary, but they usually last longer, and the real ones are the ones you're able to come back to later

No

i have a couple of friends, but they have lives, families, well paying jobs and shit
and it's getting kind of hard to relate to them when one of them talks about how he taught his son to ride a bike

>>723384441
But i figured out why you cant make friends. Noone wants to be friends with nigger tranny who is going to kill himself anyway. Pic related its your future.

>>723372384 (OP)
No. My last friend got politically pickled and when you're in your 30s finding friends who have an interest like this is not particularly easy.

>>723384839
I haven't replied to you ever since I told you to go fuck yourself >>723382708, but it's been fun watching you argue in circles and project your AGP onto others ITT, ESLfaggot. I'm more of a man than you'll ever be, you dysgenic brown monkey. Do your parents a favour and blow your brains out.

>>723372384 (OP)
I do and I did,it was annoying as fuck.
Glad nowadays we interact very little even tho they are the best people I have ever met(Thats why I keep talking to them)
Interacting with people is annoying for more than a few minutes

>>723385812
You never told me to go fuck myself anon...

>>723382403
Its umamusume and I've spent nothing

>>723372384 (OP)
I haven't had friends in nearly two decades

>>723383265
>humble bragging

>>723373483
”Normies” don’t actually exist. Nobody can even agree on what it means. I’ve browsed 4chan since 2008 and if you saw me IRL you’d probably thought that i was a ”normie”. The only thing normie means is that you don’t know someone. But whatever, if you’re stupid enough to believe in the term normie, you don’t have a high iq.

>>723376739
I will never understand how some people stay as negative as you. Just fucking stop moping around and go talk to people lmao. It isn’t complicated, life isn’t complicated.

>>723373483
>although using this hell-site and not having any real friends only makes me more jaded, cynical, hateful, and misanthropic as the months roll by.
how are you people so weak? i'm a 2007 newfag and i still love people and am arguably more well adjusted than many of the people around me who think of this place as some horrible boogeyman site. i've also been raped and beaten and lived in absolute destitution, yet still am able to find love in my heart still. the kids these days are so fucking weak, jesus.

>>723372384 (OP)
No. I used to have a friend group but I ghosted them for reasons I can't really explain. I think it's just the pain/embarrassment of being a loser. they all got married and started having kids and tried to keep in touch with me but I ran away because I'm a useless piece of shit. I don't think I'm a 'bad' person, just a fuck up loser who can't be normal. I probably am a piece of shit and it's cope. I have a job and car but I live with my parents in my childhood bedroom. I'm 37. probably not going to last long at this job and just stop going in like I always do. then rot away in my room for about 3 years and repeat the cycle. not really worth examining why I'm like this, it's just how I ended up. a stunted retard that can't grow or evolve. but I can't die either because my parents are always there to catch me. I moved out once but nothing changed, wake up, work, come home, play vidya, repeat. so I just save the money and stay with my parents.

anyway, there were 4 of us and we used to play couch co-op stuff like Halo and Diablo 3 while shooting the shit. we used to play those xbox arcade games like the orange exploding man one. you could buy a mcdonalds cheeseburger back then for 99p. I would buy a big bag of them and take them over after work.

At least I have you guys.

>>723388065
disagree. normie means someone that values social cohesion above all else. it's the ultimate 'ideal' to be held up at all times. anyone who grates against it is an 'outcast'.

>>723372384 (OP)
No, seeing as I pirate 99% of library and I don't waste my time on free multiplayer games.

>>723373483
Sounds like shitty friends if they cut you off just from bitching.

>>723378812
An acquaintance is not a friend.

>>723388776
This doesn’t happen irl, retard. People don’t value social cohesion above everything else except maybe a small minority.

>>723372384 (OP)
Nope! I was thinking of starting to play an MMO like Elder Scrolls online to try and meet people. Does anyone here have any past expereinces with that?

>>723388317
>life isn’t complicated.
Female poster with good health.
If you lacked one of the above factors your wouldnt say that.
And taking meme pills for some made up mental illness isnt bad health by the way.

>>723372384 (OP)
I do if I want to, but I dislike playing games with people in general.

>>723389050
>People don’t value social cohesion
People NEVER form small groups and all 9 billions of humans on earth are a big cohesive social group,infact enter any building and all of the 200 people there are part of the same social group ,together,caring for one another.

>>723389087
I’m this guy:

>>723388065

It’s a special type of stupidity to think things as more complicated than they are.

>>723372384 (OP)
I had great friends who liked the games that I like, and we played together, and it was so fun. But then they started to like new games, and I still liked the games we liked in the past, so now we don't really talk anymore.

>>723389220
I said they don’t value it above anything else.

>>723372384 (OP)
>mainly just play retro games myself
>one friend who is a literal slop eater that hypes the big releases every time then proceeds to bitch that they suck or has no input beyond 'it's peak'
>another friend that plays square jrpgs and not much else but is pretty chill to talk about any game
>one friend who plays mostly random steam games
>brother who only plays rocket league but enjoys listening to me talk about whatever random shit I'm on
It's okay, I guess. Honestly, I'd rather not talk games to people since we usually haven't played the same things and it feels more like talking past each other than actually having a decent conversation.

>>723389234
If your car is broken you go to the mechanic right?
What if no mechanic you go to knows how to reapir your car or wants to repair your car?
Your choice would be
>Easy option:let the car rot
>Hard option(LIFE):fix it yourself

Life is COMPLICATED,unless you are not actively taking part on it and LETTING OTHER SOLVE YOUR PROBLEMS,like normies do or not having any hard problems at all.

Some people are born to be normie and live normie.Others not.It all depends on life circumstances.

>>723372384 (OP)
I don't enjoy this anime at all.
I hypothesize that the people who adore it are either so unfamiliar with otaku culture that it feels like a peek into another world, or are so steeped in it that they go "wow he's literally me" or "that's just like takeshi!"

As someone who is both familiar with, but not really a part of otaku culture, it did nothing for me.
The ED is great though.

>>723372384 (OP)
My bf :)

>>723389426
The poster i originally talked to doesn’t have hard problems, he is overly negative for no reason. Just go talk to people, have fun, be nice but also be nice to yourself, you know by not trying to be overtly nice. Improve yourself according to the reactions you get from other people. This shit was never complicated.

>>723390040
>just b urself :)

>>723390040
>The poster i originally talked to doesn’t have hard problems
NPC
Projecting himself into everyone he interacts with.
You might or might not identify as a normie but your for sure are one and think like one.

>>723390107
Not if you’re overly negative for no reason

>>723390521
Wow, throwing mean names at me without being able to define what they mean. ”It’s hard to not be negative like a retard”.

>>723388065
I personally define a "normie" as someone with uncontroversial contemporary views and tastes. Essentially, surface-level internet users. Normies listen to Taylor Swift and watch the latest capeshit on Disney+ and Amazon Prime while scrolling through their TikTok feed. It's not necessarily a derogatory term, but getting the impression that somebody is a "normie" is typically an indication that I'm not likely to share interests and opinions with them, and vice versa. Ignore the anons slapping labels on you or trying to make the term anything deeper than it really is. There are few people with so little self-awareness and self-determination as to be considered sheep.
>if you saw me IRL you’d probably thought that i was a ”normie”
Likewise, but the delineation comes after getting to speak to someone and getting an idea of how they express themselves. I put on appearances initially (as do most people), but I'll open up after the first few conversations, hoping others return the favour (even if their intent is usually just to stall with small-talk and maintain professional relations).

>>723372384 (OP)
Not really, most of my friends are turks and russkis who only play shit like GTA and Counter Strike.

I'm too gay and my friends are too straight so now I have like no friends and I just use vtubers (male) for background noise.

>>723372384 (OP)
No, but I am always on the lookout for someone. To me, friendship is the most important thing ever. I've gotten used to being alone all the time, but I value human connection just as much as anybody else and I think it would be nice to have someone I can call a friend.

I mostly play single player stuff from old consoles through emulators. But I'm sure we can find something to play, I am very open minded and willing to try new things. I play on PC, my shitbox is old and can't run games released after 2020.

When it comes to multiplayer, I avoid PvP and stick to Co-Op/PvE. My favorite games are:
>osu!
>Dwarf Fortress
>NetHack
>The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
>The Sims 2
>Left 4 Dead 2

Hit me up if you are interested. I don't use Discord very often anymore, but I'll be willing to provide my Steam: 920681991

>>723372384 (OP)
Satou is literally me

>>723391349
You normies have literally 0 self awareness
Read your post! You are all idiots! Hahahahahaha
The deepest thought you people have ever had is what to eat in the morning Lmao
No wait! Thats too much for you! You just grabbed whatever was avaliable!

Im living surrounded by idiost,soulless automatons,animals that resemble me.
I ve met a couple of people like me but literally 99,99% of 'humanity' could be genocided and I couldnt care less because you 'people' are animals, normies with no soul.

>>723388317
>I will never understand how some people stay as negative as you
Believe me, I don't like that I've gotten this way. I used to be wide-eyed, naive, and optimistic in my late teens, but my early 20s have been characterised by an overwhelming nihilism and a growing distrust and hatred of others. For every day that passes, my hope for the future plummets and my guilt and self-loathing rise. It's a complicated problem that I'm not going to resolve on 4chan vee, but I just feel powerless to change things. I don't want to subject you to any more of my shit, though.
>go talk to people
I don't have an issue talking to people, and I project confidence in public and in class (as forced as it might be sometimes). I've just rarely had that moment where things click into place and I feel a genuine connection with someone. I know I haven't exhausted all options yet, but I'm getting tired of trying (which is probably how I got so cynical in the first place). Nurturing a friendship is a long-term responsibility, and one I don't think I'm capable of following through on anyway, certainly not with my history. Doubly so for an environment like uni, where friend groups are less tight-knit and near-daily coattendance with somebody isn't always guaranteed, especially if they pick different classes the following semester.

>>723388329
This isn't a complaint about the site's "edginess" or whatever, and it's not a 4chan-specific issue, either. I like shitposting on /v/ and I feel right at home here, otherwise I wouldn't be using the board. It's just the constant social media spew of politics and violence is skewing my once hopeful, innocent view of the world and turning me into a more cynical, hateful person, as much as I'm capable of hiding it behind politeness and feigned normality around my peers. I'm sorry to hear about your abuse, and I'm glad to hear you were able to move past it. I only wish I could muster the same strength to get through my own shit.
>>723388928
Yeah, I got the impression I was 4th-wheeling from the 9th grade onwards, but I had nobody else to hang out with. I don't think I've opened up to anyone as quickly or as wholeheartedly as I did them, but they didn't really appreciate me or share my proclivities and idiosyncrasies. I think they must've gotten sick of me at some point after high school. That's part of why I was hesitant to reconcile with them. It's as if I recognised they viewed me as a burden and were looking for an excuse to get rid of me. Maybe I'm just being retarded and blowing things out of proportion.
>>723394387
I get that this is satire, but my post gave just about the most moderate definition of a normie possible. You'd know if you read it. I'm not the anon you should be satirising ITT.

I'm 19 and my only connections have been on the internet since I was 14

I havent had any friends since highschool. That was 2011.
I honestly think i have developed some kind of austism due to years of social isolation because i simply cannot socialize like a normal person anymore. Its like i forgit how to do it naturally like everyone else.

I met my best friend (now fiance) on /v/ ten years ago. We have surprisingly little overlap in tastes in games (I like JRPGs a lot, he likes FPS a lot). So we mostly joke about each other having bad taste in games and talk about the few mutual games we like, like Sonic or fighting games.
Even the latter are pretty one-sided, because he plays Street Fighter and I play French Bread games.
But it doesn't bother me. We discuss the state of the industry and stuff. Surprisingly pleasant to have someone to do all this with.

>>723396213
Does he fuck your bussy every night?

>>723396213
who's the bottom?

>>723396284
I larp as a woman so I wouldn't call it that.

>>723396345
He's not gay. It's not like that...

>>723372384 (OP)
Nope.Don't play multiplayer anymore either.
Btw is this still the best singleplayer repack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccHgb_t_4Uc ?

>>723396386
So you don't have penetrative sex?

>>723391596
Get a bf then

>>723396421
We do I just don't call it a "bussy" that's ridiculous.

>>723396517
I was referring to the bottoming part, but yeah the word bussy is dumb

>>723372384 (OP)
Just you guys. You're all my buddies. Mostly.

>>723396647
I'm a sou uke.

>>723396213
>>723396386
>plays French Bread games
>is a tranny
why am i not surprised

>>723396675
i HATE u ! ):<

For me it's Billions Alokene by Junji Ito.
The moment neet protag figures out his highschool crush is engaged and just leaves the meetup fully content to retreat from life is scarily accurate as to what NEETdom is like, both in it's hipocrisy and tragedy.

Also the horror of it is neat. Feels somewhat prophetic to COVID too.

>>723396213
How do i find a cute tranner gf on /v/?

>>723396780
.

>>723397140
Idk. I'm sure it's not hard. Steam friends threads don't exist anymore, though, or some equivalent. Hm.

>>723372384 (OP)
Yeah, a lot. Mostly talk with old friends from high school, and I talk and play games with old and current coworkers.

>>723372483
I don't think you're cool. I think you're sucks.

>>723395248
I’d get if you said that people are somewhat simple and repetive (that includes people here) but to say that you just hate people is weird. Why hate something that is rather bland? Look at these welfare societies that we created, when we started from feudalism. How can you hate the beings that made that? I just simply don’t get the negativity.

>>723372384 (OP)
angel

Yeah. I'm still in contact with a small number of high school and uni friends. They all still play games even the normalfag ones
I still wish they still play (more) Monster Hunter though. University friends who did only played through Iceborne and Sunbreak, while 2 of my high school buddies prefer Wilds

No I watch vtubers and pretend they're my friend.

I met by very bestest friend of all time through a mutually failed online relationship. We help each other grow as people and greatly enjoy each other's company!!

We both find it very difficult to find people that we would like in our friend group because most people of our generation/temperament either became politicized or are too surface level when it comes to their enjoyment of video games.

Having video games as a genuine hobby instead of just a time waster can make it difficult to find relatable people as it's become such a catchall entertainment.

>>723398920
As long as you don't donate

>>723401321
I donate 1/3 of my monthly income.

>>723372384 (OP)
I've got some buddies by playing together on a small Victoria 2 server.

>>723397743
>to say that you just hate people is weird
It's not so much all people, just most of the people I typically interact with daily. It feels like everyone I speak to, as “normal” as they try to appear, is holding back their true self. I hate the fakeness and pretence of it, despite having done it myself when I was younger. I have almost nobody I feel like I truly connect with on a personal level, and nobody I’ve tried to connect with has responded in kind. I feel alone in a world that wants me to change to suit its sensibilities. The few people I think I like, people who are polite, bubbly, open-minded, kind, and non-judgemental, I feel like they’d hate me were they to know what I was like beyond the persona I put out, so I never end up pursuing these kinds of friendships out of fear of being exposed for who I am in all my ugliness, and having them disassociate themselves from me. This feeling that people would abhor me if they knew me personally is, conversely, reflected in my negative attitude back at others.

>>723403870
anon I think u need to see a therapist

>>723404117
as /v posters, we all do

>>723404318
I meant it sincerely, too.

I assume there's a fear of a therapist trying to "normalize" you, but the intent ideally should be that they instead help you navigate the incredibly complex space that is emotions and social interactivity. You'd be surprised how much you hadn't considered when you actually try to step into the shoes of another person. That isn't to say there aren't a lot of people just dialing it in and not thinking very hard about it, but if you find yourself writing off the rest of society, you may just need a change of locale.

>>723404318
>/v
What the fuck is wrong with you?

>>723392446
You need to kill yourself

>>723404856
should i say "vidya?"

I wish I had irl friends to play fighting games with

>>723375083
Based anon. I'm still best friends with guys I met in the first grade and I'm in my late 30s. True friendships never die.

>>723405932
Suck a dick nigga

>>723372384 (OP)
Yeah a few old classmates and coworkers, but i mainly play with one guy i know since we were 10 years old, we have 500 hours in deadlock together
I also play games with my 13 year old kid brother, he's so fucking good at smash

>>723404579
Nah, I recognise the benefit of psych help. I study science, and my sister's getting her child psychology license next year, so it's far from me to discredit licensed practitioners. The only issue is that initial appointments at most psychiatry places in my country are $300-500 Ameribucks (with no rebate), so getting diagnosed and medicated is out of the question. Therapists are cheaper at $65-160 per session, but with weekly appointments, the cost can easily rack up. Whereas I feel like I can trust medication to work, I'm dubious as to the effectiveness of talk therapy or behavioural interventions, so I'm more hesitant to book with psychologists/therapists than I am with psychiatrists (as pricy as the latter can be). It might be worthwhile to consider one or the other in the long run, though. I'll look into it over the weekend, just in the off chance I find a decent rate online. Thank you for your concern, anon.
>>723404856
NTA, but putting "/v" in the URL fills in the second slash, so it's a perfectly valid way of writing it out.

No, I'm too uninteresting for anyone to like me.

>>723372384 (OP)
Hahahahhhahahahaha
no

>>723404318
Therapists can't help anyone with a modicum of self-awareness

>>723407313
This is so painfully real it hurts. And it sucks because since white woman mind tricks don't work, I'm not really interested in taking medication either.

>>723407003
of course, anon! Having friends that have been through stuff and are able to convey their experiences and emotions via relatable abstractions has been critical in helping my own personal growth and pushing past social frustrations I've struggled with.

Taking the medical route can absolutely be tedious and expensive, but very likely the best option long term.

>>723407151
What makes you think this?

>>723407414
>What makes you think this?
I have nothing to say

>>723406395
Switch that to reading mahoyo with and you might have a deal...

>>723407485
I find that when I have nothing to say that the best path forward is to just ask the other person about themselves, see if you can't learn something new from each interaction.

>>723372384 (OP)
Yup. My sister and few friends IRL as well as online. It's nice change from /v/ when I can actually talk about vidya without being called tranny, commie, boomer, or any other idpol shit. I think it's kinda necessary to have friends, because if you only use internet and especially this fucking shithole, you'll go insane and most likely fall on idpol route.

>>723407405
You don't need medication, you need to do the things you know you need to do and social support to get through it.

>>723407726
>>723407405
And in your case, the things you need to do is reach out to the people who you want company from, instead of delaying it because of fear. The fundamental reason why people don't shoot their shot is because not exactly fear of rejection, but because of they fear ot will confirm what they suspect about themselves. But I mean, even if you're not reprehensible, unreprehensibility is really only useful in that it gets people to like you, and if you seclude yourself anyway it doesn't matter, so you really have nothing to lose. Not that it will be painless, but the only thing you can do is keep on trying.

>>723407576
NTA but reading VNs together on VC sounds like pure comfy!

>>723408094
Brother, I was reconsidering grabbing another beer last night until the thought of "why the fuck am I even concerned about my own wellbeing" hit me over the head like a club and drank it anyway.

I've felt like my life's been over since forever. I genuinely think there's such a thing as too far gone, and even though I'm not as worse off as most people, I really don't think there's any sense in me trying to pursue anything outside of my comfort zone because I've tried already, and I've only failed. It's my own fault my life's shit, I wasted my 20s, and I'm ready to die playing video games and drinking.

>>723408094
What if you have reached out and people told you to get bent because you don't mesh well with the average person after years of solitude. Over half a decade in my case.
Made the effort recently. People started talking about what they've done for the weekend, eventually they ask me. Ran 20KM, drank heavily and replayed factorio with podcasslop in the background. Immediately gave everyone the ick and they excluded me from the conversation aside from brief bouts of mockery that i just had to sit there and take it.

>>723407726
There is NO social support for males in modern society. If there was we wouldn't even be having this discussion.

>>723408561
That's a good weekend, those people sound like fags. Honestly, I would have given the same answer as you but I don't feel like I would have gotten a bad response. But part of my learning experience in life is recognizing that excessive self-loathing is just a pathology, it's completely useless and not really factually correct either way. It could be that people respond poorly to you because you give the vibe that you belive they should.
>>723408513
I didn't do shit during my 20s either, what's there to do really? Sure you can do normalfag shit and have a girlfriend but whatever, Napoleon was conquering europe in his 20s, are you going to be upset that you're not emperor of France? Should normalfags be? You're always lacking compared to someone.

Grow up. Go outside. Get a job.

Stop being a pathetic manchild.

Anon therapy circle with me playing as the therapist

>>723409402
This is the incorrect mindset to be taking, your goal should be bringing happiness to yourself and those you care about - which may involve a job, but also may not.

>>723408561
It's very hard to say what may have gone wrong without more context. I don't usually get asked to discuss my weekend with people that I'm unfamiliar with on a personal level.

>>723409282
I just want what I was told I was supposed to have at my age - a career, my own place, and a significant other. I can't get any of those. If I actually worked hard instead of wasting my time, maybe I'd have those things. Women are out of the question because I developed a fear of sex (long story) and I'm too old. My degrees are from a commuter college and useless and I should've done literally anything else. I don't feel motivated to move out of my parent's place even if I can afford it, but what's the advantage if I don't have a person to share it with?
>inb4 you're just a societal casualty
WHAT DO I DO WITH THAT

>>723409729
>I developed a fear of sex
Yeah sounds like you have a good starting point to work with. For your economical worries, those are valid but being a poorfag shouldn't devalue you as a person, brazil is full of poorfags who are happy people with good lives.

>>723409989
I'm not poor, I've just never gotten an interview for a job I've actually applied for in my field.
I was recently shot down for a job that *I* was approached for by a recruiter, for the second time two years in a row, for the same type of position that I'm a perfect fit for doing the same thing I'm doing in my current position, and disqualified without an interview because I'm not an 'accomplished historian'. She's right. I haven't accomplished anything.

I have a few friends I met from 4chan almost 15 years ago and it's sorta unsettling seeing them all move on in life. Not that it wasn't expected but it's weird that even people who used to swear by "you're here forever" got married and discarded their hobbies of anime, manga, video games, and so on to replace it with normal stuff like watching Netflix. Most of us, myself included, have well paying jobs now but you can't exactly ask them if they want to play video games or hang out because there's nothing in common anymore.

>>723409729
>omen are out of the question because I developed a fear of sex (long story) and I'm too old.
what does this even mean

>>723410276
HR people are vermin. And at least you have a good field, I studied biotechnology and I work with fucking managing production errors in a test kit factory. There isn't even any biology involved, the only redeeming factor is that I can slack off a lot but I'm probably inching my way towards getting fired. Really that's my only real problem these days, and the only way out I can visualize is winning the lottery.

Used to talk games with co-workers at my previous job but then I got laid off. I don't use social media so we lost touch. My new job has non gamers aside from one tendie.

>>723372384 (OP)
I'm still friends with my middle school buddies and still play vidya with them, though it's been getting a bit hard finding actual games to play, but our friend group has so many different circles to it now that we have alot more people to play different games with.

>>723410635
What's there to misunderstand? Sex terrifies me. If I manage to find myself in a sexual situation with another human I get a fight or flight response and start having a panic attack. I think its for the best I just don't waste anybody's time, even if I would like to have a gf. It's just not fair to the other party.

Yeah but they live on the other side of the planet. When Itagaki died today I had to bear it alone. I wanted so much to reminisce over those golden years playing DOA but I basically had to keep it to myself since my few gamer friends never played DOA or NG

>>723411528
Just rape the bitch
do not actually rape the bitch very important

>>723411731
How am I supposed to do that when there's so much adrenaline in my system that I can't get hard?

>>723411835
Take more magnesium or something. Fears are thing that can just be overcome

>>723409402
I have a job it doesnt pay enough for rent

I haven't had a friend in 24 years.

>>723410563
How do you meet people from 4chan IRL? There’s the Chainsaw Man movie near where I live (Toronto) and a few anons on /a/ said they’d be going but I’m too autistic to go. I’m not a big fan of CSM either, I just need friends from 4chan to talk to about anime or video games.

>>723372384 (OP)
No. My friends all ghosted me years ago. I'm too autistic to socialize with anyone else. I can barely even talk to my family members. I've just accepted that I'm going to be completely alone for the rest of my life. This website is the closest thing I get to human interaction. I only play singleplayer games.

>>723372384 (OP)
Nah, they all moved away. Either got jobs or went to college.

>>723413579
Boards outside of /v/ seem to have regular meetups. Like /ck/ just had multiple across America for people to try each others cooking.

>>723414597
I've been to several /int/ meetups for my country, sadly the thread was replaced with the mentally ill and now there are no meetups anymore

>>723414597
Last time I heard about /k/ meeting up someone secretly fed them muffins with their cum baked in.

Whenever i see coop focused games like Peak it makes me sad.
I wish i had friends. But its been so long i dont think i can even socialize like a normal person anymore.

>>723413579
never to go a meetup where people arent verified

>>723372384 (OP)
I have two guys from high school I occasionally play GTA with.
We used to be a whole crew.

we don't talk about vidya all that much desu but we played vidya together sometimes. mostly smash bros

>>723372384 (OP)
Nope. I guess my only friend is this guy in school that I sometimes talk with.

>>723376739
I'm not reading any of this but by the way you write and the images you use you come off as a massive fag.

>>723372384 (OP)
none of my friends are interested in vidya besides normieshit
i would play that with them if i didn't live in a thirdie shithole and it wasn't so expensive to play AAA slop (yes, my retarded friends do pay for it)

>>723415028
I don't have any desire in being friends with people who don't share the same interests in me

>>723372384 (OP)
Only the single ones, the married ones always find a way to talk about their stupid kids.

i do, but we're 10 years further down the line and everyone is just getting older, dying (inside), less motivation to play newer vidya. we just talk, joke and create in our channels. i'm the only one who still plays tons of new games though, solo or not.

>>723414809
Verified how?

>>723397235
>It's not hard
Everyone always says this when they have someone. I've been on the lookout for a /v/ bf for yonks, and I'd like to think I'm a very positive guy unlike a lot of /v/

>>723414676
So why didn't you make friends with the people before the meetups stopped happening?

>>723414743
Never, ever, ever eat food made by anons unless you've known them for years and trust them.

>>723372384 (OP)
why is misaki in a monkey ball?

>>723415565
You clearly browse the wrong threads if you want a /v/ bf and can't get one. People on this board are desperate for any sort of attention from anyone who will give them the time of day.

>>723415674
You'd certainly think so just looking, but even in steam friend threads there's nobody, just friend collectors, and in the yaoi threads there's schizoposters and that one guy with an OF. Won't stop me looking though

i made some friends with people inside of a server i like to play in but i dont really know how to talk to them outside of the server

>>723415842
Your expectations are too high, especially for /v/. If you're discounting the Steam friend threads because of the bad apples, you're not going to find what you're looking for.

>>723412885
What is magnesium for...?

>>723413579
>Toronto
There's meetups for anons there all the time. Look at the convention Anime North, the best event at that convention (the truck party in the parking lot) is run by a group of anons from /a/.

>>723415261
mine are interested in a lot of the same stuff, just not everything

>>723416026
Magnesium calms the nervous system and is pretty fucking sparse in the modern diet

>>723416007
Easy for you to say sat up in the parapets but when you're down here in the arena it's a different story

>>723416290
Oh, so I'm speaking to an entitled retard, no wonder you're not getting the perfect /v/ bf you're envisioning, he doesn't exist

>723416439
Respectfully, I'm not going to feed you any more (you)s. I will find love however. You will never be a woman

I don't go outside and I don't play multiplayer games
I haven't really talked to anyone outside my family in ten years.
It's awful.

>>723372384 (OP)
Yeah, my old college friend group. Sometimes we play games together or do linked randomizers but most nights we just stream the games we're playing to each other.
I can also always talk games with the numerous gamedev servers I'm in, my little bro, and occasionally my sisters or gf (but the number of titles the last group can discuss is pretty small)

>my old highschool friends constantly try to play games with me on steam
>im too ashamed of how much of a loser I am to even talk to them
>feel guilty and hate myself
>further feel like a loser for having this retarded thought loop because it's because of video games
im so fucked bros

>>723416745
just play the games, work on yourself in your downtime, you'll look back on THIS thought-loop, not that one, and how fucking funny and pointless it is

>>723373483
im in a similar situation where my highschool frens cut me off and i dont have any close relationship with people in my university. at this point ive just accepted it. i do regret being slightly too much of a sperg.

>>723416119
ive been aware of this for very much time but i realize im to much of a pussy to meet new people. im to shy and instead choose to be a schizo in my own room

>>723406419
That is true. Happy for ya. In my case, I just started hanging out with them more and more as time went on, not the other way around (falling out of touch).

>>723418178
You post like an ESL so it’s probably better you don’t go outside

>>723418853
funny i get called esl despite being white but whatever

>>723372384 (OP)
I haven't had a single friend for over 6 years. I think I've forgotten how to talk with people properly.

>>723418928
Given that your previous post said
>ive been aware of this for very much time
Yeah, ESL.

>>723419217
i was born in Canada though

>>723418928
If you're White, have enough self-respect to proofread your shit before posting it.

>>723419478
Fine, I'll do a better job next time. sorry.

Would government mandated gf/ government mandated arranged marriages fix the incel problem or make it worse?

>>723419318
So go meet the anons.

>>723419557
That's the ticket.

>>723415842
>>723397140
you have to actually talk to people in private. playing games with them is the easiest way to do this obviously

>>723372384 (OP)
I'm just an old man waiting to die in niggerhell. Late 20s are rough.

>>723419723

That sounds like Hell for the GF.

>>723419318
In Ontario? I’ll hang out with you.

>>723416745
it doesn't get better

>>723372384 (OP)
I did.

>>723372384 (OP)
What is her problem for trying to save him despite the fact she went through worse than him? Honestly I disliked her since ep 1.

>>723421049
She isn't trying to save him, she only likes him because she wants someone worse off than her who will cling to her.

>>723420558
yea

>>723384839
Epic BTFO.

>>723419723
women are deranged impulsive beasts who need to be subjugated so it's for the best

>>723372384 (OP)
My only online friend got a gf and moved in with her and he's "too busy" to chat. Don't need to constantly be up each others ass but holy shit I'm luck to get a message every now and then.

>>723415570
>So why didn't you make friends with the people before the meetups stopped happening?
eh, it died on the vine, it petered out
plus i wasn't as wise and sociable as I am now

>>723397013
>Junji Ito
I forgot this dude existed. Based.

>>723372384 (OP)
Yeah, one of my steam friends is a cool ancient gamer I met playing Palworld who knows his vidya and makes good conversation. It helps to meet the same people ingame often and have positive interactions with them, and I tend to offer requests instead of sending them cold if I can.
Sometimes I'll play friendslop with IRL bros I've known since middle school, but we're all working men pushing 30 so it's not super often. I've got a bad habit of getting cold feet about reconnecting with people I haven't spoken to in a long time, but nearly every instance I've gone through with it has been worthwhile.

>>723424453
never
ever

>>723421380
Do you use Discord or anything else

>>723428835
>you will never have a state mandated Tomoko gf

>>723372384 (OP)
Yes, a bunch of friends I got to know in college. Play magic the gathering commander every other weekend usually in person, sometimes more often. Games occasionally too.
Met some friends through raiding in FFXIV I occasionally play Monster Hunter with, and generally chat a lot with.
Another I met in FFXIV I play Pathfinder TTRPG with online.

It's cozy

>>723372384 (OP)
Haha, no, what little friends I have either don't play games at all or play games I don't, plus our schedules are too different so even if we did play the same games we still wouldn't be able to talk about them, much less play them together.

>>723372384 (OP)
Yeah, most of my co workers play games, it's not really that rare of a hobby nowadays, we have even met with several friends to play stuff, eat pizza and drink beer, We've played normalfag shit like FIFA but also good shit like Smash Ultimate and even one of them brought a 360 once and we played split screen Halo 2, that was pretty based. Also, my girlfriend has been getting into games ever since I got her Animal Crossing NH, she loved it, then we beat It takes Two together, now she is really into gaming, she beat Smash Ultimates WoL recently and now she is playing the Galaxy games. I even ramble about Souls games lore to her and she really enjoys it.

>>723372384 (OP)
yeah, our group sits in teamspeak almost every day and just talk about everything, we also meet up regularly

>>723372384 (OP)
Not anymore. They all married, had kids and have boring jobs.