You really can't anymore

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TheMends@reddit

Crouch repeatedly in front of the guy and if he crouches back we're friends

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HakosbaelZhusband@reddit

In early overwatch I made a friend who was around for a year because we crouch spammed at each other in the pregame lobby and got him in the next game on the opposite team. Was a cool dude.

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gazauj@reddit

And if they die, crouch up and down over their head as a gesture of solidarity and mourning.

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Trigger_Fox@reddit

I love how both these things are universal language.

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I seem to have the opposite curse. I make casual friends with someone in a game. They eventually bring one of their friends around, and somehow, like clockwork, me and that friend gravitate towards each other and become extremely close, and the original person fades into obscurity for the both of us.

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Random_Rainwing@reddit

Find somebody yapping the same way as you in chat.
Send friend request.
If they accept, play together sometime.
Profit.

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MeBustYourKneecaps@reddit

By having friends irl?

Or having a personality outside of complaining about minorities and women?

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MothWaifu1711@reddit

“Im frend”

gif

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Davigotero@reddit

I once did warcrimes with a guy while playing medic on barotrauma and we are now best buds

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InsertRequiredName@reddit

barotrauma mentioned ❗️

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Dont_Touch_My_Nachos@reddit

Whatthefuckisworkplacesafety!?!?!!!!!!!

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LasyKuuga@reddit

Fun fact also works irl

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TheSgLeader@reddit

I tried it and the government just took my medical license instead. Do not recommend

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Violent_Paprika@reddit

When the patient woke up, his skeleton was missing, and the doctor was never heard from again!

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kulingames@reddit

just run away with your patient’s skeleton

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anyadpicsajat@reddit

Play Deep Rock Galactic
Spam V
Frends.

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leoh480@reddit

"you really can't anymore" join ANY discord 😭

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TheDetailsMatterNow@reddit

Just add them and engage with them.

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JustaBearEnthusiast@reddit

en-gay-ge 🤔

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adyeetyuh@reddit

They find me boring and the unfriend me

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TheDetailsMatterNow@reddit

Then they weren't going to be good friends to begin with.

Not every person is the same.

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liluzibrap@reddit

You still can, dude. People just aren't as social as they used to be and games themselves also aren't as social as they used to be. They've been streamlined into just playing the "game" while not worrying about user experience.

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tehjarvis@reddit

WoW chat used to be hilarious non-stop...

And now it's just "looking for raid" over and over. Sad.

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Therealmicahbell@reddit

On classic it’s more like

[MOON] WTS STOCKS BOOST 5G PST [MOON]

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ducky21@reddit

Most people who just wanted to have a chatroom realized you don't need to spend $15/month to sit in Trade all day and chat with other hopeless losers, you can just get on IRC/Discord for free.

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therapistmurderteam@reddit

Anyone that says anything fun is just banned. Once that blizzard exec got called out for raping a subordinate, that caused her to commit suicide, they went mental. Huge crackdown on all their games, censoring everything and banning unnecessarily. It was all a show to say look how reformed we are. It never recovered from that. We lost a lot of good men to curse words and dirty jokes. Eat shit blizzard

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gillababe@reddit

Played eso on console for the last ten years and social scene has been a riot.

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ConCadMH@reddit

I think a big thing (part of people being less social) is that back in the day people would meet each other and play together just to hang out or try connecting with a stranger. Nowadays whenever strangers get together in a game it's more or less a transactional all business relationship. talk only out of necessity, and once the activity you are doing together is done, everyone will immediately leave until the next meeting or if it's a one time thing or the last time meeting you will just never see or speak to each other again.

I notice it a lot playing MMO's and raiding. People can spend hours upon hours, multiple days, and multiple weeks, playing together and not ever interacting outside of raid and when the goal is accomplished even after spending potentially 100 or more hours with 1 group of people and and never even considering getting to know them more. 90% of people will simply just vanish after doing 1 group together. and it becomes a cycle of filtering in and out of groups and nobody ever sticking together long term because people just don't want to put themselves out there to potentially make a long term friend.

It's not impossible but it's definitely digging for needles in a haystack to form a long term social connection through games these days.

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HazelCheese@reddit

It's because of matchmaking. You just get shuffled off into another lobby immediately.

Even in games where you don't, people end up with that mentality because it's what they experience most of the time. A lot of people just do irl friends only now.

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DangyDanger@reddit

You made me remember good times.

A year or so ago, I wanted to play TMNF. Got the game and people on the first server I joined invited me to their Discord.

We're still friends, they're cool, even though some mild clan drama that I didn't even know happened made a couple people leave.

I have nothing against them, I liked challenging one of them on becoming the first place on the leaderboard from the wrong end, because we both sucked on tech. Well, I sucked at everything, but that's besides the point.

Half a year ago I got into Arma 3 KoTH. Found a couple chill guys that we used to snipe with, but they don't have time to play anymore. Sucks I wasn't really helpful to them because my favorite activity was flying people out to the battlefield.

6 years ago (holy shit, really??), I was playing EVE Online. I was a brand new player and got roped into a brand new corporation. What followed was one of the best experiences I've had in anything, because it was so cozy and we had no issues covering each other's butts.

Didn't last long, though. Unfortunately for us, the guy who initially invited me, the CEO, left to take care of his family and gave power to somebody related to industry iirc, which we didn't mind, but we were sad to let him go. Then sadly, within a month two of our people die.

After that, I didn't see a lot of reasons to play, but before I quit, we did get into defending a large region of space and I had participated in an 800-player battle.

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not_nsfw_throwaway@reddit

You'll learn to be comfortable by yourself when you become an adult... Hopefully

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throwaway6444377_@reddit

call them the n word and hope they laugh

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bikingbyfrank@reddit

Ts not funny

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blueguy211@reddit

found the gen-Zer

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bobux-man@reddit

(male) Zoomers are actually taking a turn for the right. Millennials remain progressive.

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TasserOneOne@reddit

What are you talking about? Gen Z and Millennials were the ones who were saying it 90% of the time.

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blueguy211@reddit

its the new gen-Zers and gen-alpha who get triggered.

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atomic_bison_3162@reddit

Nothing wrong with using an abbreviation. And he used it right too. He meant "this shit" and that's what it's stands for. If he had said "this" then I would've gotten mad too cuz that's not how it works.

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coxr780@reddit

I don’t think that lines up with reality

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Fickle_Sherbert1453@reddit

"Ts"

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TasserOneOne@reddit

Fair enough

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-TheWarrior74-@reddit

Stfu, he's gen alpha at best

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throwaway6444377_@reddit

ok but like

it is

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bikingbyfrank@reddit

Yeah, even I can admit that, just these Redditors got an idea like creeps. Most of them can’t admit that shit just isnt funny

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throwaway6444377_@reddit

ok but like

it is

(sometimes)

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bikingbyfrank@reddit

Plus there’s like 10 million different ways to be funny

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RedRoses711@reddit

Comment this on your main account coward

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throwaway6444377_@reddit

this is my main acc :333333333

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LasyKuuga@reddit

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scoots-mcgoot@reddit

Good 👍

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constantstateofmind@reddit

🤓

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scoots-mcgoot@reddit

thanks

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IMN0VIRGIN@reddit

They obviously didn't laugh hard enough, try again, it'll work next time for sure!

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No-Play2726@reddit

Neighbour?

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Niimura@reddit

You dont anymore

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John_Marston_Forever@reddit

opnly

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seventhdayofdoom@reddit

I usually play games with niche communities and it's actually kinda easy. Like Fistful of Frags, for example.

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HuckleberryRight4650@reddit

I made a couple of friends online because I carried them, so they added me to play with me more.

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void_17@reddit

Play TF2 and press killbind in front of the dude.

It's THAT easy

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Water_dawg1989@reddit

I'm frend :(

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berkakar@reddit

why aren't they in a private server anyway?

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TheZipperDragon@reddit

At this point...LFGs. occasionally, you can meet some cool people in solo queues, but that's very hit/miss.

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orangesheepdog@reddit

thousands of public lobbies in HD2

enters exactly one, host removes OP as politely as they possibly could

conclusion: it's impossible to make friends

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KJBenson@reddit

Also how incels work.

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-DubiousCreature-@reddit

Ironically for this post I'm pretty sure the guy who got removed received shitloads of friend requests after this incident.

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Douglas_DC-3@reddit

What if someone is just stupid has no iq to have fun conversations nothing to say add or just too stupid to play any game?i

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AqeZin@reddit

Talk in chat, it's really that easy.

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Vex_Appeal@reddit

"I'm friend "

My heart 💔

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Brilliant-Network-28@reddit

im frend :(

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Hiphopapocalyptic@reddit

dontmake this more difficult :(

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Blumpkin4Brady@reddit

Turn on your mic and don’t say anything hateful

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-DubiousCreature-@reddit

Okay, I get the first part. It's that last bit I'm struggling with.

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Blumpkin4Brady@reddit

You and everyone else going through puberty. Just remember; the internet remembers, sending out your dik pics is CP, wrap it up, and you aren’t that good at driving yet.

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iSeize@reddit

Take initiative, be friendly to everyone, be chill in chat

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lumpyferret@reddit

Some lobbies ppl are talkative and have fun and then send a friend request after.

If you really want to make friends engage with others eventually you will find ppl receptive

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