Are online gaming friends real or is it a meme?

Friendship in general is a meme. Humans like to believe that there's friendship and they like each other, but at the end of the day, it's always just a cope. People use each other for their own game. Some do it more openly than others. Some dress it up and pretend it's 'friendship', but then ask for small things, favors, someone to listen to them, etc. You want things and use the other person to get them. The only difference is that some people don't mind admitting it, while others will pretend there's something deeper binding them together.

>hate gaming online with voice chat and shit, lost it's charm after years of XBL on the 360
>frequently take rig to friend's houses (or they bring theirs) and we play online but in the same room
>fucking covid hits and i work in a high exposure setting
>nobody wants to hang out with me (and anyone else in similar work, they still see other people regularly though)
>get convinced just to play online for the time being
>"okay here's the discord"
>yeah no let's just use a private steam call
>do this for a couple weeks
>"okay we're playing with these two guys i know so could you just use the discord web app"
>okay if i don't have to download anything, fine
>webapp has no push to talk
>fucking
>download the real app
>slowly learn that my friend is way more chummy with people he's never met in person, AND talks to them ALL THE FUCKING TIME
>don't want to be a menstruating bitch about it so i just ignore it
>get the idea to pop in and say hi while they're all playing WoW (ugh)
>the tone is totally different, it's like listening to chatbots talking to each other
>any spark of conversation from anyone that isn't directly WoW related just dies immediately
>realize the reason they're so chummy is a mutual autism over this decades old MMO
>dunno what to think anymore
>lead up to shadowlands and i haven't talked to them in months because it's work, WoW, sleep for them.
bideo games

IRL "friends" you found in school or shit are nothing but forced bonds, since you had to deal with those faggots for most of your underageb& life without the option of fucking off Online friends on the other hand are dudes you encountered during your free time, whilst playing games and having fun. You play with those cunts, because you have fun with them.

This

The ones that don't delete you after a long time and actually don't mind tell you their life stories or listen to yours, I'd say a winrar is you.
It gets tiring sometimes from IRL interaction (at least for me) when you just want to sit for a hour or two at home in peace and fuck about screaming your heart out with homies you've met a long ass time ago.

Do remember that people change and nothing is eternal, if one goes away be it for family, college or just stops playing games, it's all good, just enjoy your life more.

Are you only talking to them when you're playing vidya? Do you like finding out about how their life is going outside of if they got the new raid loot drops?
It takes about 50 hours of positive contact with someone to consider them a casual friend, 90 for a real friend and 200 for a close friend.
This is also why it's a lot harder to make friends as you get older since you don't have as much time.

To me they are more real than real friends in a way. Like I don't chat with real life friends 24/7. I do with a certain clingy online friend I made in a game though. I don't even know why but I can talk to that person about anything even though I usually don't open up to anyone.

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>webapp has no push to talk
If you have a new(ish) nvidia card just use RTX voice as a passthrough between discord and your speakers. You can nullifiy all of their background noise on your end.

There is, real love

my problem was echo, without push to talk, i was transmitting their voices back to them. had nothing to do with background noise. i have the actual app so i'm all trannied up already, anyways

God you must be such an annoying faggot, I bet your online "Friends" fucking hate you and your daily spam
>weeb avatar
Of-fucking-course

Can be if you want, but I play games at complete random so I don't even know when I'll be online in each game again at any given time.

i met my oldest friend playing tf2 11 years ago
we still talk and play games together all the time

real love doesn't exist. I've had my heart crushed by enough men and women I've had my dick inside of to tell you that for a fact.

>degenerate bisexual laying with men as with women
you're denied love by god, best start your penance now and work towards it, maybe you'll be granted love before you die

So just like IRL friendships then? idiot

Not a farmer.

>muh infinite being that represents all values and non values within totality which means objectively god is male, female, both, neither, gay, straight, bi, and just about everything in between.
>somehow thinks it can judge me for acting a certain way that is an extension of itself

Yeah no, that's stupid as fuck. And don't try to argue with me either, If god isn't those things then it isn't infinite and thus not actually god.

I have one
We play quite a bit of games together and even paired our accounts on psn to game share

I'd say real, but then again I know my "online friends" personally.

They can be real. I met one of my best friends on TF2, although I admit it's not easy to turn a game comradery into actual friendship.

i don't listen to loveless golems

>I bet your online "Friends" fucking hate you
I talked about a singular online friend. And this online friend is like my shadow, my partner in crime everywhere I play something online. People usually can't bear with us because we clinge so much together.They think it's very cringy and give us a lot of hate but I don't care as long as we have each other.

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Your entire species needs to be euthanized.

coping this hard yikes. Mental gymnastics at it's finest

>not arranging meet ups with your online friends in London for a weekend bender

I met a friend group who have their own discord server and now i regularly play with them. They also added all of their own online friends so now its sort of a community of red pillers and monkey posters. We all know each other's personal lives and just talk about random stuff.

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I met up with all my gaymer friends in Japan and we all got shitfaced every night.

Friends are meme in general, online friends even more so.

That's not a cope, that's a fact you fucking cum-stain. I'm not debating you over this. God is the highest order of all totality and conception. If it is not infinite then I can conceive of higher orders of complexity than it. If I can conceive of something more complex and thus more powerful than it, then the thing you try to claim is the will of god isn't actually god at all, but just some really warped human egregore. You cannot conceive of something higher than actual god. The very fact that I can see flaws in the original claims as to try to derive intent or nature out of the divine shows me that whatever you worship is 100% NOT god.

>buy new game
>play it for a while, its neat
>see friends bought it on steam a bit after me
>see theyre playing together
>they dont invite me even once
>get mad and block their messages on steam
I don't know why it made me so offended but it did. It really fucking upset me. It's pathetic as shit but it's the reality of the situation.

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yeah they are real, I met a friend here about 12 years ago who I talked to every single day, funny as fuck lad and we both spoke openly about everything, he ended up killing himself and i miss him every day

so you're one of those guys who thinks Humans are star dust or muh monkey ancestors?

It's a meme. Your discord "friends" aren't really your friend, you're just two guys with similar hobbies. It's incomparable to friends you make on a sports team or in the military

It upset you because it made you realize you're a piece of shit and they don't consider you their friends.
Make changes in your life, or don't, I don't give a shit.

Nice assumption. That's such a massive over simplication to origin of man that I'm not even going to give you another (you). You couldn't comprehend infinity with a wet fart, let alone god's metaphysical finger.