I have a sad question Holla Forums

Sounds about right lol

I'm sorry for you loss OP.
Don't let these lonely, bitter faggots gets to you.
It's alright to be sad about losing him.

So, someone you've never personally met an hero'd himself without telling you a single fucking thing or asking for help. Sounds like you didn't know him all that fucking well, which begs the question: was he a bad friend, or were you?

Why don't you join him? It doesn't sound like he cared that much about you to begin with if he blew his brains out without telling you a thing beforehand.

Here's to you

Hahaha nice tune here fella

I don't know. I've never had an online friend.

;_;

lmoa

I've had more candid conversations with people I'll never meet in person who live on the other side of the world than I've ever had with my friends or parents. My feelings on this fact are conflicting.

Meant to quote OP.

I have four online friends I talk to regularly. I've never met any of them, but I still consider them my friends.
It's best not to get too attached to friends, online or in real life. Every real life friend I've ever had has moved away from me, or I've moved away from them. Save yourself the pain and get over it.
If it's any consolation, the best online friends I've ever had have all had good taste in video games (i.e. no skyrim, pubg, call of duty, et al), so if you want friends just to talk to, start here. We all have good taste here.

Been friends with a group of people for a few years now, and just recently we started playing a MMO together.

It's a pretty neat feeling.

Where is OP?

This is my issue, I know a bunch of people online, some of which I can relate to to a certain degree, and I believe they would most definitely make great friends in irl, but how the fuck can one consider them "friends" if it's all online? I just don't get it, and some of them even give me shit for it. On the other hand I find myself giving way too much of a shit about these very same people that I myself brand not real friends. Am I retarded?

Answered my own question, I am retarded.

They probably don't give nearly as much of a crap about you as you do about them, just saying.

I'm a huge nerd for MMOs and I still remember a lot of my old friends from those MMOs when I was a guildfag. I remember playing WoW back during the Burning Crusade doing Onixiya for the first time and having my friend yelling at me for bringing in a Gorilla pet that kept aggroing welps and shit.

When MSN died, so did 90% of my contact with those people and it does make me sad in retrospective. However, I still have a close friend of about 12 years, we met from a webchat we used to use and we're still in contact now, we're both getting jobs by now and probably will be meeting up for the first time in the near future once we've saved up enough.

I'm sorry for your loss OP, friends whether small time or large time, having them gone in such a way fucking hurts. You have every right to be sad my man, even if you spent an hour with this guy, you'll never be able to get that hour again so it's a loss from where I see it.

I hope you feel better

I can't answer you that, most people online rejects me, just like in real life.

Sucks to be you, and yes You are the problem.

Follow his lead.

Hey big of just bc you got trips and know the word faggot doesn't mean you're edgy

I'm well aware of the fact that we have IDs but let me explain this this site is garbage because retards like you think it's edgy to tell someone to kill themselves in a feels thread or post furry porn in a webm thread now fuck off

Ignore the shitters in this thread op, they're all underage and haven't lost a friend or a family member before

Its a pretty shitty time

I can be your friend, OP. I'm not suicidal, all the contrary, i love life and life loves me.
What games do you like? Would you consider living "off the grid" (North Mongolia, Patagonia etc.) in the inevitable fall of civilization?

Read the post faggot he was online and I never knew his name

That's not creepy at all seeing as I'm not the one who posted it

Hahahah then why do you care? Join him

Here raging at children and playing ass effect (not andromeda)

Let me ask you something does anyone who's actually gunna kill themselves ever tell anyone anything?
From my expierencr those telling everyone they are never actually do it but then a week later someone that everyone's loved and was smiling an hour earlier hops in front of a train

So, what games do you like?

Excuse me I forget that I'm retarded

Post of the people I used to play with are dead, died of old age. I feel old now.

Listen to these anons, leave humanity behind

What the fuck did he do?
What the fuck did you do?

All my best friends have been made online. Used to be we only knew a screen name, but I dunno man. You can grow familiar with anyone. That initial anonymity let's you be yourself, and if the people you meet online are cool with who you are, you can become closer bros than anyone in real life that you were essentially forced to hang out with thanks to geography.

There's no "right" to feeling a certain way. If you feel that way then that is the feeling you have.

I can never hold onto "online" friends. I don't want to talk to anyone when I'm not playing a game, and I've never had anyone to play multiple games with, so on the rare occasion that I make a friend they're contained to a single game which I will probably grow tired of sooner or later and thus drop all contact with them as a result.
I'm that guy that you play with and suddenly disappears without notice and never logs on again.
In a way I wonder if I'm missing out, but in the end it's only the result of who I am and that isn't really going to change.

Jesus Christ. That's rough dude.

Probably because you are? What was the JFK presidency like?

I hate online friends because they don't treat me as a friend and just text on a screen

If you feel sad then you have every right to be.
Everything you ever held dear will leave sooner rather than later. Once you truly understand what that means you'll find feeling a set of feelings you were never even aware of.
So chug a beer for the faggot and hope he's in a better place now.

And I'll also feel sad if you don't check em

Do you want them to suck your dick through the screen or something?

The guy spoke fluent nipponese lived on a farm there for 3 months for a program he used to teach and correct me took my side in arguements etc.

Sorry no homo

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RIP piano man. Forever a 5%'er.

Amen

I have clearly mised one thing good

Online friends are superior since you can actually be your real self and open up thanks to the power of anonymity. I've told things to friends online that I would never reveal to IRL friends despite having them around for over a decade.

Speak for yourself

Satan has spoken

They’re not your friends, Dr. Pavel. They never were. You have fallen for one of the most depressing levels of kikery in the modern world, and that is the bastardization of the definition of the word ‘friend’.

I doubt there is a child alive in the Western world today who knows what a friend is. What is a friend? A friend is trustworthy, dependable, honest. A friend is loyal and respects your beliefs. A friend listens, helps, and expects an ear in return. A friend is accountable, honorable, venerable. Friends assist each other in times of hardship–physically, mentally, and emotionally. The concept of friendship has changed dramatically in the last 10 years. Friendship. Changing. This is ludicrous. Friendship has meant the same thing since the dawn of human civilization, but it’s not the same now. The concept of a “friend” now has no meaning whatsoever. A “friend”, in practice, differs in little way from a “stranger”, and in no way whatsoever from an “acquaintance”.
Why is this? The answer is obvious. Social networking. What is a “friend” on a social networking platform?
A friend is a faceless entity. Sure, you can see a picture of the entity, but the picture changes rapidly. The picture does not perpetually reflect the emotions and behaviors of the person it portrays. The picture is brushed, touched up, edited, filtered, or otherwise changed to better reflect the internal perception of the person it portrays, rather than being the clean, open visage of a personal meeting. A friend is an emotionless entity. You communicate with your “friend” through text on a screen. The text cannot convey emotion as well as voice, and without a face with which to place the emotion perceived in the text, an accurate portrayal of the communication cannot be had. Even if the emotion is written out by the person expressing it, their belief in what they are feeling may differ from their actual feeling, and this may be only discoverable through face to face communication. Compounding the problem, the text is often presented with incorrect spelling and using no system of grammar whatsoever. Spelling and grammar are not mere conventions and politeness; they’re representative of one’s ability to effectively impart an idea.
A friend is an intangible entity. You cannot shake their hands, hug them when they cry, hold them back when they want to fight, or offer an arm up when they fall. You cannot see them, hear them, touch them, or smell them. Please don’t taste your friends; that’s degeneracy. You cannot compare their height to yours, their bodies to yours; you can’t weigh their abilities or the actions to match their words out of anything but memory. A friend is someone you may never, EVER meet. A celebrity is not your friend, even if he accepted your “friend request”. A friend is someone with whom you may never speak, or with whom you only speak once. A friend is someone you only saw once. A friend is someone you will never see again. A friend is one of several thousand people who, ostensibly, mean something to you. Except they do not. Because they cannot. Definitionally. The human mind can only make stable social connections to, at most, roughly 150 people. Sound a bit high to me, personally, but that’s what the studies say. What do we see with social networking? Hundreds–thousands–of “friends”. Not only do they have no social presence in your life (due to their intangible, emotionless nature), you could not make that many connections as your brain cannot handle them.

This is, of course, the point.
“But wait,” you say, “these things are not new. Letters have existed for millennia–physical photographs since the 1820s. And circumstances do not always allow friends to remain in proximity for their entire lives, and there may be instances in which a friend is still considered, despite never seeing him again in either of your lives. How does a social networking platform differ from these historic means of communication with friends?” It differs in these ways: speed, permanence, and penetration. Historically, letters took time–days, weeks, or months–to get where they were going. An e-mail or social networking message is, ostensibly, sent within seconds. Letters were once used out of necessity only. Now they’re often the norm, simply because they’re “easier.” Social networks rise and fall in popularity, but the idea behind their means of communication has been shown to the public, and so the idea remains. Once MySpace, now Twitter and Facebook. In the future? Hopefully nothing, but without certainty of the date of the Collapse, we must assume there will be a successor. Social networks claim hundreds, thousands, millions, a billion users. Businesses use them for advertising. Governments for agendas. News agencies for lies. There are things you cannot do on the Internet without an account with a social network. As an aside on this topic, social networks are something of a “mark of the beast” in this regard. “Like us on Facebook” (and this brings into question, too, the redefining of what the word ‘like’ means. Lord save us, for we are now Orwell’s nightmare), “Follow us on Twitter”, etc. Seen in print, audio, and video ads, even outside the Internet. The idea is to make it impossible to get away from the network, even if you don’t use it.
In the past, if you physically left someone forever, your connection waned. Eventually communication became impossible, their presence in your life became too small, and they dropped off your radar. You could not look to them for help, as to explain the events that led up to the help you needed would take too long, and the written word could not convey those events with justice. Now, the connection is designed to never be broken. You can leave a person in your friend list and never speak to them. You cannot delete your social networking account at all. These names and accounts grow and grow into a nameless, shapeless, formless mass. Just a number, ever increasing, and every time the “list of friends” is viewed, that number grinds into the subconscious, “This is the number of friends I have. These people are my friends. Their presence (lack thereof, rather) in my life is what defines friendship.”
For those of us who know why this would be done, purposefully, this revelation comes as no surprise. Unfortunately, the lack of surprise we express at learning a new aspect of the scheme is also a tool in their arsenal. We can become desensitized to the sheer number of subversions and feel overwhelmed, unsurprised, and not called to action against them. Never forget that this is part of the plan. For the rest of those reading, perhaps this will alert you to the wider scheme. If you are unable or unwilling, psychologically, to accept who is doing it, please still accept that it is happening. You can still help correct the degradation and awaken others to it. When it all comes crashing down, those responsible, whomever they may be, will receive their just rewards. All because you saw the truth of the actions and events, even if you did not believe who was perpetuating them.

Does it matter if you know their real name or not? The best of friends may call each other Asshole or Faggot in lieu of their actual names, but they're still friends.

Eventually, you'll get old enough that you'll be alone by force. You won't have the close friends you had when you were young. You'll have a bunch of frenemies at best whom only keep in touch with you because they either seek your validation or want something from you that they think you have. There will be a time when a voice and a name from the digital sea is the only thing that can truly be worth of your empathy, because they don't expect anything from you, and you, it.
I hope you feel better. Maybe you'll have better luck than I did. But in my experience, the older you get, the less people there are that are worth a damn.

Escape from this. Interaction over these skinner boxes only makes your head more and more filled with mental deterioration. Escape from this. Enter into a world of solitude and peace, where you know no rage. Escape from this.

I'd fuck Karen. She seems nice.

You know, when people are talking about this site going to shit. They're talking about you fucking NEETs who are always first to post but the last to say anything of any value.

Social interaction is a cancer upon video games. Multiplayer is decay.

Yes, goy! People are bad! Just lock yourself in your room and buy body pillows and onaholes to fill the hole in your heart!

YOU'RE the one who needs to fuck off back to Gaia forums pronto.

I'd never do that either. I'm the only person I can rely upon, everyone else will fail me.

Yeah, sure. Why not? Emotions are quite subjective, and can be aroused by practically anything. We live in a world where faggots cried when Aerith from FFVII got killed. Do you think anyone has the right to be sad about that bullshit? Most people don't actually give a fuck, but then there's always that one faggot who has a faux tombstone somewhere in his backyard with her name on it that he goes to on a regular basis and pays his respects. Point is, you're allowed to be sad, you faggot. The question is, should you be? Just who was this person to you? Probably not anyone more important than your immediate family members or people with him you make regular contact. If not, and you've grown attached to a person online, then your feelings are justified. If it were me, I'd probably feel a sense of sorrow and surprise, something like, "Holy shit, that sucks, he offed himself, I remember we used to play together. Too bad." After that brief and immediate emotional reaction, I'd just go on with my life. People die every fucking day, it's not pleasant, but it's a reality.

This better be bait. I refuse to believe a real person could be this much of an edgy faggot. Do you have a Tumblr? I bet you have a fucking Tumblr

He became a drug addict that ruined the family, stole years of my life and health and tried to commit suicide multiple times while driving everyone to the brink.
But he was changing at the end. Trying to be the man he used to be in the better years. But that night we had a stupid argument and that's the last time I spoke to him.

I told him I hated him today. I know he can't hear me, but I did it anyway. I told him I hated him and was angry for what he did and that I was sorry for what I said. Then, from my heart, I told him I forgave him, that I love him, and that I miss him. I felt a peace I haven't felt in two years. Now I can proudly say that I love my father - not the addict, but the man who raised me and read comics with me and read anime and played co-op with me. I miss him.

let's hope the next blog is about you.

How is what I said "edgy"? Why would anyone put faith or trust in anyone but themselves?

If someone's emotionally troubled, i'd imagine they'd talk it out SOMEHOW. The only people who off themselves with nary a mention are people who sincerely believe they have nobody they can rely on, either by a lack of reliable people around them or by merit of their own egotism.

Well, now i'm going to have to (2) to call you a cockgobbling shitsupplier. If some faggot wants to let his feelings out on Holla Forums, he can wait for the 4am thread like everyone else; otherwise, he can find another board entirely to let his autistic imitation emotions go for someone he never even shook hands with.

you should be a villain of an anime with that kinda line

Because there are trustworthy people in the world. Some people can't be entrusted with everything but everyone can be trusted to do something right. If you really think no one can be trusted then you're a retarded faggot who needs to take that chip off their shoulder. I'm sure you've got some horrible thing that happened in your life that made you jaded to people, but you gotta let it go already. Because the lifestyle you're describing ends in only one of two ways, insanity or suicide.

You sure showed me.

Self-reliance is edgy now?

Sole self-relliance, especially when proclaimed with lofty dialogue, is edgy

Not at all. Every man should rely upon himself alone and not the charity of others.

End of Evangelion or a thread on Holla Forums? I honestly can't tell anymore. Also, nice shifting of the goalposts. Before you were talking about trusting people and how social interaction is bad, but now you're talking about supporting yourself and not needing the charity of others.

Whoops, forgot to

No goalposts have been shifted. As a healthy man, I need no one but myself to survive, I need no one but myself to keep company, and I need no validation from anyone but myself.

Seems all the same to me.

It's another episode of "Reddit comes to h8chan and declares everything edgy". How exciting.

Sure, buddy, whatever you say.

There's a lot of video game characters who've said the same shit as this user and been called edgy by people on this very board.

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"People on this very board" also use "autism" interchangeably with "awkward". You're not making a very strong case for yourself right now.

This is actually true. Get a gun, start carrying, and fuck the police, they aren't legally obligated to aid you (see Warren v. District of Columbia). With police response times being what they are, you've got to be one stupid motherfucker to not have the means to respond to a threat with immediate and deadly force. The police primarily exist to uphold the state's monopoly on violence, and to keep the tax cattle from getting too uppity about being wallet-raped.

I have only one online friend, and we do everything together from griefing to casual conversation to RL discussion about misc stuff. He's the only real friend I've had in years.

You forgot

Philia, Storge, Eros, Agape
It is impossible for any man to live sane and healthy without bearing and receiving at least one of these.

"I'm the only person I can rely upon/I only need myself" is the mentality of an utterly broken and empty husk of a human being who knows no form of love whatsoever, which I highly doubt is true of you but might be, and if so then you need to discover the truth of genuine love and affection or else you will be either a heaving corpse or a swine of seared conscience very shortly.
You need Jesus. Rom.8:31-39
But to receive love you must make yourself lovable; you can't pretend contentment in this mire if you actually want to know what real contentment is about.

One more scoop.

Very nice digits.

Fucking saved

This is what I'm getting from your quads.

Getting acquaintances is easy, "friends" harder, real friends are near impossible. Soulmates don't exist. Sometimes the only best friend people can find around them are their own self. Most people are out to fuck with you in a bad way.

This is true though, and if you would stop larping and live in the real world, you would know this.

That sums up so much of what I feel. God forbid I try to make contact with anyone just for the sole purpose of establishing a friendship without being ousted as a faggot. I'm all for a bit of self reliance most of the time, its how one gets along without getting their shit wrecked in, but life is soul crushingly dull without some kind of contact.
When I try to meet real people, all they give a fuck about is sports, or what was on TV last night, or who said what on social media. There's no real bond or empathy between people anymore; media and the constant necessity to always be online and connected has not only robbed us of that true connection, but also serves as a poor substitute. Like mentioned, attaining "friends" now is a numbers game rather than an exercise of both interpersonal and personal affection or camaraderie.
You're eventually left with only the poor online substitute, romantic, or sexual love to fill that gap, with most people filling it with social media. Its no wonder our latest generations are so broken.

Only if you live around non-whites which necessitates low-trust societal interactions. Otherwise most people are merely out to act in their own rational self interest, which is obviously putting themselves above you, but not going out of their way to do it in a malicious manner as you're implying.

I've had two friends that I still consistently talk to to this day, after having originally met each other playing starcraft 2 on release. One's a cuban who is probably going to die in a crack-fueled drinking binge with strippers and whores, and the other is a fat nigga who will probably gdie of a heart attack soon. I will live on and carry their legacy. Greatest online friends I have ever had. I even met the negroid when I was in around Harlem (I'm cucknadian).

I'm gonna be playing with a couple of my best friends that I made online tonight, friendo. We've met, gone to conventions, hung out. I even live somewhat close to one of them. Sorry for your loss though man. I hope you make more friends online who decided to stick around longer.

user unless you mined the minerals, made the chips, and assembled the device you are shitposting on right now, you have and are currently relying on thousands of other people to supply you with electricity, clothes, food, the house you live in, the water you drink, the software you use, etc.

I'm more curious as to how people think you can't be friends with people online.
How is this not friendship? Why do i need to meet them in person or have their real name for it to be "true" friendship?

You are one of the saddest people who will ever live and you will never actually know or even comprehend why.

Nice argument

Grow up.

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prove me wrong

interesting stuff

This thread is gay and not video games and I thought it would have been deleted by now.

i only have one friend. online and IRL both i only have one friend. and i'm not saying that as one of those normalfags who has a smartphone with 200 contacts "oh they're not real friends", i mean i literally only speak to one person other than my mother and Holla Forums.

shitty thing is he lives in poland. :( 3000 miles from me.

i love him very much, i would consider suicide if he stopped talking to me. either that or become a monk and give up worldly pleasures or some shit.
i try making other friends but it never works out.
he's depressed and i used to be unsympathetic about it and i'd get mad at him for not talking to me enough and not expressing any feelings and i even abandoned him for a year once. it was the biggest mistake of my life, i apologize to him every day, i need him, i don't know what i was thinking.
now i realize he really does care about me and just has a hard time showing it due to the depression. he told me he loves me too today.
i feel like crying writing about this

get psychiatric help

Get a temp job. Make a few hundred shekels. Buy a plane ticket and go. Tell him beforehand and hope that he doesn't pussy out over the anxiety of meeting you for real.
If things go bad, or if he does pussy out, do not kill yourself. Please, love yourself.

Also, seek therapy.

gay

we're not in a relationship and dont want to be

great advice, der juden. being misprescribed medications is why i'm fucked up in the first place. never suggest psychiatry to people unless they're your enemies or their mental illness is so severe they're a danger to others.

jesus christ and i thought i was a normalfag, this place is awful today

Fine faggot, kill yourself, no one will miss you, not your mother nor your single faggot friend. Eat shit.

i'm not sad i was crying cause i'm happy to have my friend he's a good guy.
"go take permanently mind altering pills straight from jews and get even more fucked up" is not helpful advice retard

telling you to taking pills isn't the only thing therapists do you fuckwit, most recommend that as a last result. But keep on telling me about how you're totally happy having one friend you'd kill yourself over, and how pills made you so irrevocably fucked up that your a basement dwelling fag now.

You said you loved them. If you're unwilling to go this far, by putting your actions in line with your supposed intentions, then why did you decide to post about your surmounting love? You say "We're not in a relationship, and I don't want to be" and yet you celebrate the fact that you both share reciprocal love.
I avoided calling you a faggot or berating you for your seemingly unsurpassed dependence on someone you perceived love for, because I felt you actually were reaching out for something by posting on here. But if you're going to post like a bipolar bitch, I can.

Faggot.

psychiatrists specialize in pills, that's all they do is prescribe pills. maybe you should read about psychology and pills before you recommend them to people and potentially ruin someone's life like mine has been by pills.

i didn't realize that the verb version of love exclusively refers to romance. that's gross. you're right i misused that word and i'm going to tell him not to tell me he loves me anymore

Maybe you're from somewhere else but in America shrinks are basically pill dispensers, especially for children. I don't know how many bullshit diagnoses and fucked-up drugs I had the pleasure of receiving when I was a kid.

If you can find just a basic bitch psychologist though, you might have better luck. They can't prescribe pills and some of them are actually competent.

The best advice I can give you is to stop being such a fucking faggot, then. Seriously, cut that shit out since that baggage obviously isn't getting you anywhere.

That's gay as fuck, and you're both acting like women. Him for being a depressed little bitch, and even worse, you for cutting him off for a year which is 100% feminine behavior and not something that men should ever do.

You don't need kike pills, but a good talk therapist good fucking luck finding one would definitely be able to help talk you through your bitch-issues.

I don't consider them friends. The internet is like an ethereal bar with an endless row of stools. You choose who you sit by and have a laugh. If you don't like your company then find a new seat.

Also a side note, no necessarily to you but to others. NEVER EVER give in to any sort of pressure from people to get you to share any personal information. I know it's obvious but it's worth reminding people anyway. You may have known these guys for years. You may have chatted with them a bunch but ultimately you have no handle on the extent these people are willing to fuck with you. I've seen enough innocent jokes resulting in halfway serious shit. And whenever these jokes are brought up to the people that planned and carried through on them they cry the mating call of the dindu.

Honestly dude, I can't tell if you're just trying to reference something, or if you're just legitimately this far out of it.

No shit 99.9% of the people on the average skin-walkers Facebook friend’s list are random people they don't care about and have never met. It doesn't take a world class intellect to figure out stuff that anyone that any person who's ever played an MMO or even touched a piece of social media with any amount of self awareness could tell you.
I'm pretty sure OP wasn't asking about what the nature of a friend is. Neither of your posts seem to fully grasp what a friend really is.
Yes, friends stick by you and help you. Yes friends console you and listen to your problems. Yes, humans typically make friends with people who they meet in real life. And also, yes motherfucker, someone being labeled your "friend" by a fucking computer system doesn't mean that they are actually your friend. No, Shit, Sherlock.
Funny story friend, most forms of social interactions are virtually fucking meaningless.
"Hello" is a generic declaration that "I have seen you and am acknowledging your existence".
"Thanks" despite the fact that it can be, or can be part of, a genuine expression of gratitude, only means "I am pleased with what has happened as a result of what you have done."
Do you have any idea what the fuck small talk is? It’s nothing. “How about that weather, eh?”, “You see that game last night?” “Boy that guy over there is a huge faggot!” All of these are basically just initiators and may be absolutely inconsequential to both the person who is saying it, and the person it is being said to.

However even from these very basic interactions, or the conversations that bud off of them, social bonds may form, all that it requires is for the humans to have a mutual interest in communication. The bonds may be brief, and the bonds can in fact be shallow, but they have the potential to layer almost indefinitely. This is friendship. This is love. And if formed in the opposing direction, this is hatred.
You don’t need to be physically next to someone for them to make you laugh, but them making you laugh does not mean they are your friend.
You don’t need to be able to hear someone’s voice to have a brief conversation about a mutual interest, but them having this conversation does not mean they are your friend.
You don’t need to communicate through fucking carrier pigeons in order to express a genuine sentiment or empathy, but expressing or receiving these genuine sentiments and empathy, to or from someone, does not make them your friend.
It is the continual formation of these social bonds that makes a friend. A friend is someone who you are attached to, strongly. All relationships, positive or negative, are initially formed from shit and nothingness. Relationships always gain meaning over time, it just matters how much meaning, and over how long of a time. You could literally just message someone daily saying “Yo dude, that guy was such a fucking loser,” every day for the rest of your life, and if you actually manage to have even brief conversations after that, you will either form a lasting friendship, or forge burning enmity.
Method of communication does not change the fact that bonds can be formed. People can communicate through gesture alone, even if it’s not sign language, and they can become friends or enemies through it. Friends online may not have the same exact context or type of interactions as people in real life, but that does not mean they aren’t friends.

user, human beings are human beings, it doesnt matter if you met them online or in person.
This is someone you shared time and happiness with. Obviously this is someone you cared about, and this is someone with real struggles and challenges. Its a friend.
If you felt a connection to this person then dont shit on that by saying "it was online so its not a *real* friend"

This is your own fault for having friends in the first place. If you didn't grow attached you wouldn't care.
Abandon all.

I'll tell you from personal experience that death absolutely is the end of suffering. Coming back from death is its own kind of hell I can't even begin to describe right now.
My friend Dave from grade school shot himself after getting in a fight with his wife over some shit. I used to play NES and Atari 2600 games with him. My friend Mark hanged himself when his girlfriend dumped him for some cholo fuck. I used to play SNES games with him. My friend Matt took 90% of his head off with his sister's shotgun, immediately asking her for it. I used to play N64 games with him. Don't know why he did it; probably chronic depression, which demands no reason. Life just becomes an un-enjoyable hell and the only escape is death.
People I met online? Tim died from some unknown illness. I used to shoot the shit with him in IRC about computer shit and general Holla Forums stuff. Mike died due to complications from an implant meant to stop epileptic seizures. I used to just talk about life, and tech with him in IRC. He and Tim were friends as well. The computer I'm using right now is powered by the power supply that Mike gave to me.
I've had (((Steam))) friends that I had plenty of fun with just up and disappear, never to return. It's odd; the people I met in IRC meant more to me than people I knew in reality. I guess that's because in chat, people let a lot more of their inner self out, so I guess I got to know them better than I would have, had I only met them in person. Unless you're a complete wreck, you tend to remain very guarded when around people in the physical world.

Anywho, if ever you're done with living, /suicide/ is the place to go, either to be scared away from the angst that makes you think that your pathetic bullshit is world-ending, or to confirm that your terminal illness or other incurable issue is just a long road to a miserable and agonizing death, and you just want instructions for how to end it without being able to be resuscitated and kept alive via mechanical means for the rest of your unnatural and unwanted life.

When someone kills themselves, don't feel sad, be mad. Only assholes kill themselves. Suicide is the most selfish thing you can do since it ruins everyone's life you have touched.

It was sad when my father killed himself but I was mostly fucking pissed. I was angry at him for giving up on me, my mother, and my sisters. I didn't attend his funeral, if he was too fucking lazy to properly finish his life, I'm too busy trying to ignore my anger.

If you are going to feel sad for anyone, feel sad for his family. They are the ones who are going to suffer the most.

If a friend of yours kills himself you just havent been paying attention to his life or problems, thus you havent been his friend after all.

We have reached peak irony levels, friends.

If someone you know offs themselves without even talking to you about it, they either don't care as much as you think or they're too far gone. I've known my online friends for about 10 years now and know more about them than other people I've met.

Then make your life wanted. The reason why people are miserable is because they have no aspirations or responsibility. You have to make your life worth suffering through, or it's just going to fuck you up.

Yeah, surely they have it worse than the person who was driven to kill himself because he could find no way out of his apparently increasingly worsening situation.

And it's not like people are good at hiding their depression, so people don't poke their nose in where it's not wanted, with bullshit like "cheer up" and "get over it", or worse, getting Baker Act'd or some similar shit.

Yeah, it fucking sucks when someone you care for commits suicide, but it's not your duty to keep someone alive. If anything at all, it's to be there if they open up to you in a last-ditch attempt to keep from eating a gun, taking a swing over to Gensokyo, taking the train to oblivion, going on a long trip off of Beachy Head, or whatever. If you're going to do anything, distract them long enough so that whatever is wrecking them becomes such a small percentage of their conscious thoughts that it can be securely bottled up and forgotten, if not vaporized and left behind.

Depression isn't "feeling miserable", it's feeling nothing, and recognizing that it takes more and more effort and energy to feel good, and that feeling is more and more brief each time, until you could be eating an ice cream cone on a roller coaster while getting a blowjob, and still wish you were asleep in your bed. More fun if you have a health problem causing you to suffer, or to lose opportunities. Can't get a good job because your back was trashed by a drunk driver hitting you, and the head trauma made it hard to focus for great lengths of time? Ah, you're just faking it, and you're lazy or have ADHD or something. Have fibromyalgia? No you don't, that's made up, and nothing at all like 97% of autism diagnoses which are completely genuine! Quit sitting in the dark on painkillers, and go out with people you barely know and have even less in common with!
No responsibility? Damn near everyone I know who has killed himself (women usually make failure-guaranteed attempts for attention) was pretty much "mister reliable"; the guy who put up with everyone's bullshit and fixed all of their fucking problems. When they died, all everyone did was whine about who would be their shoulder to bitch on now that what's-his-face selfishly killed himself, probably just to inconvenience everybody.

Are you fucking retarded? You either are sad or you aren't, what the fuck

Of course, how is that even a question?

I don't think that's true. Depression is a cocktail of all the worst emotions with positive ones barely leaving an effect on you. Maybe being on anti-depressants is closer to feeling absolutely nothing.
That's how people who can't relate to it see it and yeah, it doesn't help. My parents are convinced depression doesn't exist, but I think that's because their generation spent most of their lives working and/or turned to drinking. Addictive behavior is usually a sign that something is wrong, same goes for painkillers, vidya, porn or what have you. Not making an effort to try and stop that behavior, mental illness or not, isn't going to do you any favors in the long run. Misdiagnosing and lack of education in general is what ruins so many people and those around them.
Then they shouldered too much responsibility they didn't want. Ergo, it didn't make the suffering worth for them. Lots of people end up in situations like that and truth be told, I don't know what there's to be done about that on a large scale. But miserable NEETs who can't get their shit together who might be reading this right now can relatively easily fix their lives, because the cause, especially amongst young men, is often the same. And by and large it's because of a lack of goals and routine.

Nah, i just live in sweden.

It ain't your dubs I'm checking
it's your feels

You do have a right to be sad. 3 years is a long time, and you most likely knew a more real side to him than most of his real life acquaintances.

I have many internet buddies who I've known years I've lost count. I recently visited a Latvian E-buddy of mine that I've known for over a decade who I've seen 3 times in the last 7 years, and we had a great time during his stay in Finland. Even got to meet his E-buddy whose place we bunked at.

I got another swedish friend Lethal League and we had a blast playing with another mutual scottish friend. Said swedish friend is also getting me into Arma, making custom missions for me to practice my skills. All three of us have been playing Dark Souls II and III, but we haven't finished either yet.

Once you meet someone you've only interacted with online, it changes your perception on them for life. There's always someone behind profile, and that's very easy to forget. Everyone is more or less reachable, if you put in the effort to meet them and the mutual desire is there.

tl;dr it's neat to have online buddies, and traveling to meet them is even neater

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What is this gay bullshit? Go back to reddit, you bawling retard.

Love the sinner hate the sin. I'm sorry for your loss user.

I think you have any right to be sad, user.

I had a legitimate autistic friend who was diagnosed with aspergers who only became less and less function as I knew him. He started out in colledge and eventually blew a gasket in class and was removed by the counsel despite him apoligizing and saying that he was under a lot of stress. to make matters worse he constantly got more and more depressed to the point where all he could do was go full emo and become self absorbed and distance himself from his friends by telling his closest friends to go fuck themselves (including me). I remember putting up with a lot of his shit before I finally gave up and stopped talking to him. to this day I don't know if he killed himself. But I remember playing a lot of vidya with him and having a genuinely enjoyable time. It's been over half a decade since we last spoke. God damn does time fly.

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It's been a long day. and I'm tired. Please forgive the typos.

First off, fuck off. Second off, go find out, fucking faggot.

Make me you dumb nigger. I'm replying to OP's question. Why don't you provide context to your complaint. I'm not some cuck that comes crawling back to an abusive relationship to take more weak willed beatings. He told me to fuck off so I did. If you were in my position I'de bet you would have ditched his ass a lot sooner.

First off, go back to reddit. Second off, never come back.

You sound like a woman lmao, kill yourself

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Cry more bitch nigga.

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how do I make online friends?

If you didn't back in 2006 you won't now.
You're too old and the internet is too big and centralised to meet people.

Also great thread guys, nothing says adult discussion like a bunch of autists greentexting each other posts sarcastically.

You don't

Just don't try and make friends from Holla Forums. And I mean directly from Holla Forums, not like meeting someone in a game and eventually finding out they browse the board.

nice blogpost OP, I'm sorry for your loss.
I think that may have happened to me, they've been offline for months now, and were talking about being more depressed than they've ever been in their lives. They were one of my best friends growing up since we used to play all the same shitty games. I'm still in contact with other friends within the same circle, we're all still really close despite being all around the country.

I think I got'chu fam.

what the hell did he do to that pen Feed?
Pilot Elabo Falcons never keep up with flex and they always railroad when you try to do latin/roman characters and spencerian script

its the truth and how I feel. Only little bitches kill themselves.

I lost a lot of my earliest online gaming friends to DOTA(2) or LoL. I sometimes played it with them, but I didn't get too into it. On the other hand, it was the only thing they talked about and whenever I entered the channel it was just them in a match.

you're even gayer than OP

It's a fountain pen, the nibs can spread apart when pressure is applied, with proper hand control you can easily draw lines of varying thickness.

Shit, those are some heavy feels.

AI is still shit

There's Holla Forums offshoots like the gamenight fags or infinity.moe and volafile, they tend to filter out faggots by being harder to find.

Humans are real bastards. Fuck them, being self sufficient is the real end game of life.

Forging bonds of emotional attachment to a person, whether online or offline is pretty well irrelevant to their meaning to you. If you believe that someone is being dishonest with you, that's entirely up to you to act on it. But I feel like I should say that the bonds of friendship can and usually are still real. That said, don't be a fool and excuse the things that you should question based on the idea that they are your friend. Like if they are inconsistent or consistently suspicious, then you should consider that to be something. Don't just ignore it and be like "there's no way, they wouldn't lie to me, would they?"

I've known a guy for nearly 10 years now, never met him, only ever talked to him. I feel like it's a pretty real friendship, though, we might argue and we might get angry at each other, but I've never been like "well fuck you then" and blocked him or the such, because I think that's disrespectful to the friendship. We both feel like the other is a best friend unto ourselves, but he lives tens of thousands of miles away, neither of us can really afford the trip to go meet one another, and even if we could it might just feel really awkward anyway. But this isn't even a new concept, not at all. This kind of thing has been going on for centuries if not millennia. Before the internet, there were things like pen pals/correspondents, and contacts. While two peoples' entire lives might depend on one another, they'd never met because back then not only was it expensive to travel just to meet, it was dangerous for your career and your life to travel all that distance. It couldn't be excused or justified.

And finally .. when you base a relationship purely on interaction one-to-one and not as a network of people, you have a much more meaningful relationship with someone than if you knew someone in the real world and your interaction with them was just cursory at best. Consider that in real life the people you know know people you know. They might be talking to the people you know, they might be saying things, souring the grapes, sewing the seeds of doubt in others. Conversely, if your friend only knows you and you get along well and there's no behind-the-back interaction, it's a relationship based on respect and honesty. The question is, how respectful are you to be honest?

And last but not least .. check em.

I see you've never encountered the monotone drone of a narcissistic edgelord with a mic spouting politrash in online games.
The absence of closing punctuation in this sentence conveys more emotion than most of them are capable of

Checked for truth. Social media and children retreating indoors killed friendship.

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This is not videogames

for 20 years of my life I haven't been what you'd call a human. I bet someone who I'd like to say I placed my entirety in but I'm not certain I did, I did however gain a foot hold of humanity with his interaction which effected me more then I realized. after he broke up with me he ran away and is lost someplace assumingly dead as that was his wish when we last talked, it took me three or so years to even realize it effected me and in the end of those years to get over it. I would say that I'm a broken person but not in direct consequence to that event but to everything around it, failing collage, loosing my dreams, constant belittlement from practically everyone and the sheer lack of motivation to care about anything I've always had tripping me up at every step of the way through my life just reduced me to some idiot faggot on the internet that's content to rot, you also know it's bad when the only other person who you've found that feels like that to just casually discards you utterly, now I'm trying to reclaim my self before the cancer of humanity takes hold pure inside me.

Do what anyone does in your position. Deal drugs. Most cops now a days don't give a fuck so you can easily fly under the radar if you are not a nigger. The world is fucked for many reasons, might as well stake your claim in hell.

for what reason would I need to deal drugs for?

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Financial security if you don't want to go down the wage slave path.
It seems to be lucrative now, and safe considering the cops are cucked by liberals now.

I get by on dla and housing benefits, I don't really need more then I get and I don't care to strive for more

Should I watch doubles psycho?

Yes, its actually a pretty good movie

You really should. The movie is more or less about an user who got successful and couldn't get a grip.

Yeah, I met someone online and someone on 4chan years ago and we even visit each other every year or two despite being on other sides of the country. It's pretty cool.

So? Did you fuck?
The closest I came to meeting someone from the internet was when I chitchatted with this girl on some IRC chatroom daily and at some point we added each other on MSN. I saw a picture of the most disgusting and biggest hamplanet ever, and then I removed her from MSN and didn't go to that IRC channel ever again.

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No, but we snuggelled a few times when I was missing my GF.

Sorry about this post, I was angry

The only long time internet friends I still have are 3 furries and a scaley.
But they seem to be at a different clique of furry, maybe it's because they actually draw their own shit, but they don't go on autistic tirades about fursecution or other things.
They also draw me free lewds.

Online friendships are shallow and lacking. Then again, most real life friendships are as well. The internet and the breakdown of social capital have lead to rampant atomization and alienation among the youth, which will probably lead to even more awful consequences in our lifetime.

Yeah user, about that. not gonna derail, not like it isn't already though :^)

Fuck you, the best friendships I have ever had have been online. I had my online friends pay my rent once when I couldn't and I helped my online friend with real life problems too. Many of the most loyal friends I have I met online.

Fuck you, the best friendships I have ever had have been online. I had my online friends pay my rent once when I couldn't and I helped my online friend with real life problems too. Many of the most loyal friends I have I met online.

I had an online friend once, he was cool
I don't talk to him anymore because I'm a huge faggot and would rather not talk to people
Same thing with real life friends, to be fair

Then you haven’t ever had any real friendships and I pity you and your utter lack of comprehension of what friendship is.

I wish I had friends like yours

But are they still furry? post some either way

The point isn't about being a one man army. The point is that one should always strive to become self sufficient and practical minded in as many subjects as possible and seek the help and companionship of others only afterwards. If you become too reliant on other people, or if they rely too much on you, it will surely come to bite you in the ass.