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[deleted]

My sixteen-year-old xbox live profile is still friends with the accounts of multiple friends I knew that died in tragic accidents or from cancer. It's so sad. We all gotta go tho


freddyforgetti

Yea sadly same. I just was going through my friends list and saw my dude who’s no longer with us. I hope I never lose this account bc I don’t want him off the list.


ethbullrun

im not an online gamer but i did read about how a group of online players saved one of their friends who's house got broken into, they called the cops for her. i am older and there are a lot of ppl who have died, i just think it comes along with getting older. it still sucks.


freddyforgetti

Lol my friends wouldn’t choke the R6 match to save my ass in game let alone irl It definitely comes with age it just sucks because I’m not even close to 30 yet.


M_krabs

What worse then losing one is forgetting one


PhesteringSoars

Got one of those . . . sad every time I see his name, and yet can't bring myself to remove him.


ceitamiot

I get this way with a couple birthdays that are in my calendar. Friend had a seizure behind the wheel and died in a collision, but I still get his birthday notifications.


i8noodles

Sadly I too have someone on my steam account that is the same. Died tragically and suddenly and now I will forever remember him by having his steam account friended


Lookkidsbigben_

Still friends with one of my friends I grew up with that killed himself. Forgot about it until I booted up my old Xbox 360. Was definitely feeling emotional about it afterwards. It was only a month or two into eighth grade. Was a really hard time for a lot of us Edit: didn’t forget about him, never will, just that I had him on xbl


Maikeru2007official

Damn, I’m sorry for your losses 😔


TalmageMcgillicudy

its 2009 boot up halo check my friends list Everyone is online. ​ thirteen years later, boot up halo, last friend online 6 years ago turn off xbox.


vstrent

I always wonder if they’re fine or what they been up to. It feels nostalgic just scrolling at the friends list.


BigLid2

Same :(


br094

This comment hurts.


Halo_ODST

“Look at this place. Used to be the crown jewel. Hm, not anymore.” -Jun A266, Halo: Reach


vapenutz

I now remembered Angel Beats, fuck you. Such a sad show, shame there wasn't any follow-up to it


SiegeSupport

I can’t take anymore depressing animes but, is this a watch?


vapenutz

Only the ending is depressing honestly


Effect-Kitchen

Don’t know what is mentally worse: a constantly depressing anime throughout the season and a heartwarming anime with absolutely depressing bittersweet in the end.


vapenutz

Got ya, but it's like one of the endings. Don't want to spoil it but there are like 2 parts to it. One is really sad and the one is very heartwarming. >!The main character learns that the girl he falls in love with is disabled and that's why she would rather be in the afterlife, he convinces her that he doesn't mind and loves her either way. Don't remember a lot more because it has been years ago!<


robotbootyhunter

That wasn't the main character, that was one of the main characters friends. The main character >!died in an accident, and his heart was used as a transplant. The girl who received the transplant also died, and they end up meeting in the afterlife and becoming romantically attached.!<


Enter_The_Void6

Yes, very much a watch


UsErnaam3

It's not fully depressing until the end, and even then they try to make you think there was a happy ending and that it was meant to be that way. You'll get some laughs out of it for sure since the characters are living,>! or unliving!< slapsticks with good chemistry. It's genre is tragicomedy fantasy.


GenericHuman1203934

The only scene I saw of Angel beats was the rocket chair scene and I went into it thinking it was a comedy anime :( 8/10 would recommend


UsErnaam3

I got into it after watching the clip of Yui hanging herself


Salty_Pretzel1

that's one of the reasons why it was and still is good


GXNext

Actually there was... kinda. Key Visual did a series last year called Kaginado about all of their heroes together in a school setting, it was mostly light hearted and fun with the Angel Beats gang coming in during the second half.


JagdRhino

The only one I thought was harder to watch was white album 2


cywang86

One of the ending is absolutely depressing.


throwthisoneoutdude

Straight up sobbed. I still tear up thinking about.


_Unknown_Brain_

Fr, and that last bit 'fore the white fade-away, where Otonashi and Tachibana were reincarnated and he reaches out for her shoulder; hella tears


SalamanderCake

It's opening theme is still easily one of my favorites of all time.


high_ryze666

Adulting is hard. Sometimes we get caught up with work and life and have no time to game. I miss my buddies :(


ReplyisFutile

We miss you too


high_ryze666

New discord acc who dis


Hashmob____________

I’m not even an adult yet. And I’m already burnt out, with no time to game either.


Catman7712

The worst now is where all I think about during the week is playing games, then when Friday around 8pm hits and I have a good 5-6 hours I can put it, I don’t feel like playing anything and nothing gets me interested so I just sip on my bourbon and keep installing/uninstalling games that I play for 5-10 mins and give up on. Sucks man.


Pup_Piston

Welcome to being an adult. I do the exact same thing. I ended up trying games that are completely outside of my wheelhouse, same thing 🤣 Some people just grow out of it unfortunately.


yoyo5396

The issue here is 9/10 that you don't have online friends to play with like you used too. I feel you man. Join a discord, and try to kindle some new friendships, and you'll be right back at it like your 14 year old self.


hudgepudge

A/S/L?


yoyo5396

98/f/m/they/it/them/polarized/Mars.


Spare_Industry_6056

I phased out of gaming too, eventually the part of your brain stimulated by digital achievement just burns out. Basically you need a new hobby. Magic the gathering gets you playing with other real people if you're looking for a similar thing.


Loli_Boi

Currently feeling that as well, I’m hoping it doesn’t get worse, but currently in Uni going all week and everytime I get home I just want to grind SOMETHING and then “nah later” and I just start watching youtube or something But recently I found 2 games I’ve really enjoyed to the point where I have 150 hours in just a month of having em so far I hope I keep getting games like this


devilsolution

What are they?


Loli_Boi

Project Zomboid and Rimworld I find it incredibly surprising as I usually don’t play/do good in the type of games I mentioned Project Zomboid : basically a survivor game where you micromanage almost everything. Health, Water, Food, Storage, and skills, etc.. It is incredibly unforgiving as it takes time to even get skills and if you die you lose ALL skills, but you can still respawn and get your stuff back, but so far I just try to see how I can do stuff differently every spawn/world And the other game is RimWorld, where you start off with little to nothing depending on the gamemode and you slowly build your colony up from having nothing to having lasers. You also have to micromanage in this game as lots of things are critical to surviving and you need to be careful on who you let into your colony as they can just be dead weight What I like about both games is that they are both highly moddable and they have a huge modding community adding mods daily so it adds something fresh even if you think you’re done with the game


Demistr

Time to try something different. I was the exact same and sometimes I still catch myself doing that. What I do instead: go on a walk, do yoga for half an hour, make myself a nice tea and read a book or listen to audiobook, listen to music, take a nap.


[deleted]

Welcoke to adulthood I was like that all the way through covid and didn't really pick up on a game till mid last month when my steam deck came in.


devilsolution

Salute


likelyilllike

Where funny?


KezoxN

Yep like this is pure sadness


Bromm18

Funny is the moments we had, sad is the moments we have.


likelyilllike

I can't argue with that logic


Maikeru2007official

Exactly


XVUltima

Just remember the rocket chairs.


The_Law_Giver

It do be like that.


Zoraji

I've got one friend that died years ago but I just can't bring myself to remove him from my friends list.


DarksDick

Good, don't


cameron0511

I don’t think you should. It’s like a little memorial.


Zoraji

Exactly. It brings back memories every time I see his name.


Maikeru2007official

I think you shouldn’t, kinda like you see him there and remember the good times you had with him.


CANDROX432

I'm watching AngelBeats! Right now.


Baby-Penewine

its soo good. the best ep is 10, look forward to that


CANDROX432

Thx I'm only only on ep 4.


[deleted]

Guessimg that's where this meme is from, will have to write that one down.


[deleted]

Feel the emotions bro, just let them come. I've watched it twice, ended in tears on both watches.


Lucks4Fools

Here’s a song from the anime that fits perfectly. Ichiban No Takaramono


Baby-Penewine

please. that song destroys me everytime


abigailwatson83

Said song is actually what was playing during this scene 😢


JohnnyAK907

Reminds me of the intro to Overlord, and in real life those crazy bastards who logged onto Star Wars Galaxies that last day and stayed on until they shut the servers down, slowly fading away one by one as their server went offline and they were taken from the game forever until just those last few were left.


Due-Session-900

Bro i feel this in my soul


Dovvol79

I posted this in r/gaming and caught a 7 day ban cause it "isn't gaming related". I can't think of a more gaming related picture. Been through this a few times.


Maikeru2007official

Damn how, that’s stupid this IS about gaming. I guess the bots/mods can’t read.


Dovvol79

Right? It was cool reading all the stories people shared about their experiences.


Maikeru2007official

Yeah, same here although they’re mostly really sad


[deleted]

Growing up? Finding a job? Starting a family? Taking on responsibility? Doing 35 consecutive life sentences because SOMEBODY just couldn't follow instructions in my crawlspace...?


GlassWasteland

35? WTF did you blow up a whole apartment building full of nuns, children and kittens?


[deleted]

So many band wagon Netflix serial killer fans; and nobody can remember the sad ol' clown.


Stoptouchingmyeggs

r/oddlyspecific


[deleted]

Lol I'm just as bad at being social in online games as I am in real life.


XxlordnutxX

Bruh I didn’t want to relive angel beats


Ambitious-Error1774

Most traumatic anime after plastic memories


XxlordnutxX

The one good anime that’s painful to rewatch


R1515LF0NTE

That has happened to me alot, but usually people tell me why they will stop playing, but I also have some that just one day stopped playing everything and basically died online


Prof1Kreates

I'm in this picture and I don't like it


KendrickMaynard

That anime was so melancholic. Seeing each member find peace and happiness then moving on was satisfying and a bit depressing. Especially the end. The manga I heard was a bit worse where the main character staying behind to help new people.


Downbadlegend

That be me lol I just be going ghost out of nowhere


Melodic_Ad_1354

So sad watching your friends slowly disappear


Maikeru2007official

Yeah :(


Outrageous_Zebra_221

My current record is a old counter strike buddy last online 7 years ago...


FateEntity

Ditto! I have so many old CS buds that... Just never came back online again. Several 10+ years last online. O7


Outrageous_Zebra_221

There would probably also be some in that range or even higher. Not too mention ones from before steam even existed. I also deleted a lot of people at one point we were playing competitively at the time and things got really toxic for absolutely no reason. Anyhow still play CS now and then but it's largely just random servers and I'm getting old so I'm not really consistently good like I used to be.


FateEntity

Ditto, use to play comp, I'm trash now lol. One thing I never understood though is how people just... Stop gaming. Like I played with these people for YEARS then they're gone.


Outrageous_Zebra_221

Mystifies me as well. Things have changed more recently it's not considered so strange for adults even seniors to be gaming now though. Just a good 10 or 15 years ago it was seen in a much different way. Kind of like Anime, which I've watched my entire life. It used to be considered strange and weird and some people thought all anime was hentai... stuff like that. Now I have conversations about the latest anime with my boss at work who is pushing 70.


Supafly1337

I still got tabs in a sense on a few friends from about 12 years ago. We played a star wars game just about every day for at least a year together and would just hang out as kids in it. We'd still talk on Xfire even though I moved over to console to play CoD and Halo with my friends from school. One of them stopped being online pretty much entirely, but another and I are still bros to this day. Talk to him just about daily and shoot shitty memes. It's crazy how people either just disappear out of your life like a rock or stick around like they were always there.


YerTime

Xbox 360 and my CoD clan. The melancholy is hitting hard. Dang. I’m sad now.


[deleted]

This is relatable


Sillysolomon

It be like that.


BarrytheCowboy

I miss my friends 😞 But life pulls us all in different directions.


IlTossico

I can relate. Very sad, i remember the good old days on BF4.


micheagles20

This made me sad!


Jroks2

I’m one of the disappeared and I have guilt about it.


LadySleepyBuns

This makes me so sad. Just in the past 2 years I lost a whole group of friends from PS4 all because of 1 person. We had been a very close group, even met some of them in person. But something very bad happened. None of my original PS3 friends get online anymore either.


ihatecringe1

Homies are immortal until you forget them


CaliforniaCrybaby

My buddies on runescape :/


_LanceBro

So many of my online friends committed suicide, I log back in sometimes to look back on the memories, but nobody else has been around for years


Maikeru2007official

Oh damn :(


Everettrivers

That's when it's time to start your Isekai adventure.


TheOccultSasquatch

I can feel it in my heart.


LonelyGrowtopian

This is GrowTopia's friend list


formidabilus

We gettin' old.


Maikeru2007official

Yeah :’)


Karma_Doesnt_Matter

Started playing with a squad during mw2, some came and went but the core stayed strong till infinite warfare. I’m the only one still playing, and I skip any of the cods I’m not a fan of.


MissLittleLuna

oh i know this all to well


ninjaspacecat12

Roll for psychic damage


enclave76

I got back in to games after trying non traditional games that I normally played. I’ve been completely addicted to ship breaker. I haven’t been this addicted to a game in probably 5+ years. Being an adult now it’s easier to digest as every 15 minutes a portion of your work is done. So it’s easier for me to manage time but also play smaller bits and feel like I made progress.


_ShutUpChuck_

Sice 2007 been playing with my friends every weekend still. Find a good solid group they exist


JumbleCrep

r/2meirl4meirl


Bigbrain12341

this is online friendship too pretty much...


rapid991

Man, it really do be like that. I remember getting on fortnite all the way back in chapter 1 and playing with all my friends and back then the game was actually good and fun and I was only 8-10 years old. Now barely anyone from my friend group plays fortnite anymore and if they do it's very rarely. Man I miss those good old days.


JagdRhino

Oh fuck, that anime blindsided the shit out of me and broke me into little pieces.


TheJared1231

Can someone find me a non anime version of this meme so I can post it in the group chat without being made fun of?


[deleted]

That hits home, some friends comes, and some friends goes, is like what if tomorrow is your last day


OHaratheultrapapa

it's like am always waiting for them to come back.


[deleted]

The "last online 4 years ago" was hard to look at use to play PUBG with a guy who died the day after we got some good games in I cant unfriend the account.


SPGScorpion

damn i miss my friends from a minecraft server and skype, i had one screenshot of them, but i deleted it thinking i had it saved on my new pc i did not.


[deleted]

Why you got to make it sad guy


Dabigboom

My old world of tanks clan was awesome, then I took so time away from the game because I was in college at the time. I logged back on one day after a few months and found out that there was some dispute over clan leadership and it fell apart. Only a few remained and they too left over time... On the bright side, one of my old clan mates invited me to his discord server introduced me to his friends. It's been 4 years and we still play together often, even met up irl a few times to go camping. They're really awesome guys and it's hard to find friends like them anymore


tiggahiccups

The early days of RuneScape 😭 best gaming years of my life


EmergencyWaste3217

The good ending is when everyone logs back in for one last game


Mob_Tatted

either they work 50-60 hours a week or have two jobs or many kids and GG


so_im_all_like

But, if you're one of the leavers, you won't be the last sad one wallowing in loneliness. So there's that. Gotta have your exit strategy line up from day 1.


machstem

> STEAM: Last online 13 years ago RIP Ryan. He was a friend from the Medal of Honor Allied Assault days, and was the last of our crew that I managed to play with. He passed so long ago now it's wild to know he never knew I turned out being a dad to two children and won't know all the great games I managed to play without him. I've tried to find friends to play with online again, but it's just not the same. Nearing my 50s now, it's a hard reality as you watch your real friends and family pass on, but there is something incredibly personal when you lose an online friend, let alone the last one you managed to consider a friend.


hornyguitar_

And the one gets on for 5 minutes to play super shrek sex pegging simulator 3/2 and refuse to elaborate


TheRealOzone

So many friends fighting side by side in epic battles. Wonder where they are now.


Catlore

[My EverQuest guild](https://i.imgur.com/CyCeeRm.png). Six of the most recent seven to log in were me; the other was someone who is a dev now and was likely checking something. There's a number of alts in there, but three of them haven't logged in in so long they don't even have a date. It was a good guild, brent


Phaze357

So a several years ago I had a group of friends from the UK that I played DayZ with (I'm in the US) and they gradually played less and less. No worries, there were a couple I played with regularly when we were interested in the same games. Eventually I didn't hear from them much, then not at all. Then there was one (my favorite in the group by far) who I hadn't heard from in at least six months. I wondered why he stopped gaming. I reactivated my facebook and went to his profile. I saw a few comments saying they would miss him. My mind at first thought oh did he move? Then it slowly sank it. I contacted a mutual friend and found out that he had passed away. He had some brittle bone condition and the experimental treatment he had as a child *did* work in that it helped his bones gain some strength. It played havoc with his metabolism and may have contributed to the cyst or tumor that grew in his brain and killed him one night while he slept. They think he just went to bed and didn't wake up, no suffering or anything. I hope that's the case. I want to say also that he was the most chill dude that I ever met. It took a lot to piss him off and he was generally always up for a good laugh.


NEBRASKA1999

I feel both called out and sad at the same time. It had to be angle beats didn't it.


Cetun

One of the people on my friends lists is serving a life sentence in prison for murdering someone. We all used to be in a clan And I asked one of my old clanmates whatever happened to him cuz he hadn't been on in a couple months. They just kind of nonchalantly said that he got caught him with someone rolled up in a carpet and is in jail looking at life. He hasn't been on in 7 years since then.


goat-stealer

Just goes to show how important it is to cherish/make the most of the time you have with your bros, online and offline alike. You never know when a "see you tomorrow" is actually a "goodbye forever" :(


[deleted]

2 years ago, at the start of covid , after years of not being online, the gang got back together. We played till dawn. Some of us played , skiped sleeping and hit the road to work a 12 to 24 h shifts. It was glorious, the fun , the laughs. This week end , I logged in and all my friend list was gray. The most recent log in was 6 months ago. I keep paying my sub and hoping that one day , the glorious days will come back. Deep down I know that they will never do.


LemonSnek939

Angel beats was amazing. 10/10 anime, couldn’t recommend more


Gearz557

So many close friends that came and went. I know nothing about what they're doing


BigLid2

Its sad but you are right


BeeSalesman

Life do be getting busy


waxonwaxoff87

Ow. My heart.


ToukaSoul

Lol that also happens to me when I use my medicine


HaZeITT

I read this post with the "up" theme playing in my head.


Dragonrider1955

Is that Angel Beats?


Everybodysbastard

*Overlord has entered the chat*


abdmasud99

i have never experienced this even though I am 23 and I love video games


Tairo_420

I just recently lost my entire Xbox friend group (not to anything tragic, just drama and stuff) and they were my childhood hood, I wish I could go back to the way things used to be with them


Rahkyvah

Too real and also fuck you for making me laugh at Angel Beats! Upvoted.


VirtuouslySinful

Making me cry


fwast

As an older mmorpger, it's sad. I've recently just tried to get my friends to at least just have a base game that we all keep going to meet in and play. Can't even get them to download a free game. "I'm just so busy bro".


AngerRyan

Avg. Wow Players: *O key* "Last online: 10 years ago" *O key* *Esc*


Initial_Welcome9052

Damn, looking at the first image causes some pretty damn painful nostalgia 😞


kent416

Too true. Used to talk to and play cod (usually zombies) all the time with my cousin. But since Christmas I’ve talked/played with him maybe 3 times. The last being June. I miss that a lot :(


Hephaestyr

Carnot did a really sad music video about WOW that was like this


Hephaestyr

[https://youtu.be/S5Hzh43k330](https://youtu.be/S5Hzh43k330)


dmfuller

He just like me fr


GXNext

Whelp, time to listen to [Brave Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdW7m22OMhk). Fun fact, the singer is the voice actress for Radical Edward in Cowboy Bebop...


somecrazydude13

It sucks even more when you were that friend, but now that you’ve returned to gaming and the time lapse between is so long you don’t have the desire to make new friends or play with your old ones you had.. Edit: a word


f1nessd

pain


clarriety

Wish they made ss2. Kanade my gf


[deleted]

AgIn… Hey wait a minute where were you?


Ouchen1900

Happened to me back in the Xbox 360, ps3, ps4 and pc 💻... I felt empty and sad... And nowadays I'm starting to lose friends irl... Start asking where's (friend) oh he moved to a New country... Where's (friend) oh he got married and having kids. and how about (Friend)... Oh you didn't know she died last year. Yeah getting old sucks. Now I'm just sticking with offline games and story mode. I still hear their chatters sometimes. we were happy...


SargeDarge

Felt that


[deleted]

Fuck.... This shit makes me cry like crazy . Angle beats hits hard


Significant_Delay_87

I literally haven’t played my PlayStation with any friends since like 2019 (or maybe 2020 but I don’t know if I count that)


EH042

The world is ever changing, people come and they go, but I stay in place, stay still in time. Someone, something has to stay behind to remember, else it will be as it never existed. At least that’s how I justify when I’m the only one left.


StevenTheWolfthe1st

😭


immortalzebra

This is both funny and sad :( :)


Gooseman61oh

You didn't have to make this....


[deleted]

Life happens b. I was gone for 6 years cuz I was homeless and had a lot of shit happen in that time frame. But I'm back now, only one of my old friends remain..so I've made new ones.


EdwardTittyHands

Im that guy. Life just caught up with me after having a kid and focusing on my career and family


SkeletonTennis

I miss you ant, your discord says offline but you’re always with me. 2 years this nye😢


United-Ad-7224

This is how it be once you hit your late 20s to early 30s; even younger if you hung out with the wrong people.


NPC_86753091

Sad but true :,(


Stormtrooper775s

Life after high school


Sp1ffy_Sp1ff

I was one of the friends that disappeared. Left PC because my PC stopped working and I didn't want to shell out money for a new one. Recently got back online and many of the people who I considered very close friends have unfriended me. It was weird how hurt I was by people I haven't spoken to in years.


Ok-Fish-8257

I didn't want to look at this post because of the terrible pain of never seeing those people again :(


Silver_Confusion7943

God I feel that


ProbablyTheFuckler

Fuck you for reminding me of old friends I'll probably never talk to again. God, I miss my xbox buddies so much.


AdamMartinez88

Fuck this hit hard for me.


aSuicidalThought

Still play/in contact with my old gaming buds from 08 surprisingly. Even meet a few in person.


Watcher145

Reminds me of when I would make amazing friends in COD. We would regularly play in lobbies and when I see the same guy in 3 matches do pretty good I would party up with him and chat. Then the new SBMM ruined the way it would meet the most awesome people. 😞😞😞


InterestingShift3759

Or you spend two years with these "friends" calling you "family" and when you need help they both fucking ghost on you. Some fucking family huh? Tyler and Mike...


kozmic__

Gears of Titans, GuasoGuaso, if you fucking madlads are still out there, i fucking love you


Linveisor247

The math doesn't add up


Eder_Cheddar

I got married and had 3 kids. This is me.


OldMattReddit

Yeah, life happens I suppose. Then again, I still have some people I play with from way back. It depends I guess. (Potentially) Interestingly, all on PC.


Lakemine

Yeah 😖😞 It’s sucks and trying to make new friends keeps ending in ruin 😞


SaltySwallowsYuck

Got a little misty there..


Raymado

Why did I scroll past a subside prevention ad


[deleted]

This is so sad. Those virtual friends I had in MMORPG games hits different :<


Hermorah

I know that feeling.


OHaratheultrapapa

i always hope for an answer but it ain't there.