my only online gaming is when i block isr*eli seeders and leechers on my bit-torrent client 
Team Fortress 2 with the mic turned off, as per usual 
how is tf2 these days? i havent properly played for like a decade
Completely filled with bots/cheaters for a few years because the anti-cheat sucks and TF2 is so old. I've moved onto Valorant and just fuck around with CS friends who never use any abilities lol
Valve have invested the last decade in their fortnite killer. Epic made a competing platform so Valve said fuck that and are trying to take their core lunch money.
If you use matchmaking it's a bot-infested hellhole. If you play on community servers it's still great.
What community servers still exist that don't have playerbases that talk like they're still on a chan board?
I couldn't tell you because I have text chat and voice chat turned off, so I just kinda move wherever players are.
For me add in only playing on the same 2 maps daily
Joined the Helldivers 2 hype, the satire is amazing
This lamp spreads authoritarianism
Not a lot to be honest. Mostly Monster Hunter and Mario Kart 8 every now and again
I've mostly been playing Single Player stuff and retro games lately.
Does Pokemon Showdown count? 
Wow this Pokemon showdown thing looks really cool.
There's videos of people using some jank Pokémon with weird abilities killing teams of legendaries who immediately start to rage and demand rematchs.
They banned Mr. Mime in Gen 3 because it kept clowning on people with teams full of Tyranitars and Swamperts
It's so funny when that happens
Pokémon showdown rocks. Let me know if you want to duel Gen 3 OU
What gen of Pokémon?
I'm basic, I just play OU current gen and national Dex sometimes.
How about you?
Does Pokemon Showdown count?
nerd!
BULLY
Minecraft
a lot of balatro
I want to play balatro. On a scale from ipecac to crack cocaine: how addictive is it?
I found the full release to be like weed tbh. I played way too much of the demo for the full release to be extremely addictive. It's a super fun game to play when I don't have the whole day to throw away, but I've yet to even unlock gold stake on any of the decks. It's still a 10/10 roguelite IMO.
I have a V Rising server I've been playing with some friends recently. It's sort of like a combination of Valheim and Torchlight with vampires.
You know what I've really loved recently tho? SHREDDER'S REVENGE. I love beatem up games, and they are perfect for mindless playing. Pulling No Punches is fun too.
Helldivers and Bulders Gate 3 (which is starting to remind me of why I never really liked DnD) but the voice acting and immersive role playing is so good. Getting FF7 Rebirth as soon as it becomes available.
Online? Not much. Tried playing some Diablo IV today, but holy hell do I not like that game. I don't think they could've come up with an even more boring skill tree system if they tried. I really wish I didn't waste my money on it last year. Even Diablo III was better at launch ffs.
Will probably go over to Path of Exile to scratch that ARPG itch I have right now. Either that or I'll just say fuck it and go back to playing Paper Mario.
If you try PoE and don't like it, PoE2 early access should come out this Winter and it's much less bloated. It's also gonna be free.
The only thing I am not super fond of so far with PoE is holy hells that skill tree is huge. I wish respeccing were easier cause it’s gotta be easy to completely screw up a build.
Yeah, it can be pretty intimidating. I started playing in 2014 so I can't really even remember what it's like to not know PoE, but I remember it was a long road. Some unsolicited new player advice:
Don't sweat it too much. Respecing is a little tough but as long as you focus on picking up notables (the larger passives with a small gold rim) you won't need too many points to patch mistakes unless you went way off course. Just grab life nodes and all the damage notables around them that apply to your skill and you'll make it through the campaign easily. Keep your resistances at 75% after act 3. Pick 1 skill gem to buff, and try to get 4 linked sockets to support it. Don't forget to do all labyrinth trials and ascend at acts 3, 8, 10, and maps.
Ways to screw up a build in the skill tree: Grabbing irrelevant passives. Don't grab attack stuff if you're a caster and vice versa, don't grab crit stats for damage over time, don't get spell damage for spells that deal damage over time if they don't specifically state the spell damage will apply to their effect (this only really matters for Righteous Fire, but it's worth mentioning because it's a common mistake in a beginner friendly build). Grabbing way too few life nodes (get at least 300 life by the time you finish each act, so 300 life at the end of act 1, 600 for act 2, etc). Grabbing stats that are not very useful in most situations (% armor, % evasion, % energy shield, stun).
Other than that, a build guide isn't absolutely necessary IMO. It's a complicated game but people make it seem like even the campaign is super rough, if you've played an ARPG before the complexity only starts to get ridiculous when you hit like level 85. Before you get to that point, the game is not really mechanically complex.
I consider myself between games. Everything is really boring.
it feels like i'm waiting for the next flavour of the month
or maybe i'll have to wait for the Elden Ring dlc to give me something good to sink into again haha
Some companies fucked up by not realising there was a gap in the release schedule for right now. Helldivers came and got boring and now there's... Nothing. Hades is fun but obviously there's only so many runs of that you can do with early access, it's more of a slow come and go game in the longterm.
They've all missed a solid launch opportunity. People are thirsty.
Warthunder. Don't make the same mistake I did and stay away.
PS: Shermans are bullshit.
lol I just started again yesterday, why are all the negative steam reviews from people with thousands of hours?
I picked up Mythforce in the Humble Bundle on Friday and that's been alright. I imagine it will get better if/when Beamdog adds more content.
Well they killed League for me because Vanguard doesn't like my PC, so I've been trying to learn DotA. I'm actually having a lot of fun with it, I think it's basically League if they didn't spend 15 years making the worst game design decisions you can possibly fathom. So far, anyway, I'm sure there's plenty of stuff that I'll dislike when I'm actually "good" at the game, but for now it's very refreshing how well designed it feels.
I've been playing Vintage Story with a friend, I recommended it here and did a giveaway a while back. It's basically extremely modded minecraft but on an engine that doesn't suck ass.
Rabbit and Steel has been a lot of fun when I can get my friends together for it.
Helldivers 2
Destiny 2
Getting my partner into Remnant 2
Lots of sequels
I don't really play multiplayer anymore because all of the fighting games I used to love are either dead or overpriced with fully-stocked in-game stores, and the only pvp fps franchises that still exist suckjobs the military so hard you'd think Infinity Ward, Treyarch, and Sledgehammer were just names of Pentagon glory holes. A friend of mine is trying to coax me back into Destiny by telling me they're unsunsetting my vault come the Final Shape; but til then, probably just heavily-modded minecraft and heavily-modded fallout.
i've been on hiatus but played a lot of OSRS in the last year or so. very soothing game
I am once again asking you all to play ADACA 
Played some V Rising tonight, it's very good!
I'll play halo infinite (free to play online, even if it is Microshaft), but only chatting in a separate discord call with a friend I don't see very often with my mic turned off.
I tried going back to that, then I found out ranked turned off the ability for solo queues to dodge stacks, and I'm not serving as feed for three and four-stacks; so that caught the uninstall.
Not exactly online gaming but I'm playing through Ocarina of Time for my first real attempt ever and will stream it over Discord so my best friend can watch and help me some.
I'm also playing offline with my kiddo because he's really digging it. I'm only at the fish dungeon though. Not very far.
Stardew Valley and Monster Hunter Rise, both in coop.
If you want something truly mindless for second-monitor gaming, I'd suggest either Vampire Survivors (or another game in the same genre, like Holocure) or an idle game (top picks: cookie clicker, trimps, pokeclicker).
Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.
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