Current Events > Do you have any GameFAQs friends?

(+) Yeah! (+)

Maybe

I mean, I guess there's people here who tolerate my presence, but that's about it.

Indeed I do.

Yeah :V

Nope.

I just have a few people from GameFAQs on my Facebook.

Obviously don't know them directly, but they seem alright.

I thought I did, but over the years of being here I learned that at the end of the day seemingly no one gives a damn about me.

Yeah yeah, missed part, my problem, etc etc.

@metallica846
@Slayer_22

the rest of them would be ashamed to be my gfaqs bff

in reality I have many friends off this website but they are not inclined to be a part of CE fuckery

I'm the disrespected loner.

21 on my friends list. One closed his account here but I still talk to him on Discord.

My best friend is from GameFAQs. We even have each others' cell numbers.

https://youtu.be/ku5LBz3rZ3A

Not super close or anything. I did play Jackbox regularly with a few (in some cases, former) CE users but these days I'm at work at the time the session is held, and haven't felt like (or had the means to, for a while now) hosting one of my own on a different day lately.

Nameless Server Gang are my besties

Nope

The prospect of ever having friends on here has been unsettling to me for some reason

itachi15243 posted...

Nope

The prospect of ever having friends on here has been unsettling to me for some reason

e-paranoia or something else?

Not being antagonistic.

Just one.

LinkFanatic posted...

e-paranoia or something else?

Not being antagonistic.

Kinda

For some reason it just makes me really anxious. Like more anxious than making friends in other ways

It might have to do with the fact that I used to have online friends that I gamed with, and that didn't turn out well.

regulars i post with often, but no friends. i guess "internet friends", but idk if that is even a thing

Nope. I got something better. I got a GameFAQs fam!

@Scotty_Rogers
@DB_Insider
@Payzmaykr
@KiwiTerraRizing
@PiOverlord
@AirFresh
@Key
@PatrickMahomes

RIP
Franklin
AssGender
Politics
Reggie
edededdy
Oldin
Gafemage

Scotty_Rogers posted...

Whats the word in Franklin? Havent seen him around in years

SomeLikeItHoth posted...

Nope. I got something better. I got a GameFAQs fam!

@Scotty_Rogers
@DB_Insider
@Payzmaykr
@KiwiTerraRizing
@PiOverlord
@AirFresh
@Key
@PatrickMahomes

RIP
Franklin
AssGender
Politics
Reggie
edededdy
Oldin
Gafemage

Did Reggie leave? I didnt know him well, I just liked his posts

Payzmaykr posted...

Whats the word in Franklin? Havent seen him around in years

He was tired of getting banned every time he made an account. He's more career focused now. Back when he was active he was able to be online a lot due to being in the army and not having much to do outside of guard duty.

Nope. I don't believe in friends.

RedLuigi posted...

Did Reggie leave? I didnt know him well, I just liked his posts

He's always getting 6 month purged so he's definitely getting banned next.

I have a couple people on potd that are some of my oldest lasting relationships in my life

SomeLikeItHoth posted...

Nope. I got something better. I got a GameFAQs fam!

@Scotty_Rogers
@DB_Insider
@Payzmaykr
@KiwiTerraRizing
@PiOverlord
@AirFresh
@Key
@PatrickMahomes

RIP
Franklin
AssGender
Politics
Reggie
edededdy
Oldin
Gafemage

ayy famalam!!!!!

No, I hate all of you

jk most of you are ok

Everyone hates me

_Angel_ posted...

@metallica846
@Slayer_22

the rest of them would be ashamed to be my gfaqs bff

in reality I have many friends off this website but they are not inclined to be a part of CE fuckery

<3

Nah. There are some people on my friends list, but we don't really talk or anything. And I think whatever IRL friends I have that used the site probably don't anymore.

Turbam posted...

Yeah :V

Lucky

Maybe

Everyone here is my friend

Most definitely

Ive been here since 2002, back when this place was a top trafficked Alexa site and folks were mostly normal.

I discovered GameFaqs because my Football Teammate was browsing it in computer class, and was laughing at the 2002 April Fools prank of switching everything over to X-Box for a day.

I started browsing with him. At two of my colleges Ive caught other people browsing GameFaqs. On one computer when I logged in someone else was already logged in. I logged out for him.

In 2010 I started traveling to conventions & esports tournaments. Im 2010 if you were competing in a gaming tournament there was a 90% chance you had a GameFaqs account.

Then in 2015 I started working in the Gaming industry if you are around my age and have dedicated your entire life to gaming you better believe at one point or another you had a GameFaqs account.

So, Ive probably met about 50 or so people with GameFaqs accounts, all normal folks. But the situation that led to the reveal was life we didnt meet up because of GameFaqs.

As far as actually meeting up with people because of a pre-existing GameFaqs relationship, Id say about a dozen or so.

One such person moved from east coast to west coast for work, and didnt know anybody so they sent me a DM. Oddly enough the guy was a longtime troll on one of the forums I frequent. We are actually really good friends now, he lives a short ways away.

People use to living on Current Events over the course of the past two years have completely forgotten how normal and welcoming GameFaqs use to be.

Now its just full of anti-social hermits. Its sad. GameFaqs no longer mimicks real life thats why is almost dead

Slayer_22 posted...

<3

Didnt we meet once at a fighting game tournament or something?

gatorsPENSbucs posted...

Everyone here is my friend

Good. I need a place to crash for a while, buddy.

I mean look at this example from late 2015, already four years past GameFaqs prime.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/208-fighting-games/72949976

I was in the crowd of the Capcom Cup at PlayStation experience and made a topic about it on one of the more ninche boards on this site

two other GaneFaqs Users were in the crowd with me, and we all met up to watch together.

Not only were two GameFaqs users at the same event in my city, but both happened to be browsing GameFaqs while also watching the showand not only thatbut browsing one of the less trafficked boards no less.

GameFaqs use to be normal. Due to its widespread appeal, and giant, diversed, and most friendly userbase it was the place to be!

GameFaqs had a real opportunity to blow up and become a powerhouse the likes of Reddit or Twitch.

Unfortunately it never evolved, and as the userbase got older and more integrated into every mundane NORMAL lifethe more core users of this platform (mods included) sunk deeper and deeper into their own self-induced exile from the general mainstream society.

This created a disconnect between the administration and the userbase, and as such the userbase that didnt align with the cultural shift that the mods began implementing, simply left the platform.

It is what it is, but I often remenisce if the days of old, and think what could have been

STEROLIZER posted...

Didnt we meet once at a fighting game tournament or something?

@STEROLIZER Nah, but we've always generally got along on the MK boards, plus crypto! Iirc you added me on PSN too. Definitely a GameFAQs friend if there ever was one. :D