Assuming that a profile is enough to understand someone. Sure, don’t waste time/drag out meeting someone but… actually talk (video chat) and ask questions before you move things along.

Ask questions important to you and what you are looking for.

Very interesting indeed! Thank you for this information… I’ll do a little research on this.

Will do, that sounds really interesting!

This is also interesting, thank you! I will look into this!

I appreciate this… adding to the to do list for tomorrow. Thanks!!

Understood, I hope you get to identify the locations. I’m not sure I have the brain power to start something like that. If I do, or find a community, I’ll reach out and let you know.

Thank you for the advice. I’ll check it out!!

Is that what they call themselves… GeoGuessers? Did not know that was the terminology.

Will start a search for that, thank you so much!

Interesting! I will look into this a bit more… although I may not qualify. Looks like pay to play for gov and LEOS.

Still, I appreciate it.

Thank you so much! Will check it out.

Asking what the signs of getting older are?? 🙂

Thanks for confirming/commenting. Glad it’s not my phone, although it being a bug isn’t good.

I’m actually a new’ish gamer. I did a little Final Fantasy 14 but didn’t get into it. I read about this a little and decided to give it a try (it helped it was on a massive sale on the PlayStation store). This will be the game I will probably be playing for a really long time.

The random quests and wandering around are the best parts IMO. It amazes me how much time I can waste walking around going "what’s behind that building (or rock, or hill, etc.).

Top three are: The First Descendant, Elder Scrolls Online, and just started Lords Of The Fallen (which is pretty tough TBH).

go-go-go mentality that everything must be achieved as fast as possible the video linked above talked about that relative to WoW. it seems like a pretty common thing… getting through the game backlog as fast as possible to say you “completed X number of games” in week / month / etc.

a lot of toxicity or other people you I think that’s probably the biggest barrier to being social. not wanting to deal with toxic players is a huge thing from what I have read (Lemmy, Reddit, etc.)

ohhhh, that makes even more sense. that would reduce the annoyances for sure. advice taken!

looks like i’m biting the bullet on Discord, haha! although i get where you are coming from, people flock to the thing everyone else uses.

MMO games turned into a singleplayer game sort of the vibe i get now but, your other advice makes sense. again, i think the guild thing is interesting but, didn’t want it to turn into a job. the free vs. played is an interesting comment. as i progress, i’ll see how that turns out.

the thing with voice chat, TBH, is i’m not sure if i’m hearing people or if it’s “in game stuff”. in TFD the other night i hear “i need help” but i had no way of knowing if it was a person saying it or some in game thing. i’ll have to pay more attention to that.

appreciate your perspective as a long time MMORGP player, this was helpful.

appreciate the advice on getting conversations started. i think i’ll work up the nerve to give that a try in the near future. also, thank you for you can’t out-weirdo… that makes it easier to handle 😀