But what I'm really upset about is that people aren't communicating and cooperating and being respectful of each other and working together and being social and pushing back the alienation and playing and finding joy.
I'm so fucking isolated these days. This is the closest thing that I have to a social outlet. And so many people in multiplayer games just have no interest in communicating or working together, or have no interest in, like... playing in a way that supports the team and works towards a cooperative goal? Like they're playing by themselves, in a multiplayer lobby, and I absolutely do not understand it and I hate it. I don't understand why people play multiplayer games when they don't wan to play with people.
I love that kind of thing. I recently found out that some AI in Tarkov will mimic the leaning side to side "Friendly dance" that people way back in DayZ would use to indicate friendly intent towards strangers, or identify themselves to other teammates when someone asked "Hey is that guy in the window one of us? Everyone do the friendly dance!"