what are yall playing online these days?

my only online gaming is when i block isr*eli seeders and leechers on my bit-torrent client meow-floppy

Team Fortress 2 with the mic turned off, as per usual big-cool

how is tf2 these days? i havent properly played for like a decade
- If you use matchmaking it's a bot-infested hellhole. If you play on community servers it's still great.
- 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
- They just dropped an update a month ago that improves performance and makes the game run as 64-bit
  
  I play casual from time to time and some rooms are great, some rooms are filled with bots. Weirdly, the community servers seem to have better anti-cheat than Valve, since I haven't seen any bots there.
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? nerd

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.
- 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

Helldivers 2

Destiny 2

Getting my partner into Remnant 2

Lots of sequels

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.

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

OSRS

what's the community like these days? i wouldnt mind succumbing to OSRS nostalgia lmao
- i wouldn't say there is as much of a "community" as back in the day, clans and stuff are pretty dead i think. on balance i have found people on there to be pretty nice and welcoming, but i won't say it's free from insufferable Gamers. still i would say the atmosphere is generally positive because people generally get that we're all here to find comfort in something from our childhood. mostly people just don't interact as much as back in the day though.

I am once again asking you all to play ADACA lea-finger-guns

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.

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).

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.

Played some V Rising tonight, it's very good!

I still log in to Elder Scrolls Online every day to check how my stuff is selling through the guild trader, I'm missing a few rare companion armor pieces and they're all expensive. There's also an ESO expansion coming out in 2 or 3 weeks which will add new customized skills so I'll check those out for sure.

Also started Star Trek: Resurgence since it's on Steam now, it's a single player telltale style game though, liking the story so far. It's written in the 90s trek style.

Warframe's fast action is pretty good for stimming, keeps you constantly tapping away with both hands, and becomes pretty mindless once you've amassed a half decent collection of mods.

cookie clicker. i play it online online because i "play" it on the browser. perfect for second monitor and mindless. you don't have to deal with any people whatsoever.

you can also try old school runescape (that's actually online). it's basically the de facto second monitor game. there's lots of grindy stuff that is just relaxing to do, alongside good quests and hard challenges with regular content updates chosen by the community. im on a break though because i don't have a second monitor

Guild wars 2and FFXIV, although they aren't really second monitor material I think.

I love the aspect of gaming culture where depression and listlessness are normal to the point of "mindless" being described as a fun quality for games. Maybe this has something to do with the depression that occurs when the game is off. Just read a fucking book. All of the posts on this site are about how people don't read or bathe.

did I do something man? needlessly hostile to a stranger on the internet, on a niche forum so ostensibly we share more in common than not, feels unwarranted no?
- I don't know you.
Are you just making stuff up about us to get angry about now? Lmao.
- ???? Is there any aspect of gaming culture more entrenched? Is there any aspect of this instance more critical than being unwashed gamers mad at the freaking chuds?