/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

>>63625654
zoomers and gen alpha are just afraid of getting made fun of for sincerely enjoying something, so they've masked every opinion and meme in thirty seven layers of irony. This observable if you read their responses to any movie dialogue that doesn't do the usual MCU ironic self flagellation/depreciating.
I have no idea why. If someone is upset I like stuff like One Piece, Demon Slayer, and Sonic, that's their problem. The fuck is someone gonna do if I like bing bing wahoo tier shit, stab me?

>>59251829

The FGC, and devs, have been riding high lately thinking their genre is going to go mainstream, but frankly it's fucking delusional to think it will. The harsh reality is the FGC's culture, from the top down, heavily discourages newcomers to the genre. Skill levels in the FGC are like weight classes in boxing, and even if you go to a locals, you're just expected to square up and spar against people in Andre the Giant's tier, when you're basically a midget. It's why players drop off so fast, and how SF6 now has less players than even Monster Hunter World. The games demand insane levels of practice, patience, and mental fortitude to get good at, with basically zero reward compared to something like CS:GO's prizepools, and even at locals you're typically playing against people who are leagues better than you and have been playing for at least a decade.

They act like they're super welcoming, but nothing about actually playing them and joining communities around games/events actually is. The onus is all on the newbie to learn, and the only real measure of progress you get is a number going up. The core gameplay loop never changes, you just get better at it and learn more about it, but at the end of the day you're still effectively doing virtual fencing for months to years on end, depending on how much you play, to break past the "local highschool sports" level of skill. It's not like the FGC figureheads even disagree with me, I've heard plenty of people joke about how breaking past that point requires "not touching grass" and they know it's true.

The "community" part is also a fucking joke. I spent nearly a year bringing the best setup, bringing games people requested, bringing spare controllers and going out of my way to try and bring anyone who was less skilled than me up to speed. I got tired of how much the games demanded of me (time and effort), gave up, stopped going to my locals, and not a single one of them even noticed I stopped going, despite regularly talking to me. So the one saving grace of "one of the last bastions of IRL interaction with people sharing your interests" is a fucking lie too

>>58673522
>I feel like the only way to meet her is to constantly force myself to do stuff I don't like at all and hope she decides to do the same for no reason
I reached a breaking point recently, because of this exact kind of stuff, too. There's one mental health youtube channel I watch, and have been in the discord of, and everything else they've talked about has actually helped me immensely, but at some point I forgot one of the video she did was how therapists can't actually help you get a girlfriend, and that it's basically an impossible task. I then wound up following the advice I saw there, of things like
>go to bars
>go to clubs (like a book club, not a night club)
>go to meetups
>work on yourself
>become a regular at places

and a whole slew of other shit, and after over a year of doing so, with stuff like fighting games, this one bar/restaraunt/music venue I like, even going to animal shelters where there are actually women, it just went nowhere. Despite eventually being someone people looked forward to seeing at the locals, because I'd bring a really nice setup and fun weird niche games, I only really made one acquaintance there, and he and I have already fallen out of contact since I got sick of fighting games and decided to stop going. The girls at the cat place I could never get to actually talk about anything besides themselves, or complaining about shit, and when she used terms like "coded" and slathered praise onto the Barbie movie, I just kinda checked out and stopped going. There was a cute bartender girl at the music venue, and she seemed interested, but she stopped working on the days I showed up, and also I saw a ring on her left ring finger. That coupled with the fact that just being nice to dudes is part of her job, I didn't bother. And all the women there were close to twice my age, which, again, I'm basically 30. I really should not be the youngest guy at any social function I go to, but I always am.

I've got hobbies, projects, and two genuine (physically far away) friends (that I talk to online regularly), and I live a pretty good life overall. Like, to return the favor of what you said, I know how this'll sound since I'm some pathetic loner posting on /vt/ for a reason, but I doubt anyone would see me IRL and expect me to have close to five grand just sitting in the bank, and genuine business prospects in the future, but that's the kind of position I'm in. Even my job is really low stress, so I'm free to just work on shit throughout the day, but all of that feels kind of moot after all this. I've been "going out" for like around a year now, but I've been "working on myself" for at least seven, at this point. And by all accounts I did actually "make it" too. But I've wound up just kind of at a dead end, come to terms with the advice I've had being utter shit, and acknowledging my time is better spent just messing around with solo stuff I enjoy, and working on my pursuits.

>>57466798
You're not wrong, but you're also ignoring the obvious. It's fucking Overwatch 2. a terrible game that less people play than Holocure. I don't give a damn about Apex, LoL, Counter Strike, or whatever the current "MLG" shit is, but at least people play those.

>>48699562
>feral tribalfags
It's almost like we're a containment board of a containment board.

Was she allowed to just play like 5 songs or what? I want to see the shark clearing the 2hu songs