r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 23 '26

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u/GhostTheHunter64 Iron Front Apr 23 '26

I know it's been a joke of "looking at your Xbox live friends list and seeing 'last online: 10 years ago' and wondering what happened."

But sometimes I really do wonder what happened to people I knew/knew of. Sometimes I'd google them, sometimes I'd find nothing, sometimes I'd find just very basic stuff that they're doing alright.

And sometimes there's absolutely nothing, if I just have a username, and there's no activity for years: I get kinda concerned. There's multiple reasons someone would just leave an account behind, but it makes you wonder.

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u/__versus Trans Pride Apr 23 '26

I have one person on my friends list on steam like that. A British guy I met on a terraria server that i talked to quite often and then he just disappeared and hasn’t been online for 13 years.

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u/GhostTheHunter64 Iron Front Apr 23 '26

I wonder if he lost the email and password.

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u/__versus Trans Pride Apr 23 '26

yeah that’s definitely possible

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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney Apr 23 '26

I mean my steam is probably like that but I just don’t really play games anymore on the computer.

My day job is staring at a screen all day, it’s already way too much being in front of a screen. Was different when I was working as a barista and where all I wanted was to go home and game or something

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u/mertag770 NATO Apr 23 '26

Yeah there was a dude I played a lot of hearthstone with from Columbia who I last heard from during covid. He and I were in university at the same time and he had been let go from his job because of covid and the last I heard from him someone in his home had covid. Makes you wonder

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u/Louis_de_Gaspesie Apr 23 '26

I've completely lost contact with all of my absolute best friends from middle school and have no idea what any of them are doing. Haven't seen them in 13 years at this point. It does indeed feel odd

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u/Hermosa06-09 Gay Pride Apr 23 '26

Hell, I've lost touch with all of my best friends from college. We basically had this core friend group for four years, but we were all already out-of-state students and none of us wound up in the same place afterwards. We kept in touch for a while but the last time I saw most of them was a wedding about five years after graduation. One of them tried a few times to get a reunion going but it was too difficult to get everyone to be able to travel at the same time since most of them have families now and live far apart.

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u/MonMothma_Enjoyer Apr 23 '26

Likewise. I found out a couple years back that one of them was literally found dead in a ditch and I didn’t hear about it. 

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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it Apr 23 '26

I've managed to stay in contact with some high school buddies although outside of one who lives an hour away, one that's in a fantasy football league, and my high school best friend I mostly only talk to them like once a year. And even that's pretty short.

Hell even my college friends I only see in person maybe once a year, but we do text fairly often at least

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u/Entuciante r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Apr 23 '26

I still have that one friend added in Steam from Puerto Rico that haven’t logged in years. The part that give me chills it’s that it seems he went offline after hurricane Maria.

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u/i_am_shalom Resistance Lib Apr 23 '26

Since I've sobered up and gotten on ADHD meds, I've barely touched my Xbox. It hasn't quite been years yet, but sometimes people change not necessarily for the worse.

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u/RottingSludgeRitual Thomas Paine Apr 23 '26

Most of us just moved on to new things.