I am an INFJ.. I have a small friend group consisting of 5. And I am the most extroverted one amongs them.
So, among them there is an INTP friend. Who is really liked by the girls of my school due to his girlish face and shyish face. And I am ( was ) his best friend. And a funny thing about him is that... Literally the boys say that if only he was born as a girl then they would have married him ( Lol )
I was his best friend until another guy took my place. Well I felt jealous for some reason.
Now now.... For the past 2 months ( school Holidays currently ) he has been kind of ignoring me. I mean even in school he seemed to start pushing me away without any reason. I text him online from time to time but he never replies, so I asked my other friends to check up on him and he apperantly replies to their text and acted normally in their chat...
He even plays games online with my ISFP friend
But why he keeps ignoring my messages and stuff.... I can't find an explanation. Did I do something bad.....
I never remember doing anything bad to him. I even often tell him that I will protect him until I find a suitable girl for him. ( Again lol )
I always did the talking in his place. Like that one time.. he hated being on bus due to motion sickness. And the girls wanted the window seats.( The boys gave the girls the window seat ) But I kind of started a mini fight with the girls bcs my INTP friend needed the window seat. He got the seat. But even after doing all of these things. My INTP friend wanted to sit with that guy one of my other friend. ( He didn't use his mouth to tell me, but I could understand somehow he meant that ).
So can someone tell me why that INTP who was once my best friend now doesn't like me. I know should post this question on the MBTI subreddit. But I felt like asking the INFJs bcs you guys understand what I say and give me the answers I need..

my hobbies and interests: listening to and making/producing metal music, playing instruments (mainly bass but can also play drums, keys, guitar), PC gaming (big fan of Fallout, Persona and Yakuza), collecting CDs and old tech, drawing, journalling, horror films, true crime, studying Japanese, geography, nature, weightlifting and strength training at the gym.
Check my profile and you can see a bit more about the stuff that I like.
I'm posting as I'm out of work and school due to disability (autism) so I don't have any friends IRL or any places to meet people, so I'm looking for long term friends who share a few interests in me. I have discord if you prefer to text there.
DO NOT dm me if: you're under 18 or over 25, you want advice, you want me to teach you something, you're looking to VC or game.
Please send me an intro, I won't reply to "Hi" "Hey" or anything that suggests you didn't bother to read my post lol

Hello everyone at GiftofGames, how are you all doing!!
I recently graduated from college and I'm struggling to find a job. It's really demoralising for me receiving rejection letters, I'm a big gamer and playing games is the only thing that has kept my morale up during these tough times. My financial situation is pretty dire right now, I can't afford to buy a lot of new games.
I'm currently looking to buy Horizon Forbidden West on my PS5. This is my 23rd attempt at requesting for this game. I played the first game on my PS4 and loved it. The standard edition of the game is currently on sale at $49.99. I'm looking for a $50 PlayStation gift card of US region.
GAME SUMMARY
The sequel to 2017's Horizon Zero Dawn, Horizon Forbidden West is set in a post-apocalyptic version of the Western United States recovering from the aftermath of an extinction event caused by a rogue robot swarm. The player can explore the open world and complete quests using ranged and melee weapons against hostile machine creatures.
Basically the game takes place in the far future where humanity almost gets destroyed by their advanced robotic creations. But it seems humanity have sort of gone backwards with their primitive clothing, implying that they haven't got the previous knowledge of their ancestors. The first game Horizon Zero Dawn, the protagonist Aloy discovers secrets about what happened to humanity, and its sequel is the continuation of this first game where she explores the far west of modern day america.
WHY I'M INTERESTED
The reason why this game appeals to me is the setting. I find it soo interesting how humanity was able to be on the brink of extinction and somehow managed to survive (I can't anymore due to spoilers). And after surviving, civilisation sort of went backwards instead of continuing on from the ancestors. I watch a lot of lore videos on youtube about this game, and there are many different stories hidden in the game world which tells us different perspectives of people on the situation. Even though its humanity that is in trouble, everybody has a different view on how to tackle the problem. But this is only touching the surface, there is also the robot machines created in these giant cauldrons that is a big mystery to this day.
I appreciate you taking the time to read my post and will give my thanks if I receive the gift card from you. Here is my PSN ID: https://psnprofiles.com/Revelanttech713
Game link: https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/horizon-forbidden-west/

Tldr at bottom
My mom let another young man live with us and it's been about 3 months now. He's not looking for a job and has been living off of mine and my boyfriends wifi. We actually just changed the password so we know he's not using that anymore but he still plays videos games all day long on my Xbox (it was left in the house [we live in an rv on the property] cause we've been using my boyfriends xbox and my mom just let him have it) at first it was fine, we weren't using it, he shouldn't be using it to much and shouldn't be here long. Well now he's still here, again isn't trying to look for a job at all, has actually asked me and my boyfriend to trade some of his food stamps for a bottle of alcohol or some wax several times now, doesn't shower either unless it's made a big deal that he fucking reeks (we have cats and thought it was there litter boxes at first. After a thorough clean we realized it was him...) just all kinds of issues. Well just recently he went to town to spend mother's day with his mom and came back talking about how he did this with that friend and that with another. But then he said that one of them, whom is homeless and lives in a shelter, offered to get him a spot and to help him out. Well apparently he turned that offer down saying no he likes where he is better. So I'm thinking he likes playing video games all day and isn't gonna leave or take any initiative to get off our couch and it's gonna come to the point my mom will kick him out. But if I can "break" my Xbox and he can't play games anymore that might, just might, light a fire under his ass. Any advice would be greatly appreciated
("Break" meaning not actually broken but something done to it where he can't play and I just gotta do this one little thing to make it work again. He's not very smart something simple should work)
Tldr: I need to know how to "break" my Xbox to get a young man with no will in life out of my house

Anyone else experiencing delays with graphical elements in the dock and whilst building? The dorm has always been a bit hit and miss with the speed of changing my shipgirls but the other areas are noticeable glitchier since the update. Game play seems to be fine. I hope there’ll be some optimisation updates because if my device (iPhone 13) is no longer able to support the game then I’m out.

Which one should I buy for my peace of mi nd in the future as I will be doing movies/series, reading books, playing games?

hi, after browsing this subreddit and asking chatgbt for hours i decided to make an account to ask here directly i was very young and the memory is very vague, the friend who showed me this game also showed me 'battle painters' by jjsoft, so the possibility is high that it wasn't even that known, or maybe it was from a cornflakes box? xD
Platform(s): I'm pretty sure it was on Windows, but i could be wrong
Genre: 3rd person, 3d, game about cars, i dont think it was about rallying or anything really, there were many hills and you would just drive and jump around, many colorful cars on one map, we played multiplayer on one pc
Estimated year of release: we played it around 2003-2008-ish, very possible it was released earlier tho
Graphics/art style: extremely simple, almost like my sketch, even the colors, just in badly rendered 3d graphics the cars also were without any detail, just one color, everything very bold and colorful, much eye-cancer the map was super simple in the same style, no roads i think, just some hills, one color
Notable characters: every lil car had a different color, not much else
Notable gameplay mechanics: super bouncy, rubber like game physics, the memory that stuck with me was that when jumping the wheels would fly far and come back, like i tried to show in the sketch
many cars spawned on one map
Other details: i fear thats the only info i got
thanks in advance for anyone trying to help! have a nice day :)

Alright so, I really loved this game for most of my playthrough. Discovering different facts about the world, unlocking my tools and doing everything was really fun. The main puzzles were really nicely designed IMO, the art is really nice, the music is cool, and it's an ACTUALLY optimized game which is such a rarity these days.
With all the being said, I'm a bit disappointment at the more advanced puzzles. I get that maybe it's just a skill issue, but to me, scouring a really big map looking for a tiny thing I haven't explored is not too fun. I found myself stuck during the main game several times, which wasn't very fun, but I did manage to do everything without any help (apart from the dog disc flame, since I thought it was ridiculous you have to actually put it in the slot while being chased, so I confirmed that with a video, and ended up doing it on my first try after, lol).
My least enjoyable moments came just before the last boss fight, because I somehow did not notice the boss area once I got the lantern, and so I wandered the map over and over again since I couldn't find a way to progress. I found some eggs using the lantern, but then what I did was the worst lol.
I'm not sure if it is known (I haven't seen it mentioned in my little bit of research), but from the top right area (bear teleport), there is an area close to the left of the telephone, where you can jump down the shute, and there are some vines to prevent you from disc/bubbling... however, you can actually bubble inside the disc, bypassing the bird and the vines, and then you can climb up. I managed to do that before getting the lantern, but of course, a bird white blocks you. However, after I figured out you can disable white birds with light, I went up there again (after like 15 attempts) and found the endgame area, the torus, the clock (however all of the doors now just say 000) and also the stopwatch. It was really cool realizing the map loops, but it did kinda take away the wow factor once I did actually realize there is an end game boss fight.
After being a little angry (at myself and at the game) that I wandered aimlessly for so long, I decided to look at some of the post game puzzles online, and I'll be real, I think they're too much, not something that's really fun at all, at least to me. I guess it's just a different way to play games, but I'm a bit sad that the game left a bit of a sour taste in my mouth because of the ending + post-game.
I'd still give it like an 8/10 because it really is a wonderful game in many aspects, especially in making you have that sense of wonder (some of my favorite surprises were the map looping, the fish heads being transports with bubbles (which I didnt realize the game was telling me), and accidentally discovering the control panel for the screen), I just wish it got that balance in it's latter parts a bit better.
:3

I got banned for 300 hours because I kept going afk, although it truly isn't my fault.
Every now and then my Val would crash in the beginning of a match and it causes the game to freeze up on the loading screen and no matter how long you wait it won't load, if I attempt to press a button or click it ends up crashing, making the game not respond in which I just have to close it using the task manager.
I also tried to reopen the app after, but, I found that it doesn't work as when I press the play on the launcher. the game never pops up and it just gets stuck saying that I'm already playing despite it not being open. The only way I could properly reconnect to the game/match is if I restart my computer then load up the game as fast as I could but by that time the game most likely is already at the end of the match or already ended.
I don't know how to fix it or how to stop it since I don't really experience lags, fps drops, etc. when I'm playing and the game loads properly. I'm not deliberately trying to go afk, I have no reason to considering I'm one of the ppl who still tries hard to win despite clearly losing so it's a bit upsetting after finding out I was banned for 300 hours while trying to play comp with my cousin.
I wanna know if there's a way to appeal this? Or at the very least am I allowed to make a new account to play with my cousin? Because that's the only reason I started playing again, I do wanna know if that would count as smurfing otherwise I'm not really sure on what to do then, I just wanna enjoy the game, if there was a fix for my crashing, I would do it in a heartbeat but I'm not to sure how to at all, afterall I don't wanna inconvenience my teams because of this problem I have, and I don't really wanna face a punishment for a problem I have no control over.

Hey guys, been a while since I've played the game but does anyone know if there's a way to turn the structures you've already built into ghosts you can just place elsewhere? Seemed to see Farket do something similar but don't know how to do it

I personally adore chaos shuffle but I’ve heard a lot of complaints that the game is ‘unplayable’ for some people because they can’t rely on their gen slowdown as killer or stuff like decisive strike as survivor
Would you enjoy the game if perks weren’t a thing? I never got to play lights out but I really enjoy playing the ‘fundamentals’ now and again with both sides, like taking all my perks off as killer to really learn my chases or switching off my crutch perks as survivor like Deja vu or sprint burst
Do you enjoy the basic gameplay of sneaking, chasing, looping etc when you can’t make a build through perks?
I never take gen regression as I find it boring (I use stuff like DMS and tremors for info on killers like Freddy) and it's strange to me that a lot of players can't seem to handle the game without these perks

Research Article: The Impact of Orochi Main Gameplay on Mental Health

Abstract

This study, conducted by Dr. G. Smith, investigates the potential correlation between playing Orochi in a popular online game and the likelihood of mental disability. The research aims to provide insights into how specific gaming behaviors might influence mental health. The study found that individuals who main Orochi have an 87% increased likelihood of developing mental disabilities compared to non-Orochi players.

Introduction

Video gaming is a widely popular activity with varying impacts on mental health. While some studies have shown positive cognitive benefits, others have raised concerns about potential adverse effects. This study focuses on players who main Orochi, a character in the game "For Honor," to assess the association between this specific gameplay and mental health outcomes.

Methods

Participants

A total of 1,000 participants were recruited for the study through gaming forums, social media platforms, and online gaming communities. The participants were divided into two groups: - Orochi Mains (n=500): Individuals who exclusively or predominantly play as Orochi. - Non-Orochi Players (n=500): Individuals who play other characters or diversify their gameplay.

Inclusion Criteria

• Participants must have at least 200 hours of gameplay.
• Ages between 18 and 45 years.
• No prior diagnosis of mental disability before the onset of playing "For Honor."

Exclusion Criteria

• Participants with a history of mental disability prior to playing the game.
• Participants who play multiple characters equally.

Data Collection

Data were collected using a combination of self-reported surveys and psychological assessments. The survey included questions on gaming habits, frequency, duration, and character preference. Psychological assessments were conducted using standardized tools, including: - The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28) - The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) - The Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI)

Procedure

1. Recruitment: Participants were recruited online and provided informed consent.
2. Survey and Assessment: Participants completed the initial survey and psychological assessments.
3. Follow-up: Assessments were repeated after six months to monitor changes in mental health status.

Statistical Analysis

Data were analyzed using SPSS software. Logistic regression was used to determine the likelihood of developing mental disabilities in Orochi mains compared to non-Orochi players. Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated. A p-value of <0.05 was considered statistically significant.

Results

The logistic regression analysis revealed that Orochi mains have a significantly higher likelihood of developing mental disabilities (OR: 1.87; 95% CI: 1.50-2.34, p < 0.001) compared to non-Orochi players. The primary mental health issues identified were increased levels of anxiety and depression.

Discussion

The findings suggest a strong correlation between maining Orochi and an increased likelihood of mental disabilities. Several factors may contribute to this correlation: - The competitive and stressful nature of playing Orochi. - Potential social isolation due to intense gaming habits. - In-game experiences and interactions that could negatively impact mental health.
Further research is needed to explore the underlying mechanisms and to establish causation. It is also important to consider other confounding factors such as personality traits and pre-existing conditions.

Conclusion

This study highlights a significant association between playing as Orochi in "For Honor" and an increased likelihood of mental disabilities. These findings underscore the need for awareness and preventive measures in the gaming community to mitigate potential mental health risks.

References

• Beck, A. T., Steer, R. A., & Brown, G. K. (1996). Beck Depression Inventory-II. Psychological Corporation.
• Goldberg, D. P., & Hillier, V. F. (1979). A scaled version of the General Health Questionnaire. Psychological Medicine, 9(1), 139-145.
• Spielberger, C. D. (1983). State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Adults. Consulting Psychologists Press, Inc.

Penge nga tips paano nagrarank-up mga tamad magrange LOL. Anyways I'm currently on B3. I usually play gabi, hapon or madaling araw depende sa trip. Madalas 3 man din w/ frens pero lately nagsolo din aq.
I also have other games like Human Fall Flat, Don't Starve Together, Project Zomboid, L4D2, Overcooked 2.
HMU!

Hello Duelists,
recently i got more into master duel and i made it past gold 3 but now i dont even get to play the game anymore since they always surrender immediately when the game starts. Are these bots? Can i get banned for win trading?

So, me and my brother usually share with each other the games that we buy on our own accounts (he bought Elden Ring and shared it with me and I bought The Binding of Isaac and shared it with him). Im curious about one thing: if i buy a SteamDeck and connect my Steam account to it, would I be able to play the games my brother bought but that he shares with me even if he is playing on PC and I on SteamDeck? P.S. sorry if the grammar sucks but im not a native english speaker

My great grandma’s name was I kid you not Granny Evelyn, had us call her granny. My memories with her were playing in her garden picking raspberries and her teaching me how to make her shortbread cookie recipe. I love video game granny and it just warms my heart how similar they are. She’s the kindest soul.

I remember a long while back I saw the game. I want to say it was played by Vinny Vinesauce but I can’t remember and if it was he deleted it. But it was a sort of mock desk top horror game.
Its art style was initially cute and light looking and you’d watch videos of these little rabbit/lemming creatures go around and do things(occasionally getting to control them) and read digital diaries/documents. As you progress deeper into the game the themes get darker and more grim, with the videos and mini games of the little creatures getting darker and violent and the diary entries met the same fate.
I cannot for the life of me remember what it is called or if I am remembering the right person who played it. I have scrolled all through YouTube, looked all over the internet, and have watched hours of videos discussing lost media video games and horror games with a fake desktop. Every time, without fail, I come up empty handed.
I am hoping someone here can give me some idea of what this game was or at least remember that it was around at some point.. I just want to make sure I am not insane and imagined an entire video game and YouTube let’s play…

Hey guys, I've played 25 hours with Xenoverse 2 but suddenly, it stops working yesterday. When I launch the game, it immediately make me come back to the OS after a short black screen.
I tried to uninstall the game, remove all contents (all contents, all files etc) but nothing changes. I can't play Xenoverse 2 anymore. I cleaned absolutely everything and I reinstalled the game 2 times but always the same problem : an immediate crash at launch... I also tried to disable the cloud save etc...
Someone have an idea please ? Thank you :)