That's good to know!

Are you sure you're not taking any performance-enhancing substances?
I certainly feel like I've gotten slower with age. But then I never was that fast to begin with. Oh well, I suppose I've got wisdom or something instead, lol.

I wish I could make friends online.It's hard (for me at least).
I do have made acquaintances.

i just turned 31 last month. i prefer playing videogames to watching movies at this point.

I drink coffee quite a lot, if that matters.

There of course may be individual differences, but I recall reading quite a long time ago about some study about reflexes, and from that I recall getting the idea that reflexes don't deteriorate that much with age (unlike physical strength etc.). Then again who knows, maybe newer studies say the opposite.

Anyway, my only anecdotal evidence is that when I play now some action games I used to play as a kid or teen or 20s-something, I don't normally get the feeling "wow this is hard, I can't believe how I ever could play this".

More often it is the opposite, some games that I might have found overly hard as a kid feel considerably easier nowadays. Not because my reflexes would have become better with age (of course they haven't), but maybe it is just easier to see the game mechanism in different (older simpler) games nowadays and be able to exploit them. Like, seeing how the game AI works in those old games. Like some kind of gathered wisdom over the years, how games and computer AI tend to behave.

Then again, if there was some action game which specifically tests only your reflexes and eye-hand coordination (and not also tactics, teamwork, memorization etc.), I wouldn't be surprised I would get lower scores now that I am older, than back when I was a teen. But, hardly any games especially nowadays are only about reflexes. Even Team Fortress 2, it has quite many different classes and styles to play, e.g. playing an engie, heavy or pyro is much less about fast reflexes than e.g. playing a sniper or a scout. I am a so-so sniper but then I've never really liked that class, even back in the Quake TeamFortress days like over 20 years ago or so. I try it occasionally just for laughs, and I manage to get some headshots to moving targets.

I've said it many times before that I don't really have "gaming friends", ever since my childhood. Back then rest of my friends kinda "grew out" of video games, while I never did. My "closest friends" are actually my siblings (they are not gamers either, some of their kids are), and even they are not that close to me (as in, seeing them weekly or anything). Then I of course have colleagues at work, but I rarely am in contact with them outside the work. I just don't feel like I'd want to, I have enough activities without additional friends.

For online games, I don't really see why I would need friends. When I join a public casual Team Fortress 2 server, I just want to join a team with total strangers and try to win the game with them. In fact I kinda prefer doing it with total strangers than "real life friends". As I keep saying in TF2 online matches if some idiots start whining about me playing too good and killing them repeatedly: "I am not here to make friends, but enemies.". So there.

If I was playing with real-life friends, especially against them, I presume people who are doing poorly would lose interest fast and just leave the game. No such problem when playing with strangers, if someone leaves your team or the enemy team in disgust, usually a new player joins the team quite soon (and the game autobalances the teams anyway if many players leave one team).

Maybe it is different in MMORPGs or truly competitive team games, there you have to have a team of friends who are constantly in direct contact and try to agree on tactics and strategies beforehand, everyone has a specific role in the team which was agreed beforehand etc.

Yeah that's definitely a thing with me too. Even the best friend who got me a Switch, he barely played games for a decade before that. He got divorced and I think that's why he went back to it. I myself didn't play games at all for a few years not that long ago, but got dragged back in by Deux Ex 4 and Dishonored 2.

Telling someone to their face..."You're a mistake.", I'm not sure that would be well received, even if you add "the best".

Yes .. and why are you telling me this?

Not here. I live on Discord.

I'm basically a shy rabbit in real life, and a social mothra online.

Nothing. It was just a bloop.

I think still having any kind of friend by the time you reach 30 is already a great achievement in itself.

Sad but true.

Interesting.