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Re:Nearly Half of Americans Are Lonely by goldenkey on Friday August 03, 2018 @02:48PM (#17682496)
I see it as a poor substitute. I'm in many many Discords and 95% of the active users refuse to join voice chat. Text is inefficient for resolving miscommunications and it, at least for me, is aggravating when 30 seconds of fast talk could have sufficed
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Re:Nearly Half of Americans Are Lonely by OP9000 on Friday August 03, 2018 @05:10PM (#17683642)
For some people like you, theres no mental cost associated with speaking on the phone. For the rest of us, the mental barrier is huge. Imagine the amount of mental effort required to, say, pack and move your house - the dread is on the same level. Why? I don't really know. I'm very social in person.
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Re:Nearly Half of Americans Are Lonely by Nav_Panel on Friday August 03, 2018 @03:00PM (#17682630)
Yeah, agreed. I'm also in plenty of Discords, yet I still recall my most meaningful online social interaction involved spending hours just chilling in a Vent server with my WoW guild.

I think this is an underappreciated feature of "grinding": it gives players a great excuse to put in time and build social bonds.

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