[PsYcNeT]

Outside of co-workers that I've become friendly with over the years (both mine and my wife's), the scatter of high school friends I still see infrequently, and the guys I go to hockey games with (there is overlap), my closest friend circles have come through video games (shocker, I'm sure) and D&D.

The best thing nowadays too is that you have a circle of friends that hang out on Discord when they're playing games or just at home (or on their phone) and you can shoot the ####, post dumb garbage and hit them up to come play Apex or whatever when you want to socialize. I'm sure it's the same on the PS/XBOX social networks as well. Most of us live in different cities, but the folks I'm closest with (Calgary, Red Deer, Lethbridge) will come by and LAN every couple months so we get down to it in person here and there.