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This is the bourgeoisie but with $50,000 watches and $500,000 cars and $5,000,000 homes.

Also I suffer the same ailment but for me it definitely comes from this era of no "go-to pick up and play online multiplayer game". BF 1942, Halo 2, Halo 3, OG Cod 4, TF2, Cod MW2, Bad Company 3, early GTA online, even WoW in its first few years all occupied this space at some point (TF2 the longest), but they're all either gone, hallowed out, low pop dead, or the current iteration is enshittified asscheeks. The closest I can get is fiesta mode in Halo Infinite of all things, but there's also no social culture in anything now cause voice chat is off for everything. If you have a tight group of friends for co-op, there's a steady stream of meme games like Lethal Company, but all the previously mentioned games you could have just as good of a time solo in pubs, which makes a lot of difference.