I really miss playing games with like minded people
but the internet has made this the quest for the grail.

I mostly play multiplayer only with friends, so I obviously end up with like-minded people ;)

If I wanted to find other gaming companions through the Internet, I think I would explicitly avoid gaming forums. I would instead open threads about games in other forums I follow that have other thematics, ensuring that in addition to games the people answering have at least another common topic with me.

Oh boy I love it when half the entire opening post is just the title, repeated.

I, on the other hand, don't understand why people, while deciding to create a thread, don't check their title multiple times, for possible mistakes, before they quickly press "Post my message"! Unfortunately, mistakes at the subject (title) can't be corrected.

Why, and what do you mean by "like minded"?
Is it enough that they happen to like the same games, or do they have to also believe in aliens and their political views must match yours?

If I play Team Fortress 2 online, I don't know the people I am playing against, and I actually prefer it that way. Obviously they don't have to be "like minded" with me. We settle our differences with guns.

I dont like hivemind echo chambers.

Found the team player of the ''team''. :>
Favorite class: Rambo-medic
Screw you Jimmy's! Team? What team? There's just me and the people I carry!

Joking aside - you could vote to mute players in certain MP games. I wonder if that's still the case.
Mute & play. Just the way it should be. Can't get more like-minded than that.
Except when the teamkilling starts.

My team sucks! I want another team!

It also indicates they actually typed the sentiment twice on purpose, which is worse than how it seems to usually happen where the beginning content is automatically used to fill unused title space.

As someone who has been in the top 1% of medic players in several Battlefield games, this is the only way to play ;)

I miss when people thought the Principality of Zeon were the bad guys, and didn't think that Lord Zabi/Zavi had a point.

Am more than willing to engage any other Mensa members at all levels on any platform in any venue. ;--))

Luckily in Team Fortress 2 you can't kill your own team members. In the original Quake Team Fortress and/or Team Fortress Classic, I think it was possible at some point but it was removed when idiots started messing with their own team.

There were other ways to annoy your team members as well, e.g. I recall in Quake Team Fortress when teamkilling was disabled, some idiot engineers would build a dispenser in front of the spawn point exit, as an impediment. Since your team members couldn't destroy the dispenser (teamkilling was disabled, remember?), your team members couldn't exit the spawn point, which was kinda funny I admit but very annoying.

Nowadays there is a votekick option so people who annoy their team will get kicked out quite fast from the ongoing game.

To me, in a team game like Team Fortress 2, for "like-minded" it is enough that:

For my teammates:

- play the game, don't just stand (no I don't like "friendlies" who do nothing in the game) or dabble doing nothing useful
- don't cheat

For the opposing team:

- don't cheat
- don't whine that our team actually plays the game, e.g. captures the flag (= "capping").

I don't mind the whining that much but whenever someone starts that same old whining, I ask them:

"This game is all about capping. Why would you join a game where the objective is to capture the flag, and then start whining about other people actually doing that? Do you also whine if people score goals in football, or throw the ball to the basket in basketball?

If you don't like capping, wrong game buddy. Play Fortnite instead, it has no capping.".

Did Mike Pondsmith also steal the like-minded people or was that someone else?

@OP - I guess you probably need to define what like minded means in your case.

For me personally, there is some variability. But as far as the basics go, they have to like the same game, and like playing it with me, and like when and where we play it. Everything after that is probably negotiable, except I guess we have to like how each of us play the game.

I guess there could be other things to like .... how often we want a break, and how long for.

Maybe we like to dress up while playing a game or like to be naked ... or wear a hat.
Maybe we like to drink beer or wine or spirit while playing.
Maybe we like to live in the same country.

Like Minded can mean so many things.

How so? Just play with RL friends. The internet has made that easier, not harder. Since you can play remotely with each other now.