I used to play cooperative video games where voice chat is strongly recommended.
Most of players online are retarded, but 1 in 20 is an interesting person.
There was 1 Polish teenager who lives in the Netherlands on free EU moneys and all he does is he talks badly about the EU and the Netherlands online in video games. Very entertaining.
My online friends were:
- a 60 y.o. retired carpenter from Florida
- another 50 y.o. American who is in the military
- a retired Australian
- a German
- another 30 y.o. American
Not real-real friends but it was still good.
For a quick single night game I had best luck with Germans, they seem mostly mentally intact. Worst experience - Latvia/Lithuania.