As someone who doesn't play with friends either:
If the games don't need communication to be good, play em anyway. Go for solo performance and if the team wants to whinge then it's their fault for being mutable. I give everyone a chance, mute them if they spam or go squeaker, it's honestly not that common to be an issue these days even in games like COD
I recently saw one PAINTED matte chalk WHITE! The bevels (idk what else to call them, the space between the panels) as still very clearly stainless steel though so it was a steel outline and then BLINDING WHITE
It looked god awful, but was unfortunately in the incoming and thus gone before I could risk mine and everyone around me's lives for internet points (though it would have been an honorable death we can all admit)