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Like, don't get me wrong, I had plenty of friends as a youth and while in college. But as an adult- aka, having a job, house, car and spouse, I can instantly recognize the fact that I have no friends. And I'm ok with this. In fact, I prefer it. I text no one, have zero social media presence, never interact with other humans except in cases of necessity, and I'm happy. However, this long period without interaction has definitely had its drawbacks. It's extremely difficult for me to converse with fellow humans. And now I don't want to have friends because I don't like getting out of my routine or schedule. Meeting up with people on a Friday or Saturday night? How am I supposed to wake up early, poo poo, then go to the gym? I like what I like. and having zero friends is what I like.
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I’ve got like two irl friends that I talk to regularly, about 570 online ones.
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Feb 22, 2020 04:25
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Calling it, Countdown to suicide.
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Feb 22, 2020 04:27
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I have several. Most are over 60 and Unitarians. Dunno why. Oh yeah cause they have good weed and you can admit to being a democrat in their presence and they won’t tell you “liberals get the bullet, too”.
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Feb 22, 2020 04:28
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Nigmaetcetera posted:I have several. Most are over 60 and Unitarians. Dunno why. Oh yeah cause they have good weed and you can admit to being a democrat in their presence and they won’t tell you “liberals get the bullet, too”. Aren't those the bad guys from Dead Space?
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Feb 22, 2020 04:29
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Yeah I got 3: TV, videogames, and semi-erotic wizard fiction
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Feb 22, 2020 04:30
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I have 3 friends that I get together with once a month, and 6 friends that try to get together twice a year (though it sometimes works out that someone can't make it, usually the guy who literally lives 3500 miles away now). There is some overlap, but not 100%.
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Feb 22, 2020 04:32
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The Bananana posted:Aren't those the bad guys from Dead Space? Never played it. It would be kind of weird if the bad guys in that game were a bunch of Star Trek-style humanists. Unless things went horribly wrong, of course, which sounds pretty cool.
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Feb 22, 2020 04:32
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Yeah I do and we do fun things together on weekends or when they don't have to watch their kids for the evening
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Feb 22, 2020 04:36
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Burt Sexual posted:I’ve got like two irl friends that I talk to regularly, about 570 online ones. Burt that's really not the intended use of the probation function.
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Feb 22, 2020 04:38
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Twat McTwatterson posted:I can instantly recognize the fact that I have no friends. And I'm ok with this. In fact, I prefer it. I text no one, have zero social media presence, never interact with other humans except in cases of necessity, and I'm happy. Can relate. The spouse is the only "friend" I really need. She knows me more than anyone else ever did and ever could, and loves me for all I am (or despite of it?). Beyond that I have close acquaintances that I have semi-regular contact with through my SJW online media and documentary work (that's all I'm gonna say for fear of doxxing myself), wonderful people that I'm at the same wavelength with both professionally, politically, socially and the occasional get together, but ultimately I too can say I'm happy with how things are as they are. There was a time where the parties were more frequent, the intoxicated getting-to-know-a-bunch-of-randoms-on-the-surface were enjoyable... in my mid-thirties now, things are, I feel, where they should be. Thanks OP, I feel good about my life right now. Voting 5.
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Feb 22, 2020 04:40
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dudeness posted:Yeah I got 3: TV, videogames, and semi-erotic wizard fiction Call me when you drop the 'semi-', rook.
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dudeness posted:Yeah I got 3: TV, videogames, and semi-erotic wizard fiction So when you have me put on the hat and robe, it's only semi-enjoyable? Not gonna pretend that doesn't hurt.
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Feb 22, 2020 04:42
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I can finally afford to party as hard as I want but everybody is now bogged down with kids so I just do stuff with my wife exclusively.
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Feb 22, 2020 04:43
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knowing people in person is overrated
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Feb 22, 2020 04:46
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I dont have friends but sid is my online frenemy and isaac is my online enemy.
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Feb 22, 2020 04:47
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I used to have house party’s with 30 people or more. Now I nap.
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Kibbles n Shits posted:I can finally afford to party as hard as I want but everybody is now bogged down with kids so I just do stuff with my wife exclusively. Drug your friends’ kids, you just doubled your friends. You can thank me when you’re on parole.
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start a nerd game night OP. or 'board game night' if you think of yourself as 'too cool for nerd poo poo'. or any routine get together, really. it's the routine that keeps things going in my opinion
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Feb 22, 2020 04:48
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I play in a lovely rock cover band and I practice martial arts so I do have some friend like social interactions. But outside of my spouse nobody with any sort of deeper personal connection beyond a shared hobby. I also work from home so it does get lonely tbqh.
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In the south outside of the big cities, it's weird if you move away and break this unspoken "unit". Everyone knows everybody in their grade-range growing up, regardless of what school you go to or where you live. People act like we're supposed to stay together forever and those who don't get this really weird treatment, where people talk about them like they're dead and -freak out- almost like a golden retriever greeting their master, should the person/people return back to their hometown. I have both real life and online friends. I have friends that were real life and are now online because of moving circumstances. I have friends online that I dearly wish were close enough to be real life friends. And I have people I haven't spoken to since middle school who run into my mom at the grocery store and are the exact same person they were 20 years ago, get in touch, and still remember factoids about poo poo I liked back then. They still like it. Sometimes I still like it, too. But it's this weird, hazy thing, like these people just froze and never expanded beyond the last we spoke.
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Pitdragon posted:start a nerd game night OP. or 'board game night' if you think of yourself as 'too cool for nerd poo poo'. or any routine get together, really. it's the routine that keeps things going in my opinion But be prepared for at least a third of respondents to be seriously dysfunctional. There's a reason why people lonely enough to go to a stranger's game night are that lonely. I have a few friends but I'm single. There were a few rough years there where they were raising young kids and everything had to revolve around that but now that the kids are teenagers we get to do grownup stuff.
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Feb 22, 2020 05:00
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Me! I'll be real, it's hard to make keep friends but its good.
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Feb 22, 2020 05:01
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I have adult friends. We drink beer together at our kids birthday parties. Then sometimes we put a movie on in the basement and play records and order takeout and drink more. It's pretty fun.
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Burt Sexual posted:I used to have house party’s with 30 people or more. Now I nap. For my stepson's 18th birthday, he had about 60 people in the house. Me and the (much older than me, obviously) mother arrived not too long after it had reached its peak. We were pissed.* *E: we kicked everyone out. That's when I realized I was now an old, way before my time. Bronze Fonz fucked around with this message at 05:26 on Feb 22, 2020 |
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Scott Lame posted:But be prepared for at least a third of respondents to be seriously dysfunctional. There's a reason why people lonely enough to go to a stranger's game night are that lonely. Where do I meet all these disgusting Zero Charisma dudes? I’m seriously tired of gaming with normals.
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Feb 22, 2020 05:17
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friends is byob poo poo, grow up
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Feb 22, 2020 05:21
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this lady from the internet just moved into my apartment and started making my lunch and doing laundry and poo poo and i dont really understand
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youre posted:friends is byob poo poo, grow up You need to be less angry. Make some friends.
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Feb 22, 2020 05:28
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does the lord count as a friend?
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Feb 22, 2020 05:29
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gary oldmans diary posted:does the lord count as a friend? what miracles can you do?
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Burt Sexual posted:I’ve got like two irl friends that I talk to regularly, about 570 online ones.   ]
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Kibbles n Shits posted:I can finally afford to party as hard as I want but everybody is now bogged down with kids so I just do stuff with my wife exclusively. all the friends i made over the years got to know eachother and have settled in to some kind of hippie commune style of childcare where someone who's busy with poo poo at home watches peoples kids while everyone else goes out to get hammered. seems to work pretty well. helps that all my friends are broke alcoholics with mental problems and they know it so o ly a few had kids because most of them know better than to inflict their genetic timebomb dna on others
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Feb 22, 2020 05:35
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I have a girlfriend and most of my friends were her friends first so my recommendation to OP is get a sociable partner and leech off their social life
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Feb 22, 2020 06:17
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Burt Sexual posted:You need to be less angry. Make some friends. can we be friends
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Feb 22, 2020 06:18
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Vegetable posted:I have a girlfriend and most of my friends were her friends first so my recommendation to OP is get a sociable partner and leech off their social life Unironically a thousand times this.
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Feb 22, 2020 06:24
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I only have lovers.
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Feb 22, 2020 06:25
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If you ever find yourself referring to other people as "fellow humans", maybe seek therapy.
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Feb 22, 2020 06:26
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The greatest part of being an adult is the validation that it's okay to not have friends.
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I've got one friend who really is just a guy I get hosed up with a lot.
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