Thread 10958613

going to the anime convention near me annually has made me significantly less suicidal.

>Fifth "it's over" thread in a row gets instant replies
>Someone actually trying to be positive gets nothing
Take this bump, fren

good on ya, ive began to go to conventions more often to and its nice being able to talk to people

>>10959067
>>10959064
>>10958613 (OP)
you don't have friends, is that it? damn, that's tough, good luck

>>10959068
yeah

>>10959070
humanity is fucked up

It’s a neat thing to look forward to every year. I’m lucky to live in an area that gets 2-3 major cons per year.

>>10959068
OP here, yeah i don’t have friends but i always try to meet up with at least one person from /cgl/. nobody’s been local enough for it to stick though haha.

>>10958613 (OP)
Time to start going to more cons then!
>>10959098
I personally live in a fairly rural area so literally nobody I meet at cons is near me so they just remain as con friends

>>10959115
i usually don’t see them again at the next con unfortunately. i wish i had lasting con friends so i could maybe go to more cons with them in and out of my area in the future. always wanted to go to Colossalcon but it’s too far away.

I'm glad there are anime cons in my area in practically every month. Going to them made me realize how much I hated being so alone.

>>10959129
we used to have 2 in my area but Ohayocon moved locations a ways away. i heard it wasn’t great in the new area though .

I'm 27 and I went to a comic con in my city last week and 10 people asked to take pics with me and I let them but I didn't say anything else to them or try have a conversation because I thought it would be awkward. The convention I went to has a facebook group and there are people making posts asking if people had photos that they took with them. Would it be weird if I made a post in the group looking for friends around my age?

>>10959133
i don’t think that’d be weird anon
>>10959064
i forgot to thank you for this bump

>>10959116
I can tell by these posts who you are. I'll be your lasting con friend when I see you again in a couple weeks homie. Hope you get a little more involved in the rave this time, you disappeared abruptly last year. Regardless it's nice to know these cons have had such a positive effect on you.

>>10959220
is this internet stalking?

>>10959220
hell yeah feel free to say wassup if you see me. these threads stay up a long time so i’ll make posts when i’m at Matsuricon so anyone can come say hi.

>>10959228
Yes. I'm going to GET that motherfucker.
>>10959229
Hopefully there's a thread for the actual con like last year where there were a bunch of people talking about seeing eachother. Might make one myself if not.

>>10959116
>but it’s too far away
It's not too far for the guys I met there, who came from Manchester and Glasgow

>>10959098
your doing it right, however this is too ethereal, meaning by nature it doesn't last in time, so maybe look what hobbies or classes are doing a weekly rate meetings. I know of a dude that is an english native and camps english lessons just to socialize or some bullshit

>>10959229
>Matsuricon
Sweet. I'm not from the area but the state above. I'm thinking of going to Matsuri this year, but if you do go to any Michigan cons I'm down to hang.

>>10959266
I'll probably be at Youmacon or Otaku U in a few months if you're down to hang out.

>>10959272
i wanna hit Youmacon when i get the chance. i saw an old vlog type video of Youmacon and the venue it’s held in looks amazing.

how do i find people at conventions to xddkiss

bump

>>10959275
find me and i'll kiss you in a no homo kind of way
>>10959909
*touches you*

>>10958613 (OP)
>>10959072
Heck yea. Cons have made me super excited about life again. We have 2x big ones a year locally, january and july (some very small cons also exist). Planning and making cosplay over 6 months, go to con, repeat, is a really nice cycle.
>>10959133
>Would it be weird if I made a post in the group looking for friends around my age?
Not weird, but I would frame it for the con; "hey looking for people my age to meeting and hangout at the con", if you just ask "looking for friends" it might be removed as not relating to the convention. Also, meeting up at the con itself means no-stress if you don't vibe with them and can part ways.

downtown Columbus, Ohio i am currently inside of you

i had a good time at Matsuricon this year, i didn’t see anyone from previous years or meet up with anyone from /cgl/ but it was still a better time than the rest of the year.

>>10959274
Youmacon is a shell of it's former self. Barely worth the day.

>>10960381
Coulda tried to organize some sort of meetup, they used to do one at Colossal
>>10960391
Really? I went last year (for the first time, admittedly) and it seemed aight. Though I know the year before that was supposed to be a horrible shithow.

>>10960458
i posted some info to make myself recognizable in the Matsuricon thread but since i was always moving around organizing a meetup probably wouldn’t have worked

>>10960459
Yeah I saw that, but that's why you set up a time and place beforehand and stay in that spot at least for a bit. At Colossal it was at the bridge and some dude brought a shitload of pizza, was fun.

>>10958613 (OP)
anime conventions make people suicidal.

>>10960478
the opposite, actually

>>10959068
it's hard to make friends when everyone is already in an established social group, and hanging out with someone who's already by themselves at a con inevitably feels like a stray cat following you to get food, aka desperate

>>10960460
Lel, we probably met then. And I don't have it on hand but the picture of that meetup has been floating around on other boards

>>10960478
We don't talk about the ACEN group. That was a fluke that keeps happening.