I'm 26 and have no IRL friends since December 2014. I haven't had anyone over since 2015. How do I make a friend?

>>81670972 (OP)
Dont know. Can you tell me?

>>81670972 (OP)
>>81670977
Love All, Serve All
Help Ever, Hurt Never

>>81670972 (OP)
join a hobby club, go to bars/night club, go to cons, etc.
but why do i even bother, you're not going to go anywhere anyways

>>81671008
Generic advice. Just be a good person bro reddit tier advice. This board has gone to shit.

>>81670972 (OP)
Its too late anon you just gotta delude yourself into hating everyone.

>>81670972 (OP)
I'm not really in a position to give advice but I think the best bet is to volunteer or join a church, most friendships happen because of proximity and common interests, lasting friendships if you both share values and core beliefs. If you're socially retarded and can't do face to face then just get used to being alone I guess, that's what I'm doing.

>>81671029
>>81671106
I go social dancing every weekend and, beyond dull small talk, I haven't made any friends. Just casual acquaintances that wave and say hi to me. I also took classes for years. I have social problems. I just wish I had a few friends to do things with, it's not fun to do stuff alone.
>>81671076
That's letting the demons possess your mind. Not even kidding. They want you to be evil and hateful.

>>81670972 (OP)
I'm 25 and haven't had a friend since 2015. You're asking the wrong crowd. But I'm very good at making friends. You just have to offer to do shit for people or invite them to come with you to do things over and over. Eventually, people agree and start depending on you, and there you go. The issue is that keeping someone long enough to be a real friends is more complicated and requires social skills as well as an emotional capacity, which you lack because you were abandoned by society.

All you have to do to make a friend, though, is be kind and generious. Loyalty, honesty, and humor aren't required for making one, but necessary if you want them to last. Yes, I did learn this from watching MLP and thinking about it. Yes, it actually works. You just have to trust in the ponies, bro. They know what they're doing. No, you probably won't be able to just have friends suddenly after not having them for half your life. You will most definitely self-sabatoge because it's uncomfortable to take on a new identity. Yes, you have society to blame. No, they don't care and will hate your guts no matter what side of the political spectrum you're on, so don't bring it up.

>>81671162
talk me through an average convo you would have with folks
like, what do you start with, what do you say, how you act, etc.

>>81671180
>friend
>>81671180
>generious

>>81671180
based horsefucker

>>81671180
Thanks
>>81671182
I pretty much don't talk to anyone IRL, I don't know what to do beyond "How hi are you?" Overall, I feel as if I don't like talking. I prefer doing things. I used to game with this dude, and he would start discussing some random thing he saw online instead of gaming. Like, I don't care, let's go play some games.

>>81671242
huh
you may be unironically autistic

>>81671256
No, I don't have autistic symptoms and I can read emotions, facial expressions, etc. I just don't generally enjoy talking to people, because I have niche interests and don't care about discussing the weather, what happened at the workplace, or some other bs. I also have social anxiety because I was a loner in middle and high school. Seeing a group of people triggers a fight or flight response.

>>81671332
if we lived closer, i'd hang out with you man
>niche interests
pray tell

>>81671354
I'm a big fan of Warhammer 40K and Fantasy, for instance. I'm not going to walk up to some normie and start telling them about the lore, they likely don't care about such things. I also like programming.

>>81671464
there you go, why not join a 40k hobby club?
if you have, and you don't vibe, maybe you just have to let loose man

>>81670972 (OP)

The Big Bang Theory did a whole episode on this.
>Talk to someone who is like you
>Find out their interests
>Invite them to a specific thing
>Repeat

Fyi, you may need to spend a considerable amount of time researching things. What hobbies do you have?

>>81671536
I said some stuff on this earlier but I have some things that I do, but I only ever make casual acquaintances from these events. I don't really hang out with them outside of that. Why is it up to me to invite people? How come no one seems to invite me to anything?

>>81671597
>Why is it up to me to invite people?
This is why you have no friends. Most people already have friends and busy lives. If you want to be included, you need to put in some effort. Once you plan some things and hang out a few times, you would expect them to return the favor and invite you out places. If that doesn't happen, you can decide if it's worth continuing a one-sided relationship.

>>81671193
The reason many people don't come to you is the same reason you don't come to them. They think they're unwanted and don't know how to approach. If you make it easy for them and make your intentions clear what you want, then they will appraoch. This involves, obviously, being generious with your time and kind to strangers frequently enough that they "know a guy" and that guy is you.

However, you shouldn't just be generious in the sense that you're signaling to people you can be taken advantage of. Obviously, distance yourself from those people. There is always a degree of risk that your kindness will be exploited, and you will be bullied and disrespected, usually by cunts, if you let yourself be. See what happens to simps.

It happened to Fluttershy and Rarity over and over again but they usually got their asses bailed out by the Twilight, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack(who represent generational wealth, honesty, and loyalty). You don't have those kinds of friends in the first place to protect you, so you've got to protect yourself and not talk to anybody again for a year or so every once in a while to keep them guessing. You need to be okay with isolation because if you're not, your desperation will be used against you as a way to siphon resources from you for worse than minimum wage. You have to project the image that you have a life outside of the person you're giving the chance to, but that you do, in fact, still care about them.

WANT to be generious with people; don't NEED to be. When they realize you're doing all this because you have no friends, they will look at the situation more as a trade rather than a gift and they will either 1. Not feel comfortable and feel obligated to give you stuff in return so leave instead or 2. Realize the leverage they have over you and exploit you until somebody else steals you away from them or you quit being generious.

>>81671242
Godspeed
>>81671231
Based robot

Fun fact: no one over 30 has any actual friends

>>81671106
Yeah, churches are underrated. At first you might see is only old people but once you get involved (not believing their tripe, just like in their events and stuff) you see they have this network of people you can befriend or at least get help with to sharpen your social skills