What the fuck do people even do for entertainment nowadays? I'm 31. Growing up, I'd try to go outside to play after school and on weekends, but there were never any other kids outdoors. I'd spent hours walking and biking around looking for them, but I was the only one out there. So I ended up back at home playing video games, watching TV, or being on the internet alone. The only time I ever saw or interacted with other kids was at school.

Same thing in my 20s. Whenever I wasn't at work, I'd be out trying to meet people my age but everywhere is empty. So again, I end up back at home playing video games and browsing the web alone.

What the fuck do people do when they're not at work or school?

https://www.techradar.com/gaming/playstation/after-concords-flop-sony-admits-its-live-service-plan-is -not-entirely-going-smoothly-but-says-it-will-continue-and-learn-from-its-mistakes

>During a recent Q&A session after the company's latest financial results (via VGC), one caller asked the panel of executives for an update on PlayStation's live-service strategy amid the delay of Marathon and following the shutdown of Concord.

>In response, Sony's chief financial officer Lin Tao said that she still believes in live-service games, despite recent negativity, explaining that other games like Helldivers 2 and Destiny 2 have managed to produce a steady revenue stream that didn't exist five years ago.

>"Last year Concord [shut down], and this year Marathon was postponed, so somewhat negative news has been coming out," said Tao (via an interpreter).

>"But if we look at the past five years, five years ago live service games were almost non-existent for PlayStation Studios. We [now] have Helldivers 2, MLB The Show, and Gran Turismo 7, and Bungie’s Destiny 2, so we have these four live services contributing to sales and profits in a stable manner."

>"So in terms of the transformation, it’s not entirely going smoothly, but from a longer-term perspective, if you look at the changes over five years, you see that there’s definitely been a change," Tao said.

Why are video game protagonists all aromantic/asexual now unless it's a dating sim or an RPG where the protagonist is "you"?

We're seeing a huge uptick in people trying to do things well past the age that they should have been doing them (but couldn't due to financial or mental issues), but now that they're financially/mentally secure enough to do them, the experiences don't live up to the hype, and those people fall back into the same state they were in before.

>be 31
>spent my entire childhood, teens, and the 20s going out every day after school/work
>literally no one my age anywhere, so day ends with me back at home alone, playing video games, watching TV or using the internet to cope

>be 31
>spent my entire childhood, teens, and the 20s going out every day after school/work
>literally no one my age anywhere, so day ends with me back at home alone, playing video games, watch TV or using the internet to cope

What has been going my entire life? Where is my age group? Where do they socialize and hang out at?

Why the fuck do I not get any real advice when I ask where to go make friends and meet girls? All I get is generic shit like bars, clubs, and hobbies. I.E. shit I've already done and wouldn't be asking if they worked.

Or some vague shit like "be yourself". Therapy wasn't any different. It was all vague bullshit, shit I've already done but gotten no results, or the same empty platitudes I've been hearing since middle school. Or they try to gaslight you into thinking you're the problem when you tell them their crappy advice doesn't work.

Why does anyone give any legitimate advice on this subject? Is it all just a game of luck?

Where the fuck do you find a woman to date and eventually marry and start a family with? I'm 31 and despite my best efforts, I've never been able to find anyone to date. I've put myself out and there and met people, I've been doing so my entire life, but that "connection" just never happened.

I had a few friends growing up but they were all guys, there were zero girls in our social circle. I've been to all sorts of places, participated in all kinds of hobbies, and it just never happened.

Where the fuck do you remind a woman to date and eventually marry and start a family with? I'm 31 and despite my best efforts, I've never been able to find anyone to date. I've put myself out and there and met people, I've been doing so my entire life, but that "connection" just never happened.

I had a few friends growing up but they were all guys, there were zero girls in our social circle. I've been to all sorts of places, participated in all kinds of hobbies, and it just never happened.

When did things get so hard for quiet and introverted people? It wasn't as bad in the past because they'd just hang out with/date other introverts. I had a group of introvert friends in school, and we'd hang out and play video games and card games together after school. But when school ended (over a decade ago, I'm 31), they all vanished and I never heard from them again. I've been completely alone ever since.

Where did all the introverts disappear to? Why is the modern world so introvert-unfriendly?

You work 8 hours a day, working a job two people should be doing. Getting paid a wage that half goes to rent and the rest goes to food, gas and other payments. You wonder why people choose to sit at home and zone out watching YouTube or Netflix. Our culture has stripped us of our power and interests, paying the shareholders.

I'm 31 and despite being well-spoken and having good social skills, I've been an outcast my entire life. I got bullied and beaten up a lot in school, and got punished for fighting back. By high school, I was fed up with it and stopped talking altogether. The few friends I did have are long gone.

I can't even go to a fucking bar because no one will socialize with me there either. Anyone I speak to or approach turns me away.

I gave up on the internet because I wasn't finding friends there, and went back to exclusively searching in real life, but still nothing. Where are all the people who are actually open to meeting new people and making new friends?

Back when I had friends, our hangouts mostly consisted of playing card games or video games together.

How is America functioning with the majority of the population overworked, stressed out and sleep deprived?

>BotW has strong bones for an open world Zelda that just needs refinement
>ZOMG WHAT IF WE PUT IN NUTS N BOLTS VEHICLES AND GMOD WEAPONS
>Super Mario Odyssey has strong bones for a 3D collectation that needs refinement
>ZOMG WHAT IF WE ADD IN DESTRUCTIBLE ENVIRONMENTS AND A SKILL TREE
>Mario Kart 8 adds a new dimension for racing with creative anti-gravity segments
>ZOMG WHAT IF MARIO KART NOW HAS OPEN WORLD AND DOUBLE THE PLAYERS

Nintendo used to set trends, not chase them.

I want to grow up and be an adult, but since I was bullied at school and socially isolated growing up (no other kids my age in the neighborhood), my mental and emotional maturity never developed past that of a child, I had literally no life outside of school, and no way to do anything with my free time except be online and play video games since that's all a kid can do alone. I wanted to practice my social skills, but nobody would let me socialize with them at school, and there was nobody TO socialize with at home. Now it's the same thing, just replace school with work.

I'm tired of thinking and acting like a small child. I want to be an adult, but I lack the life experiences needed to develop that kind of maturity and I don't know how to obtain them.

>Be nigganon
>Inb4 "Haha, nigger alert tee hee" you're so funny please be original
>Grow up in shitty neighborhood with drugs and crime
>Own guns because in Detroit it takes police 30 minutes to an hour to show up
>Meet upper middle class college kids from the school I go to
>All privileged
>Tell them they should own a gun
>"Erm well anon, actually NOBODY needs a gun"
>They dislike police and the government, yet also want to disarm the population
>Trump beats Kamala
>Literally pissing and shitting themselves
>They're whining about how it's unsafe for queer, and LGBT folk
>They bitch and whine seeing neonazis protest in streets
>They see ICE is targeting US citizens
>Suddenly they're more open to carrying guns
>It's not like I've been telling them this shit for years
>Part of me wants to let the neonazis and MAGA tards fucking murder them so they can understand how retarded they are

Where the fuck is there to go to meet people if you don't want to drink or spend money?

I was bullied all throughout school for being "ugly", despite being a very social and outgoing person. My confidence diminished, and I became a shut-in. I did reach out for help back then, but none of the "adults" did anything to help me.

Once my confidence improved again, I got a job and started being more outgoing again, but people still treat me like I'm "weird". I go out, and people are extremely closed off, cliquish, and anti-social. I've been to therapy, but that can't solve the real issue, which is how others treat me.

I've been working hard to overcome the problems I had growing up, but that hard work never pays off because people aren't receptive to it. What the fuck is going on? Why can't I make friends?

Where the fuck do people go to make new friends nowadays? I've tried work, I've tried hobbies, I've tried the gym, I've tried bars, I've tried events. Friendships never manifest. All of my school friends disappeared after we graduated, and I've had no luck in finding replacements. My old friends were introverts like me, we'd just hang out and talk or play video games or card games together.

Where the fuck do people go to make new friends nowadays? I've tried work, I've tried hobbies, I've tried the gym, I've tried bars, I've tried events. Friendships never manifest. All of my school friends disappeared after we graduated, and I've had no luck in finding replacements. My old friends were introverts like me, we'd just hang out and talk or play video games or card games together.

Where are all of affordable activities that a person can go to alone and still have a good time? Most shit practically requires you to bring at least one friend with you because no one will talk to you otherwise.

I'm an introvert, but introverts still need socialization.

Male characters in Shojo are somehow even more useless than females in Shonen.

I was bullied and rejected all throughout school for being "ugly". Then I left school and had a huge glow-up, but now nobody pays attention to me at all. I went from being an outcast to being completely invisible