i hate agro. i love how they've changed the system so that agro isn't so important anymore. my mage can know dps all to my heart's content

I'm a college student, so in a way, I don't have a choice.

I go out to eat, get tea and coffee, buy necessities, attend class, hand assignments in, take exams, etc.

Otherwise, I have gone to a few museums in my area before (although not nearly enough). I wanted to see a play on campus once, but being the type of person I am, I didn't buy tickets in advance.

Otherwise, yes, I do generally prefer to be alone. Sometimes though, I do get some kicks from listening in on normal people's conversations.

I have a job, and I have friends, but they're mostly people I know from many years back. I haven't made a new friend that hasn't been introduced by someone I know in a really long time, and I wonder if I really could. I don't bond closely with people unless I spend a lot of time with them, and I don't willfully spend time with people unless they call on me without being too urgent about it. It has to be super casual.

I enjoy my time alone more than most people, so this doesn't bother me, but it would bug me if my old established friends suddenly moved on and stopped hanging out with me.

I've also gotta look into undergrad research if I want to be reasonably considered for grad school, Ph. D, professorship, etc.

i had a girlfriend until recently, which kind of exempted me from being one. i don't particularly want to, but i figure im going to become one if this keeps up.

>>17180503
I'm in college as well. I just go to classes, and then to my dorm. Unless I absolutely have to I go elsewhere. I hate being in the lunch room because I look like an awkward loser, but if I must go there I just play games on my phone so I can't pay attention to every one having fun with their friends.... I am so fucking ronery ;-;

I have no problem going outside.
Unfortunately, I live in the middle of nowhere.

I like being alone. I come to 4chan remind myself how much I don't like people.

>>17180446
January?
Do it now.

>>17180562
You sir, are fucking pathetic. Care not what others think of you and live your life for yourself.

Go out and make some friends (I know, it's easier said than done) who have the same interests as you. The world is yours for the taking if only you are willing to grasp it.

I used to be extremely agoraphobic. I was a shut-in from 14 to 20, when I dropped out of school. Eventually I realized that fantasies and fiction weren't going to come true, and I had to make the best of the life I had. so I got my GED, went to college, and threw myself into being social -- I stopped caring so much for intelligence with friends as character and life experience, and it made being friends with what >>17180503 calls "Normal" people a lot easier. It's not so much what they talk about, as the emotions and support they give to me.

I make friends easily now because I've learned to be laid back and gained confidence from doing things I normally wouldn't. I still love animu and vidya and mango, but I've learned when to talk about it. Not big on parties though, but only because the lack of intimacy.

I leave my room for college classes, food, D&D, and my anime club. That's about it - hung out with girlfriend from time to time when I had an offline one, but more or less retreated into my room since.

I'm almost 22. I havent had friends since i was 16.

I have a part time job, and i dont fear going out but i live in the inner city leaving little to do for a nerdy white boy.

I hate my life but i dont have the money to do anything about it.

i can get along with people just fine, but i prefer to stay inside, so i can be the insane yandere i like to be. putting the yandere aside to have some fun outside every week once or so is okay, but there is nothing better than being inside and stabbing stuff.

>>17180594
I want to learn how to make friends first. I just don't want to be awkward and alone when I go out.

> Sometimes though, I do get some kicks from listening in on normal people's conversations.

Most of the time, normal people's conversations are extremely mundane. It's only very rarely that I'll hear people talking about something interesting.

>>17180503
>>17180537
That pretty much sums me up.

I had lots of friends and a promising career making lots of money. I gave it all up voluntarily to become a shut in. I make friends really easily and have to push alot of people away to maintain my lifestyle. Friends are not necessary to keep mentally healthy.

>>17180644
Making friends is easy. Be honest, polite, respectful. Being funny is easy for interweb peoplez because they spend so much time trying to be to an audience that's heard it all. And just remember the cardinal rule - introduce your eccentricities after awhile of knowing them. They won't care if yo love animu and manga once they've gotten to know you -- but going at it right away is carnie behavior.

I'm not agoraphobic -- I'm not used to crowds. My daily routine is school-net cafe-home. I really don't hang out with my friends or acquaintances -- most of them have graduated. Though I feel like a different person when I'm at a con.

I even don't know the names of my neighbors.

>>17180698
I probably wouldn't tell them about my love of animu.... The only problem I really have with making friends is walking up to people, I think it would just be awkward for me to try and make friends with people I don't even know.

>>17180701
>Though I feel like a different person when I'm at a con.
>at a con.

>>17180698

Why would you want friends if not to watch anime with them? Befriend weeaboos.

>>17180446
I don't really care about people, but I do have friends. Most of them realise that I don't really 'care' about them per se...I just use them to entertain me...just as they use me to entertain them.

I don't mind being alone, but it does get pretty boring sometimes. It's better than trying to deal with 'friends' bitching and moaning to you all the time and demanding your attention.

>>17180736
You haven't been to one?

Social interactions be for the weak minds.

I'm happy living alone and not with one of the many mindless and stupid sheep of society.

>>17180742
Weaboos are faggots who say that they are japanese online when they in fact are white. They disgust me.

>>17180723
Smoke pot, Seriously. Or cigarettes. If neither is avaliable and alcohol is out of the question, the easiest thing to do is make friends with a coworker and enter into their circle of friends.

And if walking up to people is tough, you can always exit the scene of the crime if you fail the first few times. Just don't be weird about it--walking up to people on the street is odd, and impossible without lots of confidence. But if it's a mutually engaged activity (Talk to someone who looks like you could get along with after watching a movie or play about it, talking to someone in the bookstore or library about the book they're looking at) etc is easy. Because if it fails you can walk away, and if you see them again, you can pretend you don't recognize them and they'll believe they don't know you.

Well I'm a college student who just started a band, so networking and socializing is important.

>>17180763
No. I suppress my powerlevel as to not look like a huge faggot.

I biked out in the rain today. There was even a brief thunderstorm.

When I got home, all I could think was "fuck yeah".

>>17180792
Ah.... I guess you are right. I may as well try to do it. I am going insane seriously.

>>17180765
But you're part of society, you can't escape. 4chan and internet culture is largely influenced by american culture and society and is a reflection of it. You still talk to mostly americans, you still eat the foods created by a society, sleep in the buildings made by them, drink and bathe in the water controlled by them. The only way to be completely free of society is speak to no one, inclueding those on the internet.

You've lost the game

>>17180803
You can go to cons without looking like a complete faggot, geez...

>>17180840
Well... would you like to become my close friend?

>>17180796
yr a faggot

>>17180848
You're right. You just look like a closet faggot, instead of a complete one. Instead of a lisp and dress and fruit hat, you stare at men's packages, wear a lot of sweaters, and are really quiet.

Peoples attitudes in this thread just remind me why I don't want any friends. Fucking tips and tricks on how to get friends, telling you how you need to act and how important it is to 'network'. Fuck that. The needy, shallow, fake and ultimately meaningless relationships everyone has with each other are pathetic.

I literally freak when I go out in public, mentally and emotionally.

I stay inside, by myself, alone, 24/7.
I don't have friends, but I live with my parents so I see them.

I'm content. I'd love to be able to go have friends but staying in seems so much more pleasant.

>>17180848
Not really no.

I don't have friends. And I never leave the house outside of school, doctors, and the once or twice a month I go to buy video games at a store.

I dropped out of High School when I was 15(18 now) , but now I'm going to a charter school an hour twice a week in which I take home work and then take tests.

I'm not agoraphobic(that's being afraid of outside, not people I though). Though I do not like people and avoid social situations.

>>17180867
Sure why not.
You aren't gonna just take all my money like my old friends right?

I am an University student, studiying Religious Sciences and Japanese Studies at an German University.
Today I am going to drink with my Japanese profs and with some other students at a bar and visit my girlfriend afterwards.

So I do definitely no't consider myself a shut in.

>>17180867
STAY AWAY, HE'S MINE.

>>17180881
OP here, I agree 100% with this, but I am seriously tired of being alone. I have not had human contact in a year cept for online, but I don't even have friends online. I may be starting college next year, but I am terrified of what may happen... I need to learn how to socialize if I am going to college, plus I kind of actually want friends. I don't care how shallow the relationship is, as long as I have a connection with someone.

>>17180921
Wow...

>>17180881
Yeah, you're right. Being yourself free of bad habits and behaviors is a terrible way to make friends. Instead of being honest, polite and respectful, you should lie, be beligerent and fuck them over--sounds like the kind of friends people are looking for.

You're just using that as justification for your own behavior, rather then rationally thinking it out. I can't speak for who you really are, but I can say that no one purposefully makes friends in order to be ripped off and treated badly. And a lot of these tips and tricks are just particular ways to be "More confident, understanding, and aware". None of which are terrible things, except in excess.Just like being alone all the time.

I'm not a shut in (college/part time job), but I still don't talk to anyone. All free time is spent in my room, and I have no desire to talk to anyone. I diagnosed myself with Schizoid personality disorder, not that it holds much weight, but it describes me pretty much perfectly.

I'm not shut in all the time. I get too lonely when I do that. I actually have another personality that i use for my college "friends". Most of the time I'm just embarrassed to be around them, but sometimes you just need that human contact, you know? A lot of the time I do prefer to be alone though.

I started going out on dates like 1.5 months ago. I hide my nerdness from most people.

>>17180879
I would rather think that going out staring at men's packages and looking like closet faggot is better than a complete faggot who don't go outside of his house, watching animu all day and raging all the time why 3D pig disgusting.

>>17180887
Cooping indoors isn't elite, you know?

>>17180881
There is so much wrong with this. I know, someone wrong on the internet and I must discuss it! But I am bored and unable to sleep.

No relationship starts meaningful. Things are gradual, you know. And people are satisfied with different distances, in different quantities.

Tips / tricks? People are saying what they do. Here, bike analogy: if you don't know how to use a bike, it may be easy to have some small wheels. Which is not how you should bike, but it will get you going if nothing else.

People are pathetic. Guess what, you are a person too, and so am I. Get over your elitist / misanthropy and treat people as equals, because people are fundamentally the same.

Not a shut in. I go out everyday but I usually avoid human contact.

You are kind of fucked up here.
Just go outside and meet someone, if the person doesn't interest you try the next...

>>17180916

Fuck no I won't. We can become great friends. From this day forward we are the best fucking friends ever!

>>17180996
same here...

>>17180934
If you approach making friends with a weak, needy attitude then the friends you will make will be weak and needy aswell. Try and do things for other people and be geniunely nice rather than play the psuedo-dating game everyone else does to make friends.

I've been an invalid for most of my life and I'm probably shy and introverted as a result. I don't have a problem going out and you wouldn't even know once you talk to me. People always compliment me on that. But, having been an invalid my whole life, I really don't know what to do now that I am not one anymore... I usually just stay inside.

>>17180982
You can have friends and a social life without making yourself look like a freak.

>>17181008
Awesome.

>>17181018
You're right... I HAVE TO SAVE SOME ONES LIFE! If I do that then they will be indebted to me! Thanks anon!

>>17180446

;-; I'll be your friend, OP

>>17180882
>>17180792

Escapism can only get you so happy.

If you are going to shut off part of reality, or change your state of consciousness (purposeful insomnia, games, anime, books, alcohol, other drugs), do so to celebrate, not because you want to forget. That is what separates recreation and dependency/obsession, and you don't want the latter.

>>17180916
>>17181008
This is fucking ridiculous. Trying to make friends on /a/? How fucking desperate are you people?

This anon goes to school and works full time. I have no problem dealing with people and making friends around campus, in classes, or with my co-workers, but outside of those situations I'm practically a shut-in, not because I don't like people or have some kind of phobia of them, it's just that I'm just an (extremely) introverted guy who's perfectly happy on his own. I don't mind hanging out with people outside of work/school, but I don't have any particular desire to make those kinds of activities happen.

>>17181045
So... what do friends usually do? It's been a while for me... You start off I guess.

>>17180582
This.

>>17181055
New to /a/?

>>17181047
Or you can lend them 10 bucks with no strings, let them go ahead of you inline, listen to them when they're having a bad time and actually care. It's more being the friend you'd want to have, then anything more. If your behavior means you wouldn't be friends with yourself, why would anyone else? And more then that, how can you stand yourself in such a situation? You're nothing like the person you likely want to be, or want to at least be friends with.

>>17180919
>studiying Religious Sciences
>Japanese Studies
HAHAHA, OH WOW.

>>17181045
Oh! Can I be your friend too?!
I swear I wont spend any money and I'll even clean your room for you! I can just clean and wait in your room until you arrive home from work!
Pretty Pleasee?

I like being alone. I leave my house to attend class and take care of my parents. I don't generally go out with friends or stuff, but not from not wanting to do.

>>17181082
No, but you are.

>>17181055
I consider Anonymous my best friend.

>>17181082
quite the opposite, faggot. how can you justify your existence when you are trying to make friends on a fucking anonymous image board?

>>17181067
Meet and drink.

>>17181053
Of course, we are now good friends as well... So how's life been?

>>17181055
Have fun being alone.

>>17180994
I think you are right aswell, I was just offering an extreme opinion. You do have to start small, but the amount of bullshit, manipulation, lying and just overall fakeness in most people can't be ignored. It's a big factor in why people become shutins in the first place.

>>17181032
That's what I'm trying to say: Hide your powerlevels amidst the crowd, even if you were in a con or wherever. You'll be fine as long as you don't reveal that much. I seldom start a conversation about animu -- I talk when asked. Do I sound like a freak when I do that? I don't.

If you show off your tremendous powerlevels just to look elite, the more people think you're a retard.

>>17181089
That sounds lovely, I don't see why not.

There's a girl at work that is crushing on me pretty hard, but I tend to avoid her because it's such a pain in the ass.

It's not her, it's just the whole...thing. You know? I just don't want to deal with it.

>>17181107
How can you justify your existence when you are on said image board?

>>17181120
Powerlevels have not anything to do with getting friends at all.

I'm 22 and have never had a real job in my life. I still live with my parents mooching off of them.

That's all going to change soon though because I'm joining the Air Force and going for something I know I can do and won't require me to move out of the country. I've never really been one for the military or anything but with the economy in the shitter it's about the only choice I have. Hell, it's a job.

>>17181120
You can't hide your powerlevel at a con unless you pretend you're working there or somehow got lost and have no idea what the hell is going on.

>>17181139
free time bro, everyone has it. why don't you try make more friends here?

>>17181138
Don't worry she is probably a slut anyway.

>>17181099
omg how did you know I've only been her for a week?!

I don't have any friends or any direction in life. I just sit in the house all day. I was going to college but I only took one or two classes. I feel ashamed, but not to other people. I've learned to get over what they think of me. I feel ashamed to my family, I feel ashamed that I've wasted all my opportunities in life. I'm a failure and yes, of course, I regret it.

I dress fairly well and can be social when i feel like it. I'm fine.

The only way I'd get out of being a complete shut in is maybe for a part time job to support my computer/anime/video game habits. I'm on an old, slow laptop that could go out at any time(and small hdd), and I sold my XBOX 360 so I don't have any newer consoles.

I live with my parents but outside of the internet and cable, there's really not much else they'd do for me as far as entertainment goes(And the reason they do that is obviously because they use cable and internet too).

Why should one try to hide his or her powerlevel at a con? The point is to have fun and go crazy, not to try to be a cool guy.

>>17181128
yay! It'll be the most fun ever, I promise!
<3

>>17181162
You sound like a true Anon ;_;

>>17181146
You are in for a hell of a change in life.
I wish you luck and common sense.

>>17181067
I don't really know, my old ones always just called me when they needed stuff.

>>17181146
Good luck /a/non, I'm proud you took the initiative.

I tried making friends before, OP. Turns out most of them are a bunch of selfish jackasses.

Yes, I care more about 2d characters than real people. There is nothing wrong with that.

>>17181176
Hey i'm not the one that came up with the crazy idea of hiding powerlevel at a con.

Hell if you're even at a con you've fucked it up pretty bad.

>>17181152
You can start by pretending to be a normalfag.

>>17181144
If you show off that much, normal people tend to get away from you. You only attract people who are with the same or greater powerlevel as you.

>>17181107
We were just having fun...

>>17181183
Not really just telling the truth.

>>17181111

Oh, you know. Life is life. I suck shit at level designin', I fear my game may never be complete...