go to a rave.
i heartily recommend
drop mdma
nothing better on the planet, you dont know true happiness till you do

Never go to a rave. You'll get fucked up and do shit you never wanted to.

Also, all that other shit is bottom-tier. Too much noise, too many people, too fucking expensive, or just a waste of goddamn time.

Don't worry. Spending every day fapping is a more valid use of your time than all of that shit.

>>683015
This. Don't go out and experience new things, or meet new people, or try anything for the first time. Stay with your routine. That way you'll become more and more familiar with it until you're mentally incapable of ever breaking out of it.

>>683015
This. For all to seed this.

>>682874

Those kind of events are only (possibly) fun if you have friends who are also into it and who you can go with.
Otherwise, you aren't missing anything.

>>682874
How were all of your experiences? hm

>shut in lifestyle
yeah because if you dont visit festivals you're a shut in. alrighty.

>>683037
Not what I said, but at least you're contributing to the discussion in some way. Better than most trolls.

Nope, out of 7 billion people, you're the only one.

If you want to live that way, good for you.
If you don't, well then you're a loser.

Just to get things straight:

You think that because you have not gone to a music gathering of any sort, you are a shut-in? Why? What is your metric for measuring social reclusion?

I think more important ways of measuring that are:
-number and length of masturbation sessions
-amount of time spent talking to other people (in person) as a percentage of time awake
-amount of time spent sleeping
-employment status
-level of post-secondary education

Not OP, but is it worth going to a rave, concert, party or festival on my own? are they still enjoyable?

I ask because if I wait too long I'll be too old to do that shit anymore.

bumpity bump mootblocko-blocko

>>683544
why are you bumping this crappy thread? waiting for more answers?

>>683346
I'm 25, a shut in, and fucking drunk at the moment. I got my ass out of the house for the first time in about 4 months (as in, actually going out drinking socially), and I had a fucking awesome time. I was by myself. At first I felt awkward, but then after a few drinks I thought "fuck it, nobody here knows me, time to do whatever the fuck I want". So I danced like a fucking maniac and had a fucking awesome time.

>>683625

Good to hear, I definitely have to try it sometime. I'm HUGELY better once I've had a few drinks, so it seems a good idea.

I only go to work and then back home.
I don't have any friends and have never been to any sort of social gathering.
I don't really like being this way, but at the same time I am not comfortable being around people.

>>683661
Hugely recommended. I bought a pack of smokes with me, and pretended I didnt have a lighter ALL night - had three or four really good conversations this way, over the space of 6 hours ish. This excludes the other random conversations that I either started up or people started with me. I'm not exactly a studly looking guy, but I had some hipster chick flirt with me for a while which was nice. huge ego boost. She eventually left with her friends though, which sucked.

>>683685
Damn, great idea. Good thinking, anon.

>>683665

same here man, how do you act at work?

OP how old are you?
do you think you miss out something important?
are you planing to do those things at some point, after all?

Concerts are the best.
>Dance like an idiot, no one cares, you won't see any of these assholes again.
>Enjoy the music
>Sneak off to the tour bus afterwards, get pictures with the band

It's beautiful.

>>683922
I do my job and only speak when spoken to
Just being around my coworkers makes me anxious.

Ex-shut in here.

Had like one friend in town, decided head downtown for some drinks with him, met people I hadn't talked to since junior high and now I'm out every weekend with said people.

Feels good man.

>rave
shit
>concert
shit-to awesome
>party
Almost always shit
>festival
semi good until you realise being sleep deprived and smelly when you want to enjoy things sucks

Do you want to know what's really depressing? I have been to several raves, I've been to dozens of concerts, I can't recall how many parties I've been to and I've been to a bunch of festivals too... and now I live like a shut in.

>>684034
Me too. I posted right above you.

maybe you should do all this stuff OP, it's an experience of its own. live music has a lot of energy that records can't transport and the happy atmosphere on a GOOD rave is realy inspiring and goes well with many kind of drugs, although this >>682922 is complete bullshit.
private partys are a thing, I can understand that they suck when you are not realy into socialising, but if you like the people on the party, it's even the best of all mentioned events. festivals are cool because concert+party+camping. so you should give it a try, but don't let anyone tell you you don't live the real life by now. the thing is if you don't want to go there, it's not fun in your eyes and fun is what those gatherings are about so it would be absurd

>>683986

That's what I'm afraid of. If I ever get a job I'll be the one that's quiet keeping to myself while all the others will be laughing and socializing. Something I can't do...

>>684012

>semi good until you realise being sleep deprived and smelly when you want to enjoy things sucks

Clearly you don't seem to understand what the point of a festival is. You're supposed to just push through no matter what is happening. The last time I went to a festival between Wednesday and Monday I probably had about 20-25 hours sleep maximum, and I didn't give a fuck, it was a non-stop party and I enjoyed every minute of it.

>>683346
>is it worth going to a rave, concert, party or festival on my own?
I say:
>rave
jup
>party
nope
>concert
I do that half of the time because my friends don't have a very good taste in music. it's no problem.

>>684058
I know, but I personally can't enjoy music as much when I feel like shit.

Depending on your location and your taste in music, it's perfectly acceptable to never have been to a concert.

I live in the southernmost part of Louisiana and I'm broke all of the time. No one good tours through here, and anyone of slight interest coming through New Orleans or Baton Rouge just aren't worth spending traveling money for.

>>683986

do you even have people you talk to via online communication?

>>684193
I tried talking to people from 4chan on aim a few years ago, but I could only work up the nerve to message them when drunk.
I don't drink anymore and gave up chatting with strangers.
With exception of the occasional post such as this

>>684266

well if you want to keep in touch via e-mail i wouldn't mind, it's just for talking about life and what we're currently doing. I'm not very good at communication even on the internet really but I do this out of convenience.

>>684382
No thanks
I appreciate the offer though

>>684604

Is there a reason? I don't mind and it could be a once a month kind of talk to see if it's improved to stayed stagnant.

same here Op...feels odd man.jpg

>>684266

I wouldn't even have anything to talk about with them. What else do you do with your life?

been to a party and stood in the corner. oh well.

I've never been, i only leave the house for reunions.

>>684266

Working is a chore, I work in retail and it fucking sucks.

>>682874
I was to a "concert" once. A "friend" talked me into it. A disaster. Nevermore. I was as disappointed by it as this post is concise.

Damn, you're depressing as fuck. Even I go to parties from time to time, and drink until I enjoy the music. Only thing I wouldn't like to go to would be a rave, and only cause of shitty music.

Get friends, get the fuck out, and get any drugs that'll make you feel normal.

>>683311

>mfw I spend more time masturbating than talking to people on any given day

Jesus Christ, you're a loser.
Raves suck but I've been to at least 8 concerts, an uncountable amount of parties, and I go to festivals semi-anually

>>686768
>>686638

Get off of my /r9k/ and go ruin some other board.

>>686471

why do you put friend in quotes and why was it so bad?

I haven't gone to any of those things either.

Interesting, I listen to a lot of Drum & Bass/Jungle/Breakbeat Hardcore, yet I've never had any desire to go to a rave before.

>>687013

You have social skills and friends. Bet you think you're a bad ass.

I been to parties, the only fun parties was when i was home at friends.
Going to clubs fucking sucks, cost money and just filled with annoying people

I never been to a festival but i wish i could someday, because drinking beer and having sex with random whores in tents seems fun, I don't give a fuck about the music

I don't to go on concert becuase its just waste of money and boring as fuck just sitting listen to the same crap for hours

I don't give a fuck about raves either

>>687081

I certainly do. But seriously, the idea of being surrounded by a lot of people and loud music seems uncomfortable. I'd probably like it if I ever went but I can't be arsed.

Inb4 bragging normalfags and faggots.

bumpan for shut in lifestylers.

>>682874
Same here OP. I'm far worse off. '
df

>>682874
You wouldn't want to go to a rave, people there are pretentious as fuck, much like here.

Same here, I've never even hung out with a friends.

You're thinking far to deep into this, if you have no friends, they wont be fun for you anyway.

They actually made a movie called shut in?

>>682874
>not being a shut in
>2011 almost 12...

Been to all of them, you aren't missing out on shit.

>go to a party on my own
>bet the one standing in the corner
>This sucks

How old are you if you've never been to one? Anyone parties can be pretty meh but I'd highly reccomend going to a play or classical music concert, they're pretty awesome and not many people will judge you there if you're alone at least from my experience.

> at radical audio visual experience
> take 7 grams of psilocybin
> meet scene girl
> smoke joint in parking lot
> we start to kiss
> she pulls my pants off
> my flaccid dick in her mouth
> cant get hard, tripping balls
> mfw that was my first blow job

>mfw no one is truly alone anymore except for you

yjsfhfh

Do you even like music, OP?
It's surprisingly easy to go and talk to people at concerts.

>>695414

Not him but I don't really listen to much music so I wouldn't have anything in common.

lol i know all of these feelings.

I've been to a party once and that was it. I didn't have much fun.

I've been to a bunch of large arena concerts, and smaller "hardcore shows". I find them both suffocating, quite literally suffocating. There are so many people packed in so tightly that I find it hard to breath. Getting shoved around, dehydration sets in, start to get faint, wish I never went to the show, should've stayed home and listened to the album. Seriously, I enjoy a good social event as the next normally functioning person, but concerts are just too physically demanding. I will probably never go to a rave as I imagine it's the same thing, but with everyone on mdma. There is nothing enjoyable about feeling like you're going to die to death and be dead.

I avoid concerts or festivals because they're overpriced and overcrowded. I enjoy a good party from time to time, but after years of drinking with the same two dozen or so people every weekend it get's boring, I mean how much small talk can you have over shitty beer?

>>682874
MY EYESSSSSzzzzz

>>682874

Well, looks like everyone in here is a social normalfag.

theres a little shut in in all of us...

>>684008

Nobody cares about you ex shut ins, you all make me sick.

>concert
no
>party
>lol
>rave
I'm not 13
>festival
last comment applies

Depending on your location and your taste in music, it's perfectly acceptable to never have been to a concert. I know how it feels.

Concerts are fun to me but the rest of it isn't.

>concert
been to a couple
>party
all the time at uni
>festival
>rave
lol no I'm not a eurofag

>>683309
I'm a mixture of both, so fuck off.

746uytuh

I could never fit in the crowed...

>>699291
So you're saying Bonarroo, Coachella, South by Southwest, Lolipalooza, etc are european? And you wonder why euros think americans are stupid.

Don't be a fucking pillow-biter. Go out in it and do something. The air outdoors reeks of life. Show men you are someone. Hopefully before it's too late.

>>682874
Here come all of the normalfags on the crazy train.

bumpan out of pure interests...

>>700511

That's a harmful insult. BAWWWWW

>>682874

that movie had nothing to do with shut ins...

Im in a shut in but ive been to a few concerts, i have no desire to go anywhere else you mentioned, rather go hiking in the mountains or some shit.

>>702741

Guessing you have a social life and a ton of friends?

I prefer to shove dicks up my ass.

>>683665

you guys seem like going when you're drunk is the bench mark.

I get drunk on my own so I don't have to put up with parties.

I've been to a pity party once and was almost thrown out for confidently slapping someone in the face.

>implying you need to go to those to have a good time...

>>683346

You shouldn't go to any of these evens alone.

Go there, come back to us, and give us a spaghetti story.

I went to a ska concert a couple of years ago, it was pretty neat. Haven't been to a party since I was 16 or so. No friends.

You're not alone, OP.
Never been to one in my life.
And I don't think you're missing out on much, according to what some people have told me. The only way to real enjoy yourself at those things is to be off your face on some sort of substance.

Those kinds of events tend to attract the worst sort of people anyway.

>>708194
>>708196

What are you guys doing for a living and how do you get on with your day? Note who you are.

Reformed basement dweller here. Spent 6 years in a room before getting blackly depressed at 20 and forcing myself out of the house before I did something terrible. Somehow found myself in university, making friends.

I haven't enjoyed a single house-party I've been to. I dunno. I' still a fairly anxious person, and I can't quite cut loose in those.

Concerts are concerts. You go, alone or with friends, you listen to the music, maybe dance, have a few drinks, leave feeling great.

Raves? Raves are fucking fantastic. Last year at three in the morning I found myself being dragged, very drunk, through the forest by a friend, who lead me into a clearing. Hundreds of people dancing around campfires to crazy-loud drum and bass. I scored some MDMA off a guy there and me and my friend buzzed our faces off, dancing, laughing, talking shit with absolute strangers who are now your best friends ever, linked as you are with this marvelous substance.

>>708237
I'm >>708194. I'm in college, so I've got a student loan along with a part-time job at a museum. I try to get a little bit of exercise by jogging every day (even though I hate it). Besides that I spend absolutely all my free time on the computer, mostly surfing the web and listening to music. Every now and then I watch some movies or play some vidya.

I only leave my room for work, school or jogging, except when I have to purchase food. I usually buy as much as I can fit in the fridge so I don't have to do it so often, I get pretty anxious in grocery stores. When I go jogging I try to do it late in the evening or early in the morning to avoid running into other people.

I've never had a girlfriend and I have no social life whatsoever. The few acquaintances I still have are people I met back in high school. I rarely see them in real life, but I occasionally talk to them online.

While I dislike socializing in a group setting I can really enjoy hanging out with one or two other people, provided I know and trust them. I always feel like other people dislike me, though. Like I annoy them with everything I do, that my personality is shit and that all my interests are stupid, that the way I talk is annoying, all sorts of irrational shit. I know it's mostly in my head, but that doesn't help. I just avoid interacting with others.

I should probably get some help, but talking to a doctor seems really fucking awkward. Maybe next year.

>>708363

You probably have enough social skills to get friends in the future as you probably will and leave me as a friendless loner who stays in his room all day and night. Did you want to keep in touch via e-mail to see where our lives take us?

>>708381
If you leave a throwaway mail address I can ship you a mail in January or so and let you know how things are going.

I hope you're not a MURRICAN, because I feel a bit uncomfortable interacting with native English speakers. My English has gone to shits since high school.

Oh well, you don't know who I am anyway.

>>708429

I meant an e-mail...not my home address. lol

>>708532
E-mail was what I had in mind. Just make sure you don't post your normal address on 4chan, it won't end well.

>>708603

add me and send me a message talking about yourself and I'll get back to you.

>>708603

Where do you live by the way? If it is overseas, fuck.

I've never been to a rave, concert, party, or festival.

I was going to go to a GWAR concert with a friend of mine way back when, but he ditched me. So I stayed home and played Morrowind.

>>709083

what happened to all of your friends? Why did you lose them?

>>709233
They all ended up moving on with their lives. Going to college and all that. I only have one friend, and she only calls me when she's bored, or I'm on the verge of suicide.

>>709293

I use to have a friend like that but he got tired of me. I've been alone without friends or much social interaction for the last 5 years now. You?

Been to 3 concerts in my time. The first was embarrassing since I didn't know how to be at a concert, second was with a girlfriend and was terrible... it was hot, stuffy and boring, third was to see a better band, I enjoyed it more but I was in seats but overall I hate crowds of people. Parties just suck, I've been to a few and they're so shit and uneventful I was pretty beta at all of them but it was filled with terrible music and dickheads. Fuck it I am much happier being by myself and doing what I want to do, not doing what people think we should do. People only drink and party because they learned to do that from adults and television. I still like my ale though.

>>709441
All of my social interaction comes from being a non-literal faggot on /soc/

>>709497

>going on /soc/

why...?

>>709639
They aren't all terrible.

>>709693

Do you talk to anyone else? I could be an online friend even though I'm not interesting in the slightest.

Why do you want to go there so badly...?d

>>709693
>>709497

/soc/ seems like a pretty terrible place to me...

>>683685
this is pretty good advice, even though obviously smoking is bad, you meet a lot of people with one really easy ice breaker like that.

>never been to a rave
Sucks. Britfag here, born in 85 so I was a little kid when they banned raves in the early 90s.

Are you guys fine with being recluses...?

>>711281

I'm fine with it but it does get lonely at times.

You woudn't enjoy it if you didn't have other people go to with...

i use to go to parties back when i was in high school...kind of miss those days.

bumpan for mild interest...

Living the dream babeh...

living the fucking dream...

OP, I'll take you to a concert and show you that they aren't worth the trouble if you tell me where you live?

>went to a party when i was younger
>started to puke my guts

>>718264

What happened? Maybe you shouldn't drink so much or become peer pressured.

You'll get fucked up if you go to those without connections.

I've been to see quite a few of my favourite bands live in the past 2 years. If you're into bands that aren't crazily popular, tickets are usually only around 10 - 20GBP , and the venues are usually small.

>>719581

I don't really enjoy loud music. I'm not all that into the crowed.

bumpan out of interest as I am in the same situation.

Late 17/early 18 I lived the full on shut in life style and still went to raves every once in a while to do drugs and makeout with random girls
I met a decent group of friends this way

I'd usually go alone as well as the few friends I did have weren't into raves at the time. If you're feeling good be it on drugs or sober, you're always going to find randoms to talk to


Now I'm 19, have friends to go with, yet I don't have anywhere near as much fun as I used to. I think I lost something since then

>>720956

Fucking shut ins turning into normalfags.

leave.

> not going to concerts
It's such a friendly atmosphere robots should go all the time. When I talk to people at concerts it's like we both have known each other for ages even though we don't know names. unless you listen to angsty shit music then there is a good chance you'll get in a fight there

>>721749

No.

kjgiosfghghfh

A plane crashed in the middle of a concert I was in once.

>>682874

bumpan for mundane lonerfaggots.

Do you have any idea how loud parties are man?

You wouldn't want to go to a party ot ahve of that shit if you have no connections OP...

that feel when you're the one sitting alone at a party

>>683665

Same here man, I don't ever see myself breaking out of my shell.

>>722109
Why no? Just find a band you like (a happy one with a friendly fanbase) and go to a concert. A lot of concerts have friendly people. I feel it's easier to talk to people when you already share an interest and you know you'll never see them again. You can even lie about your name, they won't know the difference. Also the weed they pass around usually aids in making me more social

>>732976

If you don't have any connections I see no reason in going to a concert or party.

>>682874

You aren't alone OP, just like a dimaond in the sky.

it's a shame when the peak of social interaction has to be between those three medians.