That’s why I appreciate discussion online. You can sit on a thought, type it out, amend it, and nobody is sitting across from you wondering why you’re touching your face so much.

The other side of the sword is that it can be hard to find communities that engage in deep and/or non-combative conversation. While Lemmy is pretty light on the hostility, it can be hard to find people to interact with sometimes.

Nah fuck that you could not force me to watch sports. Okay maybe some obscure ones nobody here really does like bobsled.

Elite Dangerous is my poison of choice, although Sins of a Solar Empire II has been beckoning to me for a while.

I just finished Infinite Jest for the first time. I stayed up late to finish the last 100 pages and couldn’t fall asleep afterwords because there were so many lines to connect. Really cutting-edge insight into the damaging effects of American culture and entertainment as a hobby. In my StoryGraph review, I stated that it’s “secular scripture for the modern age”. I’m pretty proud of that — I think it is the most concise way to convey what I got from the book.

I also just started reading You Sound Like a White Girl, a short book about America’s historic and current-day battle against Hispanic culture and why assimilation should be rejected. It does a great job at blasting a hole through the wall of lies erected for centuries by white Americans. If you think the selective way slavery and the civil rights movement are taught is bad ( it’s terrible), just wait till you see how much Hispanics have been fucked over and how literally none of it is taught.

Omg, have you seen them panic when things go wrong? :D

It’s not a joke. You clearly just haven’t spent any time around or are an insufferable extroverted early riser. We literally have to change the time the sun comes up because getting to work at 9 is just out of the question.

and then people wonder why there's a loneliness epidemic and complain they have no friends

Life's short and it's nice spending it and sharing it with others.

A lot of my friends that prefer to be alone actually want to hang out but most people hate organizing and stuff. So I usually make the effort. It's better to have stories and experiences that are shared. Better being like, remember when we saw that game together? Remember trying to get home and being stranded? Remember going on that trip? Life's short.

I'm also surrounded by friends that say they wanna do stuff a regret not doing it. Although most have kids now, so they're unable to have the time nowadays.

To reiterate what you said,, there's about as many comments complaining about loneliness and how people forming bubbles and parasocial relationships with internet people and even weird AI relationships now. People act like it's the worse thing in the world to hang out. It only gets harder when you're older too.

Let me be clear. I don't waste time on people that never wanna hang out. If you wanna be home and are rude when I invite you out, I will very simply leave you alone. That's fine by me.

Fill your pockets with kernels before you're put on the pyre.