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[–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

Well, the downside of that is that it's insular, you lose the opportunity of meeting new people

And sure, not everyone cares about doing that a lot of the time, but for me personally that's a great loss at least. I love meeting new people, and everyone being priced out of existing in social meeting places.. sucks. A lot

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    If I already had a solid group of friends, I wouldn't really care for meeting new people. If someone cool comes along, awesome. Welcome to the group.

    But why would I actively go out and try to sift through the 95%+ of people at bars who are either A) shitty, B) don't give a fuck about me, or C) both; just to try to find one or two new people that I might exchange a couple texts with over the next two weeks before we proceed to forget about each other entirely?

    If I already have friends at home who just wanna hang out and play Mario Kart or Magic: The Gathering or Catan or something? Why would I need to talk to strangers, most of whom would just tell me to get bent anyway...

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