>>71817602Pretty much this. If there's nothing in your area then start a group. There's one lady who started a meetup group where it was literally just
>Hey, I have nothing planned. Just show up at this coffee shop at this time, and after a bit of waiting for other people, we're going to just walk around and chatAt first barely anyone showed up, but now there's so many people doing so that she had to set a limit
Even as an antisocial shut in loser, at 30, I can attest to what Anon's saying, too. I didn't even like going to fighting game locals, or playing them, that much, but I naturally wound up knowing a few guys there, and forming a group to play Melty Blood/SF6 weekly with. I'm currently set back by IRL stuff, but the card game shop I went to a few times, I also started getting along with people there pretty quickly, once I pulled out my deck and started playing. The one good thing about our shitty atomized culture, is that the people who actually do show up to IRL stuff are also hungry for social interaction, too.