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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days 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...