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I spend my Friday night streaming a movie on Discord with a friend every Friday since the beginning of covid and spend the rest of the evening talking. Similar

• cableshaft 5y ago
  Yeah, developing a board game hobby (especially strategic and/or hobby games, not so much party games) and meeting up with friends who also like board games would fill that slot. I have a group of friends that I've met up with on Friday nights to play games with for like 8 years now. And several other groups that meet more sporadically or to play at different player counts. Or you can play them virtually or digitally (for free even) via websites like BoardGameArena. And since the pandemic started there've been a ton of good solo board games that have come out, and I play a decent amount of those too. At some of those places there might be alcohol present, but if there is, there's not much incentive to drink because you'll play the games better if you're more lucid. And most groups I've played with don't include alcohol as part of the events at all. But be careful, it's a pretty easy and deep rabbit hole to get sucked into (we're pretty much in a board game golden age right now, tons of great releases every year this past decade), and takes up a ton of physical space if you have an impulse control problem and keep buying them when you don't really have the space for all of them in the house. I may or may not be speaking from personal experience.