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There's a 1000 similar options. Ballroom dancing, martial arts, bird watching, D&D. Most are happy to have new recruits.

by tootie 5y ago

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yeeetz 5y ago
Yeah those all sound nice in theory but those activities way more likely to be populated with other weird lonely overthinker types like OP. Do stuff that normal people actually do, not what internet people think normal people do.
- sshine 5y ago
  > stuff that normal people actually do Have kids?
- ethbr0 5y ago
  > not what internet people think normal people do As internet people debate in a lengthy thread about what normal people do. :-)
austhrow743 5y ago
I would be highly skeptical that most people in their 30s doing ballroom dancing and bird watching are normal. I know you're just making stuff up with the D&D inclusion.
- tootie 5y ago
  Those were just example. Any big city is bound to have thousands of groups like these and you'll have to find one that fits. And even being with other lonely nerds can be stimulating enough to blunt depression enough to get you moving. If you just assume everything in the world sucks and to not even try then that's how you get lonely.
horns4lyfe 5y ago
Bird watching? Ballroom dancing? This has to be a joke, I’ve never met a single person under 60 that does either of these
- legerdemain 5y ago
  I don't know about bird-watching, but ballroom dancing is really big in computer science. It was really big in my CS department on the east coast 20 years ago, and it's really big at Stanford now. As far as I understand it, software engineers in the Bay Area have two common hobbies: indoor rock-climbing at Planet Granite and ballroom dancing. I would never have guessed how common they are, but it is what it is. D&D is a distant third.
  - chrisseaton 5y ago
    > ballroom dancing is really big in computer science Lol that’s the absolute polar opposite of what the OP wants. They want to get away from other engineers like them and to meet some different people.
  - harambae 5y ago
    >As far as I understand it, software engineers in the Bay Area have two common hobbies: indoor rock-climbing at Planet Granite and ballroom dancing also kiteboarding

There's a 1000 similar options. Ballroom dancing, martial arts, bird watching, D&D. Most are happy to have new recruits.

by tootie 5y ago

There's a 1000 similar options. Ballroom dancing, martial arts, bird watching, D&D. Most are happy to have new recruits.

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yeeetz 5y ago

Yeah those all sound nice in theory but those activities way more likely to be populated with other weird lonely overthinker types like OP. Do stuff that normal people actually do, not what internet people think normal people do.

sshine 5y ago
> stuff that normal people actually do Have kids?
ethbr0 5y ago
> not what internet people think normal people do As internet people debate in a lengthy thread about what normal people do. :-)

austhrow743 5y ago

I would be highly skeptical that most people in their 30s doing ballroom dancing and bird watching are normal. I know you're just making stuff up with the D&D inclusion.

tootie 5y ago
Those were just example. Any big city is bound to have thousands of groups like these and you'll have to find one that fits. And even being with other lonely nerds can be stimulating enough to blunt depression enough to get you moving. If you just assume everything in the world sucks and to not even try then that's how you get lonely.

horns4lyfe 5y ago

Bird watching? Ballroom dancing? This has to be a joke, I’ve never met a single person under 60 that does either of these

legerdemain 5y ago
I don't know about bird-watching, but ballroom dancing is really big in computer science. It was really big in my CS department on the east coast 20 years ago, and it's really big at Stanford now. As far as I understand it, software engineers in the Bay Area have two common hobbies: indoor rock-climbing at Planet Granite and ballroom dancing. I would never have guessed how common they are, but it is what it is. D&D is a distant third.
- chrisseaton 5y ago
  > ballroom dancing is really big in computer science Lol that’s the absolute polar opposite of what the OP wants. They want to get away from other engineers like them and to meet some different people.
- harambae 5y ago
  >As far as I understand it, software engineers in the Bay Area have two common hobbies: indoor rock-climbing at Planet Granite and ballroom dancing also kiteboarding