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Preface, nothing against those that do.

Its increasingly difficult to ever do fun things with my current friends. Now that I'm to the point where I have the space and the money and time to do pretty much anything I want, no one else has any time to hang out. I get ignored a lot, which I get, they care about their family more. But I'm the type of person who likes to host stuff and do things.

Not a huge deal to me, I'm fine being alone, but its like, man, its really fun hanging out and playing some IRL video games or just cruising or walking around outdoors etc. I guess nobody really has time as they get old though. Or maybe I need to find a younger crowd ๐Ÿ˜† I have no idea.

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[โ€“] olafurp@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just to repeat whatever other people are saying here: Join any scheduled activity that happens weekly.

You can do yoga, spinning, sports when they have 30+ groups, dancing, pottery class, painting class, hiking groups etc.

You can also convert other friend sources to board game groups via house parties where you have easy games first then bring out harder stuff later.

[โ€“] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Board games are great its just hard to schedule a night for them !

[โ€“] RamenDame@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

It is harder to make your friends play boardgames than making friends playing boardgames.

Join a social club. Join a boardgame club. Look online, sometimes people post stuff on Facebook. And go a couple of times, to get the feeling for the attendees. And never forget:

I rather play a shitty game with cool people than play a cool game with shitty people.