Tfw 29 years old and have a job but forever alone

>29
One more year and you’re a wizard, Harry. I’m sure you’ll have a lot more fun when you’re enrolled into Hogwarts.

Then it's your fault.

It's not all my fault, the place I live just doesn't have options that I see or I don't have any opportunities to meet an interesting person. I take blame for not exactly being like a chad or something and running up to every girl I randomly meet and asking them out but it's also circumstantial.

Get a dating app. Think about what you'd find interesting about a person. For further help, give me three words that you think other people would use to describe you.

Quiet, gamer, nice

>chad
Are you sure you're 29 years old?

If your social life is fine and you know how to talk to women, why didn't you venture out your place?

I was just using it as a relative term. I do venture to places, I just have no idea how to appropriately come into some kind of conversation with a random person in the way that implies asking someone out. Also, I don't go to bars cause I don't like that atmosphere and I don't drink so I'd prefer to meet someone at a normal place like mall, etc.

forever alone

Thanks for the reminder.

Being quiet doesn't really give you anything to work with, but helps you to give something to work against. Being a gamer at least gives you an interest.

Being nice tells me you're someone you'd like to hang out with, but probably not at something like an unorganized social event, like a party. Think of a situation where you could hang out and meet people doing an activity, gaming is the obvious but try stretching it a bit.

Eating? I literally don't know other than maybe an anime con but there aren't really any here and the ones near me already passed.

Well then it's too late now. That small period of your life where you're allowed to make mistakes is now gone.

If you're not a total social wreck, there is dating apps but...

>cons
kek

So I should just end it?
What's wrong with cons?

I imagine that you have a certain image of cons inside your head. Whatever that image is, it's loooong gone.

Are they really that bad now? It's only been a couple years since I've been to one.

They're not bad, they're just no longer for you, if you understand what I mean.

They're just for normies and women getting attention I assume is what you mean.

Eating is an option, I think a shared experience with someone is something that would be good for both you and the person(s) you're with.

To give you some suggestions, museum, amusement park, some sort of lesuire sport like bowling, take an evening class in something theoretical where you'd be forced to speak, a course where you do something practical, like cooking or some art.

Ehh, it's more that, *you're* no longer part of it.

It was a revelation to me too.

Like he is too old for them?

How do I share an experience with someone though if I just go somewhere to do these things? This would be implying I somehow managed to find someone to go out with or something idk.

In a manner of speaking, it's kind of hard to put into words without sounding r9k about it. But that world has left him.

wat

They're not really the same type of nerds and dorks as before, they're "normies". That's not to say they're fake but they're nerds who know how to socialise. Our kind of nerds have mostly disappeared.

OP is welcome to go one of these cons and try and mingle but if he's anything like me, he'll probably find himself feeling like an outsider and especially if his interest in this shit has waned.

If you took a course, it would be forced on the others :-), the examples I gave would have a predominantly female attendance. For some of the others, it doesn't have to be a date but an exercise in organizing a social event, get to know people. Like: I'm getting tickets to the premiere of that new movie, who would like to go. There's a new restaurant or they serve something special at this place that I'd like to try. Once this project at work is done why don't we go bowling. Your potential date doesn't even have to be among those you ask out, just get out there and it will be a helluvalot easier finding someone.

How am I supposed to find people to invite to these things?

I'm not into other dudes

Bro, I'm trying to suggest low threshold social situations you can set up yourself to get out and meet people. If you want to go directly to dating I'd suggest you get an app for that, there are recurring threads on /soc to help you with your profile.

>soc
Holy shit dude

I don't know if you should end it. Maybe re-evaluate your current course in life.

/soc/ is a bit weird and mostly just hookups

/soc/?!

/soc/ became a wall of dicks for years until recently.

Those old type of nerds don't exist anymore.

/soc/ is cancer

Time to travel, go see the world

have sex incel