Is it just me or did everyone sort of stop being social, full-stop, in 2013-2014?
There was a time not too long ago where it was relatively easy to assemble a group of bros and cram into someone's basement playing vidya until the wee hours of the morning. Or if you got bored you'd all pile into somebody's car and check out a movie, or go to like a shitty minor league sports game or whatever just for something to do.
Now it's like, I still have all my friends, we all still talk regularly, it's not like we've grown apart at all, but nobody actually leaves the house.
On Saturday my friend texts me "I'm bored, what are you up to tonight?" I said I was going to a game and tickets were $5 (I'm serious). It was a nice night, only 15 minutes from his house, and I suggested he should come along just so we could hang out and sit in the stands and bullshit together. He stopped responding, then messaged me later saying he lost his sports betting picks for the evening. So this motherfucker declined an actual evening of human interaction with a bro to sit in front of his mind control machine by himself in the hopes that he won $40.
Couple days earlier I jumped on PS4, another buddy was gaming by himself and not playing anything particular, just lobby hobbing. Suggested that hey, we should go for dinner or something, maybe get stoned and see one of the shitty movies thats playing. "No bro I work tomorrow." We then proceeded to stay up until 3am playing vidya together.
I've been talking to this girl too. Like, sitting on the edge of my bed, full paragraphs back and forth, it's great. But it's like, why the fuck aren't we doing this over dinner? Why the fuck aren't we out playing pool? Why am I resigned to texting a 125px x 125px picture of her when she lives ten minutes away and our hour long texting odyssey can be a five minute conversation over coffee?
Why the fuck does nobody want to leave the house anymore? I can't be the only one who has experienced this.