>>34708567
For example, I'd really love to work on an indie video game. Problem is, none of my friends give a shit about programming and aren't interested. I feel like I'm being railroaded away from hobbies I like and only doing the hobbies I share with my close friends, whilst they never show any interest in my hobbies. So I'd like to make some new friends who are interested in that stuff

>>34708567
You can find those at work. Get a job and stop assuming everyone is a fool without finding out for sure.

>>34708567
You do not want high IQ friends. You want friends with the same interests as you. That's a big difference because you look in two different places.

Simple (and easy to answer) question - where would people interested in X be likely to hang out?

>>34708567
life is a competition not a social club man up

>>34708567
It sounds like you want to be listened to far more than you want to be responded to. And that works out great, actually, because you do not at all need high IQ friends for that. In fact, high IQ friends are going to have their own intelligent interests and not just sit there, listen diligently, and then respond purely along the lines of what you want to talk about.
What you need is a friend who likes to be social but doesn’t like to talk. They’ll listen to you and add in the odd reply here and there to keep things going.
You seem like the type of intellectual who isn’t actually interested in others very much at all. Those people prefer to use others as a vector for experiencing themselves than genuinely giving a fuck about the other person. People pick up on that really quickly. I’ve iced out intelligent people with similar interests for exactly that reason.

>>34708567
Every time I met someone who had a fixation on IQ it was someone who I'd prefer to avoid.