going to the anime convention near me annually has made me significantly less suicidal.
>Fifth "it's over" thread in a row gets instant replies>Someone actually trying to be positive gets nothingTake this bump, fren
good on ya, ive began to go to conventions more often to and its nice being able to talk to people
>>10959067>>10959064>>10958613you don't have friends, is that it? damn, that's tough, good luck
>>10959068yeah
>>10959070humanity is fucked up
It’s a neat thing to look forward to every year. I’m lucky to live in an area that gets 2-3 major cons per year.
>>10959068OP here, yeah i don’t have friends but i always try to meet up with at least one person from /cgl/. nobody’s been local enough for it to stick though haha.
>>10958613Time to start going to more cons then!>>10959098I personally live in a fairly rural area so literally nobody I meet at cons is near me so they just remain as con friends
>>10959115i usually don’t see them again at the next con unfortunately. i wish i had lasting con friends so i could maybe go to more cons with them in and out of my area in the future. always wanted to go to Colossalcon but it’s too far away.
I'm glad there are anime cons in my area in practically every month. Going to them made me realize how much I hated being so alone.
>>10959129we used to have 2 in my area but Ohayocon moved locations a ways away. i heard it wasn’t great in the new area though .
I'm 27 and I went to a comic con in my city last week and 10 people asked to take pics with me and I let them but I didn't say anything else to them or try have a conversation because I thought it would be awkward. The convention I went to has a facebook group and there are people making posts asking if people had photos that they took with them. Would it be weird if I made a post in the group looking for friends around my age?
>>10959133i don’t think that’d be weird anon>>10959064i forgot to thank you for this bump
>>10959116I can tell by these posts who you are. I'll be your lasting con friend when I see you again in a couple weeks homie. Hope you get a little more involved in the rave this time, you disappeared abruptly last year. Regardless it's nice to know these cons have had such a positive effect on you.
>>10959220is this internet stalking?
>>10959220hell yeah feel free to say wassup if you see me. these threads stay up a long time so i’ll make posts when i’m at Matsuricon so anyone can come say hi.
>>10959228Yes. I'm going to GET that motherfucker.>>10959229Hopefully there's a thread for the actual con like last year where there were a bunch of people talking about seeing eachother. Might make one myself if not.
>>10959116>but it’s too far awayIt's not too far for the guys I met there, who came from Manchester and Glasgow
>>10959098your doing it right, however this is too ethereal, meaning by nature it doesn't last in time, so maybe look what hobbies or classes are doing a weekly rate meetings. I know of a dude that is an english native and camps english lessons just to socialize or some bullshit
>>10959229>MatsuriconSweet. I'm not from the area but the state above. I'm thinking of going to Matsuri this year, but if you do go to any Michigan cons I'm down to hang.
>>10959266I'll probably be at Youmacon or Otaku U in a few months if you're down to hang out.
>>10959272i wanna hit Youmacon when i get the chance. i saw an old vlog type video of Youmacon and the venue it’s held in looks amazing.
how do i find people at conventions to xddkiss
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>>10959275find me and i'll kiss you in a no homo kind of way>>10959909*touches you*
>>10958613>>10959072Heck yea. Cons have made me super excited about life again. We have 2x big ones a year locally, january and july (some very small cons also exist). Planning and making cosplay over 6 months, go to con, repeat, is a really nice cycle. >>10959133>Would it be weird if I made a post in the group looking for friends around my age?Not weird, but I would frame it for the con; "hey looking for people my age to meeting and hangout at the con", if you just ask "looking for friends" it might be removed as not relating to the convention. Also, meeting up at the con itself means no-stress if you don't vibe with them and can part ways.
downtown Columbus, Ohio i am currently inside of you
i had a good time at Matsuricon this year, i didn’t see anyone from previous years or meet up with anyone from /cgl/ but it was still a better time than the rest of the year.
>>10959274Youmacon is a shell of it's former self. Barely worth the day.
>>10960381Coulda tried to organize some sort of meetup, they used to do one at Colossal>>10960391Really? I went last year (for the first time, admittedly) and it seemed aight. Though I know the year before that was supposed to be a horrible shithow.
>>10960458i posted some info to make myself recognizable in the Matsuricon thread but since i was always moving around organizing a meetup probably wouldn’t have worked
>>10960459Yeah I saw that, but that's why you set up a time and place beforehand and stay in that spot at least for a bit. At Colossal it was at the bridge and some dude brought a shitload of pizza, was fun.
>>10958613anime conventions make people suicidal.
>>10960478the opposite, actually
>>10959068it's hard to make friends when everyone is already in an established social group, and hanging out with someone who's already by themselves at a con inevitably feels like a stray cat following you to get food, aka desperate
>>10960460Lel, we probably met then. And I don't have it on hand but the picture of that meetup has been floating around on other boards
>>10960478We don't talk about the ACEN group. That was a fluke that keeps happening.
>>10960539ACEN makes me less suicidal because anime conventions are fun
