@Sleeppari: What are your interests? There's bound to be people who like the same things.

You can use http://www.meetup.com/ (I don't think it's limited to just places in the U.S.)

or perhaps just google "[interest here] in [local area]".

What's this about FNAF

I love these games. Not so much for the gameplay, but the lore man. The lore is so mysterious. I must know more. There's so much that's unanswered. Oh, and Game Theory is awesome. The theme song is so catchy too.

I'm half expecting MatPat to just interrupt the intro in the beginning of his FNAF 4 lore video with this.
(WARNING: Scary as shit)

@Sleeppari: one thing to consider is to go out with your work colleagues. If you have a Friday night out, sometimes you can inadvertently find new people to talk to. Another thing is to start up a random class ad see if you enjoy it. If you do, your class mates may be friends even when the course finishes I've taken up sign language for nearly two years, and it's essentially a skill which can broaden my horizons to the Deaf culture (although I wouldn't say I'm great haha). Even another language would, if you don't like your class mates, it could make a good conversation topic to anyone new you meet

Interests huh? Pokémon maybe? :D Erm. I like games and books and that's almost all I do on my free time. Sure there is people who likes games and stuff just like I do but it seems that there is not-so-much girls that are interests in the same things and the boys are not so.. talkative that I'd like. When your interests include things that keep you inside your apartment it is hard to go out and meet with people who have the same interests. Also I'm not one of those guys who likes to play multiplayer games and play online, I like adventurous stories and games what I can play on my own whenever I like, not when my team is online.

I tried to search with my native tongue some sites where to meet people but I ended up with only one site with very dead commynity. Sigh.

Uh well.

@Orenji: Just today I pictured that I'd ask to hang out one of my collegues but then he seemed like he's in hurry so I didn't want to bother him. :'D
Actually I started to go on Japanese language course last year and hope for to get new friends from there. I have been there two "semesters" and haven't made a single friend yet. My relationship with the classmates is just "hello" and "goodbye" when I see them randomly somewhere, like we can recognize each other but we don't have anything else to do with each others. I'm not good at bonding with people, it seems.

I once thought it would be fun to learn sign language but I didn't have a good reason enough to really bother to learn it. It would just be so cool and I really love to get to know new things, like the Deaf culture you mentioned. Things you don't really be able to learn until you try it by yourself.

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Might I suggest getting into speedrunning? I've done it on and off and I'm looking to get back into it myself.

@Sleeppari: Did you notice Orenji's post to you?

Perhaps if you have the time, you can start your own book club and see if your co-workers would be inclined to join you.

Or perhaps see how the local library is? (I don't know how popular libraries are in Finland)

@Gryphaena: Yeah, I edited my earlier post when I saw Orenjis answer. :D

Where my parents live the library is a nice place to hang out but here in the "big city" we have over 10 little libaries all over the area and they are not that comfy as I have get used to. :c I haven't visited in the main library, maybe I could try it and see if it looks more like a place to meet up with new people.

Holy posting, Pokemon! 7 pages already?? I think this is sign that I'll constantly be playing catch up this month. lol Ah well, it makes for good reading later on.

I just skimmed, but I already see several names that I don't recognize. For those who are new to the site, new to the forum, or just new to me..... Hiya!

Has anyone got a shiny Purple chamelon yet? I would love to see what they look like. Purple isn't exactly my favorite color, but I love the detail the spriters put into the their work. I wish I was that talented.

Let's see.... what's up with the site in August..... Ah! Explos! I'm doing Mansion of the Gods right now, then going for a second Kyurem. I have a Light Stone in inventory, so I can finally get White Kyurem. Not sure how quickly I can get them done, but if I make decent time, I'll aim for aother round of either DotW or Burning Desire. Still debating which one....

Congrats to the Egg Event winners! As spacy as I've been lately, I'll probably forget to leave a space open. *writes a sticky note*

Speaking of which..... I have a friend that is apparently obbsessed with sticky notes. They literally cover the car dashboard, to the point that you can't see some of the gauges. It's hilarious, especially when they still forget something.

And random question: Anyone else think snakes and lizards are cute? I do, but apparently I'm in the minority, to judge by the reactions of some of my family and friends....

@Zynn: Rhapsody has pet lizards, she's shared some pics on the Chat before, i think they're cute too.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-l...0103-story.html

That article is about the white cobra brought to the San Diego Zoolast year.

She's pretty, i've seen her.

I'm kinda this too... also it depends on the age you have to suggest you something xD I don't want to say "go to a pub" if you have 15/16 or similar xD I guess... but I found a pub in my city in which there is music i like more or less (some rock and some metal) and I meet some people there with some interests in common... BUT sometimes my friends don't want to go out or something and I'm not going out forever alone xD so i don't know... you don't have to go with people with the sames hobbies, you just need something to join the group, something in common, or a hobby indeed, but there are some differences too, and this is the great part, the differences between all people.
Now we meet at my place (a garaged prepared for "party" and so) and we have dinner, play some board games or cards, and listen to the music I set xD (sometimes metal, sometimes final fantasy haha, they trust my good taste in music)

Sometimes it's good to walk alone on the street some time and listening to music with earphones (if your city has some peaceful places to walk, not a busy roads and so xD) also... meet people depends too on the number of people on your city... at big cities people go more individual (at the beginning at least) and small towns couldn't have so much variety of kind of people, so... probably that's a factor too...

Also, i met people when I went out with my cousin, she knew some people I didn't, and now my current friends here in my city are 2 of them xD

..And if you only want to talk, there are so many people on internet xD haha i don't know... you could find some people in so many places and social networks i guess (I don't like the internet way so much... but, it's a way)

ooh, yeah, board games. Off the internet, I'm part of this awesome board game group. It's so fun.

@KatTheBard: My sister and brother in law have some cool board games.

I think my favorite game they introduced to us was a game where you had to come up with a story and use all the word cards you got though.

Lizards and snakes are usually sooo adorable. I could have get one when I was a teenagre since my mom liked the idea but we didn't have any place to set up the terrarium.

@GothMetal: I'm 21 so pubs are maybe just the place the people on my own age are spending their time. Sadly, I haven't never been in a one, I don't drink and the "party" part is not for me. I'm not too much a group person, more likely to be found with one or two people at the time.

This is quite a big city in Finland where I live and this is a grate place to study, here is a lot of people around the country and from other countries too. Too bad I'm not a student myself so it is a bit hard to make friends from the university. :'D

Ah the internet. Yes, sure there is a lot of people here, still it is kinda hard to find any place to just.. talk. Nowadays it seems people are using Whatsapp as a place to chat with and I'm from ice age or something since I don't have an iphone or any other phone like that. Poor old Nokia is all I got. Haha.

I make myself sound such a boring creature. :D No wonder why I don't have any friends.


I love board games that include some quiz. Also games where you have to tell the world without saying the actual world. It is called Alias here in Finland but I'm not sure is it the name in the other countries.

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omg guys ;u; took me over 10 minutes to find my ho-oh last night.... first thing i do this morning is get on my phone and hatch the eggs.... i got sh.ho oh after all my hard work of finding it. i wasent expecting to ever get one.

@Nostalgic River Shadow: Whoa, lucky you! :]

Ohhoh congratulations! :D It is always a really nice surprise to find a shiny legendary.

Shiny Ho-Oh is one of my dreams. You're so positively lucky to have gotten one! Major congrats!

I've been fortunate to find five shiny Novelties, but no shiny Legendary yet.

Sleeppari, that sounds like Taboo. Or maybe Catch Phrase. Love both of those games.

Gryph, I'm not sure if I've played that game! My favorite kinds of games are hidden identity/win condition games, like Bang or Werewolf.