Comment on There Is No Male Loneliness Crisis. What’s Actually Happening Is So Much Darker.
hubertmanne@piefed.social@piefed.social 2 weeks ago going regularly to cons you see the same folks and do make friends. you look forward to the next con and get excited when its close. you go to the board and look to see if your friends you met before are at the one and if they have arrived. but I agree with your other thing that they cost. even in better times myself and many friends bemoaned not being able to go to a con for lack of funds.
Never went regularly enough to build any relationships. Friends seem to have little interest in going any more and I’m too much of a nervous sort to do events like that solo.
my core geek thing is gaming so I go alone and hang out in the gaming room and maybe hit up the movie or anime if its slow. the gaming room is a natural place for someone going to the con solo as games always need players.