kontextmaschine:

I can see where you’re coming from but do remember I now have a completely different personality from the last time I was socially active

Also part of it is like, the stuff I had been doing for the last decade increasingly isn’t an option. Like when I came “the local pinball scene” was like 30 people who would travel around to bars with 2-4 machines, it was a cool way to basically be introduced to the Portland tradition by a bunch of veterans – a nice broad sample, from an old van-living coot to small business cool dads to Red Fang’s merch guy to kitchen staff to a lawyer to a guy who schmoozed his brewery’s beer into taps to a carpenter to all sorts of misfit weirdos…

But increasingly it’s scores of 20 and 30somethings newly arrived for post-collegiate wheely-chair careers, like not actively offputting but like… they’re Charmed viewers, at best. Don’t even write fanfic. And there’s so many, so the scene fragments around a few huge venues scattered around the metropolitan area…