On the other side, I notice that when I’m meeting up with friends, we sometimes get focused so much on the game, that we don’t really talk anymore about things going on in our lives. Sometimes that’s good, but if you are a person that finds it difficult to talk and focus on a game at the same time, it can be kinda frustrating.

I think the best option I’ve found is just volunteering in your neighbourhood and asking the people there if they go to any groups or want to do something together

Meetup used to be great, but seems to be enshittifying more with every passing day.

Are there good alternatives or other ways to find groups to join?

How would you even do this? Hilarious though.

I feel the same about multiplayer games without gated progression and LAN server hosting. (Or local/splitscreen)

These days I can’t even play a multiplayer game with friends somewhere with shitty internet. And because of progression you have to force yourself to only play together, but never with different people or by yourself because then you will get ahead.

In the future, actual hacking will just involve social engineering corporate ai systems ( aka prompt hijacking )

I think there should be another (perhaps hidden) panel where the guy on the left just chugs the entire cauldron in front of the witch, maintaining eye-contact.

Try Readest, open source, works on android, ios, linux, etc. Has syncing of books and highlights/notes. Still in active development though.