WOAWWOAWWAOW WHERE DO I EVEN START?!?!?! Okay okay, this story isn't that deep but it still makes me feel all fuzzy inside UwU. god it got me acting up my bad gang.

So, lore drop, I'm about to enter my first year of university. Never thought I'll get to this point but here I am. It seemed so much more complicated when I was younger but it's really as simple as just applying online and sending your transcripts. Anyway, this university is an out of state, antisocial BUM school where everyone is a lonely loser with NO friends. Absolutely perfect for me, like unironically. Not so much because I'm also a lonely loser; I'm freaking awesome. Rather its nice to know that I'll actually have to put in EFFORT to make friends, instead of just having casual acquaintances. Also, if everyone here is so desperate for social interaction then maybe I won't be seen as insane when I try to make small talk or show interest in getting to know someone better. Maybe.

I joined the discord server for the school. Mostly as a means to ask questions (haha as if I did that though) and make sure I'm not missing any deadlines. But also just to get a feel for the "vibe" of the place. Like I said before my uni is introverted as hell, so it has the sort of people that actually try to socialize through discord. No shade, but I feel like using large discord servers with a very general purpose, like a university's, to make friends is futile. There's no specific interest tying these people together outside of "wanting to make friends :D!!!1!1" so unless you get lucky, you're most likely gonna end up with crazy codependent chronically online mfers who hang out with each other because they have no one else. Not for me.

Yeah, I'm what you call a LURKER. Yeah I lurk. Lurk o' clock over here. I'm lurkin it, I'm lurkin it. Found a four-leaf clover so I must be pretty lurky. Lurk or die. This is how I see myself on discord for real:

HOLY SMOKES IS THAT KIRYU KAZUMA???!?!!? A YAKUZA FAN? IN MY COLLEGE'S SERVER? Oh goodness I'm about to faint. Remember all that bs I said about socializing via discord? I still stand by all of it but I will concede that I am now one of the people I hate. "When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back into you" I'm sorry bro.

When you spent literally all of your teen years playing Yakuza like me, you become a tiny bit obsessed. It is for sure my favorite video game franchise EVER oh lord I have actually played and replayed every single game. Except for Ishin. And Kenzan. And pirate Yakuza. And Yakuza Black Panther. BUT STILL I THINK I CAN CONSIDER MYSELF A FAN!!!! I had to message them man I had to.



yeah I still suck at messaging point and laugh. But they reply and we chat it up for a bit. It's been a long long while since I've felt so excited while talking to someone that I purposefully leave my phone and do something else just so I don't have to wait for their response. It was so exhilarating. But that's not the craziest part.

They had their TikTok account linked to their discord. Now I really hate looking at people's social media accounts because then I gain way too much information on them that I don't really know what to do with. I don't think it's socially acceptable yet to approach a stranger and say "bro I checked out your public Instagram account that was randomly recommended to me and I also love Prostate Exam Simulator 2025!!!! Let's be friends!!!". Unfortunately that's seen as "weird" and "stalkerish" we live in a society. But my curiosity got the better of me…

what the fuck