1/ I know so many people who say stuff like "it's hard to make friends as an adult." I think that's true insofar as up until a certain age, friendship was something that just kinda happened then suddenly it became something you had to work at — while being overworked, generally.
4/ P.S. This thread incubated by Database Animals which was brought to me in part by @Aelkus and @Brett_Fujioka.https://www.amazon.com/Otaku-Database-Animals-Hiroki-Azuma/dp/0816653526 …