Aeoryi

Glad I could help

ah okay, no worries then. they sound like they want to talk to you about stuff. If they've talked about things they were going to do in the past (like buy a car or a dog or paint their hair green) you could ask them about that. If you really haven't seen things in a while, you could ask how things are going. But if these friends were not super close in the past, you can still ask these sorts of questions and you'll get to know your friend even better! It's quite good. I think a lot of the time social anxiety really strikes hardest at the start of a conversation, before you get talking, so having a few strategies to "get over the hill" so to speak is probably beneficial. (You don't have to use the ones I provided either! But having a plan can really really help)

I mean I've always associated roblox with children imo so I assumed you were on the younger side. Older folk have a way about words that's unique to them alone, in that sense. I tend to avoid prodding people who don't want to be prodded, but for the most part a lot of it comes down to making friends organically. So like, I have a few friends who I've made by being teammates with them, or doing labs together with them. Sometimes we have mutual friends, or I let them copy my homework or we talk about test questions. So I make acquaintances really fast. But trying to force social interaction like this reads as extremely uncomfortable for both parties- you want friends who are friends with you because you share common ground, not friends who are friends with you for the sole sake of having someone to call a friend. Try asking them "how's this thing going?" Or "did you hear about this?" Or a loaded question that helps a lot. Like with my friends, we always joke about how physics class has time dialation to always last longer, or that if you zone out for thirty seconds you'll just be so far behind you might as well give up. And in math, I and my friends just make fun of another person (lovingly, of course). In acting, my friends share gossip with me that I would've never known of before. but once again you gotta let things just flow organically. I protect my friends with a fierce compassion and I am on good enough terms with everyone to the point where a lot of people are friendly to me- granted, it did take many years of growing a reputation as a person people could like, but it was well worth it. definitely before secondary, I had problems with a small friend group and then being picked on by the sharks of the grade. Protect your friends. And they will protect you too

As you mature and grow, you will find yourself surrounded by people who you feel comfortable around, and you will withdraw from spaces you are not. (For example, roblox)

we uphold a high community standard on the shard. You will not see bigotry of any kind here.

I'm going to be straightforward with you: Who are you to judge the decisions of others?

we need to do a better job of creating a less threatening environment within mhc it seems, because if someone doesn't feel safe using it then there is work to do. I am disappointed in myself for allowing this to happen.

How quaint.

oh yeah emotional manipulation is my strong suit

nah if anyone did that I'd make them feel bad and force them to change

that's on me. I normally vet my own posts to make sure this kind of thing doesn't happen. Must've forgotten some stuff.

You can always if you wish to use that space.

Nah. Back in the prime of the shard, in the RP section and stuff nah people don't rp like they used to we used to have proper grammar and like one or two posts a day type of thing.

why don't you just throw them in a private PM with yourself or something dude it ain't that hard to find a solution 95% of sharders don't care about sharder one liners anyways and those who do probably won't mind.

I remember when people used to make posts of actual substance huh those days are gone