"what's new?"

They will never know the pain of not living a life.

>>17779065
In that case your problem isn't the answer to their question. How the fuck did you even manage to stagnate for couple years?

>>17779065

It's a shitty question that I hate asking and being asked, but it's just kind of a sound social introduction kind of greeting. Who knows, maybe something's new? Even if something isn't new, I try to come up with something reasonably creative to get the conversation started. Talk a new game, movie, something like that.

>>17779065
This

my gf's father always asks me this and I'm just like "you know...went to school and played videogames after" in my head, while on the ouside I just "oh...nothing".

It is very awkward. Nothing that interests a 50 yeard old man is new

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i was a boring piece of mold grown from escapism, and several years of dissociation and repression has left me extremely dull and incompatible with others

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>>17779065
It's just a formality, anon. You can dismiss it by saying something like "nothing much", which would risk making them feel unwelcome, or mention something trivial that happened recently and then ask them the same question. They're not asking you to read them passages from your diary desu. They're just looking for something they can use to segue into an actual conversation.

Although, the only way to deal with the real problem you have, is to do more interesting things. Take up arts, sports, studies, etc. Be the opposite of what you are now, you boring fuck.

>>17779588
Boo-hoo. If you know what your problem is, then by now you should know how to fix it. You just need to grow a pair and actually go out and do it.