I had an introductory english as foreign language class in collge and I went there to look around what it is like of my own volition. It soon turned to an hour long pair assignment where we would question each other in english basic things about each other and she even gave us example questions. You have no idea how hard I tried to avoid anything personal without being a jerk who refuses to participate.

To the question what I watch I responded that I don't watch anything besides documentaries and video essays/lectures which is mostly true. If I admitted that I think that Yuru Yuri is the best show, or that Kodomo no Jikan was an awesome comedy, Tonnura-san, Minami-ke and other things then it would be unfortunate. He admitted to basically watching The Last Airbender and Deathnote and Evangelion and something else but I don't remember.

To question what music I listen to I made every move to avoid admitting to Touhou. I still haven't finished the TLMC5. I said something of sort "older songs" and refused to elaborate. He said he liked anime openings and rap.

Question what games I play I responded "older single player games" and refused to elaborate. Not admitting to Touhou. He said he played Fortnite and CS. He wondered, how mysterious and shy so far. I did not comment.

I remember another question to be about my general interests. I responded "computers and humanities" after hesitation and I refused to elaborate. He said he also likes humanities and he likes learning about other cultures and began praising Japan for being cool and that he learns japanese, but 喋られみませんか was too much for his level. He was nonetheless thrilled that someone else is interested and I liked calligraphy and I told them to look, took out my pen and I began writing the heart sutra from memory the best I can until like 4th character where I woke up and stopped. He was even more thrilled and he said "looks like the real thing", "can you read it?". "Yes". (Don't laugh at me, I use very small brushes to practice and they do not look that good, besides landing a perfect sign is very hard. I also like to imitate fonts of latin letters and it is hard to land a perfect letter too). I can understand pretty much everything I hear and read, but I can't speak because I never practice, I still feel like a loser ;___;

I flagged down the teacher and showed her a C2 paper whether I can skip classes or not but she told me to go with it to higher ups.

When she finally told us that the excercise is over and the next one would be speaking in front of everyone I got my stuff, excused myself that I parked my car incorrectly. Told him "see you next time" when I was exiting and never came back. No way am I going public. I got max grade for not attending.

I believe this guy is a good representative of people who attend such clubs and anything social in general. He was not mean spirited, but of no value to common benefit and development. Besides this type of setting repulsed me in general. So I think you have both the type of people I described being portrayed but also the reason you don't find others you wish to find in such places, mostly waste of time and repulsion. I don't wish to make myself an idol, but objectively I think me and any Heyurizen is a higher kind.

I also had overheard some japanophiles or something of this sort who signed up for basic japanese at the college and they were thrilled but not interested. I can feel it in the person, I never* was mistaken about somebody's character. Beginning in the facade and surface they play, all the way deep, as deep as the unconscious if I get to listen to them for long enough and I filter accordingly. I only was friends with other sentient spergs, others are kept far away or on a leash.

*By never I mean since I grew up enough to judge properly.

Another example of these sociable people who are of no use to advance for anyone was in my computer networking class. Guys were talking something about new tech in the background and I could make out who that is but I did not care much. Usually stuff like some processors and drones and anything tech related. They seemed to be quite interested. I remember once when the class had ended and they were surprised that they could use Samba (as setting up samba on debian was the task of that day) for cloud instead of Google or something and the teacher was like 'yeah no way huh'. Speech of theirs as if they were completely blown away and amazed, first learning that it existed. Such fans of electronics and tech they were. I used to send the assignment after 15 minutes of 90 available for max grades and they were not hard, but some of other students were somewhat impressed, but I am just a simple and actually a no better than a mediocre linux regular.

I bet this is the type that goes to some tech clubs. For this reason I don't attend any.

I had many lesser encounters with this much (or this little) interest that people have in subjects they claim to be important to them. But if you are better then there is also an aspect of revealing the true power level.

I had revealed my power level in a maths class too once in regards to higher order calculus/differentials and unusual dimensional analysis. It was the same lady who asked whether I am an autist after everyone had left. I liked her. I missed max grade by one point.

Same case revealing power level with microchip labs where I did all work alone for an entire semester for 3 of us as they were so sluggish and easily got angry "if you are such a smartass - you do it fag".

I do not recommend joining any clubs that are oriented towards sociability like face to face ones. Regular people have no interest in things they claim to have interest in. And do not reveal power level in public. Unless you wish to waste your time and get abused. I think it is more beneficial to master whatever you do alone than spend time with people who are uninterested in it. Feels like smurfing in games, in the same manner it gets boring after 5 hours, you retreat back to your regular environment very quickly. I would watch anime and appreciate it alone, or on Heyuri type of website, definitely not in real life.

I am aware this was more of a blog and me praising myself. I do not intend to be irritating. I like to write long and derailing posts because they make the internet feel warm and alive. I love warm and alive internet. On one complaint I will delete this post.