>>8 Yes, I actually tried that a couple of years ago... I even found a group of people that liked anime and I was even interested in making marathons or stuff like that. But the group was mostly composed of 14-16 year olds and the objectives weren't the same. I live in a small town, so finding such groups isn't very easy, if there are any. I've been to a couple of anime convetions but since they're in another state it isn't very easy for me to attend them, but I try going whenever I can... mostly, the other times, I only stayed around those friends I already mentioned, so I guess it wasn't very smart, if you think about it from the perspective of meeting new people. I wish I met people with the same passion for games and anime, because I'd really like to organize something like a sunday afternoon just to watch cool stuff, or play Mario Party, or whatever... last year was so busy that, even thought I thought a lot about it, I did nothing because of other stuff I had to do... but I'd really like to do something like that around here. Not trying to only show the negative side of things, but this country doesn't really help, you see... it's way too difficult to get games here, for instance... we usually have to pay 5x what is paid in the US, for instance. So it really put people off, making them go to piracy. I usually import my games, because I don't believe that piracy will help anything, but so far, i'd say i'm 1 in 500 that thinks like that.
About the manga, I don't have any artistic gifts (even though I believe making PCBs is an art :)), but a group just to read the weekly SJ mangas and discuss would be quite good.
I guess I just can't give up, and keep trying, even if I can't really find people that are really interested in these things at first, I'm sure that those DO exist somewhere, they're maybe just well hidden :) Or maybe I haven't found the correct place to look for them yet.
As for the depression, the thought has occurred to me once or twice, but I was shoved it off thinking it was absurd... I guess I have to concentrate hard otherwise I'll just keep procrastinating in fear of not doing anything worthy of my job. I always get the thought that I should be better, but maybe that's an exageration of my part...