It is very funny that the two options for casually socializing with a person is "get coffee" or "go to a bar". It is like. You walk up to someone and are like "hello would you like to go ingest stimulants? or perhaps a mood-altering depressant"
People talk about "missing third places" and what they mean is the lack of socially normative ways to invite a friend to do psychadelics

@mcc I keep meaning to go to the new japanese import arcade in chinatown and learn beatmania iidx

maybe I should start inviting people to do that with me, it sounds like a good alternative