This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff

I don't think I know anyone that I don't share at least one mutual interest with but that mutual interest was more of an introductory point than the sole topic on which we talk. When people are talking about things I am entirely not interested in then it is usually in a group setting and I can just tune out or switch to a different IRC room until the conversation turns back to something I actually have opinions about or want to know more about, or to make asinine jokes taking the previous line of conversation out of context.

But I'd say yeah I usually enjoy people for their company rather than interests then? Having both is good but a lot of the people I regularly associate with I do so because they talk about things that are interesting or funny or in some other way entertaining but not necessarily related to something I do personally. I don't think I actually spend much time talking about my hobbies and interests at all really.

I only talk to like two people one-on-one on a regular basis though so in that way I guess I'm not sure I'm quite talking along the same lines as you are. If I need to fill a silence when it's just me and someone else I dry up pretty quickly. That doesn't mean I don't count the people I don't regularly talk to on their own as friends though? I have a lot of people I'd even regard as close friends that I just never seek out to talk to on their own because I'm not good at that.