I find parties that revolve around a common interest work better than “come and speak drunk at me” events. Board games, painting miniatures, LAN games (which is basically just online games in the same room), or if you’re one of the normals watching a sportsball event, dvd watching night, or if you have kids inviting other kids over with their parents.

I imagine people without kids start having a really hard time. Parents with kids aren’t going to come to their “come and speak drunk at me” parties - it’s inappropriate for everyone, and baby sitters make more than tech CEOs these days. Those parents have tons of parties when their kids are playing together. And given the biological imperative to perpetuate the species, at a certain age an awful lot of folks are parents. The “come and speak drunk at me” folks sometimes end up in recovery and can’t be at the “speak drunk at me” parties any more. That an folks just get busy, form their own social network, are traveling for work too much, and all the other things, leads to a lonely existence if you need people to come and speak drunk at you.