Just had coffee with a bloke last week who reached out to me on Perb a few weeks back after reading about an MFM adventure I had posted about on the forum. He was interested in trying something like that and we DMed back and forth for a bit to suss one another out and decided to meet.
I DM with a few folks on the forum but for any adventuring I like to meet the person first. As such I’m now Perb buddies with 3 or 4 guys and when we meet we’ll compare notes, have a coffee before or after an adventure, and talk shop. We keep our personal lives private for the most part, but I must say it’s quite liberating to be able to talk openly about the industry; likes, dislikes, different shops/practitioners and preferences. Sometimes we’ll share an incident that happened but not wishing to post on Perb, or talk cars, food, wine or any number of topics. Not sure if that qualifies as a confidante, but it certainly takes the whole pooning thing out of the shadows and I feel better for it.