Oh that I have but one upvote to give.

Oh, hey, I’m pretty sure this is the game Punchy covered a while ago! I’m sure he’ll be glad to be yet again proven wrong that the game he thought would never get an English translation did in fact get an English translation.

110% this is the way.

I still have friends of nearly 20 years whom I met on the official Wizards of the Coast forums back when those still existed and I’ve managed to meet a handful in person once or twice. I’ve made friends through Discord, fanfic sites, even youtube whom I’ve also met IRL (usually at cons), even if I have been terrible at sticking around sometimes. I’m even making friends on here just by posting and generally being nice and being around, which tbh I wasn’t expecting both because of the low traffic and because of the depersonalized nature of this inherited-from-reddit interface.