Are there actually places left where people have big messy-but-friendly group conversations?

Is there anywhere left where people actually immerse themselves in a character and roleplay?

I honestly can't tell anymore if things have dried up because:

(a) I'm just too shy
(b) I suck and everybody's sick of me
(c) I'm getting old and have lost track of where people go
(d) my depression ate it
(e) everybody's depression ate it
(f) I've outgrown it and should just shut up and focus on my day job my lawn or something
(g) the Internet just doesn't do those things anymore because half of us are too busy Instagramming their sandwiches and the other half are trying to get away from them
(h) the Freemasons, allied with the Greys and the NSA, have suppressed it
(i) an unforeseen side-effect of the overuse of neonicotinoid pesticides*

*this one might be a bit of longshot