26 Want to try and help me be less bad at conversations?

Howdy! I'm not a very strong socializer, and am actually quite a shy person. I'm hoping that in chatting with random folks, I'll get better at it. I'm in EST, but you can be from anywhere so long as you have halfway decent English!

A little about me; I'm 5'9, have dark brown hair, just under 180 pounds, and the best/worst fact is that I'm a gamer. I play a somewhat wide variety, from strategy and puzzle games, to shooters and Souls-likes, to my favorite, Pokemon. Lately I've been trying to get good at competitive Pokemon on the newly released Champions, but I've gotten a bit stuck. My favorite Pokemon is Mudkip!

While the post is marked NSFW, it is just there for the people who are largely only interested in NSFW messaging, or so that people that want to be more flirty/suggestive know they have an open door to do so. I'm open to chat about largely anything! I just ask you lead off with a short introduction about yourself, and if you'd like NSFW to be an option or not.

P.S. Sorry if I don't respond the fastest, especially for your first message or two! I am still not used to this site's chatting system, and the last time I tried this I didn't get a chat notification from a new person for over two days. My friend group also loves to steal me for large swathes of time.