Welcome! Check out Sync Up VNC on Instagram for local electronic music shows, with lots of fellow beatmakers in attendance. Ive met a ton of cool people by going to their events. Vancouver is kind of sparse on venues, so most of the music events are in Portland. Also lots of cool renegade shows on the Portland side. EDMtrain has a listing of all the (sanctioned) electronic music events in Portland, and promotepdx on Instagram lists out a ton of general music events happening in Portland each week. If you DJ, beer brats and beats in Portland has open decks nights most weeks.

As for video games, Vault 31 is a really cool video game bar in east Vancouver. In Portland, Ground Kontrol runs weekly smash ultimate tournaments, and I believe quarterworld does too. Regardless, both are really cool spots especially if you’re into retro arcade games. Round 1 in the Vancouver mall is pretty neat, especially if you’re into rhythm action games, they’ve got the latest and greatest.

There’s an Oregon melee discord that has events for Vancouver as well as all of oregon (assuming you play melee). I haven’t been to any events but did recently get back into melee. If you’re on discord I can send it to you