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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3903 Joined: 26 Feb 2008     | |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1275 Joined: 29 Dec 2007    | I care about my XBL friends and most people here. Enough to go out of my way if asked, not very far thought I admit. So yes I care. Ahem, Anyway. He's GEMS because that just got rolling, and the poll changer was killed by the trollslayer Haliwali! But GEMS was banned by Joe(?) for arguing with himself over which him was him. Its hard to explain so find some locked threads and go though them, good times..... But we better stop that talk if we don't want a lock ourselves. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 371 Joined: 8 Nov 2007     | It's strange, I don't much care about people I meet only across the internet. But somehow they always grow on me. I never really bond across the 'net though, it just doesn't work for me. On most forums I belong to some fringe society, moderately active, always on at the wrong time of day for the Americans (that make up the larger part of most forums I've tread over the years) and always ended up as someone everyone has spoken but no-one really knows. I'll go scuttle about my underdark lair again I think. |
Paperboy  Posts: 13 Joined: 29 Sep 2008  | why can't we be friends, why can't we be friendss I dont care about the people here right now but i might in the future when i post more. |
Muckraker Posts: 344 Joined: 29 May 2008  | Yep, there is a bunch of people i can't really get rid of, even if i wanted to. Some have really helped me through some trouble i have had too. Every few months a few of us meet up to have a curry too. Many years ago i used to play Counter Strike. Became friends with one of the Server Admins, Tsunami. Played there alot, we helped him run a server over there. He wasn't around for a few weeks and he logged in and said that we couldn't keep going, as he had cancer and needed to sort things out. We wished him the best, and off he went off. We occasionally heard bits and pieces. Few months go by and i get an MSN message saying 'i went to the doctors today, i'm in remission!' sort of thing. And he set off to travel the world. He was away for about 6 months and he showed back up on MSN with 'not long to go' in his MSN tag. He came for a check up when he came back, and it had come back. He said he was spending a lot of time with his family, and there was nothing that could be done any more. Really hit me for six. Few weeks later he disappeared from MSN |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3627 Joined: 25 Jan 2008   | Online friends and real-world friends are vastly different. I do on one level care about my online chums, but it's not fair to think of it the same as my flesh-and-mountaindew friends. Have had a couple forum friends expand past online chatting though. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4237 Joined: 2 Dec 2007   | Well, I'm planning to travel a couple of thousand kilometers around the globe for one of them, so I guess I do care.
"Ahh... what are you doi-" |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2643 Joined: 22 Jun 2008    | I met a great girl from an awesome country called canada playing the worst game ever...>.< |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 6 Joined: 11 Sep 2008 | Well not on here I dont since I never post :P but I have met people I do care about on the internet, and would be devastated if something happened to them. It's kinda wierd having never met them, but you kinda feel like you already have...or some smart sounding thing like that. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1068 Joined: 12 Jun 2008  | I don't know if I could say that I like the people I meet on the internet like I do personal friends. Though that isn't right because I have gotten to know some of them and I could consider them friends. Not like my best friend I guess is what I meant. I could find a good friend on the internet, I just can't see myself having a best friend without meeting them in person and hanging out. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1725 Joined: 13 Sep 2007  |
Ahh, I heard about that from Larenxis. You really are crazy, you know that? The only reason I'm interested in going to the Olympics is really just because it means I'll get to meet some of you, but Australia is REALLY far away. As for the topic, yes. I'm quite fond of most of the people here, who would have thought an internet forum could have such a large culture and capacity for Epic? |
Beat Writer  Posts: 130 Joined: 29 Aug 2008  | Do I care about people I meet online? Well, that depends on the person, just like meeting people offline. If they're an ass...no, but if they're kind, compassionate, considerate, understanding, or they just have a great personality, then yes. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 4237 Joined: 2 Dec 2007 |
Crazy... or crazy stupid! Canada is cold and far away, and cold, but she's such a great person I'd be crazy to miss it up. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4066 Joined: 24 Apr 2008  | I certainly care for many of you, this is the 21st century people, your like a second friend-set! |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 555 Joined: 10 Sep 2007 | Of my internet friends, most are aquaintances, a few are people I enjoy talking to regularly, and two or three I value as much as I do my real-life friends. There's also one I value as much as a family member, which is much fun. All of them I've known for several years, now. It takes a while for me to make friends over the net, since I'm a forgettable kind of guy. |
Beat Writer Posts: 127 Joined: 29 Aug 2008 | I certainly do. I've actually met somebody I met online in real life. Then again most of the people I'm closest too I've spoken with through Skype. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 469 Joined: 24 Jul 2008 | Some of them. Say for example........on a forum this girl who I talk to all the time and anticipate fable with said that she has a weird lump on her chest ( and yes, boob jokes were made. If they weren't I would have to.), implied it might be cancer, and that she was being cautious by going to a docter next week. I felt genuinely concerned for her. I wasn't crying but my mood dipped from "letz talk aboutz deh pr0n to disturbs youngs people" to ".......I'm going to go watch some carlos mencia" just to get my mood up. However, if the biggest troll from that forum said he/she had cancer I'd throw a party and bust out the porn to post on Jehovah's witness websites. Why logically debate with those cretins while you can show lolicon, shotacon, guro, and vids of God humping the virgin mary? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1860 Joined: 13 Dec 2007 |
Perhaps together we can construct a weather ray... |
Muckraker  Posts: 226 Joined: 7 Mar 2008 | can't say I care at all, because if I did I would be lying. I have a hard enough time caring about the people I know in person. occasionally I wonder what may have become of them if I haven't heard from them in a long while... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1052 Joined: 15 Jun 2008  | Definitely. I've got plans to meet up with more than one netfriend. I don't care much for this paranoia that surrounds internet friendships. |
Paperboy  Posts: 48 Joined: 10 Oct 2008 | Definately. Generally not in MMORPGs, not that I play a lot of those, but on various sites and forums, yes. I think not caring would be, well, stupid. Part of the reason you go online is to meet new people and expand your horizon, right? I mean, not exclusively, of course, but part of it. The rest is.. trolling, arguing and tits. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1206 Joined: 23 Oct 2007   | I don't care particularly for the people on the internet - I don't go out of my way to provide basic courtesies which I wouldn't provide to people in reality. There are a few members who would provide analogues to real-life friends, but to be honest, my manners are mostly ingrained and would be familiar if I were to talk in reality to you. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 531 Joined: 6 Jun 2008 | Well, I don't wish any of you any specific harm... |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 480 Joined: 8 Oct 2007 | Here's how I think about it whenever my brother complains to me that I don't have friends: |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 123 Joined: 22 Feb 2008 | I do care about particular people I meet online. For the most part I don't know any of the Escapist members or many people in other forums I frequent. However a few individuals I have got to know from Xbox Live (when I still had it) or that I have met via social networking sites have proven to be really cool people. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 477 Joined: 22 Apr 2008 | When i get to know people online in more then a 'hey let's kill stuff together' kind of way, I do start to care. Online friendships only differ in one mayor way to real life friendships, that is that i can't simply drop by and say hello. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1579 Joined: 14 Oct 2007  | It depends on the person. I have a number of close online friends, many of whom I have met offline as well. The thing is that it's a different spectrum to my general social circle, and I treat it as such. Though nothing quite compares to grabbing one of my friends to go and get coffee, or hit a mosh pit. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 4237 Joined: 2 Dec 2007 |
With toothpicks and a lot of duct tape! |
Paperboy  Posts: 13 Joined: 23 Jul 2008 | well yea if i meet them on a dating site i care ... no but really yea they're fun to talk to and have problems like everyone else so if you don't care then you are a bastard and must hate yourself |
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Yeah, I realized that after I posted it... I could have sworn we had a huge fight on that thread as well... I wonder if the mods went back and deleted the battle posts (I have seen inappropriate posts removed before, so I imagine that they can do that).