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Don't Dismiss Online Relationships As Fantasy
Columnist Regina Lynn has a look at how online relationships seem to be blurring the lines between fantasy and reality. "The common thread among these stories is that people get deeply involved in online relationships and make decisions about their real lives. Calling any of these online relationships 'fantasy' dismisses the impact they have on the people involved and on those closest to them... I have yet to encounter anything that challenges my core belief: Relationships are real wherever they form."
I'm a nerd, remember?
They are real alright. People just get mocked for trusting someone whom they have never seen, smelled or heard, who has only given them words. Lip-service isn't what you want to go for in a relation.
i found out my beautiful elf princess was really a 56 year old man
FOXTROT UNIFORM CHARLIE KILO
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I have had many meaningful conversations with my best online buddy Elisa. She wont agree to meet in the real world though.
If only honorable knights could show up at every wedding and slay half the family. It'd be a quick, guilt-free way to get rid of that pesky Mother-in-Law that seriously won't stop coming by unannounced ten times a week who manages to break in through your locks despite them being changed and having a deadbolt added and calling your significant other 15 times a day to make sure you're not beating them and are providing enough food and making sure you really do plan to buy a house despite you being in college only to have her chase you down cursing you with things you didn't know full blooded Native Americans still believed in when you decide the relationship just isn't like it used to be.
What.. me? Bitter? Oh no. Not at all.
...that makes you wish /. had "+1 OMG Say it's not so" moderation points.
throw new NoSignatureException();
That's what I tell myself when I catch two elves in the basement of Goldshire Inn behind the Kegs, coming out smoking long bottom leaf with a creepy smiles on their blushed faces.
EVERYTHING OKAY. Proceed with life
The last online GF I tried to meet offline turned out to be a cop in drag.
Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification
True. Very few game-characters snore.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
I had been getting computer advise from someone who I thought was a fat, balding, middle-aged dude working from his moms basement, wearing a Yoda t-shirt and eating hot pockets. It turns out this person was really a ho, horny supermodel who was cruising the internet to find victims to satisfy her lusts and to spend her millions of dollars. You never get over that kind of betrayal
Worst. Sig. Ever.
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
What do you mean? He WAS the bride..
Mine turned out to be Chris Hansen and he told me to "have a seat over there..." :(
I had a really close friend I made on Ultima online. He was pretty cool, I talked to him on IRC all the time, we quested together . . . but then he showed up in game with a bugged +100HP helmet, so I killed him and took it. Then I put on all his gear and killed him again when he resurrected. Needless to say, our 'relationship' ended. I dont think I would have done that to a real friend... hmm...
crap.
That's +1 Informative
paintball
I used to chat online with someone named ELIZA. She was always very attentive to everything I said. She wanted to know everything about me and my parents. You can't tell me that wasn't real!
What's more troubling is if you ask a gentleman to describe himself, and he says: "Well, I have big tits!"