Gaming and Real Life - When gaming leads to memories.

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Croaking Spider

Croaking Spider

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What are experiences that you've had that have led to you interacting with your gaming group or someone you've played with in person?

When I younger, I was in a clan called Snake and Snot's House of Fun. It was a group of a few hundred members predominantly playing Call of Duty: World at War at the time. Every year, they would hold a barbecue fundraiser/get together to raise money for local charities and veteran groups. I made it a point one year to fly out just to see what it would be like.

These were some of the coolest people I've met, from all walks of life. There were men and women there ranging in age from teenagers to pensioners. Every other sentence people spoke was ended with a "sir" or a "ma'am", far more respectful than what I had come to expect from a gaming community. Some of the members ended up being local to my area in my home state, and I still keep up with some of them to this day.
 
I met my best friend in college through our collective love of Left 4 Dead. To this day we exchange gifts in the form of smoked ribs from him and homemade mead from me. We still talk about our favorite moments in gaming over a cigar with his smoker making some delicious ribs with a big glass of mead in hand.
 
Here's a touching story.

Once upon a time, I called a black guy a nigger in a MW2 lobby. He called me a cracker and told me to "come to my house, nigga." So, I did.

We became best friends and would play MW2 together. Good times.
 
Tangentially related, but I'll say it's close enough.

I actually met my wife sperging out about FF7. This was back in the day when forums were still a thing, and before all of our retardation was piled onto two or three sites with negative OPSEC. We'd run into one another in a thread about the game, got along, and that would've been it, had she not contacted me later on. We stayed online friends for damn near a decade, before I had the chance to see her in the real world. Imagine my surprise when this chick that I'd been talking to was actually a looker.

Now, being a good ol' fashion nerd, I recognized an opportunity when I saw it, and made DAMN sure to put a ring on that ASAP.

Before y'all get your rainbows out, this is not a normal occurrence, do not try this at home. I spent all of my good luck on that one moment, and I wouldn't trade it back for the world.
 
I met a guy playing CoD with a similar accent and found out we lived 20 minutes apart. We went for a drink and saw the robocop remake which ended pretty poorly. I shit talk bad movies with my friends while he clearly did not. So half way through the movie is uncomfortable silence because I've shit talked it and laughed at it like I would my friends and he expected total silence. We left on good terms but didn't speak a lot after that online.
 
I think this is a really common story but I met my best friend in college through talking about Fallout. Could be anything for all it matters, just when you meet someone that shares an interest and then you get along personality wise.
 
I'm not much for the "meet strangers you met online" thing. I'm not staunchly opposed, it's just that there'd have to be a practical reason, like if it turns out we're going to the same event anyway or something, which has never happened.
 
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