My thoughts on online videogame affairs.

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GAF's Nicest Lunch Thief and Nosiest Dildo Archeologist
While I can admit to you, embarrassingly, that I have gotten caught up in emotional affairs in certain MMORPG 's, I can assure you that most romance born in game-land are simply that _ a game.

In reality , I didn't know this woman.
I thought I did at the time.
The only thing I really did was end up lending her copious amounts of gold and outfitted her with the best quality armor.

But I didn't spend hours holding her hair back when she's vomiting from the flu like a real life partner has.

I foolishly thought that talking to her for hours on end in voice chat is the key to OUR intimacy.

But I never stared into her eyes and felt the whisper of her voice in my ear like a real life partner can.


My ego was boosted because I bravely slayed any creature that sought to harm her.

But I didn't know what her favorite shoes are.

Or her favorite shampoo.

Or her favorite movie.

Nor did I know her fears, and hopes - Other than attaining max level and scoring epic gear.

I thought it was real, my dear GAFfers.

Trust me. I know. I have been there more times that I'd like to count.

BUT once the smoke-and-mirrors of the online lust and infatuation fade, the two involved are usually left panicked, resentful, and more alone than they care to remember.

Yes, at one time (or a few) in my life, I was a virtual simp. :(
 
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When I started WoW I was so new to mmo, I would talk to NPC's thinking they were players.

Imagine if I found out there were female gamers, Jesus Christ I would have turned into the biggest simp.
 
Somebody fell in love with a dude, playing a chick, catfishing another dude.

Man, this gives me memories of vanilla WoW days. We had a guy in our guild who went hot and heavy for this "girl". She never spoke in teamspeak and we were all warning him that he was being played. But no, he was adamant that she had to be a woman based on their private conversations. Fast forward a few months later when the truth (that we all knew) was revealed, dude had an epic meltdown.

/gquit, sat in Ironforge Trade Chat going off on an epic rant about men pretending to be women, which got more unhinged as more people interacted with him, and then he ended up getting a 7-day suspension by a game mod for his language.

20 years later and I still laugh about the whole damn thing. Bonshee and Catimel and the Ironforge Meltdown on Skywall.
 
I'm thankful to have learned this lesson early. When I was teenager playing FFXI on my PS2, I "met" a "girl" and we would do everything together. Outside of game she would send me the most chaste cleavage selfies you can possibly imagine and I felt like the mack daddy of Gustaberg.

Anyway I did (and still do) play MMOs in such a slack ass touristy way. We were both summoners, and she wanted to get her progression quests done, and I just wanted to sneak/invis over the entire accessible game world at absurdly low levels.

Cut to 2 weeks later where I chance encounter her running around with another higher level summoner, with his massive dong summon trailing behind him.

TL;DR - MMO hoes ain't loyal.
 
While I can admit to you, embarrassingly, that I have gotten caught up in emotional affairs in certain MMORPG 's, I can assure you that most romance born in game-land are simply that _ a game.

In reality , I didn't know this woman.
I think I did at the time.
The only thing I really did was end up lending her copious amounts of gold and outfitted her with the best quality armor.

But I didn't spend hours holding her hair back when she's vomiting from the flu like a real life partner has.

I foolishly thought that talking to her for hours on end in voice chat is the key to OUR intimacy.

But I never stared into her eyes and felt the whisper of her voice in my ear like a real life partner can.


My ego was boosted because I bravely slayed any creature that sought to harm her.

But I didn't know what her favorite shoes are.

Or her favorite shampoo.

Or her favorite movie.

Nor did I know her fears, and hopes - Other than attaining max level and scoring epic gear.

I thought it was real, my dear GAFfers.

Trust me. I know. I have been there more times that I'd like to count.

BUT once the smoke-and-mirrors of the online lust and infatuation fade, the two involved are usually left panicked, resentful, and more alone than they care to remember.

Yes, at one time (or a few) in my life, I was a virtual simp. :(
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Did you steal her lunch?
 
Sheeesh, I hope you're young OP cause I feel like we all went through varying degrees of this but as kids on like chat rooms or shitty flash games or the early days of wow and diablo type shit.

Rule 1 of internet safety, you never know who you're really interacting with
 
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