Meeting some fellow gamers.

I was traveling so I made some plans to hook up with some of my forum friends(not TNL ofcourse). When I first met one of them I was shocked, "shit he's a nerd, but he sounded ok, even on the phone..". But I thought that I might as well go all the way and meet the others while I'm here.
So I go with him to an apartment where three other guys from the board where hanging out and, yes they where all geeks to. I walked around in the apartment and looked at the inventory, warhammer figures and games, sketches of trolls and such on the walls etc.

I figure this was the time, if ever, to drink a shit load of alcohol and just go with what ever happens. while I'm out smoking (yea I'm cool) my girlfriend calls (yea I'm normal), asking how things are going, I tell her I'm somewhat disappointed that they seem to be a bunch of geeks and she replies "what did you expect? You made contact with them on a gaming board (somewhat implying that I'm a geek too, the witch).

But I give it a go, break out one of the games I brought with me to enlighten them on the goodness that is Ikaruga, I play it solo and completely forget every stupid and silly thought I have carried.
Until some stupid fuck in the couch says: "was that it? 30 minutes and its ower?"
"yea but the length isn't that important when it comes to shmups".
After playing Giga Wing and listening to stupid asshole talking about how good every Square game is (of course not mentioning Einhänder for example) and that Xenogears is almost impossible to get a hold of and that there isn't any skill in those games since "you just use those bombs and have infinite continues(hey I was drunk, no one credit runs here),even venturing in on foreign politics(apparently Bush wants to attack Iraq to strengthen the economy) I just wanted to cave his face in with my fist.
Its all the ignorance that I have to listen to but this time it abuses my ears, luckily he leaves after some time, after that I must say that I had a really good time playing everything from Monkey Target and SF3 to FIFA 2003.

I just started to enjoy myself and began to appreciate how lucky I was that I could share such a good time with people that share my hobby, which is a first since i was 11. I ended up sleeping on the couch for two nights and staying up until five in the morning just to have one last go on Halo. I realized that I had put to much thought on trying to make the most out of live and accomplish something that I had taken the wrong route and thereby kept myself from having a good time, I judged them to fast and put myself down.

I was aware that I was a my own mental image of a geek those two days and that I had probably always been one, never more than on that day and as you probably realize, I never was one, I just like to blow things up.

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Yeah...ok.

Thanks for sharing that insightful glimpse into the geekdom of gaming.

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Originally posted by J2dfanboy
made some plans to hook up with some of my forum friends(not TNL ofcourse).

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That's funny! TNLers must be avoided at all costs. ;)


Seriously though, I am not sure how that was intended, I think you may have meant that as in "of course- or it would be well known" or something... it's funny anyway though.

You're Sweedish aren't you?

Yeah - I can honestly tell you that not all TNLers are geeks. MVS, for example, can fly.

ºTracer

I just wrote it because I'm pretty bored right now and to take time to think about it I guess, mabye to take the chance to get to hear some one elses experience of meeting people that you've only talked to on the net.

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Originally posted by sggg
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That's funny! TNLers must be avoided at all costs. ;)


Seriously though, I am not sure how that was intended, I think you may have meant that as in "of course- or it would be well known" or something... it's funny anyway though.

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Nah I have nothing against any one from the board, it just seemed so obvius for some reason, I dont know why.

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Originally posted by TracerBullet
You're Sweedish aren't you?

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Yea.

J2D: Var i Sverige är du?

Jag vilja till flytta till Stockholm... en dag.. :)

^^ I hope that makes sense. My Swedish is not too good yet. ;)



- As for meeting people in real life that I first met on the internet. I have actually had very good success. I have probably met 5-6 people over the years and some of these people ended up being my closest friends in the world. It's usually a bit strange at first, but then it becomes "normal" pretty quickly. None of these people were from videogame forums though and none of them are that geeky...

Jag trodde att du var från Sverige sggg och att du hade flyttat till USA eller Kanada, Röda stjärna :)
Jag är i Göteborg just nu, kom nyss från Stockholm.
Din svenska är helt okej, kanske skulle du sätta in ett "skulle" före "vilja.." och ta bort "till" också innan "flytta..".

Varför vill du flytta dit föresten?

Did you understand all of that?

I'm not sure if they're gamers or not, but I'd sure love to punch the geeks who work at the EB near me. Aside from that, I've had quite a few friends who play video games. Only one of which I have ever known to frequent a internet forum on the subject.

I know enough people who play games, but that's about the long and short of it. Outside of gaming, they're all normal people (well, as normal as Californians get... =p).