There is. Almost none of us here have ever met each other and haven’t forged the type of friendships you can have when meeting someone face to face.

i do not see a meaningful difference

whether i see a person physically or not, i'm getting exactly what i want out of a friendship with them through our interactions--when i hang out with my best friend at my house to play smash, the medium that's between us is the video game we're playing, or the movie we're watching, or sometimes it's just the air between us

the words we say to each other are chosen for each other, and because we're friends, we speak a certain language to each other--i see him, i see his clothes and hairstyle, the image of himself that he wants to project to the world and say "this is me" with, and to me it all just seems like a game, because the fact is, you're not your clothes and your not your hairstyle

i've known him for 15 years, and i know him very well, but i can't ever know who he truly is, and i wouldn't know him any better or worse if we had met over the internet instead--the only difference is that he'd be wearing a profile picture or an avatar instead of clothes, which is really the same kind of thing--you're not your profile picture, your profile picture is merely a projection of what you want people to perceive about you

i can concede that it's a different form of interaction, but i don't see it as a divide, and when i use that word, i mean it in the sense that the differences are so great that they are irreconcilable or incomparable

i just dislike it when people pretend as though the internet is this extraterrestrial realm where things are so different and people act so different--when they really truly act the same, and in some cases, the internet serves as a better microcosm for the human psyche than the real world ever could, and that's part of what makes it so useful and intriguing

It doesn’t mean these are worthless experiences or conversations, but I’d say most people just aren’t real about who they are. Half the people here don’t interact with other in the way they would if this were in person. A lot of people play a character. You can meet a lot of cool, decent people online but there is a clear difference between a friend you can see every day and one you’ve never seen before.

Personally, I don’t care. I take things as they come and any interaction had online is just as real as one had in person. But it’s not exactly the same. Just like it’s sad when a friend moves away or you move away from friends and instead of handshakes it’s phone calls and messages.

again, do you think people don't play characters outside of the internet?

do you think people are real about who they are outside of the internet?

how do you explain me then

this is my facebook profile picture, I'm not using any mask

a mask in and of itself

"people lie and troll each other on the internet, so you can't trust anyone"

yeah, unlike the real world where you can trust everyone

"the internet allows people to be anonymous so they can get away with saying fucked up shit"

in other words, the internet allows people to reveal to each other who they REALLY are—even if what you really are is a worthless troll—making it even less of a facade than the one created by physical social interaction, where we try to make ourselves look presentable to one another due to obligation, among other smokescreens, that basically serve to do nothing but obfuscate the seedy underbellies, or the true cores of our being

which is not to say that no one has ever been honest outside of the internet, just that there's no reason to trust or distrust anyone in particular based exclusively off the medium they're using to interact with you—if i just met you, whether it's on or off the internet, i have no reason to assume virtually anything about you—it's all the same shit

the internet isn't a special mask that people wear—it's a mask, but it's just another mask in a big collection that everyone has and uses, and nobody, on or offline, has ever really seen anyone's true face; indeed, some people can't even see their own (and maybe no one truly can, since we're constantly learning evolving as individuals)

either way, all of this takes place under the purview of the physical material world, so there is, literally, metaphysically, no reason to divide "the internet" with the "real world," because they are objectively one in the same, and the former cannot even exist without the latter—everything that happens in life is part of life, obviously

the only things that aren't part of our world are fictional or imaginative worlds, ones created in stories or dreams, and the internet is neither of those things

reminder that there is absolutely no divide between "RL" and the internet

i've reached a point where i'm perfectly content with how things have played out, really, but maybe that's because i was never a bungie fan to begin with

always hated the halo franchise, and only joined the website on a sheer whim at the recommendation that i do so by a friend who used to browse the site, and as a result, i spent most of my early days trolling and taking the piss out of all the fanboys that used to pervade the flood, until i found private groups, and discovered that i could vent out my autistic frustrations with my life over there instead

the few friends i made, who were, for better or worse, the glue that kept me stuck the website, instantly migrated from the forums the moment the site updated during the rollout of the first destiny game, like any other sane person would, and spent the next year or so on IRC channels until some crazy obsessed people started making these weird offsites that were designed to replicate the look and feel of a website like bungie.old (which, honestly, if you really think about it, is a little bizarre)

point is, though, i never felt all that emotionally connected to bungie.net, so looking back on it brings back the same feelings i get from when i used to use dogpile instead of google--vague nostalgia, but an understanding that things are probably better off now, since, what the fuck was i even doing there in the first place

sep7agon getting as slow as it has been lately is much sadder to me, but i'll probably get over it too

Quote from: Verbatim on December 27, 2018, 06:17:05 PM

Quote from: Flee on December 27, 2018, 06:12:36 PM

The World of Light fight where you take on Ganondorf with the sword in the stamina match has taught me more about playing Smash than everything else in this game. WoL is still pretty disappointing (bad difficulty balance) but that was great.

when do i get to clap your cheeks online

Do I need the paid membership for that?

unfortunately

we're also on separate continents so it would probably lag like shit anyway

The World of Light fight where you take on Ganondorf with the sword in the stamina match has taught me more about playing Smash than everything else in this game. WoL is still pretty disappointing (bad difficulty balance) but that was great.

when do i get to clap your cheeks online

Quote from: Solonoid on December 27, 2018, 07:41:24 AM

also it looks like I won the thread

he didnt respond to me I won

he responded to me first so I won

Reddit is a great website

Not doing it

if the games can't stand on their own legs, then maybe they don't deserve cult classic status

Don't forget about Gmod and games like star wars RC

and if you're planning on buying a sonic game check this out first
https://www.humblebundle.com/games/sonic-bundle?hmb_source=humble_home&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=mosaic_section_1_layout_index_2_layout_type_threes_tile_index_2

thank you for telling me to wait for the fallouts

i honestly haven't listened to shit in 2018, which is sad (i've been actively trying to listen to every album in 1995 instead oops)

i listened to that daughters though and tbh it's a 7/10 at best

Where my boi MC Ride at

the death grips straight-up sucked this year

simon makes me feel powerful

Who is everyone maining currently or wanting to use the most? I'm maining Fox still but so far feel I need another character for coverage because the mechanics of this game still feel pretty strange to me. Liking Yink, wanna use Mewtwo as well but he and Fox are equal in weight and I don't need 2 featherweights dying to throws at 50.

mainly jigglypuff for the time being because she's quite easy

working out kinks with simon, lucario, and sheik (who i just unlocked so she's particularly WIP), and by 2019 i'd like to have fully made the switch from puff to simon in terms of mains

sometimes i'll fuck with ganondorf when i'm in the mood to unga, but i don't like him in this game much tbh

trying to unlock roy to see what he's like this time around, i know he's really strong now but i don't know if he'll appeal to me or not

picked up link briefly but dropped him like a rock upon discovering that i would have to master bomb recovery if i wanted to play him seriously

Never watched them, but I'm vaguely familiar with Woolie just because he went toe to toe against Daigo in SF4 at Evo many years ago.


I never watched their content partly because I felt the name "best friends play" would just make the inevitable breakup video all the more sad and awkward.