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Deleted user 3 July 2009 16:35:16

You’re chatting away to someone, finding common ground, learning that you’re both gamers, and then it starts to dawn on you that they almost certainly post here…

What do you do? It’s happened to me a few times now, and although on those occasions it’s turned out to be people who don’t post much and aren’t really regs, it’s still weird. I’m never quite sure how to broach it all.

/waves at freelancer in a Playstation t-shirt sitting opposite me and browsing EG

MrTomFTW Best Moderator, 2016 3 Jul 2009 16:36:08 47,491 posts
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FHUTA

Deleted user 3 July 2009 16:37:07

DDevil wrote:
FHUTA

Nah, I don't do fanboys.

Or people who wear free t-shitrs.

pjmaybe 3 Jul 2009 16:37:23 70,666 posts
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Or: "Would you be disgusted if your daughter brought home someone from EG when she's old enough to date"?

BravoGolf Moderator 3 Jul 2009 16:38:06 12,771 posts
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pjmaybe wrote:
Or: "Would you be disgusted if your daughter brought home someone from EG when she's old enough to date"?

lol, totally :-D

MrTomFTW Best Moderator, 2016 3 Jul 2009 16:38:33 47,491 posts
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kalel wrote:

DDevil wrote:
FHUTA

Nah, I don't do fanboys.

Or people who wear free t-shitrs.

Dammit.

pjmaybe 3 Jul 2009 16:38:57 70,666 posts
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BravoGolf wrote:

pjmaybe wrote:
Or: "Would you be disgusted if your daughter brought home someone from EG when she's old enough to date"?

lol, totally :-D

It's a thought I had the other day along with "How the hell am I ever going to convince my daughter that I'm not really this much of a fucking dick in 'normal' life" ?

MetalDog 3 Jul 2009 16:39:51 24,080 posts
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It's happened to me a few times - only time it was a problem was when one of them saw a post I'd made rambling on about the general futility of modern life and they went all armchair psychiatrist on me.

No, thinking is not a sign of depression, you plonker.

Syrette 3 Jul 2009 16:40:12 49,792 posts
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Happened with one of my friends at uni. Not that weird though, we're both gamers and we both use the internet.

Khanivor 3 Jul 2009 16:40:18 43,671 posts
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Never happened to me, although I did live in a weird place so I figured other than the two mates who I'd introduced to the place probably not many other toonsers posted here.

Then I left and they all came out; seems there's about five people from Aberdeen who posts fairly regularly and a few more who do so less often. I've probably passed some on the street at one point.

I think I'm safe from the OP's dilemma now.

pjmaybe 3 Jul 2009 16:41:55 70,666 posts
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Furryapples wrote:
Nobody in Manchester posts on Eurogamer. So peace, safe, cotton.. and guns etc.

/puts flatcap on whippet.

/pours gravy.

Lutz is watching you masturbate

Syrette 3 Jul 2009 16:42:16 49,792 posts
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Fruit has probably met another one of his accounts seeing as he's had so many.

Deleted user 3 July 2009 16:42:36

foreverafternothing wrote:
Happened with one of my friends at uni. Not that weird though, we're both gamers and we both use the internet.

Well no, I don't mean that's what's weird.

What's weird is meeting someone and then finding that you've already formed an opinion on them, and possibly even argued with them or got on or whatever.

Put it this, you're out on a Saturday night, maye at a hip hop gig, you're chatting to some bloke, and then you discover it's in fact ME. Would be pretty weird no?

Deleted user 3 July 2009 16:42:42

I always drop little hints about EG when I discover someone is a gamer. But it doesn't usually work.

pjmaybe 3 Jul 2009 16:43:42 70,666 posts
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Yes. Exactly like that.

Deleted user 3 July 2009 16:43:54

kalel wrote:

Put it this, you're out on a Saturday night, maye at a hip hop gig, you're chatting to some bloke, and then you discover it's in fact ME. Would be pretty weird no?

At this point I would either run away crying or start frantically bumming you.

JuanKerr 3 Jul 2009 16:45:13 37,708 posts
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Whenever I go into Argos, I always keep my eyes peeled for a slightly unhinged-looking Bangladeshi man who stinks of shit.

Deleted user 3 July 2009 16:45:48

Chances are that hundreds of people nearly met kalel IRL but didn't because he wasn't on an upward slope so they couldn't see him.

hulahoops 3 Jul 2009 16:46:12 2,311 posts
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I'm pretty certain my GF has frequented here but I daren't bring it up lest she asks for my ID and finds out what a Blanker I am.

Deleted user 3 July 2009 16:46:33

Leolian'sBro wrote:
I live in fear whenever I phone IT that they'll know who I am...

Interestingly, I discovered that one of our IT bods has registered here (same IP as me), but have never worked out if he joined to see why I was here so much or if it was pure coincidence.

pjmaybe 3 Jul 2009 16:46:41 70,666 posts
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Furryapples wrote:
I was in London once and I a funny feeling people around me were from Eurogamer. They weren't, but I kept getting an odd sense they were, weird.

Every single time I see someone using a laptop in a pub, I think they're on EG.

Whizzo 3 Jul 2009 16:46:42 44,765 posts
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A certain MMO and LAN party reality crossover still weirds me out when I think about it.

chopsen 3 Jul 2009 16:48:09 19,993 posts
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I live in mortal fear of one of my patients being a someone who posts here and works out who I am.