I once played 3 hours of modern warfare 2 with the same group back in the day, just because some guy was pouring out his life story and how much life sucked for him around the time. He sent me a quick "thanks for letting me rant" message and I didn't hear from him again for years.

Then out of the blue I get a message that's basically a letter, and it's all about how life was difficult but some random person taking the time to listen without judgment made all the difference for his plans that night.

So I will never cut someone off to tell them I don't have time to listen to their problems, or pull out my phone to play a game, get annoyed with someone who won't stop talking, whatever... Sometimes all a person needs is someone to listen.

That's sort of the design of therapy: a neutral 3rd party who you can open up to without the usual conversational rules.

Except you probably don't call your therapist "UltimateTrollWarrior" (or maybe you do, I don't know your life).

I've definitely spilled my guts to a number of internet strangers. It's nice to not have repercussions for my crazy.

Exactly why therapy is so useful.

I could never tell my family and friends part of me hated them because their love guilted me into not killing myself.

Town of Salem is great, but at some point you realise screaming the loudest often wins lol

I helped her out of a jam, I guess

But I used a little too much force

Gotta get that oldie gamer booty

I typically avoid multiplayer games because I'm just interested in doing my own thing.

But sometimes, it's fun to just goof off with strangers, especially ones venting their hearts out to strangers on the Internet. Kinda like a radio talk show but with just 3-4 people.

And I always got stuck with the kid singing along to the shitty music he's playing at full volume in the background.

That's actually perfect, since that 30 year old woman was probably a man.

Before WoW I played Ultima Online, and the co-GMs of my UO guild were a couple that had only met online. About 6 months after I started playing, they had an in-game marriage, and then about 6 months later both moved to Las Vegas to buy a house together (I think they'd met in person once by this point). Under a year later, they were married in real life too. Last I heard, they were still together.

If you're out there Ramirez and Azizza, I hope you're still happy.

Post-internet life is a weird place.

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I was coming here for this comment!

Didn't know Colleen Ballinger was into MMORPGs!