• Scubus@sh.itjust.works
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    18 hours ago

    Vsauce! Micheal here!

    I have 0 facial recognition. I cant tell if thats a really old screenshot of micheal or not

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    20 hours ago

    I remember doing this with a firefighter. Whoever he was, I remember his pain in chicago, even if I couldn’t really understand it.

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      8 hours ago

      I found myself in this same situation as a teenager with no social experience in my first months on AOL.

      I mean, I went on to continue to operate and run relationship advice forums and learned a lot about psychology and emotional intelligence and have been thanked by a lot of people for using those tools to provide perspectives to people struggling in their personal lives.

      But still, it’s pretty wild that in the last three decades or so we’re still treating everyone as the same faceless entity on the internet, for better or worse. (Usually worse. You need to start assuming anyone you talk to online is like, 12, because most of them are.)

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        6 hours ago

        When i was like 14, my best friend was an ex-veteran who moved from America to Germany because of PTSD and hate towards America.

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      Me too, but in Diablo 2. Nothing sexual happened or anything. She lived in California and I lived much further north, but it’s kind of funny/scary that this is a common a occurrence with divorced women and underage boys.

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        1 hour ago

        they were probably just talking aboit their lives with whoever they met in the game which statistically would be likely to be that demographic

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          No it definitely got weird. At least in my case. We talked on the phone a lot and she asked me multiple times to fly out to California to meet her. She even ended up talking to my mom on the phone. I’ll just say my parents aren’t good parents or even good people, but whatever small amount of concern my mom had was gone after that. I was in middle school so there wasn’t any way I could have flown out to meet her so maybe that’s why my parents stopped caring. Regardless, the woman eventually lost interest. At the time I didn’t even realize how weird it was.

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            The scarier part to me I think is that you absolutely could have. My cousin was in middle school in the 90’s, he graduated high school in 2001 at 18 for context. My aunt and uncle were divorced and would drop him off at the airport to fly to each other on the other side of the country. He was like six or seven when they started and it went on for a decade until his dad moved back close to graduation.

  • potoooooooo ☑️@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    “She” was a 48-year-old Midwestern man who still appreciates those tender words that so touched his soul all those years ago, B1gD0ngHaver13. We’ll always have those nights in Elwynn Forest. 🤎

  • Kyden Fumofly@lemmy.world
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    WoW was a magically place. I played with a random dude for 1-2 months leveling up my 1st char, and when we tried the new voice chat i figure out he was a 38 years old man with a deep bass voice (i was 18).

    Some time after in a dungeon run with random people, in voice chat popped a kid with a voice so soft… i thought that was a girl, but no he was a 13 year old boy. I was like what is happening in this game?

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    20 hours ago

    Humans are social creatures and socializing goes a long way with dealing with this experience we call life.

  • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
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    22 hours ago

    A kind voice and a willing ear are always helpful. And it makes you a better person to recognize the pain of another when you’re a teen.

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    18 hours ago

    getting groomed but at the same time she gave you a rune plate so its worth