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I was doing my homework in my kitchen while the dishwasher was on and my mom was making dinner so I move to the front room. My sister walks in the door starts watching TV so I walk in my room (I have a laptop). All of a sudden my dad barches in and watches me on these forums with my homework completed, printed, and beside me. My dad yelled at me for having the computer upstairs for like an hour. I told him I was just on some forums then he thought I was on some sort of Pornography and Murder forum. He didn't even read anything he just assumed since its on the internet it EVIL.

My parents always read and watch all these reports about people with webcams posing nude on the internet and kids always on pornography. I havn't even been on ANY pornography. Anything thats slightly vulger but IS ON THE INTERNET I can't watch even if its just someone saying **** ('sh' not 'f'). However I can watch family guy and play GTA.

Anyone else have this problem?

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Same thing with video games..."Not in the week or you'll fail school"
WTF. I don't get ONE assignmen done and I'm groudned till June



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just found that on related threads =D

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EVERYTHING is bad for paents thats new. TV/drugs/phoen theres always a problem.

Mine used to freak out when I first got xbox live and could talk to people. Now they have no idea what I do and they dont bug me about (computer wise) ;)

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Back when I was 13 my parents found porn on my PC. Yes, they were annoyed, there was a big talk, but then fun times. I remember that christmas one of my sisters bought me a playboy mug, to laugh about me getting caught.


But now I'm older, they don't look at my PC or anything, I'm old enough to do what I want. That's just how it is, until you're older they will be protective. Be thankful.

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My dad's a bit paranoid, he's pretty protective of what movies I watch, and he put all these locks on my internet account at his house. But I live with my mom and she's a lot better about things, but sometimes I wish I had a little more space. But..I email this guy who's about 4 years older than me and she doesn't seem to mind, so I figure she's pretty trusting.

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My parents' only concern was when I used to go to sites that give me adware/spyware. I'm pretty free now.

Fido, I recommend that you show your parents what you're doing (try to keep away from some NSFW stuff you may have done), and prove to them that there's nothing harmful in what you do.

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I am in full time employment, engaged, and am pretty much as mature as I'm going to get. That's how much "older".

That or just whatever the legal age limit for things is where you are. Probably 21.

Also, my parents are cool, if you knew the stories and what we all joke about at times. Some parents just aren't as able to cope with things, so they get over-protective and worry more than they should. Sometimes it's nothing you do and no matter how mature you get, they won't change.

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My parents wouldn't let me watch Power Rangers when I was a little kid. Hell, they wouldn't even let me watch Rugrats! But of course, my 6 year old brother is allowed to watch Power Rangers and Rugrats.

As my gym teacher once said, "Life is like a box of chocolates, it's not always fair."

P.S. ^^ he really did say that but he's not retarted.

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Nice touch on a Forrest Gump phrase.No b/s.

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I was looking at pron and my mom caught me.

Oh wait...

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My parents were like that a while ago. They found porn on the computer when I was like 13. And we had a talk, blahblahblah. But since then, I was sure to delete my history and clear my cache and cookies. Now, however, since my computer is in my room, they don't check because they don't know my passwords. x]

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Do they know you watch hentai?

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There's something about WCF I didn't know.

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That's what its like with me too. My sister is alowed to watch anything I do and shes 3 years younger tha me. My friend has it worse. A brother who's like 6 who can pull all nighters and play gears of war and watch American Pie (at the time i watched it at his house since i wasn't allowed watching it myself) and my friend was just allowed to have sleepovers like 4 years ago when he was 13.

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My parents just hate when I watch that hardcore necrobestiality.

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Joke or not, that's just gross........

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My mom was always pretty cool about internet issues when I first started using it. She was basically like 'Ok, porn - have an enjoy. I don't care what you do online as long as it isn't illegal. Oh yea, and if your grades drop then you're banned from it forever'.

Pretty good deal imo. Not to mention with all the freedom I kept out of trouble and used the internet as a great learning tool. I guess she figured there was no point trying to set stupid limitations on what I could do, because she knew I would get around them.

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I'm training my parents. Like, they don't let me hang out with girls that often, so I guilt them into letting me stay at a girl's for the night. They don't like me being on the internet and kick me off, so I just lay around and don't do crap until they let me back on [at which point I show them all the constructive things I do.]

They learn to shut up and not ask questions.

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I'm proud of your mom then.

Parents need to take responsibility. R-rated movies, M-rated games, and Explicit Lyrics CDs are not meant for thirteen-year olds, mmkay? Wait until you're 18.

Your parents have every right to know what you're doing on the Internet. Don't think they're paranoid and don't think they hate you. They're taking responsibility for you. It's called parenting. Some day you might understand.

If you're not even 18 yet, stop complaining. 18 is the magical age where you become legally independent. Anything before that and you're dependent on your parents.

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I started watching R-rated movies, M-rated games and Explicit Lyrics CDs when I was atleast in the 4th grade, but that's because my parents made sure I wasn't making any stupid moves in public - which actually did happen once, and I'm glad it never happened again.

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When I'm doing my homework on my laptop, my parents think I'm playing games all the time >.<

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I remember I had pretty much seen over 1000 people die(TV), 4 shootings down the street, and heard every curse word by 1st grade, as had everyone else in this poor city of mine. My parents dont care what I do at all unless its something illegal. They try to limit my freedom but to no avail; but its good to have parents who care sometimes, however annoying it may be.

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i've been watching r-rated movies/playing m-rated games/looking at hardcore necrobestiality since like age 10.

i turned out okay.




but for serious, it is good that parents are protective...they really want what is best and **** like that. but the OP's parents seem like they think everything on the internet is bad, which is extremely ignorant. i really can't stand it when people think that violence in movies/games/music/internet make murderers out of children. that is so stupid.

also- my parents are extremely lax on me being on the internet and ****. but they were really ****ing strict on me when i was like a little kid, whici turned out for the better.

every kid is diffferent and you really can't have a difinitive way of how to raise them, because it is really up to the kid to decide how he lives...amirite? dunno.

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Bring a gun to school.

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lmfao

@ op, solution: kill your parents

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Hope you're not being sarcastic.

That's pretty much the entire point of rating a game "T", yeah.

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yeah dude, my little brother keeps fsmashing his friends. damn ssbm and it's influences

..

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I definitely think that most parents are a little too over protective. It really don't matter what movies, music, television, internets, etc your child is exposed to, and when they are exposed to it so much as that you make sure to teach them the difference between what they see and hear and what's really happening in the real world. For example, people don't want to let their kids play games like GTA and Mortal Kombat because of the violence and illegal stuff and because "it's going to teach them that these things are ok." That's why you need to step up as a parent and make sure they know that "yes, in this game, you can steal a car, or kick someone in the face, but in real life you cannot, because your actions have consequences." And you need to be sure that they know and understand these things, rather than saying, "Got it? Ok, good."

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Did you see what he said?

He said he can't have explicit CDs but he can have explicit MOVIES.

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Censorship is rediculous. Luckily when I was a minor my parents let me do whatever I wanted for the most part, and whatever they didn't, I got away with anyway.

And I am such a bad, bad liddle tyke now for all the tits and spilled guts i've seen :O

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My parents used to be extremely paranoid about talking to strangers online. They would have flipped out if they had ever caught me in IRC or some chatroom for one reason or another. I wasn't even allowed to have AIM until I was 17 or 18 (after many arguments for it on my part).

Even now I'm afraid to talk about my online friends to my parents, even though I have some very good ones that I've known for years. They've just instilled in me some fear that they will get angry at me for communicating with them, even though they've gotten over that for the most part.

It's reasonable to be concerned about your child so that they don't get into any dangerous situations, but the media blows it WAY out of proportion. Finally my parents came to realize that the Internet is just like the real world - there are strangers, some of them potentially malicious, but for the most part they're harmless, just like any given population in the real world. Kids need to learn how to deal with both; not be completely cut off from it just because there is a small percentage of danger.

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well i don't have a problem like that...back when i was still a kid, my parents understood...i guess the most concern comes from my grandpa...

but yea i hate that not enough parents are concerned...and lots of ppl are extremely stupid with the internet. idno how many ppl on myspace just randomly post their digits in bulletins when they have thousands of friends on there...not very smart...

but i think other than family, my bf has the most concern about me on the internet...

but i kno the internet is just like the real world...of course there will be evil ppl...but there's also good ppl, and i kno tons of good ppl...

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i agree that parents need to take responsibility, however, 18 years old to play a M-rated game? come on now, thats pushing it a little bit, they're not that bad.
i agree with you semi on the R-rated movies, i would at least wait till my child was around 14-15 to let him/her watch.
and about the internet, i agree with you 100%. they're your parents, they most likely bought you the computer, and if they didnt it doesnt matter, your in their house they should know whats going on either way. case closed.

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Like I said, they don't know what I have on my computer now. Besides, I hide it all in my Stepmania Announcers folder. LOL.

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My mom used to ask, "do you know this person in real life?" all the time (I obviously lied, seeing as I only knew the screennames of two people I knew IRL back then). Unfortunately, this paranoia rubbed off on me, and I never gave my real name out to people on the Internet. Now I freely give my name (and sometimes my town) out to people on the Internet.

I'm more likely to get my ass kicked walking outside than get a stalker on me who's going to rape/mug/etc. me, seeing as it's pretty much the same thing anyway.

It's all about insecurity.

I just about never do anything explicit on the Internet, yet I almost always switch to a really text-y screen when my parents are around. Why? They might take something the wrong way because they raised me to be insecure and cautious about these things by the examples they set on these situations. What, want an example? I was watching Melancholy one time and my parents saw the characters on the beach. Just bikinis and bathing suits. She said half sarcastically, "oh, are you watching one of those Anime pornos?" I just sighed (even though Melancholy isn't exactly the best example of an Anime without sexual things in it, and right when she left there was a "demonstration" of that. But there we go--nothing I don't see, nothing I shouldn't be allowed to see, and nothing that should be hidden from me, for the sake of promoting sexual security).

There's a difference between what your kid is comfortable seeing and what parents are comfortable letting their kids see. And unfortunately, these don't always mesh together.

Although I wouldn't ever let a kid of mine watch porn out of the blue, that's a bit different. I'd probably say something like, "just don't watch anything explicit when I'm around and we're cool." XD

My aunt gave her 12 year old kids Playboy magazines. Why? Well, to promote sexual security! It's not like they were things they never saw before, might as well get them comfortable with the fact that it's normal for boys to have sexual desires and it's nothing to hide! She even said that she had quite a few discussions with her boys about sexual stuff over the years after that. Hmm, wonder why?

Me? Goddamn I'd never talk to my mom about that kind of stuff. I don't know how she react and frankly I don't want to experiment. She never showed me a reason why I should be secure about my sexuality around her, so I'm not.

And kids hear curse words all the ****ing time, why try to hide them from them? They're just ****ing words and they're something a mature adult should be comfortable hearing, and at the age where their kids hear those words all the time and probably even use them in public, why bother censoring them at home?

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Same exact thing here. Now I don't care if the person knows my name, and my parents used to always ask if I knew that person, now they never do. I usually just give the state where I live, if they live there too then I'll give up some more information.

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my mum would let me watch certain things when i was younger, like she would rather have me watch a small sex scene in a movie than some bloody gory scene

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hahahahahaha i love you! check out my hiding spot:



i don't even know what lotus is...
btw pulp friction isn't very good.

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"I Love Asians." LOL.

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good watch imo

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lol that's awesome. if i hid things they'd go in my html coding folder with my photoshop stuff and such...cuz no one else here is interested in that stuff...and anyways i could just make it invisible as well

one of my friends had a separate hidden hard drive for his special stuff

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About the only sexual discussion I had with my parents was when I told my dad that there had been an irritation around my groin (No, it wasn't an STD). It was probably just more chiggar bites, they had me for dinner that year.

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Yeah, my parents are kinda crazy too. They always have to know what I'm doing.

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After figuring out that I often looked at adult content, my dad threatened me by saying that he could monitor the router 24/7.

I think he was bluffing. = 3

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It's usually best to keep parents who don't use computers or know much about it on a need to know basis. The media has pretty much blown up everything making adults scared of this new age technology.

I never have a problem with porn or anything. I'm a man, my hentai folder is in my documents and my porn is in a folder on my desktop called Bittorrentdownloads.

I guess my mum respects my privacy and everything. But then again this is my computer and nobody ever goes on it anyway.

The whole rated M and such are guidelines and are really up to the parents to decide if their child is mature enough to purchase it. Purely the parents fault if something happens and they make a misjudgment, it's not exactly hard to flip over to the back of something and read a paragraph to see if it's suitable for young sharp object obsessed Jimmy.

If your parents happen to find out about something and they don't understand it it's usually best to explain it with some hard facts. We are more likely to get raped attacked molested etc just walking outside normally then someone finding out the town you live in. What stops any person kidnapping you in cities etc. It's not like shiz is going to make any diffrence.

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Indeed. About the only time I'd be concerned is if a mother was letting her 7-year-old watch XXX videos. I mean, I started South Park somewhere in the 1st grade, but adult content just crosses the line.

I remember a former friend of mine that claimed that the first word he learned was "porno". I hope that that isn't true.

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When I lived with my parents, I kept anything unsuitable in a folder somewhere in the windows directory. IMO that's the best place to keep it. There's no possibility of anyone going in there for any reason (unless you have a weird nerd in the family). It's great to find one of those folders that has a bunch of random sequences of letters or numbers.... make one of those and remember which one it is. Nobody's going to touch that.

Then later I kept my stuff in a hidden directory labeled with my name, on the desktop. Nobody knew how to un-hide, so it was all good.

Now I don't care. I think there is some hentai on my desktop. Meh. I live with friends and visit my parents occasionally. My mom is a real snoop, but it doesn't matter, because I don't live there anymore!

What was really frustrating was having to watch out what you bookmarked. I don't have to worry about that anymore.

It's great to leave home.

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Yeah well too bad I already said that.

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I agree then. =P

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my moms crazy. when we used to go to the movies when i was younger (around 14) imagen this...one "scary" part, and she yells to me "cover your eyes!"
this left everyone around me laughing at me, and me being in a bad mood for the rest of the movie, cause usually there were people i knew there.
she did that not only with violence but with the small sexual scenes as well.
thank god shes lightened up :p

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wow walking into chit-chat is like walking into hiroshima the day after it got nuked

ps kill your parents

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parents are so paranoid with small things like forums or little voilence in games.

My dad wont let me play an old james bond game

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My mom knows I play a lot of FFR. That being said she knows that when music is blaring and my fingers are moving up and down on the same keys i'm playing FFR.

Still she comes and checks to see what i'm doing on the computer. Then she squints to see the taskbar to check if anything explicit is on there.

Annoying as hell... when i'm trying to do homework and she slams open my door, looks at the computer, looks at the TV, clicks the, "previous channel," button on the TV remote then leaves.

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Mine's all in the background animations folder lmao.

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hahahahahahahahahaha

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Once you think about it, it somewhat makes sense. I mean, having sex with someone (particularly to give birth) is better than beating their face in (which doesn't relate to the birth of a child at all).

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My mom doesn't mind what I do on the internet as long as it's not illegal, excluding downloading music.

But when I joke about porn, she gives me a look.

OMG PORN IS MORE HARMFUL TO THE BODY THAN DRUGS.

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Like I said, they didn't care, don't care, won't care unless I get busted for animal cruelty.

White text lawl. Bestiality is horrible.

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Actually, if I had any adult material, it was in the same place. but now, as far as I know, the computer is dry of any pron.

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I don't ever download porn. I just go to websites and clear my history afterwards.

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Imagine if someone just resurrected a 13 year old thread lol. Stay based Kings and Queens, I hope you all are well. If anyone still lurks or posts, thank you so much. Big thank you to the site admin, whoever is keeping this alive, all the old profiles and everhthing. It's been a hell of a nostalgia trip....well, see y'all in another 13 years!




See ya space cowboys :')

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i remember my first ffr meetup with botchi and fallen and my mom was soooo paronoid about me meeting people from the 'internet' im like ma' i know deez guys for a while, id catch on to them if they were pulling a fast one by now XD

edit: ultimately, there is just some things you can't pretend to be into like a predator who 'plays' ffr but has like 20 games played rofl

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enjoy 4chan greentext format for this epic true tale of yore:

>be me in 2006 or 2007
>17 yr old stepmania nerd
>big school trip to italy and greece
>fucking thaor is italian !
>reach out to him and tell him i'll be in rome and area during x dates
>thaor lives like 20 mins walk outside of rome and is down to meet !!
>get thaor's number but never seen another country code before (weird?)
>enter school trip
>get to rome and we have a couple hours free time
>one of my friends agrees to go on a quest to meet thaor
>go to payphone, insert foreign coins and get dial tone
>attempt to dial number but it has + and a country code, me being confused noob likely doesn't dial it correctly
>call ends up failing
>it's 2006-2007 and cell phones suck, i had left mine at home cuz out of country
>try getting to an internet cafe
>at this point only have an hour left
>my friend gets flakey, we decide to give up

I still wish that would have went down, I was hoping to be player 2 during some legendary score lmao

ps. my parents were chaperones on the trip and i def never said shit to them or they'd lose it. Imagine some 17 yr old and his buddy in a foreign place meeting a random 20 something from the net? My parents were ultra strict too haha

le sigh

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crazy revival of an old ass thread guys.


And being fair my parents have always trusted me in this regard.

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I remember having an FFR meetup with myself

But yeah my parents are very relaxed with the internet and that's probably because my lack of ever telling them what I do out of paranoia that they could be looking over my shoulder at any second.

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The first person I met from FFR was Tokzic who has remained a very dear friend to me through the years

Then my parents dropped me off over the border to meet ipatch because I didn't have a car LOL. but he had come to visit me for a few days first so they kinda knew him. Still kinda sketchy looking back ahahaha

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It might seem silly but they're just wanting the best for you. Even though their idea of best might not align with your own. Really easy for me to preach this when I felt the same for x number of years.

All you can do is what you can do.

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you dodged a bullet cause he probably would have tipped you over to some gipsies and get a cut of your stolen wallet

next time you come to this country come see me instead, so I get to bully you!

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I met my mentor who took me under his wing for like several/eight ish years in my audio engineering internship through craigslist of all places lmao

sure enough i had to convince my mom over time he too was a pretty normal person -.-

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Lot of old names in here. Miss WSF.

People from the site I've met are Nestlekwik, LittleNekoChan, psp31, and apparently Amber Lee Connors (I forgot what her screen name is, but she claimed to actually recognize mine)

I keep threatening to drive up and meet SunFan and dAnceguy but I'm bad at promises and 2020 has not been super kind to taking trips. I also live disgustingly closw to EastSideMan (or did years ago) yet we just kept missing each other until he slowly faded from the site.

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I’ve met T-Force and Drizzle in person. They were very great guests and it was fun to have them over.

Trevor got to meet my whole family and stayed overnight lol that was the weirdest thing to ever ask if it was ok. DRG came over when I’d moved out so it was a nonissue there.

There’s a few people I want to meet from here still though.

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I met _.infinity._ (can't remember the punctuation) at a quizbowl tournament at my college, lol.

Other than that, zero contact in the outside world.

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my mum loved T-Force XD she has a bias for tall people

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Let me tell you, I did not think he was as tall as he was. He also greeted me with like, a triple hit of purely Canadian stereotypes.

Was a very good time.

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1.) Being overly polite.
2.) "eh?"
What was the 3rd?

EDIT: I probably apologized for something, didn't I.

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the first person i ever met online was charles claythorne (aka mashi aka a goat), on valentine's day, in nyc. we went to an arcade

at the end he thought i hated him 'cause i didn't talk but you know. also my roommate (i was a freshman in college then) was like "DON'T DIE. LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU COME HOME" and i was like "it's mashi it's ok"

since then i've met more ffr folks and saw mashi a second time

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My parents were pretty paranoid about even allowing me to freely access the internet. Which, of course, mysteriously stopped the moment I entered high school. I guess they had no choice but to accept the reality that the world was changing and that frequent computer use was the new norm.