I've met dozens of eoffers...

[Jessweeee♪]

Yeah, no one wants to travel to or from South Texas. I mean, it's eight to ten hours just to get out of the state!

[Freya]

Hey I have friends down near houston YOU NEVER KNOW JESS!

[Jessweeee♪]

Even Houston is very far from my hometown! I got to school in San Marcos and it's like four hours away from my house!

[Citizen Bleys]

There is no way I will ever go to the United States, so meeting people from online is largely a no-go. I do work with one former EoFF'er, although I can't remember his forum name because it was dumb. I've also gone drinking with one of my buddies from FFXI a couple of times.

[Miriel]

Almost every forum I've been a part of has had meetups between the members. The main forum I visit besides EoFF has casual meetups like every other day and a annual convention every year. I think it's just the natural course of things that if you have a group of people with common interests online, that's gonna eventually translate to offline meetings too.

There's never large groups of girls meeting up, though! The most are like, 3 girls to 5 guys, I think. It's because a lot of girls here don't like other girls because they're full of jealousy and anger! It's kind of lame. Bring on my eventual California trip to SoCal to see Monda and Shluppers and Miriel if she wants to see me and all the other SoCal ladies!

Totally up for it! ;D

Let's go to Disneyland!

[Shiny]

If the meet-up will involve me traveling and having fun then I'd be all over it, but I wouldn't hang if it was with a group of people I don't talk to frequently. With that said, I've met with a few people on here, but mostly because they lived close to me, or I knew them already before joining EoFF. I am interested in going to Cali, so who knows.

[Rye]

I would love to meet more eoffers but for me at least I've always lived in the most unlikely spot for eoffers so I'd have had to travel super far. Recently the OKC meetup was closer to me but the others had to go far to get to me! So I think it's a little bit harder for the US eoffers at least cause we're so spread out.

UK might be a little easier that's why they seem to have one almost annually even if it's just like 4 of them! Just much easier to get around over there I think due to the size.

That is true. It's kind of surprising, but there's hardly any EoFFers in the downstate NY area. I've almost met one older EoFFer in Manhattan once but I had to switch plans, and I've been meaning to visit one of The Captain's concerts and hang out with him because we seriously live only minutes away and I worked down the block from a relative of his, but we've never gotten around to it since he's busy being really awesome and successful (seriously, he's doing some amazing things in Manhattan) and I'm never in one place for more than a few months before I'm off to another state or country. I'm so down for getting coffee with an EoFFer who visits Manhattan. Maybe when elsie and I are city buddies? ;;

[Freya]

You know it seems like there are a lot of Ohio people so I dunno why those cats don't meet up. I swear I meet more people online from Ohio than any other state. But yeah I rarely meet someone from NY and that's suppose to be one of the largely populated states!

[Jiro]

The active Aussies all live too far apart. Except I think ee, Mo Nercy and Lancealot all live in Sydney. Face lives in Sydney too. WHY ARE YOU NOT MEETING UP.

I tried to meet with Mitto, didn't really work. He just sort of watched me from afar xD

It doesn't seem like a common thing (meet ups) but I don't think it's overly weird

[Pheesh]

I don't know if there's ever been an Australian meet up, but even if there was, I live on the other side of Australia to most people (the only person I knew on here who lived in my state was Rusty; we actually lived in the exact same town, but I didn't find out till after she was inactive). But I have plans to move over east in a year or so, so maybe then I'll be able to meet someone from on the forums.

As far as meeting people online in general goes, I don't think I ever have. But one weird thing I find is that with certain people I can be much funnier on an IM or something like that, so I've probably created a few friendships with people I know irl by the way I speak to them on a chat service.

EDIT: Nope, sorry Jiro, WA for me.

[Marshall Banana]

There's never large groups of girls meeting up, though! The most are like, 3 girls to 5 guys, I think. It's because a lot of girls here don't like other girls because they're full of jealousy and anger! It's kind of lame. Bring on my eventual California trip to SoCal to see Monda and Shluppers and Miriel if she wants to see me and all the other SoCal ladies!

Totally up for it! ;D

Let's go to Disneyland!

Hopefully, I'll be in the position to demand a ransom for Rye! One Miriel-made meal in exchange for one day with Rye is what I'm thinking.

[qwertysaur]

Jiro, I'll kidnap you and bring you to the States

[Bunny]

There's never large groups of girls meeting up, though! The most are like, 3 girls to 5 guys, I think. It's because a lot of girls here don't like other girls because they're full of jealousy and anger! It's kind of lame. Bring on my eventual California trip to SoCal to see Monda and Shluppers and Miriel if she wants to see me and all the other SoCal ladies!

Totally up for it! ;D

Let's go to Disneyland!

Can I come to Disneyland?

[Rye]

There's never large groups of girls meeting up, though! The most are like, 3 girls to 5 guys, I think. It's because a lot of girls here don't like other girls because they're full of jealousy and anger! It's kind of lame. Bring on my eventual California trip to SoCal to see Monda and Shluppers and Miriel if she wants to see me and all the other SoCal ladies!

Totally up for it! ;D

Let's go to Disneyland!

Hopefully, I'll be in the position to demand a ransom for Rye! One Miriel-made meal in exchange for one day with Rye is what I'm thinking.

I've never been to Disney anywhere before! That's exactly where I want to go when I go to California.

The question is just when we all can be there. I'm hoping for next summer!

[JKTrix]

I've only met a few people from here (including PG) and I've texted back and forward with a few more, but I really only keep in regular contact with two EoFFers now.

When I went to the Tokyo Game Show in Japan, I ran into a guy who went to another large forum I frequent but never interacted with him directly. I had the opportunity to meet with some online folks I kinda knew the last couple of weekends at PAX East and Anime Boston, but I couldn't afford the trip. I'd probably like to meet more people while I'm still in the US--I'm not too concerned about the danger of it. I'm a pretty big guy, the people I meet would more likely be afraid of me.

I wonder if that's why Rye never took me shopping while she was in Rhode Island...? :P