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    My family and friends know I like video games and being a geek. Most of my friends are also in to geeky games so I wouldn't be ashamed if they knew I went on here.

    I had an awkward moment at work though when one of my co-workers noticed the site and was like "that looks familiar...buncha nerds go on there huh". He is not about that life though so smurf him.

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    I tell people I met him on the Internet and if they ask if it was a dating site I say no, on a nerd forum. It's not really any of their business past Internet but I have some beef with online dating sites now for reasons so I don't want people to think that.

    *Not me criticizing people who use them, I have a few particular reasons why I really don't like them but to each their own and I'm not going to judge

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    Quote Originally Posted by Raistlin View Post
    At first I did keep EoFF and IRL fairly separate. But then I got closer to some EoFFers, and the distinction just became rather silly. Friends are friends, no matter how you came to meet.
    Emerald Aeris was an IRL friend got me into EoFF
    Dated Araciel
    Lived with Peegee
    Met Jojee, Jiro, MILF, Enano, Shiny, others
    Maintain a friendly relation with a few eoffers while Raistlin and I retain a pretty good friendship and Jiro is now a near by friend and Locky & Noodle Boy spread rumours of possibly visiting us up on the Sunshine Coast.

    (SPOILER) I may seem unapproachable or disinterested but I am pretty easy going and like a good time and good people.

    Boldly go.

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    @pike The 3 or 4 people who know I met Tara on the Internet know that I'm only active on one nerd forum, so it's not a stretch for them to guess. But I don't tell anyone willingly that I'm a member of a Final Fantasy forum.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chemical View Post
    Met Jojee, Jiro, MILF, Enano, Shiny, others
    Maintain a friendly relation with a few eoffers while Raistlin and I retain a pretty good friendship and Jiro is now a near by friend and Locky & Noodle Boy spread rumours of possibly visiting us up on the Sunshine Coast.
    We've never met. O_o At least not in person anyway unless you were lurking behind me some where.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chemical View Post
    Met Jojee, Jiro, MILF, Enano, Shiny, others
    Wut

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shiny View Post
    We've never met. O_o At least not in person anyway unless you were lurking behind me some where.
    There you have it folks; the dangers of the internet summed up in one post. Thank you, and goodnight!

    Quote Originally Posted by Pike View Post
    Do you guys seriously specify to people that you met your significant other on Eyes on Final Fantasy? Not judging, just curious. I tell people I met him "on the internet" and leave it at that. I don't feel there is a need for any more details because I don't think anyone would care.

    (SPOILER)We didn't meet on EoFF anyway, we knew each other long before we each joined
    I tell people that we met online a decade ago, and this is usually so shocking to them that they don't ask any specific follow up questions. Scandalous!

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    For the first few years of my membership here, I had to keep EoFF and my personal life very separate. My mom flipped her trout when she found out I was talking to internet criminals and rapists and stalkers on the internet and lived in mortifying fear that one of you nerds were going to invade our house and rob us at gunpoint at any point in time. And she hated Daniel Towns. Hated him.

    Buuut once Spiff and I got together, the two started to merge together, mostly. Some of my friends in school knew that I talked to people online, and I think they thought it was a bit odd but didn't really say anything against it. I mostly kept it private, though, because I didn't want to be judged. It just wasn't something that was common in the early and mid 2000's. Now, EoFF is all over my facebook, and my friends know that I have friends in "faraway places". Close friends know I met them online and sometimes I can see that acquaintances want to ask "how did you meet these people?" but they never do.

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    Quote Originally Posted by THE WORST View Post
    And she hated Daniel Towns. Hated him.
    Oh god xD Guess the spreadsheets were just too much.

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    She didn't even know about the spreadsheets and she still hated him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by THE WORST View Post
    And she hated Daniel Towns. Hated him.
    Oh my god xD

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    Why did she hate him so much?

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    Because we were dating and he was a SCARY INTERNET FOREIGNER

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    Quote Originally Posted by THE WORST View Post
    My mom flipped her trout when she found out I was talking to internet criminals and rapists and stalkers on the internet and lived in mortifying fear that one of you nerds were going to invade our house and rob us at gunpoint at any point in time. And she hated Daniel Towns. Hated him.
    Well, you were with Daniel Towns, the guy who shows off his wood to anyone who will pay attention to him and collects girls' hair. Her fears were clearly warranted.

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    He never got my hair.

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