The non-meetup thread
Post here if you don't want to go anywhere near any of these freaks.
Actual topic that Sarah is making me have: do you avoid big meetups? I think most everyone here has gotten close enough to certain individuals to be willing or eager to meet up with them, but how do you feel about bigger meetups with more people you may not know very well? Would you be more or less likely to go to those?
Honestly, I'd be MORE likely to go to a bigger meetup because I'd feel more comfortable in a larger group of strangers than a tiny group of strangers.
I am posting here because I don't want to go near Wesley.
Big meetups with people I don't know very well would probably make me uncomfortable, but I feel like underlying specific of having EoFF in common would make it a little easier for me to feel comfortable and open up. Meeting up with atleast an acquaintance would probably be better than meeting up with a stranger.
Rantz and I met up with Marshall Banana, Necronopticus and Kawaii Ryukishi in California a couple years ago - three people I have had very to little interaction with over the years. We went to lunch and got boba tea and it was actually great, even though we had never really spoken or anything before!
None of you smurfers deserve to be graced by my presences.
(SPOILER)Something has always come up each time I was planning to go to one.
I would go to a small one with certain people.
I'd sooner go for a smaller one before a bigger one.
I could probably also have phrased that better...
Damn straight I avoid big meetups.
Although me/Hux/Dak was pretty great.
If one was really close I'd go to a bigger meetup, but I wouldn't go out of my way except for the people I know fairly well.
There are a ton of people I'd love to meet up with here. And to be honest, as active as I am, any active member who was going would be someone I knew well enough to not feel uncomfortable hanging out with.
Originally Posted by Fynn
None of the meetups I've been to have been "big". I've met like 4 people at one time from here max, I think? Is that a "big meetup"
I've preferred the one-on-one meetups I've had, but there's more reasons for that besides it just being one person.
I'm a bit apprehensive about it, tbh. Even though the SE meet up was a collective idea among several of us (we just made Shion make the thread XDD), the thought of meeting new people that I've known online kind of scares me. I think like if I were to hang out with a couple of people individually first - like Will, tavaryn, and maybe Laddy 'cuz they're the closest to me - and I were to manage becoming good friends with them IRL as well as online, I'd be more likely to go to a bigger meet up. That whole buddy system thing like Formy kind of mentioned in the Guidebook thread. Because that way, if things were to get awkward at some point, I'd at least have someone to fall back on kinda.
Also with bigger groups, people tend to pair off, which can be off-putting.
I always get sick a few days before I am supposed go to them it's really annoying. Happened with the NYC and the Washington D.C. one. I think I am not opposed to big meetups as long as we are just going to public places. If I feel more comfortable with an EoFFer I may go to their home, but I will still have anxiety about it until I get there and see that they are definitely not doing weird skat trout or serial killers.
lmao yeah. Def public places. Like. I totes think it'd be -so much fun- to get like adjoining motel rooms and have a big slumber party.
More or less this. While I wouldn't be against a larger meet-up, I'd be alot more comfortable meeting just one or two EoFFers.
Not that this particularly affects me as everyone lives so far away, but you know.
Dunno. I think they all have their merits. :3 Large groups means I get to meet a lot of you nerds, but smaller ones means there's more time for actual... relationship development. More quiet time for those there. But yes, I would go to a big one, and I'd also go for a smaller one. ~shrug~
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