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LOL @ bananas.

Meus Renaissance said:
One the strange things about messageboards is that you inadvertently build an image of the members you talk to - what they may look or sound like. You don't realise this of course until you actually meet them one day and you realise 'you look/sound/act nothing like I expected'
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Yeah, except I guess for the people that post their picture here.

So far my weirdest GAF>Real Life>GAF experience was one day showing my mother a thread on here because I read something funny and she wanted to know what I was laughing about. She started reading the user names out loud in addition to their their tags and it just sounded weird to me. I'm familiar with certain usernames/tags of course, but actually hearing them out loud was a bit of a surreal experience for me. Like, I'm reading your username but I'm not really thinking about how it's pronounced or how it sounds in real life. Couldn't imagine meeting another member of this forum and actually saying, "hey, I go by 'bitch' on the forums." It seems so cheesy not to just use our real first names or initials for our usernames when you relate this forum directly to our real lives.
 
Heh, I was at a game testing thing in Santa Monica for Sony the other day (not-so-stealth-brag) and was dying to ask the others there if they were gaffers. They were all incredibly more... involved in internet culture, though. One of them was wearing a shirt with that stick figure pointing at something while seemingly saying "Bullshit!" as he eats a bowl of cereal.

edit- since my description is probably horrible:

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B!TCH said:
So far my weirdest GAF>Real Life>GAF experience was one day showing my mother a thread on here because I read something funny and she wanted to know what I was laughing about. She started reading the user names out loud in addition to their their tags and it just sounded weird to me. I'm familiar with certain usernames/tags of course, but actually hearing them out loud was a bit of a surreal experience for me. Like, I'm reading your username but I'm not really thinking about how it's pronounced or how it sounds in real life. Couldn't imagine meeting another member of this forum and actually saying, "hey, I go by 'bitch' on the forums." It seems so cheesy not to just use our real first names or initials for our usernames when you relate this forum directly to our real lives.
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how are you, B!TCH? How is your day going, B!ITCH?
 
snoopen said:
I read your post as though you didn't take a breath while typing it.
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FUCK.

Anyone who I've met who's a supernerd, I've made hints at NeoGAF specific stuff, but no one ever knew what I was talking about, or at least admitted to it.
 
B!TCH said:
LOL @ bananas.



Yeah, except I guess for the people that post their picture here.

So far my weirdest GAF>Real Life>GAF experience was one day showing my mother a thread on here because I read something funny and she wanted to know what I was laughing about. She started reading the user names out loud in addition to their their tags and it just sounded weird to me. I'm familiar with certain usernames/tags of course, but actually hearing them out loud was a bit of a surreal experience for me. Like, I'm reading your username but I'm not really thinking about how it's pronounced or how it sounds in real life. Couldn't imagine meeting another member of this forum and actually saying, "hey, I go by 'bitch' on the forums." It seems so cheesy not to just use our real first names or initials for our usernames when you relate this forum directly to our real lives.
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I wish my username was my real name.
 
B!TCH said:
LOL @ bananas.



Yeah, except I guess for the people that post their picture here.

So far my weirdest GAF>Real Life>GAF experience was one day showing my mother a thread on here because I read something funny and she wanted to know what I was laughing about. She started reading the user names out loud in addition to their their tags and it just sounded weird to me. I'm familiar with certain usernames/tags of course, but actually hearing them out loud was a bit of a surreal experience for me. Like, I'm reading your username but I'm not really thinking about how it's pronounced or how it sounds in real life. Couldn't imagine meeting another member of this forum and actually saying, "hey, I go by 'bitch' on the forums." It seems so cheesy not to just use our real first names or initials for our usernames when you relate this forum directly to our real lives.
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helicopter, bitch!
 
Timedog said:
FUCK.

Anyone who I've met who's a supernerd, I've made hints at NeoGAF specific stuff, but no one ever knew what I was talking about, or at least admitted to it.
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When I was amongst my fellow supernerds at the play test I thought to myself I should work the word "Believe" into a few sentences more times than is normal and see who catches on. Never got a chance though :/
 
BeautifullyShapedMonsters said:
iPhone astroturfing?

seriously though, congrats, never met a gaffer in real life (not sure I would want to, you guys are a scary bunch sometimes.)
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Your username is too long.
 
B!TCH said:
LOL @ bananas.



Yeah, except I guess for the people that post their picture here.

So far my weirdest GAF>Real Life>GAF experience was one day showing my mother a thread on here because I read something funny and she wanted to know what I was laughing about. She started reading the user names out loud in addition to their their tags and it just sounded weird to me. I'm familiar with certain usernames/tags of course, but actually hearing them out loud was a bit of a surreal experience for me. Like, I'm reading your username but I'm not really thinking about how it's pronounced or how it sounds in real life. Couldn't imagine meeting another member of this forum and actually saying, "hey, I go by 'bitch' on the forums." It seems so cheesy not to just use our real first names or initials for our usernames when you relate this forum directly to our real lives.
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I see no one's bothered to fix your tag yet either.
 
oh man you've ruined it now, the dude is gonna find this thread and be all weirded out and then he'll make another thread about how this weird guy he met on a bus browses gaf and then made a post about meeting him and now he's freaking out...
 
Flunkie said:
Today it was a dude in aviator glasses and curly hair, and as soon as he walked in I was like yup, that's the dude. Not because he stood out, but because it was the last seat before the bus turned into standing room only territory. I'm always the last one to get sat by, somehow. Anyways, the guy sits down, I kinda scoot over to make room like I always do, and let the few moments of awkwardness go by until I look back down at my phone and do about as terrible at games on my phone as I normally do. Being the technology nerd that I am, I usually always glance over at people's phones just to check out what they're up to. Most of the time it's texting, but I get a strange sense of satisfaction when someone's playing a game that just came out or using an app that I have a particular interest in.
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How often do you shower?
 
I think neogaf has such a broad range of users and huge reach and industry status that its weird I haven't run into anyone else who uses it irl either.

I often browse at work or on the bus and no ones said anything to me about it and I've never seen anyone else use it. Considering I work in the web/media industry and know loads of games players it's weirded me out a bit.
 
Wow dude, we sat next to each other for a two minute bus ride. I didn't think you would make a thread about it...
 
Flunkie said:
I go to school at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and love it. Today I was running late, having slept in (because I stayed up too late playing Dead Island) and missing my physics lecture. No big deal,, I'll just take my time and catch my next class. So I make my commute to the parking lot where the bus picks us up and catch a seat near the back of the bus. It fills up as it naturally does, with everyone sitting by themselves until they're forced to double-up on seating or whatever.

Now, I usually mess around with my phone on the bus, be it playing a game or reading Twitter or reading overnight posts on GAF. So I'm sitting there reading the Gaming side before switching over to play a few quick sessions of Jetpack Joyride on my phone. The bus starts filling up so I naturally watch to see who's inevitably going to sit by me. It's usually a foreigner or some chick blabbering on the phone about how incredibly, super-awesome drunk she got last night.

Today it was a dude in aviator glasses and curly hair, and as soon as he walked in I was like yup, that's the dude. Not because he stood out, but because it was the last seat before the bus turned into standing room only territory. I'm always the last one to get sat by, somehow. Anyways, the guy sits down, I kinda scoot over to make room like I always do, and let the few moments of awkwardness go by until I look back down at my phone and do about as terrible at games on my phone as I normally do. Being the technology nerd that I am, I usually always glance over at people's phones just to check out what they're up to. Most of the time it's texting, but I get a strange sense of satisfaction when someone's playing a game that just came out or using an app that I have a particular interest in.

So the bus takes off and I'm just sitting there, staring at my phone until I kinda peek over at his phone. Okay, he's got an iPhone. Cool. Beats that Android crap. Look over again, and I see the SecondApps website. Dude. No way. So I make sure it's actually GAF and yep, sure enough, it was. So I had to tap him and strike up a conversation. "Hey, is that NeoGAF?" "Haha, yep, are you a member?" "Yeah, that's awesome!" And so we exchanged usernames first, then real names followed, and general smalltalk after that. It was probably one of the most bizarre thing I've ever encountered. I had just met this guy, and yet I felt like he was my best friend because of the special GAF bond that we shared. I never thought in a million years that I'd actually find someone in the wild that was a GAF user as well - which is saying a lot considering my major. It wasn't soon after that the bus dropped us off and we went our separate ways, but I now know I'm not a lone gaffer in this town anymore. Somewhere, someplace, Mizzou-GAF will at least be two strong. Maybe more.

TL;DR: Met a dude on the bus browsing GAF on his iPhone, made my day.

Anyone else ever experience bizarre, yet awesome moments similar to this?
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I think I've met three Gaffers or more in real life...

One that marked me was that guy that posted naked pictures of himself and how he fucked his cat/dog. Now that was freaky.
 
I'm actually quite surprised that I've never ever seen anyone using GAF in person, on a computer or smartphone. I mean, now my roommate kind of browses it occasionally for a couple hilarious threads he subbed to, but that's largely because he's learned about it from me.
 
I've talked to a couple. At lunch I usually take my MacBook with me and browse GAF while eating lunch, so a couple of people have stopped to say hi.

Not one has had a neckbeard. And not one has had a nervous breakdown at the sight of Apple products. It's mildly disappointing.
 
Flunkie said:
I go to school at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and love it. Today I was running late, having slept in (because I stayed up too late playing Dead Island) and missing my physics lecture. No big deal,, I'll just take my time and catch my next class. So I make my commute to the parking lot where the bus picks us up and catch a seat near the back of the bus. It fills up as it naturally does, with everyone sitting by themselves until they're forced to double-up on seating or whatever.

Now, I usually mess around with my phone on the bus, be it playing a game or reading Twitter or reading overnight posts on GAF. So I'm sitting there reading the Gaming side before switching over to play a few quick sessions of Jetpack Joyride on my phone. The bus starts filling up so I naturally watch to see who's inevitably going to sit by me. It's usually a foreigner or some chick blabbering on the phone about how incredibly, super-awesome drunk she got last night.

Today it was a dude in aviator glasses and curly hair, and as soon as he walked in I was like yup, that's the dude. Not because he stood out, but because it was the last seat before the bus turned into standing room only territory. I'm always the last one to get sat by, somehow. Anyways, the guy sits down, I kinda scoot over to make room like I always do, and let the few moments of awkwardness go by until I look back down at my phone and do about as terrible at games on my phone as I normally do. Being the technology nerd that I am, I usually always glance over at people's phones just to check out what they're up to. Most of the time it's texting, but I get a strange sense of satisfaction when someone's playing a game that just came out or using an app that I have a particular interest in.

So the bus takes off and I'm just sitting there, staring at my phone until I kinda peek over at his phone. Okay, he's got an iPhone. Cool. Beats that Android crap. Look over again, and I see the SecondApps website. Dude. No way. So I make sure it's actually GAF and yep, sure enough, it was. So I had to tap him and strike up a conversation. "Hey, is that NeoGAF?" "Haha, yep, are you a member?" "Yeah, that's awesome!" And so we exchanged usernames first, then real names followed, and general smalltalk after that. It was probably one of the most bizarre thing I've ever encountered. I had just met this guy, and yet I felt like he was my best friend because of the special GAF bond that we shared. I never thought in a million years that I'd actually find someone in the wild that was a GAF user as well - which is saying a lot considering my major. It wasn't soon after that the bus dropped us off and we went our separate ways, but I now know I'm not a lone gaffer in this town anymore. Somewhere, someplace, Mizzou-GAF will at least be two strong. Maybe more.

TL;DR: Met a dude on the bus browsing GAF on his iPhone, made my day.

Anyone else ever experience bizarre, yet awesome moments similar to this?
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I found the answer to your quandary within your own post. Get an Android phone. More people will want to sit next to you on the bus.


Scientific fact.
 
A nice story and lots of Gaffers ignoring it, failing to grasp the concept of a joke :)

You guys really take your phone wars serious, don't you?

I'm on Android btw

Like I said, nice story OP, still have to meet a Gaffer outside the usual nerd circles.
 
Whats with all these "they need to kiss/do it", is this a new meme? It's not like the first rule when you meet a GAF member in real life is you stare at them then violently pash the shit out of the other person until it ends up with gay sex on the bus.

In real life you'd be just as awkard as if you are normally, just cause its a GAF member doesn't mean your going to score.
 
trinest said:
Whats with all these "they need to kiss/do it", is this a new meme? It's not like the first rule when you meet a GAF member in real life is you stare at them then violently pash the shit out of the other person until it ends up with gay sex on the bus.

In real life you'd be just as awkard as if you are normally, just cause its a GAF member doesn't mean your going to score.
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i learned from Penthouse letters that any detailed encounter of a meeting ends in crazy sex.
 
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