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Isn't online gaming great?
I met some people while having a quick deathmatch on Unreal Tournement the other day and arranged to get chatting to them afterwards via another mail program. It turned out they were from Germany and loved to come down to England for the odd week. We chatted for ages and it was quite interesting to get another point of view from someone in a different country on things.
It got me thinking that, despite what all the papers say and the numurous posts on here too, gaming can be a good social experience and really let you meet people that you may never have spoken to in your life otherwise. If people have a similar hobby, like gaming, then they have a starting point for a conversation, the rest is easy!
I've heard many people have met their other half on the net, although rarely on an online fighting game where you try to blow each other away (perhaps that might solve all the divorces that happen these days though...) but it's fantastic to think that the net has spawned such real life chance meetings and that it's not the unsociable tool that people make it out to be.
Just remember that next time you play Quake 3, it might be against your future wife....
I met some people while having a quick deathmatch on Unreal Tournement the other day and arranged to get chatting to them afterwards via another mail program. It turned out they were from Germany and loved to come down to England for the odd week. We chatted for ages and it was quite interesting to get another point of view from someone in a different country on things.
It got me thinking that, despite what all the papers say and the numurous posts on here too, gaming can be a good social experience and really let you meet people that you may never have spoken to in your life otherwise. If people have a similar hobby, like gaming, then they have a starting point for a conversation, the rest is easy!
I've heard many people have met their other half on the net, although rarely on an online fighting game where you try to blow each other away (perhaps that might solve all the divorces that happen these days though...) but it's fantastic to think that the net has spawned such real life chance meetings and that it's not the unsociable tool that people make it out to be.
Just remember that next time you play Quake 3, it might be against your future wife....
S'funny you should say that....
I'm currently using mIRC (Internet Relay Chat) to speak in an 'Alliance' chatroom for players of Planetarion, I'm also currently speaking to a guy in Ohio on MSN Messenger who also plays the same game, we're organising how we're going to do a joint attack.
Then I use MSN to chat to 'Yaeger' in Norway when I'm playing Starcraft, and I got this friendship going with another player, again on MSN, playing EmpireQuest.
So I hear of lots of different customs, and the world seems a much smaller place because of it, and because I'm constantly juggling with timezones I can usually know when Albert in Munich is going to be online at the same time as Birdie3000, and set up teams for games from memory.
Only danger is, I'm now been stalked by this ex-friend from Canada, (I think she's a reincarnated moose or something), so it's not all fun, you just gotta be careful who you chat to on the web....
I'm currently using mIRC (Internet Relay Chat) to speak in an 'Alliance' chatroom for players of Planetarion, I'm also currently speaking to a guy in Ohio on MSN Messenger who also plays the same game, we're organising how we're going to do a joint attack.
Then I use MSN to chat to 'Yaeger' in Norway when I'm playing Starcraft, and I got this friendship going with another player, again on MSN, playing EmpireQuest.
So I hear of lots of different customs, and the world seems a much smaller place because of it, and because I'm constantly juggling with timezones I can usually know when Albert in Munich is going to be online at the same time as Birdie3000, and set up teams for games from memory.
Only danger is, I'm now been stalked by this ex-friend from Canada, (I think she's a reincarnated moose or something), so it's not all fun, you just gotta be careful who you chat to on the web....
Isn't online gaming great?
I met some people while having a quick deathmatch on Unreal Tournement the other day and arranged to get chatting to them afterwards via another mail program. It turned out they were from Germany and loved to come down to England for the odd week. We chatted for ages and it was quite interesting to get another point of view from someone in a different country on things.
It got me thinking that, despite what all the papers say and the numurous posts on here too, gaming can be a good social experience and really let you meet people that you may never have spoken to in your life otherwise. If people have a similar hobby, like gaming, then they have a starting point for a conversation, the rest is easy!
I've heard many people have met their other half on the net, although rarely on an online fighting game where you try to blow each other away (perhaps that might solve all the divorces that happen these days though...) but it's fantastic to think that the net has spawned such real life chance meetings and that it's not the unsociable tool that people make it out to be.
Just remember that next time you play Quake 3, it might be against your future wife....
I met some people while having a quick deathmatch on Unreal Tournement the other day and arranged to get chatting to them afterwards via another mail program. It turned out they were from Germany and loved to come down to England for the odd week. We chatted for ages and it was quite interesting to get another point of view from someone in a different country on things.
It got me thinking that, despite what all the papers say and the numurous posts on here too, gaming can be a good social experience and really let you meet people that you may never have spoken to in your life otherwise. If people have a similar hobby, like gaming, then they have a starting point for a conversation, the rest is easy!
I've heard many people have met their other half on the net, although rarely on an online fighting game where you try to blow each other away (perhaps that might solve all the divorces that happen these days though...) but it's fantastic to think that the net has spawned such real life chance meetings and that it's not the unsociable tool that people make it out to be.
Just remember that next time you play Quake 3, it might be against your future wife....