Sex

[Kat Kanning]

How's that for a catchy subject line?  This post really does belong in the whining section, though.  I used to play computer games online for years and years.  This person I played with...one of my favorite people in the games, actually, who I thought all this time was this vivacious redheaded lady....all this time was really a guy!     You never can tell about people, I guess.  We all went through pregnancy and birth with this person...it was really his wife that he'd posted pictures of.  I was close enough to him to get a phone call from the hospital when the baby was born, so I could tell the rest of the gamers.

[Kelly Halldorson]

That's bizarre! How did you find out??

[Kat Kanning]

Some sermon at church about honesty made him finally want to admit it.  Man, I've "known" this person for like 10 years.  It's very disorienting.

[cathleeninnh]

Damn, we need to regulate the internet so this shit doesn't happen.

Cathleen

[Minsk]

Need to include live audio and video in more things. Though that introduces a whole different selection of problems...

[9thmoon]

Need to include live audio and video in more things. Though that introduces a whole different selection of problems...

"Problems"?  ;-)

[felix.benner]

Posting pictures of his wife was a good idea.    This story definitely teaches a lesson: choose your peers carefully.

I used to play a german mud called UNItopia. One day I wanted to make a second character to meet some people incognito. Just after I created that character I met a friend who was sitting just some PCs in front of me in the pool and I tried to make him believe I was a newbi. After we chatted two or three lines he turned around and asked: "Is that you?" - So much for deception.

[Kat Kanning]

This is almost as bad as when I found out Tracy Saboe was a guy!

[Minsk]

This is almost as bad as when I found out Tracy Saboe was a guy!

I'll raise you traumatic: my mother and her father were both Tracy. So guys would call their house, ask for Tracy, and get a significantly deeper hello than was expected.

[Braddogg]

 

[John]

Damn, we need to regulate the internet so this shit doesn't happen.

Cathleen

Regulate?
Cathleen, You obviously don't realize how bad things are.
We need to ban the internet!

And yes Kat "even I"  got caught in the "line."

[tracysaboe]

This is almost as bad as when I found out Tracy Saboe was a guy!

Tracy

[KBCraig]

This is almost as bad as when I found out Tracy Saboe was a guy!

Or that "Pam T. Cotter" has a big bushy beard!

[Dan]

Posting pictures of his wife was a good idea.    This story definitely teaches a lesson: choose your peers carefully.

I used to play a german mud called UNItopia. One day I wanted to make a second character to meet some people incognito. Just after I created that character I met a friend who was sitting just some PCs in front of me in the pool and I tried to make him believe I was a newbi. After we chatted two or three lines he turned around and asked: "Is that you?" - So much for deception.

She had chosen her peer well enough, thank you.  It apparently didn't MATTER she was a he.  Even when he "came out" it likely made the friendship that much stronger.

As for MUD's... I was about to post nearly the EXACT SAME STORY.  Mine was at Infinity at the time. 

One of my main competitors in the game became one of my greatest allies.  Grew a great friendship, and between us we started to dominate the game.  We just assumed we were in different states if not countries, like all the rest of the players.  Then one day, the exact moment we conquered one of the 'un beatables', this black guy in the back of the quiet computer lab starts shouting, cheering, and high fiving the guy next to him.  *shake*

... turns out there were more in the same school --you can only imagine the amount of partying that followed.  I partied my ass right out of school.  We are all still friends, a decade later.

(I've since gone back and made up for it... 11 years late)

[candyvynwak]

Kat,

    Don't do that to me!  Ages since I've been on the forum and I'm apparently so lonely I went straight for the sex.     <Sigh>  I suppose I'll have to read about all that boring political stuff.    You've done a tremendous job with the site since I have been gone, by the way, Sweetheart.

Hugs,
Catherine