• MuhammadJesusGaySex@lemmy.world
    793·
    9 months ago

    I used to run a very successful server for BioWare Neverwinter Nights back in the early 2000s. A guy started playing on there when he was 15 and met a married woman in her 30s. She got divorced and a few days after he turned 18 he flew out to meet her.

    They got married about 12 or 13 years ago. I was the best man, and they are still married. I talk to them daily and usually see them weekly. It happens.

  • Vespair@lemm.ee
    45·
    9 months ago

    Admittedly I was in my very early 20s, not a teen, but I legitimately helped* a woman through her divorce on WoW and then once they separated drove 3 states away to have the best sex of my entire life.

    Great memories.

    Edit to add asterisk: by “helped” I just mean provided a necessary shoulder and ear; obviously I did not provide advice on a relationship I was very much not a part of

  • Hadriscus@lemm.ee
    32·
    9 months ago

    a little while ago a kid and I talked lenghthily on Rocket League. We hit it off pretty good in-game, good team. He vented about one issue and it led us into a conversation about neurodivergence. I hope he’s alright

    • ExtraMedicated@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      9 months ago

      And I always got stuck with the kid singing along to the shitty music he’s playing at full volume in the background.

  • dlok@lemmy.world
    32·
    9 months ago

    I remember talking to a woman on the internet back in my teens (14-15 ISH) who I considered ancient

    I’m now that age lol

  • time_fo_that@lemmy.world
    28·
    9 months ago

    I had a “gf” in Runescape when I was 12. She was like 30, and married or had a boyfriend.

    Shit was wild back then. I’m also gay so this didn’t make much sense for me anyways 😂

  • Femcowboy@lemm.ee
    19·
    9 months ago

    13 year old me being helped through my parents shouting matches by a disabled couple who spent their whole day managing the guild I was in.

  • Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca
    14·
    9 months ago

    At the height of World of Warcraft, a coworker of my mom’s moved from Vancouver to the southern US to live with a guy she had only ever talked to in WoW. Things were not as promised when she got down there. She eventually moved back.

    • Vespair@lemm.ee
      23·
      9 months ago

      Before WoW I played Ultima Online, and the co-GMs of my UO guild were a couple that had only met online. About 6 months after I started playing, they had an in-game marriage, and then about 6 months later both moved to Las Vegas to buy a house together (I think they’d met in person once by this point). Under a year later, they were married in real life too. Last I heard, they were still together.

      If you’re out there Ramirez and Azizza, I hope you’re still happy.

      Post-internet life is a weird place.

      • teejay@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        9 months ago

        RAMIREZ! Go to burger town and meet someone online and then get married in real life! Ramirez, live happily ever after!

        • whollyrolypoly@lemmy.world
          2·
          9 months ago

          I see your contextless non-sequitur CoD:MW2 campaign reference in a reply-to-a-reply 15 comments down on this thread. I like to think we all have a tiny Keith David sitting on our shoulder, yelling at us to live our dreams.

          • teejay@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            9 months ago

            I feel so seen!

            If I made a few people get minor PTSD from that level and hear his voice in their head for a moment, I’m happy.