You know, I’ve been trashed out by people I’ve met in video games before. It happens. Despite the closeness one can feel in a video game there is something lost when you haven’t really met someone in person, and as such the internet fuckwad theory is always threatening to rear its ugly head. I’ve made a lot of friends playing MMORPG’s – and I’ve pissed a lot of people off too. That happens pretty frequently when you’re wearing the bullseye on your forehead.

But…

When it’s someone you’ve met in person? Someone who, in fact, you met and liked in person and invited to come play with you in the game? Someone who, while maybe not a person you’d consider to be among your nearest and dearest, you easily would have called friend?

It hurts.

The intention was to wound, and it was successful. Good job. Several people were hurt, more than that were really angry, and I suspect at least one person was brought to tears.

Ultimately over differences in belief on how pixels in a video game are distributed.

Amazingly enough, right after this happened someone who IS a friend wrote some really nice things about me. Took away a bit of the sting for sure.

Sigh.

I fail to understand why it’s so hard for some people to just say “You know what? This really isn’t my scene. You guys are great, but I think I want something different out of the game.” Is it really that hard? Amazingly enough, everyone who actually did that remained friendly with us….and hey, we even play the game with them on occasion. Go figure.

Meh.

Nothing quite as silly as realizing you’ve lost sleep two nights in a row over what happened in a video game.

Or that, despite that, you aren’t likely to stop playing any time soon.