• Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
    128·
    2 months ago

    A kind voice and a willing ear are always helpful. And it makes you a better person to recognize the pain of another when you’re a teen.

    • Guitarfun@lemmy.world
      34·
      2 months ago

      Me too, but in Diablo 2. Nothing sexual happened or anything. She lived in California and I lived much further north, but it’s kind of funny/scary that this is a common a occurrence with divorced women and underage boys.

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

      I found myself in this same situation as a teenager with no social experience in my first months on AOL.

      I mean, I went on to continue to operate and run relationship advice forums and learned a lot about psychology and emotional intelligence and have been thanked by a lot of people for using those tools to provide perspectives to people struggling in their personal lives.

      But still, it’s pretty wild that in the last three decades or so we’re still treating everyone as the same faceless entity on the internet, for better or worse. (Usually worse. You need to start assuming anyone you talk to online is like, 12, because most of them are.)

      • BogeyTheSwear@lemmy.zip
        4·
        2 months ago

        When i was like 14, my best friend was an ex-veteran who moved from America to Germany because of PTSD and hate towards America.

        • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          I have thought about this reply for about 9 hours and still cannot connect it to my comment, unless of course you left out one word:

          moved from America to Germany because of PTSD and hate towards America Online.

          If this is what you meant, then yes, I wholeheartedly agree and support your friend. Just trying to cancel their service alone was traumatizing.

      • aceshigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        What’s wild is that people don’t realize that many posts/opinions online are propaganda in disguise.

  • the_q@lemmy.zip
    24·
    2 months ago

    Humans are social creatures and socializing goes a long way with dealing with this experience we call life.

  • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de
    251·
    2 months ago

    I remember doing this with a firefighter. Whoever he was, I remember his pain in chicago, even if I couldn’t really understand it.

  • potoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.worldEnglish
    214·
    2 months ago

    “She” was a 48-year-old Midwestern man who still appreciates those tender words that so touched his soul all those years ago, B1gD0ngHaver13. We’ll always have those nights in Elwynn Forest. 🤎

  • Kyden Fumofly@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 months ago

    WoW was a magically place. I played with a random dude for 1-2 months leveling up my 1st char, and when we tried the new voice chat i figure out he was a 38 years old man with a deep bass voice (i was 18).

    Some time after in a dungeon run with random people, in voice chat popped a kid with a voice so soft… i thought that was a girl, but no he was a 13 year old boy. I was like what is happening in this game?

  • Scubus@sh.itjust.works
    101·
    2 months ago

    Vsauce! Micheal here!

    I have 0 facial recognition. I cant tell if thats a really old screenshot of micheal or not