The older I get, the more I think about people I used to know, and wonder whether they’re still alive.
I often think about the people I used to spend hours with every day playing games online. I wonder whether they think of me too.
Oddly enough, one of my lifelong best friends is someone I met on bolt.com in the 90’s.
We’ve hung out in person half a dozen times but facetime and chat all the time.
In my ex friends group I am that person I’m still alive so thank you
This was triumph
I used to moderate a subreddit about talking to Trump Supporters, and my mod team was pretty small but we were close even though not all of us were Trump Supporters. I think about them a lot.
I also had this dynasty team on some mobile space war game, with so many branches and feeder teams and tons of in-game and real life geopolitics. It was wild, and again, I was really close with my fellow team leaders.
And in both cases I’ve never said a word to any of them since leaving basically. No Ill will, just going to a different school now, so to speak.
They could be one of two types of ghosts by now.
Or both.
Still thinking about them every so often…
I used to work nights until around 2015. Used to game with a lot of eastern europeans. (And American friends in the military deployed across the globe.)
Two guys I knew, one in Svestopol and the other Kiev both signed off in 2014. I am 90% sure the Kiev guy moved to the UK since they were going there for a degree, but the guy in Svestopol just went radio silent.
One of them is a very famous, like gigantic YouTuber so there’s that. Also his brother is even bigger.
Ahh, yes, CrazyRussianHacker.
Bigger but it’s not the Paul’s
I miss you joseacher
