>>738962285
forgot to add
>meet 24yo American woman on WoW

>>738962285
You got groomed and raped anon

MEET AND HUH?

>>738962285
>Playing XIV
>Get message from someone who was in a dungeon queue with me
>Bored so I start chatting
>Pleasant conversation, but think nothing else of it

>Weeks go by and I'm still getting messages when I log in
>"Oh anon, do you remember so and so, and binding coil (A raid from two expansions ago at the time) and when this happened and..."
>I have no idea who this person is
>I've never even been to BCoB because I stopped playing the game in 2.0 until the next expansion because I didn't like the item grind
>But I've already led them on by acting like I remember them, so I play along even more

>A few months pass, we've now been playing together for a while
>On voice comms just the two of us, which is fine since my original friend group has dropped out from the game
>Turns out to be a girl doing IT in Utah, which isn't too far from me
>One day, she asks if I want to drive down to meet her at the place she works (Turns out to be some resort/hotel in the mountains)
>I'm between jobs and have nothing else to do, so I say fuck it and we set up a time
>Decide to spend a long weekend in Utah
>Meet chick, she's a 24 yo short chubby white girl
>Actually wind up having a great time snowboarding and watching movies with her
>She wants me to move down and apply for an open position at the company she works for since I'm also in IT

>Class IV autism kicks in, start thinking meeting a girl over the internet on a game and moving in is something really dumb
>Don't want to leave my state or the town I grew up in, tell her such
>She doesn't want to leave Utah, especially since she's already got a nice job
>Wind up parting ways on somewhat sour terms because things were going great, but it won't work without one of us moving

That was like 8 years ago, I really wish I would've just went with even for a time. I didn't have anything tying me down, so I should've just gave it a shot for a year or so. Instead I just thought it wouldn't work and bailed.

>>738964636
Relatable, somewhat

>Playing XIV
>Meet a bunch of people over the years
>One friend in our group decides to create a discord server for all of us to communicate outside of the game
>He starts inviting other friends from other games and servers
>One of them is a girl
>Fast forward a few months of talking, I fall for her
>Get drunk and tell her I liked her
>Mfw it actually worked and she reciprocated
>She lives in north carolina
>Tfw I live in Italy
>Decide to take some time off work and book a flight to visit for one month
>ONE (1) day after landing in the US the pandemic starts, airports closed, flight back to italy canceled
>"Well guess I'm stuck here for a while"
>She jokes about marriage
>We actually end up getting married
>Fast forward 6 years, current day
>Married for 6 years with a 3 year old child

>>738962285
No but I do remember on a few gamer forums 25 years ago when I had a really big post count I'd get females PM'ing me in ways that in retrospect were probably them hitting on me