[Styxx]

Okay, imagine the situation:

One nice day, you're at home, leisurely browsing the Hard Light forums, when someone knocks at your door. You go answer it, and it's some weird-looking guy you never seen before. You ask what he wants, and he says "Heya, it's me! [insert name here] from HLP! Can I stay at your place for a couple of days?".

How would you react? Would you let this person stay at your home for a few days if he needed it? Would you invite your friends from HLP to spend holidays at your place?

I'm asking this because I want to know how do you all feel in relation to online friends - do you consider "real" friends or is there a distinction? How far would you go to help these people you've only met through a bytestream up to now?


If the answer is yes, please post your full address and contact information.
Just joking, you don't have to do that...

[Nico]

well, the guy would be quite, well... (gotta love that smiley ) when he seems my lil student room, no room for an additional person excpeted on the floor, but sure, there's some guys down there I wouldn't mind meeting for real

[Jabu]

Heck no. I don't want your grubby fingerprints all over my precious comic book collection.

Probably ask me to share my cola too. Greedy little bastards...

[Fineus]

I would, it'd be a laugh - although I'm naturally shy around people I don't know so it'd be pretty weird, but it would be kinda cool. Assuming the person didn't turn out to be a raving lunatic.

[Shrike]

Well, I think Styxx and my answers are fairly obvious..... I'm using his home computer right now.

We're supposedly going out to an all you can eat steak place tonight, yum yum!

[LtNarol]

Heck, i'd be glad to have someone from HLP over...they could keep me awake with incesant (sp) chatter while i write my campaigns.  Maybe they'll even be so nice as to be my cokeholder

Seriously though, it would be nice to actually meet someone.

[Nico]

lol
only pb is the cash to move somewhere else, for me (and the work and the etc etc etc)

[Styxx]

Originally posted by Shrike
Well, I think Styxx and my answers are fairly obvious..... I'm using his home computer right now.

We're supposedly going out to an all you can eat steak place tonight, yum yum!

Hey, and I suppose that in a distant future, when I get a vacation (if the world hasn't been engulfed by the then red sun and the polar caps haven't melted and mankind hasn't annihilated itself through nuclear holocaust) I might be going to Canada to see what real snow looks like, eh?

[Darkage]

Yeah would be real cool to meet some of you guy's:) i am going to englend next week or in  the summer vacation to tour around on my own and vistit some ofyou guys:)

[joek]

I think my wife would have to answer this poll for me.

[ARC_Shrike]

heh.. i bumped into a guy i knew from another BB in a local pub all the sudden... he said "hey ! i know you ! you are Shrike !" we then proceeded to drink each under the table..

i still meet him

[Shrike]

Hey!  It's the other Shrike!  

[Styxx]

- Shrike, meet Shrike.
- Hi Shrike.
- And Shrike, this is Shrike...
- Heya Shrike!

[Lonestar]

Yeah I'd let them in. Of course this visit would have to be announced and not just "hi im here, can i come in"

Never know what maniac hackers are out there with personal info.

[Zeronet]

There's a difference between meeting  people on the forums and them suddendly appearing at your door/hole/thingy . Be a big difficult for some, one of the people at the VWBB is stationed on a US Navel vessel.

[Styxx]

Well, imagine that you're waiting for that person in the airport then. I mean, if someone you know from HLP asked you if he could stay at your place for some time, would you let him?

[an0n]

I'd let anyone I vaguely knew stay at mine. I'd sleep with a knife under my pillow just incase though.

[Zeronet]

Originally posted by an0n
I'd let anyone I vaguely knew stay at mine. I'd sleep with a knife under my pillow just incase though.

Most people sleep with a knife under the pillow anyway or in america a gun.

[Styxx]

Well, I don't sleep with a knife or gun under my pillow, but I rigged the place with explosiv... wait, crap, Shrike might be listening.

[IceFire]

I've met people before....Orange, Dynamo, Remora, and WildWolf....not sure about having them over in the first place...but now that I know them I don't think I'd feel too uncomfortable.....so yes....