Who do you consider a friend on GH?

[demik]

Meaning you talk to them outside of this forum. Whether IRL or Skype/Gtalk/AIM(is this still a thing?)

I think this is the first forum I've been a part of that I consider some of the members close (or as close as you can get online) friends.

[noisyturtle]

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[samwisekoi]

Wierd, I agree with Demik!

There are a few people I chat with, and some I have even met IRL. And then a few more who I would be delighted if the phone rang and they said their name and forum name.

For all the fractiousness, this is a most convivial "place" to hang out.

 -Ron | samwisekoi

[demik]

Weird, I agree with Demik!

Baby steps Ron, baby steps!

[Puddsy]

Wierd, I agree with Demik!

There are a few people I chat with, and some I have even met IRL. And then a few more who I would be delighted if the phone rang and they said their name and forum name.

For all the fractiousness, this is a most convivial "place" to hang out.

 -Ron | samwisekoi

basically this

I might be planning something special for a special few people soon maybe possibly

you'll know who you are soon enough if you're involved

Anyone who's come into my house I consider an especially close friend here.

[nubbinator]

I grabbed beers with BadWrench.  Does that count?  He's a cool dude and we barely even talked about keyboard or computers when we hung out.

There are a lot of cool people on here.  Some *******s, but hey, that's life.  A lot of cool people though and generally a cool community.

[SpAmRaY]

i'm even more boring IRL

[Belfong]

I love this forum. I've more PM here than all other forums I frequented combined. It's weird that I find comradeship in a keyboard instead of say, games, gfx card or other more high profiled IT component. 

[demik]

I grabbed beers with BadWrench.  Does that count?  He's a cool dude and we barely even talked about keyboard or computers when we hung out.

There are a lot of cool people on here.  Some *******s, but hey, that's life.  A lot of cool people though and generally a cool community.

thanks for not inviting me ;_; i guess im the ******* you speak of

[Belfong]

I love this forum. I've more PM here than all other forums I frequented combined. It's weird that I find comradeship in a keyboard instead of say, games, gfx card or other more high profiled IT component. 

[Halverson]

I pray every night that milky values me as a real friend

[demik]

I pray every night that milky values me as a real friend

i do, also as a real hero and a real human bean

[riotonthebay]

I wish I were demik's friend but I don't have his skype ID

[Halverson]

I pray every night that milky values me as a real friend

i do, also as a real hero and a real human bean

Must have been that bean I had for dinner!

[fohat.digs]

I have never met another geekhacker in real life, but have had friendly exchanges with a couple of dozen of you and irregular but ongoing online  "relationships" with at least half a dozen.

[Sifo]

my crew

[demik]

my crew

WE FORM LIKE VOLTRON

[eth0s]

demik, i would hang out with you IRL, but you live in god-awful Los Angeles.  If you ever got enough sense to move the East Coast we could be real life buds.

Well, until you move to New York City, can we be geekhack friends?  I will friend you if you say yes. 

[demik]

demik, i would hang out with you IRL, but you live in god-awful Los Angeles.  If you ever got enough sense to move the East Coast we could be real life buds.

Well, until you move to New York City, can we be geekhack friends?  I will friend you if you say yes. 

That's funny, because I would hang out with you IRL, but you live in god-awful New York!

AND YES WE ARE GH BUDDIES 4 LIFE.

[nubbinator]

I grabbed beers with BadWrench.  Does that count?  He's a cool dude and we barely even talked about keyboard or computers when we hung out.

There are a lot of cool people on here.  Some *******s, but hey, that's life.  A lot of cool people though and generally a cool community.

thanks for not inviting me ;_; i guess im the ******* you speak of

I remember inviting you but you saying something about you not drinking or just deciding to not come out or something.

Still love you demik, even though you abandoned me when I wanted to celebrate getting a job...

#demikssoftassdrakemother****erwhodontdrink

[CPTBadAss]

my crew

WE FORM LIKE VOLTRON

And I'm the head!

[demik]

I grabbed beers with BadWrench.  Does that count?  He's a cool dude and we barely even talked about keyboard or computers when we hung out.

There are a lot of cool people on here.  Some *******s, but hey, that's life.  A lot of cool people though and generally a cool community.

thanks for not inviting me ;_; i guess im the ******* you speak of

I remember inviting you but you saying something about you not drinking or just deciding to not come out or something.

Still love you demik, even though you abandoned me when I wanted to celebrate getting a job...

#demikssoftassdrakemother****erwhodontdrink

now i def can't meet you since you'll arrested me for being brown in OC.

my crew

WE FORM LIKE VOLTRON

And I'm the head!

Do you happen to be GZA?

[nubbinator]

now i def can't meet you since you'll arrested me for being brown in OC.

I don't have my badge yet.  That and my badge doesn't let me arrest people, just march into places and marshal assets.  I don't even know why we need a badge for my job. 

[CPTBadAss]

my crew

WE FORM LIKE VOLTRON

And I'm the head!

Do you happen to be GZA?

Of this crew? Yes

[demik]

now i def can't meet you since you'll arrested me for being brown in OC.

I don't have my badge yet.  That and my badge doesn't let me arrest people, just march into places and marshal assets.  I don't even know why we need a badge for my job. 

it's for when you feel bad, you look down and say "well ****, i'm a white dude with a badge. life isn't that bad!"

[Flyersfan1]

everyone on gh is my friend.

[nubbinator]

now i def can't meet you since you'll arrested me for being brown in OC.

I don't have my badge yet.  That and my badge doesn't let me arrest people, just march into places and marshal assets.  I don't even know why we need a badge for my job. 

it's for when you feel bad, you look down and say "well ****, i'm a white dude with a badge. life isn't that bad!"

Because being white in OC isn't enough to make life good.  Poor brown, black, yellow, red, freckled, poor, and anything but middle class on up white people in OC, ya'll is ****ed.

[demik]

now i def can't meet you since you'll arrested me for being brown in OC.

I don't have my badge yet.  That and my badge doesn't let me arrest people, just march into places and marshal assets.  I don't even know why we need a badge for my job. 

it's for when you feel bad, you look down and say "well ****, i'm a white dude with a badge. life isn't that bad!"

Because being white in OC isn't enough to make life good.  Poor brown, black, yellow, red, freckled, poor, and anything but middle class on up white people in OC, ya'll is ****ed.

whoa whoa whoa, if you're going to speak urban to me.. it's y'all!

[tp4tissue]

TP4 is friend to all...

[nubbinator]

whoa whoa whoa, if you're going to speak urban to me.. it's y'all!

I'm one honky ass mofo.  What is this about speaking urban?

TP4 is friend to all...

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If by all you mean making furious love to an Ergodox in the corner.

[Michael]

demik

[demik]

demik

<3

[eth0s]

TP4 is friend to all...

Show Image

wut?

now i def can't meet you since you'll arrested me for being brown in OC.

I don't have my badge yet.  That and my badge doesn't let me arrest people, just march into places and marshal assets.  I don't even know why we need a badge for my job. 

it's for when you feel bad, you look down and say "well ****, i'm a white dude with a badge. life isn't that bad!"

Because being white in OC isn't enough to make life good.  Poor brown, black, yellow, red, freckled, poor, and anything but middle class on up white people in OC, ya'll is ****ed.

umm, wut wut? 

Stats from US Census Bureau:

Orange County (CA) is 74.5% White (CA is 73.7%)

Black or African American 2.0% (CA is 6.6%)

Asian 18.9% (CA is 13.9%)

Hispanic or Latino 34.1% (CA is 38.2%)

So you are about average for white people (compared with rest of CA), but WAY under-represented by Black People (-350% below state average).  You are also under-represented by Latino's, but only 12% less than the rest of the state.  So good job?

[nubbinator]

Because being white in OC isn't enough to make life good.  Poor brown, black, yellow, red, freckled, poor, and anything but middle class on up white people in OC, ya'll is ****ed.

umm, wut wut? 

Stats from US Census Bureau:

Orange County (CA) is 74.5% White (CA is 73.7%)

Black or African American 2.0% (CA is 6.6%)

Asian 18.9% (CA is 13.9%)

Hispanic or Latino 34.1% (CA is 38.2%)

So you are about average for white people (compared with rest of CA), but WAY under-represented by Black People (-350% below state average).  You are also under-represented by Latino's, but only 12% less than the rest of the state.  So good job?

Orange County is conservative white rich snob mecca, so there's a ton of gentrification, white flight, and other racial issues.  One of my coworkers, who is a social worker, just confided in me about being afraid of black people.  Most Asians are centered in Westminster (poor to middle class Vietnamese, one of the largest Vietnamese communities in the US) and Irvine (middle to upper class).  Most Indians are centered in San Clemente and most Persians are in Newport Beach.  It's a highly segregated and white area with so very little culture.  I love my corner because I get to hear banda music and peoples quinceneras and such, but it's a weird little microcosm to live in.

[eth0s]

Because being white in OC isn't enough to make life good.  Poor brown, black, yellow, red, freckled, poor, and anything but middle class on up white people in OC, ya'll is ****ed.

umm, wut wut? 

Stats from US Census Bureau:

Orange County (CA) is 74.5% White (CA is 73.7%)

Black or African American 2.0% (CA is 6.6%)

Asian 18.9% (CA is 13.9%)

Hispanic or Latino 34.1% (CA is 38.2%)

So you are about average for white people (compared with rest of CA), but WAY under-represented by Black People (-350% below state average).  You are also under-represented by Latino's, but only 12% less than the rest of the state.  So good job?

Orange County is conservative white rich snob mecca, so there's a ton of gentrification, white flight, and other racial issues.  One of my coworkers, who is a social worker, just confided in me about being afraid of black people.  Most Asians are centered in Westminster (poor to middle class Vietnamese, one of the largest Vietnamese communities in the US) and Irvine (middle to upper class).  Most Indians are centered in San Clemente and most Persians are in Newport Beach.  It's a highly segregated and white area with so very little culture.  I love my corner because I get to hear banda music and peoples quinceneras and such, but it's a weird little microcosm to live in.

dude, I was walking today on Roosevelt Ave., in Jackson Heights, Queens, NYC.  The most diverse neighborhood in the world.  On that 3+ mile stretch of road, 130 languages are spoken.  I had to stop to enjoy my usual barbacoa taco and tamarind juice.  But you can sample the cuisines of Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Central America, South America, it's all there.  It might blow your mind though, so don't try to go there by yourself. 

[nubbinator]

Damn, I need to go to Queens.  Call it white cultural imperialism or tourism if you must, but I hate being surround by the self-centered lack of culture that seems to be pervasive in white areas.  No one cares about their neighbors or wants to experience life.  I love culturally diverse areas because they tend to be more inclusive, more family oriented, and have a vibrancy to them that predominantly white areas lack.

[demik]

Damn, I need to go to Queens.  Call it white cultural imperialism or tourism if you must, but I hate being surround by the self-centered lack of culture that seems to be pervasive in white areas.  No one cares about their neighbors or wants to experience life.  I love culturally diverse areas because they tend to be more inclusive, more family oriented, and have a vibrancy to them that predominantly white areas lack.

god you're so white it hurts.

[nubbinator]

Damn, I need to go to Queens.  Call it white cultural imperialism or tourism if you must, but I hate being surround by the self-centered lack of culture that seems to be pervasive in white areas.  No one cares about their neighbors or wants to experience life.  I love culturally diverse areas because they tend to be more inclusive, more family oriented, and have a vibrancy to them that predominantly white areas lack.

god you're so white it hurts.

Dayglo as **** man, dayglo as ****.  I don't tan, I burn.

[demik]

well, unlike you, i like boring areas where I don't see my neighbors nor give two ****s to see them.

I can't stand my loud ass neighbor's ****ing music.

[nubbinator]

demik, apparently you're a white man in brown skin who gets accosted by white cops.  Life is unfair.

[demik]

demik, apparently you're a white man in brown skin who gets accosted by white cops.  Life is unfair.

you have no idea how many times i've heard that. im a fakexican

[Novus]

...
So who's been molested by TSA?

*pat pat

[nuclearsandwich]

It was super excellent seeing CPTBadAss when he came to visit the Bay Area. Not saying I'd take a bullet for the guy though. Also I ran into Input Nirvana at my coffee shop yesterday and codyeatworld and I used to chat over Skype before I got eaten by the school shark and was required by law to hate fun.

[iri]

demik, apparently you're a white man in brown skin who gets accosted by white cops.  Life is unfair.

i wish i had brown skin. so convenient when the uv levels are high. and hides defects.

[Beca]

no one really. i'm fairly new here.

[nuclearsandwich]

no one really. i'm fairly new here.

/friend Beca

[HoffmanMyster]

Why can't we all be friends?

I consider many people here to be my friends.

[Sifo]

Why can't we all be friends?

I consider many people here to be my friends.

I'm not your friend, pal.

[CK Briefs]

Why can't we all be friends?

I consider many people here to be my friends.

I'm not your friend, pal.

I'm not your pal, buddy

[missalaire]

I hate you all.

[CPTBadAss]

I hate you all.

    

Luv you too bb <3

[Shadovved]

I hate you all.

Very much hurt

[Sifo]

I hate you all.

<3

[iri]

I hate you all.

wow, a bot can talk.

[iri]

Why can't we all be friends?

you are calling me names.

[Novus]

I hate you all.

wow, a bot can talk.

It's a bot that encourages you to spend money.
Of course it's your friend!

[Beca]

no one really. i'm fairly new here.

/friend Beca

<3

[vivalarevolución]

Damn, I need to go to Queens.  Call it white cultural imperialism or tourism if you must, but I hate being surround by the self-centered lack of culture that seems to be pervasive in white areas.  No one cares about their neighbors or wants to experience life.  I love culturally diverse areas because they tend to be more inclusive, more family oriented, and have a vibrancy to them that predominantly white areas lack.

god you're so white it hurts.

Live in a culturally diverse poor area for awhile, and get back to me.  At this point, I would be perfectly fine being surrounded by rich, boring, white people, so I can drink their expensive wines while lounging on their nice porches when I come to visit. 

If you want vibrancy and white people, move to the Pacific Northwest.  Or Vermont.  Plenty of white people and cultural vibrancy there.

[vivalarevolución]

I went to an Indiana Pacers game with CptBadass once, but I think my persistent smartass comments scared him away.  Or maybe it was the awful Pacers performance, a harbinger of their playoff swoon.

[missalaire]

@drinkbleach: Please format your response so that its clear that you're looking to buy the board and not within a quoted reply.

I hate you all.

wow, a bot can talk.

Wat

[iri]

If you want vibrancy and white people, move to the Pacific Northwest.  Or Vermont.  Plenty of white people and cultural vibrancy there.

seattle: 66% non-hispanic whites (a decline from 85% in 1970).
portland: 72% non-hispanic whites (a decline from 98% in 1940).
vermont: cultural vibrancy?..

*iri lives in a super vibrant place with too many white people.

[vivalarevolución]

If you want vibrancy and white people, move to the Pacific Northwest.  Or Vermont.  Plenty of white people and cultural vibrancy there.

seattle: 66% non-hispanic whites (a decline from 85% in 1970).
portland: 72% non-hispanic whites (a decline from 98% in 1940).
vermont: cultural vibrancy?..

*iri lives in a super vibrant place with too many white people.

Check out Burlington, Vermont.  I hear there is lots of this vibrancy thing. 

[Binge]

I'd cut off my left eyebrow for CPTBadAss and my right for meeba.

Shave my legs for Halverson

and possibly not wear a hat for a few other folks here.

What is friendship anyway?

[vivalarevolución]

What is friendship anyway?

You can tolerate each other for lengthy periods of time and have a good chat or two.

[Binge]

What is friendship anyway?

You can tolerate each other for lengthy periods of time and have a good chat or two.

[noisyturtle]

What is love?

[digi]

I don't have friends Demik, but as soon as your ban is lifted, you'll be my first <3

[Novus]

So what did demik do this time?

[Badwrench]

I grabbed beers with BadWrench.  Does that count?  He's a cool dude and we barely even talked about keyboard or computers when we hung out.

There are a lot of cool people on here.  Some *******s, but hey, that's life.  A lot of cool people though and generally a cool community.

Yup, Nubs is the only person I have met irl, but I have chatted with several during the Sat. Night movies.  Everyone I have chatted with has been super cool. 

Hey Nubs, we need to try to get you and Demik down to the north county for some beer tasting (we can get Demik some root beer). 

[vivalarevolución]

What is love?

Keyboards.  And the occasional ergonomic pointing device.

[tinlong117]

What is love?

baby don't hurt me, baby don't hurt me, no more.

[iri]

.

[Krogenar]

I would consider samwisekoi, matt and ray to be friends -- internet friends, lol!

[HoffmanMyster]

I'd cut off my left eyebrow for CPTBadAss and my right for meeba.

Shave my legs for Halverson

and possibly not wear a hat for a few other folks here.

What is friendship anyway?

Show Image

BRB, returning friendship bracelet I made for Binge.

[SpAmRaY]

I would consider samwisekoi, matt and ray to be friends -- internet friends, lol!

That's some good company to be in!! Thanks krog, you ole' flocker

[nubbinator]

Yup, Nubs is the only person I have met irl, but I have chatted with several during the Sat. Night movies.  Everyone I have chatted with has been super cool. 

Hey Nubs, we need to try to get you and Demik down to the north county for some beer tasting (we can get Demik some root beer).

Yes we do, if we can get him to make time for us that is.  And if we can promise him that no cops will pull him over for riding his bike while Mexican.

[Badwrench]

Yup, Nubs is the only person I have met irl, but I have chatted with several during the Sat. Night movies.  Everyone I have chatted with has been super cool. 

Hey Nubs, we need to try to get you and Demik down to the north county for some beer tasting (we can get Demik some root beer).

Yes we do, if we can get him to make time for us that is.  And if we can promise him that no cops will pull him over for riding his bike while Mexican.

Should be ok as long as he doesn't get off the fwy between LA and San Diego.   

[TheSoulhunter]

Well, all my friends died in war, I can still hear the screams, they wake me almost every night.
Back in Nam, I was trapped behind enemy lines, lying in a hole with my entire squad dead.
They thought they killed everybody, and except for me, they were right.
They thought I was dead, so I played dead.
They dumped all the bodies in a ditch. All I could do was lie there playing possum.
Dead bodies under me, dead bodies on top of me, listening to the enemy laugh and joke hour after hour after hour.
And then when I came back to my senses, I realized I had killed the entire V.C. squadron single handedly with a spoon.
And to this day I don't have the slightest idea how I ended up here on this forum collecting keycaps and keyboards, WTF!?

[iri]

If you want vibrancy and white people, move to the Pacific Northwest.  Or Vermont.  Plenty of white people and cultural vibrancy there.

seattle: 66% non-hispanic whites (a decline from 85% in 1970).
portland: 72% non-hispanic whites (a decline from 98% in 1940).
vermont: cultural vibrancy?..

*iri lives in a super vibrant place with too many white people.

Check out Burlington, Vermont.  I hear there is lots of this vibrancy thing.

200k metro population and dragonboat races, wow.

[AKIMbO]

Well, all my friends died in war, I can still hear the screams, they wake me almost every night.
Back in Nam, I was trapped behind enemy lines, lying in a hole with my entire squad dead.
They thought they killed everybody, and except for me, they were right.
They thought I was dead, so I played dead.
They dumped all the bodies in a ditch. All I could do was lie there playing possum.
Dead bodies under me, dead bodies on top of me, listening to the enemy laugh and joke hour after hour after hour.
And then when I came back to my senses, I realized I had killed the entire V.C. squadron single handedly with a spoon.
And to this day I don't have the slightest idea how I ended up here on this forum collecting keycaps and keyboards, WTF!?

Shiz just got real.

[digi]

Well, all my friends died in war, I can still hear the screams, they wake me almost every night.
Back in Nam, I was trapped behind enemy lines, lying in a hole with my entire squad dead.
They thought they killed everybody, and except for me, they were right.
They thought I was dead, so I played dead.
They dumped all the bodies in a ditch. All I could do was lie there playing possum.
Dead bodies under me, dead bodies on top of me, listening to the enemy laugh and joke hour after hour after hour.
And then when I came back to my senses, I realized I had killed the entire V.C. squadron single handedly with a spoon.
And to this day I don't have the slightest idea how I ended up here on this forum collecting keycaps and keyboards, WTF!?

[funkymeeba]

Most of my good buddies are on the IRC. Special shoutouts to:
- Binge, the island with the sandiest of beaches.
- vun, the most crumptacular guy ever.
- dfj, coffee addict extraordinaire.
- Hoffman, the real OC.
- krav, who I went to school with, visited arcades with, and broke computers with.

[Tarzan]

If you want vibrancy and white people, move to the Pacific Northwest.  Or Vermont.  Plenty of white people and cultural vibrancy there.

seattle: 66% non-hispanic whites (a decline from 85% in 1970).
portland: 72% non-hispanic whites (a decline from 98% in 1940).
vermont: cultural vibrancy?..

*iri lives in a super vibrant place with too many white people.

Check out Burlington, Vermont.  I hear there is lots of this vibrancy thing.

200k metro population and dragonboat races, wow.

I was on a dragonboat team.  In Portland (Oregon).  Boat was sponsored by the bank I worked for. 

[HoffmanMyster]

Most of my good buddies are on the IRC. Special shoutouts to:
- Binge, the island with the sandiest of beaches.
- vun, the most crumptacular guy ever.
- dfj, coffee addict extraordinaire.
- Hoffman, the real OC.
- krav, who I went to school with, visited arcades with, and broke computers with.

* HoffmanMyster crumps this post.

[AKIMbO]

Most of my good buddies are on the IRC. Special shoutouts to:
- Binge, the island with the sandiest of beaches.
- vun, the most crumptacular guy ever.
- dfj, coffee addict extraordinaire.
- Hoffman, the real OC.
- krav, who I went to school with, visited arcades with, and broke computers with.

* HoffmanMyster crumps this post.

* AKIMbO kirkleates both posts.

[Novus]

Get a room already

[sth]

Most of my good buddies are on the IRC. Special shoutouts to:
- Binge, the island with the sandiest of beaches.
- vun, the most crumptacular guy ever.
- dfj, coffee addict extraordinaire.
- Hoffman, the real OC.
- krav, who I went to school with, visited arcades with, and broke computers with.

well why don't you just go have fun with all your friends 

* sth honks

[Krogenar]

I would consider samwisekoi, matt and ray to be friends -- internet friends, lol!

That's some good company to be in!! Thanks krog, you ole' flocker

How do you really know someone's your keyboard addiction friend?



They send you the keycaps you need to make your 108-key Ducky ready for Penumbra -- without being asked. 

[demik]

D squad

[demik]

d squad only real squad NA.

and digi.

[demik]

Maybe bee if she stops being BM.

[demik]

jk bee too.

[demik]

inanis

[demik]

And d squad

#freemoose
#freekirk

[HoffmanMyster]

And d squad

#freemoose
#freekirk

#freejwaz

[demik]

No 


And houf <3

[demik]

Definitely not bee.

[demik]

Just kidding. Bee included.



SIKE. HATE U BEE.

[trizkut]

not Houf

[demik]

STOP INVADING MY PERSONAL SPACE U DAMN MOD.

Sarah is cool too.

Asdfjkl also

[demik]

Love you nubs.


invading your personal space

[HoffmanMyster]

stop locking this thread u dingbat

[demik]

There. Open to the public.

[HoffmanMyster]

i'm gonna lock this thread, it looks like it has run its course