Chit-Chat Corner 3: Stories!

[SomethingDire]

Again, what the title says. Share your most memorable stories here. (If ya want to, of course.) I'll start:

 

Not long ago, one of my old friends called me. He just said my name and started sobbing. I asked him what was wrong, and he told me he liked men and didn't know what to do with his girlfriend.

He felt that he could confide in me because I'm kinda sorta not straight either and he knew it

 

 

One week later and he's coming to my town to pull his stuff together with me. First time someone came out to me and spent their time to be with me and get themselves together.

[Guest Anonymous]

OH I am so glad he felt he could count on you for help and support! That is a good story!

[SomethingDire]

Yeah, felt that it was worth sharing. The country I live in isn't exactly "welcoming" with queer people. We hold on to each other.

 

Everyone is welcome to share.

[J.Iscariot]

I met this guy in a public TF2 VALVe server. He was pretty cool and skilled, and funny on the mic, we talked a bit on the server (I had a fancy unusual back then so everyone would talk to me for no reason, but that guy was a jokester), and ended up adding each other. We discussed a bit on Steam, talked about life, he made a few jokes that were admittedly funny, so that was nice. Now, I used to be part of this big gaming community called UberMe, they had a swift ctf_turbine server that was so nice, I'd play there all the time aside from playing competitive or lobbying... now, let's call the guy I had met on the VALVe server G. G is EXTREMELY skilled at TF2, guy has 8k hours on the game, and sweats out Turbine and Lazytown (custom map). He's banned from Skial which is one of the bigger TF2 communities, so he joined my game. He'd really stack the teams, and I called him out on hacking.

 

 

Now, I did not call him out on hacking out of me being salty, no. I know how sniping goes, and I'm pretty good myself, but this guy had previously hacked in UGC, which is THE eminent TF2 competitive league. He hacked for his friend in order for his team not to lose because they wanted to carry through the lowest division and get 1st place (good thing they ended up 2nd place :} shitters). So I knew that he had the software to hack, and I spectated him a few times, it felt like he had an aimlock +esp since he'd 'flick' whenever people would come out of their intel room.

 

He told me he wasn't hacking, of course, I thought it was bullshit, but this guy... he knows everyone in the competitive world, from low iron to high plat, he got a few gold friends of his to join my games and he'd join and completely destroy people, people he'd also happen to know, he's one toxic guy.

 

That's not even the best part.

 

 

I know this girl. Let's call her T.

 

I've known T for around a year and a few months. We're good friends. I met her on Skial's turbine and other Skial servers. She would play on an account that we will call 'E'. She'd play medic all the time and would pocket me (focus her heals on me), and we'd carry because I'm also good at TF2, better than the average pubber, at least. Every now and then, I'd see her on her 'E' account. On the same Skial server played a dude that we will call D. D is a very, very experienced comp player, but he's nothing like G. Good guy overall, doesn't talk shit, friendly and all.

 

It turns out that D's brother that we will call D's brother would also play TF2 with his bro.... and he was in a relationship. With T. This guy was super oppressive, he'd force T not to talk to anyone because of how controling and manipulative he was, so she'd play on an alt account and stay online on her phone. They broke up last November. Girl thought that her whole world was D's brother... forced to sleep with him... yadda.

 

Now, T and I play often. She has a few friends she's sympathetic with, but we've known each other for a long while now. One day, T joins my server and meets G. G is being the admittedly charismatic character he is on mic, and T takes a liking to G. As friends, because T is too scared of men to get in a relationship at this point. They add each other, G talks to T (and T is VERY SHY, but also very kind and a great person overall, regardless of gender), and at some point, G tells T on mic that he 'loves her'. It's noteworthy to mention that G is possibly autistic (social autism), but I'm not too sure about that.

 

T told G in the past that she didn't want anything to happen with anyone, that she only wanted friends... yet he broke that rule. Which made T super shy and reserved. They'd still talk and play together, J acted as if nothing had happened because it was too shitty for her. One day, G came back from work or school or whatever (i think he's a kid) and he took out his anger on T. Apparently, Twas healing a friend of hers who killed G, G called T a 'stinking medic' (which is a big offense to T because she plays medic a lot and she is quite the medic), then G spent the entire evening ridiculing T in front of his friends, mocking her, and pointing out and mocking her shyness. It made T feel like shit.

 

Now, where do I come in? I know G. I know T. Shit, I know everyone. I kind of coach T on competitive medic, I give her some of my POVs from matches and lobbies, I give her advice and encourage her to get into things, not because she's a girl, but because she's really, really a nice person. She helped out one of her friends with 30 keys to get him his dream unusual, that he still has.

 

Sooo, T sends me a message while I'm pubbing at my own pace, tells me that she has a gift for me, we open up the trade... and she puts an amazing item that is the dream of every 6v6 medic. Nothing expensive, but rare as shit. It makes me super happy, I thank her a lot and promise not to sell it or trade it away, then she asks me 'can I tell you something?', and then we spend hours talking about her old relationship, what G did to her, 'cus she told me about everything like 3 days ago.

 

I like T. Not in the romantic sense, but as a friend, and as someone who got as much hurt as my tulpa did. T is super sensitive and shy and reserved, doesn't have many friends and is overall misunderstood. She had a terrible relationship with D's brother, and overall was so unsure of herself. In the end, she said that she thanked me a lot for treating her as a person and not as a 'gurl', and making her feel so safe....

 

 

which made my tulpa infinitely jealous.

[SomethingDire]

Maaaan, spill the tea.

 

Tulpas tend to be jealous, it seems. Makes sense since they thrive off of attention.

[Guest Anonymous]

@Iscariot,

 

I loved all the gaming community jargon in your story. It was well written and interesting the way it flowed. Sounds like some interesting social intrigue. You never know where a friendship will lead and girls can sometimes hold secret feelings they don't talk about (just like guys).

 

I am sorry your tulpa got jealous.

[J.Iscariot]

Oh, yeah. My tulpa is jealous as shit right now that I even brought up the entire topic because it has T in it. Even my female friends, my tulpa are jealous as hell from them. Any member of the opposite sex talking to me makes her go red. If I was a furry, she'd probably hate animals and shit. It's cute and somewhat funny, nothing to be sorry about, though, hehe.

[Joss]

Tulpas tend to be jealous, it seems. Makes sense since they thrive off of attention.

 

....

 

You know, I can't even refute that.

 

We know someone who's like your T. Painfully shy and sensitive, but a good person. Good on you, giving her a safe space.

[SomethingDire]

 

....

 

You know, I can't even refute that.

 

We know someone who's like your T. Painfully shy and sensitive, but a good person. Good on you, giving her a safe space.

 

Oooh, my my my. Even Joss agrees with me. *pats her own back*

 

T reminds me of the person I was a few years ago. Then there was a blackout. I think that's when all of this happened to me. *giggles*

[Luminesce]

Oh, all that buildup of how scummy they are and no payoff. Ah well. I'd offer to go stomp'em, but I don't use hacks, not even against hackers. Though I can out-snipe snipers who are using auto-aim but not auto-fire, 'cus my reactions are faster. Anyways, good on you for protecting the rare and illusive female medic main. Girls so rarely get into gaming, and when they play TF2 there's like a 90% chance they end up as a pocket medic, and even then they still get treated like crap on occasion. Medic mains alone deserve all the praise in the world, you have no right to insult somebody whose job it is to put a healing beam up your butt all day.

 

Anyways, tulpas might "tend to" be jealous, yeah. The reliance on attention thing and all that. Mine don't get jealous, though. For basically all the same reasons we're so weird in every other aspect of tulpamancy/philosophy.