Snapped on NationStates?

[Kagetora]

My entire class found out I go on here, and as such, I've become an intriguing individual. People are like "what is that", I tell them, and then people generally give me a blank look

[SoWiBi]

:lol:

That's the second time in about as many weeks you've made me laugh. Something's wrong. <.<

Oy, you! You went away for so long that I even had to dingnify myself with a question in these here forums as to where the fuck you went - kindly cease such behavior in the future, yes?

Also, don't diss Czardanian humor. He's one of the good guys; he knows how to appreciate a real sandwich with real bread and real garnishments, you see?

[Whereyouthinkyougoing]

That's the second time in about as many weeks you've made me laugh. Something's wrong. <.<

Oy, you! You went away for so long that I even had to dingnify myself with a question in these here forums as to where the fuck you went - kindly cease such behavior in the future, yes?

Also, don't diss Czardanian humor. He's one of the good guys; he knows how to appreciate a real sandwich with real bread and real garnishments, you see?

Not dissing his humor. Just his humor and mine never matched before.

[Londim]

My brother and my old housemates saw me on it. Gave me a bit of banter but they knew it was the sort of thing I was into. It is part of my lovable geekiness.

[Sarzonia]

Besides, if I forumban them for rule violations, they know where I live.

What're they gonna do, ground you for forumbanning them? After all, you don't live with them anymore.

I've never had a significant other active on NS. Frankly, I haven't had a significant other during any periods I've been on NS. No one in my family has had any kind of interest in the game.

Though one player's father made a comment about the actions of my now-deceased eponymous character during a long ago RP...

[SoWiBi]

Not dissing his humor. Just his humor and mine never matched before.

Oh, I see. I never asked directly, but I always assumed that upon Moddification, they give the new ones a One-Fits-All Humor-Adapter as a welcome gift that can make a guaranteed 77% of the user base able to plug in to the new mod's humor hassle-free.

[Czardas]

Besides, if I forumban them for rule violations, they know where I live.

That's the second time in about as many weeks you've made me laugh. Something's wrong. <.<

Exactly. My standards of humour must be slipping. I should be funnier than this. I blame stress from uni work. I'll try to do better next time.

NSG -- home of consummate subtlety.

Hence also all the sarcastic posts that are so subtle, people have to ask, "Wait, what? I hope you're being sarcastic here."

You've been away for far too long, honey. By now, you already have to be grateful when they do ask that, and not just jump in yelling at you for your "terrible", "in bad taste" post without catching a single whiff of that big ol' stinking pile of sarcasm in every corner of it.

The day I returned, I posted in a few threads and got lots of "I hope you're being sarcastic" responses, or worse. Led me to wonder where NSG's sense of humour had gone. Not to mention all the people who took virtually anything ever posted by Hammurab etc. in any of his incarnations seriously -- you can't get sarcasm much more blatant than that, and yet, "OMG WUT U MEAN." I blame MeansToAnEnd. After his "Bring Back Slavery" thread, it's understandable that NSG's ability to take things with a grain of salt will have more or less evaporated.

Also, I never knew you could use consummate as an adjective.

Yes; it means "the highest or most perfect example of." And as a verb it technically means just "to actualize; make real; legitimize", but as usual the other meaning extrapolated therefrom gets all the attention. Pity. It's a nice word.

So, honoring that new-found knowledge with some inappropriate usage of the word, umm.. wanna consummate some sarcasm with me?

Absolutely.

I'm not entirely sure how that would work, but it's got "consummate", "sarcasm", and "you" in it, which is a good enough start for me. <.<

[Czardas]

Besides, if I forumban them for rule violations, they know where I live.

What're they gonna do, ground you for forumbanning them? After all, you don't live with them anymore.

Yes, but *ahem* I do rely on them for, er, support. In, ah, fiscal matters. Being a student and not having a very large income per year (indeed, sometimes a negative income) and everything.

[Poliwanacraca]

I'm fairly certain my boyfriend knows about me and NSG. He has occasionally been known to enjoy arguing with strange people about assorted topics himself, so I don't think he even finds my addiction to this forum particularly weird.

[Daistallia 2104]

Once upon a time I fed a GF to Zepp's lion and got her to post a reply to what happened...

(You kids who don't remember Zepp's lion can GTFO my lawn! :::waves cane::: )

Last and only time one's been aware of NS.

[SoWiBi]

I've never had a significant other active on NS. Frankly, I haven't had a significant other during any periods I've been on NS.

Of course, this is only a correlation here and no causation.

[Neesika]

Recently my girlfriend of over 6 months saw me on NationStates for the first time. I hadn't told her about it or anything, so when she saw me on last week she was rather inquisitive. I felt a little embarrassed at first, like I was doing something wrong. It's not that she was judging me, she just didn't think I was the kind of person who would be kinda heavily involved in an online game. She has given me a bit of shit for it since then, in a light-hearted way.

It got me thinking, anyone else had significant others inquire about NationStates? What was the result, any funny stories?

Funny stories? No. But stories yes. After my ex cheated on me a few times and somehow made me feel responsible in part for his infidelity, he imposed this 'absolute honesty' thing on us for a while. He hated it when I was online. Actually he hated it when I did anything like reading, or anything else that 'ignored him' even when he was just sitting watching tv. Still, the computer thing was big for him for some reason and I won't even go into how he later on started spying on my MSN usage.

Okay so. I told him I was on NSG, and that I considered a few people here to be friends. I admitted that I flirted with some people too. He got really pissed off, but for some reason never created a nation to spy on me (surprising really). He read over my shoulder a few times though until it became so uncomfortable I just didn't use my computer when he was around. When we split up and I told him that I was into a guy in montreal he asked if that's where I met him, and I said yes we'd talked on NSG for years. He of course assumed that meant we'd been cybersexing for years which is not the case, but whatever. The guilty are always the most suspicious.

Okay, less abusive story. One of my fuckbuddies saw the Jennifer Government logo when I was logging into NSG once and was all, "Oh! Nation States! I've seen that and was thinking about joining, what's your nation name?" I really didn't want him to know it though and told him so. He was a little nonplussed

I was a little worried a few times about being on NSG because I'm quite open about certain things here, and because I was in such a small faculty and part of such a small minority within the faculty, it would be easy to pinpoint who I was. Luckily it never became an issue. The issue btw would not be with me being ashamed of what I'm saying but rather with stalkers.

[Neo Art]

I'm fairly certain my boyfriend knows about me and NSG. He has occasionally been known to enjoy arguing with strange people about assorted topics himself, so I don't think he even finds my addiction to this forum particularly weird.

subtle

[Neesika]

My (now ex-)boyfriend got jealous of the time and effort I spent on NS (especially after I got modded!) and at one point he made a nation on here just to lurk the forums and see if I was logging onto NS and not signing onto the IRC chat we both use. He got pretty upset whenever he'd spot me on the forums and not on the chat where I could talk to him too; nevermind that checking the forums can be a quick glance-at-the-computer thing before running out the door to run errands or something.

6.5 years later and I'm still on NS, said boyfriend was dumped, and I met my current boyfriend here

Lol, NSG helped me leave my asshole ex too! AND meet someone infinately better! High five!

I really like that I met him here, because he already knows me and NSG and I don't need to feel nervous about introducing him to 'my turf'.

[The_pantless_hero]

My fiance apparently has a nation on here somewhere, but she's so involved in real games I never see her on.

:yep:

[Parthenon]

I'm fairly certain my boyfriend knows about me and NSG. He has occasionally been known to enjoy arguing with strange people about assorted topics himself, so I don't think he even finds my addiction to this forum particularly weird.

subtle

This is too easy...

[SoWiBi]

I'm fairly certain my boyfriend knows about me and NSG. He has occasionally been known to enjoy arguing with strange people about assorted topics himself, so I don't think he even finds my addiction to this forum particularly weird. ;)

The strange people don't argue, sweetheart; they are the ones who streak the thread and/or just randomly leave muddy fingerprints on the quote buttons.

He'd be pretty masochistic to find your addiction to this forum undesirable, and I hear that's not particularly him, so I see how he wouldn't ;P

[Dimoniquid]

This ain't just a game son.

Is it a "Lifestyle Choice"?

You've just won the game!

[Neesika]

I told my parents about it when I started back in high school. They weren't very interested in joining the site, but there were a few dinner table discussions that started from "So I was reading this topic on NationStates and someone brought up X...." -- Later on they determined that I was spending too much time on the site, and I had access limited to weekends and days when I'd finished my homework and the like.

I remember that! It was heartbreaking

[SoWiBi]

The day I returned, I posted in a few threads and got lots of "I hope you're being sarcastic" responses, or worse. Led me to wonder where NSG's sense of humour had gone.

Yeah, right. "So I took this sense of humor kicking and screaming with me when I left, and spent countless hours keeping it properly gagged and tied up in my basement all the while I was gone, but seriously, I have no idea where it went.."

Yes; it means "the highest or most perfect example of." And as a verb it technically means just "to actualize; make real; legitimize", but as usual the other meaning extrapolated therefrom gets all the attention. Pity. It's a nice word.

I've a habit of "trending" words I like, and I feel deserve it. It's sorta like my own WildLife Fund or Animal Shelter, only minus the wildlife or animals, but plus endangered words. I'll make sure to breathe some life into "consummate" from now on.

Absolutely.

I'm not entirely sure how that would work, but it's got "consummate", "sarcasm", and "you" in it, which is a good enough start for me. <.<

I'm not sure either, but I'm a trained linguist working in sociology, so I have all the fucking defining power one can have. We'll be all right.

[Czardas]

I told my parents about it when I started back in high school. They weren't very interested in joining the site, but there were a few dinner table discussions that started from "So I was reading this topic on NationStates and someone brought up X...." -- Later on they determined that I was spending too much time on the site, and I had access limited to weekends and days when I'd finished my homework and the like.

I remember that! It was heartbreaking

Eh, it could have been a lot worse. Just recently, for instance, a middle school student's parents learned that he was using the site and had disseminated personal information, and -- presumably out of fear or what the internet could do to them -- went through and deleted every single one of his posts. No precedent had yet been established for this kind of thing, and [violet] herself had to come down to rule on it. (The nation was deleted as well, even though it had been given to another player, which caused a whole kerfuffle over in the RP forums that was resolved Hataria-style IIRC.)

They didn't really mind if I went on NS, so long as I wasn't going on for three hours a day or more. Which, in retrospect, was a good decision, since it also limited the quantity of my posts that have survived from back then, and I did go on to graduate high school with honours and get into a very good university with a scholarship. <.<

[Poliwanacraca]

I'm fairly certain my boyfriend knows about me and NSG. He has occasionally been known to enjoy arguing with strange people about assorted topics himself, so I don't think he even finds my addiction to this forum particularly weird.

subtle

Yup.

[Nueve Avalon]

my boyfriend got me started here, and although i'm not really a computer/internet kinda person, i do like debating politics (and pretending i run my own little country, but that's beside the point). he's still here too, and like other girls mentioned in this thread, i too find it adorably nerdy that he likes computer/internet games

[Neesika]

I suppose it's as good a time as any to mention that, like Reppy, while I haven't come right out and SAID it, we've also not been particularly secretive or subtle about the fact that my current significant other and I met, in a very round about way, through NSG as well.

*bans NA for revealing and/or speculating upon personal information*

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Nicely done, Czaras

[Hairless Kitten II]

My sister busted me once, when I was on NS.

"What's that?", she asked. And I explained. Her next question was:

"How can you waste your time on that?"