World Wide Web Woes

[Tea]

     I have been thinking recently of an interesting and rather devastating predicament that I am sure has happened at least once or twice to many of those whom have spend a good decent percentage of time on the internet. And that would be the situation of meeting someone online, via; video game, forum, etc. That you are rather fond of. Say, you spend a good while talking with them and getting to know them. Then comes the time that they must go for the night. You say your goodbyes, and that you will speak with each other once more the next day...


GONE.
   
            POOF!
 
                     VANISHED!!!



    Only for them to completely vanish seemingly off of the face of the earth. Leading to you becoming increasing depressed for the weeks to come. Eventually leading to you printing out photographs of their profile pictures to place within picture frames surrounding a multitude of lit wax candles forming that of a shrine. Then the fears of their possible untimely demise in the time since you have last spoke with them fills your nerves with the upmost terror. So you purchase an ouija board in some last sliver of hope you have left in conjuring their spirit, even though you do not actually believe in spirits. Subsequently resulting in your beliefs being proven wrong as you accidentally summon a terrible demon that has not had contact with the human world since 1862, that will now haunt you in and your loved ones for the next 100 years. The demon steps through a portal made of burning, screaming, pulsating flesh into your bedroom, it's organs of an impossible anatomy spill out from within it's chest, dragging alongside the hardwood floor as it makes your way towards you.

And when you assume you have (hopefully) cleansed the spirit in a desperate attempt with a Bulgarian Bloodletting. Your needs not quite satiated. You begin sewing together a voodoo doll in what you can only assume to hopefully be some what in the likeness of this long lost potential friend of yours. After a crazed blind swing of frustration sweeps through your veins, you take the doll within your grasp and begin to stab it continuously with a pin. Only later to realize that the doll you crafted accidentally resembled that of the mayor of your town, and you watch on television as they report she was found dead in her office with seemingly impossible punctures and lacerations to her internal organs without any entry points from the outer flesh.

Anywho, just wondering if anyone else has any similar stories that could have taken place on Blockland, or wherever online. And did these people ever come back into your lives in the future?

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[Ladios]

Have you talked to your therapist about attachment disorders? They're pretty common especially among children of divorce.

[TheScout]

Have you talked to your therapist about attachment disorders? They're pretty common especially among children of divorce.

see this is the loving problem i have with all this newfound "online psychotherapist" discourse. suddenly everyone is so god damn enlightened and insightful that they just HAVE to find some deep-seated issue with everyone they see. we're just inventing problems with completely normal things like finding gun-shaped sticks on the ground as kids or making wax shrines to psychically locate online friends. its ridiculous.

[Foxscotch]

this is like half of what this thread was about
https://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=328264.0

to answer the final question posed by this thread, no i have not. people who randomly disappeared like this, no. gradually losing contact is one thing, and I've certainly reconnected with some people like that before, but not anyone who's vanished. I think that's just part of having a social life on the internet. some people don't treat these relationships with any kind of significance really, they don't see a problem abandoning people they know online out of the blue. I think it's sad but ultimately this is the way it is. you just have to trust that the other people you care about do actually care about you, otherwise everything sucks forever

[Refticus]

Happened to me too, I have a friend on steam who hasn't logged in for 14 years now.

Now I didn't really talk to him much back then, or really remember any of our conversations back in 2009/2010 beside the fact that I would send him a new crazy frog meme daily, but i know as a fact that I must find out who he was so that I can finally have closure in my life and finally be at peace. I've already tried most of what you've mentioned in the original post, voodoo dolls based on my singular memory of him (killed my pen pal in south africa, oops), weegee board communication at 3:33am and accidentally summoning incomprehensible horrors from another realm, goblin darts, bulgarian bloodletting to force the horrors will to give me answers as to his whereabouts.
All of them were dead ends, except for one.

Before he disappeared he had sent me one picture of his new desk and I, being a connoisseur of fine desks, immediately recognised the material; cheap, cardboard-like, recycled thin plywood from Ikea.
Using this and a hacker I had hired from CraigsList for 5 dollars and a baggie of crack, I was able to retrieve the sales data from Ikea for a period between 2009 and 2010 which, thanks to poor data security standards of the time, also contained personal information of the buyers which I could easily use in a slow and tedious process to find my old internet friend by tracking down each customers current address and visiting them myself.

As of writing, I am still in the process of scrubbing through the list and have been arrested 3 times, maced 16 times, shanked 4 times, and hit with a poison dart once.
It's a long and painful road, but it will all be worth it when I can finally ask him what he meant by "I don't want to talk to you anymore" and "Crazy frog isn't that funny, please stop".

[Conan]

Have you talked to your therapist about attachment disorders? They're pretty common especially among children of divorce.

the only therapist anyone really needs are the voices that come out of your pillow at night

[Ladios]

the only therapist anyone really needs are the voices that come out of your pillow at night

That's why I always wear earbuds to sleep listening to audiobooks, the whispering always keeps me up, besides my partner's work insurance covers an actually licensed therapist i can see during the day which is much more pleasant. I am not sure those nocturnal voices have actually have a degree.

[Tea]

the only therapist anyone really needs are the voices that come out of your pillow at night

Exactly! They are the only thing that will truly understand you within and throughout in its complete entirely.

[Rigel]

the only therapist anyone really needs are the voices that come out of your pillow at night

The voices I hear at night come from FM radio waves bouncing off of my ceiling fan. I don't even listen to radio, but when I do and they play advertisements, it's like I'm a sleeper agent being awakened because I've memorized them all word for word despite never consciously hearing them before. Sometimes I can't clearly tell what my ceiling fan is playing to me, because when it's not infomercials or top 100 hits, I swear it's just a stream of numbers. But that'd make for a stuffty radio show, who'd listen to that?


When it comes to reconnecting with old internet friends, I've been successful in finding maybe 70% of them. But when I do find them, I promptly go back to never speaking to them again, content in the knowledge that I very well could if I wanted to, I guess. Shout outs to luie (found him playing BL soccer), Infiminer (found me after I mentioned him in a "blockheads you haven't seen in a while" thread), Bbs (forgot how that happened), and SchnufflyAshley (Non-BL girl who apparently found my comment I left behind on her old, unused steam profile. We played some L4d2 again!)

[Tea]

(killed my pen pal in south africa, oops)

Another poor soul caught in the crime of passion crossfire.

It's a long and painful road, but it will all be worth it when I can finally ask him what he meant by "I don't want to talk to you anymore" and "Crazy frog isn't that funny, please stop".

THESE are the questions that require the most upmost of detailed and intricate answers... If you are willing, I have one other alternative that may or may not help you on your journey. I hope you're not squeamish to animal skinning...

[Ceist]

one of my old highschool buddies up and ghosted everyone after he moved to Texas. It's weird tho, like he keeps us as friends on Steam but does not talk to us otherwise, even if we message him first.

[Tea]

some people don't treat these relationships with any kind of significance really, they don't see a problem abandoning people they know online out of the blue. I think it's sad but ultimately this is the way it is. you just have to trust that the other people you care about do actually care about you, otherwise everything sucks forever

That ultimately is the depressing part.

...or they're dead. So, Foxscotch. I volunteer YOU to go and find everyone's lost internet companions of years gone past. I have already begun the ritual and it is too late for you to protest. You'll know you're ready to enter the Fifth Place the next time you take a bath and blood starts pouring profusely out of your wrist and into the bathwater. Only then, will you know.

[Conan]

o_o

[Masterlegodude]

Interestingly, this exact thing happened with me and TheWorm (whom you may recognize as the creator of the argyle sweater decal from 'Decal_WORM'), he used to be fairly active around here, then we started playing Little Big Planet together, we make it close to the end of the game, he has to leave, goes offline, and then it's like he disappeared off the face of the Earth, never to be heard from again

I occasionally see ex-Blocklanders on other sites, but people like TheWorm make me wonder what happened to them and if they're doing alright

[Blockomaniac]

I used to play with a group of friends named 00J, Star Sprite, and Hafnium. Was friends on steam with them for years, I think I became friends with them in 2012? Anyway we drifted apart and now I wonder where they all are. I think I found one of them on steam at some point, but I didn't send a friend req since I wasn't sure if there was anything to come back to after so long. I doubt any of us are kids anymore.