To celebrate such day, I've deleted about 40 friends who weren't online for more than a year.
General / Off-Topic Friend Request Day
- Thread starter Riverside
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Request sent. You old softy.
It will be interesting to see who responds to that, Riverside was already taken when I started
I've sent an in-game friend request to Cmdr GlobusDiablo, and the two others who offered on this thread.
I play in Open, one of the reasons is so I can track friends (mostly explorers) on the galmap. If you don't normally play in open you can still join while docked to see where I am if you want to. Similarly if you & your friends all play in the same private group you will see each others' location while they are online. Note that you can only see the system, if you jump to that system and they are not also in supercruise you won't know exactly where they are. If you wing up with them you will be able to find them by their wing beacon.
I hope they at least got hiccups.
It will be interesting to see who responds to that, Riverside was already taken when I started
I've sent an in-game friend request to Cmdr GlobusDiablo, and the two others who offered on this thread...
Fair enough. And an elevation to the off-topic subforum too I see. You lucky butter.
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Fair enough. And an elevation to the off-topic subforum too I see. You lucky butter.
Bob Lighthouse
Banned
Perfect timing!
A couple of weeks ago I was pulling into Ray Gateway with a full Cutter, and I was pitching/peering down to make sure my assigned pad was clear, NPC bugs and all.
Naturally I am scraping the toast rack.
I suddenly notice a message on my coms:
"LOL Cutter can't fly"
Oh my!
How rude!
Since I was sort of busy at the time, I didn'tdump donate 760t of biowaste to the Cmdr in question...
Flash forward to today, and I see him flying in open, at Ray Gateway.
Then I see this thread.
So I immediately jumped in my FGS and sent him a friend request!
"o7 hoping for a flying lesson"
I still wait with bated breath...
Where are you Cmdr?
A couple of weeks ago I was pulling into Ray Gateway with a full Cutter, and I was pitching/peering down to make sure my assigned pad was clear, NPC bugs and all.
Naturally I am scraping the toast rack.
I suddenly notice a message on my coms:
"LOL Cutter can't fly"
Oh my!
How rude!
Since I was sort of busy at the time, I didn't
Flash forward to today, and I see him flying in open, at Ray Gateway.
Then I see this thread.
So I immediately jumped in my FGS and sent him a friend request!
"o7 hoping for a flying lesson"
I still wait with bated breath...
Where are you Cmdr?
Bob Lighthouse
Banned
An Olive branch can of course also be used as a weapon
Not a very effective one though.
My olive branch says "Expanded Capture Arc".
It's like in the life, it's better to have 1 or 2 reliable friends than a big list of phone numbers
The quality before the quantity
Indeed compadre.
What prevents you from having both?
Never push a potential ally away, you never know what skill they may one day bring to bear in your hour of need.
Plus one day they might be your boss
Bob Lighthouse
Banned
I recall a poem where the speaker goes on and on about how he's successfully culled from his life, all the idiots, ne'er do wells and those of lesser qualities than himself.
He then laughs, to himself, about how they all must be gathered at some banal event, while he sits at home smug and snug as a bug.
They're probably all eating some terrible food and listening to equally poor music, all while grinning like the fools they are!
Good riddance!
He then laughs, to himself, about how they all must be gathered at some banal event, while he sits at home smug and snug as a bug.
They're probably all eating some terrible food and listening to equally poor music, all while grinning like the fools they are!
Good riddance!
What prevents you from having both?
Never push a potential ally away, you never know what skill they may one day bring to bear in your hour of need.
Plus one day they might be your boss
It's also true
The first circle, then the second circle and finally the third
Bob Lighthouse
Banned
It's also true
The first circle, then the second circle and finally the third
Sounds like Dante.
I'm going to tell you a story.
Just over 11 years ago my wife & I overnighted at the Savoy in London, we were in a suite on the 8th floor & I wanted a cigarette. Naturally, I had to go outside for this, and so I found myself standing in not much more than a pair of tracksuit bottoms & a t-shirt on the Strand in the middle of the night. After a few minutes of looking around I realised people were avoiding me, In ED speak I was the highest threat around. It didn't make me feel better about myself.
A couple of weeks ago I left the Frontier party in Cologne at about 1am, facing a half-hour walk through the middle of a Nottingham sized city centre, through unknown streets in an unknown city that spoke an unfamiliar language. I had to use google maps on my phone to navigate my way back to my hotel, it's screen illuminating my face as a shining beacon to any nefarious opportunist.
Aware of potential threats I walked with a purpose, making eye contact & nodding to the few other pedestrians I passed and keeping myself situationally aware. I was sober but tired and in no state to fight or even run.
But once again I realised people were avoiding me, I was the highest threat around and while I was relieved to avoid the wrong kind of attention, it didn't make me feel better about myself.
So I try to be nice. I make no claims of being a sociable person, but I try to be at the very least the kind of person people wouldn't cross the road to avoid. Mostly I'm happy to be left alone to do my own thing, to make wherever I am be a little safer simply because I am there. Strangers don't know me and to them I am a potential threat. I'm happy to consider anyone that has taken the time to check that I am not, a friend.
Just over 11 years ago my wife & I overnighted at the Savoy in London, we were in a suite on the 8th floor & I wanted a cigarette. Naturally, I had to go outside for this, and so I found myself standing in not much more than a pair of tracksuit bottoms & a t-shirt on the Strand in the middle of the night. After a few minutes of looking around I realised people were avoiding me, In ED speak I was the highest threat around. It didn't make me feel better about myself.
A couple of weeks ago I left the Frontier party in Cologne at about 1am, facing a half-hour walk through the middle of a Nottingham sized city centre, through unknown streets in an unknown city that spoke an unfamiliar language. I had to use google maps on my phone to navigate my way back to my hotel, it's screen illuminating my face as a shining beacon to any nefarious opportunist.
Aware of potential threats I walked with a purpose, making eye contact & nodding to the few other pedestrians I passed and keeping myself situationally aware. I was sober but tired and in no state to fight or even run.
But once again I realised people were avoiding me, I was the highest threat around and while I was relieved to avoid the wrong kind of attention, it didn't make me feel better about myself.
So I try to be nice. I make no claims of being a sociable person, but I try to be at the very least the kind of person people wouldn't cross the road to avoid. Mostly I'm happy to be left alone to do my own thing, to make wherever I am be a little safer simply because I am there. Strangers don't know me and to them I am a potential threat. I'm happy to consider anyone that has taken the time to check that I am not, a friend.
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Repped a few ta be nice ( and they made good points , not just to confirm my bias , dont'cha know but dont really see the point in 'friends' in this ol' forum .
but dont really see the point in 'friends' in this ol' forum .