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We all know how tough life has been recently. We all know how tough life can be even without Covid. A significant part of the world population has no one to talk meaningfully with at all. I've always thought that was a contributing factor as to why online communities like this form. If anyone at all, for any reason and at any time, wants or needs to talk, please reach out. I'd love to catch up with anyone or just talk about what's on your mind. I rarely if ever login here, but you can always reach me at my Steam (a lot of you are already on there): https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198025731323/, or at my email, bfkolle@gmail.com.

Hock22 wrote:

We all know how tough life has been recently. We all know how tough life can be even without Covid. A significant part of the world population has no one to talk meaningfully with at all. I've always thought that was a contributing factor as to why online communities like this form. If anyone at all, for any reason and at any time, wants or needs to talk, please reach out. I'd love to catch up with anyone or just talk about what's on your mind. I rarely if ever login here, but you can always reach me at my Steam (a lot of you are already on there): https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198025731323/, or at my email, bfkolle@gmail.com.

Oh so that was you

I had you in my friends list but I had no idea how that was

Man, it’s crazy to see how everyone here has matured over the years.

Kia1ga wrote:

Been a long while since I've talked to any of y'all, but it's Kialga. I'll keep this brief and be out of your hair again soon enough.

I just got home from visiting with GROSS' parents at their behest. We spent about four hours sitting and talking over memories and everything, it's been a rough time for everyone. The topic of NationStates came up and we talked about his involvement in the game and how much he enjoyed it. I made mention of Luso coming back to alert you all, admittedly before I even thought about talking to NS people about. His mom asked me to pop in and thank you all for being a part of his life, no matter what way it was. She said that he would talk about so many people, even the ones he got to know away from the screen here and actually in the real world. She's happy that he did and remembers the impression you all left on him. So from his parents I bring a thank you all for being a part of GROSS' life. And if anyone needs someone to talk to, I'm always around.

Hey Kialga,

Well, I'm one of those person that he knew through NS, and then later in real life, specifically when he was doing his exchange in Berlin while I did my 1st year of master's there as well. We even backpacked together once in Germany before the pandemic hit. (We went to Leipzig, to visit some friends of mine whom I knew from my exchange in Lisbon)

I still remember when he would talk about wanting to backpack other cities in Germany, specifically Dresden, the German Baltic Sea Coast and hiking in the wild near the Czech-German border. We've also visited one of the larger Christmas markets in Berlin (I think me mentioned to his dad where it is, if any of his family members asked, tell them it's in Spandau Christmas Market), and that's where he got the candle holder that looks like a traditional German house, (I was the one that told him to go for that one in particular cause I thought it looked the best, which he agreed) which I saw his siblings cherish in their Christmas post.

I remembered the memories of me just hanging out countless at his place, and we would just talk about our dreams and plans. I would usually leave pretty late and more often than not miss the bus that would bring me home. I've even went to his place once to cook Chinese New Year dinner for him and his flatmates. (I think he told his family about that as well) Hilariously enough he was saying that he's going to miss me cooking Chinese New Year meals once he left Berlin, and was asking me for the recipes for how to cook the dishes that was served that night.

While there's nothing I can do to change the past, I would feel like he would want us to cherish our experiences with him when we're with him, so that's what I'm doing right now. I've never wrote on a real tribute on Facebook because I wasn't ready for it, as I got the bad news while I was in the middle of work, but I feel like I'm finally ready to face reality now. Just as I've touched his life, he also touched mine as well. So yeah, I guess this is my tribute to him, even if it is short, it is pretty intense, and I do not regret any of our interactions while I met him.

*Feel free to share this to his family if you ever see them anytime soon, I don't mind.

Hock22 wrote:

Never let go of your inner child :)

Agreed

Lesson 1 of NS...

never CTE

It’s amazing how quickly you stop being an anarchist once you get a job.

Pearl jam society wrote:

It’s amazing how quickly you stop being an anarchist once you get a job.

I didn't know one could develop a taste for leather that fast.

I was a bootlicker, then I joined the army, and after seeing what it's like on this side I can definitively say cops are literally just bad at their jobs and entirely disconnected from the society they patrol.

For the record I specifically became disinterested in politics because the world doesn’t need yet another transgender communist to deal with.

Ravenstva wrote:

I almost never talk about politics to people, whether that be family, friends or someone I'm dating - regardless if their beliefs align with mine or not.
Only exception would be my dad while we're drunk or something.

>dating
oh? raven’s getting tail? 👀

Pearl jam society wrote:

For the record I specifically became disinterested in politics because the world doesn’t need yet another transgender communist to deal with.

Sounds like defeatism, tbqh

Cekan wrote:

Stability, predictability, and procedure aren’t that bad after all, huh?

The system actually works pretty well now that I’m in it. Who would’ve thought.

Midland South States wrote:

Sounds like defeatism, tbqh

There is no ideology for me but the lessons of Christ. 🙏