-Once on an RP site I was in an IRC (predecessor to discord) chat frequently with a lot of the other users. Our RPs were sports themed so we would mention our favorite teams, which sometimes indicated where in the world we were, and then would branch off to have side conversations about musicals and stuff. I met a couple good friends in there through private chats and wound up trying to meet them when I was in the area.
-On another board game site a lot of us played games together asynchronously over forums, then in real-time on voice chat. That was a site that skewed older so we were more inclined to use real names, and then some of them would meet up at large board game conventions. Later they/we set up smaller game conventions just for this online group so eventually I travelled to meet some of them.
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Date: June 23rd, 2019 02:56 am (UTC)-On another board game site a lot of us played games together asynchronously over forums, then in real-time on voice chat. That was a site that skewed older so we were more inclined to use real names, and then some of them would meet up at large board game conventions. Later they/we set up smaller game conventions just for this online group so eventually I travelled to meet some of them.