Gamingforce Bleedover

For those of you that have any disparity between real life and gamingforce personalities, do you see any of your forum personality creeping into your real life?

I just got confronted last night by my best friend about how when I'm active on Gamingforce, I'm generally more bitter and prone to bouts of biting sarcasm (as opposed to my typical normal sarcasm). Apparently those around me have complained to her about it, as well, and when my brother first found out I was back at Gamingforce, he called her up just to tell her. Sound the alarm, or whatever.

(this is part of why I'd like Gamingforce to be a nicer place, but whaddyagonnado)

Nah. What I am on GFF is pretty much what I am in real life. The only difference is that I am a bit more outgoing and more confident in real life than on here. I would say there is very little that has spread from GFF to real life. The only thing that has really happened is the amount of times I mention this forums or use peoples advice on GFF to help other people in my real life.

I think I'm more myself on Gamingforce than in real life. I expand that sarcastic side of myself a bit more than I usually allow myself. Let go of some of the control barrier things that I put up. Whether that's a good or a bad thing is something entirely different. :/

I certainly hate on Sony more rabidly on GFF, because I get enjoyment out of how much it pisses some people off. Other than that, I'm pretty much the same way in real life, albeit more social on the film front among my circle of friends.

And here I thought this was going to be a thread about if you'd be willing to earn your Red Wings.

I think I act pretty similar on the forums as in person, though I tend to be a little more willing to use offensive humor here than in person. I mean, I can't imagine using "nigger stole my bike" or any of those kinds of things with my normal friends. It probably wouldn't wind up with good results.

Vivi is cooler IRL, actually.

The one bleedover I've really noticed is just that I laugh more easily and my sense of humor is honestly better since joining GFF. I've used phrases such as 'GET OUT' or 8.8 IRL but not very often.

I think there is somewhat of a disparity between my online persona and how I am IRL. I mean, I play up my personality somewhat around Skills just for LOLs but with most people I really don't play the 'musical elitist' card in the same way I do on the forums or in Chat. Also, the language I use is MUCH less strong.

I mean, some of the musical stupidity is still there. I CRINGE when notes are out of tune and I analyse pop tunes for fun just so that I can have a factual basis for saying they suck.

Overall, I think that I come over as a 'small person' on the internet. i.e. 5'8" 140lbs weakling / pesty annoying little guy on the internet (so what Skills is IRL) but in reality I am a large individual with a big personality.

One other bleedover is that I can be the brunt of a joke more often then not. The only difference is that in real life, I can actually sit on or otherwise abuse the offender in quesion.

I'm a lot nicer here on GFF than in real life. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good english student, so usually when I think of things it's hard for me to put it into words, which would ultimately make me sounds like an idiot when trying to insult someone....kind of like how I sound like an idiot now...
If I were to get into an arguement face to face with someone, I'd fare a lot better than in one over the internet.

I'd shoot myself if my GFF personality got fused into my real life, and lots of other people would probably shoot me too. I have no problem getting along with people IRL, and I make friends easily with all different types of people, but here... I dunno. I try to be as much myself here as I am outside of the internet, but it just doesn't come across the same, it comes across pretty badly - I can tell and so can everyone else, obviously. So yeah, I don't think there's any "bleedover" one direction or the other, for me.

Originally Posted by rocketdog

What is real life?

Come on rocketdog, you have a real life.... right?

I'm generally the same in real life and on the forums. I tend to only keep a few people close and they manage to learn more about me than what I generally show to the public. I suppose the only noticeable difference is that I joke around a lot more in person.

I'm pretty much the same online and off. However, GFF has caused several phrases to leak into my common vocabulary. Most notably is the usage of "FAIL" and fail related phrases. My brother is probably ready to thwack me after a couple weeks of dealing with that.

I'm not here enough to have bleedover. Well, I take that back. I've often used particularly good gamingforce topics when trying to start up a conversation in real life. There is another forum that I go to that has really changed my lifestyle though, just because they people on it live in my city. Once I got to know them online, we started to hang out, and now my peer group is very different.

No, so far I have been successfully able to differ between "Gamingforce Interactive Forums" and real lyfe~

The day I notice that GFF starts to influence my life, I should quit, I guess. (the boards, not my life)

I think I'm the same, but I'm probably less outspoken in real life... but I'm my usual happy-go-lucky non-confrontational-but-ninjanesque awesome ridiculous fun-loving self. Probably the fact that I know less gamers in means the topics I discuss in real life are different, but that's about it. I may be a bit more sarcastic here though, but I'm more sarcastic with my real-life friends online too.

My friends know my interests (sup anime, manga, lots and lots of music) but often can't relate to those (other than sports video games), so that's why I'm here, sort of an outlet I guess... wheee tangent.

But as for a Gamingforce bleedover... I don't really have one. If anything, I have a real life bleedover into here, since I tend to throw in some of the jokes and stuff from my friends around in here sometimes. The nerd in me does come out on occasion, which I tend to control more in real life than here in Gamingforce, of course. ^^ But the source of that nerd is more from my field than from something online.

It's more like what I portray online is what I am irl. IRL I'm much more aggressive and blunt, saying what's on my mind and at times cursing like a sailor around my roommates. I think because I'm lazy to type everything I usually say, I don't show much personality around here.

I tend to act more mature and speak more eloquently when I'm on GFF. Most of the old GFF'ers and experienced forum folk tend to be smarter than the people I know IRL. 0_o Probably nobody from GFF would think I was who I was online if you knew me in real life.

Hmm... My real life self bleeds into my internet self really. It'll just spill all over the journals. xD

But like in manner of posting and allowing yourself be known to others, its not the same. Maybe it is... but it really depends on the eye of the beholder.

IRL I come off as brash, strict, no nonsense, quick to the point, and generally polite and nice to whomever I wish to at work. At home though, I totally fuck around. I let loose silliness, relaxed attitude, and confused. Often confused.

And here on the internet, I finally get the chance to fully use my brainwaves for putting some words together a consicous thought string. I couldn't write fast enough to catch up with my thoughts like my typing do. So hence my journals got the brunt of most of my thoughts in freeform.

So there's no GFF bleedover in my life really. I WISH though... it would be NICE for a change for myself to be able to explain myself better to people irl. But then again... rereading words on screen vs verbal sounds to memory isn't even half of the battle. I have to be a better writer or speaker.

The person I am on gamingforce is who I am everysingle day of my life. No alterations, no nothing. I'm not exciting enough to be like that.