I bet everyone here has a ton of these. I have a large abandoned footprint in several spaces, especially when engaged in projects. Like on YT, search is garbage, but I posted the only reference available for several tasks and projects.

Heck, I have never been able to find it again, but back in the first year of YouTube I posted a few times about clay prototyping and fiberglass composites for custom auto body parts. That was long long before people were doing tutorial like content. It took forever to upload that potato quality junk too.

I remove people if they haven't been online in over 2 years. Clearly they have moved on.

I don't know anyone who talks like that...

Funny story though I randomly responded to a text received 4 years ago

God that hit like a truck

I know someone who killed themself, his mum logged into his account to tell me as she remembered him saying my name quite a bit. That was not a conversation I was prepared for.

a close friend of mine from highschool died of cancer.

last online 9 years ago, i miss those dota matches with him.

I remember reading about something along those lines a few years ago.

When we were kids running around with our childhood friends every summer, we thought it would never end, that we would be and stay friends forever.

Then one day, we run home, wave goodbye and say 'see you later!' ..... and without us knowing, or being aware of it, that was the last time we saw our childhood friend.

We might have lived next to one another, or went to the same high school later on or even went to the same college ... we never saw our friend again.

We never knew and we were never aware of when we said goodbye or saw our friend for the last time.

I think about my old childhood friends ... I'm middle aged now ... some of those friends died young, some got married and had a bunch of kids ... a few had hard lives and became addicts ... one of them is a vegetable after having suffered an overdose ... and many of them just went on and had small families and did OK.

You’ll probably never know when they die :(

I befriended someone online through a video game and we became steam friends. We talked a lot about the game, but also non game topics. When one of us went AFK for awhile the other would check in and ask what was new in life. We wished each other happy birthday and holidays. One time I mentioned to him that my spouse would inform him if something unexpected happened to me, like I got hit by a bus or something. And I asked him to do the same because I would wonder forever. He wasn't comfortable with it. But that guy is still my buddy IMO even though I don't know his real name.

I run an online D&D game with people I don't know IRL, and I just kinda accept that one day I'm probably going to have a heart attack and disappear, and that's okay.

I used to have a small crew that I would play Left For Dead 1 and 2 on Xbox with. We would all get on mics and get drunk and/or high the whole time. When random people hopped in to play humans vs zombies matches, we would hype them and welcome them. Always tried to be the group that didn’t deter players or talk shit. Had a lot of fun sessions that would go to 3 or 4 AM. I haven’t seen them online in ages.

The world finds new ways to teach every generation the lesson of impermanence.

Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.

Man that stings more than stepping on a thumbtack

I'm missing global chat in coc