You're out in public and you notice a nearby stranger is browsing ResetEra...

[Teh_Lurv]

Whenever I find myself in a long checkout line, sitting in a waiting room, etc, I usually will pull out my phone to casually check up on the current threads going on in this forum. I assume this is a common practice among posters here, which got me thinking over time what I would do if I happened to bump into a random person who was also browsing ResetEra, or if someone noticed that I was browsing this forum while doing my daily errands.

I was wondering has this scenario ever happened to anyone here? Is there a secret IRL handshake members need to know?

 

[CherryWoodFuton]

I don't want to meet you weirdos in public

Spoiler

Ok maybe just NBA Era members

 

[The Albatross]

"would you care to join me for a $30 Italian meal...?"

and walk away briskly

 

[PlanetSmasher]

I rarely, if ever, engage random strangers in conversation like that. I don't think there's any way to bring up "I recognize that video game forum" in casual conversation with a stranger without coming off like a total psycho.

 

[hobblygobbly]

i honestly do not think i would get along with the majority of people on this forum

i think i would end up punching an era person in the face sooner or later… joking, maybe

actually come to think of it we seem to have a ton of german members and being german myself i feel like this is inevitable i will meet one

 

[Royalan]

Happened to me within the first month we opened actually.

Person wasn't a member though.

 

[MazeHaze]

I ridicule them for using light theme

 

[Ashes of Dreams]

Depends entirely on if they're using light or dark mode.

edit:

I ridicule them for using light theme

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fuck

 

[secretanchitman]

The exact opposite happened to me back while I was at EVO 2016 - someone recognized that I was viewing GAF while waiting in line to buy merch. I wonder if he still posts here?!

 

[Deleted member 5876]

You all are a bunch of weirdos so I would avoid.

 

[nsilvias]

i walk up to them and say what a bunch of weirdos those people are

 

[Euron]

I'm always afraid of this on the subway. I don't want one of you weirdos asking me about the Nintendo Direct thread in an enclosed space.

 

[Dust]

I furiously wink at the person.

 

[TaySan]

I would be too shy to approach them. Better to just mind my own business

 

[FeenixRisen]

ITT: Weirdos calling other people weirdos.

 

[Cenauru]

I already don't just start talking to others even if I see that we have extremely similar interests, sooo yeah no, especially with how big ERA is, it could be anyone, or worse, the people who hate-browse it.

 

[adj_noun]

 

[Rosebud]

A complete stranger? nothing

Someone I casually know? I bring it up

 

[Xando]

 

[The Unsent]

Just a cool nod, acknowledging a fellow member.

 

[19thCenturyFox]

I only interact with other Resetera Gold members. An alert pops up on my phone through the Resetera Gold app, we do our secret handshake, we hail satan and go our ways as countless generations of Resetera Gold members have done before us.

 

[Crossing Eden]

I don't think there's any way to bring up "I recognize that video game forum" in casual conversation with a stranger without coming off like a total psycho.

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☝️

 

[Triggerhappytel]

I wouldn't strike up a conversation with a stranger over it.

Although I do have some random DVDs of Thor 2: The Dark World in my backpack, so I picked option 5!

 

[Mammoth Jones]

Saw a guy browsing era on the train once.

I changed cars at the next stop….

 

[Solid SOAP]

"You're seriously not using dark mode?"

 

[Xun]

I saw someone on Era when I was waiting for a Tube train once, but I never spoke to them.

I'm sure they were a member, but who knows?

 

[Princess Viola]

Avoid contact with them at all costs.

 

[Nepenthe]

I've never come across a stranger in real life who knows of ResetEra or was browsing it.

I hope it stays that way.

Forever.

 

[Saladin]

Bruv, why are you looking at their phone in the first place?

 

[Pringer Lagann]

I walk away, life is too short for that ish

 

[mbpm]

I once saw fat4all in line browsing era, but when I tried to talk to him, he just kept saying "huh?" while munching on his hot Cheetos brand dog kibble.

 

[WhateverItTakes]

I'd only approach if they're using the dark theme and 100ppp, then I know they're the elite

 

[BasilZero]

Avoid contact with them at all costs.

Click to shrink...

.

 

[Lamiafusion]

I'd slap them in the face screaming "I'm Fat4All and you just got dawged down!" while running away

 

[Swiggins]

The Narwhal Bacons at Midnight

I like your shoelaces

 

[cyba89]

I approach them with the secret ERA handshake

 

[YaBish]

I saw somebody at a concert once browsing the old site. I don't think they were a member though.

 

[El Bombastico]

I can barely stand most of yall just looking at a screen. You REALLY think I want to meet any of you IRL?

 

[El Bombastico]

Happened to me within the first month we opened actually.

Person wasn't a member though.

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[cyress8]

Maybe some small talk about it. Weird people even think it is a bad thing to be a member of Resetera. Nothing written on this board is way out of line of other boards besides being hard on people being pieces of shit.

I would be embarrassed to view or say I was a member of 4chan way before this place.

 

[Slayven]

I've never come across a stranger in real life who knows of ResetEra or was browsing it.

I hope it stays that way.

Forever.

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You want to share a lunch at the Varisty with a Era member?

 

[Biosnake]

I do a Citizens arrest on that person.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

I don't want to meet you weirdos in public

Spoiler

Ok maybe just NBA Era members

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:)

 

[Sirhc]

Happened to me within the first month we opened actually.

Person wasn't a member though.

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I can assume how that went since you are still here...what did you do with the body?

 

[Dodongo]

Back away slowly. I already know y'all piss in the sink.

 

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

Invite them to a long session of hot, dirty morbing

 

[mbpm]

Alternatively I ask if they'd be interested in joining the ResetEra house that I'm making for all Era members to live in and will surely be a utopia

 

[wwm0nkey]

Happened when I went to the Fire Emblem fest in Japan, just decided to mind my own business lmao

 

[Eugene's Axe]

I'd hope my very presence wouldn't offend them.

 

[astro]

Happened to me within the first month we opened actually.

Person wasn't a member though.

Click to shrink...

I hope you didn't lower yourself by speaking with a *shudders* lurker.