Curse

Don Zardeone · Mar 11, 2011, 07:33 AM // 07:33

So I'm in the process of replacing all the gray names in my friendslist with new bright yellow ones.

At some point, we all do it. And at some point, someone did it to us.

Are we but names in a list? Organic machines, handling electronic machines to move our digital selves through quests and missions?
hm

Deleting is easy. All it takes is a few clicks. And gone is a word we used to call friend.
A something we fought side by side with, or against. A word that, if it were to light up, would be able to reminiscent about good times, old times.
But that friend is of no use to us gray.

Is that what friends are? Things that are of use to us?
No. If I could, I would save them all.

Please for adding an offline friendslist in a .txt, kthnx!

Mercury Angel · Mar 11, 2011, 07:41 AM // 07:41

Take a screenshot of your friends list.

Or, buy a copy of Prophecies or Factions for $5 USD (new) when they're on sale. Add all of the removed names to your second account. Have the second account logged into a low-demand area constantly.
You get 6 mule characters and another pane of storage in the process.
Edit: You could also setup a macro to notify you when the status of one of your friends changes. If packet sniffing and RAM monitoring aren't feasible, you can always play the game windowed and use pixel detection.

In practice, I've found that if I don't speak to someone I met in-game for months to years at a time, even when they DO log in, I usually don't remember them enough to care.

I got a PM from one of them asking how I knew them, since I was on their friends list too. I couldn't say. Then the conversation ended.

Don Zardeone · Mar 11, 2011, 08:02 AM // 08:02

Man, I was trying to be deep and stuff and then you come and fix things with logic :/

jk,

Mercury Angel · Mar 11, 2011, 08:36 AM // 08:36

Oh, okay.

A forgotten name is lost. Lost into a sea of 0s.
Once a friend, you are now naught but a faint neural imprint. Fading... Fading...

Once upon a time, I too was someone's friend.
And, like you, I've since been lost. Deleted. Empty. Replaced...
Replaced...

*Beatnik finger snaps*

Snograt · Mar 11, 2011, 03:00 PM // 15:00

You, sir, win two internets for that.

Also: hi MA - your visits are getting more and more infrequent

Zahr Dalsk · Mar 11, 2011, 11:31 PM // 23:31

Haw. I logged into one of my spare one-campaign accounts and checked my list of dudes.

Absolutely nobody online.

So I just left 'em there.

Black Metal · Mar 12, 2011, 12:17 AM // 00:17

yeah it is kinda sad the people I used to have a lot of fun playing with. Many of them doubly went away - both never online, and in old alliances since disbanded.

I like how it is in Steam -- even if they aren't playing the same game at the same time, you know if they are on.

Rocky Raccoon · Mar 12, 2011, 01:39 AM // 01:39

Although I consider myself an pessimist, I don't delete my friend's list: what I used to consider friends and foes are on that list. Just to have contact from someone in the past would be fun.

Divinitys Creature · Mar 14, 2011, 02:17 PM // 14:17

If you forget who someone is on your friends list - you have the ideal opportunity to strike up a conversation and be friends again IMHO. Also I'm proud to say no-one is on my ignore list. whenever someone was a douche they always apologised.

Red Apple · Mar 15, 2011, 05:58 AM // 05:58

OH GOD, I feel awful now.
In the same matter, I stalk my online "friends" using the gw2 HoM calculator.
I find it kinky.

Junato · Mar 16, 2011, 02:13 AM // 02:13

I am losing interest in GW because I just got an Xbox