Sailing with my Crew
August 6, 2020 5:34 am Leave your thoughts
Sea of Thieves
Again, like all these types of posts, if you are not a gamer…it still stands. Just stop yer bitchn and read.
Ever meet a bunch of people you get along with, laugh until you cry with, have stuff in common, talk to each other every day but…you don’t know their names?
Welcome to gaming.
Oh, how times have changed, people used to answer their phone not knowing who was calling, people dated someone they met IRL first. Sometimes people wrote each other letters!
There have been many arguments about whether online relationships/friendships etc are harmful and there was probably a time where the majority of them were…but now that everything has moved online more or less, it’s like everyday life for some. I have made lifelong friends online, some of which moved to my city, because why not? I met (who I thought) was my forever person online, I’ve helped people by listening to their woes/reading their problems and giving advice or a listening ear and just messed around too.
I have a good gaming crew right now. I wanted to write about it because it’s funny how much you can appreciate people you have never met physically. It drives questions about what a relationship or friendship is. Do I realllly need to be able to hug my friend to be a good one? I think the answer is human touch and physicality is a nice addition(especially if you are in a “romantic relationship” 😉 eeeyyyy ) but the majority of friendship seems to need interaction, things in common, activities to do together and being available when your friend needs you. I would love to have dinner with my crew, visit their countries and party (thanks to corona boogeyman restrictions we can’t even do that if we were all in a position to meet up) but what we have now is awesome as is.
We buy each other games, talk about doing karaoke parties online and we send each other memes while bored at work. We also help each other out with life’s shittiness. From a sick grandparent to breakups, we are there for each other with advice, commiseration, and also humour and distraction – all without having to wear pants. So how did I land this current gaming fam? It doesn’t always happen. Sometimes you meet good players who are skilled at the game or tactics…but not necessarily on how to be a decent person.
When you meet another good person online in a game – it makes everything more funnnn. When you meet two and the dynamics mean you all get along – even better…when you are rolling with three others people who are awesome, it is a miracle. At the moment I have a core group of 4 but there are three more people who play with us too sometimes and we all get along.
I was playing Overwatch around Christmas 2019 when I met a smurf. (A smurf is someone who is a high rank and really good but creates another account and looks like they are a n00b.) She was telling the team it was only her 2nd time playing, she was worried she wouldn’t do well. I told her to have fun and do her best, it’s not serious. At the end when she’d beaten my score, I messaged her and said…she was really good and “…I think you’re a liar :P” And she told me the truth.
Our ship captain took a bathroom break. He came back to this. One of the girls souped-up her character onshore. I could not stop laughing.
She was definitely not a new player. She’d been playing the game longer than I had.
Through her, I met her boyfriend and later when they went their separate ways, he and I were still playing together along with a few of his friends too. Add a few others we met online, and I had myself a crew of different nationalities, ages and genders that could sail the 7 seas and make dick jokes. I can say I’ve slaughtered beasts and robots with my friends, laughed until I’ve cried and woken up hoping they have a good day.
Lately we’re toiling on the game Sea of Thieves…sailing a ship on rough seas. *tip: if you have the graphics settings up high, it’s amazing watching out for Krakens, other pirates and storms…until someone tries blasting you with their cannonballs. The game requires someone to steer the ship, others to manoeuvre sails according to the wind, repair hulls and fight skeletons before you stop off at islands and buy things, discover treasure and meet mermaids. I’ve been exposed to a lot of different types of games the last year that I normally wouldn’t try, and this one surprised me. It’s pretty cool. I’m not sure how good it would be with people you don’t know, but grab a few fellow gamers you know and try it…
Create some memories,
You’re probably stuck at home anyway, right?
Work on your communication!
TLDR:
*Relationships with people online are very similar to those in real life, if you try. You cannot fake being a good person online either.
*My current crew is rad.
*Sea of Thieves is pretty good even if you just want to watch the waves and hope you don’t blow your crew up …again. :\
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