Am looking for friends!

@dboing said in #20:
> My nephew, a fan of Roblox, let me in on their lingo. "Don't touch grass". A euphemism for never going outside, so little chance they might ever touch the grass, indeed.
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> (Roblox has a nice feature though, for addictive behavior, they use the goals or hooks of their games, to teach the player to learn some patience, it is fun looking at my nephew pacing around, as wanting so much the gizmo tool reward for playing further, Nah, kidding I am. I think it might end up in some self-awareness later).
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> One might have a whole life to make friends, and I am not sure it has to be quantity like online social behavior might have it or appear to be about it, but the quality. It takes time sometimes to find such friends. And online is not where to find those first. I don't think so, I mean as models of friendship experience...
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> Might want to at least go look at the grass, or other greenery that people like to hand out, when on vacation from their screen. , I have mostly concrete and asphalt left to look at in my walking universe. The rent is cheaper in places like that. And other reasons not to touch the grass. But I have had less of those younger. from my older age (well I guess it might be just old age, relative to Roblox demographics), and that is where one gets to meet people. Chess club? never did that. But I did have friendly games with the same few people for along periods, but it was not the friendship starter. More another common interest.
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> I hope I am giving constructive advice. But we all have our lonesome to carry through life and I might have a quirky view about such things. So, perhaps be patient, life is just beginning for you, not? sort of?
okay roblox i do play that but am grounded i play rec room an that's fun but nobody has my interests

@Chessking1015056 said in #16:
> I DON"TTOUCH GRASS naw jking
are you allergic to grass or something??
because if your not allergic and you go out side then how can you not touch grass??

@Robochessyodha said in #22:
> are you allergic to grass or something??
> because if your not allergic and you go out side then how can you not touch grass??
do you no what jk means?

The onternet is a big place, and there are generations of lingo. Texto is a foreign language to me (and torture contraptions for typing also). Because I learned to write with pen or pencil and papers (and now would have cramps trying so).

10 finger keyboards do not pressure into such vowel omission as jk for joke. And people coming to forum, many threads and many posts might use fast reading techniques (conscious or not), and would miss, such tiny 2D real estate and signal as jk compared to the jk.

but it might be more generational. you op can be taken as concerning to some empathic adults or older people. So you might get responses not of your age range, and they would not have the same lingo common sense as yours. It might not be generational but worldwide and across native languages here as well.

I am sorry for not being able to myself find the proper words. But, you might allow some fallibility among each other, for better communication, at least here. Also such "error is only human" attitude might help with your chess as well (but that is subversive talk!). joking! exponentially so... Pause. I mean good atmosphere and buffer for intent fog of online communication is a beneficial synergistic attitude.. In the tradition of "what goes around comes around" (I would not make it a prime directive, though, just a possible factor).

And to @Robochessyodha: "Touch grass", is young generation video game jargon and concept. Not really about the vegetal being used in such analogy/metaphor/understatement/euphemism/allegory/imagery. Sorry if you are not an older person as I assumed, we tend to project ourselves into others minimal expressions over the onternet.

Stay off my grass or I'll call the cops! - :]

@Skittle-Head said in #25:
> Stay off my grass or I'll call the cops! - :]
well then you stay off mine!
actually you know what? I don't care its not like I use it anyway ;)

If MrPushnwood had posted this, it would have three thumbs up, six laughs, and two Horseys by now.(Thats a compliment) Really...I thought to myself 'what would MrPushwood say?' - It's an old man thing. - :]

Is this even used to make friends anymore or just out of context talking?

I think there might be some generational split in language and perspectives. I might have misinterpreted the op. That is the problem with minimalist posts, and big internet. And lichess having chess in common, might make a lot of different crowds navigating the off-topic waters. I am sorry to have put my hand in the cogs here...

"touch grass" is kind of a cross-generational or age group (?) likely tangential fly off the handle language.

Friends found naturally have a higher chance of being the correct ones, than those found through a request.