What's the deal with people in a local forum wanting to meet up frequently?

Romulation meet-up is going to be real tricky tho~

bhatooth@Kamageromulation meet ups ayehey i noticed many of the active forum posters are from the philippines...

Only because we're only on when other people in the Philippines are on. Obviously :P

hmm.... never thought of that

Cahos Rahne VelozaI just don't get it? ???Besides RomUlation I frequent a local games discussion forum & about a third of the things people discuss is/are an EB, or Eyeball in short which is slang for a get together, either in general (GEB) where everyone on the forum meet up in a planned event with activities as well. Or mini group EBs involving a few people. I know it'd be cool to personally get to know people in a forum, like here at RomUlation, but in my time spent here I seem to have acquired the taste for annonymity (sorry if I got that wrong), sure we talk about alot of stuff here but we still have private lives we keep to ourselves.It's getting to be annoying because there were already three EBs I didn't attend because I just plain didn't want to & everyone's getting this idea that I'm either a snob or worse a poser. Isn't sharing our oppinions, ideas &/or interests enough to say we belong in a group or community?

Maybe it's your fear of getting robbed by complete strangers...i can understand why you won't attend these "EBs"....we can only truly know a person by actually meeting them and spending time with them...so forum members meeting up just brings up that initial awkwardness in all of us...and oh, the fear of getting robbed and drugged too :D