Another great post - and this is fast becoming a favourite forum of mine and gives me the urge to ressurect my deadie [pun] on Defias and get him levelling.
On the topic at hand - yes I feel it as well.
I have made great female friends through
UO and enjoy their online company and in a few very rare cases their real life company over lunch or around a fire in a garden.
I have been a confidant [sic?] of many players and heard sob stories, horror stories and love stories. Tried to talk a player out of suicide - succeeded - and taken on board a whole raft of other people's concerns.
And you know what?
It helps put one's own problems in perspective and gives one a distance from the utter banality of one's own problems compared to the plight of others.
Thank you for this post and you never know - if I am not going to get kicked in by Pala and Snub I might post my own "Confessions of a
UO Addict" as a homage to these posts.
Cheers