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  • Dad Meets Gamer Buddy For First Time After Seven Years Playing Together

    Dad Meets Gamer Buddy For First Time After Seven Years Playing Together

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    Meeting people online is part modern society. Friendships can often migrate into real-life, but for these two gamer buddies, they kept their strictly via Xbox for seven years.

    Addey Bartlett, from Hawaii, captured the beautiful moment her dad met up with his Xbox friend for the first time after seven years of bonding through gaming.

    The photos of the pair went viral on Twitter, with lots of other people speaking out about their new-age gaming friendship tales.

    Speaking to UNILAD, Addey said:

    So basically, my dad has been playing Xbox for years. Like since it came out. My mom has been on him about quitting gaming and literally could not stand it.

    We always made fun of him that his only friends are from Xbox. My dad and his Xbox friends literally know each other’s life stories, occupation… they’re like real friends.

    My dad always talked about wanted to meet his friends in person and we always have him so much grief making fun of him!

    That was about two years ago, and it wasn’t really talked about. Then one of his Xbox friends he’s been playing with for the past seven or eight years was coming to Portland for business and wanted to meet up with him!

    At first I was like no that’s literally weird, because he invited my siblings and I to go with him. I honestly just went at first so I could see the dynamic and see if it was weird or not

    Even Xbox got involved with the fun, creating a gif with a green and grey artwork of the pair saying ‘Friendships like these happen once every 360 years’.

    The gif also had a message at the bottom saying ‘Rare achievement unlocked – battle buddies’.

    Addey continued:

    When we picked up his friend James from his hotel with his girlfriend it was literally like picking up a friend he’s known his whole life! They were so excited I was so caught off guard.

    We all ended up going to dinner in downtown Portland, and had so much fun. It was so cute to see my dad so happy, it made me realise that it’s literally not weird for people to make real friendships online.

    Both of them are completely average dads who just game for fun and gained a true friendship out of it. It was pretty cool and I officially can’t make fun of him anymore for it.

    The reactions on Twitter were incredibly positive, and the post received over 217k likes and 50k retweets.

    One commenter wrote about their cute story:

    Met my best friend on xbox 12-13 years ago and we have been best friends irl for 11 with lots of weekends wasted with split-screen couch co-op, concerts, movies and new year parties and all general bromancing.

    Another said:

    I love this! I met my husband, best friend, and tons of other wonderful friends off Xbox Live in real life…it’s the best thing ever.

    The family’s new gamer buddy James has met with four of his other gaming buddies so far and now they are all planning a camping trip to Lake Tahoe… sounds like a Paul Rudd movie.

    This brings a whole new meaning to internet connection.

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  • Dad Distracted During Daughter’s Graduation Because He’s Playing HQ Trivia

    Dad Distracted During Daughter’s Graduation Because He’s Playing HQ Trivia

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    When it hits HQ Trivia time, the world freezes to endure 10-second bursts of intense, life-dependant pressure in the attempt to win $5,000 in exchange for their general knowledge.

    It has become a time reference around which events are planned, but you can’t always plan for it, especially in the case of, say, your daughter’s high school graduation.

    Wyatt Croy, from Oregon, found the most wonderful photos from his younger sister’s graduation where his dad was posing for photos while his hand held the ticket to his potential riches (in the form of the HQ trivia app).

    Speaking to UNILAD, Wyatt said:

    We were at my little sister’s graduation, taking photos afterwards like normal and I did remember that HQ was going on while we were taking pictures, but I kind of assumed we were all just there to take the pictures and going to skip this round of the game in the middle of the graduation.

    Once I got home, I was going through photos to send them out to my family, and then I noticed glowing by my dad’s hands in some of the photos. So I zoomed in and realised he was on HQ the whole time, which I thought was really funny and then I made that tweet.

    I was really surprised at the reaction it got on Twitter. I tweeted in right before I went to bed, and when I woke up the retweets were in the 2,000s.

    The game has a big following right now so it kind of makes sense that people liked it so much. I think people can really relate him trying to play no matter what’s going on.

    Talking about his dad’s reaction, Wyatt said:

    I didn’t mention to him at first, but after it went viral I told him lots of people found the photo funny. At first he was a bit nervous that the whole world thought he was some terrible father, but soon he found it really funny and my whole family was laughing about it.

    He didn’t say much about it, he just said ‘you know, it’s six o’clock, of course I’m going to do the quiz’.

    Wyatt said he started playing HQ Trivia at college in California, and when he went home to visit he showed it to his whole family and by the time he went back again, they were all hooked.

    Wyatt posted the photos to Twitter and it received over 369 retweets and 5.1k likes, with commenters commending his dad for having his ‘priorities straight’.

    One commenter wrote:

    I was playing at the Taylor Swift concert on Friday in Chicago.. shout out to Verizon for the great reception throughout the game

    Another said:

    College doesn’t pay for itself yo

    It’s a very addictive game to be fair, if my kid’s graduation was at HQ time, it’d be an under the table job.

    Wyatt’s dad is everyone’s spirit animal.

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