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There is a certain type of feeling associated with /hlgg/. It's very easy to respond to it like the average boring internet cynic, or to make fun of people growing attached to a place full of faceless, nameless digital entities. But in a way, indirect as it may be, it's a gathering of friends. It's much harder to point out the differences between this place and, say, having "real" friends. But then, when are people "real" to us anyway? I'd sooner trust the faceless and the nameless than those that smile to me and tell me their name, only to backstab me. Or to have the named and identified fade away into the sea of faces and names of people I don't know, like a friend collector in social media hoarding thousands of supposed friends, yet no one bothers to check if they're doing alright. Here, despite our masks, our behavior is that of true and proper friends, hard as it may be to admit or even see the similarities. Or maybe "friends" is too strong of a word for some of you that would rather keep your distance even under the protection of anonymity. "I don't take this place that seriously dude", you might think, holding up those walls. And yet... of all the corners of the internet to lurk, of all the streamers and their stories being told, of all the random faceless people to meet and share words with, you end up here time and time again.
Maybe- just MAYBE-/hlgg/ is a pretty nice place.
