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![Comic. [formatted like forum post thread] POST BY AnteresMike: You could also check out THIS kayak model. I attached a motor to mine, and it’s a little bit of a kludge but it works great. REPLY BY NorthLakeKayak: Oh, hey, AntaresMike! I know you! Honestly I didn’t realize you existed outside of the Animorphs fandom. I haven’t seen you in forever! Uh. So. How are you doing? Kayaking, I guess. Anyway yeah that model is great. [caption] Running into someone on a thread who you know from a totally different part of the internet feels weirdly like running into your teacher into a store.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreie4fvxyvkbop2yhcdeapuahpndvvtsh45ucvy2w5z763ojznbqej4@jpeg)
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I once ran into my Rogerian psychiatrist in a store. It was a bit more than awkward.
Her metier was actually genetics,* and I have no idea what drove her to sideline in psychiatry.
- Dwarfism.
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I once discovered that two of my friends from different parts of the Internet, whom I'd never associated with each other, were friends in a third part of the Internet
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Silly of you to assume that there's only one AntaresMike.
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Better than running into one's teacher in the gymnasium showers, on the same day that you skipped their class.
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More like running into a teacher in a sex-shop.
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I met a voice actor for a scifi audiobook in a discord server about a furry webcomic recently. I also found someone I used to occasionally see on a wholly unrelated discord server there too.
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found a major Cataclysm:DDA contributor in a Bluesky thread arguing about politics
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Why is "running into your teacher in a store" universally agreed upon to be it's in specific emotion?
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Animorphs? Bush league.
How about being introduced via Teams to a new work colleague of the opposite gender who you last saw 10 years ago on the clothing optional beach at an alternative festival? And I do mean "saw".
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This happens quite a bit with previous something awful forum goons
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Animorphs mention!!!!!
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And… being a teacher running into your principal at the grocery towards the end of summer is very similar
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There's a guy in the Hololive community on reddit that's known for a particular anatomical obsession. He, it turns out, is ALSO a game dev and making a fan game (unrelated to said obsession) I can only imagine the "Wait... HIM!?" that goes through people who run into him in both corners.
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That's a good way to put it
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i always love when this happens, noticed someone in the comments of a music production video from when we used to play a video game together a couple years ago
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It not all bad. I was looking at a FB page for a musician, and saw a comment from someone I went to grade school with. I was happy to reconnect with her.
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Me, unironically, when I first found my old pals from Uncyclopedia on Twitter
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I have been using this same screen name for decades solely to create such scenarios.
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Randall Munroe from the "Bed Wetters Anonymous" forum? No way! How have you been? Still wetting the bed and... drawing comics I see
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Title text: "Hey, so did you ever finish your video series about Cassie and the caterpillar morph? I loved the first three, but never ... no, sorry, I get it, this isn't the place. Sorry! Sorry."
Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3128#Transcript
