>>344828664
trying to criticize others and their works is easy, something that one criticizes as not real or meaningless is probably far more real and meaningful than their shallow criticism of it as an outside critic
>>344828758
proximity and physical contact are not the only things that make friends real, just because you cannot phantom having a friendship with someone you cannot see face to face and whose back you cannot physically pat when things are down doesn't mean others cannot make friends online
there are people here who spent more time with their friends online than with the people in real life, is it so impossible for you to think that to them their online friends mean more than the people they know in real life?
what makes people friends is how they both see each other not what you or i or anyone else thinks of it from the outside, i could no real scotsman you and say you don't have "real friends" if you don't have people who would take a bullet for you but id wager there are some "online friends" that care about each other enough to take that bullet for each other should the situation arise
don't get caught on the arbitrary no real scotsman argument but understand the meaning behind it and the point