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I've met people, especially in MMOs, who were just obviously mentally unstable and probably had really fucked up personal lives.
One guy who especially comes to mind was way the hell back in like '03/early '04 when I first started playing FFXI. He was "in" with all the server elites, and we became friends, so I got into that clique through him. He was really friendly and helpful at first, so we did all sorts of shit together, but he was also one of those guys who plays for about 19-20 hours a day, every day, so he ended up shooting ahead of me.
Anyway, he tried to form his own LS after a while, called "The Dark Carnival", which at the time I had no idea was an ICP reference, so that would have tipped me off... Basically the story is that he started getting really obsessive over this one girl, spent all the gil he had buying her gear, started stalking her both online and IRL, and then finally said he was going to kill himself and quit.
He showed up about 3 months later out of nowhere and tried to start playing again, then flipped out on me one day because I wouldn't drop my (very good) leveling party right then and there to go buy him some new gear, or something.
Started screaming at me in whispers like, "YOU WERE NEVER SHIT WITHOUT ME, YOU OWE ME, AFTER ALL I DID YOU FOR" etc. It was pretty weird. I mean I felt a little bad because he was a bro when we first met, before everyone found out he was a crazy juggalo.
I think he eventually quit again after making up more shit about how he was going to kill himself, or his mom, or something. I don't really remember.