Conratz on your first thread and overcoming your fear.  I used to be the same way with talking to girls, but I overcame it just like you.

Hey you are the pi guy :P. Don't worry too much about what other people think as long as you are not deliberately trying to get a rise out of people. Just enjoy your time here and talk to other gamers. I guess you'll overcome your shyness overtime. 

It is a better thread that many of the other monologues we get here. At least that is how i see it. So enjoy man.

This touched my stony heart. You're cool in my book, guy.

I think I know how you feel. I get shy talking to people in real life, even my friends. I hope you'll overcome your fear. You don't have to worry about talking to me, I don't mind!

Hey from what I read from your other posts you seem to be a pretty cool guy. You give your opinion without being a jerk to anyone, that's ranks you pretty high on my list of respectable people on this site.

Every experience with communicating helps, even if it's on a forum, even if it's just a little. Forming and expressing thoughts is still at the core of it.

Happy First Thread Day!

Here, this is for you--

You deserve this and many more.

Don't worry if you make a fool of yourself in public or if people don't like you. Just be yourself and if they don't accept you for who you are then don't associate yourself with those people.

Thanks for wasting 10 minutes of my life. That was a horrible first thread. I could barely read it with the lines crossing eachother and all. What did you do? Type it up in Word and go over and over it again, because you were so scared to post it. You had to make sure it was perfect. In doing that, you copy and pasted it onto the thread and it broke the html code. Silly noob..

hahaha.. just kidding. Actually I've never seen you post ever, until I came back from my one year hiatus. From our chats back and forth, you seem to be pretty level headed and reasonable. You may come off as a prick sometimes, but you probably don't intend to. I've talked to you respectfully, because you come off as a respectable person.

Congrats on coming out of your shell. I know there are a lot of intimidating people on here. Especially 2 years ago. Most of the members on here had superiority complexes and needed to be in the limelight. Threads had to be well made and you would feel inferior if your thread had no replies. A lot of of those people have mellowed down and are just hiding in the shadows now.

Keep on carrying yourself the way you've been doing. You're a great member in this community.

Your words were touching...

Little word of advice to you Pi.

Remember that every body is worried about being judged. Just be yourself and don't worry if someone doesn't like you.

I know that can be hard to do but by being yourself and not worrying about what others think you will both free yourself from yourself and will put yourself in more situations to gain friends or girlfriends depending on what you are looking for.  Plus not everybody will like you in life.  It is just how it is.  Dont worry about those people.  Just focus on your own happiness and surround yourself with those who do like you.

Oh, and by the way glad to see you posting here. You seem to have a very level head! Just remember to have fun with no worries.

Momenti!

P.S.  You're not wasting anybody's time.  We do that ourselves by coming to VGC ;)