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ABOM is short for A Blind Old Man. Many years ago I sponsored a set of servers for a group of young people that enjoyed a certain FPS (First Person Shooter) game.

The problem for the young folks besides money is they where of the Christian faith. Most servers hosting these game had all sorts of foul mouth individuals that these kids disliked.

So with my money, a handful of tech savvy kids, the game servers had filters to block the undesirable words of others. When the filtered words were used in the chat area of the game the offender was given a warning. 2nd offense offender was given warning and froze for five minutes, 3rd time invoked a series of commands that kicked the user out and banned that IP address. These kids were smart and respectful.

Anyways, I am no good a FPS games. Control of my character was really none at all. So I was running around like a blind man. Additionally, a couple of times, youths had expressed personal worries and would ask me for input on the non-game chat. I was always careful to not be judgmental with these kids. I had one ask me if something was wrong with him because he thought he might be "gay".

I replied "So What". It does not mean you are a bad person. Found out later from two other players, that this person had prior to this a dark demeanor/outlook and supposedly told a few others that out short conversation had helped him and he was happy with himself.

I have no idea if any of that was true or if it was "butter on the popcorn", to make the sponsor feel needed. I dang sure was no help in the game play. LOL