I look like my landsmann arnie. well, not really, but there is a funny terminator posing pic.

I look ugly and don't want to scare anyone...

There's just too much people that could use picture on the net. Nothing is really private on the net and I prefer to stay "old cat" than my real name. You avoid stereotypes ... Imagine i'm asian .. or fat .. or androgyne .. or with a big scar all over the face or .. etc. You wouldn't listen to what I say as closely as if I'm just "vieuxchat". Just remember that what's on the net could be copied, re-used, used against you in some years, etc. In France, where I live, a newspaper kind of made a biography of citizen with just what was on the net (facebook, i'm looking at you). That was frightening .. they know almost anything of his life.

Another little story ? Someone got a job interview .. and the bosses showed him a picture taken from the net where he was showing his ass ... things like that shouldn't ever happen, but everyone should be carreful with what they're "giving" on internet.

There's IRL meetings to let people know each other better

UO shards, haha I used to play UO religiously, I loved that game, I still have it installed. 

This is how I look. Well, I cut my hair, so not quite.

May I ask what is wrong with being Asian?

I LOOK LIKE THIS

Sure thing

I can't help you wih the phone number though, we don't speak much anymore. There was some.... unpleasantness.

I like to create characters in RPGs that look like me. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. My housemate used to often comment that the character looked like me, if he walked in on me gaming. But now he's aware of what I'm doing

Sadly we have stereotypes for a reason, because more often then not they are true. I'm not saying they're right, and there are Always exceptions. Stereotypes are Not always true. Thinking they are will only make you ignorant. Here's a example.

In the area of Florida where I live a lot of Indians (from India not Native Americans) own convenience stores. Saying that Indians Always own convenience stores would be a stereotype. A lot of Indians who Migrate to the United States go into Medicine as well. One of my Doctors I go to is named Baharat Patel. He's Indian. His wife is a doctor in pediatrics as is his daughter. He went into Digestive Health. When you look in our local phone book you find 3 doctor Patels. In this particular example saying Indians go into medicine is just as accurate as saying Indians always own convenience stores. Saying they are all doctors doesn't sound as funny as saying they all own convenience stores though, now does it?

Smart people look beyond stereotypes and understand that in reality they could only be used as a vague outline at best to see cultural similarities.

and here I thought I was the only person who did that

Something like that