<human>: I met her through an online game we both moderate, and over the past few weeks we've gotten very close. We chat online for hours at a time, multiple times a week, doing things entirely unrelated to our common moderation work. I'd basically like to ask her out to dinner or a movie, but we're geographically very far apart, so I just don't know what to say. Asking "would you like to go out" or "date" don't represent what I want to ask. The question I want to ask is basically "would you like to be in a relationship with me" but every time I think of anything like that I just laugh at how bureaucratic or robotic it sounds. I'd ideally use an equivalent of dinner or a movie but I can't figure out how to do that over the internet (without having a pre-existing relationship that turned into a long-distance one).

I'd also add that I would be happy to just remain friends with her if she's not interested, I really enjoy our time spent together as-is. I know though that she does not make the first move in her relationships, so if she is interested (which I think she is), I will need to put myself out there.

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<bot>: How do I start a long-distance relationship from scratch (*not* convert a local relationship *to* a LDR)?