Alright, so let me be honest. I both expected and didn't expect to hit 2 years. Typically, I'm not one for commitments, and so at first I thought I would never of stayed here. But you did it. As a community, you kept me here long enough so that I can say, 'I've been here two whole years'. And with that, I say Thank you. Thanks for two whole years of fun, two whole years of entertain, two whole years of me being a fgt. Granted, this is on the server, as it isn't my 2 year forum anniversary yet, buuuut, whatever. Let's go back to the beginning. June, 2013. Joined because of Youtube videos. How fun. I played Build It for the first month I was here, as that game is fun as lol. Then, I started Skyblock. I started with my irl friends as I didn't know ANYONE on the server. Very bad island, all of us were no ranks. Tried to make a mob spawner, didn't work. Someone in chat offered to help, and so yeah. It really wasn't working, so we went to Sb3. As many people may know, I had a really, really big island on sb3. Like, giant head wall and everything. At first, it wasn't even that big. Was a small platform with cobble and wood as the floor, and some dirt. After about a week into my sb3 island, I learned about ranks. Before hand I had no idea about it and tbh I was so entertained at people riding me idk why lol I looked, and realised you could fly. I was like, I'mma at least ask for this. This was the first online purchase I wanted, ever. To my surprise, my mum said yes, but was skeptical about handing over $50 ($54 AUD at the time) And then, [Legend] Map_Turtle was born. After I got my rank, I started talking to people more. People like @Radii (cough LilaRok cough) After that, I started staying in lobby a lot more to talk to people, but I still didn't really talk to many people. Then, the forums came along. Someone came in lobby and said 'omg you can apply for staff on the forums' I was like 'omg where' And then I joined for the forums. As precise as my memory likes to be, I can't remember my first thread. It was either my introduction, or my staff app. But, my staff app was on the 1st or 2nd page when I made it, because there were only 1-2 pages at that time. And then, I started posting. I made many a friends here, too many a LOT of friends. And I kinda was a butt nugget on the forums but yea. Skip to February 2014. I entered a rank up comp, with the number 37. I won. I got ranked up to Hero rank, which was awesome. Shadow, the rank up comp owner, decided to try to be nice and rank me up to Herobrine, buuuuut. I got blocked by Paymentwall. Which was really annoying. About this time last year, I was shown a game nearly all have heard of, osu! Fun game. Will say this now. But, it was too fun. I started ignoring mc as a whole, and it felt like a chore to come on. 10 fps on mc, whilst being in the worst timezone ever, or 120+ fps, when other people aren't your entertainment, which is better? So yeah, for like nearly 10 whole months, I ignored the server purely because it was a huge chore to come online. I also ignored Teamspeak because even still, my voice is so bad I don't like many people listening to it because it is eww. And there was no one on when I was. -cri- December, 2014. I got my deskpoot. This fgt thing I am using to type this up. No longer have to use the netpoot, which was the most crappiest thing ever tbh. Not only did I get 250 fps on osu!, but I got 30-60 on mc. I was ecstatic, especially since more fps = more fun. But lobby decided to disappoint me with only 10 fps. I was like 'D:' But, it wasn't as much as a chore to come on, and I decided to at least try for 1 day a week to get back into the server. Sometimes I failed, sometimes I managed more. Was much easier to do so since it was the holidays, but osu! still managed to take over. Back to School, February 2015. I decided to up my server time, to try for 5 days. This was to be after school, since I couldn't manage any other time. And yes, I failed a lot, but I tried. I also had a slightly extended bedtime but not close to what times my friends generally came online (12-3am) I mostly played Skyblock2, as I was added to an island there, with Roc and John. April 11th, 2015. When my extreme activity started. When I got promoted. I completely gave up osu! Like, Completely. My rank is so bad right now I don't know if I can get it under 1k anymore. But away from that, my activity increased immensely. Being a staff member is much more fun than both staff and members put it out to be, and I cannot thank the staff team and you guys, the community, enough for making it a really fun position to have. Only 2 months in, and I cannot imagine not having the rank anymore. I've had way more fun times with it than bad, and it's just amazing. I'd like to thank the owners, @ItsJerry and @ItsHarry, and all my friends: @StarlightFox @RocWolfTheHunter @John_0696 @NESlover @iMawl @Loling @Radii @ImNotOkayy @TheBlackHamood @Ninjafoya @Destination666 and too many other friends I don't want to tag cause I have too many friends >:c Thank you guys for 2 amazing years, here's to another year
It's been a great two years with you, Map. and here's to another. *Clinks glass of champagne* Post another pic of yourself pls, it's a special occasion.
Congrats Map! It's such a pleasure being around you, you have a positive vibe and it really rubs off! :D I'm glad you enjoyed your experience.