Quote (whopperjr @ 6 Nov 2018 02:13)
:wub:
Looking back I remember being quite the self-righteous dick some times, but damn was it fun making fun of people like WarlocksM4d, distroyall, etc.
I started LLDing back in like 2004 after getting my ass handed to me on a high level mfer by a FB sorc named LorenaBobbitt (or something like that). Think I googled how the hell it was possible, and found jsp through that. Second (?) ladder rolled around eventually and I met people like Paul, Weaj, Ted, MiKTeX, ZeusThreeHund and lurking here and 101. I think my first fully built character was a 30 kicker and I was so proud I wrote a horrible guide for it here. Then I did forge to try to get a HR and accidentally leveled it and threw some IK boots on it. :)
Ladder rolled and I started dueling on both ladder and NL, met the NL crew at the time and fell into some bad crowds (you know who you are). Remember Ste coming to east, his feud with Linny (and Linny losing his Trusted tag and starting to touch kids), playing euro for a little after an invite from Hellskin and them getting uber raged over not knowing how to beat a fire trapper (because wsg = bm). 2007-2009 I was constantly hanging out with some of the guys I grew real close to on here (Bill, Brian, Paul, Ted, Zack, gobb, Willis, Oli, etc.) Outside of being a little bit of a dick on the forums, a decade later what I most thoroughly remember is having an amazing amount of fun working with Brian to try to bring 18 back on east with shares (plus Sammich, rip). We had an account with like 5 18 shares back in like 09 (I made an actual nec thrower named Necthrow which ended up being hilariously fun and somewhat effective in tvt). 2009-2010 there were full house 18 tvts like every night.
Just 'cause I'm taking a trip down memory lane, shouts out to everyone that I've talked to over the years. Y'all really are a cool bunch (most of you, some of you really need to get your shit together though for real).
<3
Edit: Funny thing I thought of - after taking a break for like 6 years and coming back for a short stint like 2 years ago, people like Quicklaunch were still m4d when I still have no idea who they even were/are :thumbsup:
Second edit: another shout out specifically to people like snipah, hong, weaj, breakbeatz, Hellskin, harry, Tigfht.acct and I"m sure I'm missing one or two for being people I think of as always willing to help newbies get started building characters or breaking down the math on more complex aspects of the game so we can break and repair the game mechanics and actually refine builds. You da real mvps
The golden age of lvl 18 tvts was fun. Was a little before that time tho i think. We coule basicly have a 18 tvt and a 30 tvt at the same time at that point since we had players.
Ive always been a lvl 18 nerd. Started with a papadink for like a week and killed it to make a tank kicker to protect ben/kaz's char in tvt ahah