During this communitys birth year alot of us posted on the thread Introduce Yourself wich Mark made to get to know his community better.
That is now approximately 4 years ago and I'm sure alot of us have changed since then! Therefore, here's my follow up to see if you're the same now as you were 4 years back and if not, what has changed about you?
I'll start then..
My name is still Michel and I'm still called Micke. Though, the only ones calling me Michel is my childhood friends and my family so therefore, you aswell should call me either Micke, Wheatley or XeZaM. (Or Fragzz0r^ if you feel like that)
I live in a shitty village called "Kvibille" wich is positioned in the southern parts of Sweden approximately 1 Swedish mile from the city "Halmstad" and during the days I don't have school, there's basically nothing happening here..
Wich makes it pretty obvious that I waste alot of time in front of the computer. But time wasted on Nod69 is time wasted on the right thing.
I'm 17 years old (turning 18 in October 19th) and I find it amazing that I've been devoted to Nod69 ever since the age of 13 years old.. (since I joined in august, I wasn't 14 years old yet) To be honest, I never thought that I would be this devoted to anything in life..
Nod69 has become one of the biggest parts of my life now if not the biggest part of them all at the moment.. I would not be able to write this if it wouldn't have been for a few very special "old-school Nodders" who has helped me alot through the years..
There you have it! My follow up! I'm pretty much the same way now as I was 4 years ago. I'm just a little less lazy, I devoted most of my life to Nod69 and I'm not as depressed as I was when I joined.
Oh, Almost forgot! As a few other now devoted Nod69 members, I first joined the Nod69 WCS server using Aimbot. I got kicked with the words "Turn your aimbot off please" and so I did. Little did I know then, that me reconnecting without aimbot, would be the beginning of an incredible story.. My story and It's not even over yet!
My name is Kent aka K1T. Living in Norway and i'm 19 years old. I don't play that much anymore, as most of you might have noticed. Busy with work and stuff.
I joined Nod69 in 2010 and i have alot of good memories with RPG and WCS gaming! Also got promoted to head-admin late 2010. I can't even describe how proud i was then. Right now i'm thinking about getting back and start to be more active, we'll see.
My name is Eirik, I live in Norway, and I am 16 years old. Though I turn 17 in 2 weeks. I started playing on Nod69 servers during summer 2010. I then got banned for using LSS LUA scripts. I don't remember why I was unbanned, but I do remember that it was Kevin that unbanned me. LOL Anyways... I stopped scripting on Nod69 servers after that, and then LSS was patched by Valve during December 2010 so I stopped for good. xP
I don't really remember when or how I was promoted to admin. I was promoted to co-owner after managing the funserver for a while.
I'm still into graphics and photoshop just like I was back when I first joined, although the level I am on now is probably a lot higher than the level I was at back then. I am still not satisfied with most of the stuff I make... and even though people say "wow", "amazing", "pro", and shit like that... I still like to say that I don't look at myself as a professional. o.o - It's more like... above average. xD
________________________________________________________________________ READ ONLY IF YOU CAN STAND RANTING.
I have lived at 5 places during the time I have spent with Nod69. o.o The reason for this, is that my parents got divorced in December 2010.
Here is my really unstable story! Haha.
During the divorce, they both moved from the house I grew up in. Dad rented a house near the ocean, a 20 minute drive away from where we used to live, while mom rented an apartment with the worst internet I have ever experienced, a 5 minute walk away from my school... I lived at those two places for about half a year.
Then dad bought a smallholder farm along with his new girlfriend, who'se currently his fiance and apparently my step mother, who I later-on found out was the reason my dad decided to divorce my mother, seeing as he fell in love with this woman even before he divorced my mother. They transformed the farm into a f***ing pet house, where people can put their pets while they're off on vacation. Good money, but lots of work. They don't even have time for breakfast now and the main house is a huge, dirty mess because no one have time to clean.
I can't stand loud barking, and that isn't all that convenient if you have 5 dogs, soon 6, that barks at everything that moves. So, every morning, I am really grumpy because I wake up 'cause of the barking-comitee outside of my room.
Back to the story. A few weeks after dad bought the farm, my mom decided she'd rent a basement flat from a newly-wed couple who lived in a quite modern house in the middle of the f***ing forest. The internet up there is almost as bad as it was at the old apartment. The ISP promised a upgrade but that was 2 years ago. We've seen and heard nothing from them about this since then.
Now, make a guess who was forced to come along and move furniture and belongings all those times they moved. "You?" Yes, of course it was me. Carrying boxes, furniture and other belongigs all over the place is okay once in a while, but it is not so okay when you first have to move everything out of your 3-story childhood home, then pack 14 years of your life into boxes and bags, and then seperate your belongings into 2 groups, a group for each of your new homes. Then after you've finally settled down, restart the process, twice, because both parts are moving again.
During and after my parents' divorce, I became grumpy, anxious and severely depressed. I quit football and everything that had to do with my social life. I could no longer attend any of those because it was either too hard to get there, no one had time to get me there, or I had other things to worry about. My life was filled with chaos. I didn't get along with any of my parents for almost 2 years, and they hated each other more than they cared for me and my sister. Both me and my sister ran into problems because of them. I've been seeing a psychiatrist for 2 years, but what's the point? You go there, you rant about something, and then you go home and nothing changes. They say that if you want things to change, you have to make it change. That isn't all that easy when whenever you try to change something, it all just gets worse.
I can't comprehend the words "future plans". I can't even imagine what I want to do because my life is so unstable. I have to concentrate on what's happening right now. I don't have time to think about what I want to do in my future because even if I do, something will happen and it won't go the way I want it to.
There hasn't been a single day since December 2010 that I have not had to worry about something or someone. "Oh you have tomorrow off? Good for you." No, it's not good for me because I will have nothing to do. "Well, would having to go to school be better then? "No, it wouldn't, because apparently no one likes me and I can't seem to get along with anyone, and on top of that, I hate the education line I am attending.
Every night when I go to sleep, this is what goes through my mind: Why can't I look forward to anything? Why can't I get along with anyone? Why can't I smile any longer? Why am I alive? ...and every night, I reach the same conclusion: I don't know, but one thing is for sure, and that is, if nothing changes and this continues, I'll be dead before I reach 25, so who cares. Just go to sleep.
I played with some of you 'peeps before my life turned into a miserable pit of pure bullshit. I guess none of you remembers this, but I used to be a lot happier and cheerfull. :P
Hi, My name is Sami. I live in Finland. I'm ATM 21 turning 22 in September. I had a cat named Pörri which is nowdays spending her "retirement days" at my cousin farmhouse. When I joined to Nod69 community I was trying to finish my ICT education while still living with my mom. After I got banned from nod wcs server, I kind of quitted playing css and moved to other FPS and mmorpg games. (The only thing I was good at life were videogames.)
I met my beloved fiancè 2 years ago (she turned the way of my life and made me feel happy for the first time in 10 years.) We moved to our own department after dating 3months. We have now 2 cats Konsta and Mordekaiser <- freaking 7months old bastard who destroys everything.
I'm working ATM in a part time job. But I'm going to entrance examination at 5.June.2013. If I'm lucky I can become a 3D modeller. It's my dream job <3
Strengths to you Eirik, I've lived trough that same situation and even witnessed domestic violence.
Nekoz <- I used to like drawing, but now I'm more into 3D modelling.
My name is Zach, and... uh. Wow, I'm awful at these. Well, I'm currently 18,and residing in California... (Probably the only person that's not in Europe)... and... Well, let's put it this way. Most of you know me for an awful x>1 mbps connection.... so... uh... yeah.
