zombies in the blue zone was a great rp, shame it ended along with frostbite.
Man, the rabbit hole you just sent me down...
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What a roster of absolute legends.
For the better part of two years (and then some), those guys were all my friends. I was still in school, and heading in to my final years. I was having trouble at home, hardly scraping through with my grades, and was just about to really fall into the addiction that would basically destroy my life for what was almost the next ten years.
Reading through the Bluzone thread really took me back there. Really reminded me of all those sleepless nights in my room, quietly typing on my laptop under the covers so no-one could hear me. I didn't have a lot of friends, and my girlfriend at the time was doing a lot of damage to me mentally. But those guys were always there, you know?
I feel pretty sad reading the last twenty pages of that thread. A lot of finger-pointing, naysaying... I never remember there being that much infighting when we were there, playing a video game and inventing whole new stories with each other.
It was really the perfect escape for me. I get quite sad thinking about it now. I don't think it was ever time wasted, either. I'm not sure what I would have filled that void with if not for Blockland, but it definitely would never have been as creative, or inspiring to me.
It's a weird experience, but it's one that I will probably never know or be able to emulate again... For better or worse...
I think it's good, though. That I had that. That I had all those friends. I felt normal, when I could come home and talk to them. I didn't have to talk about school, work, or how much I was just struggling all over. It didn't matter. We just wanted to build our own little world, and each tell our own little stories.
I guess in that glimpse of dystopia we created, there was always a sprinkle of hope.
I wonder what all those guys are up to now and again. I wonder if they feel the same way. I hope they're well.
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