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« on: December 17, 2023, 08:41:37 AM »
I started playing Blockland on like v8 with my friend, his little brother, and my little brother. I was the only one to really rack up the 1000+ hours as LruteL, Aoki, and then log. I always wanted to meet some people, but I didn't consider it too much living in bumforget Ohio.
I lost contact with most Blocklanders after I started to get harassed in real life around like 2015. I was investigateed, swatted, signed up for free trials on a handful of weird products, put on every spam mail list--my dad would get calls at work telling him his son (me) was fat, and that I should kill myself. I would get calls telling me I'm fat and should kill myself.
I started intermittently posting and getting back online in-game after a bad breakup a few years ago, and I do like how the community seems like it's matured. It's crazy seeing some of the pet projects I missed too--Blockland Rebuilt, static shape maps, and someone made like an in-game web browser? Sometimes it makes me want to pick up Torque again, but it's hard to come home from work and sit down to continue coding.
I live in greater Boston now; though, which I'm sure is a lot more central. Maybe I'll get around to making that stuff happen. A Blockland LAN party would go hard.