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« on: December 12, 2010, 04:36:17 PM »
Blockland has changed me a lot.
In game: When I first found Blockland, Google-ing for sandbox games, I downloaded the demo and then bought the full version the same day. I think my first build was on the slopes, I used red 12x2x5's and 16x16 baseplates, I think. I didn't really build much in my early days. I began to roam around servers observing builds. I started to get better at building, just by observing. I quickly gained super admin on a certain server, because of my building skills, however I was tasked with building all of the small things. While this gave me a great deal of experience in many areas, I lost the ability to stay focused on a large project. I guess Blockland has changed from a building game, to a watch other people build while I hang out game.
On the forums: I think I registered for the forums the same day I bought the game. I started out thinking that people were the same as everyone else I knew; nice, easy to understand, and easy to beat in arguments. I was wrong however, and was treated harshly because of it. Then, I decided to be what I perceived others to be, a jerk. I became part of that crowd. It is interesting, because back then, being a jerk was OK, however, a lot of people were nice. Now, I find it's just the opposite, everyone is hypocritical, they have an imaginary line of how mean you can be without cause. I find it weird because now it's not OK to be a jerk, but the community is generally meaner. The forums has changed from a place that I thought I owned to a place where I can have a logical conversation with someone.