Blockland. An indie game. Which was noticed by Lego and attempted to be bought by them. A dynasty lasting about 8 years or so, in spite of a billion trillion people believing it's over. An actually good game you'll keep coming back to eventually.
But how did I get here?
Well, since this is the weekend, I have the time to see it now. My
longest journey up to the point where I became a recognized Blocklander, or perhaps "
advanced friend", but hey, that's an upgrade either way.
So, the aforementioned journey lasted long. Or, at least for my standards, if you don't consider one year a long time. Looking at the entirety of my story will take a long time, so I'll have to look on the most important parts.
Here, is my past.
The BeginningMore to come?The BeginningI began with a welcome topic. After all, doesn't that happen in most forums/fora? Not in the Blockland Forums. They are different. Different, in the sincere sense, not in any heartless sarcastic one.
But
how different? Different in the sense of 4Chan for kids except it's a forum? Or perhaps different in the sense of being the true Hell incarnate?
Not entirely sure how that question can be answered objectively, but, nevertheless, that question is actually related to my welcome topic.
So,
let's have a look on it.I wrote my few paragraphs there to introduce myself, along with implications that
I may know something more than the average new guy. However, I did not truly know the people, because the only way to do so is interact with them. The thread would be a great opportunity to interact, wouldn't it? Hopefully it was.
The first reply was "Welcome to HECK." Today, I don't agree with the third word, but back then I had been worried that was true.
The second reply was "Remeber, you're here forever." Can't really say they're wrong. But the person who brought the second reply would turn out to be the same person striving out on his way to prove I am not a new person, but in fact an old person's sockpuppet.
Third reply was the first useful one, and accurate one. I'm not quoting it here, because it's not just a single phrase. It did help me with navigating myself through the forum a bit.
Though I should be talking about the rest of the thread in short, the fourth reply was the first negative one, worthy of featuring. "what the heck" it was.
The rest of the first page was me being welcomed into the forum, or getting warned about its community. It was also someone getting tricked by my fake "alternative account" link, the classic "redirect to your own profile" trick. People have been tricked by that for long before I came, and it still worked wonders.
The first alternative account suspicion was that I were Betelgeuse. I also sounded "awfully annoying", and apparently had a plan to wait five months just to not be considered an alternative account. I was then given a quote pack I never actually used, and I also exclaimed out loud I had Asperger's Syndrome (also known as High Functioning Autism, whatever that means.)
My first mistake was... right on the second page of the welcome thread. I became aggressive all too fast and tried to make fun of Pie Crust. That's when my alternative account likability went high up. How can he know about who Pie Crust is, and his dog 'child-making' incident?
Moving on to the third page. A person who never posted anything else ever again was happy about people named "Mario" joining the forums, and I further proved I was awfully annoying. I also notice that the person to whom I sounded awfully annoying used the word "awfully" an awfully large amount of times. That's awfully weird.
I was able to relate to someone else with autism, whether the internet rendition of it or the real autism, and I turned out to have found out about Blockland Forums matters because a friend linked me there.
Original research. Is that ever a thing?
Anyway, I went on to be more active outside of my welcome thread and had a disagreement. That's when my likability of being an alternative account increased even further. A second person was glad about having a coder around the field, and I had a little banter with the person I tried to make fun of. Another person said the best way to enter the forums is to just start posting, so that nobody thinks anything about you then.
Well, I didn't want to just appear from the shadows. Though I could, since they were added before I joined the forums. Amiright?
[Cue Rimshot]
Someone else wished me luck, and another person told me "hi alt" expecting a response in the lines of "hi X i'm alt" most likely. Another person warned me that generically linking to the profile thingamajig would redirect people to their own page. You don't say! Either that, or that was an implication that I was an alternative account.
The welcome thread is nearing its end, as my chance of being an alt has reached cloud nine. The Black Badger finds that I have an abstract piece of knowledge without being aware himself that I was given the knowledge earlier in the thread. Regulars place bets regarding whose alt I am, and people get tricked by my fake profile link Houdini magic. Only a single person with a bright avatar had awareness of the trick I made, making fun of everyone who is outsmarted by it.
The final posts are here, and the end of the beginning is near. I am warned I can't leave the forums after entering, and that I will get severe autism from the forum. Problem being, I already had autism before entering the forum. Minor derailment occurs, and then the last two folks find I was their alt all along.
This is when the thread stopped getting any new posts, and it is also when the beginning has ended.
But the ending has not began.
More to come?Do you like this concept? Should I keep telling the story of my digital life? Vote on the poll, and post your opinion! This will only be interesting if you are also interested.
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