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Almost 12 Years Ago I Made This Community My Home
TomTheGeek²:
June 30, 2008 is literally the day of when i begged my mom before she went to work to buy me a key for blockland, and i ended up actually getting into the game. i signed up for my original forums account too that day, which to this day i don't regret. i've met lifelong friends here, started some really big events, ran one of the bigger clans of blockland, and had a blast doing it.
i don't want to go deep into that subject, but i will talk about a crazy story that happened over a year or so ago. many people have heard of the famous "old" users like Facechild, Bones4, Hugums, Djy1991, and so on. those very people i mentioned i've actually talked to recently out of a weird connection between MackTheHunter and Bones4 one night. we (mack and i) played Elite:Dangerous with Bones and Hugums, which for me i've talked to Hugums before and for mack he's known him since he ran Blockintosh in 2008. Bones got involved because mack somehow figured out he's very serious into E:D and started playing with us. we'd all have a fun time with the game, but afterwards we'd literally get forgeted up and do stupid stuff like play "would you rather?" or Bones goes on omegle and wears stupid stuff and pretends he's pissass drunk.
the weirdest night was when mack told me "hey you wanna play GTAV with bones, facechild, djy1991?" was the question of a lifetime not to say no. facechild, djy, and bones all known each other for a LONG time, so really the only people who are new to them is me and mack. we decided to play blockland first because i thought it would of been HILARIOUS to join a server and say "i summon FACECHILD" and all of a sudden he joins. people flipped stuff on the server, naturally, so we had a organized plan on this chaos: we RP as bees. we dressed up as bees and only say "buzz buzz" in the chat. the server admins built a hive for us to live in, and others joined in on it. at one point it was a full server because the word passed that this was going on. after awhile, we changed the RP theme to hobos and took over the hoster's city build by building trash can fires, boxes, empty liqour bottles. we did end up all playing GTAV when djy joined in, which i kept killing facechild over and over again which was pretty funny.
tl;dr: this community no matter how old you are (or how long you've been in the community) is pretty amazing. we all can get along (for the most part) and do some pretty funny stuff together either in the game or just in the community. i love this place and i don't think i can leave it after almost a decade of playing the game, or talking to the people i've considered my friend for a very long time. thank you guys for shaping my life for the past 9 years!
Pastrey Crust:
We love you too fam. We're always here whenever you need us.
Mega-Bear:
--- Quote from: TomTheGeek² on February 14, 2017, 11:22:07 AM ---we RP as bees. we dressed up as bees and only say "buzz buzz" in the chat. the server admins built a hive for us to live in, and others joined in on it. at one point it was a full server because the word passed that this was going on.
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what the forget, this is some surreal alt universe parody of Blockland type gameplay.
This is one of the greatest things I have ever read of happening in this game.
King of the Bill:
I joined the forums back in 2011 on my main account, and my ingame ID is 30051, but I played the demo alone for quite some time before buying a key. Blockland has always been fun (though I miss the terrain for its ability to handle physics) and although I was a loser sperglord, I was tolerated. Got autobanned back in 2013 for mentioning the name of a shock site, pulled out this alt so that my forum name would match my ingame name. I'm still a bit of a sperg, but I'd like to think I'm a lot better now than I used to be. Life is full of surprises.
I was a regular on Tomtom's Trench TDM back in the day, and I still miss that server. Sure, the weapons weren't really balanced, but it was a lot of simple fun. After that went down, I hung out on many other servers. There was Danny Boy's Halo 3 TDM, DrenDran's Trainyard TDM, Glass's Trench Wars, Furling's Submarine TDM, some RP servers that don't warrant mentioning, Zombies in the Bluzone, Pecon7's Boss Battles, Reinforcement's Trench Wars (also imbalanced fun), Redguy's Unlimited Mining (nowadays I don't understand how this entertained me), Honor's Honormining, Scenery's (Gy's) Battlemix... so entertaining.
I still regale my friends with stories of times on this game, like the time Tomtom invited me to join him and many others in crashing Kalphiter's New Years Eve party a week early. Tomtom managed to break the music script and Kalph got quite upset.
Masterlegodude:
It's always interesting to hear how this one block building game out of many others has affected it's players and how it's helped them through the tough times of their lives and how it's even helped people learn, grow and mature, it makes me wonder if things like this happen with other games and their communities