General Life Retrospect Thread

[SBG]

Randomly clicked on Decepticon's avatar and saw he's 25, and I remember reading/replying to his posts and others like him in like 2015-16 whole bunch. Ppl like him were teenagers back then, as was I. I know that's just part of life, time going by and all, but I just wanted to ask everybody how life feels now compared to then. Do u wanna turn back the clock and relive all that again, or are u happier where u are now? Some distinct regrets?

Me personally even tho i did like chatting a bit 10 years ago it did cut into a lot of my studies and time that I could have been more productive when I had a more spongey child brain. Not that I can't keep learning stuff now, but it is definitely advantageous to acquire some skills young. im making ends meet which im pretty grateful of, but i always teeter between whether to like get outta comfort zone and become some important guy (like a tradesman/handyman) or just keep cruising and doing what is right in front of me. has anyone here did some ambitious stuff? do share

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[blockguy™]

I just wanted to ask everybody how life feels now compared to then. Do u wanna turn back the clock and relive all that again, or are u happier where u are now? Some distinct regrets?

the only thing i'd want to relive from the days of my youth would probably be high school football. i miss pulling that chinstrap tight and hitting the quarterback lol.
the first thing i did when i graduated high school was enlist in the navy and then subsequently quit (yes im a pusillanimous individual)... they locked me in a hotel room for 2 weeks during COVID and at the end of that i was like yeahhh.... maybeeee not. that singular decision has made the most impact on my life... since then i have spent the last 6 years shoveling rocks, whoring, and boozing LOL. the weird thing is i would actually be ending my contract right about this time had i stuck with it. i can't really say i regret my decision but i often wonder where i'd be at at this point (24) had i followed through with my obligation

has anyone here did some ambitious stuff? do share

i bought an acre of land last year (at a good price and in a great location), the theme there is that i suffer now in my 20's so when im 30 i won't have to struggle so hard. all i've really accomplished out there is basically rebuilding an old garage that was falling apart. i still don't have water or power out there quite yet (i don't actively live out there) but that's a little further down the line on my long list of stuff To Do. probably the most "ambitious" thing i've done yet... if you could call it that. even a little later on (probably 2028 or 2029) i intend to start my own landscaping business... but i'm nowhere close to that point quite yet lol

[SBG]

the first thing i did when i graduated high school was enlist in the navy and then subsequently quit (yes im a pusillanimous individual)... they locked me in a hotel room for 2 weeks during COVID and at the end of that i was like yeahhh.... maybeeee not. that singular decision has made the most impact on my life... since then i have spent the last 6 years shoveling rocks, whoring, and boozing LOL. the weird thing is i would actually be ending my contract right about this time had i stuck with it. i can't really say i regret my decision but i often wonder where i'd be at at this point (24) had i followed through with my obligation

no shame there, i didn't even try enlisting in the military at all - partly because of how much my parents told me i would die and compare it to the vietnam war. but i do like how the boot camps whip you into shape and probably make other seemingly tough things appear much more minor.

i bought an acre of land last year (at a good price and in a great location), the theme there is that i suffer now in my 20's so when im 30 i won't have to struggle so hard. all i've really accomplished out there is basically rebuilding an old garage that was falling apart. i still don't have water or power out there quite yet (i don't actively live out there) but that's a little further down the line on my long list of stuff To Do. probably the most "ambitious" thing i've done yet... if you could call it that. even a little later on (probably 2028 or 2029) i intend to start my own landscaping business... but i'm nowhere close to that point quite yet lol

way more ambitious than anything i've done. but what is that acre for? is it a farmland? and what's the location for, some kinda clients? but yea good luck on the landscaping. hope you don't mind wasps and other stinger richardheads. i kinda got a phobia for those things

[blockguy™]

but what is that acre for? is it a farmland? and what's the location for, some kinda clients? but yea good luck on the landscaping. hope you don't mind wasps and other stinger richardheads. i kinda got a phobia for those things

i plan on building a house there at some point and living on it. it's zoned residential. and maybe after a few years and a family i can sell it and buy more land

[Mr Queeba]

graduated college last year and now i do tech support stuff for them full time. not having as much free time sucks and i drifted away from some ppl i was buddies with, but at the same time it's been pretty great being able to engage with hobbies and stuff i was previously unable to. as much of a cesspool this place was back in the 2010s i can't see myself today without it considering how much it helped me develop as a person and find ppl i still talk with to this day. funny how much liking lego and computer things during my single digits affected me later in life

[SBG]

i plan on building a house there at some point and living on it. it's zoned residential. and maybe after a few years and a family i can sell it and buy more land

damn that's such a major investment. was it hard to get the loan and do whatever rigmarole u had to do there?

graduated college last year and now i do tech support stuff for them full time.

do u think that this game helped get u started with learning tech stuff? like coding for addons and gamemodes n stuff?

as much of a cesspool this place was back in the 2010s i can't see myself today without it considering how much it helped me develop as a person and find ppl i still talk with to this day. funny how much liking lego and computer things during my single digits affected me later in life

yea that's so real. i feel like i was such a slow typer before getting into this game and it helped me develop some people skills when talking to people (including how to stuff talk but that's a story for another day maybe  )

[Sheepocalypse]

I’m pretty happy. I have a good sized house and moved out of state and love where I live. I can somewhat thank Blockland for my career as I used to be a big Milkshape modeler for addons back in the day. Went to college and majored in CAD stuff as it was the closest thing to 3D modelling. Then I started professionally modeling mechanical equipment and parts. Now I make bank and sort of just do whatever I want.

Teens were nice as I had more time to forget off and play video games. I still game a ton but not much time for it as much. But I’m not complaining, I’m enjoying other aspects of life and using games to fill the downtime.

[-Nal-]

I regret my behavior on this site from my adolescence. I acknowledge it came from a place of a mix of personal problems, white knuckling physical health, depression, anxiety, low self esteem, that kinda stuff. It took me therapy to let go of the shame that I held over my own behavior.

I lost many friends realizing my upbringing shaped my connections. I've cut out family, people who I've let walk over my boundaries, etc. While it's tough on the surface, I've come to terms and don't regret going through that journey one bit. It's translated to positive outcomes in my own life; a fulfilling career, mobility, and flexibility. However I feel my life up until this point has been cleaning up the wreckage that had been passed down to me. I feel I'd approach this question with much deeper cynicism if I didn't have that personal reflection.

All to say happy, however I feel behind my peers in some ways. I was steered radically in the wrong direction and my twenties have been defined by course correction.

[Canis]

imagine if we all suddenly got dropped into BLF circa 2011–2015 as we are currently. we'd be eaten alive

[Ladios]

Nah, id bully the stuff outta young ladios for being such a dumbass

[Trymos]

imagine if we all suddenly got dropped into BLF circa 2011–2015 as we are currently. we'd be eaten alive

im hunting young Trymos tf down. im correcting the world timeline

[Soukuw]

Still dumb, still a loser, shouldn't have spent all my money drinking for 10 years. Stopped drinking, still a loser, started taking ADHD meds, slightly less of a loser and I clean a bit more but I still mostly sit around being a loser, at least my mornings are better and I don't feel so sick anymore when I wake up. Pretty much just hopelessly addicted to my computer and I'm foregoing any kind of real life interaction because people are scary and I hardly find anyone relatable. Really thankful I have one good friend I talk to most days but they sadly live on the other side of the country. Mostly my fault, some life stuff I blame, somewhat blame the parents but that never gets you anywhere but I effectively work under them so it feels like I'm in a box sometimes.

I wish I had been more creative when I was younger, wish I had looked up to the people in this community creating addons.

Kind of bummed I went from no friends to internet friends then dropped internet friends for a couple real life friends which I then burned through which is funny because my real life friend is now an internet friend since they moved. It's also funny looking back as nowadays it's far more normal to visit people you've met from the internet, it's not hard to drop $50-250 to visit a friend.

Didn't get into hard drugs so there's that.

[Metalliku]

like most of us here i definetly regret most stuff i've said and done during my first few years here because i was a dumbass teenager that didn't understand how the world actually worked. nearly got myself in trouble a couple times by posting stuff i shouldn't have in the first place and the usual problem users trying to get to me and make an embarassment out of myself, which definetly hurt my self-esteem and confidence to this very day. i had no idea what i was setting myself up for when i first joined here, stuff hurted.

that's not to say everything here was bad tho, tried to learn from my falls, made what i could of friends, got some help from time to time by some actually decent people, etc. i just wish i could have collaborated on something for the game itself before it became less active than a ghost town, which i could also say for a lot of other communities i've been *sorta* part of

now i'm an adult and my life's a bit of a mess. many plans fell trough, made myself more distant, the hobbies i once loved barely bring me any joy, i can't for the life of me make new friends, and i just feel stagnated overall. i try to fix as much as i can but time moves incredibly fast for me and i can barely see the light at the end of the tunnel, but i have to keep trying, right? no other way around

[K1ng_0f_N0thing]

I was so stupid as a kid on this forum. I actually posted my phone number multiple times thinking I was so cool for having a phone, I typed like a handicap when I was 11, and I made my name this of all things. I also learned "stick it in her pooper" from this place, told it to my friend who was talking about his crush, and I got in trouble in school because of it. I shouted out the Blockland Forums in a middle school homework assignment hoping I would find another person that played the game. I had big plans to make addons and help the community, but of course me being a little kid made that hard lol. I still wish I got more involved in the community and contributed more than I did.

Now I'm 26, working in a leadership position at a Fortune 100 company, driving cars that young me would go crazy over (GR Corolla and E36, not insane but still cool as forget). I still bring up stories of various stuff I read on the forums with a friend of mine who lurked at the time. Sometimes I miss this place man.

[the hacker]

I made my name this of all things.

Yeah I regret my name too, and I regret making a huge fuss about people making fun of me for it. Teenagers are stupid.

The one advantage of having a dumb username is it's marginally more difficult for people to track down all the dumb stuff you said. Odds are the username you use as a kid/teen won't be the same one you use in other places.

Ironically though I've been into console modding lately, so I guess I was a hacker after all.