Good evening, folks.
Now, I see at this point we're up to 15,000 and I've been around long enough to see some of our older members disappear, but if you've been here long enough, you probably remember me.
Anyway, if you don't remember or know me, I'll give you a quick shimmy on who I am, why I left, and why I'm coming back.
I got this game about a year and a half ago and enjoyed a pleasant and low-key existence in the Blockland community. Most of my builds were pretty bad, and I never really shared them. I was pretty active on the forums and hopped in single player now and then, but mostly did online stuff, applying to clans with my terrible builds and practiced eventing and stuff like that, all good fun.
However, as is human nature to an extent, I wanted to become more known in the community and generally, so I apped to BA after some various builds honing my skills and long story short, I got in. BA, which I think might still be around under a different name, was started by RotB member (ancient history, I know) and had high quality requirements to get in, and I produced what was, in my opinion a good build in regards to what I had been putting out before.
This was the beginning of my slippery slope downfall of egotistical douchebaggery.
And, as time went on, this was eventually my undoing. While I did have one extremely good build (now a default save in V11, and my accepted application in RotB) I invested way too much of myself into building and defending the Empire Tower, which older members may remember as my biggest blunder.
While most newer players (at the time) and some general players loved the build, certain players that were the greats of the greats found it over-hyped, kitschy, and generally mediocre, and in retrospect it was.
Now, one bad build won't ruin a player, but between my RotB membership, moderately successful clan, and a general popularity, I developed an extremely convoluted and misplaced sense of pride, and with this falsife sense of pride, I tried to argue my clan and builds' worth with certain people that weren't having any of it, and eventually made myself look foolish and childish.
So, I stand now hopefully a bit more mature, admitting of my own mistakes and wrongs, hoping that, without sounding too cliché, that we could turn a new page and hopefully start over.
