Sounds like an awesome night, Settlers of Catan is so much fun.
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this site was great back in the day. then the competition died for various reasons and it became more of a hangout for some few people. i get the community thing; it wasn't friendship or particular people liking u or whatever, instead it was just playing the game, and anyone was welcome to do that.
you were the first post and I literally skipped right over it. to answer your question my night started off with my buddies coming over and playing Pokémon Snap, then switching to Settlers of Catan, and then eventually watching Space Dandy with heavy drinking during all of those
i've been working nonstop so I could take off the fourth and fifth so I haven't had a good night since I made this thread. judging by my posts I think I had a great time though
yeah the whole paff thing was really weird. i'm pretty sure to this day nobody knows what happened or where she is, but that's a discussion for another day.
anyway to close this thread, i drank 10 beers by myself whilst talking to myself on a website nobody cares about anymore. goodnight.
i was going to write a long post but it's really just you, nbt, crypto, slow, empire, and paff from back then. you're the only one i still keep in touch with from back then.
post-2015, togepi, satan, annajane, and whoever else i still talk to occasionally.
anyway more incoherent rambling but i drank a lot and your question struck a chord with me. that entire 2011-ish period with you guys, fading (even though he probably cheated), crypto, maxwell, and all of those other amazing players really shaped the way i viewed the site and websites in general, because even though i hated most of you guys, i felt really close to you all at the same time. it was a weird, irreplaceable duality.
one more beer left if anyone else wants an essay of nostalgia. i don't forget my roots.
i don't know why i wrote all of that, i drank a heck ton.
cracking open my 10th beer while i write this, but man, even though we've had our fair share of differences (for example a few months ago when i said in a skype chat with slow and togepi that "i hate tatami,") you and slow were a pretty big part of why i tried to actually improve at mafia so much. i remember vividly playing games with you, crypto, slow, and utahraptor (RIP ronbrohard), and i would just lurk throughout the entire day and not really give a , and even though you were like 14 at the time, you didn't hold back on calling me out on my , and that made me reflect on my playstyle a lot. that was back when you were chesskid and i think empire was still technically your secret alt, if i remember correctly (i probably don't remember correctly). the reason i remember that so vividly is because i was in the middle of a game of Team Fortress 2 when you tore me apart, and i realized if i actually wanted to win mafia games i should take it semi-seriously, so i went from speedofstupid to letzshake and tried to improve my play as much as possible.
i remember there used to be "Most Underrated Player" topics and every once in a while people used to say i was the best players without a trophy, and that always made me really happy. and then before i knew it i was placing fourth right before gira in A&D rounds, and i felt like i was finally a decent player, and eventually i won a bronze after an emotional rollercoaster of a round and a silver which i may or may have not unfairly won due to unpausing a round that should have probably not been unpaused, but i misunderstood.
i remember the first thread i ever made on the forum was after lucid shut down the site because of maxwell, and i had no idea what happened and i unknowingly made a thread about site moderation maybe 10 minutes after and i got torn apart because it was way too soon and i had no idea what just happened because i was out of the loop. it was a good experience though and it made me want to get in the loop instead of being an outsider
i honestly remember the first mod application i sent and it was to lucid, back when he modded people personally. i probably still have the draft in my email somewhere. then he demodded me, vigoroth, and nbt because we disagreed on how some rule should be modded (harassment if i remember correctly), and months later after i got over how salty i was over it i reapplied again when laexio was admin and he modded me.
that whole time period i look back on with so much nostalgia. epicmafia 2.0 had a pretty big influx players from 4chan or whatever, but at the core it was still a tight knit group of players that just really liked to play mafia, and i've tried to recreate that feeling since then but it's never really been the same. maybe it's because we all grew up, or the site's just never been the same. who knows.
the 2011-2012 era was probably the only part of this site that i look back at fondly. it might just be nostalgia but for me, late 2010/early 2011 was when i was really trying to prove myself as a mafia player trying my hardest to joining just scumhunt champ to be with nbtnbt, pafff, kpcptmku, and nanita, who were my favorite players on the site and i had so much respect for, and that definitely shaped how i view the site. that was such a weird point in the site when we were in a transition between the constant site crashes, trolling, and cheating of epicmafia 2.0 and the competitiveness of the tiered lobbies of epicmafia 3.0 where i felt like i had something to prove, and even though i remember having a 45% win ratio at 15k points when i asked to join jsc and nbt told me to off, i tried my hardest to improve myself to the point where i eventually got positive
pie charts were a big deal back then. the site felt so much more competitive back then and even if it was really hostile it felt much more like a community.
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I'm still waiting on wall of text maybe Shacky passed out
