it's thanksgiving and i wanna make a post that i've been planning to make for years but never really had enough reason/substance to until now.

this is every user that i've met/known primarily from this site (that i can remember) that i'm thankful for. hope you all enjoy.

i'm gonna forget a lot of people so please forgive me if your name isn't on the list but you think it should be.

starting as far back as i can remember, 2013:

Swoonis - originally introduced me and my stepbrother to this game. he discovered the game via 4chan and didn't actually start playing public matches until 2012 when this account was first made, albeit i myself didn't start until 2013 so that's when me and him first started playing together. he's been my closest friend for the past almost decade, so while we didn't meet on epicmafia, the time we spent together here on this site has definitely been a huge part of our friendship thus i believe he truly deserves this kind of a tribute.

Guile - without a doubt one of the most therapeutic guys i've ever met during what was definitely the toughest time in my life. i'm so grateful to this dude and would love to be able to talk to him again one day.

Christopherzilla - to date still the greatest sandbox owner of all time. lots of fond memories with this legend.

Kenny - a true OG, i'm a little critical of how he developed beyond 2013 but as a whole still someone i think of with a positive manner and hold pretty dearly to my heart.

(kitty)keri - generally just a great friend and nice person to talk to.

guisergirl - again just a fantastic friend

Phawkewe50 - another therapeutic person, one day hope to get a chance to apologize for the heartache i caused her back in the day.

HEAVY HEARTED honorable mentions to Wubat, Nikke, Nitroxium, rockgirlnikki (sorry for the falling out we had), Sishen, LuapNoir, luis4rod, Maxog, PissProblems, and Plissken - all GREAT people that i'm happy to have spent time with.

and of course to everyone i forgot - you're no more or less important than anyone else on this list, just my brain only has so much to remember. sorry!

i quit for a while, leaving late 2013 and returning for one day in 2014. my real comeback was in late 2015, where i met a lot more great people:

Kyanite - definitely the one person who made this game enjoyable for me again, and kept me coming back time and time again in times where i probably wouldn't have otherwise. eternally grateful to you and hope we get to talk again one day.

two ladies, SnowyB and Gloria (can't remember Gloria's main account, she had a lot of them so i just refer to her by name) - both two people who opened my eyes and showed me how emotionally connected i can get to people i've never met in person. will always love both of you with all of my heart.

oneoh - spent a lot of time talking to this guy outside of epicmafia and am glad i did, definitely one of the coolest and chillest guys i've ever met. sorry things ended the way they did.

alicetama - a great friend and someone i was always happy to see pop up in my games.

ayyyyylmao - another fantastic friend i'm glad i met. helped me quite a bit during tough times.

NekoMANRI - another great friend who i was always glad to see in games.

more heavy hearted honorable mentions to alexythegreat, CollegeGyrl, Lyre, DrSharky, Euphrasie, Golbolco, Shuckle, Ace, Cytomander, dia, moonlightseal, vaporweva, Jampire, DouradaGrelhada, and MissLynch - all great people as well, still talk to/see many of you around even to this day. glad i met all of you.

again, lots of love and respect to anyone i forgot as well. less people this time but definitely still a few.

i also ended up quitting partway through 2016, giving my account to someone else to get it banned for a while while i dealt with more serious matters. i came back late in 2017 under a new name (which i changed in early 2017), and met even more great people:

bone - literally my best friend ever and without a doubt someone i'm ETERNALLY grateful towards. we've been talking almost every single day since february and i've loved every second of it. without a doubt someone i consider family more than my actual biological family and someone i hope to always be friends with for as long as i live. love you lots, bone senpai.

mysteriouscrystals - i forgot how we even met, but i really do love talking to you and am glad we did meet. seriously one of the most interesting and entertaining people i've ever met.

geminiqueen - someone i had a lot of positive feelings towards from the moment i met them and someone i really wish i got closer to. a great friend, never a moment of boredom when talking to her.

pastelaries - someone else i hope i'll one day have a chance to apologize to. another great friend.

cory - i know you've been on the site for a reeeeeally long time, but i never knew you personally before 2017. i don't agree with a lot of the things you say, but i do respect how you treat your friends and the fact that you kept things around here really interesting for so long.

littlewhitey - one of the first new people i spoke to upon my return, definitely a great friend who always treated me really well.

and for the final wave of heavy hearted honorable mentions: Herredy, aboveandbeyonce, jyshuhui, COINTOSSUSER420, momokas, WeenieButtWarrior, MusicBoT, Llewell, Associate, cub, Uprizzle, hedger, FilthyLawn, jingahegami, Travis, zela, and jacobkrin - all fantastic people that i'm glad to have met.

and once again, love and respect to the few people i forgot. i know there will always be some.

i quit for a while earlier this year but came back a few weeks ago. still, even in this short time, i've been lucky enough to meet one other really great person:

Volley - really grateful to him just for looking past my vulnerability and powering through his own problems just to help me and make me feel a little better during my own tough times. without a doubt extremely therapeutic, thoughtful, and possessing one of the biggest hearts of anyone i've ever met.

quick honorable mentions to Moldyches and YellowPear - just for being super cool people who i also had the honor of meeting during these last few weeks.

and of course, this entire list considered, to everyone i did forget. maybe i'll try to update this list in some way in the future, but for now, this is everyone i'm extremely thankful for that i know primarily from epicmafia. lots of love to all of you, and i hope that this list only grows, both physically and spiritually, as we continue on into the future.

for anyone who may not be 100% sure of who i am, my names over the years have been Guthix, Alne, Xethora, and now PrinceAltoid.