I met him around the time I started using the forums. I don't recall having any one to one conversations, but I negatively judged his character. I have PMs with staff where we talk about him behind his back, and arguments with him in others. We somehow developed some sort of grudge between us both over the summer of 2012. Buuut in about November of that same year, he approached me asking if I would like to start a Minecraft server with him. I said yes, and we started making it in January 2013 with mba2012 and Jake_Bagby. From there we've been very good friends. He got banned in the February. So, overall, very mixed in the time before he got banned. But just slightly before that is when we became friends, and I actually think he's been one of the only constant friends in my life over the last four years
I didn't know why, but I felt like it might be an interesting story, and I wanted to ask more questions to keep the thread going, so I asked. I was right, it was interesting indeed.
yep yep yep (or no no no if you're asking if I'll make another after this... I woke up like an hour ago don't judge pls) Also just saw that bit. I don't mind people asking repeat questions, since my answers may have changed.
Hey Synth Soul. Happy to see you're still here! 1. How are you doing right now? 2. Do you remember me for anything from more than ±2 years ago? 3. If you could write a letter(s) to yourself (with in it anything, e.g. do this, don't do this, etc) in the past, to what age of yourself would you send it and what would be in it? (if too personal, feel free to either PM it or think of something else) 4. What is your "favourite" historic event? (and tell something about it? I like reading your stuff ) 5. Can you send a picture(s) of your "dragon"? (if yes, please go ahead )
I'm doing pretty good. Feels like I've got a piece of me missing because a certain friend is on holiday and she doesn't have too much contact with me right now, but I'm good. Honestly, I can't say that I do. At least, for a specific event - I just know you were there and pretty active on the forums. I remember a thread you made where you discussed how a teacher gave you a computer (unless that was someone else...); that has to have been late 2012 to early 2013, right? I don't think we actually properly talked until about a year ago I'd probably write to my fifteen year old self. I'd just moved to a different house, away from the one I'd lived in since I was five years old, and into a smaller one where I had to share a room with my brother. I didn't have a room to myself anymore, and that was honestly very degrading to me. Me and my brother had gotten used to completely different environments, and we have personalities that you don't leave alone in a room for two long. It was a living Hell for me and there were so many times I couldn't deal with it. I hated the house, too, just because it wasn't the old one, and I annoyed my parents just in case there was any hope of them saying 'screw it' and moving back (which was pretty goddamn stupid because that's not how it works). And the pressure of having to do well in my GCSEs was mounting. If I were going to write a letter to that kid, who felt like his life had been completely shaken up and like the whole world was against him, I'd say carry on with how you're doing. I'd tell him that I'm in a great place now, and I don't want him to screw it up for me. It disgusts me how I acted back then. I woke up my brother in the middle of the night just to cause a fight and show my parents how bad of an idea it was to put us together, I ranted about how much I hated the house and how it was my parent's fault for having to make us move because we couldn't pay the rent - completely ignoring the fact that the landlord was a POS who wanted to raise the rent despite letting the house fall to ruin and British landlord laws letting him get away with it, and I just... acted how a teenager acts, I guess. And yet, I wouldn't change a thing. It was this behaviour that lead me to get a lesson in humility, it was this behaviour that got some 'issues' sorted out, and it was this behaviour that eventually lead my parents to realise 'he's moving out in a few years anyway, just let him have his privacy in a room of his own and [my then 4 year old brother] can move back in when he's gone'. Without me acting how I did, I wouldn't have met an amazing girl from Germany one Friday night, I wouldn't have realised that the world doesn't revolve around me and stuff wasn't just going to work out how I wanted it to, and that being a whiny little ass wasn't going to solve my problems. Maybe the Norman Invasion of England in 1066. You can trace pretty much everything in the modern world back to that. Without it, the English language wouldn't have gone from weird Low German to Romanticised/fancy Low German. The Angevin Empire would never have been created. English Law and British political systems - which most countries now use, would never have been created. The Hundred Years War would never have happened. The War of the Roses (aka the Welsh and English kicking the French out) would never have happened. The English Civil War, where the first modern army was used, would never have happened. The British Empire would never have happened, or any of the stuff it created or caused. Or maybe the Fall of Constantinople. It brought the Eastern Roman Empire to collapse after thousands of years, and allowed the Ottomans to rise to dominance (they lost it once they ran out of stuff to militarily conquer, thus starting a long decline), which caused Catholic Europe to move away from Constantinople for their trade and take over the world. Also allowed them to go on to conquer the entire Balkans, the after-effects of which caused World War I. Or I could go with the English invasion of Wales. It was basically just England bullying all the Welsh kingdoms into submission. It's why Wales has so many castles. I feel like that may have been what caused Socialism to become one of the two biggest ideologies in the UK - Wales ended up being integral to the UK's coal production, and the English and Scottish exploited them, thus making the workforce very unhappy and turning to Socialism, even rebelling at one point and making the English try to drive the Welsh language to extinction since they communicated with it during that fight. i dunno man there's so many to choose from Not right now. Maaayyybe at some other point if I don't forget
I can second this. If I think back, there are quite some things I've done that I'm ashamed of. But that I still remember them to this day, also means I'm still avoiding doing similar things again, to this day. So yeah... I guess it's not too bad to make mistakes, if you can learn from them... Oh?
In general: Tea. Sometimes water. Fizzy drinks: Dr. Pepper and Fanta. Alcohol: Budweiser, any red wine I can get my hands on and mixed with coke
Thanks. I worked hard on it It will be indeed. Unless I can think of something better when I get around to it.
I can speak to them in Welsh. They're okay. Context: I ride horses in Wales. Because they're Welsh horses, they're trained in Welsh, and thus only respond to voice commands in Welsh. So for example I can't tell one to 'stop', I have to say 'arhoswch'. Happens with the dogs on the farm + hill I live on there too. It's like my secret animal language. Don't like the horses on either of the farms near my house in England though. The only horse to have ever bit me lives on one of these. :/
