Originally posted by WriggleRid3r
You make it sound like the entire forum is shitty because of us.
Originally posted by Yukkurirumia
"Well Wriggle if he was intending that then I don't see the reason why Mamizoo comes on the forum..."
Well Wriggle and Rumia, it is my experience that some people just love to hate. :p
(I kid, Mamizou. Please don't hunt me down and break my arms. XD )
Anyways, my story is relatively short, or perhaps it's longer than I remember. We'll both figure that out in a moment, won't we? :p
Well, I was in my 3D engineering/CAD Drafting class, and we finished a project relatively early, so we got to play around on the computers. Well, one of the other kids plugged their thumb drives into the computer, and after a minute, he bamegan to play this... strange game. Everything was blocky and pixelated, and the entire basis of this game was to simply survive and build. I always liked first-person games, so this game piqued my interest and stirred my curiosity, so I decided to ask about the game. I soon learned that the game was called "Minecraft", and that it was the simplest, yet most addicting game ever created.
I started put slow at first, but it didn't take long to get hooked. I played all the time; making countless worlds, completing half the game, getting bored of my current world, and creating a new one. This went on for a couple months before I got bored and searched for something more to do. Luckily, Minecraft was also a highly middle game, and after installing as many mods as I could, I was hooked again.
Now, as this was happening, my brother discovered Mcrolled, showed me, and began to do research. I did so as well, but instead of getting hooked on the music and games, I got hooked on the music and lore. I loved the music and found the characters they belonged to to be interesting and unique, so much so that I was constantly listening to the original music and remixes.
Well, I suppose it was only a matter of time before my constant Minecraft and Touhou video watching would prompt Youtube to point me in THC's direction. Unfortunately, I did not click the video, and continued on my merry way.
A few months had passed, and I was further consumed by Touhou's music and lore until I was as hooked to it as I was to Minecraft. The next logical step for me was to see if anyone else felt the same and combined the two interests, so I looked up "Touhou Minecraft". Well, I finally saw the Touhoucraft video of Gensokyo and joined that community, but it was at the worst possible time. I joined as soon as that server closed (temporarily. Last I remember, the Admin needed a break from it all.), so I decided to continue my search for another world. Weeks passed, and I found nothing else like THC, so I went back to my old habits of listening to music and playing Minecraft.
Yet another month passed by (that's a lot of months gone by, huh? :p), and I decided to revisit this idea of combining the two interests, and found "The Second Dream". I had a huge grin as I watched the video. Everything I saw was so cool, so much so that thinking about it still makes me smile. Such detail... The size was staggering, even though it was only the first version of the world. The time and effort devoted to creating the world had to be a lot, and I couldn't pass up seeing it for myself.
With my mind set on visiting the Gensokyo map, I typed in the server address and... got a message saying that my client did not support multiplayer. I had been playing on a cracked version of Minecraft, so I did not have the full version. Luckily, there was a download here on the forum, so I clicked the links and downloaded Gensokyo, Makai, and The Lunar City. As I waited, I surfed the forum, quickly reading through it all. I had never really seen a forum before, but I found the jokes and playful jabs tossed around to be interesting, actually welcoming. I was interested, but I was a loner at the time. Why join a community when I didn't really talk much anyway?
Anyway, I opened up the Gensokyo map and started to play, but found that everything kept catching fire. Half of the buildings burned down by the time I found them, making it impossible to enjoy the sightseeing. It was then when I went back to the forum to ask how to fix the problem, bit only members were allowed to post. I was a little reluctant to create an account, but I did it anyways. I would only need the account for one question, so what was the harm in it? I posted my question in the world download thread, got my answer, and reloaded the world. I quickly explored the entire world, and once I was done, I wanted to know more. I could clearly see that the world wasn't finished, and I had already read that the staff was planning to build more, so I stayed and watched the forum.
"Count to 10,000" was what convinced me to post a little bit more. Everyone seemed to be having fun, and I wanted to be a part of it.
I posted a little, but I was a little stiff when it came to posting. To be honest, I was not comfortable with joking around and talking because I never really did that before. Of course, I got more settled in as I posted, and became slightly more comfortable with the community, even joking around with some of the others on occasion.
Before too long, the RP section was established, and I was curious. I had never RPed before, but now was a good time as any to start. Besides, it would be a nice little distraction from the daily hum-bum of life. I then joined the first RP, ATWAG, and went from there. As time went on, I began to open up to the people there, and tried to be the voice of reason when I felt it was needed. It was something else. I didn't know how exactly I had made friends, but I soon found people I could open up to, as a friend should.
Well, I eventually got a Minecraft account and joined the server. When I got there, I was disoriented to say the least, but qscgup helped me get started. He was even so kind as to GIVE me a house. I have RARELY had anyone do anything nice for me, so I was stunned and confused, but grateful, even if I didn't know how to thank him at the time. (Shout-out to you, qsc! ;p)
Time went on, and I eventually got more involved with the server, helping out Alaiyosho and FlowerMaster with mass-destruction and mass block placing. I eventually met 99 (Leon), Aya, Deadmasterchan, and many others, and even though I didn't talk much, I appreciated their company.
Mumble is where things really changed for the better. To be honest, I was nervous to talk to everyone on Mumble, but I soon came to feel at home, and even met Tewi, TRXD, and many other people. I enjoyed listening to each person's stories and ideas, as well as sharing a few of my own. The exchange of ideas was something I always looked forward to. I think that was what I liked most about Mumble; hearing what other people thought for a change instead of just my own. I didn't feel quite as alone as in the past.
Fast forward to December 2013, ATWAG S2 started, and with it came many changes with the RP community, and I changed with it. I became more comfortable with speaking my mind to others, and just speaking to others in general. Sure, I'll admit, we did have a chaotic start, and we did have some timed where our problems would spill out into the other sections of the forum, but I would like to think that we have become more refined. Both the community and I changed for the better.
Anyways, the FTB server, "Release The Yukkuri", was created and I quickly joined it. I was one of the first pioneers in the server, and I loved every minute of it. Our little RTY group quickly set up base, and as our village grew, so did our numbers. I quickly found out that my role among our group was "the ability to not die." After all, the only time I would die would be when somebody would get stupid with the Touhou Items. XD
Well, I was also the kind of person that would help our others in any way I could. I helped FlowerMaster with more block laying, help one person get their stuff from the Nether (50 Embers and 5 Lobbers... still made it out alive. :p), and even organized a large raid on the Nether. That raid is where I met Sakores and OniKing.
Anyways, I think that about wraps up my story, or at least that wraps up my history as of now.
Wow! That was a lot longer than I was expecting. Looks like I remembered more than I thought I did. 0-0
Anyways, I personally think that I have been changed for the better by this game. After all, if it wasn't for it, I would have never met the people I have met, and I would still be the cynical, depressed, lonely guy I used to be. I'll be honest, I was socially awkward, quiet, and always felt.. hollow somehow. This game gave me a means to meet people from different walks of life and see that perhaps I am not alone in this world, that there are actually good people out there that are worth listening to. There are people out there that actually made me feel like I was of consequence, that I was important. Granted, I sometimes see or hear about disputes among the staff, or I hear about people hating on us RPers, but even when somebody annoys you or pisses you off, one has to remember that this is a community of many types of people, each one with a different personality, each one with valuable thoughts and ideas, hopes, fears, whatever. The point is that this community changed the way I view people. It taught me that some people occasionally fall frome grace and screw up, that some people just require you to be patient and see what's good about them instead of the bad, that if you give people a chance, you'll learn about them and begin to like them.
This server, this forum, this community taught me patience, how to talk to others, how to care about others, and above all else, how to simply be a better person. Believe it or not, I was the exact opposite of how I am now, and I hope I never go back to that.
Now, I know that this has been a long, melodramatic read (I really pour it on when I speak from the heart :p), and that this is supposed to be a story about how Minecraft changed us, but as I read back over other people's stories, as well as my own, I find that it's not just Minecraft or Touhou that influenced our lives, it was the community, the people we meet and talk to. The game and fandom were simply a means to bring us all together and influence one another. In the end, this is not a story about how a game influenced me, it is how a community changed me. ;p
