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GhandiEAGLE
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States11450 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-02 01:49:08
June 30 2011 04:15 GMT
#1
So right now, I am a 13 year-old playing starcraft every day I can. I can fairly say I am addicted, and really, it is what most of my current life revolves around at this point (kinda sad, but oh well). After my parents boot me off of the computer, I head downstairs to watch streams until 9 when I watch the GSL Code A. But frankly, it was quite a transformation from a few years before, when I had yet to discover the wonder that is starcraft.


It all started when I was 9 years old. I was constantly going over to my friend Siddhartha's apartment to play videogames. I did not have any game systems at the time, because my dad is like that XD. But Sid's dad was an avid gamer at the age of 44. So it was an immense pleasure to come over to his house and experience what I thought was the "next generation" (meaning Diablo 2 and other old games). Here I got my very first experience with an RTS game, Age of Empires 2. I played it, and it quickly became my favorite game. I became a terror with the Persians. I was actually pretty decent at the game until one day he broke the disc and so that was the end of that little excursion.


[image loading]


ohhh you broke it didnt you Sid


So anyway I had not played for a very long time afterwords (RTS wise, that is) and so when i was 10 and my friend started getting all excited about these weird videos with some dude named Dustin, I didn't give it much thought. I saw what looked to be a few weird velociraptor thingies chasing an armored glowey dude. This, I would later learn, was a battle report for SC2 and the zerglings of David Kim where about to engage the zealots of Matt Cooper. It took me many years to realize this XD. But either way, it is how the name "starcraft" first got into my head, and as it turns out, that 10 minute encounter with that battle report was very significant a year later. That time rolled around and it was Christmas weekend. Only a few more days until Christmas, and my parents had absolutely no idea what I wanted. I didn't either for that matter. But they were getting desperate, and I was pressured into the first few things that popped into my head. This is about how the conversation went:

Me: "Wow I cant believe Christmas is almost here!"
Father: "Yeah. What do you want for Christmas, Jeff?"
Me: "Well Father I honestly have no idea :/"
Father: "Jeff, say something helpful or I swear to GOD I wlil smack a kitten(a phrase I still use today )
Me: "ummmmm I dunno, i saw this game at target, it was next to something called starcraft..."
Father: "You want starcraft? Great, thanks!"
Me: "No, I didn't say I wanted it I said there was-"
Father: "Jeff, the kitten."
Me: *silence*
Father: *silence*
Me: *silence*
Father:... ... ... ... "beautiful day out, huh?"


So Christmas rolls around and I get this random game that I only got because I heard it's name a year ago. I got a game I didnt really want. Funny how that worked, hurrr durrr. I did not even know that it was an RTS. And that is part one of SC and Me. I might do part two depending on feedback


OH YEAH we don't own a cat, he wasn't threatening any actual living creature there XD





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Oh, my achin' hands, from rakin' in grands, and breakin' in mic stands
Lysenko
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States2128 Posts
June 30 2011 04:21 GMT
#2
If there's a time in your life for everything to revolve around Starcraft, it's when you're 13.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
WarChimp
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Australia937 Posts
June 30 2011 05:01 GMT
#3
Your dad is such a boss. Using the kitten threat, classic.
Soloturtle
Profile Joined February 2011
Canada323 Posts
June 30 2011 05:05 GMT
#4
Cliffhanger? :/
NEXT PART ASAP!!!
Cool
Cyber_Cheese
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia3609 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-30 05:57:07
June 30 2011 05:56 GMT
#5
Interesting story; what's with the tons of


unnecessary


line


breaks?
The moment you lose confidence in yourself, is the moment the world loses it's confidence in you.
mizU
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States11896 Posts
June 30 2011 08:17 GMT
#6
Broken


Enter

Key


Pretty funny..? You got a game you didn't want?

More detail?
if happy ever afters did exist <3 @watamizu_
GhandiEAGLE
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States11450 Posts
July 02 2011 01:46 GMT
#7
Oh I have a question, is the image loading for you guys? Because it is not for me... but yeah it was a picture of a sad panda. Here is the link to the picture I DEMAND YOU GET THE FULL EFFECT FROM THIS BLOG MWAHAHAHAHAHA http://bishop.gamerdna.com/images/3US1xisQ/sad-panda
Oh, my achin' hands, from rakin' in grands, and breakin' in mic stands
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