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I've finally reached the last major post milestone recognized by TL, after five and a half long years. It's kind of interesting to think back to my early days of involvement in the competitive Starcraft community and realize how young and how much of a different person I was. When I first began watching TSL, GOMTV, OSL, MSL, reading the forums, and hitting the ladders of ICCup, I was 12 years old, still very much a child. Certainly I still am in a few ways, but over my time here I've become a totally different person. While in the last year or so the Starcraft community has been far less of a focus in my life than in the five years prior, I still claim that Starcraft and this community were things that greatly shaped my childhood. My biggest hobby, my biggest accomplishments, my most time wasted - all of these things were in Starcraft. When I retired from competitive Starcraft last April it was quite a milestone in my life, moving past a game that had defined me for many years. I'm proud to say that I think Starcraft and TL have been major positive influences on me as a person, and my experiences have been valuable and irreplaceable. Yesterday I stumbled upon some old chat histories from 2011 and reading through them I remembered just how closely knit I was in this community, and I ran upon a link to this quote:
You mentioned Pokebunny in your OP. This is an example of a young man who is the "one in a million," with both the talent, professionalism and history to warrant being on a professional team. For every one Pokebunny (and he may be one of a kind outside Korea), there are probably thousands or hundreds of thousands who aren't. - v1dom, manager of Eleven Gaming
This post was in a thread (ironically made by a 13 year old Xenocider, who has ended up becoming more talented and successful than I ever was) that complained about the difficulties of young players making a splash in the Starcraft world due to age restrictions. Even after I quit SC2 I still got messages from people occasionally saying how I inspired them as a young gamer, and that really made me happy - that I did something that made a difference in people's lives, even if it was just doing something I loved. I'm not vain enough to think that I'm unique or better than others in this regard, there have certainly been people like me that have been even more successful and influential, but I'm proud that I did accomplish something, and there is proof of that still out there. Gaming is still a big part of my life and I hope to make it pro in Dota 2, but it's not something I particularly expect or rely on, I'm not going to drop out of college for it nor am I going to throw aside other important things in my life.
Anyway, this blog doesn't have much of a point, more just a personal reflection spurred by seeing the number 9999 next to my name.
To six years and 10K more! See you again when I'm 24.
Nick
 
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East Gorteau22261 Posts
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United States11393 Posts
Not every 12-15 year old can say that a blackbelt threatened to beat them up either.
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United States23455 Posts
Grats on your 10k posts! Many many more!
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On January 09 2014 06:13 Harem wrote:
Not every 12-15 year old can say that a blackbelt threatened to beat them up either.
Oh man, do you have the link to that? Totally forgot...
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happy 10! and may your next 10k be just as awesome!
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United States11393 Posts
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Grats on the 10k! I remember playing some games with you on iccup in the 'sd' chat channel, I think we were both c- at the time, but I stopped playing a while after. I was surprised to find out later that you were so young.
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1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
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On January 09 2014 11:35 lichter wrote:
more like slowpokebunny
slowpoke has better stats than Buneary tho
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United States11393 Posts
On January 09 2014 06:13 Harem wrote:
Not every 12-15 year old can say that a blackbelt threatened to beat them up either.
Not every 12-15 year old can also say that during a starcraft match, they said stuff like, "Smix <3" and "I'm halfway there, Smix"
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ragers like idra and artosis....artosis wut?
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On January 09 2014 12:47 Harem wrote:Show nested quote +On January 09 2014 06:13 Harem wrote:
Not every 12-15 year old can say that a blackbelt threatened to beat them up either. Not every 12-15 year old can also say that during a starcraft match, they said stuff like, "Smix <3" and "I'm halfway there, Smix"
don't make me remember that 
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happy 10k!  Wow I joined at about the same time as you did and I am not even at 500 o.O
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Lalalaland34502 Posts
On January 09 2014 12:47 Harem wrote:Show nested quote +On January 09 2014 06:13 Harem wrote:
Not every 12-15 year old can say that a blackbelt threatened to beat them up either. Not every 12-15 year old can also say that during a starcraft match, they said stuff like, "Smix <3" and "I'm halfway there, Smix"
Wait what now
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SO you got the last TL achievement for posting or is there a Shellbot achievement as well ?
Gratz ^^
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gratz poke, keep up
and stay active with tl, see you at 20k
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Don't forget the showmatch that happened as well during the LAN.
Congrats!
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EPT
