So i have been somewhat busy the past weeks, moving to the Netherlands from Germany. I work for Team Liquid now, and I am living at the Team Liquid headquarters in Utrecht. It has been a fairly short journey with Team Liquid when you compare it to the likes of salle, Hot_Bid or a lot of other (former) Team Liquid employees, all of them having been with Team Liquid for years, with myself only joining Team Liquid in early 2013. So far I have liked it quite a bit here, and the people at TLHQ are all very nice, so I am looking forward to living with them.
It is kind of funny thinking back to it actually. I did not follow StarCraft 2 back then, being still a WC3 fan more than everything else. I had just discovered that HasuObs was playing StarCraft 2 now, and that Liquipedia was a thing. One day I had tuned in on some English StarCraft 2 stream that had HasuObs playing, and when Liquipedia was not updated, I went ahead and updated it myself. I never thought this would go where it did in the end with myself becoming a Liquipedia staffer, a blue-name on Team Liquid even (although blue-names are not working on Team Liquid at the moment), and finally working for Team Liquid. If someone would have told me 4 years ago that I would work in esports by 2015, I would have laughed at him ^^. And all of that because I was bored and looked for something to do…
Moving to the Netherlands has been a huge step in life for me. Just until recently I still lived at my parents, so this is the first time moving out for me. Going to a foreign country adds on top of it, and it certainly was not a decision of seconds to leave Germany behind. Not being able to speak a single word of Dutch turned out to be somewhat of a hurdle, although most people here speak English or German just fine. I managed to fuck up registration on first try, will try again on Wednesday, one would think they would have an English language website for foreign people (but they do not -.-). All in all I am slowly getting settled, only time will tell what the future brings from here on out.
On November 23 2015 04:42 Ragnarork wrote: First time moving out of the family house -> moving to the NL to work at Liquid. You are some kind of modern hero.
On November 23 2015 12:35 lichter wrote: i hope you rename your blogs to "The Adventures of Phonetax: The Wizard's Apprentice"
Holy shit is that how you pronounce it?
no, we just wanted to make it easy for lichter, because reading and talking is hard for him
Okay cool
Follow up question: How do you pronounce it?
<audio controls><source src="http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/FOnTTaX/randomstuff/FOnTTaX.mp3" type="audio/mp3">Your browser does not support the audio element.</audio> (gosh text to speak is so bad)
On November 23 2015 12:35 lichter wrote: i hope you rename your blogs to "The Adventures of Phonetax: The Wizard's Apprentice"
Holy shit is that how you pronounce it?
no, we just wanted to make it easy for lichter, because reading and talking is hard for him
Okay cool
Follow up question: How do you pronounce it?
<audio controls><source src="http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/FOnTTaX/randomstuff/FOnTTaX.mp3" type="audio/mp3">Your browser does not support the audio element.</audio> (gosh text to speak is so bad)
On November 23 2015 12:35 lichter wrote: i hope you rename your blogs to "The Adventures of Phonetax: The Wizard's Apprentice"
Holy shit is that how you pronounce it?
no, we just wanted to make it easy for lichter, because reading and talking is hard for him
Okay cool
Follow up question: How do you pronounce it?
<audio controls><source src="http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/FOnTTaX/randomstuff/FOnTTaX.mp3" type="audio/mp3">Your browser does not support the audio element.</audio> (gosh text to speak is so bad)
EPT
