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I've been back for a while now. If you've read one of my previous blog entries titled "The Start of Something", you'd know that everything reminds of progaming. Well, actually, only if you've read the last reply, which was made by me ... while intoxicated.
But I want all of TeamLiquid to know that I want all of you to be able to experience the joy of progaming. The true joy. The kind that I feel. Because as much as I move on with my life, the less I expect to think about progaming.
And do you know what happens?
I end up thinking about progaming even more.
I know that I say that I don't keep up with the current scene and all, but honestly and truthfully, this has been a big part of my life (even during the times when I had nothing else) ever since I was 12 years old.
So, I've been thinking of compiling a progaming/diary type of document specifically for TeamLiquid.
Please, my fellow Americans (although I am an immigrant myself), do not take any offense when I say that I remember where I was during the SKY matches between Yellow and Reach just as much as I remember where I was during 9/11.
I'm thinking of calling this document "Here and There". Now, this can go either one of two ways. Either blend in my contemporary experiences with progaming (as I've kept a hidden diary since the age of 13), or just a flat-out, straight-put, history of progaming. And when I say flat-out, all you of you should know that my previous blogs were written with the idea of some sort of restriction in mind. For example, I typed my H.O.T article in OpenOffice and I became extremely discouraged when I realized that my writing had reached almost 8 pages. This is why I left out things like his relationship with )IS)Side and his rivalry with NaDa. Because I was scared of taking up too much space.
As I'm starting college in January, I want to leave TL.net with everything I have. But as I have grown to love this site (it used to just be a fucking gigantic annoyance during my Google searches for anything progaming related), I have come to realize that this is where the SC progaming fans will always flock to. This site and nothing else.
So, in shorter words, should I mix my life in with this, or should I just keep it a bare-bones, nothing but analysis, report which covers progaming from roughly 2002 until now?
If you want my advice, I take progaming on a deeply personal level. I'm going to be 21 next year. I started following these now 20-something Korean men when I was 12. So, even though I could go either way, I'd rather go with my gut, with my life.
But, alas, like I said ... I want this to be for TeamLiquid and TeamLiquid alone. What if some newbie 5 years from now visits and says "What the fuck is this guy talking about?"
I leave it up to you, my dearest friends.
 
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I wonder where I was during 9/11...
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Aotearoa39261 Posts
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Well, if you'll remember, oTTeR (aka Boonbag), made a topic very similar to this one. But everyone agreed with his linear tale because he actually lived in Korea during this time.
However, I actually remember watching him on Game-Q during this time.
So, it is completely up to majority of you, the TL.netters.
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I vote personal, it's almost always the most entertaining and it would get people who don't know the earlier years of the scene more interested in reading about it. Also, the veterans who know all about it / were there themselves, would have something to gain from reading it as they're seeing something they know about from another persons perspective which is always interesting.
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go for the personal one. that's what made your blogs so unique. the style.
but as plexa said: if you could try to bring as many facts in as possible (which you did in the past by the way) it would be great.
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Baa?21243 Posts
Though kind of a worthless bump, I do agree.
I love your writing style, please write more ^^
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Pubbanana you are the most awesome guy in the world, I wish you'd write more.
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I'm still working on it, I haven't forgotten. I was just looking at my older blogs today to get some material. It's going to be pretty gigantic.
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Hong Kong20321 Posts
this must be humongously epic O__O
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When it comes to you Pubbanana, if it was up to me I wouldn't change a thing.
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I actually got really, really, really embarrassed when I went back and read the shit that I wrote when I was younger. Oh my god ...
I put it off and put it off with the fear of people seeing it and calling it over-indulgent and emo and homosexual and other such things.
But, if you guys haven't forgotten, there's really no point in pretending like I didn't say any of this. I said I would write, I wrote it, I got embarrassed, I put it off. Well, I guess there's no harm anymore, people will think what they want.
Expect this sometime soon. 
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when will you deliver your emo bs compendium?! *eagerly waiting*
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Pubbanana if you asked even once I'd marry you.
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It's been quite a while and I feel like such a prick for making everyone wait so long. I've been so busy with school and the new female in my life (I have to add a section to talk about her, I just have to, I'm sorry) that I haven't really been able to respond to PMs and the questions about this.
Anyhow, I'm on my way right now to pick up some alcohol to get the courage to finally post this. 
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Pubbanana, I really don't want you to. Knowing someone like you exists in this world makes me happy.
Everything you are and do shows how you faithfully followed these players for so much of your life. People don't need a piece of writing to see that. You are the only one in the world that deserves what you wrote, and if you ever wonder what makes you so special you have it right there for you.
If I had two lives I would give them both to you. I love you Pubbanana.
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On May 25 2010 11:16 ForSC2 wrote:
Pubbanana, I really don't want you to. Knowing someone like you exists in this world makes me happy. I post here cause that's how certain people know I'm posting, it's just a ritual by now.
Everything you are and do shows how you faithfully followed these players for so much of your life. People don't need a piece of writing to see that. You are the only one in the world that deserves what you wrote, and if you ever wonder what makes you so special you have it right there for you.
If I had two lives I would give them both to you. I love you Pubbanana.
I'm really grateful to you for all of the positive things you say about me, but I feel like I owe something to everyone since I'm not the type of person to go back on my word. Actually, I sort of went back on my word by re-writing certain parts during March so that none of the actual quotes from my Livejournal bullshit actually appear in the piece, but still: I said I would post it, so I feel like I should post it.
You're a very genuine person and I hope I can get to know you better.
PS: I've had four 24oz alcoholic beverages and I still don't even feel slightly buzzed, so I'm going to buy more alcohol. This might sound like a bad idea, but believe me, nothing motivates me in a positive way like booze. I am truly Surinamese.
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