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Happy new year!

Posted by aListers - December 31st, 2013


I actually enjoyed last year!

So many things have happened this year. The most major was falling in love at the end of last year which caused dreams to be the most important part of this year. They've developed me greatly over the past year and they've taught me that I'm not quite as unique as I thought I was but I'm still very unique in my own ways. I'm not sure if it means I'm creepy or crazy but I've been either one of the 2 for many years now. 1 thing is for sure though - Im in love and I love every second of it.

The other major thing that's happened is the "Relapse of Runescape and Wrestling" which dominated my life from the latter half of last year until the middle of this year. It's a little sub-era. I still watch wrestling but I stopped caring about the WWE because it suffered the same problems as Runescape. WWE and runescape both backstab their veterans. This era I fought against these companies in mass boycotts. We didn't want the EOC and we still don't want John Cena. Our WWE one failed to do practically anything (people don't think there is any competition to the WWE and therefore keep watching it) but the runescape one brought Jagex to it's knees as 40% of users left runescape to play on private servers. On those private servers I became part of a community which brought back feelings I hadn't had since 2007 - which I still to this day consider to be the greatest year of my life on the internet. I made a name for myself on the 2006scape fourm games board and made some brilliant friends there. I was the most common name on the count to 50 before a mod game - which I brought here when I signed up. Unfortunatley the site was taken down by Jagex and then we all mosed to ProjectRS06. The community kind of went to die there as fights broke out between those who believed that Mod Vault had no choice and those who thought of him as nothing but a scammer. Eventually our boycott lead to jagex bringing out old school runescape which had no EOC. We had won but I never went back. I was F2P and will always be. There is still a hole in my heart from those days. I miss my friends on 2006scape. Still I learned the true value of community. It was that which caused me to love 2006scape and the year 2007. It wasn't the activity it was the people and I think this is one of the most important lessons of my life so far.

Oddly enough, these events both started last year but as they ended this year, I can look back at them and say with all my heart that I enjoyed them.  In terms of real life I've found my friends again. The year before it was a bit awkward because there was nobody I could truly trust in the group I hung out with. Now I know my friends and play cards with them. I've also applied to 3 universities, only 1 of which has replied and given me a conditional - so I have to pass Maths with a B before I'm allowed in. Seeing as I'm doing this level of maths over 2 years, I'll be severly disappointed if I end up getting a C which is what I was expected to have gotten last year if I hadn't decided to do it over 2 years.

Still, there is much left to enjoy in my last year of High School. All the neds have left so I like almost all the people left in my year. I don't bear quite as much pride for my High school as I do for my Primary School but I will probably miss my friends when we all go. Of the 2 people I trust most, 1 will be staying in the Glasgow area and going to a university there while I risk leaving the other to go to another City in Scotland and continue my studies - if I do well. I hope I'll find good trustable people wherever I go but unfortunaley that may not be the case.

This been a good, eventful year for me. I hope that 2014 will be as good if not better. Happy New Year everybody! I wish you all enjoy it like I enjoyed last year!


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Well, uh. You might be better off not adding me then. My name is kind of sort of NSFW.

Also wait, what about Runescape?

Yeah that could get embarrassing - especially seeing as my little brother now plays on it as well.

Yeah, in late 2012 jagex released an update that completely changed the combat system in runescape to the combat system in every other MMORPG. Naturally as a guy who had been playing since 2007 (and had recently begun playing again because of an anime called sword art online) I absolutely hated the update. Apparently so did practically every other veteran. As a boycott, most of us left runescape to play on a private server called 2006scape. After that, we played on projectrs06. The boycott left enough of a dent in jagex's pockets to force them to give us back our game - but in the end I never went back.

Met some good people there though so the experience was worth it.

That sucks. I used to play Runescape pretty regularly before I found NG.

Yeah. If you ever go back to it you'll realise that it's every other mmorpg now. Not much runescape left in it anymore.

Hm. No real reason for me to get back into it then I suppose. Whatcha been up to?

Watching higurashi, playing fire emblem, studying and celebrating. The usual.

Watching what?

Higurashi no naku koro ni. An anime.

What's it about?

It's about a group of friends in a village who are really good friends until the cotton picking festival where at least one of them goes crazy and almost everybody ends up dead. This then repeats with different events happening causing different people to go crazy each time. The village is stuck in a time loop but with different things happening.

Oh, neat. What happens in it?

I don't really know. I'm not finished it yet. I'm used to 12 episode animes but this is 50.

How far into it are you?

Episode 11 of the 2nd series.

What's happened in it so far?

Rika is trying to stop the repeat of the killings instead of just accepting them as fate now.

That's good.

I'm still at that spot though. I don't seem to be capable of watching an anime that's more than 25 episodes long.

What, how will I ever find out what happens if you don't watch more? Go watch more so you can tell me about it!

I'll have to do it later.

Okay. That works. So how've you been? Anything new?

I'm at the pessimistic part of the year so the only think that's new is the 3rd cold I've had this year.

That sucks. Sorry I stopped talking by the way. D'you have Skype?

Yeah I have skype. I'm not overly active on it but I go on from time to time. would go on more if my PC weren't broke. I believe my username is alistersng

I'm a few months late, but happy new year anyway!

Thank you. Happy late new year to you too.