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This is something ive wanted to do for a long time, but never got around to. But now that I'm back, active in the community, i figure i'd finally tell my tale. this is how i got into quake:
so we begin our tale, id say, about, 5 years ago. i was living in gastonia, NC. my family had hit upon hard times, and we ended up staying at a homeless shelter. my father, decided then, he would rather be homeless at the beach, than in a mill town. so, he moved us to Wilmington...strait into ANOTHER homeless shelter. so, suffice to say, i was a TAD upset. he ripped me away from all my friends, my girlfriend. so there we were...
around the time we moved there, i was just starting my sophomore year of high school. i remember i was trying to keep a head up, despite my situation, but it was hard. so i remember that fateful day in drafting class, when a friend of mine brought in...you guessed it...QUAKE. he had brought it to fuck around when we finished (or ignored) our class work. we all had workstations connected to the schools LAN, so for the first time i played quake. it was actually the first pc fps i had ever played, as i had always played stuff on consoles. i remember getting my ass kicked, cause the guy who brought it in had been messing with it for a while. we played all the time, and i loved it. i even bought a flash drive to keep a copy of the game, as at the time i had no computer (homeless shelter ftw lol).
so as time passed we pulled ourselves out of homelessness, and i continued to quake. by my junior year i was the last one of my drafting group who still played. among my friends i gained a reputation, as it seemed i was obsessed with the game, hah. around that time i drifted into computer and network engineering, so when we would build LANs, we would test them with quake. i raped everyone. no one wanted to play with me, because of the vicious ass beatings i would dole out. and thus time passed. as a senior i still had my reputation, and enjoyed it, i suppose. to this day my friends that are still in school still build lans in class, and play quake. my legacy, i guess.
so i finished school, and after that i drifted away from quake. went on to other things. ive spend the last few years sorting things out for myself. today, things aren't nearly as grim for me. im enjoying life. so, the other day, i thought about quake, and how it kinda kept me going, gave me something to escape to. then i felt guilty that i left, because we need people here, and i needed to come back, to honor what the game did for me so long ago.
I'm not the best story teller (that title could go to shadowswift lol), but i think i got the gist of it. back then, it was more than a game. it was a friend, an escape. ill never be able to leave it behind.
and with all that said, im back. ive still got a few bugs to weed out in my quake installs, and once i get them worked out, ill be ready to jump back in. hehe, its good to be back
so we begin our tale, id say, about, 5 years ago. i was living in gastonia, NC. my family had hit upon hard times, and we ended up staying at a homeless shelter. my father, decided then, he would rather be homeless at the beach, than in a mill town. so, he moved us to Wilmington...strait into ANOTHER homeless shelter. so, suffice to say, i was a TAD upset. he ripped me away from all my friends, my girlfriend. so there we were...
around the time we moved there, i was just starting my sophomore year of high school. i remember i was trying to keep a head up, despite my situation, but it was hard. so i remember that fateful day in drafting class, when a friend of mine brought in...you guessed it...QUAKE. he had brought it to fuck around when we finished (or ignored) our class work. we all had workstations connected to the schools LAN, so for the first time i played quake. it was actually the first pc fps i had ever played, as i had always played stuff on consoles. i remember getting my ass kicked, cause the guy who brought it in had been messing with it for a while. we played all the time, and i loved it. i even bought a flash drive to keep a copy of the game, as at the time i had no computer (homeless shelter ftw lol).
so as time passed we pulled ourselves out of homelessness, and i continued to quake. by my junior year i was the last one of my drafting group who still played. among my friends i gained a reputation, as it seemed i was obsessed with the game, hah. around that time i drifted into computer and network engineering, so when we would build LANs, we would test them with quake. i raped everyone. no one wanted to play with me, because of the vicious ass beatings i would dole out. and thus time passed. as a senior i still had my reputation, and enjoyed it, i suppose. to this day my friends that are still in school still build lans in class, and play quake. my legacy, i guess.
so i finished school, and after that i drifted away from quake. went on to other things. ive spend the last few years sorting things out for myself. today, things aren't nearly as grim for me. im enjoying life. so, the other day, i thought about quake, and how it kinda kept me going, gave me something to escape to. then i felt guilty that i left, because we need people here, and i needed to come back, to honor what the game did for me so long ago.
I'm not the best story teller (that title could go to shadowswift lol), but i think i got the gist of it. back then, it was more than a game. it was a friend, an escape. ill never be able to leave it behind.
and with all that said, im back. ive still got a few bugs to weed out in my quake installs, and once i get them worked out, ill be ready to jump back in. hehe, its good to be back