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That's such a nice story except when the bit where you met Lossy and you talked about power-hungry admins.
My story isn't as sweet as Troll's and I go pretty unrelated into my aL history but whatever.
I got CoD 4 for ROTU, I came from CoD5.
The day I got it was really nice actually. It was Christmas and I went over to my cousin's for dinner and gift-giving. It was pretty nice (except the carrots soaked in apple juice or something) and a good day overall. I had asked for CoD4 for Christmas because I had seen videos of before the dawn (zombies mod) and it intrigued me. Later I'd go on to find out every BTD server is pretty much closed but I still found ROTU. Anyway, I left early because it got boring quick, you know how it is at family gatherings X_X. I don't think it had snowed but it was one of those cold quiet nights, very peaceful.
I got back home and I was very eager to install CoD4 (Oh how sad) and I did. Then, I found the patches and downloaded those. Back then I had pretty horrid internet speeds so it was a pain but I installed the patches and was ready to shoot some zombies. I dunno why I wanted to play ROTU so much even though I had access to custom CoD WaW zombies, it just looked so fun. Then, when I joined a random zombie server, I was greeted with more downloads of maps and mods. When I finally got in, it was me and this other guy on that tiny Simpsons ROTU map. It was a blast (a lot better than it is for me now, probably because it was new to me). Even though I was shooting undead AI, I still felt relaxed and cozy.
Later, I found Jericho's deathrun videos when looking at the recommended videos section after watching a CoD4 zombies video looking for IPs. I believe that's how it happened anyway. When I watched Jericho's videos, I was like 'HOLY SHET' and joined the IP instantly. The first server I played was... iceops. Probably the worst server experience I've ever had. I was at prime noob stage and the people back then treated me like sh*t. I didn't like the server (I have nothing against it now) so I googled to find another server. That's where I stumbled across Braxi.org's forum post where braxi announced the new 1.2 beta server. I thought "omg beta exclusive cool!" and once again, instantly connected. I think I found myself playing bounce when I connected but I'm not exactly sure... I kept playing and met some really nice people. The nicest person I met there had to be this dude called 'imtroll'. I'm not even kidding, he was the kindest admin there. He gave me his steam but I was hesitant to add because back then, I believed he was a troll. I'm not joking. The only other person I can remember is Jules I think, sorry to all the other admins at the time :*
Anyway, I went to the forum of the server after being directed by 'imtroll' (I think) and introduced myself. Everyone at the forum were really friendly and I just kept checking at posting. Somebody told me I should I apply but I wanted to wait until I had more than just the minimum requirements (10 posts etc). I applied when I had 21 posts and after a lot of 'good lucks', I was accepted within.. 2 days or a week, I can't remember. One or the other ;) That's when I became a member of AfterLifegaming. I then met BraXi on ruin v2 and questioned if she he was the real one (yes I thought she was she back then). Later, I added him her them on xfire and when they accepted, I felt honoured. Then I went on to meet hawk- NOPE let's skip over that bit!
Another noteworthy character I met was the legend Darmuh. Darmuh V1 (the map) had been on aL deathrun servers for ages and when he joined on the map dungeon after Nova stopped, I questioned if it was the real darmuh, the one that made the map. Of course, he was freaked out, I WONDER WHY HMMM. I was nearly a mod for aL deathrun but that's not important. I won't go into the gmod history because that's boring..
blah blah skip a year or two of failed servers, retired admins and two unappreciated erotic stories I wrote, I heard of raid and visited the website back in the day it had a 1.1 server, I didn't know any of you back then ^.^. Then, I finally joined Raid after my brain realised aL was crumbling to bits in February 2014. Now I'm here, with all you guys and I couldn't be happier :*
tl;dr
p.s Didn't do proper paragraphing sorry :P
