This is really the 98th post but whatever >.< Now I'm sure the few of you who actually read this haven't been reading since post one, hell or even post fifty. Especially since I just recently brought it back to life. But I think number one hundred of anything should be a special grand event. This has been a huge year for me so far. So much has happened over the past 10 months it's crazy. There have been highs and there have definitely been lows. You could say all that's happened has led me to writing the silly little blog post. Now I now I'm not the most popular guy and God knows a bunch of people dislike me for my actions and words. But that's fine in my eyes, if you don't have those few people, it means you never done anything crazy or bold. But for the people that do like me, can stand me, whatever, here's my thoughts and story on this roller coaster of a nine months.
We can start by saying in January I wasn't expecting any of this to happen. I was just starting my 4th semester in college and I was playing through Tales of the Abyss in my free time. Yes wrestling, television, movies, music also consumed my non-school time, but it felt like it was just going to be another year of me going through the motions. Football was in the play-offs and school was in full swing by the end of January. I had just discovered Justin.tv as well. I would mostly lurk in wrestling and entertainment streams, but then I branched out and found the gaming section/community. One of (if not) the first caster I found was Jillers86! What else was she playing but Super Meat Boy, Donkey Kong Country 2, Yoshi's Island and late night Are You Afraid of the Dark? The Super Pink Gaming girl was one of my first addictions on Justin.tv and I'm proud to say Jill is still one of the sweetest and best casters out there. Believe it or not Jill (if you're even reading this) you were one of my first inspirations to start casting. Sure I'd get try to get involved in Sweetielise, GQ, and MANs chat/casts. But they were already hugely successful and it was hard to get that personal feeling from them when 200 other people are talking in the chat. Now I'm not bad mouthing anyone. Elise, GQ, and MAN all have fucking epic casts. I remember when GQ would always play the Super Mario World hacks with Wad421 on Skype. I vividly remember staying in Elise's room for over 27 hours when she did her 31 hour marathon getting 99% of Super Mario Galaxy 2 done. And when MANvsGame went through The Legend of Zelda Wind Waker, Super Meat Boy and Bioshock. Those casts were amazing! If any of ya'll are reading this, here's a thanks for all the laughs and fun times you let me have watching you play games. But Jill is still the one I personally consider THE ONE who kick started the flame to wanna cast.
Now I started off slow, like everyone does. I'm pretty sure my first cast was about and hour and a half of playing Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, that never panned out to anything. Haha I'm pretty sure I even streamed two of the Meagshark vs Giant Octopus movies haha. What I do remember is having four people pretty much from cast number one that were there and have been there ever since. Chad Simpson (aka the infamous AhmedJohnson69), Michael Ryne (aka the amazing BamXMike), the troll master himself (who I still don't know who he really is) Fat_Satan, and the trap man himself Adm_Ackbar. Now Fat_Satan and I have had our differences, but I know he's a good dude. And I never really see Ackbar outside of my casts, but he's a damn good person (and Mod). Chad, you're the most unaware troll of all time and at times you've had everyone calling for your scalp. But like I've always said, I know you don't mean most of it, and I'm glad you stuck with me this year bro. Not may people can say they know you like I do, but deep down, I know you're a good dude. Mike, old buddy, we've been friends on FB for a bit. I'm pretty sure you added me off Cantiona cause you thought I was funny and liked my Fat Jesus name. Haha. Thanks for being there from the beginning. We never talked to much unless it was about wrestling, but Ahmed brought you in my room and then we started the Skype calls while I played at it was amazing. And now, even through everything that has happened, I'm calling you one of the best friends a person can have. Cheers to you for being the, founding fathers you could say, of my channel. You two have always been on Skype and made all my casts that you're in funnier and better. Whether it be me playing Pokemon or even Roller Coaster Tycoon. Just having ya'll all call would always help me out.
The first game I played fully was Pokemon Gold version. Haha I may still have the save file and I vividly remember naming the Drowzee/Hypno on our team Pedobear cause we thought it was the funniest thing ever. Also my first highlight game from playing through Gold version as well, I Look Like Ryne's GF. I hit 50 and 100 followers quickly. And I was informed that when you hit a good milestone you have to have a marathon. So Pokemon Emerald-athon was born and I played it for 24 hours. My first 24 hour cast. I'm pretty sure I topped out at like 40+ viewers at one point (which is huge for me, even now). Also the infamous The Shiny That Got Away.... highlight occurred happened during this event, and I'm proud to say I got a 24 hour marathon cast done so early in my casting career too. Also during all this, some how the great and epic Mournless took a liking to me. Haha. Now I'd always seen Mourn modding away when I was in MANs cast. But then she comes into my room one night and i'm like "WTF, and almighty Mod from MANvsGAME in my room? What has the world come to?!" Nonetheless Mournless is an amazing person. Sweet, funny, fuckin' beautiful, and just a pleasure to hang with. Also that even at this point I've met and gotten to know so many kind and wonderful people was so humbling to me.
By now we're well into March and you guessed it, my next addiction of the year hit, the release of Pokemon Black/White. If you know me at all you know I'm one of the biggest Pokemon fans there is. Besides fourth generation games, and the shitty ones like Mystery Dungeons and Trozei, I own all of the main Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, and DS titles. Now even with me playing White version for over 50 hours the first week, I'd never neglect my casting. I think by now I'd finally ponied up and gotten my 360 controller so I could try and emulate SNES/N64 games. I remember the first one I tried was Mario Kart 64. Epic game, but I quickly realized that some games just don't garner a crowd. I played through Super Mario World and Super Mario World 2 and after a week or two of those and other SNES games I went back to, what else, Pokemon. This time since I had already WELL beaten both halves of Pokemon White version, I figured what the hell and started up on Black Version. Surprise surprise a newer game actually sustained viewers and I started getting a ton of new people coming in. Now I remember this day quite well actually. I was having mic troubles and had just gotten everything working and I was casting. Mike and Maggie you motherfuckers for doing this haha. This person named "Extraordinary_Girl" came in and started chatting and trolling shit. I was like who is this person trolling me? Then in comes BamXMike telling me Maggie caught wind of me and Ahmed saying we looked alike and wanted to come in or some shit. So the jig was up (Jesus what am I a detective from the 80s). I raged hard and to this day I'm pretty sure Maggie believed I really fucking hated her haha. And while we're on the subject I might as well say a few words about Maggie aka Extraordinary_Girl. Aisde from the meeting filled with anger we moved on haha. I didn't think she'd become a regualr in the casts (I still don't believe I have "regulars") but that's how it turned out. Then one day we got her on Skype with us during a cast and the rest is history. She would always come on call with me, Ahmed and Mike (or one of the combinations we'd concoct) during my late night casts. She was at her college in Minnesota at the time, so she'd sit in her dorm-room's bathroom during my late casts haha. Where this gem of a highlight comes from, The Only Toilet Humor You'll Ever Need. Maggie would also co-host with me when I did random day casts too (I so remember finally beating Donkey Kong Country 2 one afternoon with her on call). Jesus those afternoon casts were few and far between haha. She's just a sweet person, a pleasure to talk to and to have gotten to know ever so much over this year.
Can I talk about three more people now that have made this whole year even better for me? I think I will. Not long after March ended I'm pretty sure this dude named Eddie_Ruckus came into one of my casts. Little did I know at the time that he was a caster or that we'd become such good friends. Eddie is one of the most kind-hearted people you will ever meet and funny as fuck to boot. He's also one of the best video game players I've ever seen. I've watched him go through everything form Paper Mario (in one sitting), to Rock Band 3, to Dead Space 2 on hardcore. If you don't know the Ruckus you're missing out, and I'm seriously glad I've gotten to know him. The other person who started coming in my casts (who was a regular in Eddie's cast coincidentally) is Harugeki. Harugki is one of the funnest people you'll ever meet. But when you get him angry, oh boy is it amazing to behold. He's the biggest anime fan you'll ever meet. Hell he's even had two amazing anime movie/show marathons already. If you don't know Haru, get to know him. You won't regret it. Also Kristy aka Little_Miss_Gamer. I met gamer in one of MANs casts and she came into mine after one of his. We've been trying to get her a Skype for months upon months now, and it's hilarious how we're still trying. She's a great person, a great mod, and by gawd if she isn't one of the funniest people on JTV/TTV.
At this point, I'm pretty sure I'm at the point where I had just gotten another milestone and did my second 24 hour marathon, aka Pokemon Blue-a-thon! I think this was my favorite marathon cause I had everyone on call with me at some point. Maggie, Mike, Haru, Eddie, Chad, Moruny, etc. It was just a grad time and great support from everyone. I absolutely loved this marathon and remember it well. May and June runs together for me haha. I know I went on to beat Donkey Kong Country 3, Star Fox 64 and hell I even played Super Mario 64 and Mario Party for a bit. Also in these months I had like three movie marathons. One was actually viewer voted, and then two long ass ones that happened outta nowhere. I so remember modding Little_Miss_Gamer during the start of the second one. That's also when I'm pretty sure I met the awesome A_Confused_Pumpkin. Seriously, tangent here, but he's one of the coolest casters. He just got partner on Twitch actually and he's even sending me his HD-PVR for free. He's just an awesome funny, great person. There's so many of ya'll on Twitch and I love you all.
I don't remember much casting at the end of June and the beginning of July. Cept for the fact I finally hit 500 followers. So another marathon. Now the people that were there said the 17 hours I went was epic. This was Pokemon Yellow-a-thon. I got all the way to the Silph Co. Tower and beating my rival and I hit a block I couldn't get past and ended it. I've always thought it was a failure, but everyone else though it was a great. Haha. July was probably the worst month for me (at the time). I remember casting on and off and even remember finishing the epic TV series known as Scrubs. Great series. Everyone go watch it. Stuff went down and I'm not going to go into any of it. It was hard on everyone that was involved and knew and just completely crushed my life and spirits. Honestly of that month the highlight to me was during Maggies birthday cast when she sung for all of us. Simply beautiful. Maggie Sings! I also remember doing a precast for her and going through her old Xanga we found. I wish someone had highlighted (or I had been aware enough to save all my casts) of me and Mike commenting and dissecting all her bitchy 14-year old self.......................posts. But what a highlight those are in my memories. Also another good thing about that month was that I started going to the epic LookAtMyChicken's casts and getting to know Daniel so much batter. And also started going to the epic AriaBlarg's casts. Between Aria's casts and Chicken's it helped me so much getting thorough that month and I'm so glad you guys casted. I don't know would've done without guys just doing what you do.
Skip forward to August and my birthday cast. Having everyone on call as I played through Donkey Kong Country 2 was amazing and the fantasy draft for out league to start out that cast is amazing. Looking back eating cake and listening to my mom, dad, and aunt singing happy birthday will be a surreal moment in my life from now on. Then skip forward again to my final cast. It didn't go exactly as planned, but what did go down (giving away a DVD and having Maggie on call like she was during Blue-A-Thon), was great. If you didn't know I stopped for over a month and a half and to focus on my school semester. It's going well and I'm pretty sure I'm doing good in all my classes. And thanks for all the support and everyone saying ya'll miss me casting. It means so much that ya'll still like me when I know (myself) I'm a rotten person inside. Haha.
Now yesterday my dad passed away. Like I said, I didn't think it could get worse than what happened in July. I love my dad. We did everything together the past 6 years. From watch Jeopardy and sitcoms and wrestling, to just hanging and watching stand-up comedy, he was truly my dad and he can never be replaced in my eyes. If you don't know six years ago my dad came through a stroke, then two years later a heart attack, and recently he's been dealing with congestive heart failure and seizures. There's nothing I can say but he's the best dad anyone could ever have, and I wish ya'll could've known him like out family did. I love you dad, rest in peace.
Now to end this out I'm going to rattle off a list of names that have meant ever so much to me this year. I'm sorry I could find a place for you guys in this post, but know you're all very important to me and if I miss anyone I'm sorry and I love you. Angiefoxtrot, Retrozombie, JhnnyCrWsh, Chatia12, solidbeef, teh_ferret, squidmango, itssimplytee hyper_rarity, heyot6, whosetweetisit, brokenwings, ler, LJ, shh_im_asleep, billx9999, Dr. Mario, adoginwig, aklaba, panzer, mara, arj, alucloud, sparklies, lonegunspy, technomancer, bushwhick, and awoozl.
Well if you read this, you're a trooper and I reward you with a cookie. Thanks for reading and I love you all. <3
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