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| Name | Mike | |
| Age | 32 | |
| Register Date | 12/17/2006 | |
| Last On | 04/03/2008 11:26 am | |
| Location | Elyria, OH, United States of America | |
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| My Server | Mannoroth |
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| PC | Age of Empires II, City of Heroes, World of Warcraft |
| Playstation | FFXII |
| Xbox | Madden Football |
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| DISCLAIMER: I made the mistake of leaving my computer on and logged in to this site while my adolescent nephew was visiting. Under my login, he rated people, without regard to anyones feelings. To those of you who were affected by this i sincerely apologize.
Let me give you a little insight into who i am.
I've been playing console games all my life. All the way back to the Atari 2600 days. I've been around for the first NES, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, Turbo Grafix, Xbox, Gamecube and PS1 & 2.
My life was very ordinary until the age of 20. I had already dropped out of high school and gotten deeply involved in drugs. They had taken control of my life. I decided that i didn't want to follow the road i was heading down and needed to make a change. So i got up off my butt, went and got my G.E.D and joined the military.
After Basic and A.I.T (Advanced Individual Training) i was sent to germany where my life actually began. I spent 7 years there and i saw and did a great many things that most people won't have the chance to do in their lifetimes.
I've gone skiing in the Black Forest of Germany. I've seen the devil's playpen of Amsterdam..........three times :P. I've walked along the beaches of the coasts of Spain. I've seen the historically beautiful city of Paris and climbed to the top of the eiffel tower. I've been to the magnificent churches of Austria, drove through the mountains of the alps and rode the rivers of Venice.
The military afforded me the oppurtunity to see all these great places but it was also the cause of my greatest tortures.
After my 7 years in Germany was coming to an end i decided it was time to get out and move on. Then came 9/11. Two weeks before i was scheduled to come home to the states i was told my unit had been given orders to go to Iraq and i was being involuntarily extended to finish my term of service.
I was given first hand experience of war. Things happened that at the beginning of the year scared the life out of me but towards the end i paid no mind to because they were an everyday occurence.Crude mortars being shot into the post sometimes 2 or 3 times a day, bullets ricocheting off of my guard tower at 2am, RPG's flying 8ft over my head only to land harmlessly across the street.
During the course of that 12 months i lost a great many things. I lost my wife to someone i had considered a friend, and with that my son, my best friend, my dog, hennessy :(. I lost any sense of pride i had in the military, and any shred of respect for the politicians who run this country. I lost hope.
What i gained was perspective. I learned to see through the bull$h!t and form my own opinions of how things are and not just take what the media feeds me. I gained respect for the soldiers i helped carry into the hospitals and humility knowing that the bullet they took was for me and my family. I gained the common sense to know which iraqi children were trying to hustle me and which ones were truly desperate for food. I gained an appreciation for the things that i still had in this life and the people waiting for me back home.
After i got out of Iraq i still had three months before i could go home. They call it decompression. Basically its a buffer period after a deployment where they make sure you're not going to go crazy and blow up a mini mall or something. During that time i discovered online gaming. My first MMO was City of Heroes, but after reaching the level cap i was left wanting more. Lack of Endgame forced me to make a change. This is when i discovered WoW. A buddy of mine was trying it out and gave me the free trial. I've been hooked ever since. It provided me an escape from the real world where i was merely a social security number and a job classification. In game i was someone you either loved or hated, the troll rogue Ratha. Whether i was saving you from being ganked or picking your guild off entering BRM while waiting for my raid to start, you knew who i was.
Unfortunately, WoW is all i have right now. My divorce left me with nothing. Every friend i made in the miltary are spread throughout the country and the friends that i DID have here have either moved away or gone to jail. So i cling to my friends in game, i always know they'll be there and i can talk to them whenever i want. Thats one of the great aspects of an online community, you make friends with people who you wouldn't normally neet during the course of your daily routines.
Well, if you actually made it through that entire story i thank you for spending the time and hoped you enjoyed it.
How much is fact and how much is fiction i leave up to you, but there is only one way to truly find out, and all you have to do is ask :) |
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| From Serena on 12/30/2006 05:09 am |
| | Wow.. that's one long story.. well WoW ftw! You should join the GG guild on Altar of Storms if you haven't already. The pup is simply adorable.. Sooo.. any exciting plans for NYE? |
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