Hi. I'm Tommy, a Cloud Sixteen Crusader; and this is my timeline.
July 13th, 2013, five minutes and fifteen seconds into the day. The date that I registered upon the Cloud Sixteen forums. I had been linked threads by Datzy to Cloud Sixteen, but I felt like the community was elitist, full of intelligent coders and roleplayers who would shun me. I had only been roleplaying for about six months at that time, and I felt like a rookie - someone who would be shunned from the group of elites. I remember seeing Datzy was a "Reknowned" (Or something like that), and I had no clue what usergroups were in SMF. I thought Datzy must be some sort of well-respected person in the community, and I felt like I would just not fit in at all, as Datzy excelled in roleplay and programming much better than myself.
July 13th, 2013, twenty-one minutes and fourty-five seconds into the day. This was the time I created my first ever thread on Cloud Sixteen. It is snipped and in the Garbage Collection, yet the only threads I've ever snipped were old community threads. Therefore, I have come to the assumation that my first ever Cloud Sixteen thread was simply advertising my community.
July 13th, 2013, fifty-four minutes and twenty-one seconds into the day. The time I created my introduction thread. I introduced myself to the Cloud Sixteen forum, a frightened newcomer.
View my introduction thread here. I remember I was frightened by the people posting on my introduction thread, they were "Legendaries", in my mind a group of elitists who knew the schema inside and out, and were considered the highest ranking members of Cloud Sixteen. Their humor was strange, but I continued with it, hoping the small humor would help break the false bonds of tension I thought existed when a newcomer entered the Cloud Sixteen forum. Little did I know, they were only posting on my Introduction thread for postcount (As everybody does).
July 14th, 2013. My first cry for help. I had no clue what the hell I was doing, and posted in the Developers section about my unit uniform item not appearing in-game, as if it didn't exist.
View my whining here. This was also my first ever post to leave my introduction thread, except for my snipped community thread.
December 31, 2013. Last minutes of the day. I was born into a Legendary. I managed to make my way to 250 posts, opened to the hidden view of the Legendary board. I was welcomed with a thread by Mitch Conners, simply stating, "He's a legend now, Run." with the thread name, "Tommy". I was frightened at first, I still thought of the Legendaries as elitists, people unwelcoming to their world. However, I got over it quickly, and said "Fuck it". I would post regularly in the Legendary section, becoming friends with most of the Legendaries and Crusaders. I felt successful.
The last two months. I've recently began posting in the public boards again, for about a month straight I would only post and look inside the Legendary board. This was due to a fear of RJ, as before I muted myself from the public boards, I was set to a 90% warning. 1% of your warning goes away per day, and you get muted at 50%. That means I was forced to not post on the forum for 40 days. I believe my warning level was reduced sometime during that period, because I was definitely unmuted before 40 days came by. I resulted to only posting in the Legendary board, as posts did not count in there - meaning there was no rules, meaning I could not be muted for what I said in it. As I began posting in the public boards again, I got involved with the community as a whole once more, bandwagoning the hate train on users (Soviet Jesus, Mage, etc), getting postcount with introduction threads, et cetera.
March 26, 2014. This is the date I became a Cloud Sixteen Crusader. I wrote this thread near 1 AM in the morning, and posted it at probably 7 PM today. I'm writing this at 1AM, which means this text you're reading was written more than 12 hours ago. Today is the day I became the super cool Crusader.
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