Lin and I beating on Bourne until Mike finally broke down and got a microphone.
Dave
Damn you for that.
-Becoming a reg, then a junior admin, admin, and even a senior for a time.
-Corollary: Catching my first hacker.
-Corollary to the corollary: Being called a hacker (a true honor).
-Meat grind. Nuff said.
--Going from getting absolutely wrecked by players like Comet, Breed, and Sonic Crusader to eventually being able to go toe-to-toe with them.
-Making it to enemy airfields for infantry combat after getting killed repeatedly by fly-boys. Hog heaven for a ground pounder.
-Accidentally kicking Thor while he was going wild on Market Garden in 1st place (I think I was ~3rd), and having enough time to go "Shit" before I too was booted.
-I did this with a few people, but I'll never forget sidling up beside Bullet on Bocage, giving him tips on aim, and then knifing him in the back of the head.
-Playing a full 2700 ticket game start to finish trying to get as high a score as possible. I did horrible, unspeakable things (I will point out I did not nade spam).
-Taking and defending the middle flag on Omaha
-A-Team 4 life.
--TWL team gets kudos as well. I remember that Midnight Berlin game against- DRX wasn't it?- as well. Good times.
-Knifing Lin. I think I just got a bit of a chub thinking about it...Sandwiches all around.
-Getting insulted on MG servers that I was being a lag-fiend by unnamed Euro players, and donning a new alias and going on Euro servers and beating the hell out of them. In fairness, once your ping hits single digits you could actually see the bullets in flight Matrix-style.
-Euro gamers! To name a few, Zero, Birney, Luose (left4dead, anyone?), and Dodgem; I got along famously with the lot of them despite them having the distinct handicap of being from the UK.
-And, in general, players like No Guts, Hornet, JJ, Animal Mother, Beeker, ...Heck, I can't start naming people. That would be a long, long list.
--Playing for hours on end and staying up into the wee hours of the morning in TS with those people thanks in no small part to the aforementioned damned person.
-Feeling a sense of community and having legitimate online friends on MoonGamers
I'll second that wholeheartedly. This community remains near and dear to my heart.
It's the reason I keep =MG= in my Steam name. And, to those who don't or haven't, add me.