Post by EvilScott on Jan 9, 2006 15:22:02 GMT -5
Yes weird title isn't it? 
I just thought I'd write out a nice thread about some of the people I'd like to mention who had a great impact in TA over my life. And I would also like to tell what TA has done for my life...
Chapter 1: In the beginning
When I started TA back in 1997 I was a newbie having fun!
hehe I remember when I bought it, my friend Garrett was coming over to my house from school and I was like man I want a good game to play on the computer. I bought TA and Need for Speed 2. Shows you how old it is right? hehe. Garrett came over and I played TA one time and got so bored with it I"m like this is dumb! (I didn't know how to play it). But Garrett was like no lets do this! This looks fun! Needless to say I must have continued playing it.
After a while we were having so much fun playing metal heck and the core missions. I remember Garrett was like.. SCOTT HAS THIS REALLY COOL GAME! I"M GOING TO HIS HOUSE TO PLAY IT!!! hehe.. I remember when we found out what mexes were. We're like.. "What are those shiney patches or?? OHH!!!! SWEET!!! METAL INCOME!!!"
Isn't it great how life moves on? Anyway.. life continued on for me and I was having fun being a newbie for a while. Garrett and I would do 2v2's on zone and boy did we suck real bad
we'd play only ashap plateau and DT off half the map and make a nuke and just nuke the enemy hehe Such continued for a while I didn't care at all about being Good at TA in anyway shape or form.
Then one day when I was playing Ashap Plateau, I developed a strategy that was making me win a lot and really fast. I was taking all the map and just doing awesome. If you care to know the strategy it still works today if you are good at UC I basically sent out a few early cons and battled with flash. Those early cons got up radar and a few res up to support themselves, then on 3 sides around the hill they'd start massing mt's with flash or sams backing them up. Then they would make lasers and guardians around them. It worked ok at the time.
Chapter 2: Problems in life.
I was like wow I'm getting good! That was in TA though... in real life I was doing miserably... I hated my life, my mother was having back surgery after back surgery and my dad left us when I was real young. So ultimately we were on our own. I was even really quiet to myself. In high school things got even worse. I actually walked around depressed with my head down saying... "I'm sorry you all have to look at me..." Life was terrible. Infact I was so stupid even and not very smart at all
I recall one day I really REALLY liked this girl named Karen. I had a crush on her She looked up at me one day and she goes.. Scott do you wanna work with me? With this sweet smiling face. Beautiful blue eyes.. and I looked at her and said bluntly... "No..." I'm not sure what happened after that but if I could go back I'd slap myself. She was so smart and funny and beautiful! I was a dork who didn't even know what subject we were studying! I kid you not!! we were studying the revolutionary war, and I thought it was the cival war I was THAT dumb, and that depressed.
Anyway during this time the only thing I took any pleasure in was TA. I felt welcomed in the community, (no I"m not saying we're all dumb and depressed, although we all act like it sometimes.)
At this time in my TA life I was attempting to find a better way to play, and I wanted to meet more people. It was at this time I met Ryan or as many know him as.. BTU_Shollos. When I met him he was BTU_BlueFlag, and had a lot of other BTU names. He was a great guy and we played a lot and he taught me a lot by playing him. He was very fast at TA and very talented early on too. At this time my understanding was that BlackFlag was like the best all around TA player. So I played Shollos a lot and eventually I played more and more players and TA became more enjoyable. I even made my own TA clan (SGA) which originally was Scott Garrett Alliance and we were just having fun but we got players and created Supreme Gaming Alliance. It was so much fun for while it lasted but then ended and I changed names to xPhaLanXx, and then aNTiSHaTTer.
One day after I saw BlackFlag online and I messaged him one day and just asked for on reason at all... "Who is the best TA player?" and he responded... "TAG_ROCK" so I was like hmm... who is this TAG_ROCK?
Chapter 3: Don't worry we'll rise above the dark days.
This is the beginning where things started looking up Because my good buddy weston! (blackflag) said TAG_ROCK was the best at that time I decided man I wanna play Rock! So one NIGHT when I was up wayyy too early and I had school the next morning I saw the name TAG_ROCK show up. And by divine appointment I believe no one was there wanting to play him which is weird... so I messaged him.. hey rock! BF says you are the best! come play me! In which modest rocky responded "Did he say that? How nice of him " Rock played me on Comet and oh man I learned a thing or two in that 1 game alone I became a very good Comet play after that 1 game with him. The very next day I was so excited I wanted to talk to Rock some more, but he wasn't on.. but another familiar name was... TAG_F0RCE.
Good old Force.. if you want to see who was the most annoying TA player, you should ask F0RCE and he will undoubtedly say... Scott hands down you know why? I was so obsessed with being an expert that after EVERY SINGLE GAME I would respond not with GG, but with..Even after losing!!! I'd say... "Am I expert yet?! " after EVERY GAME lol.. in which he'd keep saying.. no not yet I was talking to F0RCE and I'm like who is the best TA player? and he goes.. well a lot of people say ROCK, but I'll tell you now that hands down it is PicarD0H.
Chapter 4: The absolution continues.
One day I was on zone and boom! suddenly pic shows up and I'm like man I'd like to play him. Now before this I played Rock on GOW, and it was a nice 24 minute game in which I didn't do too bad.. ok I"m lying I blew monkey balls vs him But I'm like Pic can you show me some Freedom Fighter stuff, because thats what I needed help on at that time. Pic responded with "I'll show you stuff tomorrow." So tomorrow came and sure enough he kept his word and we played.
Now a lot of people say Pic sucks or this or that. I think the best thing I've heard to describe him is "Pic is like some sort of legend.. you either believe in him or you don't." Well you know I saw Pic's play and oh man.. it dazzled me GREATLY. We played GOW and it was a 9 minute game. After 9 minutes he had mass sea and every isle and then he was bombing me and cruisy around me and everything that looked modern to us today way back all those years ago! AND he had mass cons landing on my isle building and reclaiming my stuff!! I was SHOCKED all at 9 minutes! I was like WHOA THIS GUY IS GOOD!
But what really amazed me is.. During this time I was getting so depressed and Pic befriended me. You know he was amazingly good. I remember my very first 2 vs 2 with him. Me and Him vs Wrath_Dominator (the same dominator in TAG now) and ACE_Xavier who became N_Xavier before he left TA. You know I sucked so bad I kept complaining to Pic. I'm like... Pic I suck I can't dot his I'm gonna quit! and he goes.. if you quit I won't train you. And you know what? Pic was beating them both 2 vs 1 with EASE. Xavier was being pushed over, Dominator started pushing everything he had into him and wasn't even making a dent But Pic lagged so bad he lost connection and then they made short work of me hehe.
Chapter 5: Decisions are what make us.
One day Pic did something amazing for me. He talked to me all day along with Xavier and TNL_LaMeK1Ng, and Shollos and other people.. and he said to me.. Scott... I know you are a smart person so why are you acting like this? That one phrase in my head got me thinking. And after that I started to build some confidence and it was well built. When I became even the slightest bit confident I got a bit smarter! Then with all the stuff I was learning in TA from playing mass games with Pic and Rock and others... I began to realize through TA of all things.. that life is all intertwined. Everything co-insides with another. Also my thinking and operating speed jump through the roof.
I decided that I needed to change my life around. I ended up becoming a bio-medical engineer at the age of 16 to 19. While I was in school I started working at Sacred Heart Hospital as an intern in the Audio Visual department, but they were short handed and said we need this kid and he's getting pretty smart! (Thanks to my time in TA) And so I got all the qualifications required and started the job!
Life turned for the better after I made that choice and then my TA abilities started to increase while playing the best the game had to offer over and over again. I played a lot of 2v2's with the best players. People say Pic never played the greatest.. by all means I will argue that. I was there with him doing big time games with TAG's and BTU's and everyone. Bottom line was a lot of people just didn't WANT to play him. And I'll opennely admit that I RARELY beat pic. He kicked my arse virtually everytime when he wanted to I'm saying this about Pic by the way because he helped me tremendously and really built up my confidence in myself when no one else cared. That's what kind of friend he was. He later became pretty sad and depressed, but he is an amazing person if you ever got the chance to know him. Him and so many others Helped me make that decision...
Chapter 6: The People I love!
My life really turned around because of all the great people in TA. Every single person even the people often refered to as "flaming noobs" played such an inspirational roll in my life. You all helped build me into who I am
People in the TA community helped make me feel warm and welcome and so many things. And in return through me so many people's lives have been bettered as well. And I thank each and every one of you for the inpute you have given into my life. The good and the bad. We learn from everything. Braggers, good people, jolly friends. We sit and reminisce and you know what? I love you all
Words cannot describe what you all mean to me and what this game has brought me. God brought me into it because he knew all that was going to happen, and I've learned enough now to realize that there is no such thing as a class of player like "average, or newbie or expert." There are just people and their knowledge and some play faster and more clever than others. I'm proud to have been able to compete with some of the faster ones, and all the games I had with the lesser ones were even more fun in my opinion.
Zone is now about to close and we're all thats left of a reminent that stands indefinite. To each his own and to all a good night
There has never been a game as good as TA as far as real time strategy goes, and there has never been.. and never will be another community as decorative, communicative, and advanced and with so much care as that of the TA community.
...To each advancement we have we have eachother...
Peace out with love, from Jesus and Me!
Yours truely...
...N_EvilScott
The End
I just thought I'd write out a nice thread about some of the people I'd like to mention who had a great impact in TA over my life. And I would also like to tell what TA has done for my life...Chapter 1: In the beginning
When I started TA back in 1997 I was a newbie having fun!
hehe I remember when I bought it, my friend Garrett was coming over to my house from school and I was like man I want a good game to play on the computer. I bought TA and Need for Speed 2. Shows you how old it is right? hehe. Garrett came over and I played TA one time and got so bored with it I"m like this is dumb! (I didn't know how to play it). But Garrett was like no lets do this! This looks fun! Needless to say I must have continued playing it.After a while we were having so much fun playing metal heck and the core missions. I remember Garrett was like.. SCOTT HAS THIS REALLY COOL GAME! I"M GOING TO HIS HOUSE TO PLAY IT!!! hehe.. I remember when we found out what mexes were. We're like.. "What are those shiney patches or?? OHH!!!! SWEET!!! METAL INCOME!!!"
Isn't it great how life moves on? Anyway.. life continued on for me and I was having fun being a newbie for a while. Garrett and I would do 2v2's on zone and boy did we suck real bad
we'd play only ashap plateau and DT off half the map and make a nuke and just nuke the enemy hehe Such continued for a while I didn't care at all about being Good at TA in anyway shape or form.Then one day when I was playing Ashap Plateau, I developed a strategy that was making me win a lot and really fast. I was taking all the map and just doing awesome. If you care to know the strategy it still works today if you are good at UC
I basically sent out a few early cons and battled with flash. Those early cons got up radar and a few res up to support themselves, then on 3 sides around the hill they'd start massing mt's with flash or sams backing them up. Then they would make lasers and guardians around them. It worked ok at the time.Chapter 2: Problems in life.
I was like wow I'm getting good! That was in TA though... in real life I was doing miserably... I hated my life, my mother was having back surgery after back surgery and my dad left us when I was real young. So ultimately we were on our own. I was even really quiet to myself. In high school things got even worse. I actually walked around depressed with my head down saying... "I'm sorry you all have to look at me..." Life was terrible. Infact I was so stupid even and not very smart at all
I recall one day I really REALLY liked this girl named Karen. I had a crush on her
She looked up at me one day and she goes.. Scott do you wanna work with me? With this sweet smiling face. Beautiful blue eyes.. and I looked at her and said bluntly... "No..." I'm not sure what happened after that but if I could go back I'd slap myself. She was so smart and funny and beautiful! I was a dork who didn't even know what subject we were studying! I kid you not!! we were studying the revolutionary war, and I thought it was the cival war I was THAT dumb, and that depressed.Anyway during this time the only thing I took any pleasure in was TA. I felt welcomed in the community, (no I"m not saying we're all dumb and depressed, although we all act like it sometimes.)
At this time in my TA life I was attempting to find a better way to play, and I wanted to meet more people. It was at this time I met Ryan
or as many know him as.. BTU_Shollos. When I met him he was BTU_BlueFlag, and had a lot of other BTU names. He was a great guy and we played a lot and he taught me a lot by playing him. He was very fast at TA and very talented early on too. At this time my understanding was that BlackFlag was like the best all around TA player. So I played Shollos a lot and eventually I played more and more players and TA became more enjoyable. I even made my own TA clan (SGA) which originally was Scott Garrett Alliance and we were just having fun but we got players and created Supreme Gaming Alliance. It was so much fun for while it lasted but then ended and I changed names to xPhaLanXx, and then aNTiSHaTTer.One day after I saw BlackFlag online and I messaged him one day and just asked for on reason at all... "Who is the best TA player?" and he responded... "TAG_ROCK" so I was like hmm... who is this TAG_ROCK?
Chapter 3: Don't worry we'll rise above the dark days.
This is the beginning where things started looking up
Because my good buddy weston! (blackflag) said TAG_ROCK was the best at that time I decided man I wanna play Rock! So one NIGHT when I was up wayyy too early and I had school the next morning I saw the name TAG_ROCK show up. And by divine appointment I believe no one was there wanting to play him which is weird... so I messaged him.. hey rock! BF says you are the best! come play me! In which modest rocky responded "Did he say that? How nice of him " Rock played me on Comet and oh man I learned a thing or two in that 1 game alone I became a very good Comet play after that 1 game with him. The very next day I was so excited I wanted to talk to Rock some more, but he wasn't on.. but another familiar name was... TAG_F0RCE.Good old Force.. if you want to see who was the most annoying TA player, you should ask F0RCE and he will undoubtedly say... Scott hands down
you know why? I was so obsessed with being an expert that after EVERY SINGLE GAME I would respond not with GG, but with..Even after losing!!! I'd say... "Am I expert yet?! " after EVERY GAME lol.. in which he'd keep saying.. no not yet I was talking to F0RCE and I'm like who is the best TA player? and he goes.. well a lot of people say ROCK, but I'll tell you now that hands down it is PicarD0H.Chapter 4: The absolution continues.
One day I was on zone and boom! suddenly pic shows up and I'm like man I'd like to play him. Now before this I played Rock on GOW, and it was a nice 24 minute game in which I didn't do too bad.. ok I"m lying I blew monkey balls vs him
But I'm like Pic can you show me some Freedom Fighter stuff, because thats what I needed help on at that time. Pic responded with "I'll show you stuff tomorrow." So tomorrow came and sure enough he kept his word and we played. Now a lot of people say Pic sucks or this or that. I think the best thing I've heard to describe him is "Pic is like some sort of legend.. you either believe in him or you don't." Well you know I saw Pic's play and oh man.. it dazzled me GREATLY. We played GOW and it was a 9 minute game. After 9 minutes he had mass sea and every isle and then he was bombing me and cruisy around me and everything that looked modern to us today way back all those years ago! AND he had mass cons landing on my isle building and reclaiming my stuff!! I was SHOCKED all at 9 minutes! I was like WHOA THIS GUY IS GOOD!
But what really amazed me is.. During this time I was getting so depressed and Pic befriended me. You know he was amazingly good. I remember my very first 2 vs 2 with him. Me and Him vs Wrath_Dominator (the same dominator in TAG now) and ACE_Xavier who became N_Xavier before he left TA. You know I sucked so bad
I kept complaining to Pic. I'm like... Pic I suck I can't dot his I'm gonna quit! and he goes.. if you quit I won't train you. And you know what? Pic was beating them both 2 vs 1 with EASE. Xavier was being pushed over, Dominator started pushing everything he had into him and wasn't even making a dent But Pic lagged so bad he lost connection and then they made short work of me hehe.Chapter 5: Decisions are what make us.
One day Pic did something amazing for me. He talked to me all day along with Xavier and TNL_LaMeK1Ng, and Shollos and other people.. and he said to me.. Scott... I know you are a smart person so why are you acting like this? That one phrase in my head got me thinking. And after that I started to build some confidence and it was well built. When I became even the slightest bit confident I got a bit smarter! Then with all the stuff I was learning in TA from playing mass games with Pic and Rock and others... I began to realize through TA of all things.. that life is all intertwined. Everything co-insides with another. Also my thinking and operating speed jump through the roof.
I decided that I needed to change my life around. I ended up becoming a bio-medical engineer at the age of 16 to 19. While I was in school I started working at Sacred Heart Hospital as an intern in the Audio Visual department, but they were short handed and said we need this kid and he's getting pretty smart! (Thanks to my time in TA) And so I got all the qualifications required and started the job!
Life turned for the better after I made that choice and then my TA abilities started to increase while playing the best the game had to offer over and over again. I played a lot of 2v2's with the best players. People say Pic never played the greatest.. by all means I will argue that. I was there with him doing big time games with TAG's and BTU's and everyone. Bottom line was a lot of people just didn't WANT to play him. And I'll opennely admit that I RARELY beat pic. He kicked my arse virtually everytime when he wanted to
I'm saying this about Pic by the way because he helped me tremendously and really built up my confidence in myself when no one else cared. That's what kind of friend he was. He later became pretty sad and depressed, but he is an amazing person if you ever got the chance to know him. Him and so many others Helped me make that decision...Chapter 6: The People I love!
My life really turned around because of all the great people in TA. Every single person even the people often refered to as "flaming noobs" played such an inspirational roll in my life. You all helped build me into who I am
People in the TA community helped make me feel warm and welcome and so many things. And in return through me so many people's lives have been bettered as well. And I thank each and every one of you for the inpute you have given into my life. The good and the bad. We learn from everything. Braggers, good people, jolly friends. We sit and reminisce and you know what? I love you all
Words cannot describe what you all mean to me and what this game has brought me. God brought me into it because he knew all that was going to happen, and I've learned enough now to realize that there is no such thing as a class of player like "average, or newbie or expert." There are just people and their knowledge and some play faster and more clever than others. I'm proud to have been able to compete with some of the faster ones, and all the games I had with the lesser ones were even more fun in my opinion.
Zone is now about to close and we're all thats left of a reminent that stands indefinite. To each his own and to all a good night
There has never been a game as good as TA as far as real time strategy goes, and there has never been.. and never will be another community as decorative, communicative, and advanced and with so much care as that of the TA community.
...To each advancement we have we have eachother...
Peace out with love, from Jesus and Me!
Yours truely...
...N_EvilScott
The End
TA player of all time. 
