Update Your Life

[Dev]

Hello All!

I hope you came across the forum when going down memory lane! It has been awhile since someone has posted a thread in here. I want to wish everyone a happy holidays. I hope each and everyone has had a great year.

Please update us about what you've been doing lately! New game you play? Job/Career? School? New hobbies or adventures? We would love to hear what's new with everyone since the minecraft days! It has been almost 13yrs since we have all been playing together on servers like Arcana, Star Command, and Suhn. I will say we did have the best classic servers out there with plenty of mini games, freebuilding, and contests.

Take Care Friends,
Dev

[boizao]

Hi everyone!

I hope at least some of you remember me. I'm Boizao from the servers (boidapascoalandia, globoid and then arcana server)
I am now a father of a 1 year old kid and I'm married to the same girl I dated when I had the servers.
I'm a full-stack developer working since 2018 and I'm buying a house next year

Share your stories 😀

[Maelyk]

Wow! Imagine my surprise when I was going through my emails and got one that said this forum had a new post!

I'm Mae, I'm 24, turning 25 in a couple months. I have a degree in Heath Sciences but I am not working in that field because it SUCKS as it turns out (haha who knew?) I was going to school for a communications degree (as if that kind of degree is useful for anything), but I sorta just stopped going after Covid shut down classes. Currently, I am working for the government. I won't say where exactly because it is one of our policies that we don't tell people those specifics. That is for safety reasons, people strongly dislike government workers haha. I just have a boring desk job and I might be looking for a promotion to another position in the coming year but I make fine money now considering I spend half the day on Netflix (shh, don't tell them) so I'm in no hurry to move up. I'm saving up to buy a house, and hoping the housing market allows for that since it is too expensive right now!


Boring stuff out of the way, I play all sorts of games. Some, I must admit, are embarrassing for someone like me to play. Fortnite and League of Legends being the possibly cringe ones. I also play: OSRS, Valorant, COD (any of them, but I am always a couple years behind on the releases and stick to the campaigns), Batman Arkham series, Farcry series, Watchdogs, Tombraider series. Mostly though, I am playing Genshin Impact or watching TikToks

Aside from video games I have been learning Spanish for the past 2 years (I'm still terrible so don't quiz me), creating bullet journals, and I've recently got into working out and weight training That one is the biggest surprise since I've always been on the "lazy4life" train.

Whelp, I guess I will end my info dump there! I'm trying to be more active on the Skype group so you can try talking to me there.

[Dev]

I should have shared my story a while ago, but apparently did not.

I haven't played a game that has a community as great as this one. I did find another gamer tribe on Playstation. I met the guy through playing The Last of Us multiplayer years ago. We played a lot of COD clan wars and were really good at it. But I do miss you all and our fun. Things I learned hosting a server and running a community helped carry me into college, and gave me the ability to get onto the Ultimate Frisbee Council after my 1st year (youngest council member). I also ran an Ultimate Tournament with 500 people. I wouldn't have been able to do it, if I haven't learned being a leader and an organizer from being part of this community. Post college, I own my own balloon decorating and twisting business and I also work full time at a ski resort being the sales, program, donation, and fun centre manager. Yeah, I wear multiple hats throughout the year. I now hire a majority of my own team for the summer fun centre and manage a program with 1,400 kids in the winter. Sometimes I do some freelance work for digital graphics, but I went to college for computer animation and I just never got into the work force for it. It was scary with all the stories of overworking animators and the difficulty of trying to get a job in that field. But I use the skills I learn for hobbies and sometimes at my full time job.

Just like Mae, I really got into working out at the gym a lot, mainly to stay in shape for ultimate frisbee post college. Also to look good, because I was a chubby kid back in the day. I do love to travel and hope to see a lot of the world in the next few years.

As for games I still play. Right now I'll jump on League of Legends and play games or TFT. But mainly play a lot of COD (newest one) and Warzone. I'll sometimes play Rainbow Six with that gaming group. Just working full time and owning a business has taken up a lot of my free time. Goal is to start 2 more businesses in the next 5-10 years (hopefully 5) and be able to cost on the income and spend time doing the things I love.

Miss and love you guys! Hopefully we will one day meet again on another game, or in person. Take these past experiences from here and put them to good use into the world. Be a leader, be the change, be a friend, and have fun. Those times on the server may be one of the best times of your life, but now it is time to make new ones with the memories you will carry from the past. As I end this rant, I leave you with a quote. A wise man once said, "JUST DO IT" ~Shia Labeouf


Sincerely,
Dev

[Harl]

Wow.... Dev your email blast worked but almost didn't open it thinking it was spam.

I am surprised that people are still in this community and hopefully we can get some of us back together. I am currently working in Law Enforcement/Fire/Emergency Management/911 Communications. I went and got married to the girl I was with as the servers were dying off.

It has been many years but still a gamer at heart have recently found my self back in the Minecraft grove on Hypxel Skyblock IGN EMSK, an avid player of Old School Runescape IGN "Harley of MD", and COD Mobile IGN ZCarlton. Feel free to add me on any of them.

[dee]

uhm... hi!
i still think about this place and everyone involved now and then
i remember an indeterminable amount of time ago i had made some post/thread, making an apology for how i had treated everyone at some point or another.
i still stand by that and i don't think i'll ever really not be remorseful about it, especially to... certain people
but uh.... wow what to update
not sure how many knew but obviously most people knew me as a girl but uh yeah i'm a man ! found that out in '14 or so, came out in '15
so on that front i've been on HRT since '18 and got GRS in '21 :) so i'm doing great on that front, feel fantastic about it and really happy of my progress. a lot more comfortable with myself
did one year of college before covid moved it all online, now i'm changing programs and going back in the fall! short program but it opens a lot of other branches for me and will help me figure out exactly which one i want to get into
something in the arts field for sure, not sure if fine arts or not but that is still something i would enjoy doing! but on the work front i think i'd prefer something more digital tbh
working on a personal project of a story i've had since this community was a thing tbh but i'm super proud of how far i've gone with it LOL
ermm i play a lot of games here and there but the main one i play is final fantasy 14
been enjoying tears of the kingdom so far though :]
i don't mind sharing contact info through messages but i don't want to post it publicly, but i am of course on discord which is pretty much it, besides my old skype but it is very rare i check that.

all in all i am glad to hear everyone is doing rather well, and that i am not the only one who looks back and reflects on everything.
wishing you all the best going forward !