12-18-2023, 07:30 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-29-2023, 10:59 AM by lemonoppy. Edited 1 time in total.)
one thousandth post!
I finally grab that elusive 5th star under my profile.
If you would have told me 983 posts ago that I would hit 1000 in under 2 years, I would have probably asked you who you were because I was still new here. But I also just wouldn't have believed you.
When I first joined this league, I was completely overwhelmed with the details of how this all worked. Sure, on paper it seems easy enough. you make a post, upgrade your player, and then battle on the gridiron. But having never really been around forums before (except whatever forum-lite garbage they made us use in college to submit homework), I was lost in a see of "copy this and paste in your update page." So when I became IA after my first season and at only around 100 TPE, I wasn't too bummed. I didn't know what I was walking away from. But my dear, sweet DSFL GM Painted brought me back to life. He asked me to take over a very simple and extremely unimportant job--running the team's twitter account. What you might not know about me is that I am 1000% a people pleaser and I cannot stand the thought that someone dislikes me or has any negative feelings towards me, really. So when I was handed the keys to this incredibly meaningless task, it was like handing a middle schooler a bag of flour with a diaper and they all the sudden sprout white new balances and begin to plan their saturdays around what time he wants to mow the lawn. I took it very seriously. Because Painted was trusting me, an IA but who was still in the locker room because he is too afraid to leave and hurt someone's feelings or something stupid like that, I came back to the league just so I didn't let him down.
So the moral of this story that I've now told a thousand times--blame my nuisant presence on Painted.
I finally grab that elusive 5th star under my profile.
If you would have told me 983 posts ago that I would hit 1000 in under 2 years, I would have probably asked you who you were because I was still new here. But I also just wouldn't have believed you.
When I first joined this league, I was completely overwhelmed with the details of how this all worked. Sure, on paper it seems easy enough. you make a post, upgrade your player, and then battle on the gridiron. But having never really been around forums before (except whatever forum-lite garbage they made us use in college to submit homework), I was lost in a see of "copy this and paste in your update page." So when I became IA after my first season and at only around 100 TPE, I wasn't too bummed. I didn't know what I was walking away from. But my dear, sweet DSFL GM Painted brought me back to life. He asked me to take over a very simple and extremely unimportant job--running the team's twitter account. What you might not know about me is that I am 1000% a people pleaser and I cannot stand the thought that someone dislikes me or has any negative feelings towards me, really. So when I was handed the keys to this incredibly meaningless task, it was like handing a middle schooler a bag of flour with a diaper and they all the sudden sprout white new balances and begin to plan their saturdays around what time he wants to mow the lawn. I took it very seriously. Because Painted was trusting me, an IA but who was still in the locker room because he is too afraid to leave and hurt someone's feelings or something stupid like that, I came back to the league just so I didn't let him down.
So the moral of this story that I've now told a thousand times--blame my nuisant presence on Painted.