Crikey, where did those 12 years of my life go?
I've come to the decision (with a little help from Valve) to retire from playing CS. The recent update fiasco hasn't helped matters and it's with a heavy heart that I must say goodbye. I was contemplating walking away anyway for my own good but this was the final nail in the coffin as it were. There have been a lot of changes within the Ambrosia community in the time I've been here and some people are probably thinking "who the .... are you?", but I'm sure a few of you will know me.
I've taken part in some of the most competitive cs games in the past 12 years, been to many LANs, met some amazing people, had some great fun and laughs all through playing a silly computer game. It's weirdly been a massive part of my life so it's quite difficult to write this.
There have been times where I could be a bit.. angry towards people. I'm truly sorry for these times, but this isn't applied within the game but to everything I do in life purely because I strive for perfection. Being less than perfect at something is not an option for me. I could probably have been a very good snooker / darts player, golfer, but I just don't have the patience and it frustrates me when something goes wrong. More often than not i'll take it out on someone who doesn't deserve it, so if this was you, again I'm sorry.
1,321 hours of CS are on my steam record. Add this to about 100 hours of LANs and somewhere around the 500 hours mark before Steam came along, that's pushing 2,000 hours of gaming time for one game alone! Probably somewhere between 150,000 and 250,000 kills in that time and every single one was as meaningful and gave me a rush as the last.
Thanks to all the people I've got to know through Ambrosia and you know who you are. Some of you (Shane in particular) I've known for a lot longer so you know what I'm like as a person and it was great playing mixes and matches with you, having a laugh over ventrilo at 3 in the morning and making fun of it. Ambrosia is one of the greatest communities you could hope to come across so don't let it go to the dogs. Until we meet again..