So I have my account back now, the one on NG, and the one on Facebook. Facebook authority still hasn't authorized my name change though, back from Bam Bammington to Bob Axell. Wade, on NG, gave me a little reminder to quit spamming the site or he would be sure to delete me himself. Unappreciative bastards. Dedicative stat-whoring, regardless of cause or effect, is a benevolent action towards the community. I had already learned my lesson on the spam-front too, I was careful to never submit spam nowadays, my blogs I always write standom right. Actually I had just stopped blogging on NG, so I'd have time to focus on this blog instead. I had stopped submitting quickly created flashes about two months back as well, and the musical pieces I was in the midst of submitting a pair of each day were all pieces of recited poetry, all of meaning and mind to me. Not that it takes me much effort to scribble down the swift chimes that popup when they do, but altogether it takes much time, and the inspiration contained within them is nothing that will be running back to me again anymore.
Been trying to calm down, get a grip, think of better things, for the past few days, but it's still hard grasping the whole situation. It's not how I wanted it to become. The tracks and flashes that were not deleted, a pair of dustbins, are not the best of my creations. They are in fact pretty half-assed. but I'm still happy that my cracking hacker couldn't get rid of them, they go back a few years, and leave me with a speck of history. I wrote down a time-line of my life on NG thus far, as the first blog after the past two thousand that passed away. It went like this:
2003 - I first find NG, and sign up to the wonderful community it is. Due to a server crash at the start of 2004 my account, and a few hundred other new accounts, are wiped out. Two drives failed simultaneously, and thus all damage done could not be restored. Already a few music submissions blew away, reviews, flashes, and a shitload of forum posts.
2004 - No downfalls this year, everything went yay ok, I broke barriers in the reviewing records, didn't post much at the forums, and climbed up slowly in all rankings. I was in school at this time, and thus had much free time on my hands, most of which I started spending here at NG.
2005 - I created my new account, and started writing reviews like there was no tomorrow. Posted at the forums too at a terrifying rate, hundreds of posts per day. Me and some other user I used to have in my buddy list (that I now thanks to the hacking no longer know the name of, something along the lines of lxllxllxl) spammed the P-Bot postings in a ravishing rate. Boom, long term ban, and over a thousand posts deleted. I had been banned plenty of times prior to it, but didn't care much about it before disaster struck. Thus I lost interest in this place for a while.
2006 - This year was Retrogade year, another community similar to NG but with a smaller user database and drawn art instead of animations. I had been signed up earlier and stat-whoring there as well, but during 2006 I spent almost all my community time here, and didn't bother much about NG, climbed up to the top of most rankings. Almost everyone there was a stat-whore, I fit right in, and I went right past most of them.
2007 - Poof, Retrogade went plummeting down into a pile of ashes. Thousands of reviews disappeared, hundreds of art submissions, over ten thousand guestbook entries and I don't even remember all the forum posts, blam points, exp, ratings, views, awards and other stats they tracked. I returned to NG, and made a little statual comeback here. The blogs were invented, and I liked writing, so I started writing. Oh, and I graduated! Woohoo! Less time on my hands, or so I thought. :P
2008 - Way back I had submitted a Linkin Park music player, it reached a hundred pages of reviews, which I undeniable appreciated, and thus I went into a Music Player spree. I made Music Players for both audio portal artists and other artists, and I was reaching the end of the series (99 of them) when they just disappeared. Tom sent me a PM saying there was just to much copyright music on NG. I let him know that about half of them were made with music from the AP and not infringing upon copyright at all. Bummer, he said, a system for restoring deleted content was not yet in place though, so there was nothing he could do about it. That kicked me down a bit, but I stayed active. I blogged hellishly, had a hundred times more blogs than the user after me, arranged two series of Guessing Games, contests in which users had to answer questions, often with a picture as the main motive. They gained popularity, it was fun, groovy times, I wrote a weekly summary of my life and lots of other poetical mumbojumble. Submitted lots of flash, lots of music, posted a lot at the forums, did much of everything. Rose to #1 in the audio reviewers list and climbed up a couple of places in the flash reviewers as well. This was probably my most active year thus far.
2009 - Instead of weekly blogs I decided to have monthly projects this year, so I started January by sending in two flash JukeBoxes each day (with music from the AP only). In difference to my previous Music Players I didn't spend much time on these, I just wanted to finally get a series with 99 pieces done and have them forever stay in the portal. January passed fine, I submitted 62 of them, received a few requests as well and much praise, but I should probably have slowed down because people started to get annoyed and eventually thanks to a comment by Wade (am starting to like him less and less for every year that passes since I signed up here) they were suddenly bombed by zeros and dropped from all having over 3s in score down to the 1s and below. Wade threatened to delete them if I didn't slow it down a bit, so I did, stopped at 77 for a while, and worked on a few new decent flashes. I recorded poetical sessions this year as well, spent a lot of time writing down and reciting my own pieces of poetry, and submitted these to the audio portal. Sometime at the start of April I reached 666 creations, haha, and I posted my last blog, blog 2200something, since I decided I no longer had the time to blog here. Everything was going fine until Bam, account hacked, everything deleted. And there this seven year story ends.
Does it end there? Well of course not, I'll still be there to gather my EXP, some BP maybe, but my motivation really has left me. Maybe I'll start focusing on reality now, maybe not, what sucks majorly is that my database of friends on Facebook disappeared too, all the old buddies I've had yet to reunite with for real. Hackers messing around with peoples personal life like this, without any real cause, is just wrong. But keeping the setting in the past is no motive for me, I'm moving on, already have my driveup for my finally upcoming license scheduled in next month, and I'm catching up in studies. Fuck you Bam.
