Never Ending Giveaway

i just found out you can close chrome tabs by middle clicking them

 

Wow, I didn't know that.

 

knowing you i cant tell if this is a genuine question or not

 

Sure sounds like it, but only for those who know about it I've never heard of middle-clicking to close anything.

 

i and most people i've known just clicked the x that appears on the right when you hover over tabs

 

I can attest to this.

 

Bruh

 

bruh

 

**** it i might as well tell yall the story about this server and how it affected the entire trajectory of my life. its gonna be pretty long and ill put a tldr at the end but here we go

a long time ago in like 2013 i was 10 years old and still fairly new to minecraft multiplayer. i had found a few servers already but lost interest in most of them pretty fast, except for one major outlier: mc-war.com, which i found on a server list in i think either august or september of 2013, sometime when the forest spawn was still a thing with those parkour drown parties and would very soon be replaced with the desert lobby that stuck with the server for the rest of its lifespan. i had a limited access to videogames at the time so this server clicked with me really well, i spent crazy amounts of time on it, found that it had a forum so i signed up for it, got to know a few people,

most of the time i spent on mcwar was irrelevant to this story so i'll cut to the next important part, sometime in 2014 where i found out that what was mcbrawl at the time had a creative plotme server, and i played on this for a little while and saw this one trevorsleeping dude i recognized from mcwar. so i sent him a tpa, we built some stuff together and i sortof drifted off into other things.

on a hot summer in 2015, age 12 i saw this trevor guy again, sent another tpa, found he had some group with other guys with that derp skin design we all had. eventually i would come back again and again to this group. even if i was kind of a weird fit i still loved these guys, and one day they came to me like "hey dude make a skype" so i made an account, added all these ppl and we had a group chat together. i was pretty lonely at the time so this group were the only real people i talked to. and for the next few years we spent all our time online together; playing the same servers, playing the same games, hosting our own servers to play on, sharing all our lives with one another.

and in 2016 we had some.. interesting people come into our group who caused a lot of tension between us, like vin and cheeto who yall probably remember, people we really wanted to avoid because all they did was cause **** and worsen our relations. around the dawn of 2017 we had some really "memorable" arguments before they all dispersed and we didnt hear of them for a while, and my memory of what happened throughout most of that year is kinda foggy EXCEPT for one thing which i still blame for screwing up all our relations, sending all of our personalities down terrible trajectories and making us bitter with each other:

we tped to some people on mcbuild who were hosting a galathundr shrine, and they had invited us to their discord server for the vc they were hosting. people came and went, but we all stayed behind in the discord they invited us to. these people were not really compatible with us and always had this weird volatile sense of decision making, kicking people including me out of their server at random for the dumbest reasons imaginable. a few people in our original group started drifting more in these discord ppl's direction and i was really not a fan of how their personalities had developed, i knew that some other folks in our group felt the same way and we always had these huge battles over how we evolved to be really bitter especially with each other. the trevor guy who introduced me to this friend group to begin with started being really irritable and his development probably hurt me the most because we were best ****ing friends until this point.

i knew (or rather made a really ****ty judgment call) around this point that i should probably branch out and find different groups to hang with. and i picked the WORST starting points for this; some asshole furry group online that i only really joined because i had an interest in the whole furry artstyle thing. the people from that group were abhorrently nasty and part of me knew "i should probably split from these pricks" but a stronger part of me decided to stay around for some reason?? and my already fragile mentality started to grow around these people. everything was wrong about them; most of them barely knew how to communicate with other people without starting some kind of roleplay bull****, everyone was emotionally volatile and went ballistic over even stuff like simple questions "can you explain how this thing works?" and i, by extension, became more and more of an asshole while i went totally ****ing insane and would have this terrible sociopathic cycle for the next like 2 years.

the times were really not memorable after this, and i started becoming even more disconnected from the original group of minecraft buddies that most of my teenhood grew on. i missed who my friends used to be. i still miss them. i kept trying to connect with even more ****ty groups, one of which was probably the nastiest and most sociopathic of all. some teenagers and 20+ year olds who terminally used twitter and really needed to grow the **** up that always had crazy slapfights with each other and would alienate each other just for choosing to talk to someone they had minor beef with. near the end of 2020 my mentality was about to ****ing snap, and on december 23 it just happened. i snapped the **** out, bit everyones heads off and abandoned/deleted most of my social accounts while keeping a few people i DIDN'T completely abhor.

i've spent most of 2021 away from all the mistakes i walked into, maintaining close contact with the people i could stand and not trying to branch out. and now i realize, this is something i haevnt felt in years. i miss all the experiences i used to have. i miss the people i hung with every waking moment of my life. i miss what we were before we decided to join that ****ing discord server. no amount of reminiscence will be the same as being in the moment. i can't look back on my actions and personality from 2018 - 2020 without being absolutely disgusted and ashamed.

there are a ton of things ive left out because i can't even think about them without feeling total disgust. im better off forgetting about them

tldr: met some friends on a minecraft esrver, bonded with them for a while, fused with some bad group and became more distant, i started talking tos omer eally nasty people to fill the void, which severely messed up my being and personality. and i broke free around december 2020 and have been feeling better since

edit: called 2017 "this year" and it looked like i was talking about now lmao rip

 

I don't even know what to say. That's wild. Glad to hear that you're free from all the bull**** now at least. Makes me wonder how many other people this server has so deeply affected. I know there's a bunch of WarZ kids that got into stuff they had no business getting into. :L Maybe we should start a Brawl Annonymous group or something. :v

 

enable them dumbass

 

Give me MVP, My post is last.