Longer than most of my posts, but I'd thought I share my eGO story.
I found eGO through server-hopping. I usually server-hop whenever a community/group of servers I play on goes to waste or shuts down (most recent example: Lifepunch, R.I.P.), and as a recurring server-hopper there are obviously a lot of servers that I do not like (not naming names but if you know, you know). All those servers have one thing in common: a lack of the sense of community. Before I joined eGO, I hit the point where I had basically went through most GMod communities, so I quit GMod (edit: Turns out, I eventually returned to help out eGO's effort in reviving GMOD, tis to a wonderful time).
I decided to continue server-hopping on CS:GO servers, and one day I happened to join eGO's JB server. I stuck around because not only were the people actually chill, but the admins didn't have the "I want to enjoy my time, quit bothering me about reports" mentality that PLAGUES most communities. One excessive swearing ban later and I joined eGO as a full-time member.
Around this time, I transferred to TTT and I introduced myself on the forums. As shown by my earlier posts, I started off within the community as a massive shitposter. Most of my threads were either joke threads in general chat or just plainly horrible suggestions.
[CONTROVERSY WARNING] Later, I became frustrated at the lack of administrative action being done on TTT, additionally, how unreachable some admins proved to be at times. So I combined my frustration and my (lack of) humor into the infamous
The Case for DS Room Transparency thread (one of the most disliked posts in eGO history), and while I did edit a ton of humor out to make it a legit suggestion (I mean, when faced with deletion, you need to adapt). The thread, unfortunately, became divisive enough to where leadership had to shut the thread down.
Thankfully, the issue ended up slowly fading away and I met some cool people amidst the fallout, such as
Dryden as well as
Shalom not to mention
kuantum and so many more people that I've grown to appreciate here. But the big idea that I took home after the thread is that eGO isn't just another conglomeration of servers to get banned on, in fact, eGO is a special community that's worth your time.
Onto my favorite memories of eGO, the absolute best from my time here at eGO so far were from the 2020 New Years 48hour event. The MS events that day were simply pog
especially in Jackbox, even if the laughter they caused me led to me waking up the entire family at 2am MST (not good in a Latino household lol).
I stick around for more fun moments like these, once again, eGO is a special community that's worth your time. It's not another server, it's a place that has your back, should you ever need support. eGO is one of those communities where you'll meet genuine people who you can appreciate later on in life.
Thank you for all thus far, eGO, I love you all.
(EDIT: home for shalom)
