Last night I was thinking about all the hours of my life I spent attempting to write witty comments on these forums, talking about the most random stuff with friends on TS & IRC and just the general hype whenever any of my clans or teams had a fight that was deemed important. Yeah, this topic is going to be somewhat nostalgic.
Truth is, the majority of the people that come on this section of RSC have been around for approximately 3 to 6 years, some longer, some shorter. From what I see, most of us started doing this clanning thing somewhere between the age of 12 and 16 and became adults while clanning. I personally started clanning when I was like 14 years old, I'm 22 now. You can all probably remember some random video of your clan with corny music from alt rock & metal artists like the legion of doom, breaking benjamin, three days grace and whatnot. Later on it was more hiphop (remember when everyone used pass out by tinie tempah?) & commercial dance music or a combination of those.
Though that's not the point of this thread. It's more about the first few lines of my second paragraph. Most of us grew up while clanning, and I'm pretty sure we've all experienced countless things which you all take with you in real life and perhaps even use to your advantage. Arguments between people, being a part of something, or trying to change annoying habits within an existing system. We've all seen it. Even basic things such as socializing is a thing that can be experienced within a clan seeing it's laid back environment. Whereas family or friends might say you missed out on basic social skills because you "spent so much time behind your computer" when you were younger, you obviously don't think the same. You didn't spend time behind the computer brainlessly grinding like most other gamers do - you spent most time with your clan!
Obviously everyone has their own associations when they look back at their years of clanning, but my question to you is: what have you learnt and experienced when you look back? I'm curious to see if other people feel the same like me, as I feel all the random banter just adds another dimension to my social life. A random example of that being all the random foreign words I learnt in Lithuanian, Polish, Hungarian and other languages, it's quite fun to know that when you meet people from these countries or are in their countries.![:-P]()
TL;DR
Might be a bit of an odd topic but I hope I hit the right note somewhere, to sum it up: What have you learnt and what did you take from this experience?
It's not so much the question that matters, it's the thoughts and memories that pop up when reading this, so feel free to describe those if you're not sure about the question.![:-)]()
Truth is, the majority of the people that come on this section of RSC have been around for approximately 3 to 6 years, some longer, some shorter. From what I see, most of us started doing this clanning thing somewhere between the age of 12 and 16 and became adults while clanning. I personally started clanning when I was like 14 years old, I'm 22 now. You can all probably remember some random video of your clan with corny music from alt rock & metal artists like the legion of doom, breaking benjamin, three days grace and whatnot. Later on it was more hiphop (remember when everyone used pass out by tinie tempah?) & commercial dance music or a combination of those.
Though that's not the point of this thread. It's more about the first few lines of my second paragraph. Most of us grew up while clanning, and I'm pretty sure we've all experienced countless things which you all take with you in real life and perhaps even use to your advantage. Arguments between people, being a part of something, or trying to change annoying habits within an existing system. We've all seen it. Even basic things such as socializing is a thing that can be experienced within a clan seeing it's laid back environment. Whereas family or friends might say you missed out on basic social skills because you "spent so much time behind your computer" when you were younger, you obviously don't think the same. You didn't spend time behind the computer brainlessly grinding like most other gamers do - you spent most time with your clan!
Obviously everyone has their own associations when they look back at their years of clanning, but my question to you is: what have you learnt and experienced when you look back? I'm curious to see if other people feel the same like me, as I feel all the random banter just adds another dimension to my social life. A random example of that being all the random foreign words I learnt in Lithuanian, Polish, Hungarian and other languages, it's quite fun to know that when you meet people from these countries or are in their countries.
TL;DR
Might be a bit of an odd topic but I hope I hit the right note somewhere, to sum it up: What have you learnt and what did you take from this experience?
It's not so much the question that matters, it's the thoughts and memories that pop up when reading this, so feel free to describe those if you're not sure about the question.
