Popular Post KarmaOfPain Posted August 13, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted August 13, 2015 (edited) Some things to know: I did not go into detail about certain events for the sake of keeping as much drama out of this as possible. Also keep in mind that I had trouble remembering how some stuff happened, if you see some information that is incorrect, just let me know and I will edit it. Also my thoughts were all over the place when typing this, events may or may not be in order. My Experience with HG Staff Back in late 2012, I joined HG. I joined with the intent to meet new people and have fun. After a while I just got tired of being freekilled so my brother bought me admin. I ended up doing a lot more admin work than I thought I would be and it was recognized by DIAMELO. At the time, some CSS dAs stepped down and he told me he would recommend me for Advisor. When they had the voting, I barely made it through by like 1 vote I think. I was promoted with LSD and Delink. They use to have a tradition where they would attempt to troll us when we got promoted. They got LSD real good, he really thought he was going to be banned for something he didn’t do. They couldn’t figure out how to troll me since I never did anything wrong so they just banned me from teamspeak for like 1 minute. That was beginning of my adventure with HG staff. The Beginning That was a great day for me as I was promoted on my birthday, September 26, 2013. I was pretty overwhelmed on the first day as people began asking me questions right away and ban reports came in like crazy. At the time, CSS was still very popular as people haven’t moved onto CSGO quite yet. There was plenty of stuff to do, recruit apps, ban reports, and drama in the servers. I was still learning how to deal with certain situations as people can be really fucking stupid sometimes and won’t listen to anything you say. I had a lot of help from my dLs at the time which were DIAMELO, Beast, and Archer. My fellow dAs were Delink, LSD, Deathshot, and SBpro (I think). I wasn’t familiar with the rest of staff yet since Council wasn’t really active at the time and the only uM I would talk to at the time was reddevil. I was still learning about the history of HG at the time since I hung out with a bunch of “oldies†(people from 2009-2013). Everything for CSS was running smooth until December of 2013. Before I get to that part I’m going to discuss some stuff about how events went and how the members of HG were. Events So sadly for me, I was really the only one doing events at the time for CSS. I say sadly because my events were a hit or miss. I had some really good events where everyone had a great time and I had some shitty events where everything went wrong. Some of you may remember those shitty events like my “Rescue the Hostage†event where we forgot to put something in to switch the teams at half time. Also some good ones like my Zombie Escape event, it lasted about 3 hours because everyone was having a great time. I do remember Isaac winning every single event with stylez usually right behind him. That reminds me, stylez was a dA for CSS as well, forgot when he joined, sorry stylez . HG Members So in late 2013, we had around 1.1 k members. This was when CSS JB constantly had all their servers full, Perp was still alive, and TF2 JB was still babysitting all the kids. To get an idea of how some people viewed the divisions, this is how it was. Without being bias, CSS was the most mature division as we had outstanding individuals such as myself and this great admin diamelo. Gaymod was a mix of trolls from perp and just a bunch of people who watched anime (I may be generalizing this because of blank). Since TF2 was free, they had a bunch of squeakers and some old people since TF2 has been out for quite some time. CSGO at the time didn’t have a lot of members yet since this was around the time when CSGO was starting to become a big thing. Overall, there was many different types of personalities which did cause quite a bit of drama sometimes. Going into more detail about CSS now since I was staff for CSS. The division was pretty much separated into people who played JB and people who did not play JB. It felt like anytime people from JB left the JB channel, we were bound to get complaints from someone. This was also around the time people decided to get their own teamspeaks to get away from that crowd and a lot of different groups in HG started to do this. I found that in those teamspeaks, they would constantly bash on HG but would not voice their concerns or issues with staff. This doesn’t apply to everyone since people sometimes did voice their concerns in a proper way, it just didn’t happen that often. The decline in the CSS Division The first CSGO major happened in December of 2013 (Dreamhack Winter 2013). This was huge for CSGO as people saw how competitive and cool it can be, it even caught my attention. This also helped the CSGO division a lot as people from CSS finally started to move on to CSGO. This also created some tension between CSS and CSGO staff members. There was a gif of that scene from Friday where Deebo knocked out the guy asking for his bike back. Someone edited the names and put text over the guy getting knocked out, the text was “CSS†and put some text over Deebo saying “Killuminatiâ€. Was pretty funny and also accurate at the time. We would constantly mock the “Hello friend division†since they started a new way of thinking for HG. Obviously I am someone who enforced that philosophy but there was a time where I thought that was just ridiculous. By this time, CSS leadership looked something like this: DLs were Diamelo, Deathshot, and Beast. dAs were Me, LSD, SBpro, Archer?? I can’t remember the rest but it wasn’t more than 5. By May of 2014 I just did not enjoy playing CSS and moved on to CSGO. I was going through a lot at this time so I thought it was best if I just step down and move on with life. When I made my stepping down thread and mentioned that CSGO was heading in the right direction, ASCII PMed me right away with an offer. CSGO ASCII wanted me in CSGO so I could host a CSGO tournament since no one else wanted to do it. He said a lot of nice things about me and by then I just could not refuse that offer. At the time I was in Santa Cruz for the weekend and when I came back they promoted me to CSGO. The way they handled things was just so different from CSS. Everyone was just so friendly with each other and we could make fun of each other without anyone getting butt hurt. When I was in CSS, I only really talked to 3 people since the rest of CSS was really inactive. I got along with CSGO staff fairly easily. I went ahead and attempted to do a CSGO tournament. I ended up creating a whole CSGO league for HG which on paper could have turned into a pretty big thing but we ran into a lot of issues. I believe it ended up lasting 4 months and during those 4 months I was promoted to dL. Quick rundown on that, kill stepped down due to personal issues and ASCII came to asked me to come help out. Being a Division Leader Even though I may look inactive because I don’t play any of the HG servers, I dealt with a lot of stuff. Being a dL can be pretty stressful since your decisions effect a whole division. I did learn a lot of stuff from being dL as there was a lot of drama I had to deal with. For one, no matter what you do there is always someone that is going to be upset with your decision. The way I look at making decisions now is something like this, “What is going to make the majority of the people happy.†I always had the philosophy of making sure I can create an environment where everyone can have fun but there is always that one guy who just wants to be racist and troll. Also the fact that I had to make most of the decisions concerned me sometimes. People usually think I’m 22 or something but I’m 18. I remember their being times where I had to lecture people 10 or 15 years older than me because they didn’t understand what they did wrong. Overall, it was pretty fun doing these things as it was a great learning experience. The Ending Some of you may know that I have been trying to step down for about 10 months, I just never followed through with it because I would miss being apart of staff and I didn’t want my division being handicapped because there would be only one dL. Only one time of those 10 months I thought about stepping down because I disagreed with some decisions. I thought about the situation and ended up clearing up my issues by communicating, crazy right? I mostly been wanting to step down because I was pretty lost in life, I had no idea what I wanted to do and I was stressing out about my future (typical teenager stuff). Over the summer, I met someone new and for some reason we just started talking about our lives and stuff. While we had these discussions (and at the same time destroying my sleeping schedule) something just clicked and I finally found out what I wanted to do with my life. Big thanks to that person, you should know who you are. Unfortunately that meant I had to give up being a staff member. In class I would always have HG in the back of my head thinking about what should I do next or how should I handle this issue. I should really be focusing on my professor instead but you know, it gets pretty boring. The Struggles Burnt. Also thanks to my brother, without him this wouldn't have been possible. Ending notes: This ended up being longer than expected, I feel I should end there. Thank you to whoever read the whole thing. I know I didn’t go into detail on some stuff so if you have any questions just ask them here, I will be more than happy to answer any questions! Also sorry for making 3 threads, was trying to indent but it kept posting a new topic for some reason. Edited August 15, 2015 by KarmaOfPain 38 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goku Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 i'm italian and i approve this topic 10/10 dank memes with pizza on it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin The Kidd Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 comp? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EpicSoyMilk Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 we still gonna stay up all night to watch the next csgo major? <3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midget Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Well written. Thanks for everything that you have done for the HG community, I appreciate all of the decisions you made as leadership and I'm sure everyone else does as well. God speed. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaOfPain Posted August 13, 2015 Author Share Posted August 13, 2015 we still gonna stay up all night to watch the next csgo major? <3 Maybe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Short Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 (edited) Good shit brah. Edited August 13, 2015 by Short 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nite Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 I love you 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue :D Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 shit im too drunk to read this but i like it 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iAman Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 U made me cry about the past community, espically css. We will miss u karma 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MizzMadelyne Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 (edited) me and u Edited August 13, 2015 by MizzMadelyne 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s73100 Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 This made me sad . You did a lot for us karma more then you get credit for. For that I thank you. enjoy life m8. : D 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClearCut Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 cya Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crysis Shots Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 I still miss CSS Jb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toast Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 TF2 JB was still babysitting all the kids. Still does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xGlitchedGamer Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 I remember when perp was alive. That was when HG was the most fun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burnt Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Best gmod dL 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeman Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 You still haven't played X-2 have you yet ya beepis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnmau Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Well This went into detail... Well Just wanted say thanks for all you've done, without you CSGO would've been like TF2 Kappa. But Seriously Thanks Karma <3 p.s u still are beautiful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaOfPain Posted August 13, 2015 Author Share Posted August 13, 2015 You still haven't played X-2 have you yet ya beepis. No, I plan on playing it within the next 2 years. Hopefully Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 you still rock *freekills you* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ev0s Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Im in tears XD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoxHound Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Thanks for being a great dL man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnPrePared_ Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 I only saw you like 3 times in total but on the forums you seem like a cool dude. Thanks for the things you did for HG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeman Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 No, I plan on playing it within the next 2 years. Hopefully I say that about my steam catalog. Then I go and play terrible moba games lel. And also thank you for everything Karma I hope everything goes well for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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