[Nantuko Joe]

My first day...

I was cruising arcadepod.com, and I saw something called "X-Men versus Street Fighter Online". I said "what the hell" and clicked it. Then I had to register, and thought "this is a multiplayer game? wow, this should be cool.

My first few matches
I registered, entered the practice, tried out a few moves (but still didn't know how to do a frigging hadoken), then entered the chat.

My first opponent: token
Result: I got whomped. I got thoroughly whomped. I got whomped so bad, I don't want to remember.

token laughed in my face, then I tried to figure out more moves. To no avail. Then I fought my second match

My second opponent: Tarkan X
Result: Once again, I got whomped.

However, instead of laughing in my face, Tarkan figured out that I was new, and he taught me the basics of XMvsSF. And I grew from there...

The Forum
About a month later, I joined the forum under an alias. Like NoSoul, I had never seen an online forum before, and was blown away. I made a few posts, then registered as Nantuko Joe. When I first started off, I was somewhat mild-mannered, and only replied to posts (never starting my own topic). After a while, I joined Dan Hibiki in flaming Randy-moss, and he and I formed the SFPOA. I was finally accepted by XMvsSF Online Community.

Then, a little while later, some loser kid named mastaq ( :biggrin: ) joined. This kid was one of the biggest nOOb$ I've ever encountered. He and I engaged in a HUGE flaming war that lasted a few weeks. It wasn't until much later that I would learn his true identity.

My first clan
This was easier than I thought. Some kid named Selvin (he was only 3 months older than me, forum-registration-wise, but had over three thousand posts. He was advertising a clan, called The SMASHERS. This is pretty much how I got in.

Nantuko Joe: Selvin, can I be in your clan
Selvin: You're in
Nantuko Joe: THanks. Um...what do I do now?

That's when Selvin gave me the link to Senshukentaikai, where I totally got sucked into the XMvsSF community...

Senshukentaikai
For the next half-of-a-year, Senshuk-forum was my home away from home. WHenever I had spare time, I was posting at Senshuk (all the while honing my skills at the XMvsSF game). I was a member of Drunken Smashers, and a well-respected member of the XMvsSF community overall.

Then came the forum wars, where a $hitload of users were creating their own personal forum. I got swept up in the forum wars, but managed to create Nantuko Kingdom. I expected it to flop....BUT IT GOT HUGE! Aside from Senshuk and the official forum, EVERYONE posted at Nantuko Kingdom! Then, when NK was in need of new moderators, KKS suggested to me some kid named Dark_Masta. I accepted. Then, the unexpected came. Zing and Quass shut down Senshuk

My life in XMvsSF now
The entire summer, I had taken a break from the XMvsSF game and official forum to be on NK and Senshuk. The closing of Senshuk corresponded with another event--Mallarky.net. A few of my real-life friends wanted to create a website and forum, and I shut down NK and moved everyone to Mallarky. Then, I started posting once more here at the Official Forum. The ppl that used to post here were gone, replaced by Roll, SSJDan, tupac2westsider, Ludacris, sk8erfox, adn the likes of them. I finally got back into the game, and hope to bring DS on a comeback tour of the game. It was about this time that I discovered that one of my good friends on the forum--Dark_Masta--was really mastaq, that stupid nOOb that used to flame with me. Past experiences forgotten, he and I began to work on repopulating Mallarky.net. However, due to my involvement in the wonderful world of COLLEGE, things are going slower than I hoped.

My status now is an honored and respected Vet of XMvsSF, member of the Drunken Smashers, and admin of Mallarky.net.