Your first day and match in xvssf - Describe it

[nosoul4evr]

First day here. (October 5 2001)
I found the site on arcadepod.
Came straight to the projectx site.
Clicked START.
Waited....waited...waited some more.
XvsSF news popped up. I read it..the votes were in...wolverine was to be next...3 weeks to go.
I waited...waited..waited...waited....
Got bord....real bord...clicked the FAQ.
Read the ENTIRE faq section of XvsSF.
Waited..waited...waited..
Got bord...clicked the FORUM....got realy confused...i had never seen a forum before...something totaly unfamilair to me.
The game finished loading. I closed the forum.

I watched the XvsSF Intro...and went "WOW!" This is no ordinary shockwave game...theres something special about this one."

I created a user name (nosoul4evr) went straight to the OPTIONS section,and promptly changed my settings.
then entered the chat.

Pretty dead...not alot of users at all.
I denied the first couple challanges...i was looking for a "big dog"...and i found one...some guy named "Pandora". I challanged him...and was quickly swept away to the character select screen....where I could only choose Ryu.

I was kinda dissapointed..but figured..ehh it's a FREE shockwave game...ya cant expect too much. With just the intro alone...it had already surpassed any other shockwave game I had seen to date,so I was pretty happy...I figured Wolverine was next..and that was gonna be the end of the games development....Boy was I mistaken.

Well anyways...Pandora and I entered the match...and I proceeded to get my ass thoughly wasted...Pandora fought me 3 times and finaly "shut me off".

Once I returned to the chat...I asked the oldest question in XvsSF history, "How do you do the specials?"...everybodies reply in general was "Get screwed,n.o.o.b!"
Well that pissed me right off...in the biggest way.
Then some person (i cant remember who) challanged me to a fight...I accepted..once in the game...I began my poor fighting styles....The chat boxed opened, "Hey?"
I stopped and we chatted for a second...during this time...this player told me to "slow down" when I tried to preform the moves...we resumed fighting...and I didnt listen to his advise...I fought like a n.o.o.b, hamming the buttons..He tried to tell me to stop,I didnt...he had a high rank and i wanted the points...he left the game...and i never saw him again.
I tried for 2 days trying to get "techniques" off of people and the answer was always the same.."Get screwed,n.o.o.b!"

Finaly on Oct 7 2002 I joined the forum,in a last ditch effort to get some help....learned to navigate the forum..and noticed all the flaming going on...so i didnt post a question asking how to do the moves. But I did find the help I needed....some dude name "Warmor" had made a site about the game...I visited the site...and got my reward for a job well done searching...I then was armed to enter the XvsSF realm with my new found knowledge,and try to kick some butt.
But once I entered the PRACTICE mode to test these moves out on helpless Barney...I discovered...the moves where VERY hard to execute...So I began testing...and testing...and testing...and trained my self till i could preform the moves accurately.

The rest of the story gets VERY long indeed...so i wont bore ya'll with it.