This was posted in 2007.
My online story is one of friendship, heartbreak, and the occasional fight that has torn apart entire sites.
Hi, my name is Corey. Back in the early part of the decade I was just a neopet’s user by the name of ezgoalie5. I had a good friend list, and I knew some of them extremely well. Some of them brought the idea of me to start a guild. I honestly didn’t want to start it, but because I knew it would make them happy, and it would be a place for us to talk, and even make new friends. At the time Harry Potter was the big thing in the media, so I took my best graphics friend at the time (his name was Justin) and asked him to make a harry potter guild layout. It was an instant success. Within a week I had over 400 people in the guild, and the member base was growing slowly every day. At one point I was on the top 10 list for guild members. After about 3 months of the guild (database grew to 2,500) I was asked by my head of slytherin to make an account with him (his account was gavage, he was a relatively famous guild battler of the time, his shoyru was infamous). I said no, but after a few weeks of reconsideration I told him I’d share an account with him. We were best friends for 3 years, but he went off to college, and I only talk to him once every 2 or 3 months now. We decided on the name of Icey Defeat after we used the phrase frost fight, and did a ton of synonyms in word. We loved the name, and we named the pet Icey_Defeat. To this day that pet was my favorite. He was a plushie shoyru, level 100ish, and extremely high stats. We lasted on this site for an extremely long time. I made another guild on this account (well technically I made a side account to run the guild). This account was for legit neopets millionaires. The requirement was 1 mil neopoints, and 3 unbuyable’s worth at least 250k, also a somewhat decent pet. This site was near 1000 members by the end. I met Nick (X-Factor), and shady (never joined codex) in this guild. Those two and I were friends for the longest time. Nick and I are still friends to this day.
Around this time I joined the Pink Poogle Toy forums. I was a PPT god after a few months, and made a lot of friends. I was a part of around 7 or 8 clubs, most of which are eluding me. I went under the username ‘1337 Unbuyable Restocker’ for a while because for that time I was known on neopets for my good restocking skills. For this, I met people who asked me question, such as how to restock, or how much something went for. I spent a lot of time on the AIM chat rooms for restockers, where I met BUZZ, an infamous programmer of his time. He wrote a basic main shop autobuyer, but it introduced me to the world of cheating. The one day, one of the greatest things ever happened, a user by the name of Krnsaber PMed me asking how much an item was worth that he was lucky enough to restock. The item doesn’t matter, but what does matter is to this time he’s been my longest lasting friend, and I am grateful everyday for it. I also meet a boy by the name of Aaron, who I’m no longer friends with, at PPT.
Me, nick, shady, and Aaron made a neopets account together by the name of _cans (Corey, Aaron, nick, shady). The greatest account ever, only because it was with some of my closet friends. That account was never special with its contents, but we had over 2 mil for most the time, had a legit flow of cash. It was iced, we still don’t know why to this day, but we got so pissed, and decided on cheating as the way to go.
We joined digibliss, since it was the first neopets cheating site that came up on Google when you searched. Me and nick become loyal members, and enjoyed the programs from the site. Never felt like home. So we had heard of this site called neocodex. Nick joined instantly, and people loved him right away. I honestly stayed away from the site, because neo_grl told us all it was a cookie grabber, and I liked my neopets accounts. Nick became mod after awhile, and I decided to join the site since I decided the site was legit. I had trouble fitting in but I stayed with it. I met friends over time and even picked up some programmer tricks I never knew. I become a private member after 3 months, and I started to feel like I belonged. I become a Jr. Programmer (at the time there was only two programmer ranks). About a year later I was promoted to moderator, and I felt sure that this was going to be the site I would at forever. Till nick went on his rage.
Nick got himself banned by declaring he was going to create a site. Being his best friend, I went along with him. The site was Neohaven.us. We were co-admins, but the site was under his name. I was demoted on codex to verified member, and got sad over it. I tried to balance staff on both sites, but codex, for the time, gave up on me. The site fell, never did well. We joined some neopets site; I want to say it was called redneo.info, something along those lines. It was supposed to be this huge site; it was overhyped, and never did well.
After a lot of begging I got allowed back into codex. And surprisingly enough, I was promoted to my old spot of moderator within a few months. I was so happy the staff was giving me another chance, as well as the member database for being so nice to me after I ditched them. I was soon made a retired member, and for a few years that was the highest rank I ever thought I’d get. Between then and now I’ve written over 25 neopets programs for codex, some are still there, some aren’t. Through the ages I’ve been involved with a few major incidents, one with Rodents blaming me for his computer literally burning. I had a problem with one of my programs, it used 100% CPU, and he left it on for many days and never checked it. Rodents was banned later for constantly lashing out, and causing a scene. More recently I’ve had private problems with members, all of which have ended in a good fashion, such as me and cataliste got into a tousle, and now we talk often and have become good friends. Recently I was promoted to super moderator, and have come up with ideas to improve the site, such as bringing back the e-zine, 100 post day, and a lot of other none noticeable things that just help the site run easier. Every day I get on online and try and spend 1-2 hours on the site, I take time out of my busy life for codex. Right now my life is very depressing, and for those of you who know why, I am trying to keep my private life private, and I thank all of you who have supported me. That’s my story, and I really thank you for taking the time to read this and get to know me. This essay is 1,288 words.
No idea where those extra characters came in, but man. I had forgotten ALL of this. Anyone got a story to share?
Edited by Icey Defeat, 16 March 2012 - 03:26 PM.
