An Anniversary with Super Spirits

Well, this is it. I'm coming up on my one year anniversary of Transformice. One whole year. A lot has happened within this past year. Over 30k rounds, 16k cheese, 1.4k firsts, 16k saves. Friendships made and kept, friends leaving for greener pastures, updates and updates until Transformice seemed almost like a different game entirely...

I should focus on the updates. Updates are really how people mark their time around here. I'd ask people when they started playing, and oftentimes, they'd reply with "Oh I started during the April Fool's Update" and "Well the first update I remember was the friends list .-."

For me, the first update I remember was the Super Spirits. I think I might've been playing about a week before those beastly things came out, which, according to the wiki, is August 5th. They were really the ultimate trolling weapon, way more powerful than a normal spirit, and the tool to use for a lazy shaman (assuming he knew how to activate it). Activated by pressing the space bar (just like ghosting any other object), the spirit turns pink and could hinder mice miles away. It was silently brought into the game, and just as silently taken out, as its pull towards evil was too strong. And now I'm just getting dramatic. *cuts to a different topic*

Reflecting past, I'm not really sure what kept me to this game for so long. My brother had introduced it to me, and he left the game just as quickly as he had joined. I didn't have the pull of the friends back in August, September, as I do now, and I definitely wasn't very active back then. Maybe it was just that the game was simple, clean (in graphics at least), easy to access...maybe it was just that. But why did it entertain me more than...say...Portal: The Flash Version? I blame it on the neverending race for first, seemingly infinite milestones to reach.

Was this a good decision, continuing to play this game? I'm not sure.
Playing this game...definitely took way too much time away from school. Maybe it was the reason why I stayed up until past 1 every night. Maybe it was the reason why I almost never read actual books, just for fun. Maybe it is the reason for my B in English last semester.

Then again, maybe not.

I honestly don't regret playing this game. It really has opened me up, allowed me to get into long distance friendships, brought together by a derpy mouse game. It has, in the long run, taught me more responsibility, with the appearance of the leaderboard and its forum as well as the more recent minigame, Tribewar.

I don't really know what to say next, except that this game has changed me as a person, for the better. This game, to me, is more about friendship, and this is what will keep me here, in the flash world, with all of you.


Sorry this post got so serious ._.