The year was 2011, Lady Gaga's Born This Way and Katy Perry's Teenage Dream is pouring out of the speakers in every car radio, the media outlets were all talking about the outbreak of the Syrian War and 14-year-old Márk was, of course, at home alone, sitting in the little hole he called "Gaming Corner" next to the living room, installing Steam for the first time and with it, his first game, Garry's Mod.
We had slow ethernet back then so the game took around 30 minutes to download all the files,
which bothered "little" Márk very much so, that he hit "Cancel" and went to play Deathrun or TTT instead.
However, a month later, as TTT grew stale, I returned to the gamemode everyone in the GMOD voicechats
were talking about: RP. One of the first results on my server browser was CityRP (with around 100 players, both servers combined) so I hit the "Connect" button and went to eat lunch on the terrace.
It was then that I started my journey in CityRP. A journey that formed my childhood, gave me many friends, many challenges as a squeaker and taught me proper English (something I'm still thankful for, as it had given me many opportunities in my life).
But most importantly it gave me the courage to not only use my microphone (something I was fearful and scared for, due to me not being a native speaker), but also courage to try and make friends in school as well, since back then I didn't have any.
There are many great memories in both Fearless and Limelight, that I now put into a special drawer in my heart. A drawer, that I can always open up and look back at proudly to say "Yes. I was there. I was a part of the magic."
As a final goodbye, I've put together an album of many of the funny, meaningful or just interesting screenshots I've taken over the years, from
's dictatorship, to entertaining us on the littletown map, to and helping me build one of my first dupes. The scoreboards are a real treasure trove of nostalgia as well.
Some of these will not be as meaningful to you, as it is to me and that is fine.
If you recognize yourself, make sure to give me a holla.
https://imgur.com/a/Vbwr4it
Edit: Many of my newer screenshots were lost due to a Win reinstall earlier this year, but if I find 'em, I'll upload them.