I just typed away without much thought so some of this is amazingly unordered.

Like many of you, I also started jj2ing more than 4 years ago on a 14.4 and had a blast. The early battles where everyone's skills where relatively equal and I had a chance at winning . I still remember details from those games, especially ones that were "important" like the first time I saw the community's big names in-game (like Capt. Spam, Dethman, ST, etc), and my favorite game ever: JDC vs. MERC.

Joining MERC was one of the best things I've done while Jazzing, and I did it only because it was Onag's clan. I didn't know him at all at the time, except for the fact that he was well respected and deserved that respect. I grew to know him well during the rest of his Jazzing days and without a doubt he was my favourite Jazzer ever. (Fquist would be second, btw ;p). Up until the end of EM I was proud to tell others what clan I was in.

I also loved figuring out how to use JCS using the few resources available at the time. Learning how to do "harder" stuff and create some resources myself (like the (first) MCE list and TC101) were also among my favorite activities. I have no idea why I'm the JCS mod though, as my learning stopped back then and many, if not most people have devised many tricks not even thought of back then.

I have tons of memories of good times, and seldom any bad ones. Whether that's because I've forgotten them or I haven't experienced many, I don't know. I remember everyone calling me Iceman, which I really didn't care about, just kept complaining about it to be noticed. I remember this one girl who kept asking why I was Ice "M A N" when I was only twelve. Staying up to 4am plaing Worms Armageddon with Onag was also incredibly fun (Thanks again Wakey for making that possible with the Jazz2 Quit II which I won). I remember my first post on the Epic Mega Messageboard, the Epic Indicators or whatever they were called and reading EVERY SINGLE POST the day it was posted, which went into the JMMB as well. I remember having J2C as a homepage and my reaction to just about every news item posted. I remember when J2C closed too, and I swear my eyes just got teary just thinking about it.

Anyway.. by the end of nagcentral... Oct or so last year, I had no more place in the community. Nothing (or close to it) to help out on or anything. Which is disappointing to say the least because one of the reasons I enjoyed this so much was because I COULD help people who needed help. Now it seems I'm just taking up bandwidth.

Anyhoo.. I grew up with Jazz. I don't regret it. I've learned many things like helping people, how to learn by myself, and with help. I've had fun and you guys have always made me feel.. good. It was great then, but I really don't see a point in it anymore.. so this will probably be my last month sticking around. When school starts up.....

There just aren't the same type of people around here nowadays. People like the J2C crew and many other oldies who made this game something worth sticking with for 4 years.

Yes Jazz has changed my life, or at least taken up a significant portion of it.