JackRoach's former bio and goodbye speech.

hello. took me a while to find this thread

hey, how did u find it

Yep. But I said everything I wanted to say.

I don't mind much if no one would read it, but I like to express myself and let people know, or at least hint that my fake online personality was just that. Fake.

It was strange to think about, working against my own self, but it was kind of fun.

I read the whole thing but it was just rlly long... My bio is long too but I think mine is good...

hi jack. 

Hi Jack, welcome back. I noticed in the other thread that you used the word "whilst". Have you moved across the pond already? lol

i was looking for interesting forums to read since i was bored out of my mind and so i found this thread

k, people have found it now

Honestly, I felt that though it wasn't at all the best word to fit there, it looked the best. 

Is @Pushingthatwood Jack Roach? I’m a bit confused.

Yes.

Welcome back to the forums!

I'm not coming back to the forums.

Sorry for not showing my old personality, I know that's what all the old kids here want.

I don't feel like showing it, that was my old personality.

hmmmmmmmmmmm

Lol . Nice . I guess being in this new account makes you feel lonely

A little, ngl.

Knew it . Do you regret your decision in any way ?

But I can say something else, now that I'm out of my fake online personality. If I'm going to expose myself, I might as well do it all the way. 

I remembered only a year ago, early June, I wanted to get better at chess. So I trained, and it took me a few weeks to get to 800. Honestly, I'm pretty sure I'm a slow learner at chess, which is very annoying.

Anyway, I bumbled my way to the, "Post your best miniatures here," thread, and I posted my trash 800 games there. Luckily, no one cared that they were bad. A little while later, I decided to get out of that comfortable and sometimes boring thread. That's when I saw the other forums, and found out that people, of all ages, used chess.com as social media. 

      Not just kids. The kids are the ones that talk about childish nonsense, the adults talk about adult nonsense. 

     It first started with me reading a thread by 2Ke21-0, where he offered his blocking services. I found it funny, but it also surprised me to find out that he got a ton of attention from that. He said to write an essay in the beginning to apologize to him, so I did because I was bored and I wanted to play along. I also wanted attention.

     I later found another thread by 2Ke21-0, and it also got attention. I thought it would be cool to invest time in the forums. I joined a Bongcloud tourney hosted by him, and it went terribly for me since I was about 1100 at that time.  

     I made only a few threads and interacted very little with joke threads, most of them being serious. I learned how to refute traps, and I got into articles. So I expanded my safe little bubble to include all these things. 

     Early January this year is when I recognize when I started foruming, because it is when I started doing so consistantly and made myself a pfp of a stalemate position, not the brilliant king most of you know. I made a couple of joke threads titled, "A beginner's guide by me: How to blunder," and then, "A begginer's guide by me: How to stalemate." I thought they were pretty funny and others did as well. Sadly all those threads are gone now since they got deleted FOR NO REASON ALONG WITH EVERY OTHER THREAD AND BLOG AND COMMENT I'VE MADE.

    So January, I got little respect. In February, I started foruming more often. I met @Little_Guinea_Pig and @B1ZMARK then, and we became friends on one evening when we were all commenting on several same threads. I knew LGP a little from the miniatures forum, and in June when I went back so some of my chess related forums I made in October-December, I realized that B1ZMARK commented on a lot of them. So I knew them both a little before that evening, but that was when I recognize we officially met. I was thrilled when @1e4c60-1 sent me a friend request, and I also played some daily and live games with @Moonwarrior_1, but other than that I didn't have many other interactions, besides a small conversation with @Epoloque where I decided to be slightly awkward.

     So, February. I started making a few nonsensical threads, and I followed threads from others. Moonwarrior stopped with daily games, so we didn't play as much anymore, and after one very awkward exchange with 1e4c60-1, we didn't talk anymore, plus they weren't that active.

   In March, I started checking notifs on chess.com with my phone during lunch instead of just play Clash Royale, and I interacted with others a ton more. I made friends with @Gchess the mod, and I was happy about that. I made a few blogs and a ton of forums, but I didn't have any huge interactions with many other big community members. I mean I talked to some like @Batman2508 and @AZA-kun. I think it was March when I gave myself my trademark sense of humor and trademark words. I took a 3 week break, and I was pretty surprised when people actually cared that I'd leave. I also think I made a nice big bio in very early March as well. I almost forgot to mention, I think I got a little respect by taking Jason Repa head on in arguments, and man. We'd brawl 'till someone got squished. It was also here where I argued in a way that was entertaining, and I'd literally just annoy the heck out of them by presenting facts and info in the most annoying way that appealed to my audience until I won. Of course the way I argued was cringe, but I never showed there was anything remotely cringy about that, so it wasn't cringe.  

     Now, April was a great month for me. First off, I gained a ton of attention on chess.com. I connected with a ton more forumers, and the once vast chess.com community seemed smaller and smaller every day. I stopped playing Clash Royale on my phone at school, and started full-on foruming. Sometimes I'd stay up late, like maybe 10:30-11 constantly refreshing for new notifs, and responding to everything. I was climbing up. Also, the Itude stuff all started up. I'd only been interacting for a week with them, and I found out they got muted, and they seemed very very upset. I said something to Gchess that showed I was upset about the Itude thing. I didn't accuse him, but I said I hoped it wasn't him that muted him. He showed that he was even more upset than I was, and then, for a few days, he tried his hardest to talk to Itude, though they didn't want to talk to Gchess. So I spend tons of time talking to both Itude and Gchess trying to unite them, but it didn't work sadly. And on the threads when I said that Itude closed, man. Everyone and I mean everyone was on his case. They made dumb assumptions because none of them knew the full story besides me, they just tried to obliterate them. On a funnier note, I said something overly dramatic on one of those threads, "One of these days, I feel I'm either going to unite the community... or divide it." (Paraphrasing alert .)

     It turned out being true in May, when I got lazier and more comfortable with my personality, to the point of just knowing what the online me would say in certain situations. Actually, it was more like I had a couple of choices of what to say, and I'd choose the mood I felt in the current time. Anyway, the pedestrian/cyclist revolution started, I was right in the statement, I would divide the community.

So almost everyone divided, except for a few like B1Z and Moonwarrior, who decided to make the Drivers Club. 

In May, man. I connected with almost everyone that was a kid forumer on chess.com. There were only a few people I didn't interact with directly more than, say, 2 times, like HuntressesofArtemis and Free-De-La-Hoy. The latter, I don't know. I just never encountered them on a thread I wanted to comment on. And Huntresses was just not the sort of person I wanted to interact with. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not insulting them. They are just completely different from me deep down, though we looked similar on the surface. I didn't mean, "not the sort of person I wanted to interact with," as an insult, I just couldn't think of a better way to phrase it.

And then very early June, I carried on. Everything was like May, until BAM. My RIP thread started, and I opened a new account. Now we're here.

Did it really take me almost an hour to write all of that? Wow. I have two more things to say: