@ondrejbakan
Hello Mr Ondrej Bakan, thank you for this wonderful and uplifting post...i knew ,by your name , you had to be Eastern European. You wouldn't believe it but i'm shy too, in real life ,i don't dare to say 3 words to someone i have never seen...Therefore my world is quite small, Real Friends i can count on the fingers of one hand , in my own Country , which is Belgium by the way , i have one Friend , all the other Friends are located all over Brittania...
So, as you can feel , i'm no Russian ...i have learned to make a Gift from my previous curse and try to bring with my accents some fun in our and the " enemy's" crew.
Many years ago ,my own accent , became a curse for me , i played a lot of Call of Duty and Rainbow Six games. But since the release of Modern Warfare , people seemed suddenly to hate me...During months i was told to either shut up ,or was getting full buckets of verbal sludge over me...Nomatter what i said , the smallest peep from my throath was enough to trigger verbal hostilities...
Then i made a mistake ,i still regret today , i took their advice and kept my mouth shut ,as they always told me...Years went by , playing Multiplayer games with Microphone without speaking...i could let all those voices rang in my head as echoes , and so i started to learn French, Southern USA, Scottish, Irisch and Russian accents...
7 years later , a " certain" English Developer decided to make a game where succes would be granted if...you could communicate with yer crew...Many Multiplayer games had fallen " silent" because of too much verbal hostilities...They took a big gamble as this game too can be altered in a Hell filled with Trolls.
But this Forum and later the Alpha's gave me back hope , i started talking, first in my own accent and i spoke like a waterfall...Rare had given me a Gift not one could retrieve, i was utterly happy but came to realize that i could maybe get others out of their "shell"...
So ,time went by , and i had met a certain Mr Bern Dimall, now known as @Dag-13eRniT . He has a Texan accent , and i mimicked him, not to ridiculize him but to try to learn more of this accent and then something Magical happened : He didn't mind, on the contrary , he encouraged it and so i was freed from another shackle...
But...Can i do all this on my own? No, Sir , without Friends i'm still nothing ( * You're still nothing , even with Friends ...Moron - Ah and there we have the supporting critics from Sunshine. * Shut it , Captain Tearface , it stinks in here). And there my Great Friend Mr @J4dio comes in...With him at my side i can move Mountains ...That's the real power of Friendship. Friends make you stronger and...they don't even realize it.
i am no Streamer , no content Creator , i fear i was born too late to jump on that train but ...i try to go for a higher cause...A smaller one in attendants but still something i have high up my Heart: Joy...
Purely and undistilled Joy, for me but also for others...
Mr Bakan, one of my Childhood dreams was to be a theatre actor , they could silence the crowd ,make them cry but also crawl from laughter ...In the early eighties , ( * When the Dinosaurs were walking the Earth...heheheh) there was a comical Duo: Gaston and Leo in Belgium. Two Great and Funny Gents , they had a show on television, one per year , not much hey? But what they did outhere is etched in every Belgian's Brain and the best part was when they were so funny that they couldn't hold their laugh anymore...
In short they brought Joy amongst the people...THAT was my dream but a bad memory ( * Oi, don't blame it on me , Moron!) ,shy-and ugliness made i never realized that dream untill...Sea of Thieves ...Sea of Thieves is , when i have a good day , My Theatre...My goal is to bring Joy towards others ...Arena is sometimes so hostile , well, i try to turn it , sometimes i fail, sometimes i succeed...But i will tell you one thing...i'm an addict...No, Dear Moderator ,no need to block this post...i'm an Addict to mental Adrenaline...Improvising on the spot gives me a kick, in my own language , but ....making People smile in a language i totally not master accompanied with accents i learned from Television and listening to others for Years , that gives me such a rush in my head that i radiate Light in my dark attic...
But that is also your part Mr Bakan, you laughed and unknowingly encouraged me to keep finding jokes in my wasteland that people would call peanut brain...The " Enemy " was also Great in accepting and encouraging me...
Without ,all of you, including my Great Inspirator and sidekick Mr J4dio i would be nothing more than a maggot...But this is Sea of Thieves ,in here you rise far above yourself because others Accept you for who you are ...They may call me silly , crazy , daft those names are thriving me to push it further and as you have seen , i don't need shunning words, nor pick on a person and ridiculize him/her...
All i want is have and share Fun...Sometimes it works , mostly it fails but if it works , then i'm a Steamroll train that is hard to stop...The adrenaline turns me into a Marathon Sprinter...
So there you go Mr Bakan...i hope that you may realize that you don't have to be shy...In Sea of Thieves , an accent is NOT a Curse ...It is a Gift that you can use to make Sessions worth to remember...
i hope that you realize that you too can do all this , much better than i can because i don't think you have a faulthy brain ( * Stop mocking me, Meanie - Hahahah, what is that tear ? Sunshine...Does the Truth hurt? hihihihi) like me...
Go for it ...Sea of Thieves isn't about Levels , Beautiful Clothes or Achievements , It's all about having and sharing Fun with known or Unknown People...A Pirate can be just a Pirate but why not give him/her a Great Evening...
i hope you and the other Pirates enjoyed it because i know i did...
Thank you , all of you, because every Fun Evenings are a help for when the Inner Darkness tries to stop me again...
