Community Spotlight : Phoenix8541

[Secret world leader (shhh)]

Great. Absolutely great.

How am I going to be more interesting than this guy?! (When I get interviewed, of course.)

Yeah, sure I'm an artist and a musician, but he's in the military!

Now he's just made everyone look bad! Think you've got it bad? I'm basically a professional teenager. What the hell am I going to say when i'm featured, i'm going to have to make something up.

Captcha: "You rock!".

 

[Brotherofaphoenix]

Try filling this guys shoes as his brother. Seriously I am his brother I need help.

 

[l3o2828]

This...is so american it's almost annoying.
ITT we put soldiers in a pedestal despite the US army and war itself being a terrible terrible thing.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

This...is so american it's almost annoying.
ITT we put soldiers in a pedestal despite the US army and war itself being a terrible terrible thing.

How so?

I'm usually the first person to notice what you're claiming, but I thought both Nasrin and Phoenix did a brilliant job.

I thought it was very modest...

 

[Elf Defiler Korgan]

He sounds like a pretty awesome guy, and well read too.

 

[Elf Defiler Korgan]

This...is so american it's almost annoying.
ITT we put soldiers in a pedestal despite the US army and war itself being a terrible terrible thing.

To me he seems quite different to the bland mainstream American and the way they think. This horrible cog in the military machine likes C.S. Lewis.

 

[Evil Smurf]

I wish I could be as cool as this guy. I will never be. I'd buy him a beer.

 

[neonsword13-ops]

Member Since: 10 Sep 2012

Wait, what? How did this happen?

How the hell did he get featured after joining for 2 days?

Beats me, but good for him!

Try filling this guys shoes as his brother. Seriously I am his brother I need help.

There is no help for the second banana.

/sarcasm

 

[Nasrin]

Member Since: 10 Sep 2012

Wait, what? How did this happen?

How the hell did he get featured after joining for 2 days?

Beats me, but good for him!

But it doesn't make sense. How the hell would they know he was so interesting after such a time. And look at his posts, they're far too "official" looking, like he was typing into the void.

Something is up, I know it. There is no logical way this could have come about unless the staff knew him from outside the site or something equally odd.

He created a new account because his previous one was associated with a username that was already in use elsewhere

 

[soren7550]

And now no one will ever match up in community spotlight ever again.

It'll be like 'oh cool, you're a 28 year old artist? Hey, remember that guy who served his country in Afghanistan while you were scribbling away?' 'oh cool, you're a 22 year old writer? Hey, remember that guy who joined the Marines when he was a year younger than you, fought in Iraq twice and is now in Afghanistan while you sit around typing away?' 'Oh cool, your motto is 'seize the day?' Hey, remember that guy whose motto is 'from the ashes of war, all will be reborn?'

Jesus Nasrin, give the rest of us a chance to look impressive won't you?

I feel ya. Hell, I got nothing to make me worthy of a Community Spotlight. I mean, I met my wonderful boyfriend through the Escapist, so there's that.

And while reading this, I couldn't help but feel this should be playing:

 

[Nasrin]

Just out of curiosity, what was the username?

I'm not sure that I remember off hand. We're a bit busy over here preparing for Expo.

You're welcome to send him a PM and ask!

 

[Shinsei-J]

Awesome guy and I agree that would be an awesome perfect day.

 

[SnowBurst]

those are the most un inspired questions ever id expect them from like a 5 year old... -_- you had the chance to talk to a war hero and you ask "What was the last book you read, and was it any good?" for real...

 

[DoomyMcDoom]

And now no one will ever match up in community spotlight ever again.

It'll be like 'oh cool, you're a 28 year old artist? Hey, remember that guy who served his country in Afghanistan while you were scribbling away?' 'oh cool, you're a 22 year old writer? Hey, remember that guy who joined the Marines when he was a year younger than you, fought in Iraq twice and is now in Afghanistan while you sit around typing away?' 'Oh cool, your motto is 'seize the day?' Hey, remember that guy whose motto is 'from the ashes of war, all will be reborn?'

Jesus Nasrin, give the rest of us a chance to look impressive won't you?

Heh, was thinkin' the same thing, Awesome bastard stole the spotlight!

For me it would be, 26 year old unemployed highschool droppout, what's worse is when I was in school they tested me a lot due to my expressed intelligence, and then the rest of my life, poverty, mother dating a heroin addict, sister trying to frame him for molestation using me, no friends, being on enough antidepressants and other supressant medication to put mmy mental state somewhere in a fog that randomly erupted into a rage volcano or ragecano with seemingly no queues telling me I was about to go fuckin crazy and flip out, later I learned it was due to some of the medication I was on supressing the awareness of the emotions rather than the emotions themselves, causing it, but hey, fun times...

So I'm essencially a loser who not only is a waste of flesh, but is also a waste of a mind once thought to have great academic potential, I'm essencially not just a waste but a waster, negative in all connotations, sure I've done a wide varity of research personally over the course of my shitty waste of life, but I cannot use any of it in a way sanctioned by anyone because I lack paperwork to prove that due to the posession of a degree or even high school deploma that I'm smart enough to do shit aside from maybe make someone a coffee without fucking it up and somehow doing damage to our glasshouse society of overemphasis of expensive education over actual tangeable ability...

So yeah, if I ever got a spotlight article written, it would do nothing but degrade me even further, and depress others... so an artist or writer, or otherwise(not as societably accepted as awesome as a soldier) profession, at least you're doing something other than waiting for death to claim your ass because nothing else will ever seemingly pan out and there is litterally no meaning to your existance...

So keep your hopes up, you aren't me, so you're at least doing something right.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

those are the most un inspired questions ever id expect them from like a 5 year old... -_- you had the chance to talk to a war hero and you ask "What was the last book you read, and was it any good?" for real...

How is he a war hero exactly?

The guy is a person, not just a soldier.

I'm pretty sure he'd like to asked questions about the things he likes, not how many dudes he's killed.

 

[Therarchos]

Came back one month ago and it is good to know someone continues the work.

Thank You

 

[Brotherofaphoenix]

I wish I could be as cool as this guy. I will never be. I'd buy him a beer.

I'll make sure I buy him a few rounds for everyone.

 

[SnowBurst]

those are the most un inspired questions ever id expect them from like a 5 year old... -_- you had the chance to talk to a war hero and you ask "What was the last book you read, and was it any good?" for real...

How is he a war hero exactly?

The guy is a person, not just a soldier.

I'm pretty sure he'd like to asked questions about the things he likes, not how many dudes he's killed.

whole premise is hes a soldier n the questioned asked cud be directed to anyone n who cares how many people hes killed i dnt n never suggested that so dnt put words in my mouth thx

 

[Daystar Clarion]

those are the most un inspired questions ever id expect them from like a 5 year old... -_- you had the chance to talk to a war hero and you ask "What was the last book you read, and was it any good?" for real...

How is he a war hero exactly?

The guy is a person, not just a soldier.

I'm pretty sure he'd like to asked questions about the things he likes, not how many dudes he's killed.

whole premise is hes a soldier n the questioned asked cud be directed to anyone n who cares how many people hes killed i dnt n never suggested that so dnt put words in my mouth thx

Well what would you have asked, hmm?

 

[SnowBurst]

those are the most un inspired questions ever id expect them from like a 5 year old... -_- you had the chance to talk to a war hero and you ask "What was the last book you read, and was it any good?" for real...

How is he a war hero exactly?

The guy is a person, not just a soldier.

I'm pretty sure he'd like to asked questions about the things he likes, not how many dudes he's killed.

whole premise is hes a soldier n the questioned asked cud be directed to anyone n who cares how many people hes killed i dnt n never suggested that so dnt put words in my mouth thx

Well what would you have asked, hmm?

i wouldnt have asked him anything because being a soldier has no bearing on games so i dnt see the relation to it only that he reads this site