If you say my name enough times, I will show up. XIZORJUICE, XIZORJUICE, XIZORJUICE!
There has been a great awakening in the force. Can you feel it? Its time for the hero of TMA to return. My fans have clearly spoken. I've seen the online petitions, begging me to return TMA and Brawl to its former glory and I'm here to tell you my loyal fans, that YES WE CAN!
I've enjoyed reading people's interpretations on the history/downfall of TMA, and how I am a motherfucking god damn legend. I've only returned to sign autographs and confirm that the legends are true. I think Magnum said it best:
"The TMA, The Moderators, The Legend Posters........it's all true. All of it."
There is really only one person in this thread who truly remembers the history of TMA though, Devilbeast:
"I remember XIZOR too and he used to make me laugh a lot"
"but I was glad I was able to find this small place when I fucking laughed my ass off. Mostly with XIZOR and Magnum."
You want to know why this community died? Because I fucking left and took all the best people with me. I was the fucking foundation, the core, the alpha and omega.
Adonael - "XIZOR didn't leave over a game."
No I didn't. Most people don't realize that the fall of TMA was actually a war on two fronts. There was the war over whether or not TMX was a good game, which I didn't really take much of a part in. I knew two weeks in after launch that that game was a shit show and didn't really need to express my opinions about it when so many others with better things to say were already doing so. My stance was always that hey, if people like that steaming pile of shit, let them play it, I'll go play games that actually function and are good. It is funny seeing people still arguing over TMX in this thread.
Then there was the war between me and Hellbent and the Brawl crowd about how this site and community should be run and handled. Sometimes both of those things overlapped, but history and some time away has shown that I was right about my stance on both of those things.
1) TMX was a terrible game.
2) Hellbent was a giant piece of shit who was ruining the whole site and that the core of what makes TMA such a cool internet destination transcends Twisted Metal and is in fact the awesome people who have posted over the years. A fact that my absence further proves every day I don't post here and grace you lot with my knowledge, sage life advice, and humor.
Mecit - "I think pinning everything on Hellbent for what happened to TMA is unfair. Were I to make a list of people who fucked up TMA, I would've definitely included Xizor, P7 and Kilrgrn, as well."
Hey fuck you buddy! I was always pretty upfront about being an asshole here, though mostly just for comedic effect to make people laugh, but I will never apologize for the asshole I became when it was clear Hellbent had to be stopped. Sometimes, to destroy the most hellish evil imaginable you have to become evil yourself.
The thing that most people don't understand is that Hellbent used to be a pretty fucking rad dude but somewhere along the way he just became a hateful, self serving fuckwad who went out of his way to piss off everyone. Even he admits that now:
Hellbent - "I'd blame the drugs. But to be honest I was just a hateful person."
It was made clear from people like Mortimer himself that TMA should just be about Twisted Metal, which is fine I suppose, but as I said above, that isn't what kept most of us around years after and in between TM releases and it became clear that that crowd wasn't necessarily wanted here so we just up and left to do our own thing.
At this point though I don't think anyone really cares about all the past drama though it is funny seeing noob posters and lurkers talking about it in this thread. It was all pretty fucking hilarious in hind sight and honestly pretty fun when it was all going down, but I think we've all had enough time away that we could maybe give this another shot....I don't know. Of course, that's all predicated on whether Thrillho, aka Hellbent, aka my arch nemesis, is still a giant piece of shit or not.
Also shout outs to Adonael for keeping the dream alive while I've been away. This dude has been posting pointlessly on Brawl for years now. He reminds me of me when I was younger. Keep doing what you're doing bro.