ABlazingLife

ABlazingEBoy is a former TGForever Admin, a former TG Mod, the founder and former leader of NoWhere, and the former leader of the 1.15 town of NoName.

## TeenagersGaming

### 1.15

#### Early Days

EBoy first discovered the server from a reddit post, and joined. At the time he was playing on a small SMP with friends, and not understanding how the server worked, he died a few times and then just left. That would have been the end of it, but after another month or so, the SMP got boring and everyone stopped playing, leading EBoy to try his hand at the server again. This time, he managed to survive long enough to get basic resources, and then build a tiny hobbit hole at a swamp.

EBoy lived here for a while, all the while being an extremely silent rando who just gathered resources and minded his own business. Unfortunately, this time of peace did not last long, as EBoy logged in one morning to find his house filled with lava, including his logout spot, resulting in him dying and losing all of his good items. Not knowing that there were mods who would rollback griefs, he packed up what little he had left, and set out to find a new home.

#### The Skybase

After being griefed, EBoy wanted somewhere far more inaccessible (although this point was somewhat futile since it had a netherportal). This led to the construction of the skybase, a base built on a floating island at y213. This base was significantly nicer than the old one, and he continued to use it until the end of 1.15.The base started as one naturally generated island, with a small house built on it, but as his needs grew, he created artificial islands around the main one, linked with bridges. There was an island for livestock, an island for wheat farming (used for dog breeding near the end of 1.15), an island for keeping turtles, and an elytra landing pad. There was also an extremely tall water elevator to get to ground level, in order to access the mine, spider spawner, and turtle farm (We'll get to this one later).

#### Turtle Business

After he started on the skybase, EBoy became a bit more social, and started to participate in the economy, buying items. He quickly realized that he needed to find something to sell, as just mining wouldn't cut it. However, he didn't really have any redstone prowess, so he wouldnt be able to compete on common items. Thus, he decided to farm something quite unusual, turtle shells (and eggs). He made the jankiest turtle farm imaginable, and got to work, spending many hours at the farm due to how slow turtles hatch, and how small the farm was. He managed to make some diamonds, from people buying a few eggs for use in farms, or a single shell to wear as a helmet and join #turtlegang. His main source of income, however, was from the player A3eead. A3 was quite fond of using Potions of the Turtle Master, as due to his high ping these potions were his best chance for survival. Being one of the richest players on the server at the time, he bought 70-80 dias worth of shells at a time, quickly making EBoy enough diamonds to last a good while.

#### Curiosity

After Ninobf was unbanned, he began offering tours of Curiosity, and an intrigued EBoy took him up on it. Wowed by the sheer beauty and size of the town, EBoy was determined to join. However, as he had no real building talent, he had to be creative with what he submitted, due to Curio's strict build restrictions. Thus, he built a large mushroom, and surprisingly was approved.

Joining Curiosity was the first time EBoy started really becoming part of the community, and making friends on the server, gettng to know people like paskel, biotic, xeg, and yax.

#### NONAME

EBoy first heard about NONAME around when it first bega, with \*ScotchTape0 asking in chat if people wanted to join. EBoy was curious, so for the memes he asked for citizenship and was granted it, despite not having a house or any stake in the town. At the time, it was basically just the mountain portal, Afkcyndiquil's lighthouse, and I'm Gay Peak. Soon, \*ScotchTape0 would step down as leader due to "family issues" (It turned out that \*ScotchTape0 was Boppoloppian's alt, but we didn't find this out until the reset), and AfkCyndiquil became the new mayor of NONAME. To aid with the transition, EBoy offered to help moderate the discord, essentially making him into an unofficial second in command. Afk was pretty, well, afk, but with EBoy leading the way the town began experiencing a large amount of growth and development. EBoy eventually petitioned Afk to form a council, as well as make him officially second in command. During this time, there were quite a few initiatives, such as "The Cobblestone Purge", and adding farms and infrastructure. Eventually, as Afk continued to be inactive, EBoy performed the "Three Message Coup", becoming the third mayor of NONAME. The transition was surprisingly seamless, since afk wasn't doing much, EBoy just continued to lead. The town continued to attract more people, and the town started to shed it's "rando town": image, at a point being largest town on 1.15.

#### Turtle Island / #TurtleGang

Nearing the later parts of 1.15, a friend group started to form. It stemmed out of a groupchat that was created for a group of players that teamed up to take on the Mid-June Event. The members of this groupchat were A Hundred Ninjas, noodles\_for\_you, AydenSWG, Ghosti, and VooDooBR. For a while, this was a really tight-knit group of friends. They would all hang out on a little island near spawn known as Turtle Island, and just chat and meme around, especially as reset neared and there became less and less things to do on the server. The only major project they ever did was Ghosti's Strip Club, besides that they mostly just chilled and became very close friends. Unfortunately, this didn't last forever. noodles\_for\_you and AydenSWG, who were dating, broke up, and A Hundred Ninjas had a feud with noodles, resulting in the group shattering.

#### Becoming a Mod

On July 31, 2020, ABlazingEBoy became a TG Moderator along with Goatmir, Cheese\_Addict, and A3eead. EBoy was originally surprised that Cheese became mod, as he didn't know him very well, but after getting to know him in modchat, they became friends (even if either one won't admit it at times). EBoy quickly got used to moderating, and surprisingly has never crashed the server in a rollback (yet).

### 1.16

#### First Days

EBoy started out 1.16 by successfully degg rushing with ModVille. He then set out with Undesiring to scout out a location for Modville. Once a suitable location was found, he walked a few hundred blocks south and founded Nowhere. This is because Modville, Nowhere, and Superiority had an agreement to all build very close to each other., in order to foster some friendly competition for resources. EBoy was busy with mod duties, so he was pretty slow with progressing in-game, relying on a few pieces of armor and tools found during endbusting, rather than crafting god tools or netherite armor.

#### Nowhere

Nowhere started out a little bit active, attracting some new players. However, much of the old playerbase wasn't active during early 1.16 for various reasons. Combined with EBoy being busy doing mod work and being unable to focus on town growth, and Nowhere quickly died. Eventually, Nowhere was given over to Murdock, who then gave it over to Xezelthawr, the former second in command in the town.

#### Builds

Whenever EBoy isn't moderating or randomly whacking people with netherite swords in invis, he's building random stuff. He built a successor to the original Curio mushroom in the Oppie district of Superiority. He's also built a dirt castle in Modville, as well as a statue of himself in his Garfield skin. Not to mention he built all the roads in Modville cause all of the other mods were too lazy to. He has yet to build a solo base anywhere, instead living out of his echest and a few shulkers in his north highway cafe. He has also built around half of Novac.

#### novac.

Novac is a town that sigma\_turbine founded in the early days of the server. For most of it's existence it has been pretty dead, only getting some use when VTD's mapart group started building maparts near it and used some of the farms. It had been annexed by Nowhere along with Stal Town, but when EBoy gave away Nowhere, he un-annexed both towns and gave full control of Novac back to sigma. Eboy found himself quite fond of Novac's acacia style however, and started absentmindedly building things there while bored during class. Eventually, he started work on a Venetian district, and has since continued to expand it, building acacia versions of builds originally planned for Nowhere's Venetian district.

#### Astral

In April 2021, Eboy started helping exgodstatus and cheeeeca very frequently with the Astral creeper farm. Eventually, ex pushed for the rest of the team to add Eboy to Astral and on April 22, 2021, he was added by WinterStars without holding a vote. However, there was no resistance to his addition and he is officially part of the team.

## Hiatus & The End of TG

By around the 1.17 reset, Eboy stopped being super active in Minecraft, with life moving IRL and having far less time to play video games, but was still moderately active in modchats. This continued until the end of 2021, when Vilhu forced the end of TeenagersGaming. Eboy was staunchly against this, as indicated by screenshots in the Teenagers Gaming Transparency Report, as well as his own essay on the matter.

## TGForever

After the shutdown, Eboy was originally disillusioned with the idea of creating a successor, but seeing TGForever start to form, it was somewhat clear that it would be the central point for the remaining community. He began being available as someone for their team to consult on getting a new community started, a role that multiple former TG moderators filled, but he eventually realized that there was a need for some reform, reorganizing the hastily formed moderation team to create a sustainable community. He quickly stepped into the role of an administrator, focusing specifically on Discord management and moderator management. Some criticized his approach to moderation as very rigid, carried over from the r/teenagers moderation team's attitude, and these concerns definitely held true, even after he pulled back on his emphasis on professionalism.

After around 7 months of being an administrator, he decided to hand off the reins to Solar Awe, as well as the existing administrative team, in an unfortunately messy manner, as he was heading off to college and wasn't going to be able to continue contributing meaningfully. After this, he largely retired from being active in any TGX communities

## Random Shit

- His original ign, ABlazingLife, was claimed by another account in late August, before he could transfer it to an alt like he intended to. The person with the ign later joined the server for the first time, only to be banned for being an alt.

- He created Foli Client, originally a running gag but made into reality when it was released on April 6, 2021.

- He used to review pop-tarts in the Spirit City Discord server.