(Nerd) Life Complete

Before I ask for permission to get my nerd on, I just wanted to make known that this is deserving of its own post rather than putting it together with me mentioning how I forget how old I am.

So, there are a lot of things that can come out of nowhere to make someone's day. The sophisticated people use the word 'serendipity' to describe these types of events. I've been surprised many times in my life by things that are totally unexpected but make me incredibly happy.

However, today's happenings may have topped all of them, and will retain the top spot for a very long time.

As many of you know, I am a nerd. Being a nerd entitles me to do nerdy things, like gaming. I've played StarCraft for a lot of years, since I was in elementary, and I've always found joy in playing this game with friends. I followed the two pro players Testie and Bisu a bit; but other than that, I never caught onto the pro scene too much until StarCraft 2 came out. The whole concept of eSports has grown so large in the past year that when you mention something like MLG, people will kind of know what you're talking about.

So with the game being so popular, and me being more plugged into the people that are known in this area, what I experienced today was the best of all time.

Amos, Jeff, and I queued up to play a random 3 versus 3 game. When we found our opponents and the game started to load, I took a peak at the races and saw that we were all playing random. I thought to myself, "this is going to be such a cheese fest." Then I noticed the name "megumixbear" as one of our opponents. I was pretty surprised because that name belongs to a girl who is relatively famous on the eSports scene. I wanted to find out if it was really her or just someone smurfing with that name. Unfortunately, I'm not a very sociable person, even in a video game; but for whatever reason, I managed to ask at the beginning of the game to see if it was really her. To my surprise, she responded yes.

So, now I'm wondering why a semi-pro player is playing against scrubs like us. And she told us that it was because she was playing 3s with the winners of the tournament that she holds. And I didn't think too much more until Amos decided to open her stream to find that we were live on that stream.

Now, I start to flip out. I couldn't actually believe that I was, at that moment, featured on someone's stream. It's like me being seen in the same interview as Taylor Hall or Jordan Eberle, even if just in the background derping.

I guess it's already pretty awesome that, not only did I get to play a game with someone famous, but thousands of people got to watch Amos, Jeff and I get our butts handed to us by her and her team. On top of that, after the game, I got onto Twitter and sent her a tweet. While still being on the stream, megumixbear is then seen going onto her Twitter, reading my tweet to her, and then retweeting the message I sent her. So, the few of us who were following this shenanigan-ry, we're going crazy.

Thanks to Amos' bad manner by making fun of her, commenting about how she has her mouth wide open when she plays, we caused quite a bit of a stir in the chatroom in her stream.

This was really awesome because it's crazy how, on just a random Sunday afternoon with three guys trying to have some fun, something like this can happen and just brighten up an already awesome day even more. So even though megumixbear has probably already forgotten who we are, and even though I'll probably never get to meet her, it was a really cool experience. My life has been made complete.

Did I mention that she is also quite stunning? (Both in looks and in personality)

And since she retweeted me, I'm going to return the favor and link you to her stream.

http://www.twitch.tv/megumixbear - Click to watch her stream StarCraft and other fun things!

P.S. She had the VOD up earlier with the game including me (oneLove), Jeff (Cheese), and Amos (BeefRoll), but I can't seem to find it anymore. If I can find it, then maybe I'll link that too so people can laugh at how badly we made ourselves look.

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