Hello Darkness my old friend. I've come to talk with you again...

Hey Managoty!
Just letting you know, if you have Discord and you want to get the retired rank for recognition of your work to help build MCAlagaesia on our Discord server, just let me know what your username and ID is.

Hey guys,
Jeez, I never wanted to have to send this message. I'm here to say that I am resigning from the build team. This is for multiple reasons that I will be explaining next and then I will be saying my farewells to my closer friends I've made here.

So firstly is the reasons I am leaving, starting with the fact that I just haven't been very motivated nor available to build. During the last few months I've really been slacking and I feel terrible about it. Next is my lack of confidence. As soon as I saw this server I wanted to contribute to it but after joining I quickly learned that I wasn't a very good builder. That mindset has stuck with me throughout my entire time here despite making it on to the team and it really just kinda gets in the way, And then finally are my real life reasons. Even though school is over I feel like video games are starting to effect me very negatively, I won't go into to much detail but I'll explain a bit. Recently I've been having a high lack of motivation to really do anything besides just sit around all day, this has been effecting my health and my emotions very badly. Along with this my memory is starting to get really foggy and I fear what it'll lead to and that it may have something to do with the amount of game time I've been spending for the majority of my life. It's for all this that I hope I can find a way to break this and get away from gaming. That's all the reasons that I am deciding to leave.

And now for my goodbye's. I didn't want to leave MCA because I really didn't want to lose the friends I've made here. I hardly talk to anyone outside of school so this was my first real change from that, so I thank you for making me no longer be a lonely loser, but instead a loser who only has friends on the internet but many of you have become close friends. First I'd like to say thanks to two people who will never see this msg, Waffle and Shadow. Even though you both have been removed from this server, you two were the first friends I made here and really helped me feel comfortable with people online. Next is Azza007 , thanks for making me laugh so much on this server. I always enjoyed our random adventures on the server and the few times we spent hours talking with each other on teamspeak and singing adele in chat with you. Next is fredo747 . Thank you so much for always being there to motivate me when I felt like I wasn't worthy of being on the build team. You were always there to push me and I thank you for that, you'll always be a better builder than me. ArcWraith , thank you for being my great rival, I enjoyed our time facing each other. Hellomynameis99 you were a great leader and quiet a personality around the server. Thank you for excepting me as a builder and helping me grow as a builder. Kia thanks for just being my only furry friend I guess xD I enjoyed whenever I got to occasionally chat with ya. J, thanks for being a friend who I could share art with and talk with. You're a great kid and you'll go far in life. To the rest of my fellow staff, thank you for all your work you've done on this server. And to all of my fellow players, thanks for all the great memories and the "Batmana"s, "Manananananananana..."s and so much more. It's been a great 2 years.

Goodbye my MCA family.

I just randomly realized I've been on MCA for over 2 years now.... wow XD it's been one hell of a time . I have so many great memories here and hope to make more. Hope to get back on soon. Thanks for the adventure guys

Nic's so lucky, he gets to have 2 ranks ;( so jelly rn

Well hello there person who is reading this random post. So recently in my English class we had to write a personal narrative about a part of our life that changed us. In years past my teachers always said the best essays are the ones that were about something that aren't usual, so I decide to write mine on becoming a part of MCAlagaesia. We were also supposed to share it with at least 3 people after we finished so I decided to go ahead and share it with all of you instead. I hope you enjoy and sorry to those not specifically mentioned, all of you have made your own impacts on me, but I can only write so much before it starts getting poorly written. Anyways here you are:

Michael Martin

Life’s More Than a Game

The rain patters on the roof quietly as the wind howls through the trees, screaming at everything in the world. It was a day where you stay inside to avoid getting a cold and curl up with a blanket.I sat on my bed with a fuzzy blanket covering me, radio on right beside me blaring some popular song like Moves Like Jagger or the likes. Amongst the symphony of rain, wind and radio, the slight sound of the rapid clicking of my mouse blends in. I stare intensely at my computer screen, moving my mouse to aim and look around as I continue work on my latest project. “I’m not working fast enough,” I mutter to myself, panicking ever so slightly as I see 99 finishing another review and getting ready to move on to the next. I rush trying to make sure every detail is perfect with nothing out of place. I finish in a rushed panic and wait for 99 to come and review my plot.
I had spent over a year on this server, spending countless hours trying to get to this moment, there was nothing guaranteeing that this would be the plot that got me onto the team, but deep down I knew it would be. I see 99, the owner of the server, teleport to my plot and take only a few minutes to look around my plot before he freezes, indicating that he went to the forums to send his review of my plot. My anxiety rises, thoughts race through my head saying “why was he so fast” and “was it really that bad that he already made his decision”. I wait impatiently for his response on the forums for what felt like hours, until finally I get a little notification saying he replied to my submission.
The review started with “Dayyyum son. Dis ugleh” and my hopes instantly plummet. He continues on complementing my parts of my building style which is pretty normal for a review and ends saying, “You’re better off just staying a trial builder.” I feel so crushed after seeing this, I had spent so much time and effort trying to get to that point only to have my final efforts defeated, after a year of improving and learning. Then I go on the server to type a thank you for the review when I see the title “Apprentice” next to my name and Azza welcome me to the team. I instantly break into the biggest smile I’ve ever had as the few builders that had come on the server congratulate me. I had spent over 250+ hours working on 12 submissions in total over a year and it finally had payed off.
I had joined the server for the first time in May of 2015 when no one else was on the server and immediately got to work. I worked for hours over the next week to create a beautiful cliff with a waterfall that made a river that flowed through a large lush forest. Hidden amongst the trees was a small camp site and within the cliff side was a cave filled with beautiful jewels and stalagmites. It was one my first ever plot and I was so happy with what I had made. So much so that I started my second project immediately, a giant castle. I was so happy with these projects, and right I was going to submit them for review in hopes of being accepted to the team so I could help recreate the world I had come to love through books. But before I could, disaster struck. The server got hacked and the owners had to roll back the server by two weeks, and my hard work was gone. This disappointed me greatly at first, but then I decided to move on and continue building and trying out for the team. Twelve plots and 200 hours later I had finally improved enough to make it onto the team, but more than that, I had become a part of the community.
This May will mark my second year on the server and spending so much time there has effected how I think and my life greatly, though the largest impact is my view on determination. After spending a year of continuously being rejected from the team for not being good enough, I learned that determination and perseverance can pay off greatly, but this biggest lesson I’ve learned about determination came from the owners of the server. After becoming a part of the community I talked to them a lot and I learned that they had started this project over 5 years ago when they were 14 and have been facing each challenge head on, on their own. After watching the server getting hacked multiple times, the dozens of trolls and the hours they pour into the server trying to just maintain it is amazing to me and the fact they’ve been doing it for 5 years just shows me how if you truly want to make a dream a reality, hard work can make it possible. And the community I’ve grown into has changed my life and view of the world forever, through the wide variety of people I’ve come to know and would have never meet anyone like them in real life.
One of the best examples I can give of how the community is how they have changed my view on making art. As someone who loves to make art, having a community full of fellow hobby artist and a professional has given me a lot of support and advice in my own work. One of my biggest influences in how I think about art was Kia, who is a professional artist who sells her art online to make a living. This group is always very kind and encourages my art and compliments it but also isn’t afraid to tell me where I could improve and that’s helped me feel confident in my art and grow as an artist greatly.
They’ve also changed my view of the whole world. MCA is an international group so the members of our community come from all over the world and it’s been an interesting experience learning about the rest of the world. For instance the owners of the server live in Australia, many members are from England and the US, Arc Wraith is New Zealish, Elyena is Estonian and Chingom is originally from South America. I’ve learned a lot about the rest of the world’s cultures through talking to them, but even more so I’ve learned how the rest of the world views America. One of the best examples of this was talking to Ching when he described moving to Florida. He described his first day of school saying, “, I was looking forward to see what the “country where dreams come true” had to offer for me, and my family. It was much different than what I had imagined. My first day of school in the U.S. began with a walk from my mother’s car to the front gate. As I walked by, my sister Nicole and I were conversing when this boy says, at the top of his lungs as to humiliate me. ‘Speak English, you’re in America.’” It was very eye opening to me to realize that to the rest of the world we are still the breeding ground of opportunity, and yet we can be so cruel and harmful. The racism he described to me changed my views on our society and bullying for ever and I hope I never forget the story he told me.
A lot of people say that you need to be careful online and that it’s full of dangerous people, and while yes it does have it’s dangers, there’s also a world of great people who can teach you a lot about the world and life. I’ve learned so much from my experiences with this group and I’d never want to take it back.

Okay, so in today's day and age, when a girl asks you "does this make my butt look big?" Is the correct answer no as to not seem pervy, or yes as to not insult her?

Hello there everyone,
I regret to inform you that I will unfortunately be dropping Cantos as project manager.This has been a long thought decision for me and I don't know if I'll regret it later on but for now I feel like it is the right one. I have decided this for overall two big reasons.

Firstly is that I don't have time to finish Cantos. I'm currently in the heat of 2nd semester of my Junior year and so much is being demanded of me right now, I simply don't have time to sit down and focus on building Cantos like I use too. I won't get into details about my personal life and what's going on cause it's not important, but I simply don't have time. And I know what your thinking, "But Mana I see you on Survival all the time." And yes you do, and those tend to be the few hours a month I have for free time, and the reason I'm not on MMO working during those hours is because those are the few hours I have where I don't have to work and stress, which brings me right into my next point.

I find working on Cantos very stressful and not fun. I know Minecraft is just a game and such but this map is project dozens and dozens of people have invested so much time and effort into, and I simply don't want to be the person to mess it all up. I know I "earned" builder, but I simply don't feel qualified to be working on this map. When I'm building Cantos all I think when I look at it is "So many others could be doing so much better than me" and I feel like I'm just wasting mine and everyone else's time.

And so I choose to drop this project as it's manager. I'll stay builder for now and try to help out some on the map when possible, but I simply don't feel like me keeping Cantos is smart. And I know that this will probably lead to me losing my builder rank in the long run, but if that happens I feel it's for the best, for the map and the team.

Sincerely,
Managoty

MERRY CHRISTMAS
-From,
Your Favorite Mana

Hey, what should I draw next? I need something to do and idk what to do. It can be anything from a suggestion to a personal request. Just please try and avoid suggesting people

My version of Nyvarell

Internet...is not outernet...
Shadow
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I'm not the biggest fan of America, but damn can I take a good picture