Well, I have been alluding to this for half the year. It’s time. Honestly, I am not really big on goodbyes. In fact, if I weren’t actually a counselor, I would have just left quietly.
The reality is, and some people have noticed how often they find Malcolm soulless, it is due to several real-life obligations. I was only playing in specific spurts until I would get busy or do something else.
I may check back in a year or two, but we’ll see how I feel. Nonetheless, I have walked with you guys for almost a decade, barring the year I took off when I started my RL business.
No matter what else, I will always have some fondness for y’all. When I made Malcolm, I wanted to counterbalance people who thought I was just genuinely cold on Braden, and I wanted to make everyone smile a bit and have a good time.
I’ll still be active on the PVE side of the community, running an op every other week or so/when I feel like it/when I have time. That’s about it.
People say CM is a bit of a toxic shithole, and they’re a hundred percent correct. However, when you look into it, you can also find some of the kindest and warmest people on the internet, and for that.
I will never forget the survivor round where you had babysat me inside of medbay as I tried to live my delusional fantasy of killing drones as I got killed three times, all three times you had fixed my fractures on the spot, and revived me.
On a serious note, it was always a blast to play with you. From the rounds of collecting runner plasma to make pseudo stims as survivors, to having survivor rounds where we trekked across the map in search of booty, or to the dismay of 00:6 capped or dead survivors in dchat creating a bar that serves both man and alien, you always added a cool dynamic to the round. I will miss seeing Malcom, and you are one of the few CM players who keep me from turning to the evil dark side with how much spirit you bring to the game and rounds.
Did you know I used to say like ten different catch phrases? That one unironically became super fucking popular for reasons I do not understand. But it became the canon line when I was playing my CO or one of the alts, the general populace didn’t know about, would say it without Malcolm even present?
Yeah, after that. It kinda just became the canon line. I couldn’t fight the community so I just kinda accepted my fate there.
@Vaikas It was my genuine pleasure. I hope you have a wonderful time here.
I remember having a phase where I mained xeno and seeing you as synth efficiently perform surgery to heal fracs made me salt so much in d-chat. That I respected a lot as you weren’t just a rper, but you played to win.
There have been my ups and downs in opinion on Malcolm as a character and a player, but in the end? Besides you readily dumping weak survivors in favor of doing RP with hive or trying to make a bar, it has always been fun to play with you, especially that one time when you almost saved me from bursting but was late by a second or two. Also always fun little interactions as xeno with you, trying to lead you away from survivors.
You 100% need that break though, so go on, the addiction will act up when you free up eventually… Its not magic, It’s Malcolm!
Kira’s I hope we stay in touch after, you were genially one of the nicest guys I’ve ever meet on CM. I’ll miss your plumbing stories. Seeing you in a round always kade it better for me
I remember one of my first (positive) memories of playing CM-SS13 in 2022/2023(maybe even back in 2021?) as a character whose name I’ve long since forgotten, I ran into Malcolm on the Alamo and said ‘Hi Malcolm!’ and you hit me with ‘Its not magic, its Malcolm!’. Its cliche to say, but its true: You were one of the players who inspired me to continue to playing - You were one of the first players who treated me with even a shred of decency back then. I remember getting at a lot of shit for friendly fire and other such rather small infractions and common faux-pas as a private, which almost discouraged me from continuing to play.
Other than that, I’ve greatly enjoyed the vast majority of our interactions, especially when I was Corporate Liaison and you were playing as a survivor synthetic. Thank you very much for bearing with me when I was getting my footing in regards to roleplay, and by doing that, encouraging me to continue doing so - not just disregarding my character for being a junior executive like so many had.
It really has been fun - I’ll be sure to see you on PvE:)
Been fun seeing you around Especially as malcolm where i would happily walk over and tell them to ‘say the line’ which made me giggle irl Aces was also extremely fun and good to interact with especially when i was Xo’ing.
Take care, and i hope everything goes well in your life.
Hi! I am Malcolm, from the Malcolm series! Was the first line I heard from you, after that it was just uphill. Had good interactions with your synth as xeno and marine. Lovely person to talk in deadchat with. When I played and see you playing among the players I automatically got more happy.
I am genuinely sad that I will not see that name for the unpredictable future, but happy the time you was here. You don’t know me well but I am Caz as xeno and Caz Tilton as marine. I never ever had a negative interaction with you. I wishes you all the best and hopefully one day, you return
