My time has come at last. SSJNSSJNSSJNSSJN aka The Greatest Player That Ever Was Or Will Be, is retired as of this post. I’ve spent a few weeks working on this post and still don’t really know where to begin, so I guess I’ll start with a quick summation of my time on this server.

I tried joining this server on the first few days of its existence, but couldn’t connect for whatever reasons, probably internet stuff. I finally got through July 1st, 2019. I was in vc with the boys, who then were the people in Team Exodus. I immediately went to a skelly grinder and got some bones for flower growing- I wanted to make a garden in the End. I recruited the first ever slaves on the server to help with this, making them pick flowers for me. I spent the first month or so on the server just roaming spawn with my massive wolf pack and planting flowers in the End garden, as well as spending time with friends, such as seeing Namy_McNameface kill the Ender Dragon, or working to improve the server by digging out the Nether Hub and highways.

By the time I started really basing out at Wicked Creek, I had gained a reputation among the small player base because of my wholesome nature and hilarious trolling in chat. The FUCK WOMEN gang started as a way to get a rise out of the best streamer, Yunggranny, yet grew because so many people laughed at it. I became known as “the event guy” when I hosted the first Blocktoberfest and then the Transcursion, the latter leading to the first time I was the most hunted man on the server. I was the most central figure tying together a greater community; just look at this subreddit from about this time last year to see this. I was growing the server into its own distinct community apart from other anarchy servers, more so than anyone else.

This culture further grew when I started Chunk Beach Stream Base, again making history by having the first streamed base, and eventually the first time multiple streamers went live at the same place at the same time. Thanks to block game drama, this quickly ended, but I made more friends along the way, such as Johnmcswag, Afdud, and Obama, as well as really solidifying my friendship with the content creator community in Saiyamanmc, ImVenturaz, and Arount.

I went into what I called a self-imposed exile by the start of 2020- a sort of quarantine from the downsides of the server community. I came back for the Second Crusade when I was appointed one of the leaders, but I’ve always liked helping new players escape spawn and get started more than I’ve ever enjoyed just spawn killing them all, so I switched sides and stirred up the greatest conflict in server history, along with some of the best memes and content ever, including my infamous Pornhub video (lmao). In the end, I walked away from the Second Crusade with a greater social circle that included people like Bruh77 and Jawhawk, as well as Boomer Corp members like Phoenix, Dilly, Cosmic, JoeCool, and XHits.

I mostly stayed away from everything and focused on building my epic solo End Base, Karzahni, for the first part of 2020. I tried to come back for a few days to host a Valentine’s Event for everyone to enjoy, but block game drama struck once again. I later helped host Stream City, which, as of this post, is still the record holder for most streamers live at the same place at the same time, as well as the first live streamed game of chess when Jawhawk may or may not have beat me, yet that, too, came to an end over block game drama, at least as far as my involvement goes. This became the second time I was the most hunted player on the server. It was fun playing with others again, yet I wanted to see new faces in the community, so I formed Praetorian Guard and invited only newer players who I had encountered either in game or on the subreddit, and to this day we have a lot of fun basing together and I love hanging in vc with the boys: Neoxyde, SD, Exercisebook (who I still call Mob lol), and Obama. We declared ourselves a “prank group” and started doing “pranks” to shake up the server culture, which I think helped open the gate for the second or third generation of players to start taking the reins on the community.

So, by the summer, I was retiring Karzahni and trying to consolidate my bases and grind stations so that I could spend most of my time at one spot instead of a little of my time in a lot of places. I started a second incursion-level event, this time the Fourth Crusade, to try and coerce the server admins to protect the players from toxic teens, yet that failed, and the community remained fairly toxic. I had previously even exposed some serious and alarming behavior by sexist, degenerate perverts, yet some of my haters decided it would be funny to slander me constantly, disregarding the fact that I have done more than any player in server history to protect the other players. Many of my friends were playing less or quitting all together, and after a year of being at the forefront of most major events, as well as keeping up so many social obligations while being the target of a lot of toxicity, I was beginning to wish I could quit myself. What kept me going these last few months was my desire to host a second Blocktoberfest so that this third or fourth generation of players could experience the fun while also giving the old players a throwback party. What became Blocktwoberfest- which I had been planning in some ways for most of the year- was exactly what I had hoped for and more. I loved seeing all the content and old names and new names and just everything at the event. I made some newer acquaintances and saw some old ones for the first time in a long time.

Blocktwoberfest is now over, though, and I feel that I can finally walk away from this server. There are several reasons for this, some I’ve mentioned already. Most of my social group has expanded, and I enjoy playing on Saiya’s realms a lot more now, especially when I’m making content there. I’ve done more than enough (more than anyone else, honestly) to shape the server so far, and feel this third or fourth generation of players deserve the chance to make their own server history. I’ve done about everything anyone could want to do on this server, from having my own server firsts, setting and breaking records, creating content, crusades, group PvP, taking great screenies and making quality Reddit posts, building the best bases, controlling the economy at times, making memes, and even saving lives. I’ve done it all and had tremendous fun along the way. It’s not just a meme when I say that SSJNSSJNSSJNSSJN is The Greatest Player That Ever Was Or Will Be. What more is there even left for me to do?

So what does “Retirement” mean? Why don’t I just say I’m quitting? Well, I’ve still got my group, Praetorian Guard, that I’m involved in, and every now and again some friend will hit me up to go do something. I’m not really too engaged anymore, but sometimes the mood to build something cool in anarchy Minecraft strikes me, so I’m sure I will quietly log on and build for a bit. If I were quitting, then I would never play again, but I’m sure people will see my name in the tab list occasionally, so I think retirement ns the better term. It doesn’t matter if someone griefs me or steals from me because I’ll just move and start over elsewhere; I don’t mind a little grind, and the starting out is the most fun part imo. But chat will be kept off, and I won’t be making Reddit posts or taking part in the community anymore. I don’t need to. I don’t want to. I’m done being involved in the community which, for all the benefits I’ve already described, still has issues with toxic teens, racism, sexism, homophobia, backstabbing, betrayal, cringe, edginess, doxing, ddosing, and in general is just a waste of my personal time. Some of my haters may claim I’ve been a part of this, and to some degree that’s fair, I have been toxic myself, however, I use pacing and leading as a means of guiding other players to make more positive life choices, and every time I have taken things too far and hurt someone’s feelings I have always apologized privately and publicly because I understand that there’s a person at the other side of the screen and I want everyone to be better. Sadly, there is a shockingly large number of players that don’t seem to understand this.

So, this is the end. As of this post, I am officially retired. No, I will not be giving away any items, partly because I am still involved in my group’s base and partly because I have had four people give me their echest contents when they’ve quit so far and I’m trying to see how many people’s echests I can collect lol. I’m sure you’ll still see me online or even in game every now and again, but it won’t be the same. I don’t care to be involved in any future community events, and I won’t be hosting any. Let me say thanks to all my friends and the random, fun people I’ve talked to in game chat over the last year and a half. I have always been an open book, and I hope sharing about my own life along the way has helped or inspired other players. I hope my motivational yelling in vc’s really stuck with some people. Most of all, I hope I’ve done more good than harm to this server and the people comprising its community. I want the best for everyone, friends and haters and nn’s alike. Thanks to the server admins for running a great server with a half-decent economy and workable levels of tps that’s been such a memorable space in my life.

Watch my going away video then hit the like button and subscribe with the bell: https://youtu.be/i7bqT5Skomw

I could go on and on, but, as some of you know, I live in my car and the McDonald’s I’m parked at right now says I can’t keep using their wifi if I don’t order some cheeseburgers.

SSJN ALWAYS WINS

The Last Supper, aka World Record Map, the 30x11 mapart that a group of 27 people have been working on for nearly 10 months has finally been completed.

Here is how the map looks in it's finished state: https://i.imgur.com/R0hptyu.png

We only got to this point with a lot of team work, so huge thanks to all of the following people:

chief_piffington - 44

tdjj - 40

Michi - 26

sd5150ca - 24

tckrtxa - 22 (Helped massively with creation of the map's schematics)

FancyWater - 20

Ultramans - 20

Podrockian - 19 (Project lead)

ChristianToons - 18

Kapibara1 - 16

SWQRDS - 15

CertifiedSucc - 11

FRGR - 9 (Server Owner)

Ancelestria - 8

Fleyr - 8

Jacks1357 - 6

Spicy_siu_mai - 5

VictorFromBS - 5

x4_ - 5

NinjaOverSurge - 4

sev4n - 4

TWISTEDINSANE - 4

DezzDox - 3

browsky300 - 2

TunaBeef - 1

AgentFrog1 - Created and Maintained a spreadsheet to track our progress (Spreadsheet Manager)

Addalad - Labelled over 300 schematics in order to simplify things (Schematic Manager)

Excc - moral support

Next to each name is the number of maps they created/ how they contributed and to be clear, it does not add to 330 as some maps were replaced due to extremely minor mistakes and I do not want to discredit people for these small mistakes. Also, tckrtxa made a few alternative versions of existing maps, resulting in the McDonald's version of the map, which can be seen in this imgur post.

I also want to thank everyone who helped spread the word, as we could not have done this if we didn't have so many people interested in joining. This project began from a conversation in the oldfag map art discord on the 26th of September 2020, we began construction a month later on the 26th of October 2020 and we finally completed our 330th map and our 5,406,720th carpet on the 13th of August 2021. If you'd like to learn more about the project and see our progress over time, please join our discord server as well as checking out this spreadsheet created by AgentFrog1.

Once again, thanks to everyone who took part, we finally achieved our goal.

- Podrockian