I finished reading it a couple weeks ago. As someone who has played for 20 years and can remember the atmosphere of the game back then, it was quite fascinating to consider how the culture has slowly changed over the years. Really great job, CML.
Also, I noticed in your Special Thanks section that David Liebe Hart was listed among the Kickstarter contributors. I desperately want to believe that's true.
Thank you! I strongly suspect it was not him but my friend Adam Papagan, who collaborates with DLH on any number of mildly unhinged YouTube videos and gives OJ Tours in L.A.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/05/us/oj-simpson-knife-lapd.html
That was a great excerpt CML. Your writing style has developed nicely.
Personally, as someone who tried to spectate the Brussels Pro Tour in question, I can conform that it was not only a super depressing venue, but also excruciatingly boring. James and I struggled to spend more than about 10 minutes there, forcing ourselves to stay out of some sort of sense of obligation to our commute.
The worst city in Europe no doubt. Let us rage somewhere befitting our dopeness next time—tentative plan for summer is some amount of Porto, Lisbon, Lagos, Faro, Seville, Malaga, Tirana, Prishtina, Skopje, Athens, maybe some islands, Sofia, Bucharest, Krakow, Warsaw, Minsk, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, Kaunas, or something. I'd also go back to Berlin (duh), Dresden, Reykjavik or Sarajevo and take suggestions from people who, you know, actually live on the continent