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Here it is, 200k medal points earned by me just a year and a month later than 100k points. I had originally decided that I wasn't going to make a post for this occasion, but I looked at my 100k point news post, and saw that it was nothing more than "I reached 100k! These are the people I want to thank:, ktanksbye". And because I love to rant, I'd figure I'd make a post describing my adventures through medals. Just a note of warning, this is probably going to be really long, and most definitely boring, so I wouldn't read it if I were you :P.

Starting out this story in early 2009: I was browsing the newgrounds homepage, when I saw Portal Defenders being advertised. I didn't visit it that first day that I saw it, but I eventually succumbed to my curiosity and went to the game. The first thing I noticed was the new "Medals" tab underneath the submission (Pretty obvious in the classic format =p). I started playing the game, and noticed that the medals went to my profile. I don't quite remember how the next series of events occurred, but I ended up stumbling upon Wylo's amazing list (a whole year has passed since the last update? o.O). This led me to the games and tips thread, where I first ventured into the depths known as the "BBS". As I read the thread, I started to recognize the common posters (too many list), and I saw how every medal game had 1 or 2 guides(!). Sometime after finding the games and tricks thread, I found the top medal point users thread and became interested in that list. It was the only list that I actually had a chance of joining, due to my early arrival into the medal scene. I ended up making my way onto the list, and immediately boosted up 17 spots 8).

So sometime into my medal-earning I made my first bbs post (I think my best time of 111 seconds [no longer have pic :<] has yet to be beaten =p). This was my first post I ever made on a forum, so pressing that "post" button, and seeing it there was rather awkward, but I'm definitely used to it now. After this post, I started to help other people in the thread, and even asked for help when I needed it (something I should really be doing more of now), but I was definitely not posting at a rate one would consider a "casual poster".

I don't quite remember when this next part occurred, but according to Newgrounds, this happened on September 19, 2009, so this seems like a good spot for it. I was playing the treacherous Alkie Kong 2 and trying for that dreaded "Drunken Deity" medal when something amazing happened, I actually obtained it! This was obviously a big excitement for me, but that wasn't enough for me. I knew that if I stopped now, I would just forget everything that I had practiced/learned earlier, so what did I do? I decided to go for the "Olympian" medal. After failing a couple of times, I earned this medal. So at this point I was rather exhausted, but I needed to finish the game off, so I went after the "Survivalist" medal. I'm pretty sure I failed on a couple of my tires (I really can't remember), but I managed to earn the medal anyways. At this point, I was pretty much done with this game, what with spending this many hours on it. It wasn't until later that I finished the game off, by earning the "Full Case" medal.

So this next part happened earlier, but I forgot about it at first, so it's going here. Anyways, along comes the 4th of July, 2009. I doubt anyone reading this knows this off the top of their head, but that was the day that the infamous Lastman was released. I didn't have access to my computer at this time, so all I could do was read the forums and see all the whining (=p) about the difficulty. I thought to myself, "There's no way the game is that hard, they must be over-exaggerating!". Boy would I ever regret thinking that. When I actually got around to playing the game, I realized just how tough it was, and even with playing nearly every day, I barely made any progress. Though, I would have made even less without DigDogy's awesome video. It wasn't until much, much later, that I actually beat the game and obtained both medals.

Since I'm doing everything out of order, I may as well include the other infamous medal game, OCD+ here. This was obviously a fan favorite medal game (=p) and kept some of the medal *ahem* enthusiasts awake for quite some time coming up with tricks for this game. Show Contestant was the medal that I earned first, considering all I had to do was press tab and hold space/enter =p. After that, it was probably the Pianist medal, thanks to the awesome Wylo. Next up, I got the "War Hero" medal thanks to the right-click rewind, right-click forward trick. After that, I got the "K" medal by placing a chair on the "K" key for an hour. After that, it must've been the secret medal due to the same trick as War Hero. It wasn't until much later, when I had the dedication, that I got the "Human Test Subject" medal.

Flash forward to the beginning of 2010, and we have me joining the top 10 of medal points! This was around the time when I was not only having a blast playing medal games, but I was obsessed with them (some might even say addicted =p)! It wasn't until 2 or so months that I joined the top 5, but this was still a huge accomplishment for me. While I still wasn't posting even somewhat-regularly by this point, I was most definitely coming out of my shell, and was starting to post a lot more.

Aaand here we are in mid-to late February of 2010, where an infamous incident took place in the top medal point users thread. I am of course talking about the proposal of some people hacking their way to get their way onto the list. This argument spanned a good few pages, and resulted in (two!) mods having to step in to get the conversation back on track. In the end, only one user ended up getting removed, though (how anticlimactic :(). Anyways, my opinions on this, because that's what this post is all about, right? I agree with the removal of the one person that they took off the list, seeing as they practically admitted it to me in one of their PMs they sent me >.>. As the list stands right now, I only have one suspicion of someone on the list, but seeing as they aren't getting in the way of the list, I see no reason to bring it up (plus, I lack proper evidence). All in all, the discussion should never have ever been brought up in that thread, but I think that was pretty obvious. Also, it's kind of nice knowing that suspicion of me was only brought up once (unless I just forgot the other times :3).

Along comes mid-May and I (unintentionally) start up a discussion in the medal games and tips thread. I don't exactly feel comfortable giving my opinions on this, seeing as the user is outright said in that post, but for the sake of this post, I must! (Sorry). The user explicitly states "I got all the medals a week ago." when I knew for a fact that they only finished off the game a week ago. This lie led me to get an even higher suspicion, and I would have brought it up, had I not been out at the time. Anyways, this led to a bunch of discussion on what is hacking, what makes hacking wrong, why people don't do it, etc. Obviously, I wasn't trying to start this discussion, and I like to imagine it would have taken place without my post, but either way, it was an interesting read, and remains to be one. Anyways, my opinion: Hacking medal games is something that I have any problem against, providing it doesn't interfere with those that are there to earn them fairly (I.E. as long as they don't try to hack the in-game leaderboards/get themselves onto the top list, etcetera). The reason that I personally don't hack is that I like to receive a sense of achievement when I accomplish something, and hacking doesn't seem like it would be any fun, or give you a sense of pride.

Anyways, moving on to something completely unrelated to hacking, we have me joining the top five! :D. Sadly, it took until late August for me to get there, but I made it nonetheless! I immediately lost it on the next update, then regained it, then lost it. It wasn't until October that I actually stayed up on the top 5 (I believe I haven't lost it since). I'm almost too scared to make the next paragraph as something awesome happens (at least for me!), but I must.

This happened on Halloween of 2010.. something that made me feel awesome, happy, and awesome. My entire goal of the year (sad, I know) was to get to #1 on the medal games top medal point users list, and I thought it impossible. But on Halloween of 2010, I got a very special treat! :3 I can't really describe the exact feeling that I got upon seeing that list for the first time, but I assure you that it was like nothing I ever felt before. At this time in my life, this was one of two things that was most important to me (the other also relating to the internet D:).

Anyways, moving onto the next update in the list, we come across the sparkly new list that was supposed to be there last time: a list of the top 200 medal point users. Looking at it from there and now, we can see that 56415 is really nothing on the new 174585 medal point difference between #1 and #200. And, since this semi-relates, I find it pretty crazy the point differences that occur within the top 10 alone. I mean seriously, 90300 is a ton of points. And as much as it sucks to admit, there really isn't anything interesting going on in the top like one would expect. ANYWAYS, we're supposed to be in 2010!

Real quick note that I forgot to mention, on November 28th, 2010, I earned the "top gainer" mark while being number one. I was (I THINK) the first person to do this, so that's pretty cool =p.

Moving onwards.. in the month of December, I lost my number 1 spot (D:) to Nijsse. I wasn't really sad/mad or anything like that, but rather happy that I had some good competition to fight against to regain my position. The competition was fun while it lasted, but I think a week without any new medal games was the main thing to think for my recapture. Anyways, after a month and a half, I had managed to barge my way back into the number 1 spot.

Looking at 2010 in a recap.. it was a great year. It was probably my favorite year in my medal career, and I made a lot of posts in the medal games thread, along with being very active. 2010 is a year I hope to repeat at some point, but before I can do that, I have to actually get back into getting every medal out there, aside from those damn pool medals, of course.

And onto Feb. 18th, 2011~~~. The day/afternoon/evening(?) that I earned both of the Lastman medals. Oh boy was this a fun fun day. Basically here's what happened: One day I decided to think "Hey, you know what'd be fun? To try and get those ridiculous Lastman medals some more!" I thought it would be good to get some practice in for those medals. I was not expecting to actually earn even one of them, but I got a big surprised. That morning I sat down for only 2 or so hours and, to my surprise, earned the "Beetle Battle" medal. I was extremely shocked, decided to turn around.. and immediately died. I continued for a little bit of time, and then stopped to go do irl stuff. I came back, played for an hour.. or two.. or three (cut me some slack, I was focused on the game, not the time =p) and earned the "Go Home" medal. I was obviously extremely excited at this turnout, and looking back at it, that day was easily the highlight of my medal career in 2011 (maybe even of my entire career o.O).

February 24th, 2011. The day that I hit that massive 6 digit number: 100,000. Even thinking about it now, over a year later, that's an insane amount of points. And to be the first to hit that number legitimately gives off an awesome feeling, and shall always be something I will be proud of :). I lost my number one place that week, and I like to think I would have kept it, had I not stopped at that exact value, but who knows.

Nothing interesting happens for the rest of 2011. At least that *I* remember. The last thing that I can really make a comment on is the last update that I was #1 for , and that was on 9/25/11 for those of you too lazy to click the link. Looking back on it, it seems that I've done nothing but drop since then. And in all honesty, I'm very, very surprised that Fooliolo still hasn't passed me, but he sure is close :D.

So here we are, 2012. Feb. 20-something, 2012, Nijsse hits 200k (just a year after 100k!) Factoring in how popular adding medals in games is now, and how there is an auto-approval. I guess that 1 million will be possible in late 2017/early 2018. This is assuming that no sort of actual system gets implemented to stop this madness. Anyways, I hit my 200k on some date, and decided to keep it like that for the update. Since it seems to be a ritual of sorts (2 = ritual? lol), I'll try and do the same for 300k, 400k, etc.

There's not much left to say other than that I hope to catch up to Nijsse in one months time from my rush, aka May 23rd. Not sure sure what the future of my medal career holds, but we'll see. Maybe I'll be here when 1 million gets reached, maybe not, only time will tell. I'm done with this post. If I forgot anything, screw it. If I messed up anything, screw it. This post has been updated enough, and the last thing I need is to be constantly worrying about finishing it. Anyways, I shall be posting an update in my Medal Diary everyday during my medal rush, so feel free to stalk me there =p. Anyways, no more updates to this post ever. And if you read this all.. you're crazy xD.