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Wow, it’s been so long, but this place has so many cool things, I can’t help but revive it XD

My username is PIPPIP5789, and there is a few walls of text coming to explain it.

So, back in the 3rd grade, I heard about this game called Minecraft, and after “proving” myself to my parents, I was allowed to get it. Now, I couldn’t wait to get started, but I had to choose a username, and unfortunately, I was (and still am) terrible at names. I spent some time looking around, and I finally more or less gave up, because everything I could think of had already been taken. After some time, a robotics/programming competition came around, and I decided to enter it. After entering, I soon learned I loved both robotics and programming (I learned what I hoped to do for the rest of my life in the 3rd grade). ANYway, some languages (Python most notable nowadays) used a script called a Pip script, or the Pip tool, and said tool basically made a programmer’s life easier. Since I was in the 3rd grade, easier sounded better, so I started using the tool.

Now, by this point I had totally forgotten about Minecraft, being all excited about programming, robotics, and trying to keep up with all of my schoolwork, so it wasn’t until after I had moved on past that language with the Pip tool (whatever it was) that I remembered Minecraft. Well, by sheer irony, I had forgotten about the Pip tool (again, 3rd grade), so I still couldn’t think of a name. I started playing on guest accounts (remember those?) and I just loved to play Capture the Flag. Well, I always played on a particular server that was a Minecraft Classics server, and I almost always played CTF on there. I was renown on the server as “The Ghost” (which would have been a great name, but oh well)… Well, one day something very particular happened.

One day, I was playing CTF, and for whatever reason, I always managed to capture my opponent’s flag twice. Every time. I don’t know to this day why, but I played 23 matches that day (1 match consisting of a 3-of-5 series of games, each game first to 5 flag captures), and on EVERY GAME I captured their flag twice. No more, no less. Well, people started calling me “Double Trouble” that day (which didn’t stick, but also would have been a cool nickname). Well, I finally decided to try and think up a nickname, and I spent the next 2 weeks thinking. One day, the answer hit me (literally; I fell out of my chair in school): Pip would be my name, just like that programming tool I used to use. Well, I get home, and the name is taken. I am so mad because I thought I had it and I was finally going to get to play on that server with everyone else and they’d see me and know me as more than a guest, when suddenly I remember my “Double Trouble” nickname from that day. Well, I typed in “Pippip”, but somehow THAT was already taken as well (go figure, right?). I furiously erased the name, and smashed on the keyboard in frustration, hitting the Caps Lock key, when suddenly I thought of: My lunch number. Crazy as that sounds, I put in my lunch number, and I had my name! Only, my parents said I didn’t need to put any of my information on the internet, so I had to think for a while longer, and I finally remembered an old joke, “Why was 6 scared of 7? Because 7 8 9”. So, I took the 578 I had, and turned it into 5789, and with the caps, my name became “PIPPIP5789”. It hadn’t been taken (what would the chances of it being taken be?), and I finally got my name! The name became feared on that server, until my parents decided they didn’t want me to play on Multiplayer anymore…

Now, for the lore of PIPPIP5789 (Sorry for more walls of text):

The name PIPPIP5789 has become a legend among many servers, Piratecraft among them. The day this user joined Minecraft, he almost quit Minecraft, because he spawned in not 1, not 2, but 3 different Mushroom biomes in a row. Finally, after landing in a Village (and having his computer crash, effectively banning him from Minecraft for the next 2 years), he finally managed to rejoin the server he played on and began honing his skills. After making his mark on multiple servers as one of the best bowmen Minecraft had ever seen, PIPPIP5789 decided to take a break from his training and began studying the less violent ways of Minecraft, soon learning many techniques such as farming, and became much more domesticated (so he wouldn’t be banned from any more servers for alleged bow targeting hacks). After many years of honing himself under the sun, PIPPIP5789 soon began looking around for a new server. After flirting around with a few servers, he finally found a match: Piratecraft.

Soon, PIPPIP5789 became a well-known player, having easily established a hidden base, with a fleet of small ships that guarded some secrets that would never be uncovered for the rest of the server’s life (being eventually regened/removed for reasons later explained). While no longer a crack shot with a bow, he soon gained the respect of many players with his strategies and tactics, and succeeded in creating a hidden underground empire that would last for a couple years to come. However, after being caught by his parents, PIPPIP5789 was forcefully removed from the server for an extended period of time, under which the hidden empire crumbled, and PIPPIP5789 lost all but 1 of his safehouses. Upon his return to the server 2 ½ years later, he found all this out, and soon began rebuilding the empire that he had once known.

Try after try failed, and soon PIPPIP5789 took extended leaves, each weeks at a time, trying to find himself. After returning and travelling the server world over, he soon found the answer that so many people had missed. This answer, he soon began founding a new Empire on it, calling upon the name that had struck fear into so many others on so many other servers: The Visionary Empire. The Visionaries soon had some ups and downs, but soon, the new age would begin. The age of the Visionaries, under Emperor PIPPIP5789 and the Board of Directors and Advisors.

Sorry about the walls of text, but I hope that everyone enjoys the shortened (yes, I’m serious) version of my life!