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Minigun
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
616 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-06-14 08:27:27
June 14 2017 08:04 GMT
#1
Hey guys, Chad Minigun Jones here.

This is long and long overdue and I'm sorry. I just couldn't bring myself to write it out.

Ever since I was a kid I wanted to be really good at something and be someone in one, games were my life back then. I tried a few COD teams but they didn't really go anywhere. Around my last year in high school I was extremely sick to the point they almost didn't let me pass. I was bedridden-ed for about a year with no diagnosis. It happened to be about the same time Starcraft came out. I was able to play it, even if it was from my bed and I enjoyed the hell out of it. It was the best game I had ever played! Your mind can't wander for a single moment or 30 minutes could be lost for nothing. Definitely frustrating at times but undeniably an awesome mechanic.

I still remember six years ago fighting for blizzards top 200, and being picked up by inflow, root, complexity, and finally root. The stream battles, (my undeniably favorite rivalry was vs idra....the way the streams/reddit blew up whenever we had a match).

I don't want to make this too much about crohn's but it's a huge part of my life, and was a huge part of this even happening so I do have to bring it up some. To be bedridden-ed at 20 and not knowing why was a terrible feeling, it took them about a year to diagnose it....and then nothing worked. I was allergic to 2 of the meds they tried, and recieved a placebo for a clinical trial, and the other 3 had no effect.

The only thing that got me day to day was you guys. You were what I had to look forward to each day, if I needed some emotional support you guys were always there, wanted to just crush nerds on ladder? You were there again cheering me on.

These were the hardest years of my life. My GI says I have one of the worst cases he has seen and it sucked to perform so poorly at events. But I can honestly say I'm surprised I was even able to make it to the lan. I wouldn't do anything differently though, I got to meet my best friends there.

Then 2014 hit, I needed emergency resection, things went bad and I was in the hospital a month, and left to recover at home for 2-3 months. Bills were pilling up and up and I couldn't keep up. One guy read my posts in /r/depression about it and did something I'll never forget and set up a fundraiser for it. The amount of support I received was mind blowing. I'm actually crying just thinking about it. It felt like no matter how bad things got, I had you guys on my side.

I have to say winning the 15k foreigner tournament was one of the best feelings of my life. I know it wasn't the biggest win, but it meant a lot to me.

Let's fast forward to now. I'm currently on a very new drug called Stelara and it just got approved for crohns about 6 months ago and I'm starting to feel great. I really have high hopes on this one, it's helped more than all the other ones combined....not a single hospital stay in 3 months!

I do want to apologize for something that has been bothering me a while. I started/stopped streaming multiple times.....multiple multiple times...and I just want you guys to know it wasn't on purpose. Crohns sucks and hits randomly and lasts for weeks when you do get a flare, throw in some depression on top of that and well......I'm not trying to make excuses for it, I just want you guys to know what happened.

School is going great now as well, one more class for my associates, then I will be going to UNC for my bachelors in computer programming.

I do plan on doing some fun streams of different games now and again to keep in touch with some of my followers (not sure how often since I'm pretty busy now), but obviously my starcraft career has been/is over. But I wanted to get some closure from the people who got me through so many hard times.

I'd give shout outs but there is too many to name and I'd forget someone.


Thanks for everything,


Chad Minigun Jones

****
“Quiet people have the loudest minds.” ― Stephen Hawking
feardragon
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States807 Posts
June 14 2017 08:24 GMT
#2
Thank you for the many hours of enjoyment you've provided. It's great to hear you're doing better and I look forward to as many streams as you can find time and are up for doing! It's inspirational how much you accomplished while also overcoming all of this.
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oOOoOphidian
Profile Joined January 2011
United States1399 Posts
June 14 2017 08:34 GMT
#3
Happy for you
Best of luck in your degree!
Creator of sc2unmasked.com
Minigun
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
616 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-06-14 08:35:12
June 14 2017 08:34 GMT
#4
On June 14 2017 17:24 feardragon wrote:
Thank you for the many hours of enjoyment you've provided. It's great to hear you're doing better and I look forward to as many streams as you can find time and are up for doing! It's inspirational how much you accomplished while also overcoming all of this.


Thanks fear, I remember you quite well. You were a frequent viewer!

I appreciate the kind words.

On June 14 2017 17:34 oOOoOphidian wrote:
Happy for you
Best of luck in your degree!


Thanks man, I played you on ladder right?
“Quiet people have the loudest minds.” ― Stephen Hawking
TT1
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada8545 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-06-14 09:04:37
June 14 2017 08:57 GMT
#5
great post chaddy, happy to see you're doing well <3

as a reward for your 5/5 blogpost ill coach you and make you the next foreign bw bonjwa, no take-backs.
ab = tl(i) + tl(pc), the grand answer to every tl.net debate - live like a gosu, die like a gosu
oOOoOphidian
Profile Joined January 2011
United States1399 Posts
June 14 2017 10:19 GMT
#6
On June 14 2017 17:34 Minigun wrote:

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On June 14 2017 17:34 oOOoOphidian wrote:
Happy for you
Best of luck in your degree!


Thanks man, I played you on ladder right?

I don't think we've played, but I was a mod of yours a long while back. Any ideas what games you might stream?
Creator of sc2unmasked.com
DGiTPadre
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
99 Posts
June 14 2017 10:38 GMT
#7
Really inspiring how you've been able to take this all in stride. Thanks for everything, Minigun! Your stream near the end of WoL was my absolute favorite ever (no matter how broken Zerg was LOL).
Teoita
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Italy11362 Posts
June 14 2017 12:09 GMT
#8
I'm just going to post this because fuck yeah Protoss



Good luck in Uni and real life!
Mussolini ModProtoss all-ins are like a wok. You can throw whatever you want in there and it will turn out alright.
TT1
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada8545 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-06-14 13:02:37
June 14 2017 13:00 GMT
#9
edit: aw i cant post the gif
ab = tl(i) + tl(pc), the grand answer to every tl.net debate - live like a gosu, die like a gosu
Olli
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
Austria23638 Posts
June 14 2017 17:33 GMT
#10
Glad to hear you're doing well. Wish you all the best in the future, and thanks for very helpful streams. I learned a lot from watching you back in 2012!
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ZeromuS
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada12773 Posts
June 14 2017 22:40 GMT
#11
Good luck dude glad youre finally doing better.

Ill def pop in next time i see you on twitch.

GL in school my dude!
StrategyOverwatch is awesome | Support is the best role | @TL_ZeromuS | www.twitch.tv/Zeromus_
FlaShFTW
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States7893 Posts
June 14 2017 23:50 GMT
#12
Congratz on everything, glad you're doing better now!

You need to bring back the Gift of Gab with Destiny sometime, you two were great together.

Good luck on everything else the rest of the way!
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fluidrone
Profile Blog Joined January 2015
France1205 Posts
June 15 2017 05:59 GMT
#13
modafucking chad jones

keep on trucking dude
"not enough rights"
imJealous
Profile Joined July 2010
United States1353 Posts
June 15 2017 08:52 GMT
#14
Chad Millennium-fucking-Ridge Jones!

Not one of your regular followers, but any time I ended up clicking on your stream I ended up staying and watching (despite the fact that I don't have a lot of interest in watching protoss gameplay) cause you always seemed to be smiling, laughing, having a good time honestly enjoying playing the game and interacting with your chat community and that kind of fun is contagious... it was always an upbeat environment, seemingly even when you would get frustrated as everyone does with this game you seemed to be the kind of person who would let it melt away quickly and be smiling and laughing about it in no time.

I hope you can always find that kind of positivity when you need it!
In life very little goes right. "Right" meaning the way one wanted and the way one expected... One has no right to want or expect anything at all
Kyhol
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Canada2564 Posts
June 15 2017 16:32 GMT
#15
You were always a challenging opponent when I played sc2 back in 2012-13.
Team GoSu | Terran
FarmI3oy
Profile Joined May 2011
United States188 Posts
June 16 2017 01:11 GMT
#16
Thank you for all your hard work over the years!

And also for making me a huge Parov Stelar fan.... seriously this was life changing.
GGzerG
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States8938 Posts
June 16 2017 03:19 GMT
#17
Good luck minigun, always one of my favorite Protoss players. Stay happy!
AKA: TelecoM[WHITE] Protoss fighting
Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States11808 Posts
June 16 2017 19:57 GMT
#18
Hey Chad, thanks for the update. I dated someone with Crohn's for years and the most frustrating part for her was the unreliability of her own body. It's important that people on the outside recognize that this is a fact of life for people with Crohn's and cut them slack accordingly. Best of luck in the future, and looking forward to having you back in the gaming community.
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Heartland
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
Sweden23375 Posts
June 19 2017 10:22 GMT
#19
Good luck man
"I haven't seen a game yet where nuke would kill more than it costs." - Ej_ | " I TOOK 2 MAPS ON AN IMBALANCED MAP POOL" - Nerchio
Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany30663 Posts
June 19 2017 10:32 GMT
#20
You're awesome man, I've missed you and I'm so happy to see you are doing better in your life.
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