I love video games since my childhood, I started playing at the age of 5 on the good old PSOne. I have played many games (from Crash Bandicoot to Gran Turismo to GTA to Ratchet & Clank...) for countless hours. But in 2005, I have discovered computers and the internet in general. Someone in my family introduced me to a PC game called "Counter Strike", it was a pirate copy but I was able to play with bots and have lot of fun. On top of that, I discovered a copy of Half-Life in the file directory but I gave less attention to that game (unlike today). Over time, I have managed to mod CS with skins and maps on Gamebanana, just making the game more fun for the small kid I was.

One day in 2006, I was exploring a video game website and I stumbled by curiosity on a game that looked fun : Team Fortress 2. I was watching the 4-minutes trailer that was introducing the classes with old beta gameplay and at this moment, I was like "I want to play this game !". This is only in 2008 that I managed to get a copy of the Orange Box as a gift (I was 12) and I was finally playing Team Fortress 2 for the first time !

I've been playing on Team Fortress 2 since February 13th, 2008, and yet you will notice this account is from 2010. This account here was my "second account" because my first Steam account was hacked in 2010 and when I retrieved it, it was VAC banned. Sadly, nothing was done to fix the issue and I had to stay on that account ever since. We didn't had a tough account security unlike today back in 2010. Don't believe me ? Take a look at the links below :

- My first Steam account :
https://steamcommunity.com/id/reixi2525archive/
- Archive of my old TF2 inventory :
https://web.archive.org/web/20100122164400/http://www.tf2items.com:80/id/reixi2525

- My first legitimate hat was the Fancy Fedora that I managed to obtain by item drop. The little kid I was back then was super happy haha. Then I got another one by crafting 3 refined.
- My first major update was the Scout Update. I haven't played TF2 during the Heavy Update, Pyro Update and Goldrush Update, but I was following these updates at that time.
- I have obtained a Cheater's Lament... but one day I did have tried that script that run the game unopened to get item drops and I never got anything anyway haha. Only let it run for 10 minutes and never tried it again.
- I have played in the Demoman team during the WAR! Update.
- One day, I have dropped an Ambassador level 0 but accidentally scrapped it.
- One of my deepest regret was to buy Mann Co. Keys instead of one of the exclusive Japan themed hats from 2011.
- I have known the Mann Co. Keys market at 2.33 refs each.
- My first Unusual unboxed was a Demoman pirate hat with an End of the Line' unusual effect.
- I have played with Mecha the Slag (now known as MekuCube, who created A Hat in Time) when he was making custom TF2 gamemodes.

- Molten Mallard Buccaneer's Bicorne (with EOTL event tag)
- Bubbling Defiant Spartan
- Air Raider 99#
- Crafted Stock Knife (during a massive crafting glitch when Gun Mettle launched)
- Strange Batsaber (during the second day of Invasion Update)
- Australium SMG (Tour 12)
- Australium SMG (Tour 17)
- Professional Medi Gun Kit (Tour 26)
- Galactic Connection Roar O'War

I genuinely love this game, I have seen so many updates and new content over the years. This game is truly a masterpiece in multiplayer games. But now, the game isn't fun to play anymore. The only time I enjoyed TF2 from 2021-2025 was on friendly servers like LazyPurple. In the last few years, I strongly avoided playing PvP games because I was getting tired of the cheaters & toxicity, and TF2 was no exception. I don't expect Valve to do much more for this game now, which is why I'd rather cash out and leave this game aside for now (unless something happens). This game has been a fun journey but today, I have other horizons to explore. Personal projects, life goals and other games.