Ethan Jones is one of my best friends.
We met in the daily vg inhouses, after both competing for nr 1 on the leaderboards.
I noticed he had a Nabokov avatar, one of my favorite authors. I added him to friends, and after
the usual 'ironic' banter, we became friends. We spoke about American Dota. At this time,
I were a Global Moderator on the old NADotA forums. Highly impressed, and in awe, Jones
let me know that he also was a member of said forums.
At this time there was a lot of turbulence within my usual ranks. Kurtov, the heroin addict, had been lashing out against all and everyone lately. Big Benny lost his microphone. J-Crispy got HIV from a black girl. Chris was having a life-crisis, struggling to find employment and in deep distress over being unable to break up with his obese girlfriend. Videojames was a moron. Idclip was doing more heroin than kurtov ever did. Brendan, an absolutely griefer and game ruiner. - - Enter Jones.
The clear cut addition to the Big Benny stack, or the Inhouse Vandals as we called ourselves back then.
With his vibrant voice and cheerful antics, Jones brought new life to the stale state our community was in.
Nmagane griefing, Benny griefing, Robert (As in Myself) keeping his friends on the edge at all times
with his fine dance between Funny Itembuilds and Min-Maxing.
Jones was the Arteezy of the group. Proudly marching Shadow Fiend down the mid lane,
ready to rack up some kills. That is how we became friends.
Ethan had another quality about him. He was an excellent programmer. He had been working on
various encryption methods on his Public Github for some time now. Writing TV-protocols for the
Rizon IRC Tv Group and small flash games for his college. Eventually he dropped out,
but his lust for Mastering The Art never died out. With TI3 getting closer and closer, he made
an official website for the team his very precense helped create. The Goy Club, or Goy Club Gaming.
He was the master of Teamspeak. Ts.Goy.Club. NotJones.xyz. We had hundreds of channels.
New members fought it out in the kennel, like angry dogs. Girls coming in and out
at all points of the day. All ages. 13 year old minecraft kids. Russians. Finns. Tutut and Aaica.
Willem, Alan. The Turkish loser from NaMafia. Electrowizard. Alightsoul. All banned, like tears in the rain.
We settled on Int Minecraft and that is where most of the story plays out. The story of friendship.
Jones is a peculiar fellow. While 6'+ tall and with a deep voice, he is very shy. No college friends.
But we were friends. All of us.
Jones has been there for me in all kinds of dark situations. Girl trouble. Work accidents. Bad dota days.
He's really a stand up guy, one that can be depended upon. No matter how many times
he deletes the teamspeak, kicks everyone off his friendlist or leaves the IRC when messaged -
He always comes back. You should know this. No matter how many times you ban him, he always comes back.
Ready to serve the community. Good jokes, great insight - all with a burning passion. That is what jones is about.
Honestly I wouldn't know where I'd be today without him. He's made such an impact on my day-to-day life that I reckon I would be lost without him. Everyone deserves a second chance, especially when they are innocent.
@SOPHIE @Roragok, please let him back in. This is where he belongs. This is what he deserves, although, I am not sure we deserve him.
He's my greatest friend.