A Mad Scientist joins the Fray: My Hive Introduction

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Hello everyone, my name is xSuiLx and welcome to my introduction :) When I was younger I was thinking of a username and decided to use my real name but backwards. A few months later...I realized I had misspelled it but I stuck with it. I'll let you figure it out ;D. I am part of the Shield of Glory Guild in Splinterlands and heard about all the other cool aspects of Hive through @azircon and my other guildmates on our guild discord.

I was born in Cuba right after the fall of the Soviet Union so times were very tough for the common people as Cuba-US relations were at an all time low due to the Cuban Missile Crisis. My mom, sister, and I were able to leave the country through political asylum when I was 5 years old and we went to live in New Jersey. I was home alone a lot as my mom was working 2-3 jobs to be able to afford to put a roof over our heads and food on our table. As a result, I navigated towards the blossoming online world and started playing RuneScape. I loved everything about Runescape. It was a world I could escape to and do anything I ever wanted. I loved PVP but couldn't afford membership so I joined one of the Free2Play clans. I went on to rise in the ranks from New member->Member->Moderator->PK Leader->High Council->Leader and we would manage to become the best F2P clan in the game for about 3 months. It was glorious. We would have "Wars" with other clans that would last 48 hours non-stop. This was when I first started hearing and experiencing "DDOS'ing" (Denial-of-service attack) as people would try to get thousands of bots to ping opposing clan official's IP addresses and boot them off their internet. It was the wild wild west.

My family would go on to move to Florida. I went to college, joined Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity and had tons of fun. I am currently engaged to a wonderful girl :) We have been together for 7 years and have been through many highs and lows but it has only made us stronger. Now I am a Clinical Lab Scientist at a Children's Hospital. My job is awesome as it is very diverse and every day is a little different. One day I am growing and identifying bacteria from blood, wounds, or anywhere really. The next day I am putting blood on a glass slide, smearing it, staining it, and looking at our kiddo's cells to make sure there are no irregularities or immature (possible cancer) cells proliferating.

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As for crypto...this is a whole new world for me. I am trying to learn as much as I can as I believe in decentralized finance as I can see the allure to it. I would go onto find out about @splinterlands through my 55 year old Chemistry Supervisor of all people. A couple of town halls, some ranked battles, and I was hooked. This ecosystem is wonderful and has so much potential in my eyes. Every day I learn something new. I am part of a wonderful community in @shield-of-glory that motivates me to strive for excellence. Hive itself and PeakD has been a cool discovery as there is so much more than just Splinterlands. I have seen the Ukraine support community, @leo-finance , sports community, and many others. I even tried to start a Medical Science community but quickly found out that it wasn't that easy haha.

Thank you for everyone who read my introduction. I am super excited to be here and can't wait to interact with you all.

~ @xsuilx

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@xsuilx great story! I'm constantly impressed learning more ab our guildmembers. SO many great skills and interesting and diverse backgrounds. Now I see why you're so effective and precise in splinterlands battles. Love practicing together and trading strats! Feel super lucky to have you as a guildmate and friend.

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Aww man, thank you! 😀

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Thanks for sharing Luis ;-) I am always curious how people come about getting their IGNs and this was a very simple explanation. I wonder if you still talk to your boss about Splinterlands now that you are in a Top 3 guild and playing at the highest levels in the game.

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Haha, nice detective work :) He stopped playing because he didn't get any rewards in bronze anymore. I offered to delegate him some cards but he moved onto Upland. He still talks to me about various cryptocurrencies as he likes to study them.

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Awesome post Luis! Nice to know a little bit more about the person behind the discordmember 😉

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What an amazing journey you have Luis! I am sure you have a lot more to tell.

Welcome to hive.

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Thanks! Glad to be here

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Welcome to hive, I look forward to seeing you around some more; something tells me you'll have a lot to share.

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A few months later...I realized I had misspelled it but I stuck with it.

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Welcome mate and I think we played a round or two against each other the other day too. I think you will find the community pretty engaging if you engage with it :

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Thanks, yeah your name sounds familiar, we probably played a couple times. Hopefully I managed to squeak in a couple wins :P

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Welcome!

See you on the battlefield :)

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Right on, good luck on your end of season. Finish strong ✊

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Hello, @xsuilx

This is @fionasfavourites from the @ocd (Original Content Decentralized) curation team. We noticed you shared your first post here on Hive and introduced yourself to the community - congratulations and welcome!

Speaking of community, we have many different ones here on the blockchain, devoted to all kinds of interests. Here's a link so you can check them all out - Hive Communities

Also since you're new, you may run into an RC (Resource Credits) error when trying to comment/post because you don't yet have enough Hive in your account yet. For assistance with a temporary delegation to get you started, be sure to check out the Gift Giver site.

Also, as the hive can be quite confusing, the newly launched Newbies Guide is a growing repository of useful – easy to understand – posts about how the Hive ecosystem works.

If you have questions, feel free to hop into the OCD Discord server and we'll do our best to answer them, and again welcome to Hive!

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Thanks for having me, I'll be sure to check out your community.

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Wow! Another amazing guild mate's life story. I had no idea I was surrounded by so many unique and interesting people in Shield of Glory.

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It sure is awesome to put a face to a name, especially since we discuss so many things together on discord. I saw everyone else's awesome introductions and didn't want to be left out ;)

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Welcome to our humble abode mate. Hope to see some of your mad science projects here:P

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Thanks! We'll see what I brew up :)

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This is an epic intro @xsuilx - I've been active on HIVE for over a year and can't compete with all you are bringing to this wonderful community, but I'm sure glad that quality folks continue joining the HIVE blockchain. WELCOME!

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Thank you, you're being too kind, I see you make daily posts and are very active.

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Yes @xsuilx - showing up daily does help, even if it’s for a brief window of time. So many ways with HIVE to explore and expand your presence. Have a great day Hermano
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Welcome welcome, good to see everyone from our guild finding the way here!

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I'm glad you explained your name. I've been trying to figure out what it meant, and I had pretty much decided that it was a playful twist in the spelling of Zuel. :D

Anyway, I'm glad you're discovering there's more to Hive than just the gaming and defi sector. There's really a lot here to be excited about. Have some !BEER and !PIZZA and enjoy the ride!

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Thanks brotha, glad to be here

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PIZZA!

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@sinistry(1/15) tipped @xsuilx (x1)

You can now send $PIZZA tips in Discord via tip.cc!

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Excellent presentation brother, welcome to Hive and to all this great decentralized ecosystem, I'm sure you will enjoy being here. Your trajectory is impressive, I'm very glad you decided to introduce yourself and also be part of our guild. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask, I'm at your service.

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Hi X I wish you good luck blogging and I Will See you around🍀
Your blogs and comments are appreciated and if you have questions let me know.
We (@jamerussell and I ) are presenting New comers in Our @Heyhaveyamet blogs almost every day , and There is a Discord called The Terminal for newbies and All answers to your questions, join in, I am on Hive everyday ! You can always leave a comment.
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Sorry to be a little late to your introduction party my friend. It's fantastic to finally know the story behind your name as well as parts of your own story! I'm glad you're here, and I'll always be grateful you took a chance on recruiting someone brand new to the game 😊

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