D: Used to think you were a dick, though afterwards, most interactions I've had with you gave off the exact opposite impression. Cool that you still stick around with some UHC friends here and there and stay in contact, shame you're not around much, I feel like you'd be fun to ts with.
O: Don't understand the 2014 golden age mentality. As a guy who's been around since early 2014, games were filled with toxic sweats who largely made rtox games unenjoyable. Maybe 1/5 I'd have a cool team that didn't take the game too seriously and didn't try to Leroy Jenkins PVP and get vaporized, and most of those were EU games. The subreddit didn't really seem that welcoming either, just seemed hard to try making a name/ getting a place if you were new. Most of the people that I met then didn't really talk to me after/ never remembered who I was except Poem. Also screw large games where 4-5 teams are right by you and you'd likely die right as pvp turned on, and screw hosts who had ghettoclean and horrid sat fix, trying to force people to end the game early.
FM: I think the tree memes originated from Ambition 1/2 intros? Even though you yourself consider those bad, personally liked both intros and both seasons a ton. They were simple and got the job done, nothing needlessly complex that in some ways ironically toned down the intro like nowadays. Still rewatch parts of the seasons and the intros here and there :D