User:Nick the Splatoon Fanboy
Hello lurkers and editors of Inkipedia! Call me Nick, I'm a 20-year-old electrical and computer engineer from Greece! (if you are Greek btw leave a comment in my talk page!)
I'll gradually add on to this; please bear with me if you visit my page!
My history with Splatoon
It all started back in the very first Splatoon trailer... and I actually found it dull. I was like, 12 at the time, but I didn't see the appeal to the game, even as newer trailers came in. However, when the testfire came around (which sadly I couldn't try cause I wasn't home at that period) I watched some gameplay that popped up on my feed... and I loved it. As soon as I got back home a couple weeks after release, I purchased it and have been in love with it ever since.
I never played competitive in S1. Once I had unlocked everything, I pretty much played 
Aerospray RG, with 
Jungle Hat, 
Reggae Tee and 
Crazy Arrows. Horrendous, I know, but I was 13. I was having a lot of fun however, and I couldn't care less about the competitive side. I did go into ranked, but again, I didn't mind my rank.
Since I didn't get a Switch until summer 2020, I continued playing S1 until 2018. By that time, my schedule had started growing tighter, Splatoon 2 made matchmaking a little slower, but my hype was unending. I had kept up with S2's lore but not the actual gameplay. Eventually however, there was a period when I neither played S1 nor kept up with S2. In late 2019, I took the decision to sell my WiiU, asking my parents to use that money for the Switch (mum wasn't too thrilled with the idea because the WiiU was a flop after I already had the Wii). We would hold on to the purchase until I had finished my high school finals (here in Greece we have the Panhellenics, which basically is what gets us into unis, so I really had to focus on doing well).
When the time came for me to purchase the Switch, the sole reason I didn't buy S2 was because I didn't have any friends to play with. Thinking that 3 years had passed since release, I wasn't sure if many were enjoying it still (boy was I wrong, but whatever). It all changed when I was in two seperate groups. One was a Greek server about Nintendo games, they were active in S2 during the first quarantine but I started paying attention to S2 pings after Summer 2020, where the activity was toned back a little. The other one was a Fire Emblem server where people would host their own campaigns, and one of them was themed around Splatoon! (That's also were my OC Nostee came from).
Those events reignited my love and excitement of playing the game, and I purchased S2 on 12 December 2020. Not to brag, but I also hyped up the others in the server, since I would be in VC 8 hours a day since we were doing online classes (which I promptly ignored). That said, I'm playing S2 kinda for fun. While I have gotten quad X, I don't really like the meta, nor do I like succumbing to it in order to have fun. So I prefer taking a silly idea to turf war (e.g. mine kills) or play in PBs on the server rather than tryhard in SoloQ.
Now... you can imagine our reaction in the February 2021 Direct. AKA SPLATOON 3 ANNOUNCEMENT!!! It was almost 1 AM for me, but I screamed at the news and pinged the S2 role to let the guys that were asleep know what they missed. I also screamed in another server after that. Since the first game, after watching several videos analyzing small things, I became an analyzer myself, trying to find little details here and there. I've analyzed all S3 trailers, spammed the discrod chat, and my body is ready for 9/9. I've already pre-ordered the game and I'm willing to spend hours upon hours on the release week.
