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2026-03-10 •
yesterday, i was playing Counter-Strike 2 with my friends. i was bored while we were waiting for a match, and saw two cases in my inventory from drops, so i decide, "hm... why not?"
after all, the last time i opened a case was over a year ago! so i deposited £4 into my account and bought the first key for a Kilowatt case for £1.80.
now, i want to preface this by saying that i was quite big on cases when I was younger. me and Vee would dream of the day when we'd win big, and we (mostly I) opened many cases hoping for that day. Vee was with me in this call when we were playing, and he was watching my screen share.
i opened the case, and watched the skins roll past. Devon made the comment "ooh look a red" because, when I first opened the case, a red skin showed up on the roll. i already accepted that as a sign of defeat; i consider myself a lucky man but the odds of seeing each skin on the roll is the same as the odds as opening it, so realistically, what [i]are[/i] the chances?
the wheel slowed down over a few seconds, and what happened next can only be described as a blur of colours and emotions. with Vee and Devon watching my stream, they were the first to react. in my unfamiliarity of opening cases after not doing it for ages, i didn't even register exactly what had occurred until the wheel stopped and my prize for contributing to Valve's net profits was revealed to me.
when i saw the yellow come up on the wheel, my first thought was "yeah fat chance, it won't land". but then, it occurred to me that yellows ONLY appear on the wheel if you win it. there's no other circumstance where a rare, legendary item appears on the wheel.
[b]i opened a knife.[/b]
[img=/data/images/79a615fc3b5e941b.jpg][name:Kukri Knife - Slaughter]
Vee describes my reaction as "non-chalant" but in reality, i was so short for air from adrenaline that i couldn't react. it was insane. and it happened on a random monday night.
on the first case.
after not opening any for over a year.
wanna know the maddest thing? i owned this EXACT knife in 2025, before i sold my CS inventory for some cash. what are the odds of that, not only opening a knife but it being the exact same knife i owned then? insane.