Overly Chatty Penguins
The Ready Room => General => Topic started by: Satiagraha on December 22, 2003, 07:23:07 PM
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Where is the server(s) located?
And where is everyone playing from?
It seems that if ppl in europe get 50-200 ping, and ppl in USA get 20-60... Is LM in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean?!? Should I put on scuba diving gear next time I play?
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It seems that if ppl in europe get 50-200 ping, and ppl in USA get 20-60... Is LM in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean?!? Should I put on scuba diving gear next time I play?
Mind telling me your logic? The servers are located in Texas...
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i live in the North Pole, Santas workshop is 1/2 a mile away
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Mind telling me your logic? The servers are located in Texas...
heh, i guess i should have thought that statement through a little...
but still, where is everyone else? what countries? (and no i'm not gonna go and stalk ya >:D )
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canada :)
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im in texas B)
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also in Canada. :ph34r:
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Canada EH!
I hail in the land where the mountains meet the coast and the whale is our mascott!!!!
Flame removed. Try harder next time.
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Canada EH!
i hail in the land where the mountains meet the coast and the whale is our mascott!!!! long live the Can*ucks...
place F in there.
i'll get the arms. anem, get the legs. niteowl, you get the knife.
me is from canada too. but parents had to move to kansas ... only good thing about kansass is good pings to texas
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Michigan.
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heheh, from BC too eh?
quite a few gamers are from canada due to the relatively cheap high speed intarweb :)
vancouver, bc, specifically, as are a majority of the fogies :D
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San Diego, California.
Not the ideal place for me, I rather despise sunlight and the beach and such...
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I'm going to San Diego for 1.5 weeks in 2 days ;)
Living in Fort Collins Colorado, with LB on the opposite side of the big pointy rocks (and south too) in Montrose ;)
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I live in Wisconsin. Close to the crazy canucks :o
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Ireland, pinging 170-225 with 512 DSL.
I have found low pings in NS to be less important as it is in DoD/CS (which I stick to my local servers for)
I haven't played on LM in a long time due to lack of NS2.0. I haven't installed it because I was waiting for 3.0 to be released. Playing 3.0 recently has made me realize that we could be waiting a while.... So back to 2.0 I go. Reinstall her tonigtht and hopefully i'll see you chaps later on. Then off I go trying to fix all the bugs.
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Neeeeeeew Yoooooooooork
:)
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Miami,Florida
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NC
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Oh yea, forgot to mention that I get between 60-90 ping on average.
Uranium - 235: Its my duty as a San Diego native to tell all possible tourists to go visit the following tourist traps: San Diego Zoo, San Diego Wild Animal Park, Balboa Park and all museums in the area (Especially the Imax theatre), and the beaches.
Of course as a San Diego native its also my duty to stay as far away from those places as possible. ;)
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I'm in Kansas City, it seems Texas's fat pipe heads directly there...
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Oh yea, forgot to mention that I get between 60-90 ping on average.
Uranium - 235: Its my duty as a San Diego native to tell all possible tourists to go visit the following tourist traps: San Diego Zoo, San Diego Wild Animal Park, Balboa Park and all museums in the area (Especially the Imax theatre), and the beaches.
Of course as a San Diego native its also my duty to stay as far away from those places as possible. ;)
I used to live in L.A. so you're too late ;) And telling me to go to the beaches... HA! I know exactly what the average temperature of that water is (Hint for those that don't know: Thank god salt lowers the freezing point)
To be specific, I'm going to Rancho Bernardo, which was sandwiched between the 2 largest fires ;)
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Long Island, New York
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Minnasoda
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Long Island (New York) :o
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Oklahoma. That explains my excellent ping hax.
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come on you england!
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Oregon :(
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Minnasoda
GG, ya?
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CT :)
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Denmark, that little spot of land just north of Germany.
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Germany and Denmark, alternating. Depends a little on my mood and who's asking, too.
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lolfighter Posted: Dec 24 2003, 09:39 AM
Germany and Denmark, alternating. Depends a little on my mood and who's asking, too.
Lol, sounds like fun :p
I guess people are kinda all over the place then, wow. Some from Canada, some from US, and some from Europe
You're so nice to provide an international gathering, LB :D
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Oh, and btw, i'm in Raleigh, NC, USA so i get pretty good ping hAx to LM :ph34r:
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mmmmmmmmm soda..... but back on topic im from Minnesota, close to the crazy CWAG :o
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Washington DC, one of the chocolate Cities, and yes, in the city! :D
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Minnasoda
I assume you mean Minnesota.
THAT'S LIKE WHERE I AM FROM, DOOD.
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Colorado...Originally from Calgary though and I plan on going back :)
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Where in CO?
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About a half hour north of denver/westminster. Kind of between that and fort collins.
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About a half hour north of denver/westminster. Kind of between that and fort collins.
Well it only takes about half an hour to get to DIA if I use the E-420 toll road. So I'm taking a stab at Longmont or between that and Loveland?
Oh BTW: I'm in San Diego now, going to WAP tomorrow so it can rain on us again.... using this retarded keyboard (it's sony) that is completely missing the 'Insert - home - PgUp' group of keys so I keep mashing the numpad instead...
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Frederick, which is is about 10 minutes from Longmont.
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michigan... port huron... not 5 minutes away from malevolent...
fancy that....
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Notice most NS people are from the midwest...I think that says something about our locale...
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Long Island, New York
haha cool, what town?
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Notice most NS people are from the midwest...I think that says something about our locale...
yeah, people in the midwest aren't all "oll i play counter-striek becuz evre1 els doez ololl"
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Woohoo, go Midwest people!
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yeah, people in the midwest aren't all "oll i play counter-striek becuz evre1 els doez ololl"
oh god, you don't know how bad it is here in NC, I'm surrounded by those ppl. They're all like "| R 1337! SuXOz!", they are the classic CS jerks. *sigh* They need :help:
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Hey, I live in NC to
Story:
I was in school, at the computer lab with the class.(Oh by the way for a bit of backround, I don't talk to anyone in my school, I just ignore them) So then, here is the stupid thing. The guy sitting next to me starts talking about how good at CS he is, how he is in cal-i, and soundling like an idiot(to me). I'm still ignoring him this whole time by the way.
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oh god, yeah, i know exactly what you're talking about Isamil. I even found someone who was boasting because he killed 4 people b/c he downloaded an aimhack *sigh*
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Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.
In the middle of nowhere really XD
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Man I perked my head up anytime I heard mention of someone playing ANY online games in my classes. I was quite surprised to find alot of people I would expect to call pc gamers dorks were pretty into it :D. I ended up talking with this *prep* and a few other kids from various cliqs about games every class. It was excellent.
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Too many people in my school consider XBox a real gaming platform :/
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Too many people in my school consider XBox a real gaming platform :/
OOLLLLOLOLOLZ
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At least its better than my school. One guy thinks consoles are better for fps games and the second best computer game players are stoners.
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Happy New Year, everybody, wherever you are.
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Happy New Year, everybody, wherever you are.
Nursing a hangover in Tumecula?
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SCOTLAND!!!! WAII!!!
~pelts sonic with haggis and runs off giggling~
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(http://www.blackwoodconservation.org/images/bagpipes.jpg)
Looks like some sort of bizarre cathader thing or some fiendish tortue device
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torture device... one of my uncles can play them =3
you guys do realise the scots didn't actually invent the bagpipes right? =o
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SCOTLAND!!!! WAII!!!
~pelts sonic with haggis and runs off giggling~
good god, do you have voice??!?! i gotta hear yer scottish accent yelling at us to get through the pg. it'll be like braveheart meets Aliens.. or something :)
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lol, nuh-uh. Besides, if i did have it and use it then it'd give away if I'm a girl or boy and I like my lil gender mystery game :p
Don't think I've got an accent really, not that I can hear anyways ^^;
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well, i'm not too concerned with yer gender, but i must have the accent, you gotta give the troops a rallyign speech full of "ACH!" and such :)
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lol, nuh-uh. Besides, if i did have it and use it then it'd give away if I'm a girl or boy and I like my lil gender mystery game :p
Don't think I've got an accent really, not that I can hear anyways ^^;
Of course you can't hear it :p. No one who has an accent knows they do.
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yeah eh? like i was saying over the water cooler eh, i mean, canadians like me eh? we sound eggxactly like americans.
eh?
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Eh? Que?
:) Everyone here says I don't have a Canadian accent like my dad. Then I have to tell them it's a Saskatchewan wasteland accent. :blink: I wish we did have some sort of accent though. Chicks dig accents.
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hahah, lol, I've been in NC for exactly half my life (8yrs). i moved from NY, so ppl here say i have a New York accent, and when i go to NY, they say i have a southern accent, so i guess i'm pleasently in the middle.
so Nyah! :p
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Eh? Que?
:) Everyone here says I don't have a Canadian accent like my dad. Then I have to tell them it's a Saskatchewan wasteland accent. :blink: I wish we did have some sort of accent though. Chicks dig accents.
I have a drawl I picked up from 'Colifornyah' (So says the Governator) when I lived there for the better part of my life before an equally long stint in Chicago.
Pool - Pole
Doll - Dawl
Roof - Ruff
Meh...
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my mum keeps telling me I have a private school accent... no, not posh or anything just something to do with how I pronounce things like 'r' and stuff. Supposedly I pronounce them properly or something; just makes me give her odd looks.
I'm pretty good at mimicking other people's accents though =D
Once on holiday I used to muck about with this boy from glasgow and within 3 days I'd developed his glasgow accent perfectly... unfortunately I wasn't doing it on purpose so I couldn't stop and my parents almost throttled me ^^;
gem's mother: "stop that right now or I'll strangle you"
gem: "eh stawp wa?"
gem's mother: "that bloody accent!!!"
gem: "wit accent? Ah dinnae ken wit yer talkin' aboot"
~gem has to run away at this point from a furious mother~
luckily it vanished pretty quickly afterwards, but if I hang about someone with a noticable accent I usually pick it up.
:p
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dagnabit! i wanna hear me some accents! i do an excellent commRAGE accent... oh wait..
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Niteowl, I shall make a point of using my fake scottish accent around you. ^^
And I have that thingy with picking up accents too. It's particularly funny with danish. The danes, knowing that theirs is a very small country, make a big fuss out of their regional differences. And in fact, the language varies a great lot from east to west (and to a lesser extent, from north to south). Two weeks with my cousins and nephews in Copenhagen was all it took for me to get infected with their particular (and peculiar) dialect.
And as for the bagpipes: Nope, the scots didn't invent them. Bagpipes were known in Europe long before the scots came up with the now (in)famous "warpipe", as Uranium's picture shows it. While bagpipes slowly died out across Europe, they survived in Scotland because of their close association with the military. What differentiates the warpipes from most other sorts of bagpipes is that the warpipes feature a tube for blowing into, while most other bagpipes were supplied with air through bellows.
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yes danes has all sorts of strange internal accents, and they're pretty bad at speaking other languages i think, im thinking English here...although some has this neat nondanish pronouncation...me i just mumble - i guess i can plug the mic in if anyone wants to hear it someday o_O...
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LF: you are , verily , a cornucopia of information!! and YES! by all means!! ONLY use the scottish acccent 24/7 on LM. please and thank you :D
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For my last day in San Diego, I headed up to Scripp's Ranch...
.. yeah...
(Says 3/1/2004 becuase it's on Australia Time)
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wow, is that whats left of a house? BURN, BABY, BURN! >:D
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wow, is that whats left of a house? BURN, BABY, BURN! >:D
You are aware that almost all of Southern California was ablaze in October, killing 25+ people and destroying 3,200 homes? That's not a tourist attraction, I drove out by the Cedar Fire and that's what's left of the homes that are still standing.
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why? natural fire, or some wacky 'serial' flamestarter o_O
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why? natural fire, or some wacky 'serial' flamestarter o_O
lol what rocks have you people been living under? :p This was like world news, the government declared it a national catastrophe.
There were 6 or so fires around the entire SoCal area, one in Mexico, but most were around San Diego. Some were suspected arson, one was some idiot hunter firing signal flares. Largest most devastating fire they've ever had.
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The fires were devastating to San Diego and musch of Sothern California. Fortunately none of the fires came close to my place, but I have a number of friends who have lost their homes. I've heard of the idiot hunter with a flare ; thought he was lost and didnt think to use his cell phone, so he fired a flare, which hit a tree or some brush. Whats worse about him not using his cell phone is there were a number of people that could see the area from which he fired his flare very easily from their houses, so apparently the hunter wasn't looking around much.
About the accent thing, sometimes I'll also pick one from hanging around people that have one (or people that do not have my American accent). There have been a few times where I've happened upon a server of NS (before I started regularing Lunixmonster) where most of the people were European and constantly speaking on their mics. By the end of the game, I found myself speaking with a very similar accent, although it wears of rather quickly.