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General / Dystopia demo

« on: September 12, 2005, 08:20:41 AM »

Read the New Player Guide, seems pretty easy to pick up. Howeve,r playing the other night with Redford and others I think I'll try a larger server until I learn the map. A nub who has no idea where to go on a 3 man team doesn't do well for his teammates :p

I do like this concept. I may even take some time and try to create a map for it. I don't know, but if this becomes a free mod, LM should think about it. But I'm looking forward to some user maps to give more than the same map over and over.

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General / Re-Institution of Reg/RS Night

« on: September 07, 2005, 01:41:21 PM »

I'm not going to vastly change the hide n Seek dynamics for this week. but it's all something to look into. I have altered the rules to allow only 2 mines per marine or per hiding spot.

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General / Re-Institution of Reg/RS Night

« on: September 01, 2005, 12:11:44 PM »

I updated the initial post. The reason I moved this to General instead of the RS forum is that I know we need to increase participation all around, so we're opening up some of our activities to a wider audience.

You are welcome to join.

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General / Re-Institution of Reg/RS Night

« on: September 01, 2005, 11:19:11 AM »

OK, so rad's been on vacation.
So it hasn't been much of a vacation. I got a second (and third) job, had another kid, got robbed, and finally settled into my new routine (except the whole robbery thing).
Now, it is time to re-institute the reg night. there will be no discussion on when the first one will be held, because it's the only time I can do it this time, but then we'll open it up to debate.

Without Further Ado...
Reg/RS Night Communistically Followed Schedule
o Date of Event: Thursday, September 8, 2005
Last Updated 09-01-05

Admin Hosting This Event: rad4Christ

Reserve Slot Night begins promplty at these times:
GMT-5 9:00 PM Eastern (US)
GMT-6 8:00 PM Central (US)
GMT-7 7:00 PM Mountain (US)
GMT-8 6:00 PM Pacific (US)
[size=8](Use WorldClock to find out what time it is where you live.)[/size]

Regulars and reserve slot members, as well as anyone else who is willing to contribute to a healthy, fun, night of NS are welcome. However, all participants are expected to have read the rules of gameplay and understand them, and to play with the appropriate attitude.

Password for this week is:      lmisback
[size=8]Password Access: The password will be made available during the event in this thread, as well as in the IRC channel topic (irc.gamesurge.net #lunixmonster)[/size]


Planned Gamemode: Hide N Seek

Marines
o Marines have 5 minutes to hide in various location around the map. Gravity will be reduced during this time.
o Marines can't use any weapons except for 2 mines per hiding spot and knives. The commander is allowed to have weapons, but cannot hide. Once the commander has died, no one can replace him.
o Marines can have motion tracking. They cannot have any other upgrades/weapons.
o Marines win if they are not found within 15 minutes (10 minutes after aliens start searching).
o Marines who are killed must join spectate.

Aliens
o Aliens stay in their hive for 5 minutes.
o Aliens can have only 1 lerk and 1 gorge. Everybody else must be a skulk.
o Aliens win if they kill all the marines within 15 minutes (10 minutes after hunt begins)
o Aliens dying for whatever reason (mines, knives, doors) must immediately join Spectate. They must not divulge the location of any marines after they are dead to the alien team.
o Aliens are not permitted to use their flashlight or scent of fear.
o Movement Chambers are the only allowed chamber.


Secondary Gamemode: Organized PUG

All details, rules, and other info will be updated soon.

Other Info:
Please support this, not only in speech, but in action. Play on the server nightly, many of us are beginning to try to get games going again. Use IRC or other communication (these boards, X-Fire (list), Google Talk, anything. Other communities are struggling too, but the only way to get it back is to get involved.

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Off Topic / MrBill won't be here

« on: August 29, 2005, 09:06:17 AM »

Well, I had an opposite experience.

I've been having ping and latency problems for a LONG time. We thought we had ironed all the problems out, when I began getting a 4% packet loss ALL THE TIME.

Technician came back out (on a Saturday) and tested the lines all the way to the Carrier station. He found that there was some bad copper lines near my house. So he told me he would have to replace that.

That was a month ago. I got a bit irate that I haven't had any changes in performance, and that I still can't play online games without major packet loss. So I call the phone company to complain that I haven't heard anything. They gave me three months credit and informed me as to why it has taken so long.

It seems they are going to replace 3 miles of cable, and install a new carrier station. All because I complained of slow DSL. I love my phone company.

Go go Farmer's Telephone!

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General / Whats up with LB?

« on: August 27, 2005, 07:52:36 AM »

Well, if you'd stop taking computer advice from Fewl, this wouldn't happen all the time.

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Off Topic / Google Talk

« on: August 25, 2005, 09:27:41 AM »

Bad thing is that my corporate firewall still blocks it :/

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Off Topic / rad4birthday

« on: August 12, 2005, 08:16:29 AM »

Thanks guys. It's weird to be 25, and weirder that so many people think I'm older...

Must restrain from having mid life crisis this soon....

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Off Topic / Big robbery in Brazil

« on: August 10, 2005, 06:00:09 AM »

Funny, I saw it on Reuter's Oddly enough headlines, the same place you find things about a husband who left his wife at a gas station in Italy and drove 6 hours without noticing she wasn't in the car (here)

So, it was odd not to see this on front page, but I guess people want to keep this under wraps. here the link I have: Clickeh!

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Off Topic / Face of Mankind

« on: August 04, 2005, 06:43:39 PM »

Downloading, I'll try it.

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Off Topic / Am I getting screwed?

« on: July 19, 2005, 04:53:10 PM »

NEWER credit can be viewed as badly as bad credit. If you simply dno't have much credit, or haven't had it for a length of time, it can be used against you too. Although not giving you credit b/c you have new credit, so in turn you can't establish credit is dumb IMHO.

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Off Topic / Happiness

« on: July 18, 2005, 02:09:43 PM »

Does it seem odd to anyone else the the top two topics for the past two days involve a chubby little baby and terrorism?



I'm kinda scared.

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Off Topic / Happiness

« on: July 18, 2005, 08:44:07 AM »

Thanks all, I've updated with new pictures. Everything is going great, so we're happy it's all over (well, the pregnancy part at least). I should be playing in oh, 4 years...

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Off Topic / Happiness

« on: July 16, 2005, 08:36:35 AM »

http://cmyouth.com.

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Off Topic / Batman

« on: July 04, 2005, 02:28:23 PM »

Ignoring the ignorance of LC's Tim Burton comic type movie comment (seeing as TB only did the first two, and they were VERY dark, it was Schumaker who ruined them), I agree with most of what's said. It was a great film, and the explanations were enough without being over the top (midichlorins anyone?). The tech was altered from prototypes, and the storyline was a bit predictable, but good. It evened opened the door to why the villians of Batman are a little over the top (gas plus gordon's assessment at the end).


Now, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and I'm happy.

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Off Topic / War of the Worlds

« on: July 03, 2005, 08:41:14 PM »

The Aliens also waited so long for invasion because they need BLOOD. The human population was at its highest, its like what.. over 6 billion people in the world today or some bogus number like that?

Haven't read any further, but here's an interesting fact. There are more people alive today than people that have died over all of history. In other words, if every person in the world decided to pull a Hamlet, there wouldn't be enough skulls in the world for every one. Kinda freaky when you think of it...

Carry on.

I saw the movie, pretty good, nothing amazing. I'm not a fan of Tom Cruise, but the thing that made the move for me were the human dynamics. It's true though, the part with the ferry. Masses of people are dangerous...

If a building is on fire, and you go to the inhabitants one by one, they'll walk out calmly. Tell a whole crowd at once, and they'll stamped and try to kill each other to escape.

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General / So What's up with everyone

« on: June 29, 2005, 07:20:53 AM »

Now that I'm about to get into doing my job, i won't have time to have IRC up. But the second job is murder. Well, that and waiting for this child to be born...

And the fact that BF2 lags to heck and is unplayable half my day on ranked servers...

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Off Topic / Happy Fathers day

« on: June 20, 2005, 02:42:12 PM »

Thanks. Sorry, but I've been more worried about having my second child (due any time) more than rejoicing. Thank ye tho. Funny I'm not the oldest, but I have the most kids

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General / New server mods! yay!

« on: June 20, 2005, 09:15:12 AM »

Welcome to AMX-X. It's only a test right now, but we admins like it. I'm not a big NS'er anymore, but I'll be around to buryteam from time to time. The hit reg problem seems to have disappeared AKAIK, so test it for any troubles. GJ to Dev/null and LB for getting this done.

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Off Topic / Movies

« on: June 18, 2005, 07:12:40 PM »

OK, I may have cried at others, but if you DIDN'T cry at these, you have no soul.


Shawshank Redemption

Green Mile

Braveheart

Saving Private Ryan