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@Alzir wrote:
Alzir’s just bored atm, and doing other stuff.
Talking about oneself in the 3rd person…. you gone radio rental?
Hey m8, get the bios from here..
http://www.gamefront.com/files/13963819
ROMS here.
http://www.coolrom.com/roms/gba/
Advance wars 2 is the shizzle.
I have played it a few times actually turks. It is a bit annoying really – but I have come back for more.
Claymores seem shit.
Annoying how you make money from repairing barriers – paradoxically making it worth your while to let them be destroyed?
Some different scenes would be nice.
Anyway – good effort. The sound is great at least.
Steve Jobs would shit all over that app for sure. Handy for Wolf and Matt at any rate – hope you both have android phones guys.
Great poker tourney tonight.
Early chip leader was doc with some superb play… but then Ben caught him with a straight on the river against my trip Queens.
That crippled me – so was soon out in fourth. Turks followed soon after – mainly because he was playing tighter than a gnats chuff.
Wolf and Ben then went heads up for a nail biting finish – with Ben getting the win with 2 pair.
Good game all – lets make it regular!
Well everyone has different takes on this but my personal opinion for what it is worth is that all these proposed rules are arbitrary, will be used inconsistently, and lead to us alienating possibly good players.
The game mechanics are robust enough… I would like anything to go… and have problems even with the sawn raping rule to be honest.
I cant be arsed writing all the examples where this kind of rule is open to misinterpretation – but trust me there are lots of potential issues.
COI – been kicked from servers before for stupid reasons and never went back to them.
Yeah i would play – but maniac is a semi pro in the making I reckon – so kiss good bye to your cash guys! 🙂
No way – after the tyranny of air support for years of the BF series it makes a nice change.
A chopper and rpgs and tanks working together would be very effective still…. it is choppers flying over the enemy base that get raped 6 times in a row.
Another reason i think we should remove the base rape message in the server – it is almost meaningless in BFV,
“Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.” Adrienne Rich, b. 1929, U.S. poet, Of Woman Born (1976)
@=xdc=maniac wrote:
This is a “free” gaming group, where, if you take it seriously, and a few others do as well – fine go and compete under the XDC name, and if thats not your bag, also fine.
This is how I would like to think any group would work – but Matt’s history has missed out important elements of the story…. and forgotten that a large part of the disagreement revolved around the fact that this basic philosophy was undermined by the people under discussion.
I for one have always been astonished at how people don’t seem to want to take advantage of one of the most interesting and fulfilling parts of online game playing… i.e. working as a team in a structured way to achieve a goal. My best experiences online were all in matches… especially ones that we prepared for and practised before hand. The outcome was not important – but the process created a situation that was greater than the sum of its parts. I don’t think this is a weird thing to enjoy – look at how humans tend to form groups / adopt leadership structures naturally in society. Hell, we are talking about playing at being soldiers… look at how successful army units naturally evolve into well oiled tactical machines… presumably with a resulting increase in camaraderie and general happiness for its members.
What happened around the 7 debacle, as I remember it, was that those in XDC who did want to experiment with that type of play were made to look like they were somehow anally retentive idiots who didn’t understand what XDC was about (whatever that means). It wasn’t just people not wanting to be part of it and staying clear… it was them actively telling others what they should and shouldn’t be doing. Which is fucking ridiculous of course.
I am sure part of it was an ill deserved feeling of entitlement – along the lines of “I have been here longer than you.. so if you don’t wan’t to play the way I do then I am taking my ball home.” Also mixed up in this was a mythologising of some sort of non existent XDC ethos about ‘not taking things seriously’. This was a somewhat similar attitude to what you might remember seeing in school… if you have shit for brains then one way of dealing with people who seem keener / more proactive than you is to deride any positive steps for betterment as being ‘uncool’ and ‘lame’.
Paradoxically it wasn’t people taking their games too seriously that was the problem… it was people taking themselves and their own importance too seriously that messed things up I reckon.
Good riddance. 😈
And here we are… few years down the line and the shadow still hangs over us. I am still too scared to suggest having any tactical discussions about a game round here. 🙄
