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Article #274943Re: What this place needs
From: TekVideo
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 19:43
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 19:43
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"Chicken" <n...@no.net> wrote in message news:dok90vgdhfs33dq9qsobk237prmdng2am6@4ax.com... > > I speak from much experience here. Lets get one thing straight, I do > not think because I have been arround that I am better than anyone, or > that I know any better than anyone. I can only speak from what I have > seen, in sadly what is several years now. Oh ho... > > When I started out in the ol NG , q2, agq2 actually, there were no > clans really, but this guy named sigil started a server just for folks > on the NG to play on. There was much talking about who could kick > who's ass and so forth. Sigil started a server and the "who could kick > who's ass" threads turned into "man that was fun last night" or > GG's at sigils, gg's at the backup haus threads. Was always fun. Other > folks such as ford and Killer tossed up other servers for people to > play on and the fun continued. Even I had fun whilst being flogged from the rear with a hot spatula. > > Then Q3 came around and PIT fired up his servers. There was a lotta > crap going on in this NG at the time, but after there was a server for > everyone to play on it was really very fun. There was IG, DM, and CA. Oh ho.. Hot soup! > > There was a community. People played and had fun. Even folks from > across the seas joined and despite the outrageous pings seemed to have > fun. Well I had fun lag killing them anyway, but I am silly like that. me too. > > The thing that ruined it for me was the introduction of clan nonsense > into it all. I was part of a NG clan and quickly quit while denouncing > it at the same time. Others sadly did not listen. they formed clans > and displayed this holier than thou attitude while quickly abandoning > the NG, only to come back at their leisure expecting to be treated as > royalty in the imaginary kingdom that the felt they created ,but had > left behind. > > What this place needs is a place for regs to play on. No clans, no BS, > just some fun. Ya got that right slappy. > > Whatever has offered a server, I can offer servers as well. Maybe not > the best pings, but that never mattered before when playing amongst > friends. > > I am sure there are others here that have bandwidth that can offer up > some servers. What mods, maps and options do you all want? > > Let's get something going / I'll play if you can turn off punkbuster as it crashes my PC. /me hasn't played since the last PR.
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