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Article #286770Re: How to be a sore loser.
From: EvilBill
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 03:57
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 03:57
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BubblyBabs wrote: > "sittingduck" <you.love.sitting-duck@spamgourmet.com> wrote in message >> EvilBill wrote: >> >>>> Why did he keep calling you "bot ass" and "bot fag"? What does >>>> that mean? Babs >>>> >>> >>> A bot is a cheat that auto-aims and fires for you; it's all too >>> common on Quake servers for idiots and morons to accuse anyone >>> better than themselves of using one. >> >> I've been playing quake online for nearly 5 years now, and have yet >> to play >> someone using a 'bot'. I've seen dozens and dozens of people whine >> about it >> though. :) > > How would you tell if someone were using a bot? > I do have to say that some people have unusually good aim and > sometimes I wonder about it... But, I'm too busy trying to keep from > being target practice to bother typing in snide comments to the other > players... They're very rare in Quake nowadays. Never really took off in Q3 anyway, bot cheaters started out in Q2 and migrated to Counter-Strike for the most part. I wouldn't worry about it. Never met one myself even when I played Q2 on a daily basis. <g> Course, there's the other kind of bot, the AI opponents, but they cheat anyway ;) -- -- * I always hope for the best. Experience, unfortunately, has taught me to expect the worst. Yahoo: evilbill_agqx Web: http://www.evilbill.org.uk
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