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Random malarky
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flippleflapple...
Well, lots of random shit has happened in my life, and not all of it shit - which is quite cool. I actually got odd looks on friday cos I was singing! Much to my surprise I am back with Claire - and this time it is really good, and I am having a great time. Despite the fact that I have 9am lectures, work is going good. And, muchos reliefios, the torturous process of finding a house next year isn't...torturous that is. We found one we all liked - roomy, not too expensive and a garden the size of central park, and applied for it. We got the first interview and the women at the end says, "Well, I don't think there is any point interviewing anyone else, since I think you will be perfect." RESULT!!
Q3 wise, I am still as shit as ever - relatively...only I've been having some good ClanArena games. Also signed up with Blowfish as elite killers² [ek2] for the Clan Wars 2v2 league, should be good fun, and we've been put in division 1!!. Who'd have believed it? Me, in a division 1 clan :)
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random shite
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Well. My quake3 is absolutely fucked. Maybe its down to lack of practice after all I have been spending little time on it these last few weeks..but thats mainly to do with the fucked lan router.
My rail atm , is averaging about 17 percent effi on t4. it used to be mid 30s -> 40s.
Easy shots where the enemy is right on the crosshair and all i have to do is press..e.g jumppad kills arent hitting.
Sometimes my rail clicks and i hit loads..but doing this i notice that i am in fact aiming in front of the enemy. WTF? This never used to happen.
I altered timenudge to 0. Same problem. Could it be the PL? Fuck knows. All i know is..a weapon I used to be able to rely on is now next to fucking useless. Whether i connect a shot really doesnt seem to matter..random. My shaft also appears to be pretty cunted when i play online. Shame that even though there are hundreds of people on the internal network none of them actually want to play q3.
FUCK YOU.
Not to mention, sounds. Playing t4 against a player of any ability at all requires that you use the sounds to the best of your ability. Well, good ol cunting pl means that even when CHUmp comes up the bouncepad right behind me the rail in the back is an amusing surprise.
So annoying is this I have taken to playing with music playing to almost cover all sounds. Today I played dc.mozilla on t2 and t4. T2 his shaft aim was very nice..he won quite easily. T4 he had a nice start but i came back in a good fashion bring the scores level before he ran away with the game in the last 2 mins. I intentionally took off my music to play him and that did a lot of fucking good.(not)
Also played q3jdm8a today with some randoms. Looks like a really nice map until you realise the only 2 armours are easily linked and it soon becomes a t2 with sniping. Good map for even players though. The mix or rl/rail/shaft is also nice.
We are 550 frags ahead of RD which is eminently catchable. Lets hope either MIB or NBD show some late form in the season. MIB showing any form would be nice :/ NBD i think should put up heavy resistance to RD since they have been playing well of late. GL to all concerned.
Is it me, or is #l33t the most boring channel in the world? Nothing ever happens. Pretty shite compared to how it used to be.
I got a radio controlled van for valentines day from nikki. Very nice it is too. The 'silverado' blue pickup is the smallest radio controlled vehicle i've ever seen. It runs conveniently off 2 AA batteries. nice.
Chris and I took it on an assault course last night, it managed a number of trick jumps (falls?) and even negotiated the steps without problems. (the aerial is like a self righting mechanism).
It has a stupidly long range for such a little thing which is cool since we sat on the bench and drove it at oncoming pedestrians. :). My only complaint is the speed of the little badboy, it goes slower than walking pace..oh well.
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I am back. Phew.
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You will all be pleased to know that i have finished my share of the stomping, so i am back with more skillz than ever...and even a news login. Now i don't want to see any more of these ek-fuckups(tm) ok?
Also, i may put my mad vb skillz to use and try and code up a rw proxy so i can actually hear bob shouting abuse at me when i rail him in a clan game :)
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EK defeat VS
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Not in the glorious style we had planned, but a straightforward win on both maps nevertheless.
DM7 147-73 in our favour. EK played a scrappy yet controlled dm7 with fatty not realising we couldnt hear him at all over roger wilco. Uneventful, we led from the start to the end. I think we got most of the quads. Our solid teamplay ensured that recent connect problems plaguing Djuhn/bob didn't really figure in this game. Blowfish scores a perfect 10 for his diving technique and strong play leading to a good win :)
DM8 116-91 to us. I can only describe this game through my perspective, and what a game :). I think it is fair to say the l33t janet connects djuhn and myself played off became unplayable(probably towards the end of dm7). Massive ping spikes and constant pl led to quite an even game with a strong comeback from vs in the second half of the game. We never locked any part of the level and lost a number of quads to VS. Highlights include lagging with quad and being mg'd to death by a skillful opponent, being pummelled by someone 10 feet away 3 times, plus all weapons except the rocket (and grenade :p) being amusingly ineffectual. If we were ever to record a roger wilco session this should have been the one. :)) Credit to Fattburger for consistent fragging on this map in what turned out to be a tight game.
WP VS.
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WPFFA Week 2 (nearly)
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Well because they vastly over-estimated attendance for the first week, week 1 of the wpffa league was replayed. Q3DM6, all the usual stuff, nice crowd of lpbs who all played well.. erm maybe one modemer I think. screenshot
I also got a demo which is available here.
Tonight we have VS in BWTDM which we have done quite a bit of work for ;)
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EK In The Leagues
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With Barrysworld finishing off soon, and particularly well for us a couple of new leagues are about for us to take part in.
Firstly the Clan Wars now hosted by wireplay: http://www.clan-wars.co.uk/wpdml/teams/teams.php3 finds us placed in division 2 which although it was expected, is nice to see. We have some good opponents in this side including our sparring partners, RD.
Secondly, Savage which seems to be split into random groups rather than divisions: http://www.savageuk.com/q3dm/#1112, finds us in group 3 with some good opponents including DC.
Starting dates for both have not been full comfirmed, but we will need to start thinking soon about teams for each game. It might be sensible, especially with our new lpbs, to vary the teams according to the maps and playing styles of our members. I suggest we discuss this on the mailing list. We should also look for a entry into an RA3 league for all members?
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£33t ©ð£ümñ üþÐåtê
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MyWeek::Monday()
{
Started off well after having a weekend spent in bed with a heavy cold, (Hmmmf.) with a nice FFA game (although now cancelled). [Actually the ffa game being cancelled isn't a bad thing as I was playing badly];
}
MyWeek::Tuesday()
{
I enjoyed the team game vs XPD. Surg did point out some of our team play was good, but no one has an extra-special game. I think it is worth remembering how tight our last game in Clan Wars was with them. As most of the clan would remember, that was our first game when we really had some very strong tactics in operation;
}
MyWeek::Wednesday()
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Spent 4-5 hours playing team games, playing most of the time on auto - without really thinking about playing. I used to do this a lot in netquake ffa;
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MyWeek::Thursday()
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I wasn't sposed to play quake today but ended up playing some shit CA and a couple of not-many-people ffa games;
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MyWeek::Friday()
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Started well, woke up early(ish), sunny day, found out next Monday's meeting will be moved forward by a week (which gives me more time). Also found out there is no tube strike next week which means a lot less hassle;
}
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amusing twist.
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Well amusingly my life kind of rocks now. Good relations with b1rd, not playing too much quake3..and drinking far too much. Not to mention i have been attending lectures which are mostly fun.
I am looking forward to tuesday when we take on VS. Should be total rape if we play as well as we can. Viewing the dm14tmp and cpm4 demos against xpd I was initially shocked by how bad we were (i dont think any of us played particularly well) but then i noticed the good teamplay we had going. The fuckups were due to one of us being shite rather than a team problem. (except for ALL the battlesuits :)) I personally jumped into the void 4 times while trying to hold lower rl.
rofl.
I was very impressed with everyone being kitted very quickly when they died, totally selfless weapon saving. Assuming fattburger sorts his roger wilco out (do it u f00l :) and we work on getting powerups to the enemy (and blowfish please stop firing quad rockets at the battlesuit:) we should be in good stead for whatever leagues we enter.
CPM4 was a much cleaner match for us. I think we own that map now :) Plus there was none of the usual squabbling over items that has existed before. (nice ra giving etc)
Now onto another subject..if we are so team orientated in quake3 tdm matches why are most of the clan utter cunts in irc? I know i cant talk being a bit of a cock online but rekun has told me he is leaving ek because of irc.
It seems to be fashionable to leave ek atm, i am sad since alex is a top bloke in london (short arse :)) and it felt really good meeting the people i've been abusing all this time :). The other reason alex leaving is really not a good thing is that we have a very tight starting tdm squad. Losing alex will hurt us an awful lot, forcing us to rely on fattburger who isn't always available *cough* and jeevan.
After coda left we borged rekun into the 1st team by forcing him to play hours of q3 :) seems a shame to have all been for nowt.
A final note: blowfish is a cheaty 6 ping plasma fucker ffa player :)
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