SpawnPoint

So, the last couple of weeks, Krystal and I have been busy getting our house ready for move in.

This morning, the couch that we bought was delivered.  Although it has problems, it's not that big a deal, at least we have a couch now!

Last night, we bought a TV stand, and the night before that, I put together the computer desk for Krystal.

Tomorrow we go and pick up the new TV - a Samsung 37" HDTV LCD screen.  Hotness.

I can't wait to fully move into the house, although, I definitely won't miss the actual "moving" part.

I am ready for the joy of being in the new house, but not the pain.

Dang it...

Honestly, I have no idea why people act like such e-thugs on their own servers when looking for scrims.

Sunday, the PHXX clan had 3 to 5 members on most of the afternoon, so we decided that we were going to look for scrims to practice for the upcoming CAL match, which is on de_contra.

Ghost found us a few teams to scrim, but honestly, they were all jerks.  I'm only using the term "jerk" here because I have to keep this post rated G, well, at least PG-13, so replace the word "jerk" in your minds as you wish.

All of these teams were disrespectful, hateful, and racist.  Not exactly sure why, because they were probably a bunch of kids or even older guys that still lived at home, and never have actually met a real woman before.  They cussed us out, they called us racist names and all these other things, and their answer were always "this is MY server and I can do what I want", and then continued, and actually worsened, their racist comments and cursing at us.

If these were kids at around 12, yeah, I can understand why they would try to act all hard like that.  But like I said, these were probably a bunch of 20 some odd year olds, or even older, kids that live at home, probably overweight cause they don't move further than like 2 feet from their seats, and eats pizza every meal.  And these people were being e-thugs.  Ignorant e-thugs at that.

Here's the punchline - they weren't even that good.

We lost, yes, but not because of how good they were, but because of how poor we did as a team, and individually.  When we get to 1 on 1 situations, we wiped the floor with them most of the time, which shows that we're not all that bad as individual players.

Another thought I had running through my mind was that, with all that cursing and racist comments, I was thinking they actually might be trying to drive away teams so they don't have to scrim?  So why were they idling in the IRC channel looking for other teams to scrim?  I don't get it?  Mental illness?  Mild retardation?  What's going on?

There was one instance where we did a 3v3, and just as we started to adapt to how the other team was playing and was whooping them 2 rounds in a roll, they went "had to go, you baddies"  and signed off.  Talk about sore losers.

I don't know why most teams are like that, but it seems, so far, that in all the scrims that I've been in, teams are 99% of the time jerks.

The only time that a scrim isn't with jerks, is with fellow SP clans like EC, or KI, or even back in the day PWND.  These are good guys, and I enjoyed scrimming with them.

Hope we find some decent clans to scrim with again soon, because scrimming is fun, but not with a bunch of jerks that try to act like they're Vin Diesel over the interweb.  That is about as lame as Stephen Hawkin's legs.

Man....

Every morning, I drink a cup of tea.  Not just any kind.  But the kind where you put sugar and cream in.  Indian style, or actually, I got it from when living in Hong Kong, as the British drank it like that there too.

Anyway.

So I'm working, and I take a sip.  Uh oh, it went down my throat wrong.  No no no no no, not that tickle at the back of my throat....

By the time I moved my right hand up in front of my mouth, I had already coughed and sprayed tea out of my nose and my mouth.

All over the place.
Right in front of me.

From where I sit, there was a spread pattern of about a foot and a half.

My keyboard was covered, the table space in front of the keyboard was covered, my laptop was completely covered.  To the left about a foot, was Krystal's iPod and a couple of my CDs, and the left side speaker.  They had traces of spray on them.

So needless to say, I spend like a half an hour cleaning up, soaking up the tea first with moist paper towels to minimize the stickiness of it.  Then running everything back over with clean, moist paper towels to clean up the residue, and then drying everything off.

Luckily for me, laptops and keyboards are spill proof anymore, due to idiots like me, spraying all over the place, not just in CS:S, but in real life, with liquid that was supposed to go down my throat and into my stomach.  But instead, I perform a spray and pray.  Oh it got everything alright.  Boom headshot on the laptop.

I hope my stuff isn't completely stuck by tomorrow morning.  That would suck.

I love when players in servers break a rule, and when an admin tell them not to do it again, they get go berserk.  They start cussing the admin(s) out, and they get all hateful and just act like they've never evolved fully from an ape.

Why is that?

Also, the rules of Spawnpoint servers are advertised repeatedly on servers every few seconds or so.  How is it that players can completely avoid reading those and disregard them entirely?

Players, it will do you guys good to read those rules, because when admins tell you that you have just broke a rule, they're just telling you what those adverts are saying.  You guys don't pay for the servers, so you guys don't get to make up the rules.  The staff members that work at Spawnpoint do, and what they say, is what us admins will enforce.

Don't cry to us when you get slayed from upper vent cause you are a terrorist camping the upper vent on Assault.  Or when you are a CT and camping the glitch on the roof top on CT side, you get slapped till about 100 ft off the ground and get dropped to the death.  It is not our fault.  It is YOUR FAULT for breaking the rules, so YOU get to SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES.

So please, go ahead, try that reading thing.  It's pretty cool.  The chics dig it, and I won't make fun of you by saying you didn't pass second grade English and completely humiliate you in front of other players because you failed to read our rules.

Am I a jerk?  Sure, why not.  Do a lot of players hate me?  Yeah, probably.  Do I care?  No, not really.

I do care that they would start reading the rules and stop breaking them, or when a hacker comes along, that they'd help with demoing them, or at least keep their big mouths shut on the mic, or keep their fingers from hitting Y or U and typing "QUIT HACKING!!!!!" and "ADMIN'S GONNA BAN YOOOOOOU!!!!"

Don't do that.

Also, one last thing.

When admins send you a private message over the chat, it comes up in GREEN, and it is a direct chat to you and you only.  Read it.  It has to do with you and you only, so it might be a good idea to read it and see what the admin is saying to you.  He might be telling you to stop telling the hacker to leave or that you need to fix your rates or whatever.  Ignoring them will only earn yourself a kick at the least.

Again, we are not there to be your friend and let you get away with crap.  We are in a server to uphold the rules set by Spawnpoint, and to keep the servers full and the players in it happy, without breaking any rules.  So if you were in there to either break rules, try to run people off the servers, or just to annoy/tick off every person in the server that you have joined, you had better be prepared to suffer the consequences.

So lately I've been trying to work on my long distance shots (like from the pit to long A on D2, or from the front wall on Assault looking into the building from the CT side) with rifles, like the M4 or the AK, but after realizing the the 2000dpi setting is still way too twitchy, I switched back to my old setting of 950dpi.

At 950dpi, I find it much easier to aim at opponents at long range, but also at close range too.  As a matter of fact, I found myself hitting my targets while sniping more than before.

Some of the other PHXX clanmates of mine commented on my "snap" style aiming while AWPing looked like an aimbot before, but that is if I'm hitting my targets and killing them.  More often than before, I've found myself having aimed at somebody, and all I had to do would be to just click and kill them, but just before the click I would want to make a minor adjustment and end up twitching my hand a little.  That little twitch, at single zoom on the AWP, plus the 2000dpi, will move the crosshair clear off of the other person.  Usually by that time, the other person has had time to react and usually kill me with a headshot.

With the lowered dpi setting, I can actually snap just on target instead of over snapping, and when I make those silly minor adjustments, it's not a big enough movement on the screen to take me completely off of my target, resulting in a completely missed shot.

The only time that I feel the 2000dpi setting is useful for me, is when I need to turn around rapidly to fire back at someone that's shooting me from behind, or when I am in a close quarter combat stage where I need to either bust out my knife or make quick aiming adjustments for Deagling a guy 2 feet in front of me that's jumping around like a frog.

So, I am going to have to develop a new skill, and hopefully get good at it soon.  I shall call it the "mouse sensitivity quick switch".  Much like the quick switch technique used for sniping rifles, but this "version", if you will, has to do with the mouse sensitivity changing buttons on my Logitech G5 mouse.  I'm going to try to change the mouse sensitivity when I need to, despite possible panic moments.  In those situations, however, I'm going to have to try to remain calm and change the sensitivity so that I can save my butt a second or so later when I need to move the mouse around quickly.