SpawnPoint

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.

Last night, I encountered this guy on the 174.5 Assault server that had something to say about everything I said with ma_say, which I only used because of people glitching, UV camping as T, bypassing the word filter, or had inappropriate names.

For those of you whom have played with me know that, I don't really use ma_say unless it's needed.  So I say my piece, and I'm done.

But this guy wasn't.

So he continues to question everything I say, including why I am telling people to watch what they type and watch what they say on the mic.

Then he did it.

He typed "this is rediculous".  With an "e".

1 of my pet peeves is that, people spell that word with an "e".  That is the incorrect way to spell it.

So, in the middle of an argument, or attempted argument with an admin, it is probably not a good idea to sound unintelligent by misspelling a simple word such as "ridiculous".  So I correct him with:

"Ridiculous.  It is spelled with an "i", not an "e".

He proceeded to tell me not to correct him, and that I should shut up.

Welp, I didn't have to mute him or anything, as he never said another word to me after that.


Basically, with me, don't start something you can't finish.  And if you start something with me, you had better bring everything you got, or else I will find a way to destroy your arguments and make you look dumb.

Be nice to me and I won't even have to do any of that :)

I always thought that it was our very own cpnichol who was in a metal band, and I think I've even made a few comments about death metal and stuff to him.

Well it turns out it was member castotroy that is the lead vocalist for a metal...  well, hardcore'ish...  I guess the "term" for it is "metalcore"...  anyway, he is the lead vocalist for a metalcore band.  Not cpnichol.

However, both of their names are Phil, and from the UK.  So... me being a dumb American, assumed, that since it's "Phil from the UK", he must be the metal band guy.

Nope.

That's my "whooooooops" part.

I'm such an idiot sometimes...

So after been hooked on Gardenian for the last couple of weeks, and having listened to nothing but their "Sindustries" album for like, 2 weeks straight, I needed something else to listen to.

Well, what better place than to start from looking for music from the members of the band?

If there's 1 thing I learned about most of the European metal band members, it would be that they all like to be involved in more than just 1 band. 1 guy can be in as little as 1 main band and his/her own side project band, to be full time members of like 4 or 5 bands, all making quality music.

So, seeing as Niclas Engelin was the guitarist for Gardenian, I started to dig around to see what's up with Gardenian and Niclas.

Well, I guess Gardenian officially broke up in 2004, but Niclas had been involved with a few other bands, 1 of which was formed before Gardenian. Here are some of them:

Passenger - check them out at their Myspace page.
Engle - check them out at their Myspace page.
Within Y - check them out at their Myspace page.

Passenger is fronted by Anders Friden, the same guy that fronts In Flames. Within Y featured Thim Blom, the drummer for Gardenian back when they were still around, but had to quit the band as his wrists were bothering him too much (he had pains on his wrists) to perform at tip top shape. Engel features Niclas as the guitarist, along with some other big names in the Swedish Melodic Death Metal scene as well, but I will leave them out for now as this blog isn't about them.

Anyway, for you metal heads out there, check these guys out and see if you guys like them. I'm glad I've found them as I can now be distracted away from listening to Gardenian 24/7 lol