Pub=server?

QuantumSlip

<div class="IPBDescription">Is this some European thing?</div> This is the only place I have see a game/NS server called a "pub." Is this like lift/elevator, biscut/cookie, line/queue, etc?

Teufel_Eldritch

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You live in a cave? <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

JackBoCracken

pub = public server

JooJooFlop

I wish I could get into a good private server or two myself. Some of the people you get on public servers, jeez...

Teufel_Eldritch

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How long have you been playing games online? I am not asking that to be mean or anything its just that I have been online gaming since the days of Quake and I have heard the term "pub" to describe a public server for about the same amount of time. Frankly I am quite surprised that you havent heard it before. I mean..... it is used pretty much everywhere in the online gaming world.

Cay

well its a roomy cave.

Thansal

cs major (or worker)?

;D


but yah, pub hopping (to find one hat aint filled with tools)

yes, a private server would be nice /me goes back to dreaming

Cay

I've been playing online since the days of doom, and NS is the first time ive heard it slanged pub.

rebo

"pub" is common useage in north america TFC community for a public server. It is almost never used in euro TFC. Not sure about other mods tho.

Demerzel

never heard of pub referring to a game here in europe before. only thing remotely close is "pug" for pick up game.

Backslider

<!--QuoteBegin--Cay+Dec 12 2002, 12:37 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cay @ Dec 12 2002, 12:37 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->well its a roomy cave.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Osama is that U?

Dr_Shaggy

Pub is where i forget my worries (hint, not videogames).
Although i guessed correctly when i heard it refer to public servers. I think the problem here is the ratio of young gamers to gamers that are the age of majority. I recall drinking cutting into my gaming time back in the day, then i set up Bond-shots. Get 4-6 people together and play goldeneye (n64) multiplayer. Winner (and second place if you have a lot of people) does a shot, loser(s) get replaced if more than 4 people. So the guy whos better than everyone else gets drunk and starts to lose, and everyone else starts to win. This also worked well for Mario Party as the ladies prefered that to Bond.... whoops, thats enough off topic for now.

BlueGhost

Is there anymethod for getting into private servers? Cos well see the sig <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

BlueGhost

Aaron

Main Entry: pub
Pronunciation: 'p&b
Function: noun
Date: circa 1859
1 chiefly British : PUBLIC HOUSE


A "public server" is basically like a "public house", being open to the public.

Marik_Steele

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Pronunciation: 'p&b
Function: noun
Date: circa 1859
1 chiefly British : PUBLIC HOUSE


A "public server" is basically like a "public house", being open to the public.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I was about to post a reply to say that the etymology of the term "pub" is actually quite interesting, but apparently someone has beaten me to it.

Look up the term in relation to open-air plays in times slightly earlier than Shakespearean theatre (when plays got a better reputation due to his support from the royal family, and were thus given a more modern theatre setting). It's actually pretty interesting stuff.

tekworm

thats so bizarre that you never heard of the term "pub"

I picked up the term from {BR}Rousdower (of WFA fame)
and [NBR]tekpede, of CS/NS fame

Dauntl3ss

<!--QuoteBegin--Backslider+Dec 12 2002, 03:14 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Backslider @ Dec 12 2002, 03:14 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--Cay+Dec 12 2002, 12:37 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cay @ Dec 12 2002, 12:37 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->well its a roomy cave.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Osama is that U?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
hehe, n1