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meb2
Join Date: 2010-07-25 Member: 72824Members
Join Date: 2010-07-25 Member: 72824Members
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I for one have had less playing time. Two years ago when I started to play I was in 9th grade and recently left the CAL-m scene because I felt my friend were more important. I was not a very book studying person (with leaving computer related things easy for me though) so my GPA idled around 80. As time moved on and I kept playing NS getting better and better the summer of 9th grade was coming up and I was in my "prime" where I joined cri (a veteran team at the time) and most of that summer was spent with NS/friends. 10th grade rolled around and I ended up playing more and more ns until about December in what I called "The beginning of the end" of me playing NS. I became a well known figure in the community not for skill though, because of my antics. I then started to go out with my girlfriend (and still am) in January in which I pretty much stopped playing NS. This of course was until I started a clan that did not last long but sure left a mark (with drama of course). By then I was playing ns about an hour a week and that was scrims. This was because I tried to move my GPA up more and started a college programming class that I got accepted into (which I finished with a 3.0 GPA being third in the class) and my girlfriend. Don't get me wrong, I still had a lot of interest in NS and did try and squeeze in whatever playing time I could and ended up getting my infamous "0-13" score with my connection dieing on me. Then I was approached by WiredLabs (and AmpedNews) Sypher to start and lead their Natural Selection division. This ended up being a big hit but slowly died after I left (and is not starting to come back again). Now, I play NS when I have the free time while having it squeezed in with helping my mother from time to time (who has about four disease including things that cause her to have seizures and is still diagnosed with chronic alcoholism so that doesn't help when she takes her medicine), girlfriend and school. Also including my passion for computer programming as I will have about one year of Computer Science done (9 out of 12 credits) and still on other free time learn PHP/Flash MX 2004 as a hobby. However, even though their is other things that I do I was here from the start of the community and will be with it till its untimely death.
This is just an example of one persons time restraints pushing him away from NS but yet, being him back now. This happens to many people and I am sure has happen to a few people in this Playtester group.
Anyway, I'm usually on IRC if the PC is on, I just can't be arsed to join the server every time. I'm more of a QuakeNet person.
Allow me to clarify.
#findnsscrim has been the main irc portal for US scrimmage finding and competitive discussion since the early days of Natural Selection. I began using it as a resource sometime around season 2 of CAL. My involvement in various community activities and projects eventually led to my being made an operator, and later I was made co-owner and tasked with managing the channel while the original owner Lux was inactive. At some point his registration expired and ownership fell to me. The channel itself died the same slow death as the American competitive scene, and for quite awhile was comprised of idlers (thanks to crab, chimpzealot, and bullet for hanging around). Since the release of the NS2 alpha, interest has picked up and a small but active group of vets have begun chatting and playing NS casually.
I'd like to extend an invitation to all the old timers as well as anyone new to join us in the channel. While there are no longer any scrims to be found, discussion of the games and community from an organized player's perspective has begun again, and it is my intent to involve
#findnsscrim in any aspect of competitive play that evolves around NS2.
That's because you are British.
Not true for all. I know a couple of brits that hang out in #naturalselection. Most notably Thaldyuk.
HELLABEAN!
Belfast is in Ireland. Making Prefix Irish not British if he was born there.
lost in the veteran forums I'm afraid
Have you ever actually visited our lovely channel? None of this is true. I dare anyone to prove otherwise. I DARE YOU!!!!
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e: I'd like to make publicly available the rules for #findnsscrim. There is one rule, and it is do not ban anyone.
thanks :)
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this is also cool
British?