Welcome back! old CLRs Post here!

[Rand{CLR}]

I think I missed this thread earlier, just like I miss the CLRs and games like UT2k4, BF2, and pirates (so fun).

I'm not really playing anything at the moment as I'm going to close on a new single-family detached out on Friday and didn't want to get locked into anything. I played some PUBG like the rest of the world, and the rest of the year was spent largely in moving through backlog. I don't get the same satisfaction out of online multiplayer shooters without you guys and Cain's servers.

Maybe one day the companies will learn custom servers are good for the community.

-Rand

[Apache Warrior]

Congrats on the new home Rand.
I do not think large gaming corporations will ever care about the communities.
Apache

[Qicmee]

Hi Rand!

I agree with Apache. Given their need to service the console market, corporations don't need/want private servers for PC gamers.

With BF1, EA began allowing admins some control of custom game servers. TBD whether that positive direction carries forward to normal gameplay. If an admin cannot filter asshats & cheats, it's not a community server.

[Fenris]

Hey folks.

I remember the email from Cain way back months ago, but didn't reply to it (sorry, Cain, you've always been good to me, so I should have responded. I remember when you called me up and we chatted on the phone about things way back when.) I didn't even think to come here until just today when I had a brief moment of nostalgia for gaming while at the office and Googled my old handles to look at old scores and such, and then saw the old {CLR} tag. I didn't think my login would still work, but it does... what do you know?

After the CS:GO server shut down, I found another crew with a personal server and good admin at East Coast Gaming and played as [ECG]Fenris for a while, but then they started putting out missions and garbage and I found that I was just getting too angry when playing... I don't want to play a game that makes me angry rather than relaxed, that defeats the purpose. So I quit CS:GO all together. Played some BF4 for a while, I think I saw Apache and Golden a few times, but then my laptop got sat on by a child, and when I got a new one, I decided to step away from the FPS scene and go back to playing World of Warcraft.

I'm still playing that. I'm on the Khadgar server under a number of alliance toons, though I do still think about the excitement of playing an FPS from time to time. I enjoyed the hell out of CS:GO, especially with my boomstick (I used the autoshotty almost exclusively because my aim is so shit that I had to make up for it by rushing and having a wide spread) and before that I loved COD4, MoH: Allied Assault, the original Counterstrike and QWTF all the way back in college. I've tried Fortnite but I find it too competitive. Any FPS where you're put with random people who will abandon you or shit talk you just for learning isn't worth my time.

I'm still Fenris on Steam, so you can find me there if I'm doing something like playing Terraria or Vice City. Oh, and I published a book last year. I've been writing short internet horror since 2011 over on Reddit, and a guy reached out to me in 2016 about taking a bunch and putting them into a compendium, so we ran a gofundme campaign and got it made, fully illustrated and beautiful OC cover art. You can find it on Amazon: "Don't Look Away: 35 Terrifying Tales from the Darkest Corners" if you're into short horror stories. I won't say they're all amazing, but you never know who's going to like what, and each one was enjoyed by at least some people, so...

Good to see everyone still doing alright.
- Fenny

[Apache Warrior]

Glad to see you are doing well Fenris.

[Fenris]

You too, Apache! And everyone I see posting here!

[Bon3z]

Yep, definitely miss the old UT2k4 days. Most fun I've had in a first person shooter evar.

[Pumpkin_Jack]

Long time no jam folks. I stepped away from gaming as I got my BS in biomedical engineering and ME in mechanical engineering and got my life started. I remember nearly all of the names I see around this thread, real throwback. These days I mostly play Rainbow 6 Siege and getting hyped for Fallout 76 although curious if it will live up to the hype (seems like it has mixed feelings).

Anyhow bf2, tf2, badcompany, day of defeat and maybe bf3 dont remember if i ever owned that one. But it was a good few years gaming with y'all figured I'ld say hi.

[Qicmee]

...bf2, tf2, bad company, day of defeat and maybe bf3 ...

Add in a few versions of UT & CS and you've captured a whole era of Wonder Years. They should do a TV show about it someday.

[K PhaNTOM]

Long time no jam folks. I stepped away from gaming as I got my BS in biomedical engineering and ME in mechanical engineering and got my life started. I remember nearly all of the names I see around this thread, real throwback. These days I mostly play Rainbow 6 Siege and getting hyped for Fallout 76 although curious if it will live up to the hype (seems like it has mixed feelings).

Anyhow bf2, tf2, badcompany, day of defeat and maybe bf3 dont remember if i ever owned that one. But it was a good few years gaming with y'all figured I'ld say hi.

Was watching a clip yesterday that I made 8 years ago of me stabbing you. You were too busy being successful. That's awesome news. Hire me when you become a CEO.

[Pumpkin_Jack]

I dont do ceo type things my work is in the field of advanced prosthetics and exoskeletal augmentations. I can say big things are coming in the relatively near future for those with spinal injuries but unfortunately thats about all I can say about it due to the NDA I signed. I stay away from the money decisions and interdepartmental BS. In RnD we basically have an unlimited budget (rarely do we get turned down for any orders) and freedom to do what we want how we want to. My boss/manager always says "I trust you all to be working for the betterment of the company, if you break that trust you'll never get it back." So we have a lot of freedom to do as we wish, usually work with espn on the monitors muted and the radio playing. Also get paid salary so there are weeks I do 60+hours and weeks they're lucky if I do 30.

[*THOR*]

That final ONS match

[Cain]

That final ONS match

I was sitting at the monitor waiting to shut it down.

I got a little choked up, that game was SO MUCH FUN!!

I miss those days.

[Cain]

I dont do ceo type things my work is in the field of advanced prosthetics and exoskeletal augmentations. I can say big things are coming in the relatively near future for those with spinal injuries but unfortunately thats about all I can say about it due to the NDA I signed. I stay away from the money decisions and interdepartmental BS. In RnD we basically have an unlimited budget (rarely do we get turned down for any orders) and freedom to do what we want how we want to. My boss/manager always says "I trust you all to be working for the betterment of the company, if you break that trust you'll never get it back." So we have a lot of freedom to do as we wish, usually work with espn on the monitors muted and the radio playing. Also get paid salary so there are weeks I do 60+hours and weeks they're lucky if I do 30.

That is fascinating and fantastic!! Very cool, very interesting. Thank you for stopping by and updating all of us. Take care! Stop by from time to time.

[*THOR*]

I was sitting at the monitor waiting to shut it down.

I got a little chocked up, that game was SO MUCH FUN!!

I miss those days.

I can still remember just sitting there staring at my server favourites list after the server went down, in the vain hope that it’d pop back up, was years before I even had the heart to remove it from the list.