John Caveson

Noice.

Last night I was on a pl Valve server and saw one of the weirdest hackers on Upward. He was using the standard aimbot, nothing really special, but he was on defense spamming the pistol as engy. It was annoying, yet somewhat amusing at the same time. He even had a pocket Med who was cheering him on, which was annoying. So I went Sniper, and you know what, I tagged him quite a few times, even as he was hitting me. When teams switched, he went Machina Sniper, but I managed to get quite a few times by using my teammates as decoys. And even though we lost badly, I still took pride at being a "hacker slayer" on the server. Ironically enough, after he left and we switched to Barnblitz, I was accused of hacking.....as Demoman. But what do you expect on a Valve pub.

And that's why we must live them to the fullest as much as we can and die doing what we love, as cheesy as that sounds.

Results of scrim: http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/536261365616511653/04652A806D58C584ECF1499A9D35BD025D614A49/ We lost pretty badly. But, according to both the FastCo. and enemy team we all did good individually, but we just weren't coordinated enough, but that's to be expected for first timers. Despite the loss, it was still very fun and a good learning experience, I'm eager for our first match.

His last post here, for those wondering. It was a response to me pointing out when Valve introduced the captcha system to Steam trading.

Holy shit, XY's last post in this thread is just in the page before this. Now I'm sad again. On lighter news, I've been invited to play as starter Spy for FastCo.'s new Steel HL team, SwiftCo. Our first scrim is tonight, much excite.

>This just makes it sadder.

Genuine.

Huh, I just saw this. This got me thinking: If Valve doesn't care about competitive TF2, why do they bother announcing competitive events on the blog?

Yea, the reason I don't want to break up crews is just in case the captains have any plan to do with them either in SiS or their own thing. But in the case of inactive captains that have abandoned ship such as Alex and Medic, I think they wouldn't mind. As long as the rest of the crew is cool with breaking up. Like I said I wouldn't want to ruin the canon too much by suddenly pretending the crews never existed. Check with your fellow crew mates and see if they're ok with it.

Don't worry, I plan on opening PM channels to those who wish to be in the story. Though there could be some complications as to what to do with current ship crews. The captains of each ship would have to be ok with breaking up there crew. However, the best scenario would be including encounters with entire crews of other SiS characters as a crossover. However, that would require each member of the ship to agree to appear.

I have a proposition to make. This is copy-pasted from a PM between me and Napkin Dust to plan out future chapters for our characters. I've adapted it to address everyone. So what do you think? I would do all the writing, and you guys could just send in requests to include your characters at some point either as one-off cameos or recurring characters, or even main characters if need be. Besides, I've always thought of (or at least would have liked) SiS as more of a story than a game. And this could allow that to happen without worrying about all of the complicated stuff like movesets and locations and such. I would do most of the work of writing while only sharing the load with the creators of SiS characters when incorporating them into a chapter (or more). At the same time, it means all of those creative characters won't go to waste, while those that don't want to be involved don't have to.

Seconded.

How about having that as a third option? Or a PIN number or something like that. Also how about the ability to allow an option that disables it when trading with friends and set a limit to how long they have been friends. Or even a personal list of "excluded" friends and users who don't need a confirmation.

Yet again Valve is making trading even more convoluted. At least there's an option to turn it off so you can do trades like normal, so smart nerds like us can go on with our lives.

Still ded?

I thought I heard there was a porn game on Steam already? Maybe I'm imagining things. There have been attempts before, such as "Seduce Me", but they're quickly pulled from Greenlight/EA/ Store after it was clearly Porn: The Video Game. The fact that a lot of those types of games manage to get on Steam at all, Greenlight or otherwise, is because a rating is not required, so any indie dev can just mark their porno as 'unrated' and it gets accepted. If they were rated at all they would not have made it on there at all.

The big thing though about this is that Valve never puts A/O games on Steam, like ever. If they start with Hatred, then they'll have to allow any A/O on there as it wouldn't be fair. Might as well start allowing porn on their while they're at it, however, since most A/O games are basically just that. One of the biggest concerns this causes is that A/O games are the nastiest of the nasty and people might worry about the effect on children and such. Considering that Steam is free to install to everyone, that's understandably justifiable. However, this is already solved by the Family View feature that can restrict the kinds of games kids have access to. Plus, slapping on a big sign that says "WARNING : THIS ITEM IS RATED A/O (or whatever equivalent in other countries). SUPER MATURE CONTENT, VENTURE ON AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!" wouldn't hurt either. So I really see no reason to disallow A/O games. It would at least help lessen the stigma against A/O in general.

Good thing the Laws of Physics exist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbPUfm_iR2s

It was this clip that truly inspired me: -video- what the absolute fuck Childhood ruined.