Thomas Aquinas

Anyone up for a new marathon this weekend? We could have a compotition to see who could play the longest. Or maybe we could do some kind of activity for Danielle where each contestent gets people to give them some kind of "Pledge" for how many hours they play? I dunno guys, just thinking...

You know, nice of you to have this thread, I was just about to start one about, "What is this Temer.. thing anyways?"

The thing about stats is... Well, the rank part is kinda nifty, but to me the mose entertaining part is just to see the personal stats page. You can look and see how your skill has fluctuated and you can see who you arch-nemesis is (mine is Shodan, I have the worst K:D ratio with him >.<) Don't play with an eye on the stats pages, it leads to bad gaming. All you need to do is just have fun out there guys!

No CS in the morning before I go to class? Man... that's kinda sad... now I have to go get a life or something... or maybe shower. Yeah, that's it, I'll just shower before class today. Yay!

I'm a junior in college, but I took two years off to serve as a missionary for my church so I'm 23 (Just had my birthday on Feb. 6)

Most likely it is because your bomb-defuse rate is 100% and your bomb explosion rate is above 50%. That would give you some healthy boosts to your stats.

Sure he registered on the forum, but our evil plans won't be realized until he ante's up and pays membership dues-THEN we can begin our quest for world domination!

Here's a suscinct way of putting it Fatty: "Hey, we pay for the servers, we make the rules. Deal with it." Sure it's a little "fifth grade" but hey, it's true isn't it

love it Shodan, love it

Heya MrDuke, you're gonna get a hat or two for Danielle comming your way from Utah pretty soon here (now that I finally paid off my membership dues I can budget money for more important things). Hope you don't mind a BYU Cougar's hat!

In high school I played football and was a weak-side guard on offense and a defensive tackle. I weighed around 240 and my senior year I maxed out on bench at 300. Well, today I just set a personal record, 305 in bench! The exciting thing about it for me is that I am now about 195 since I run all the time and work out so much. I love exercising!

If I ever get tired of being Shodan's moving target when he's sniping I might try out Mayhem, but mostly I'll just be sticking my head in to find one of the admins for a ban

Wow, that's a really susinct way of putting it... Guess you have time to think of ways to turn a phrase like that when all you do is sit back and collect everyone's dues Just kidding Fatty, you work your tail of for this community and I know and appreciate it.

sorry mHtt, I will make sure I make it very clear when I am exagerating for effect/emphasis and when I am being literal by using this format: :::EXAGERATION TO FOLLOW::: (insert exageration here) :::END EXAGERATION::: But seriously, I don't mind if you don't agree with my viewpoint or if you feel that the rules are inadequate. The question I have is this, how is it that profanity, spoken by an individual without thought (i.e. your example of the apology offered above in game) is mature? One of the most important aspects of maturity is, to me (and perhaps this is where the greatest point of disagreement lies), not acting out mindlessly or without thought, but being the master of one's self (obviously there are other aspects of maturity that are not mentioned simply because they are not relevent in this context). GC, as I understand it, has created its rules in order to make its servers different then all the other servers out there. For that to happen there must be a line drawn somewhere. The admins have apparently decided that it is difficult and/or annoying to try to have to determine malicious swearing from... :::EXAGERATION TO FOLLOW::: cute, cuddly, happy swearing. :::END EXAGERATION::: I apologize for assuming to understand what some people's intentions are in swearing. I am sure that most people that are frustrated by the actions of another in game and proceed to swear at them, follow them around, and TK are not really angry, and that their feelings are too opaque to be interpreted by anyone other than themself. I am reasonably sure that most of the admins don't get angry when they hear or see people swearing, they simply boot/ban them. As for ignoring swearing leading to people not swearing anymore, I am sure you are correct and that the other 4000 CS:S servers are just anomolies in that no one argues about the language being used and people still swear on them. Also, profanity used among high-school students when speaking to each other, as well as rap singers, rock singers, etc. in songs most likely would never be used if people didn't react to it.......right... that is why high-school students speaking among themselves with no one but them around will still swear... The only thing that still confuses me is that you have admitted that swearing is hurtful, but you think that sometimes it is not. Well, is it or isn't it? The language used when one is swearing is either a bad thing or a good thing. If you feel it is a good thing and not a bad thing, then the question remains, is it the BEST thing? No. There exists better forms of self-expression than profanity. So, is swearing good or bad? In life there really is no gray, only black and white (then again, this is being written by someone who belives in both God and absolute truth so you might disagree on that point to).

Now their is one phrase that I see often in the server that somewhat confuses me; "Why can't we use mature language in..." Mature? Mature language would be something along the lines of saying, "That jumping, no scoped, 10,000 yard scout head shot vexes me." Mature language is something that, to me, would actually require thought, and heaven forbid, a vocabulary consisting of more than 27 words. Then again perhaps my understanding of "Mature" is clouded and is intended to mean the language that old people like Fatty, Lunk, or Shodan use rather than language that is worked out carefully by the mind. But, if "Mature language" were to have the former meaning then people who had just been killed by Lunk throwing a nerf bat at them from the end of the long hall on italy would say things like, "CURSES!" or perhaps "Foiled again by that rapscallion!" The thing that entertains me the most about individuals that choose to argue for the changing or adjusting of GC server rules to allow for Profanity (because that is the non-ambiguous term specifically assigned to describe the language in question rather than the euphamism 'mature') attempt to use seemingly sophisticated arguments to support their viewpoint. Herein lies an interesting paradox; how is it that an individual obviously capable of complex thought would choose to argue for a medium of expression that is so base as to not require the firing of a single neron to come out? I mean really, lets think about this, how is the usage of something so base and demeaning possibly construed to be mature? Is it mature to express anger or frustration towards another individual over something so imaterial as a computer game? Is it mature to use mindless idomatic expressions popular on cable TV and today's movies to attempt to demean another individual? Is it mature to lose control of yourself to the point where it makes sense to you to suspened all rational thought and attempt to make another individual PLAYING A VIDEO GAME appear to be inferior to you for some ambiguous and unimportant reason? No, none of these things are mature. Maturity is something that is not based on age or social status. It is not something determined by one's view of themself. Maturity is the silent adoption of one's responsibilities in life before man and God. Maturity is suppressing the instincts and urges of the natural man and striving to become divine. For those not familiar to religious terms, or who don't agree with the usage of religious arguments, maturity in this case refers to the full development of one both socially and mentally. It means that if you are angry for some reason at something so inconsequential as a computer game that you exercise a modicum of self control! In short, respect your fellow gamers and have fun! And do your best not to become old, like Lunk, Fatty, or Shodan (j/k you guys know I love you... uh... in a completely platonic way of course... yeah... DOH!)

One thing I've noticed over the past few days with the BOTs is this; people join the server and get a reasonably good-sized game going a lot sooner in the day than otherwise normally happens. Sure I dislike the BOTs (mostly because they pwn me whenever I play them >.<) but I prefer playing with a few BOTs and a few people in the morning to not being able to play in the morning at all.

Dirty, amazing video! That was a ton of fun and it was a great way to start the morning today!

Oh, now lets not bicker and argue about who'll kill who! This is a happy occasion!

A league sounds fun! Count me in if you want to do it.

I know that most people think of the guns when i say Dualies (given, this IS a CS:S forum) but I'm talking about dual screens. I just set it up in my room and I think my life will never be the same again...

Heya, just curious about a problem I've been running into lately; the reserve slot keeps kicking me off of Recru... Just wondering if we could fix this... anger towards reserve slot slowly rising....

Thanks strange, now I can keep track of just how l33t I am...

Hey, just wondering where the personal stats went. The link for Recru is down and I was wondering if there is a link some where that I just managed to miss... I'm a pub star, I need to know how I'm doin!

Hey Fatty! I sent the dues you told me to just a few minutes ago. If you need to contact me further, email me at tom_seguine@hotmail.com.

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