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If anyone bans -nQa- Howl I'll be pretty pissed off. He's very polite and sociable. I've seen him teamswitch on occasion, in an effort to balance teams. Even when none of his teammates are in the game, I've seen him switch for the sake of making teams fair. He's not the only one, but he's the only one I remember. I can't get behind a blanket ban.

I thought you had around 6 people rooming with you already. That's why I took Garian's room offer. I hope you find some people....

I'm relieved to see that this is a news clip, and not nintendo's next big title.

Scrims starting in 10 minutes! Show up as you please!

I have little to say on the issue, but since it's back I'll chime in. People who drop the N-bomb in our server receive an instant ban. Whether or not the term is directed at someone who's black is irrelevant; hate speech is still hate speech. But when you isolate and identify someone as a target, to me, that's significantly worse: "ITS A GIRL LETS RAPE HER" after the person identifies that Bonzai is a girl, to me, is not on the same level as dropping an N-bomb. It's on the same level of identifying someone's voice as characteristically black, and then saying "ITS A N***** LETS LYNCH HIM". I don't think either of these instances should ever warrant a second chance, but I don't think everyone sees it that way. Bonzai has asked me while I've not been in the server, to deal with players who are being racist. I've logged on and done so. The insults don't effect her directly, but it's a community she considers herself a part of, so she has a stake in it. Similarly, she should never have to think twice before using her microphone. She's smarter than that in other servers, but here she(and all girls) should rest assured that her community will back her up. EDIT: Darke snuck a post under me. What he said. No one in this community should ever think less of you for protecting the interests of any player on our server; community members especially.

Thanks Darke. The parts in bold are particularly relieving to hear. Thank you, too. (I read over everything you said in IRC) I can make myself available on tuesday for a meeting. The sooner I know a time the better though.

Anyone getting this? EDIT: Glad to know what kind of community I accidentally made myself part of.

And this is a forum. If you have nothing to contribute, gtfo.

I saw your post a few pages back. You didn't make it out to be a big problem. I'm computer illiterate, so I don't understand the technical aspects of running a server. I just figured with a STOCK map server, implementing a very small set of stock maps wouldn't be an issue. I didn't know there were bugs and what have you. I'm just angry about the serious lack of communication in and about the community in the last month. There have been A LOT of problems lately, and everyone always says they're due to someone else's part. Moreover, there were a few individuals in the server earlier, right before we switched maps to a custom, who were being inappropriately crude. There were plenty of regulars on but no one said a thing. It started when Bonzai used her mic and one of the players typed out "ITS A GIRL" followed by "QUICK RAPE HER". I'm supposed to be an admin. I have the power to, and felt inclined to just insta-ban them. But not a single person, said anything. And some might say I have a conflict of interest in the matter. Anyway. Eventually we just both left. Which appears to be the appropriate action more and more when something stupid is happening in the OCR server. That's what used to separate ours from others. Garian was kicked for not playing Pyro-Tennis in OCR#1? Wasn't the entire purpose of having a second server for "experimental" stuff like that? There are other things. But most people already know them. It used to be a community, fella

Question. Why the fuck has the OCReMix TF2 #1 Stock server been running customs all day. Are these servers a complete joke now? Does anyone give a crap about anything that's going on anymore? Just curious.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFml thankss depo.

OCR Scrims (IP 208.94.245.226:27060; password ocrscrim) This monday Nov. 9th we'll be having scrims between 7-11PM EST. Any and every community member is welcome. If you know a regular who doesn't frequently browse these forums, fell free to let them know. Scrims are organized, but not "serious" games. We'll be trying to win, but the main goal will still be having fun. Please be prepared to have a positive attitude. It's a community event. "Signup" I'll take names of people, just so we get a good idea of how many are coming out. If you're going to play, let us know what time you'll be dropping by. (People who have already said that they'll play, sorry for not already marking your names down. I want to know approximate times.) If you want to watch but not play, thats okay too. Just put [sPEC] in your display name. People who didn't get a chance to play last week will get first dibs on the first game this week. The rest of this post is just for people interesting in how the scrims will work. Rules This is an intro to competitive play. Scrims will be 6v6 and take place on 5CP maps or GPit. Last week we played to 5 wins, but if we get more people, we can make the number of wins lower, to accommodate substitute players or full substitute teams. Class limits at any given time are: Scout(2) Soldier(2) Pyro(2) Heavy(2) Engie(2) Sniper(2) Spy(2) Medic(1) Demo(1) You don't NEED to play one of the "standard" competitive classes. We had plenty of spies, pyros, heavies, and a few engies last week and it still went great. Talk to your teammates and play what your team needs, or what you're good at. Random crits and random damage will be off. No Sandman Teams Players who are participating in the current scrim will be determined before teams are picked. From those players 2 voluntary captains will start picking. (Captains can duel for first pick in a ditto match. For God's sake, not as spies.) Teams will probably be balanced, but if they're agreed to be imbalanced, there's no harm is switching them up a bit. After one team wins 5(maybe less) times, we can switch up the idle players. Current list of attendees: Kiyobi Depo Vivi Random Tiger Rambo Bonzai

Nice album Joshua. It wasn't what I expected to hear and not quite the style I was hoping for, but the songs were all very well done. I can certainly appreciate the time you put into it and the fantastic results. Congratulations on the release, and thanks for the music! By the way, my compliments to whoever designed the album art.

If none of the community members give a shit about making the community better, why should admins. Admins aren't supposed to babysit the regulars. They're supposed to regulate the pubbies in an effort to protect the interests of the community. When the community doesn't feel the need to correct their own problems who are admins serving? I ended up just leaving. [That's pretty terrible atmuh/tiger]

Alltalk was on during the "20 minutes of being idiots" and during team picks. Anyone who wasn't afk was presumably talking then.

You were a damn good medic. I really appreciated how vocal you were. I was very impressed.

He offered before the round started. He didn't expect to play at all, but then he was picked. Anyway, I'm done on the issue. You're never gonna scrim with us again, and we'll never invite you to scrim again. Win win. Oh and Dr. Tran, he's just trolling now. Don't even bother replying. It's not worth your time. Glad to hear chives! thanks for coming out!

Lopert offered several times to sit out for a more known community member. If you ever took the time to read what people say, you'd have known that. Besides which. You made it clear that you wouldn't play if there were engineers, spies, or pyros. We had all 3 playing. Why did you even want to play? You're too good for that stuff.

I'm sorry we aren't pro enough for you atmuh. I'm sorry we're just a community and aren't experienced at this sort of thing. But once again, you're the only one who had alternate expectations. Maybe once we have 100+ players like the FA server you idolize, you'll respect the community a little more. Both Locked and RED were invited to play earlier, and they both spectated instead. I never saw locked say a word during the gravlepit round, and I apologize to him if he wanted to play. There was a lot going on and he might have been overlooked. He's welcome back any time, but he shouldn't expect to play if he doesn't show an interest in setting up on the forums. I think the whole of the community will agree; good riddance.

Atmuh "committing": ------------------------------- After we had enough reliable community members to work with: ------------------------------- When asked 1 day in advance: ------------------------------- When asked 10 minutes in advance: I didn't need 6 replacements, because everyone who committed, aside from you, met their commitment or let me know otherwise in advance. ------------------------------- Even in-game 45 minutes late, you were heinous and impatient. You were the only person in the server who wasn't enjoying themselves. People took turn sitting out, and if you hadn't been ALT+tabbing in and out of the game because we weren't worth your time, you would have gotten a spot. Act like part of the community, and you'll be part of the community. I'm not sorry you didn't get to play.

Good games everyone. That was a lot of fun. It's unfortunate that the TF2 update drained the server... but aside from that and a few config difficulties, it was a great turnout! Next time we'll figure out the config in advance, and set up a map rotation by popular vote. Anyone interested in a repeat showing for next monday? Same time? haha. I have a headshot with the kukri. I also lost over 3000 pts overnight while not playing.

Thanks Powerlord.

I don't have a vent channel. Fireslash can hopefully set his server up to be running team/dead speak. And I'd like 2 captains to pick teams. Any volunteers? We can switch the teams up as needed while in game afterwards.

I hope everyone's still on for tomorrow? If not, let me know via Steamfriends, IRC or in these forums. Still need 1 captain for picking teams.

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