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  1. Hello everyone, I am excited to announce that we are opening up two CS2 servers and an Insurgency server! While this wasn’t a secret, we all wanted an official announcement so everyone is on the same page. After a lot of testing and unforeseen dedi problems, we are finally ready to get some servers launched, which will be Surf and Prison Break! You've probably all seen the announcement for Surf already, however Prison Break is now officially online! We’re not trying to launch a whole bunch of stuff at once, but we are looking at possibly opening up one more CS2 server in the near future. We’ve agreed that we need to sit down and really focus on rebuilding our community and establishing a player base for each server from the ground up. With that being said, the AO’s and BD’s have been divided into ‘teams’. What this means is that each of us is going to lend a hand on a regular basis for whatever server we have been assigned to - seeding, hosting meetings, map requests, discussions, etc. Additionally, this allows any of you to direct questions at the appropriate people. This certainly isn’t saying that you’ll never see managers playing on the other servers - it’s just to make sure the love is getting spread around. While ultimately, I would like to get the Directors off of server management and give that back to the AO’s, it’s a bit of an all-hands-on-deck situation. These names on the servers aren’t meant to be in a hierarchy type of order. Team Gmod TTT is going to remain the two jefes that are currently in charge: Elfbarf and Huwajux. They’ve been doing great work on it, and I’m sure they’re going to continue to do so. They have both been a beacon of light in what has seemed like darkness for some time now. Connect to Gmod TTT via: gmodttt.steam-gamers.net Team Surf will be composed of: Jazzy, Triou, and Karma. Surf launched quite recently but has already seen some signs of success, huge thanks to Jazzy, triou, and our tech guys like Nishok and BoTo. They worked very hard to get this going for all of you to enjoy! Connect to Surf via: surf.steam-gamers.net Team Prison Break will be composed of: Dominic, Roddy, Lynx, and myself. I will unfortunately have to take a bit of a backend role for now. My computer has seemingly busted in some way during my move, so I’ve got to diagnose what is going on with that. But Dominic and I have been working on establishing rules, maps, etc., and are excited to get it out in the open. Revenga has also decided to join the gang on this one, and will be lending some of his time here. Connect to Prison Break via: pb.steam-gamers.net Zero Two has been putting a bunch of effort into our Insurgency server, so he will be running that alongside ThatTamer! Connect To Insurgency via: ins.steam-gamers.net:27102 A huge thanks to Nishok (the absolute GOAT), BoTo, and Jazzy once again, this time for all their hard work on the technical side of things in getting PB up and going smoothly. Additionally, thanks ThatTamer and Triou for doing some testing on PB. We’re going to be keeping the server relatively simple, especially for the time being. Thanks everyone for sticking around and lending your input on the forums, discord, and in game. We’re glad to finally be able to open up some CS2 servers and get the ball rolling. There will be more info posted soon on seeding dates! We hope to see you guys all there!
  2. Military Advice

    Lmaooo give your balls a tug, tit fucker. Yeah so the ‘roll’ I’m talking about is taking the t shirt you wear (we called them skivvy shirts) and folding it inwards from the left & right, so it’s basically a strip that’s 1/3 of the width. Then you put your underwear at the bottom of the shirt, more or less folded the same way. Then your two boot socks you lay overlapping in the middle, so the openings are in line with the left / right side of the stacked shirt / underwear (and facing left / right). Then you roll them up tight, and at the top you just use one sock opening to eat the whole thing. Keep those at the top of the pack, and count how many you bring so you actually know how much clothes you have. In Afghanistan we’d have to flip shirts and underwear inside out, but i doubt you really have to do that in the field. You can bring a full week’s worth of clothes easily using no space at all. And if you wanted to condense it even more, you could get a compression bag for luggage.
  3. Military Advice

    I have no idea how good / bad the Canadians have it in the military, so my reflections are just from my time in the Marines. Even if you don’t smoke / dip, bring tobacco to the field to trade for goodies. You will witness the most absolute desperate of people trying to feed their nicotine addiction. Bring lots of socks. Idk if they show you guys how to do the roll with your socks + underwear + shirt all tucked and rolled into one, but that’s the best. Honestly bring shit for your feet, just like they say in Forest Gump. I’d bring powder to make sure your feet are dry, spray in case you get athlete’s foot, and like a few extra pairs of socks. And usually thick ones. Even in the heat, the thicker ones are usually better cause they’ll absorb moisture better usually. And bring stuff for chaffing / jock itch (usually more or less the same things as for athlete’s foot). The shit spreads really easily, so I’d recommend bringing soap / shampoo with tea tree oil in it, cause it’s antifungal. Unless you’re only able to do baby wipe ‘showers’. And break your boots in before you take them to the field. It’s never fun having to break your boots in when you’re already uncomfortable. Idk if you can bring hand warmers and shit, but I’d bring some of the ones you can get on Amazon; the electric ones. I could go on and on about field advice lol. Other than that, do as we say in the Marines: embrace the suck. Hate and discontent will keep you warm at night.
  4. The sound ATM’s make when they’re getting the money ready is fake. Roosters close off their ears when they cock-a-doodle-do so they don’t deafen themselves.
  5. ‘Allowing groups to be trolls’ was mentioned several times in this thread. If someone wanted to specifically name names, I’d appreciate it. It’s not meant to get anyone in trouble right now or start a pissing contest, but I just genuinely don’t always know who is all friends, what’s joking and what’s not, etc. i know we’ve had issues with GG, but they seem fine after the unban (and tbh, looking back on it, we may have been too harsh in some situations and would possibly entertain them approaching us to get a rank back or a ban taken off record - just situation dependent). If people would feel more comfortable DMing me their thoughts, that’s totally fine too.
  6. I posted this in the BD discord chat a few moments ago. This is the general direction I’m trying to take things. Again, I’m not expecting this to be perfect on shot #1, but I think it’s going to move us in the right direction and let us tailor it to our needs as a community. ————————- so things are getting a tad stagnant in some of the discussions (not anyone’s fault, shit just happens sometimes and a lot of us are busy). Effective immediately, pending one of you guys having a reasonable issue with this, I’d like to start implementing the following: 1. We have a public board channel where we have 90% + of our communication. This will be read only for the entire community outside of us and the TA’s (I want them all to have access to it, not just Revenga / Nishok / Gator). I’d like basically everything that doesn’t have sensitive info being talked about on there. I don’t want to say don’t fuck around at all, but at the same time it’s going to be a first impression for us doing this, so I’d like it to be at least flowing with whatever the conversation is if we are gonna fuck around lol. As a side note…while we’ve typically always handled punishments in private: what if we didn’t? Had this idea this morning and wanted to gather some input on it. Flipping the script on it actually sounds like it might make sense, and lets the community see where our head is with what we tolerate / don’t AS we’re discussing it. Idk what you guys would think about trial running that. My thoughts are make absolutely everything public outside of personal information, obviously our super secret SG stuff, etc. etc. Or if there is some wild situation that is personal that we need to handle in-house. I don’t want this to mean that we’re going to start doing VOIP whenever we want to talk about shit. I’d like those to be accessible to the public as well. Again, outside of the shit mentioned above. I trust all of you to make that determination on what’s appropriate and what’s not. 2. I want us to keep track of what we’re doing, at least once a month. I’d like there to be a public discord display of some sort as well as a display on the forums of what each of us individually has done, is doing, is thinking about doing, etc. This isn’t meant to really keep tabs on you guys from mine / Dom’s standpoint, but more so so the community kind of knows whose hands are in what. I’ll elaborate more on this and maybe draft an example, but it’s not meant to be like paragraphs upon paragraphs (unless you want it to be). And if you’re busy or some shit just let one of us know or just post ‘busy with real life’ or something. No worries at all, I just want the transparency there. 3. I want AO’s to be able to approve admin apps on their own, whether they flow into Discord or the forums. This is NOT meant to be AO’s looking through and judging the way we do from a community standpoint - it’s meant to be that if an AO vouches for someone, they get admin. And if no AO vouches for someone, we’d still make that determination. This isn’t under any type of threat of punishment towards an AO for approving someone that doesn’t work out. I trust them to make that judgment call…and if we don’t, then we should be having another discussion lol. 4. I want scheduled, ROTATING weekly “meetings”. More or less ‘shoot the shit with a BD’ if there is nothing to actually discuss. Bringing this in with the posted BD activity we’ll be doing, I think more people will be inclined to voice opinions on stuff and whatnot. If you guys think weekly is too much, we can do biweekly. I don’t think it’s unreasonable that ONE of us be available for an hour or two at some point during the week. We could rotate that duty among us. For example, I’d run it week 1 and 2, Dom week 3 and 4, etc. And we’d choose the day / time that works best for us. This will rotate the schedule a bit and hopefully target different people’s availability. None of this stuff is meant to be super seriously adhered to. I’m not trying to set strict guidelines or anything, but I want everything as public as we can reasonably make it. Some of this may work out, and some may not. But I’d rather get the ball rolling on trying something and tailoring it later if need be. I’m not expecting it to be perfect the first time around, but I think it’s going to take us in a good direction. Again, I’m intending to make all of this implemented (more or less) within the next week, just pending my availability. Does anyone have positive / negative feedback?
  7. I’m still waiting on the other house I bought to close, so won’t be moved in with internet until this week, but not sure when I’ll be able to go back and pick up my computer. Hopefully before the end of the month. With that being said, I’ve been very limited in discussions on Discord with the rest of the BD’s, but there are a few discussions happening right now with all of this, as well as a few ideas I want to bring up as well. Without purposefully trying to be too vague, your first two ideas are being talked about in Discord, and figuring out in what direction we want to go. AO’s definitely will not be required to pay for their own servers…I’d probably lose all the volunteers tomorrow if that were to happen lol. We’re talking about restructuring with the dedi in general, and figuring out if we want to go smaller or bigger to try and expand into new things. None of that should really matter to any of you guys, I’d think, as I foot the bill for it entirely anyways. 1 and 2 will probably tie into each other when we figure out what direction will work best. Expect a community meeting and / or discussion soon where this will definitely be a topic. I haven’t brought it up with the other BD’s yet, but I do want to possibly integrate having AO’s be able to approve admin apps, and then if no one wants to put their name next to an approval, we’ll kind of review it as BD’s and figure out if we should approve or reapply it. I agree with you for # 3. I think that when we moved on from the .com, we weren’t anticipating Ryan wanting to hold the ownership for this long. And at some point it just sort of became the new norm. For those of you who don’t know, I added the hyphen because my attorney advised I do that to avoid a legal pissing contest between Ryan and myself, because both of us could have contested ownership of SG. I believe the latest idea with this is to open some private forms and get some ideas for us to narrow down some contenders and take it to a community decision. Of course, keeping in mind what you mentioned in your second post. I agree with you on both 4 & 5. Most of that is going to come from us getting requests from players in general to revive a certain server or to try a new game. The most basic way to put this is: if we’ve got someone wanting to manage a server that is currently an AO or we can relatively justify promoting to an AO level, then we can probably make it happen. We were just talking about this the other day for a battle bit server, hypothetically. I heavily, heavily agree with you on 6.5. Moving on past the ‘haters gonna hate’ fact, I have brought up an idea a few weeks ago about us posting a lot more publicly on what each BD is doing (at least monthly), as well as hosting more ‘shoot the shit’ type of meetings. That lets players see the notes that we’re posting (things we’ve done, in the process of doing, or thinking about doing over the next month or so) and allows them to reach out if they’ve got some opinions or insight to give. This isn’t meant to be all inclusive or paragraphs long, it would just be a BD keeping a notepad, more or less, of bullet points the public can read. I’m not sure yet what the best way to go about doing this would be, but it could be flexible and adapt to whatever suits the needs of transparency. I can promise we are not intentionally trying to keep things at the AO / BD level, unless they need to be for privacy reasons of some sort, it just gets easy to talk in one discord channel without a million other people being able to comment and us get lost along the way. But now that I think about it, we could probably have a public channel where we can discuss stuff as BD’s and just turn posting off for everyone else. Both would probably be a good way to go. The troll thing got brought up a few times, and we try to handle what we can when we see it. Ultimately, a lot of us don’t know when it’s friends fucking around vs. people just being dicks. We try and intervene when we can, and we will probably need to make a decision as a community and see how we all want to go forward and figure out what sort of shit we want tolerated and what we don’t. This can be a topic at the meeting as well. There is not a reasonable method. I think there is a lot of good info contained here to keep in mind when pushing forward. I agree with everything here. As a few people have brought up, we’re moving into an era where forums in general are just being overtaken by Discord. We’re in talks of trying to streamline more shit to Discord, such as admin apps, notes, meetings, ideas, threads, discussions, etc. Even as BD’s, we basically don’t have forum discussions anymore. We are pretty much entirely on Discord threads at this point. While I certainly don’t want to stop posting information and handling community things on the forums, I think the priority needs to be Discord. I still want to keep the forums updated and post here, of course, but we should definitely be focusing on getting more members in Discord. So we’ll definitely be trying to move as much as we can to it; I believe Dominic or someone also had an idea of giving out or something to new people as well, which will hopefully help out some. Rest assured, all of us want [NEW COMMUNITY NAME REDACTED] to succeed. We are busy in our own lives and I am extremely thankful to have the dedication of people here willing to come in and do what they can to make this place prosper. Some people are going through some pretty heavy shit right now, and still find a way to log on here and do what they can to help, and for that I am extremely grateful. I am extremely optimistic that we will find the right combination of things to do that will make us continue forward.
  8. Thanks for the ideas and opinions, Jazzy (and everyone else who contributed after). I’ve been reading, but have had no time to respond in depth. I’ll try and get a detailed response going tonight or tomorrow.
  9. Congrats boys!
  10. It wasn't as much fun as it looked, eh? Seriously though, thanks for taking over man. I needed time away and was just not physically capable of providing almost any type of support to the community while I was in the Middle-East. It was great having you back around as a BD, and I'm glad you will be staying on as a TA. To the rest of the community: I didn't want to make a whole other announcement for me resuming President, but I am still going to be slightly AFK for about another month while I'm buying another house and moving. We just wanted to get this transition going because Revenga was ready, and we have some BD promotions to do in a little! Additionally, thanks @Hawks for your time as BD. We hope you stick around and maybe come back to rejoin the higher ranks in the future!
  11. I'd probably jump in on it once I get a new VR setup going. I had a lot of fun with VR, but the wired nonsense was just a lot going on. But my Vive was 7 years old or so, and I'm not really sure what the new VR systems look like today.
  12. Thanks to all the TA’s that were busting their butts trying to get this resolved, and another huge thanks to everyone who has donated.
  13. Remnant 2

    Is anyone else playing? I just started the other day and it's a lot of fun. Sorta like a Dark Souls atmosphere with guns.
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