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Off Topic / Re: D&D players?
« on: August 07, 2018, 10:19 PM »
Quote from: HHC on August 07, 2018, 10:01 AM
A lot of modern boardgames are pretty demanding, it has to be said. Catan is just within reach. You cannot expect people to learn 10+ pages of rules by heart, cause that usually takes about 10 hours.. which is too long for pick-up-and-play.
And most of the time, the easiest to learn games are the most fun.
Complicated ones are often 'scripted' and have the same outcome 9 out of 10 times.

Playing them on PC is far easier, I have a lot on Steam, but the downside usually is the dumb AI + crappy online multiplayer mode.

Yes, I do agree that many of the board games have fairly complicated rules to learn and most people who just want to pick up and play would be put off by them. I have probably 7 games still in the plastic that I haven't even opened yet because I can't get anyone to play. Whenever people I know get together all they wanna do is just drink, smoke weed, and talk, aside from my weekly poker night. Even then it can be hard to get people to pay attention to the game, especially when it's football season. (They play fantasy football - which is like D&D for sports nerds.)

The only board game that I have on Steam is Talisman. Oh and I have 100% Orange Juice but never really tried it. I prefer board games in person.

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Off Topic / Re: D&D players?
« on: August 07, 2018, 10:10 PM »
With D&D there are definitely some people who fit into the mold of the stereotypical basement-dwelling nerd, but there's also a lot of normal, cool people who play. I joined a local group last year and left the group after 2 sessions because the players were a bunch of cringey weirdos who spoke in memes and always tried to crack stupid jokes. I like to have fun while I play but I just can't stand being around quasi-autistic dorks. My main local game that I've been playing in for quite a while has been on ice for two months because the DM (a female) had a baby and she and her husband (one of the group) are just too busy with work, life, baby stuff, etc. I signed up for Roll20.net and joined a couple of games and dealt with some annoying shit, like goofy players, terrible DMs, etc. I eventually found a group with a great DM and players who like to have fun but aren't cringey.

The main problem with D&D is that there's 50 people who want to play for every one person willing to DM, and not all DMs are equally good at the job.

Personally I find playing D&D more fun than any other game. If I could play D&D like 5 days a week I would.

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Off Topic / Re: D&D players?
« on: August 07, 2018, 08:23 AM »
Settlers of Catan is a pretty popular board game here too. I think it's pretty fun but it definitely has a lot of RNG, although experienced players will usually win. I love board games also, although I don't play any these days because I can't get anyone I know IRL to pay attention to anything for more than 10 seconds and learn rules. Anything more complicated than UNO and they just don't have the attention span for it.

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Off Topic / D&D players?
« on: August 07, 2018, 07:33 AM »
So who plays D&D?

Which edition?

Do you play any other D20 / rpg games?

What are some of your favorite classes, feats, spells, etc?

I'll start.

I prefer D&D, 3.5e. It's the first version that I learned how to play and now that I've been playing for a bit over 10 years now and have learned other systems, it is still by far my favorite system. 4th edition sucked, and 5th edition has some good aspects but overall I think it's weak compared to 3.5e. My favorite class to play is Warlock, although when joining a game I usually wait until everyone else picks what they want to do and then I pick my role based upon what the group needs.

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General discussion / Re: Current status of the League
« on: August 06, 2018, 07:18 PM »
Quote from: TheKomodo on August 06, 2018, 12:56 PM
Nah, honestly, f**k that, do NOT make the mistake of giving people far too much choice, it just splits everyone up even more.

All we need is a small handful of popular schemes, something that appeals to old and new players.

I could name at least 10 people off the top of my head that would stop playing if this system Chicken23 and skunk3 said was put into place.

Who honestly gives a f**k about 3 scheme PO when you still gotta put up with boring ass schemes you don't wanna waste your life playing?

Seriously, I could pick Darts, takes 5 minutes, then they pick Mole Shopper or Team17 or BattleRace and i'm stuck for at least 30 minutes absolutely bored out my f**king skull, as would most people be, you can do a lot in your life in 30 minutes man, a lot of people have a lot of reasons for quitting, but I am very confident that's a big one, being forced to play schemes you don't like for their pick, then being insulted when you want to give a free win.

What's worse, someone not wanting to waste their time, or someone noob bashing someone that actually hates that scheme?

I've already said my piece so I won't propose more ideas because that's my personal favourite I suggested.

If you want people to play league games you have to entice them to do so. Older/veteran players would likely be fine with a league with a handful of scheme options, especially if the scheme picks made sense. However, never players are going to want to play the schemes that they know and enjoy. Also, regardless of what handful of schemes are picked for the league, I don't see that decision as enticing any currently inactive veteran players to become active. Do you? The people who are inactive right now aren't inactive because of the format of the league, mostly. They've stopped playing because of life issues, other games taking over interest and time, and lack of desire to play due to other people not playing.

We all know what are the most popular schemes on WormNET these days, and if we don't cater to those schemes then we cannot possibly expect the league to be active. It's as simple as that. Whether some of those schemes are boring and/or take a while to play is irrelevant to the stated overall goal. Why should Darts be an allowed scheme pick when T17 is bemoaned? What is 'boring' is pretty subjective when it comes to Worms if you ask me. I think that BnG is the most boring scheme ever and I'm not advocating removing it. IMO schemes like mole shopper, SSR, intermediate, classic, and wxw and/or shopper should definitely be a part of the league because that's what people play.

I don't see an option that can please everyone. I still say that we should focus on league shit after we address the primary problem, which is player inactivity. If more people post to TUS saying "I'm back!" and show up in AG to play games and whatnot, that will drum up more interest than a league format change.


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General discussion / Re: worms armageddon soundtrack
« on: August 06, 2018, 07:25 AM »
Quote from: Husk on August 05, 2018, 09:01 AM
yea seems u have experience from this stuff, did u make any music urself? i never created any music so i didn't even think about the patch possibility

k no need to answer that question i just read the rest of ur post, bit off-topic but could u instead suggest some bands that influenced ur synth/drum passion? i like this kind of stuff



You can skip to the bottom by the YouTube videos unless you want to read some long shit that doesn't matter lol. I'm just bored.

I've made a ton of music over the years but I'm really weird when it comes to my own art of any kind. I used to share it a bunch but eventually I decided that it was much too personal and that it's really for myself. I started off in high school playing bass in a ska band and also acting as the 'engineer.' I had a Fostex 4-track cassette recorder, some shitty mics, etc... I recorded everything and mixed it down and duplicated tons of cassette tapes to give out / sell. Around that time I got super into electronic music and wanted to learn how they made those sorts of sounds, so I started subscribing to magazines (many of them foreign and from the UK) and digging up any info that I could because at this time there wasn't endless information on the internet like there is today. I bought my first drum machine (Alesis HR16) and then eventually expanded my gear collection.

I've worked since I was 12 years old and I spent a lot of my money that I made from jobs on music gear. When I finally got a sampler it was a game changer for me. I was also really into early music software, like Propellerhead's Rebirth RB-338, although I've always found hardware to be vastly more fun to use than software. I made hip-hop beats, Detroit-style techno, and Chicago-style house music. (I grew up kinda between both cities.) Eventually I found myself favoring techno for production but when I DJ'ed at raves/parties I often played more house than techno. Some time in the early 2000's I gave up hardware for a while and tried making music completely on the computer because I was convinced that it was the future but I eventually got sick of it because it was so boring and the lack of hands-on control really bothered me.

I then switched back to using all hardware and did live PA sets locally, both by myself and with another dude who I used to record music with. To me there's nothing more fun than live PA. Making finished tracks and taking the time to make tons of tiny edits and whatnot is totally boring to me. I'd much rather program certain sequences and sounds and just freestyle with the machines live while manipulating effects, patterns and mixing. I like weird, dark, polyrhythmic, acidic techno that ebbs and flows, that swells and crashes. Stuff for pitch black rooms and a head full of LSD lol.

In the last ~10 years or so I have been extremely unproductive musically. I moved to a new state in early 2009 due to losing a good job in late 2008 because of the recession and I also had a super shitty breakup with the girl I was dating at the time and was dealing with other crap too, like a loser roommate who refused to work and instead just played video games and smoked weed all day because his mom owned the house we were living in and he was confident that she wouldn't evict us. Well, he was wrong. lol. I was paying my half of the bills every month and still got kicked out. I was also dealing with other headaches and drama and was just totally sick of my situation. Anyway...

I hadn't seen my mom in several years and since I didn't expect to lose my job out of nowhere I didn't really have any money saved up, so I asked her for help for the first time in my adult life. I moved in with her in early 2009 and her place was small so my gear sat in storage for a couple of years, because when I first moved out here I planned on just staying long enough to save up some cash and my plan was to move out to the West coast, like Oregon. On a whim I decided to apply to some colleges and I got accepted to a few so I ended up staying there for 4 years while I went to school. (2009-2013.) When I finally finished school with my useless degrees I moved to the closest city so I no longer had to live in the middle of nowhere, and it took me a long time to meet people here. I didn't make any friends at all for probably 2 years. Finally in 2015 sometime I made some DJ friends and got introduced to the electronic music scene in town but I quickly realized that the scene pretty much sucks... almost everyone is into dubstep and other newer EDM bullshit. I tried playing some live PA gigs at places in town but the owners would always ask how many people I could bring in. I was like... "I don't f@#!ing know. I just wanna play." I played like twice and there was hardly any turnout at all.

Later on that year (still 2015) I experienced an intensely bad bout of depression and lost interest in almost everything. I ended up selling all of my music gear and haven't really done anything since aside from DJ out a couple of times, but I don't even do that anymore. I actually sold my DJ controller and I sold one of my turntables too. I only kept one turntable and my mixer so I can listen to records at home since I have a pretty big collection. Although I am not suffering from intense depression like I once was, I just don't feel the drive to make music like I used to because I feel like all the joy in life has been sucked out of me, to be honest. I'm never happy, but not usually sad. I'm just kinda like a blank emotional zombie 90% of the time. There are moments in which I wish I could jam out on some drum machines and synths but I don't have them anymore and I can't afford to get back into them anymore since I essentially live 'paycheck to paycheck' and simply can't afford to spend money on non-essentials. I am back in school pursuing a master's degree so I hope that one day I can break free from financial slavery and actually be able to afford to enjoy life rather than just getting by.


Anyway -

Artists/bands that influenced me as a teen? (just some random examples, not a "top" list or anything)


















And many many many more.






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Leagues Games Comments / Re: Game #223273, reported by Nonentity
« on: August 06, 2018, 04:02 AM »
Pedantic, much? That is the bread and butter of what I said. Do you not understand colloquial speech?

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General discussion / Re: Current status of the League
« on: August 06, 2018, 03:13 AM »
Quote from: TheKomodo on August 06, 2018, 02:27 AM
Quote from: skunk3 on August 06, 2018, 01:32 AM
In short, what I'm saying is that your current self should be capable of doing anything your past self was capable of and then some. This isn't like a physical sport where age plays a factor in declining ability.

No, this is what you said, less than 4 hours ago:

Quote from: skunk3 on August 05, 2018, 10:20 PM
You say that but what is more likely is that you felt more confident at rope back then because of your skill relative to that of other players.

Telling me I can be as good as I used to be, and that my mind and feelings are pretty much f**king useless are 2 completely different things.

And actually, age can decline, i've cracked my knuckles my whole life and just like my Mum told me as a little boy, I shouldn't have, for one...

I can't tap as good with my left hand as I used to, it hurts and seizes up, I used to be almost as good with my left as I am with my right, now it's not, which is why i'm so excited about learning cross now I don't have to actually cross my arms over.

I'd say that loss of physical ability due to knuckle cracking falls more under 'injury' than 'age-related decline,' but that's kinda moot and splitting hairs.


What I said earlier still applies though... how 'good' someone was at a particular scheme 'X' number of years ago is relative to the overall skill level of everyone else they were playing against at that time, and as I said, players tend to get better as time goes on. This applies to almost any video game. You can look at tournament footage from any competitive game around the time it came out and compare it to people years later playing the same game and there's often a very noticeable jump in skill level, with people who would have been 'elite' back in the day being average today. It's just the natural progression of any game, even professional sports. A good NBA team from today would dominate a good NBA team from the 70's, for instance. The bottom line is that if all things are equal, the version of yourself with more practice/experience is going to be better than the version with less practice/experience. 

What I am saying by all of this isn't taking away from any past Worms players at all. What I'm saying is that anyone who has played this game for an extended period of time has only gotten better *overall* due to practice/experience. I am also furthermore saying that anyone who reached a certain level of performance in whatever scheme can still play at that level if they chose to, barring injury and whatnot. A little practice might be needed but those skills don't just disappear into the ether.

Also, I am not saying that these older players sucked and that our memories of them being great are PURELY nostalgia. For anyone reading, please don't misinterpret that. They were great for their time, and that may or may not mean that they would be great compared to the skill level of players within the past couple of years. What I am getting at is that as time has gone on and people have learned more and more about the intricacies of the game, players in general have gotten better. Individual players who have been playing for a long time are most certainly better today on the whole than they were in the past, although they might be a bit rusty at certain schemes... and generally speaking, your garden-variety mediocre modern Worms player is very likely to be of a higher general, overall skill level than that of a player back in the early 2000's of the same relative 'level' (so to speak), and that's because they have been able to learn from other players with years of experience with the game, as not every W2 competency translated over to W:A with perfect accuracy in addition W:A being nearly 20 years old at this point.

The one thing that limits the skill growth of current players is the lack of game activity. Back in the day the game was far more active, and as a result, more competitive and people developed skills faster.

To get back to the original topic, I like Chicken23's ideas, for the most part. If people want league play to be a big thing again it needs to be accessable to everyone, which means that it needs to be simplified into one Free League with players having the ability to play just about any scheme they want and also do BO3/DON. Also, there needs to be veteran players in AG telling newcomers about the league, how to sign up, how to report games, and letting people know about tourneys/cups/etc. Cater to what is currently popular, even if it sucks. I think Super Sheep Race is wack but if people like playing it, make a tournament. Make Mole tournaments. Hell, have a freakin' Shopper tournament. Anything to drum up interest and excitement and also to get players familiar with TUS and the league. Most importantly veteran players need to come back and start playing regularly because complaining about a lack of activity is kinda circular logic. BE THE CHANGE.

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General discussion / Re: Current status of the League
« on: August 06, 2018, 01:32 AM »
Quote from: TheKomodo on August 06, 2018, 01:15 AM
Quote from: skunk3 on August 05, 2018, 10:20 PM
Quote from: TheKomodo on August 05, 2018, 06:10 AM
skunk, honestly the old me would absolutely annihilate me now at rope hahaha!
You say that but what is more likely is that you felt more confident at rope back then because of your skill relative to that of other players.

This is beyond madness...

There is so much wrong with what you said it's frustrating choosing where to begin.

Well, to begin with, I said the old me would absolutely annihilate me now, not the old me would absolutely annihilate me if I practised for a year straight.

Next, I know myself and my experiences, that I experienced by the way, better than anyone.

I already explained my story earlier about how I exclusively switched schemes for like 10 years and very rarely ever roped during that whole period, and now even on TUS when I started to Rope again it was never the same without my old keyboard, not to mention i've just NEVER felt the passion that I felt back then, and that I was mostly picking BnG/Hysteria at every opportunity, I did get back into rope for 1-2 years when I was in cfc, but I still focused more on BnG.

Before BnG, I only focused on Rope, during BnG I focused on BnG, during TUS I played a lot of everything but spent a few years focused on mastering Darts as well.

Yeah you are right, people get better with time and practise, but I haven't spent my time practising, I can't believe that isn't obvious to you.

I had a funny vision, you on Jerry Springer right after he tells us his "Final Thought" and you turn round and try to convince the audience "What he meant to say was..."



Well of course the old you who has done nothing but practice a particular scheme for quite a while would *possibly* beat the current you who hasn't devoted time to that one scheme in a while. However, no matter how good at rope you were back then, if you were to practice it even for a fairly short time, I don't see how/why your current self shouldn't be able to win because you're literally the same person, only with more experience. Unless you got some sort of an injury between then and now there's no major reason why your old self should dominate your current self as long as you've practiced up a little bit. You still have all of the skills your former self had, it's just a matter of shaking the cobwebs off.

In short, what I'm saying is that your current self should be capable of doing anything your past self was capable of and then some. This isn't like a physical sport where age plays a factor in declining ability.

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General discussion / Re: Current status of the League
« on: August 06, 2018, 01:22 AM »
Quote from: TheWalrus on August 05, 2018, 10:47 PM
Quote from: skunk3 on August 05, 2018, 10:20 PM
Quote from: TheKomodo on August 05, 2018, 06:10 AM
skunk, honestly the old me would absolutely annihilate me now at rope hahaha!

You say that but what is more likely is that you felt more confident at rope back then because of your skill relative to that of other players. Generally speaking a player from today who has all those extra years of experience and practice would destroy their past self as well as most other people. You might be rusty at certain schemes that were more popular back then than today but overall I guarantee that a lot of those memories we have of godly players from way back in the day are heavily rose-tinted from our nostalgia glasses and that players only get better as time goes on, not worse. That's just my opinion, anyhow.

Of course people are different than others and some people can develop roughly the same amount of skill as someone else in far less time, which explains how some people who haven't been playing that long (relatively speaking) can hold their own against people who have been playing from day one, or close to it. I remember pre-Mablak Mablak, when he was just an average player. He was never godly at anything for the longest time... just another person and I played with him a bunch. Then in less than a year he went from an average player to an excellent player, which brings me back to my point that experience matters in Worms, as does routine practice. I am certain that if we took pretty much any good player from today and sent them back in time to WormNET in 99-00 they would utterly rape everyone, including those old names we miss so much.

Also, as an unrelated side note, I've noticed that if I play for an extended period of time and then take a break (a few months, maybe) from Worms I end up playing better than if I played straight through. I think that taking a break from Worms every once in a while is a good thing because some players (myself, at least) develop bad habits and when you can take a break and press the 'reset' button and come back to the game fresh you remember what you should and shouldn't do and those bad habits get dropped. I might be a little rusty for the first few days but eventually my skills come back and I play better than before because I can take all of that experience forward and start over again clean.
You always re-imagine old players, Cody was better than me in 2001 and he is better than me in 2019.  You do revisionist history better than anyone I know.  You can't beat me in a bo7 and i cant beat mablak in a bo7, so you are a few standard deviations from a worms pro.  You'll get there if you spend half as much time talking about how great you used to be, as you claim your mastery to be.  You have to play much more to jump up to the next tier, right now you are relegated to being a has been.  You play one or two schemes well, but that doesn't give you carte blanche to say or do whatever you want, it just makes you into the next Zalo.  Your lack of humility is  incredibly annoying to me, nothing worse than a player who thinks he is way better than he is.  I'll offer a paypal match which you will inevitably decline, but ill give you 10-1 odds on a bo7, you are that much of an underdog in a real competitive match.  And you bet your ass I'll show up, unlike Zalo, and in not even in shape anymore, I don't play this game anymore.  You won't back it up, though, I'm sure there will be some apologist reply by this time tomorrow. 

Skill has gotten better, and you are blinded because you play nobodys all day in a deserted server.

What is with your shitty attitude lately? Every time you respond to anything that I say it's always argumentative, hateful, spiteful, etc.

It makes rational sense that someone with nearly 20 years of Worms experience is going to trounce someone who is playing a game that is only 1-2 years old, am I right? I am not "revising" history here. All I said is that players tend to get better over time and that a lot of the greatness we remember from the past (not always, but mostly) is distorted by nostalgia and a lack of perspective. Someone who was an amazing player back in the early 2000's might only be a mediocre player by recent standards, and by 'recent' I mean in the last ~5 years, not necessarily *right now.* This is because people almost invariably get better at ANYTHING with practice and experience.

I can't beat you in a bo7 of what? And why are you even making a challenge? I'm not talking any sort of shit. I think you're misinterpreting what I'm saying somewhere along the way. I also am not talking about how great I used to be, so I don't understand how you come to that. If anything what I said is that I am better today than what I used to be. Actually, that's exactly what I said.

I am very active. I'm on WormNET every day playing games of all sorts, although Big RR is what I play the most. I also don't think that I have carte blanche to say whatever I want, nor do I think that anything I've said is out of line, arrogant, or factually incorrect. Humility? The only thing that I've said recently that can be taken as arrogant was me talking about Big RR the other day, and it's not arrogance when it's just plain true.

You also went on to say that skill has gotten better, which reinforces what I said and undermines what you said. (derp!) And yeah, AG is a bit boring these days but I was also playing before lots of people decided to quit, so what's your point there? Also, it's not as though AG is totally lacking in skilled players. I really don't understand what you're talking about, or why you're even mad. If you want to play some games vs. me get your ass in WormNET and challenge me because I'm on a lot.

Finally, as far as Mablak goes, he wasn't always an elite level player. I'm not taking anything away from him by saying that. All I'm saying is that he started off as an average player and ended up rapidly gaining in skill due to lots of practice. Within less than a year he practically exponentially increased his skill level, and I remember it because before I took that break he was whatever, and when I got back I was like wtf man! That isn't revisionist history, btw. That's just how it was.



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Leagues Games Comments / Re: Game #223273, reported by Nonentity
« on: August 06, 2018, 01:05 AM »
All I said was that he isn't the greatest all around roper ever, and there's plenty of reasons to have such an opinion. I also said that I don't care about offline challenges.

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General discussion / Re: Current status of the League
« on: August 05, 2018, 10:20 PM »
Quote from: TheKomodo on August 05, 2018, 06:10 AM
skunk, honestly the old me would absolutely annihilate me now at rope hahaha!

You say that but what is more likely is that you felt more confident at rope back then because of your skill relative to that of other players. Generally speaking a player from today who has all those extra years of experience and practice would destroy their past self as well as most other people. You might be rusty at certain schemes that were more popular back then than today but overall I guarantee that a lot of those memories we have of godly players from way back in the day are heavily rose-tinted from our nostalgia glasses and that players only get better as time goes on, not worse. That's just my opinion, anyhow.

Of course people are different than others and some people can develop roughly the same amount of skill as someone else in far less time, which explains how some people who haven't been playing that long (relatively speaking) can hold their own against people who have been playing from day one, or close to it. I remember pre-Mablak Mablak, when he was just an average player. He was never godly at anything for the longest time... just another person and I played with him a bunch. Then in less than a year he went from an average player to an excellent player, which brings me back to my point that experience matters in Worms, as does routine practice. I am certain that if we took pretty much any good player from today and sent them back in time to WormNET in 99-00 they would utterly rape everyone, including those old names we miss so much.

Also, as an unrelated side note, I've noticed that if I play for an extended period of time and then take a break (a few months, maybe) from Worms I end up playing better than if I played straight through. I think that taking a break from Worms every once in a while is a good thing because some players (myself, at least) develop bad habits and when you can take a break and press the 'reset' button and come back to the game fresh you remember what you should and shouldn't do and those bad habits get dropped. I might be a little rusty for the first few days but eventually my skills come back and I play better than before because I can take all of that experience forward and start over again clean.

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General discussion / Re: Current status of the League
« on: August 05, 2018, 05:40 AM »
Quote from: Anubis on August 05, 2018, 12:56 AM
Quote from: TheKomodo on August 04, 2018, 01:59 PM
So that was December 2000, wow...

I remember the day I discovered Worms Armageddon, it was also the first time I used a PC for games and discovered the internet, 12-17th June 1999...(Forget exact day now)

I remember that day clearly, with my mates John and Gary, it was hot, we were in shorts and t-shirts, my friend John told us about the "Interesk Cyber Cafe", I was like woah that sounds cool, so he took us there and I remember walking in just feeling this overwhelming sense of WOW!

So I walked up the corridor which had 5 computers, the 1st guy was playing Diablo, the next guy was playing Command & Conquer, then the guy who works there, Alex, was on the 3rd computer playing Worms and my eyes lit up, I was like "Hey, I have that on my Game Boy!", and since he was a like a youth worker he took interest and asked if I wanted to play so I took a seat and he joined a game in #AnythingGoes, at that point I was like, "Wait, are you playing this with other people??" he was like yeah, that guy is from UK, that guy is from US...

THAT! Blew my mind! So we started the game, I think it was Intermediate scheme or something, cuz we had special weapons and I had HHG, I actually won that game with the last move and took everyone out with the HHG! I was absolutely hooked, so I spent the whole summer at that cafe playing Worms for like 2-3 hours a day, it was a matter of weeks before I discovered Roper when I say "eliteboyz" who later became "TheSheriFF" roping, he wasn't the rope god he eventually became at that point but he was pretty good I remember feeling like it was the most awesome f@#!ing thing I ever saw in my life!

So yeah I started getting involved in Ropers then within days played my first Warmer, few months later I joined a clan but honestly forget which, or maybe that is when I made BDD - Bringers of Death and Destruction, Dodgefreak was in that clan with me, so was avatar and a few other pretty good players, I actually forget who was in that clan now...

So yeah I saw a lot of Elites and BnG being played in the Clanners I played/watched, but I never ever saw any other scheme being picked until around 2002+

Probably because I exclusively stuck to Rope for the first 4-5 years then switched exclusively to BnG until a few years into TuS where I started Roping again, but ever since I started playing BnG, i've never been as good in Rope as I was back then, i'm hoping to become even better than I was back then roping cross handed, but honestly I was doing a TT Big RR with blitz last night for like 6 hours straight and I only finished the map once, at my furthest point I was faster than blitz but honestly most turns I couldn't even last 20-30 seconds and I feel quite depressed I can't do it like I used to, but, it has only been about 6 weeks in total i've roped this way and it's a lot of fun, I forget it took almost 2 years to reach my peak when I first started so need to give my body time to adjust to swapping hands.

This is definitely interesting though, amazing to still learn history even having been there almost the entire time :)

I would love to time-travel back for one day and relive the experience back then. I think it would be awesome. Especially with all the knowledge you have now. :D

Yeah, it'd be great to go back then and just demolish everyone lol

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General discussion / Re: worms armageddon soundtrack
« on: August 03, 2018, 10:00 AM »
Quote from: Husk on July 30, 2018, 04:50 AM
did u even listen to it? or do u mean the cry of help sound was made by k2500? and if it was made by k2500, what would be the odds of the castlevania composer making the same sound as wa's composer? there's huge amount of settings, so seems unlikely they both made the same sound?

i mean maybe it's a case of recycled sounds... we have seen it before with many classic nintendo games using same sound effects

The reason why I assume that it was the Kurzweil K2500 is because it came out the year before the Castlevania soundtrack was made and also because it was *the* industry standard keyboard for composers. (And still a damn fine keyboard today!) It's highly likely both dudes used the same keyboard, at least partially.

The sound is probably not actual synthesis... it's probably just a sample or something contained within a patch.

I am just guessing though. It could have merely been a sample from a cd-rom library. I used to have stacks and stacks of old sample libraries from back in the day on CD but lost them all, but that's okay by me since these days I don't really make music anymore aside from once in a blue moon and also I prefer to not use samples of outside material except when I'm making hip-hop. If I am making a techno track (my preferred genre) I create all of my own sounds from scratch per track, or I will do that and also use sounds that I have previously made. I'm a total synthesizer / drum machine nerd and have been making beats since I was in high school.

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General discussion / Re: Current status of the League
« on: July 31, 2018, 06:57 AM »
Quote from: Senator on July 31, 2018, 06:22 AM
skunk3 can you attach some replay of your games with Masta?

I am like 3 computers past that point. I do have some of my old hard drives though but I don't have any way of accessing the data because all I have is a laptop now. For that matter, I don't even know if any replay data is on them for sure but I would assume so since I never deleted it. One of these days I'll get one of those external bays and try to pull data off of my old drives. It just sucks though because the pins on the back of one of my hard drives are all bent so Im not sure if I will be able to get them straightened out so I can 'dock' the hard drive. :/

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