WWP.

I saw the thumbnail of this map and got excited:



I thought it was a DAW map lol, like FL Studio.

Then I open it and realize it was just a thumbnail glitch.

Thanks for kind words.

I am not quitting, it's just a break, I'll be back and will continue the Podcast stuff and organizing games, though I'm thinking as a player I'm probably done for life, it's just not enough for me, I want more than this community has ever delivered. Then by the time I come back I'll probably have even better ideas and more prizes to give away!

Learning a new language is a good idea... I'm definitely not short of hobbies, in fact maybe I have too many hobbies lol.

Though, making money is one of the lowest things on my list of worthy things to do in life, why do you think I give money away so often even though I make less than minimum wage lol, I'm trying to stay poor financially but wealthy in every other way, which is working for me. Life would actually be easier for me if money was the only pursuit.

I'm one of these lucky people who would literally rather die, and almost have multiple times in my life, than be walked all over by any corporation or boss. I made myself homeless and sold everything about 5 or 6 years ago for a fresh start and it was one of the best things I ever did. Including my PC and music stuff like speaklers, keyboards, my good NIKE golf clubs, my bike, TV, bed, and other things... At the time like it has all my worms stuff from 2008-2012 so I don't even have my WA replays and games stuff between that time now... THAT was a mistake because I thought I'd saved it all onto a hard drive but I was wrong lol.

Whatever though, it was worth it, my life improved dramatically when I gave up a lot...

That time is coming again, where I give everything away and/or sell it and get another fresh start, this time I don't need to go homeless though because I have my own house.

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Edit - I just want to add a few things, for anyone who cares, feel free to ignore...

I feel kind of bad that I cannot finish the Season 33 of TRL as planned, though to be realistic it's just not possible with the situation I am in right now. Every month I put £50 to the side, actually give it to someone I trust and told them to keep it so it doesn't get spend on rubbish like takeaway or whatever... The money is already there for Season 32, the money is already there for the RoR Cup which will be over within the next 3-4 weeks max.

The money for Season 33 is only currently £50 there because Triad is paying his part, and since I'm going on a break I won't be able to fulfil the contract of streaming and advertising for the other £100 sponsorship money.  We're not in the future yet lol so I don't have the other £50.  However at least Triad is still putting money to the Cup, I'm very grateful for that he's a good man, thank you Triad!

Now, it will take 2-3 months until we reach the Playoffs for Season 33 which would start on 1st July, then we would have to wait an unknown amount of time anywhere from 1 week to several months for the players to actually organize their matches and finish the Playoffs so they can get paid... I cannot afford to wait potentially 3-4 months to wrap that up before taking a break that I need sooner than later. So I am still going to stick around to finish the other events since they are all wrapping up over the next month anyway and we've got the Podcast with Bloopy as well.

My hope is at the very least, once I've got things sorted on my end that Mablak and I can continue the CWA Podcast together if we're still around. We will see, I honestly don't know what the future will hold, though every fibre of my being is screaming at me to shake things up a bit and try to be part of something meaningful in my non-digital life.

I've had a lot of free time over the past few years due to having the support & freedom to get back on my feet while making a visible effort in life to get a good career, I've been studying for a while and working on my mental health and that time has come now for me to get back out there.

Also, as I get older, it's just not as appealing to sit indoors on a computer all the time, I lost over 10 stone in 2 years and I've put about 4 stone back on sitting here playing worms over the winter, part of this break is to focus on better dieting, exercising and to begin a new career. So even when I come back, It will be slightly less involved anyway as I'll have less time so will focus on the more stream/event side rather than be a player.

Thanks for your useful contribution!

The point is really don't use these things as an excuse to wait, rather, do what you have to do and let others continue.

Quote from: Kaleu on May 22, 2024, 08:05 PM
That would be valid if we were being paid for this or do it for a living. We are just a bunch of old men trying to have fun.

Perspective.

For starters, you ARE being paid to do this. You are being paid because you receive something in return for your effort and time. Your payment is glory and digital statistics/medals and the only reason it's actually worth anything is because WE ALL AGREE it's worth anything?

Does that sound insane?

Does it remind of you money at all? Money is just paper that we all agree that it's worth something and we decide what it's worth collectively.

Kaleu, every single human being alive is just a person trying to have fun at life.

So it's entirely valid, and if you don't understand that or even if you DO and just don't agree, then why are you even here?

If earning that glory isn't important enough for you, then quite frankly you're not important enough or even good enough to play against us.

If you believe you are, then you will also believe that it's important to put the effort in, even if it's challenging, even if you have to sacrifice something else in your life.

The point is, this is the top level of this game competitively, THAT ALONE deserves the effort and discipline.

You shouldn't be here if that isn't you, go back to playing casually.

Quote from: nino on May 22, 2024, 07:49 PM
nice post ae komito but stop come here to read the replies!!! u r on break porra!!! huahuahua

After I wrap things up first! I've got my step by step plan in motion.

It's a shame because, at least presently speaking, all the players involved in this specific situation alone, we're all men.

Men are competitive! That's why we're here, and yes we DO want our best players versus their best players, so we were happy to wait a little while for Kaleu because he's a top player and deserves that respect in my opinion, what's the point in PO if we cannot play the best players during the same season we were all active.

However, also being men we should be prepared to accept there are times where we just cannot get the job done and we pass the responsibility on to our partners and/or forfeit ASAP out of respect to every party involved so the rest of the event can continue smoothly and swiftly.

I'm sorry but I feel like I'm surrounded by children who cannot prioritize and organize their spare time efficiently. Not men who take responsibility and accountability for their shortcomings.

As a man it's ok to fall, it's ok lose, and it's absolutely ok to quit in the context of it's a temporary retreat, we'll be back next time even stronger! Then if there's ever a time where we cannot return and play at all, then we hope the younger generations will continue our legacy and keep the game alive.

This though... Nah, this is a joke, there's no discipline, no accountability, no enthusiasm.

I don't care if this sounds egotistical, when you're competing at the highest level of anything in the world, you expect the highest level of effort and professionalism.

We, as the clans competing literally have THE BEST PLAYERS IN THE WORLD that are currently active. We are the very best this entire game has to offer on the planet right now, and this is the best we can do? This is how you treat the situation?

Nah... We're worth more than that. Our time is worth more than that, we want to play the best there is and we want to play on good terms, where everyone is inspired, confident, battle hardened and ready.

Quote from: Kaleu on May 22, 2024, 07:20 PM
ae we are waiting, what happened? I thought you would show up, Camper "cancelled" but reverted in few hours, way much earlier than when we planned to play, did you scheduled something else or was this something komo provoked? genuine question btw.

Why would you think we would show up after you guys said it was cancelled?

We all have Discord, it's early in the day, everyone has been informed it's cancelled, so they all go off and make new plans... Then your team comes back and sort of collectively say "Oops, nvm we can play ahahahaha" and suddenly you think that we would all see that, cancel our new plans to go back to the old plan???

But most importantly, NOBODY from ICB confirmed that it was back on again today lol.

What??? 

Thank you for the support. Kaleu made me laugh because sometimes, I wish I could walk away forever lol. Though we all know this game is too good to walk away from...

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This isn't really some whirlwhind heat of the moment thing either. I've spent the last 4 years of my life since my Brother passed away really thinking about what I want in life.

I've been spending my spare time doing impressive, creative and useful things in those last 4 years, I've grown up a lot and learned a lot.

This community gives me like 10% of what I truly desire in life... I have fame and recognition as a player via winning Leagues, awards and also have a few world records that I'm proud of. I have a few friends who are some of the most fascinating people I've ever conversed with. It's a community that allows me to be both a teacher and a student at the same time. I'm not even lying, I've had my fair share of "real life" magical moments with romance, competition, meeting impressive people etc... Yet this game has some of the most thrilling and intense moments I've experience in my life, from making friends, achieving glory as a single player and as a team player. Just some of the hilarious moments that this game is famous for with the kinds of mistakes you see in games that make you actually hurt from laughing... It gives me so much, but in such LITTLE portions and spaced SO FAR between each other that it's kind of like torture, like a drug waiting for more...

If you've ever heard this saying and understand it, Worms Armageddon is like my second home. I feel welcome and that the majority of the things I'm involved in bring happiness and fun to most players those things are aimed at. We all have our haters for whatever reason but there is a lot of satisfaction knowing that I achieve most of the things I try to achieve in this game. It's also a great feeling when you work together with other talented people in the community to achieve even bigger goals and projects together!

It's not enough though...

I genuinely feel like I can contribute something truly special to this world, now I'm not talking about curing cancer or ending poverty worldwide... More that I'm looking for a community that has MORE of the things I like, and less of the things I don't like.

To be involved in organizing or competing in events that draw bigger and more fun & enthusiastic audiences. To share availability with lots of other people with the same hours and make plans on a daily/weekly basis and feel no worry that it's probably going to get cancelled. To know that even if I don't show up, or a few others do not show up, that the event is big enough, popular enough and has enough support that it will still go ahead as planned anyway! To make lifelong friendships with those people in real life in person and go on adventures and journeys together doing other things.

Like, other gaming communities have meetups often and visit hometowns of anything related to their favourite thing... Like, to be SUCH NERDS we would all meetup in Yorkshire where Team17 Headquarters is, and all go out to explore, do activities, then go for a few drinks with some music, dancing, socializing!

That's how I'd LOVE to spend my spare time. I'm becoming desperate to be part of something, I've been thinking for the past month about selling all my PC, gaming, music and streaming equipment as well as some other bits n bobs and starting up a business, or relocating somewhere else in the world and starting from scratch.

How can I explain this lol... It's like, I'm depressed but I'm not depressed... I've got nothing major to complain about at the moment, I've got friends both online and offline IRL, my parents are still alive, I've got an amazing friend Dr. Drake Ramoray the cat, honestly he has me laughing every day, he's a bit clingy at times but that's a good thing, it means he likes me lol. Other than 2021-2023 there's never been a year in my life where I wasn't actively dating a girl so I've always had romance... I've got a roof over my head, entertainment within these walls, freedom to walk about safely(to an extent) outside and socialize.

Yet... I still feel like I'm living at like 10% of what's possible.

Obviously I've got my issues like everyone, many bad things have happened to me, but I'm generally always as optimistic and enthusiastic about being creative, competitive, to teach people, to be on time, in every aspect of my life, not just be respectful to my boss at work, but be punctual for literally EVERYONE, even my enemies.

I want to be part of something bigger!

It's not that anyone here even really does anything bad, yeah you get the odd racist or actual nut... That's very rare, for the most part it's just a chilled out casual community. In a pretty funny twist it's like I'm the kid full of energy always there, always waiting to play, always asking a million questions yelling about a million things all at the same time, and you're all the tired adults who just got home from work and can't be fkn bothered problem solving or being punctual because you just got finished doing those things all day lol.

So yeah, I need a break while I'm chasing some other avenues and opportunities in life and so things can calm down here a bit again.

Quote from: Kaleu on May 22, 2024, 05:21 PM
So let's get this straight. I was warned to tell komo to shut up and call him a brat but he's allowed to type f#ck and other stuff censored in every single sentence? The secret is censor words so I can curse as much as I want? 🤡

Well, I think you(and a few specific others) were told to shut up for the specific things you're saying, as in directly insulting people for no reason. I was also told to stop retaliating to such things. I've also been told to shutup in certain ways.

However, when I write the F word, it gets automatically censored, and I said "F TRL and F RoR", clearly it's a heat of the moment agitation at a situation, and not an actual person. (Oh lol, I know I said you're all useless, but I do apologize, that's based on organizing Playoffs for this game only)

That's one thing I am bad at and need to improve, summarizing, it's actually one of the reasons I write so much! Though sometimes I just go "f it" and write the base heated emotion like that. Regardless at least I always constantly state that my problem is with what the person did, not the person entirely.

There's a massive black and white difference you're clearly unaware of.

You get emotional and attack people's personalities, I sometimes get emotional and attack situations people have found themselves in, or reply and fight fire with fire.

Your attacks are personal, mine aren't, mine are situational while still maintaining all the previous respect I had for a person, you guys act like a person killed your family and get REALLY hostile just because they disagree with you or talk differently. This leads to people basing their decisions with emotion rather than logic, they decide based on how much they like a person as opposed to whether they are actually doing the right thing.

I get angry because we are men who made a deal to meet at a time and a place and engage in a specific activity together, and then it's been delayed and cancelled etc.. When people have valid excuses, it's not a problem, this time you don't even have a valid excuse. Kaleu has a valid reason for not showing up due to mitigating circumstances, however the rest of the clan fkd up.

If this was a real business situation, or different parties trying to begin a venture together, it would be over already, and the party who let the other down, word would soon get around they cannot be trusted and eventually nobody would do business with them anymore. It wasn't so long ago that even in social situations if you did that you would lose a huge amount of respect, but people do it all the time now so it's unfortunately normal for some cultures and people.

That's what I am angry at, not a specific person really, but rather the collective not working together efficiently enough, not being disciplined enough even though they have enough activity, enough skill, enough resources etc...

It's laziness, it's useless and it's depressing for any enthusiastic person to be around.

Quote from: Camper on May 22, 2024, 03:37 PM
The only useless person here is you, who has nothing to do all day, and has no ability to understand what an unforeseen event is.

You guys are so self-obsessed you don't even know what the issue is.

Look at all the games your clan has played in the past week alone since Kaleu is back:



Yet you can't play FOR A FEW HOURS with us for PO...

Yet you can't find THAT is what makes you all useless at Playoffs. We're not even talking about all the other games played while Kaleu was away.

Most clans haven't let us down once, or twice, but multiple times since TUS started.

The issue is this Camper, you let a man down once, yeah that's no problem, stuff happens right, but you do it multiple times and now you're unreliable.

When you let people down, multiple times AND on top of that show you've been available the entire f**king time - THAT is a joke, and THAT makes you useless.

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If it was up to me, your clan would be kicked out of the Playoffs and banned from the Playoffs for the next Season as punishment.

Unfortunately nobody has the courage to actually use discipline around here so I'll just have to make my own choice and forfeit myself to save time.

I'm out, I'm done, these PO don't even matter anymore most of the most important players aren't even available anymore, or weren't when they should have been, the moment has passed.

Also, please note, while I say you are useless at organizing games and being reliable, I still think you're all great people to hang out with and chat with usually, I'm one of the few who can disassociate an individual issue without making it about the persons entire life.

I know you are mostly good people with good hearts, and you're responsible and busy in your family and work life, but that is there and this is here. On this gaming site, you're mostly all unreliable and inefficient and cannot be trusted.

Also - When I say I forfeit, I mean me as a player personally, I do not speak for the whole of ICB. I've said my piece, I'm not needed now I've said my opinion, so I'll shutup and let the leaders represent their clans.

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One more thing... Kaleu using Brazil weather as excuses, yet Rockets entire country is at war and him and Shtaket still manage to find the time to communicate properly and play.

I feel horrible, deep down, for ANYONE going through tradgedy, but it's super frustrating to see one example of people still having the common decency to do everything possible to make sure everyone they are associated with is kept up to date with matchups EVEN WHEN THEIR WHOLE COUNTRY IS AT WAR and then the other party using excuses even though you can see they are still clearly active in general...

The worst thing is, STF are in the wrong here, but trying to make ME look like the bad guy lol.

It's like Tyson Fury blaming his recent loss to Usyk in Boxing on the Ukraine war, pathetic. And I am not the only one to think this in fact, I'm only here saying this because I saw someone else saying it and I was like, holy shit you're right!

Nice one, thank you Triad!

The first one was Mega`Adnan specifically, yeah Southern Americans do say "xD" a lot but Adnan specifically has been saying "xDD" a lot this year lol.

I definitely recognize those 2 quotes from Triad... I need to have a think!

Long story short I'm taking a break.

I feel burnt out and want to f off and recharge a bit. About a week ago I told Mablak that after Episode 4 of the CWA Podcast I'd be taking a break, however the Clanner Playoffs for Season 28 has pushed me over the edge and I need a break from the entire game/community.

Sure, we could talk about the reasons why but it's pointless... Most players can't even take the time to sort out their own problems in this community and organize their own matches, make schedules then can't stick to them... So why would they care about my concerns when they don't even care about their own lol?

I'd rather not even post this and just disappear though that would be disrespectful due to having some unfinished business to sort out first:

TRL S32 & S33:

Season 32 - S32 will finish, the matches will still be streamed, the prize money will still be allocated to the winners. However I'm going to add a very strict deadline to this IF the players want to win the money, as I want to dissappear sooner than later and won't wait around. If you don't get it done by that deadline then it's your problem not mine.

Season 33 - If the end was nearer I'd just wait it out, but I want to leave ASAP so I am withdrawing the prize money that was being contributed from myself and the sponsor for Season 33 of TRL. Triad can either continue to donate his £100 or cancel it, that's his choice and is not to blame at all for either decision. I imagine MonkeyIsland will let the Season end but I'll let those guys figure it out between them.


Cups:

Renaissance of Roping will finish as normal as there's not long to go now anyway. The matches will still be streamed, prize money still allocated.

NrBnG K Cup will have a new deadline, if it's not met, then it just gets closed.


CWA:

Episode 4 of the podcast will still go ahead. The Discord server will remain active, KRD and others are admins there and well we will soon see if anyone else puts the effort in to keep it running and active lol.

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I'd like to thank everybody who has helped out with CWA and streaming/competitive stuff over the past few years and all those who have taken part in all the wonderful events we've enjoyed together, you truly have made my time here worthwhile to me, thanks!