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Re: Another TEN MILLIONAIRE
@Gargoyle said:
Dang, 16 million in six months? Nice work!
Yeah. I told @TiberiusLazarus that the R9 380 did 11k PPD when he won it. I looked today and it's closer to 100k (maybe a bit more, since I have mine set to only be active when idle).
Re: Overwatch
Ult/Shift ability drops a canister that sprays the stuff in an area for heals/deeps (right side of image; tripod thing)?
Re: MethoD steps out of the shadows of lore
I once managed to speak with him. I felt like I was being schooled by a god. Revered!
Shorty
Re: MEET YOUR MATCH - competitive, ranked play comes to TF2
Overwatch closed beta started near end of october 2015, picked up multiple recruiting rounds in 2016Q1 and open beta in May, released later that month
Tushon
MEET YOUR MATCH - competitive, ranked play comes to TF2
WELP.
Overwatch must have taken a HUGE bite out of TF2, because this.
I'm interested.
Where my MvM team at. We got this.
@Signal @BobbyDigi @Karma @PirateNinja @trooster89 @_K @RahnalH102? We got this?
MethoD steps out of the shadows of lore
Out of nowhere someone pings our Twitter account tonight. Just signed up for it a few months ago in April.
Stop the presses. The MethoD?
As his tweet says, this utter myth whipped up Icrontic 3.0 back in 2001, the version that greeted many of our oldest old-timers until the day it all came down in 2003. There was an abrupt transition of a week or two during which there was no main page to the site at all, only a forum, and in that moment is when I got Internet-angry enough ("hey! where'd my news page go!?") to register for my very first forum.
He was some nameless, self-described Internet script kiddie that crossed paths with Mortin back then. The only contact info we had was an AIM screen name, and he was never online. Seeing him in the "Who's Online" section of Icrontic was like watching a spectre drift thru the site - no one would believe you, and no trace was ever left. I think he made 5 posts ever, and only in the staff forum.
It's possible I was mildly obsessed with the mystery. I didn't know a damn thing about the web, was DYING to learn about it, and here was this person spitting out this incredible website and then disappearing like it was nothing. I just couldn't believe it.
And then one day my freshman year of college, MethoD was suddenly on AIM.
I pounced. I pumped him for information for at least an hour and he humored me, describing some of the architecture of the site and dropping knowledge bombs (this was the first time I ever heard of object-oriented programming) like it was nothing. My mind was blown. And then he was gone, and I never heard from him again.
Until today. And he was two years younger than me the whole time. Dammit.
I won't say our brief encounter changed my life per se, but if the definitive moment of the direction of my life was choosing to move to Michigan a become a web developer in 2007, then this guy was largely responsible for steps 2 & 3 of 15 or so along the way.
And the real clincher is: The most mysterious person I ever ran into on the Internet, the last true enigma of our lore, signed up to Twitter with a username of first name + last name + birth year and then casually waved.
The Internet, how does it work.
Linc
Re: Anyone else watching WWE?
Oddly enough my parents got me into watching wrestling when I was young. Grew up watching Hulk Hogan, Ultimate Warrior, Macho Man Randy Savage, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Ricky the Dragon Steamboat, Bret Hart, ect. I loved the character and was excited when it was on TV. Even my parents would sit and watch and get all excited because I was. I lost interest in the mid 90's when it wasn't as exciting anymore. As the attitude era started to heat up, that was when I got back into watching professional wrestling again. Especially when ECW was the brand name that everyone at my high school that was a wrestling fan was talking about. When the "Monday Night Wars" was happening between WWE and WCW was when I was back on.
I started my "professional wrestling" career during the time of the "Monday Night Wars". I loved every moment of being in the Ring and entertaining those who were there. The ladder matches, the triple-threats, the title matches were a-mei-zing to be a part of. Sure the matches are pre-determined and to many eyes, fake. But after countless injuries and about....4 to 5 concussions. I can say that it is not fake. Today I still enjoy watching wrestling ranging from WWE RAW to New Pro Japan to WWE NXT to local promotions or watching high lights from other promotions like Hood Slam that @UPSLynx watches monthly.
Does watching wrestling want me to get back into the ring?? Hell yeah I do. Does the injuries prevent me from doing so? Yes, it does.
Side note:
Within the past couple of years my parents would see me watching WWE and they would ask "You still watch?" "Is Stone Cold still around?" "How about The Rock?" The fact that my parents still remember who they are surprises me.
Chooch
Re: Anyone else watching WWE?
@Cliff_Forster said:
For anyone that has never gone to a live pro wrestling match and sat on the floor somewhere close to the action, that should be an immediate bucket list item.
This. You have NO IDEA how much fun live wrestling matches are. For one thing, it gives you perspective on how hard the hits and moves are that doesn't translate well over TV. Wrestlers beat the CRAP out of each other, and you feel it live. Makes it very exciting.
Also, the crowd interaction is another amazing part that doesn't translate into TV. The chanting, the booing of the heels, the cheering for the faces, the reactions to hits and slams... it's just intoxicating and so much fun when you're there a few feet from the ring. Plus, you just can't beat getting yelled at by a heel wrestler that doesn't like you cheering for the good guys. Here are a few good examples:
UPSLynx