BigPapaDean

happy birthday Nightraven. I feel bad as all my crap I have been slow with you on facebook. I believe that is changing and I will try to do better as I get better! I truly wish you a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! with many more!

What else can any of us say but that our hearts and prayers are with Him and the family! It feels so useless at an hour such as this. God bless your entire family! Widowmaker I know the pain and the hurt of the soul! Heaven loved your Dad so much that they wanted to save him anymore suffering. Would it be cool if our dads were talking to each other as this is happening? I am here for you Bro!

My ex had this done and but didn't remove the pain from my side but it worked for her. It's one of those surgeries where modern technology has made it a much less invasive as it use to be but no-less serious. Take care of your self and remember the server will be shut down while you are gone do to throwing a feather tickling fit! Seriously I hope this has it's intended affects!

Thanx a bunch Markoff! I really appreciate that!

Lord knows I wish I did but sadly no!

What with all the crap I am dealing with financially I can't afford a new gaming mouse. I thought tho if anyone has an extra they no longer use maybe I could get them to send it to me ! I am using a G500 Logitech right now but the insensitive programming has stopped working properly. I have tried cleaning it and nothing I do seems to help So instead of a brand new on I can use a used one that has speed adapters on it. If you do let me know via pm and we will talk about it! Thanks one and all!

Whats a Mista Mista? I make them into missy missy! Welcome to the forums and come join us in thw ace mod if yu are up to the fastest most routinest tootinest server ever! I will tho give you fair warning just don't laydown in the grass. You can ask Painsponge why if you don't already know! You sound like a fun lovin guy but leave all the gals alone as they are mine J/K girls! stay and have a blast!

The hardest part of all this for me is knowing that someday something was bound to wallop me up side the head and get my attention as to just how fragile my health and life really are. I was caught up in the viewing life through the eyes of invincibility. Well that was run out of town quickly as I was brought back to reality. It's easy to get comfortable in the idea it won't happen to me because I am not going to let it. Well.....! Any way friends I really do appreciate your kind words of encouragement and support. I knew you wouldn't let me down. I was so touched and actually cried . I know I am just very emotional right now but it still made me smile/cry if you know what I mean. Hey @@DEEJAYKEG I read that page and also ear marked it in my favorites so I have easy access to it. If it wasn't for the monetary issue I would be just hokey pokey okay but that burns my chapped drawers as a redneck I know would say! Thanks again for all these words of comfort and support!

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Some of you know my present situation with an ongoing health concern. I have a venous stasis ulcer on my right leg. Today I had a follow up and the ulcer has been healing very well. The Dr then looked me in the eyes and said Dean there are a few things we need to talk about. I thought I have heard this before. Now I am very conscious and in tune with my body so I thought that she wasn't going to tell me anything I didn't already know. The next few words through me for a loop and really shook me deep within. I am not here to seek sympathy but to ask for prayers that I will remain strong and do what I must do and that God will provide the resources that things go and move in a very good and positive way. She told me it appears that my kidneys are failing and would be considered a stage 2 failure out of 5. Yeah I know that it's good it's only a stage 2 but any is not acceptable. Dialysis is an option I want to think about tho it is a very real possibility. She said from the evidence she has it was probably damaged from my unmanaged high blood pressure for so many years. The thing is I am not on Medicare yet and won't be until my birthday. This means money is a real serious issue in all this and I have 2 others depending on me through all this. At first I was numb and when it finally begin to hit me I felt some of the old depression symptoms coming on. I then decided that was not going to get to me again. I worked too hard to get back where I am again among the living and having fun. Then I realised I am not the first nor will I be the last to experience this. I know in the near future it will be a very very hard fight for me to stay positive. I need you as friends to just give me the support this clan always does and I never ever expected to have this kind of news. I am now so I must fight for the sake of my kids and my darling little precious Granddaughter. If I am in game and don't say much you will know why and I am okay but just don't want to talk. I feel like just when things were really turning around for me that my feet get yanked out from beneath me again. I love you all and don't want to burden you but PLEASE Pray for me especially mentally and emotionally! Thanks ahead for your love and support! BigPapaDean!!!

Check this out. It's unfair to the rest of us but cool anyway! http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/miss-alabama-custom-crimson-tide-dress-miss-america-170224188--ncaaf.html

Welcome to the craziest dysfunctional family ever. We still love each other and we will pick on you and we will KILL you. I will if given the chance cut you but still love you! Have a wonderful time being an xtreme idiot where MORONs are not invited!

happy birthday sicko Richo!

Miss Rude yes but Cross don't think so!

Frag like you I have seen many of these players and when you tell them they say I know and keep going. When they know and they don't care makes me really wonder what's going on. Are there any solutions that can be done say from a server management position. Things like ping limits or a ping detector of some sort that would kick players that meet a certain criteria or what else if anything to control the situation! I am not saying to automatically kick or ban but if certain criteria are met then do something. Otherwise let them play and I will continue to be their victim even when I should kill them!

your place? If so when can I come and do some shooting? Just kidding!

HUH? Lol!

Congratulations Yellowsnow! In this day and age you are an oddity on marriage longevity and love and happiness. I know you appreciate her and all. I truly wish you the best!

ain't that for sure? Just ask me!

Most of you who know who Cross and Miss Rude know they are making the trek back to Ohio I believe it is. Well on their way there they have stopped over here in Washington State for some family time and repairs to their truck. She just contacted me via Facebook Chat and either tomorrow or the next day they will be here in town where I live Monroe, WA to pick up some parts and we are going to get together to meet in person and get to know each other. I am stoked for this. I have never met in person another >XI< member. She told me to tell BB and Giggles and Cspears and all the regular Friday night gang HI and that she will be online tonight! Here is your chance to say hi to them and wish them well on the rest of their way to their new home!

In reality I know one thing if you could see my head where all those times this has happened to me it leaves me scratching my head and losing the precious little hair I have left! I guess until someone invents a detector that detects where the ping and whatever all plays into this as a very suspect thing then it's up to the interpretation of the admins in each given server! That only compounds the problem unless we can get some higher up input on this! Just saying!

First let me begin by saying that in reality there is no such thing in our servers as "real time" with the technology as it is today. Everybody has a different ping and provider etc. There are lots of players that don't seem to affect the servers even if they do have lag. Others have a huge impact and after a little research I found some information as to maybe what some of these people are doing. These days what with all the new online games and high competition players are stooping to new lows of ethical playing and actually initiating lag when they enter a server. This morning as most mornings as I was playing there was a player that I think for the most part has a pretty solid game but when I try to shoot this player about 95% of the time I can't kill him with a straight shot. I can knife kill him easily but shooting him is almost impossible for me. One of the places I read up on this says that players are using lag as a hack for an unfair advantage for them to have more kills than the other players. Here is the link for this info if you think I am crazy you might want to simply google "lag switching." I had heard and read for some time now that the old COD Utility had in their archives the definition that as far as they were concerned lag is a hack. The following site is just one of many that has some really good info what and how players are doing to make lag a useful tool for them and aid them in their playing. http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/31303/preventing-artificial-latency-or-lag-hacking-in-multiplayer-games The player this morning on the first map came in about half way thru and was way behind. By the time the next 10 minutes were done he was in third place and was using a simple sniper rifle as a weapon. I tried to shoot him and at point blank range was not hitting him and he wasn't even moving to avoid my shots. He would simply shoot me one shot killing me. I then switched my way of attack and begin cutting him with much higher success rate. On the next map I cut him mercilessly and mentioned that I couldn't shoot him and he was in third place . Some of the other players tried to laugh it off but when the map was over guess who was on top? I don't mind him winning but he is doing it simply because of his lag. Even one of the admins concurred he was pretty laggy. I don't claim he is doing this intentional but who can say? I believe this will always be a challenge to us and our admins as long as we play digital games. Another thing I have noticed quite frequently is when this sort of thing happens the player in question seems to be unnoticed by the greater share of the other players. At least they don't say anything. If no one says anything about these issues then we will never grow as far as our knowledge of a world where hacking is big money right now. As we have our own servers we need to keep up with the latest on the info out there. Now I would love it if someone could figure out a way that hacks such as lag could never be a problem we have to deal with, but that seems to be a pipe dream of mine. The ultimate experience for me would to be in real time and play as it were real life. My life doesn't lag does yours?

With magicjack there are 2 different devices you can buy! I have both. One you must use with a pc of some kind and the other has a cpu in it. I have it plugged into my pc and with it the voice rarely fails. On the old one even with a good connection the voice failed regularly. I am happy with it but don't have a portable device now. Someday soon I want to get a small netbook and use it for portable service. Good post HXTR!

Yes they did get killed there once. There was also a conversation about this in the server at the time. You see the problem is there are so many maps that are made with these places to do exactly what he done and sometimes it seems there are more players out there than on the regular maps. I just wanted to bring this to light as I personally feel it is glitching but it has been my experience that even the admins as a whole cannot agree on whether it is or not. Now having said that that was not to throw then under the bus. I feel that they do a remarkable job and respect them a lot! I have heard that when a map such as this comes to the attention of someone higher up that they have all the admins vote whether it is a glitch or not. It would be nice if when this is done if these maps were listed on the website somewhere so the rest of us know whether to tell someone that >XI< considers them to be glitches. I know this is a insurmountable task and will never be done quickly under any circumstances. Damage Inc. at first I though it was a gaming style but then I thought how can it be a gaming style as the things they do to get out there is not how they play inside the map? Right? Just a few more thoughts! Thanks for your participation!

Gratz Laz!!! That's kinda poetic! lol!