little_old_man

Looks good, thanks for the heads up.

You're kidding right? Let's see, here in the good old US of A we have black and brown bears, killer bees, mountain lions, pit bulls and great white sharks. Now granted, we don't have hippo's here which kill like 2,000 people a year in Africa, but we do have cell phones and drivers texting or talking that are responsible for about 7,000 deaths a year in the US. I can think of other reasons besides man-eating animals for not wanting to go to Africa. By the way, nice video Olive.

Oh God, there goes the neighborhood. Glad you're finally in DW.

You're not imagining things Dawgy, it has been quiet lately. Most evenings seem to be ok but days are dead. It is an old game but there is still a loyal following and a number of other COD2 servers are running at capacity, so we need to look at what we're doing and figure out why people aren't playing our servers as much as theirs. As I type this, there are almost 900 active COD2 servers and only 45 of them have 2 or more players. Our server at this moment has 4 people on it, and there are 40 servers more active than ours with between 6 and 62 players. What are we doing wrong and what are they doing right? Lately when there has been nobody on our servers I've gone to the master list and tried to play on some other servers. Most of them I can't stand because of the mods, but one in particular has some great maps and mods that are very similar to ours and there are always 20+ players on 24/7. They have a large rotation and mix up the game types, so one map will be TDM, the next CTF, then CTFB, and so on. They also use the gunship, helicopter and sentry gun, but unlike ours the cost is much higher and buying one of them can clean you out. Very few of their maps are straight DM and the people who use that server seem to like it that way. The thing I don't like about their server is that nobody talks at all, so there is no chat during TDM and that makes the games more challenging. They also stay on top of hackers and boot them almost immediately. Yes we've had a lot of bans in the last year, but so have all of the clans. For whatever reason the number of hackers has increased lately and everybody is seeing more of them. I like what we have on our servers but the minimal rotation with only a few players at any given time is getting old, and obviously others feel the same way because traffic is low. We need to figure out some way to increase traffic or I'm afraid we won't be around much longer. It's the only game I play and if it goes away that will be the end of my gaming career.

It's really funny to those of you who can relate to the situation from personal experience.

I don't know Hxtr. Between the dozen or so topics that have been written about Boomer in the last couple days, I counted over 300 responses. Considering there are probably around 400-500 people who visit the web site regularly I think that's a pretty good response. Sure there will always be those who don't bother responding and others who simply don't know how to respond when somebody dies, but I think we as a clan have shown great respect for Boomer and his passing. You also have to remember that even though he was on XI for a long time he was really only known well to those people he gamed with and mapped with regularly. I only knew him from posts on the forums and those rare occasions he would come into COD2 and play, but I always liked him and was very sorry to see him go.

Good luck Baldie. I will be watching your progress. I too am planning on quitting within the next week after 35+ years and I'm ready to take the plunge. My biggest concerns are the weight gain and quitting drinking at the same time. I have to quit drinking too because every time I've quit smoking in the past, I've started again after having a few drinks. Since I don't drink much anyway it shouldn't be a big deal. The last time I quit (for over 3 years) I went to a party and was back to a pack a day the next morning. These fucking things suck, and I want to live long enough to meet my grandchildren some day.

Gaming cures lazy eye, but unfortunately it causes lazy dick. Wives have no desire to have sex with their husbands when they spend all day and night gaming.

Congrats to you both. You make a cute couple.

Safe journey my friend. May you be at peace and free of pain.

Yes I do Johnny. But this rodent is about 45 pounds and goes by the name of Bailey.

Normally I'd hope it tasted like shit, but most dogs wouldn't have a problem with that.

Whew, scared me for a moment. You and my wife have the same name.

What search? That's from Bart's photo album here on XI.

Bart's never met a well rubbed loin he didn't love.

I'm glad dogs are so cute, otherwise I'd fucking kill my 7 month old yellow lab. She got bored while I was playing COD2 this morning and went out of my sight to chew a hole through a wall.

Try this one out. Honda sets riding lawnmover world speed record of 116 mph. https://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/honda-claims-world-record-with-its-116-mph-lawnmower-152153168.html

They're probably for the next presidential election just in case the Democrats feel that they might lose and the natives get restless.

My game has crashed a number of times in the last week (but I figured that was my PC), and either yesterday or the day before Loader couldn't get in at all. Said he couldn't get the master server to connect or something.

Any dedicated fisherman will have more tackle than they or their children could possibly use in their lifetimes. I know I do.

Is there a place I am unaware of where one can listen to a political discussion that is truly based on fact, remains level-headed, and doesn't eventually make both sides of the discussion appear ignorant?

You really shouldn't need to do anything LS. I don't believe you need to access the files to play COD2.

Positive thoughts on their way Viperz.