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Pain we all are very grateful for everything you do for the COD2 servers. Just one question though, I thought the server locked up on one map on Saturday because it seemed to freeze at the end of a map and I don't remember the maps name but I know I quit the game and had to refresh the main server menu several times before the TDM server showed up again on the list however when I got back in the game was playing and was about half way done. Was this because of it freezing up or was it the end of the rotation? I just ask because if we have a map that is causing it to freeze in the past that map is usually removed from the rotation? Everyone knows that I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer but had to bring it up just in case there is a bad map... Again THANK YOU FOR BEING SO DEDICATED and putting up with me

I live in Washington state and we don't have a State income tax so I will only have to pay the IRS? My wife is disabled and so we won't be bringing in a ton of money. I am 65.33 years old right now and my full benefit age is 67 so I am only 20 months away from "Full Retirement Age". I know we will have to pay taxes on income we take out of our investment account as we use it but we don't plan on taking out any large amounts just a little here and there to supplement our income and we plan to cut down on our discretional spending like most do when they retire. I can also work a part time job as long as I don't make more then about $2,000.00 per month and around here that means 20 hours a week.

Ok here is my situation, I am 65 and will be 66 in August. My full retirement age is 67. I was just laid off from my job because Nissan might be going under and things got really really slow and I was one of the ones with very little time in there. This means I can collect Unemployment Benefits for about 6 months at about 65% of what I was making by working. I am old enough for Medicare already. I can try to find a job with health Insurance and wait until I am 67 or I can ride out my Unemployment and buy medical coverage through the State and when that ends I can either Retire and get Medicare and my SS benefit will be about 7% less for life then if I hold out until I turn 67. With the 3 previous Heart Attacks I am not sure just how long I have left to enjoy some free time. I have heard some people retire at my age and take their SS benefits that I have paid in to since I was 14 years old and get Medicare then pick up a part time job to keep me from getting bored being at home all the time and this would keep my wife from killing me for being under foot all the time. I am so close to retirement age I am also afraid that it will be hard to find someone to hire me full time. If anyone has gone through this situation and has some sound advice I would appreciate any advice you can give me. We have money saved and investments for retirement but the longer we wait to access it the bigger that fund will get. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide a OLD MAN

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Today is the day I celebrate playing Call of Duty 2 for 20 years. How many of you played COD United offensive on line before COD2 came out? How many of you had COD2 the first day it came out for PC like I did? Today is a very special day in my gaming life and less then a year after the game came out I had found the XI server and was a member. Good Times

Maybe a gaming Bench will work better for you or a Ergonomic Loveseat?

No I don't think you need a special gadget to cook meat. It is just most people don't think of cooking something for close to 24 hours in a oven at those low temps. With the new app controlled pellet smokers and some of the smokers out there I just thought since you live in BBQ central you had sumpin difnt. But it looked darn good

I am sure you have said before what rig you are using to cook things like this. For those of us late to class "Sorry" do you mind catching us up please on your equipment? Right now my longest cooking time is when I use my crock pot to make Pot Roast of Pasta Sauce.

Thanks @loaderXI for setting this event up again just like you do every year. Several people came in on Sunday and played like the old days to remember our Family/Friends we have spent so many hours with that we have lost. It is always a tough event on many levels because of the emotions we experience thinking about our friends and all the great times and the bonds that were built over sometimes multiple decades. I just wanted to express my gratitude to you and the entire clan for taking the time and spending the money to always make sure we have the chance to pay tribute to our Fallen Loved One's. Thanks @Ruggerxi and @WldPenguin and anyone else who also was involved in making sure this event continues. A big thanks to everyone who stopped in and to those who couldn't make it but were there in spirit. I know all of the Guys in Heaven were looking down and smiling because they know how much we love them and they will always be >XI<. Merry Christmas everybody

This one needs to be cranked up louder then you normally crank it up. mine is at 11

Gotta love the fact that honey can last for decades even centuries if it is stored correctly. plus the changes in color over time are a result of its high quality. One of the true bounties of nature. What sorts of flowers do your Bee's tend to enjoy the most? Around here in the Seattle area with our climate most beekeepers have lots of lavender growing on their property because it grows so well and flowers for a long time here and folks love the flavor profile. Honey can be different based on what the bees have available to them. Some of the best honey I have ever tasted came from the Fruit Tree orchards where they have Cheery, Apple, Pear, Plum, Peach, and Apricot trees in the area. Do you even worry about where your bees feed? Do you use a Flow Hive or the combs that slide to allow the honey to flow very quickly? I live in a Townhouse with only a small deck for chairs and BBQ so no room for bees plus the HOA would have a shit fit, city living problems. Nice work BTW

I am sitting here in tears just thinking about old friends made long long ago. When I was asked to become the Head COD2 Admin when COD4 took off and many admins moved over to the new game and Rugger knew I wouldn't leave the game I loved I told him that I would do it in spite of my insecurities and hot head. After thinking about it overnight I told @Ruggerxi the only way this would work was if I could add @Blackbart, and @loaderXI as my next in command and @TedsofBeverlyHills, @window @Artimus Prime @PimpedOutPete as Game Admins. Bart and Loader were added to offset my hotheadedness since they were much calmer people and Ted, Window, and Artimus were well respected players who played well but always put the Clan and Gaming fun first. I saw the talent in them all as well as the fun they all brought to every game. I was a very lucky man to make friends with them long before we became the best Admin team and most solid one >XI< ever had. These men were more to me then just gaming friends they became like brothers to me. We are coming up on 20 years of playing COD2 together and keeping it alive as a team of wonderful human beings. I have spent many hours on the phone with Ted, Bart and Loader over the years and they made me a better person and the COD2 servers the best option in the game. I can not express my Gratitude to them all and the other Admins we added later but the thought of first Losing Bart and now the possibility losing Ted "The funniest player ever" in spite of his high ping and connection issues is a hard blow to handle. We are all getting older and many of you know I have had 2 massive heart attacks in the past 18 months so I want to take this time to pray for Ted and hope he kicks out of this or if not is in fact painlessly able to join Johnny Dos, Killa, Macdaddy, Too Cute Sue, Bud , Starfire, Sherm, Boiler don and Black Bart is got a great server set up in some beautiful place in Heaven waiting for the rest of us when it is out time to go be with God. If I haven't told you all just how much I love and respect your all and consider each of you a huge part of my Family and and so many my friends for coming up on 20 years. Please if you read this and don't know these men take the time to say hello and thank you for the work they have put in for over 15 years to keep the first >XI< servers alive so we can remember where we started they are great guys dedicated to the >XI< Family. Also take this situation to remember that life is precious and can be gone in a second so tell those you like and love how you feel. It takes such little time and can mean so much to the person hearing your kind words. Expressing LOVE to another person can do wonders for people dealing with struggles big or small and takes such little effort on our part. I might not be here today without the love that @Ruggerxi and the rest of my team and friends have shown a man who suffers from Anxiety and depression and I am not afraid to admit that they lifted me up many times and keep me from quitting especially when I was under attack by people who quit here like HXTR and Laz felt it was cool to trash me every chance they got. They always said calm down they will go away and you staying here doing what you do will show them who was the weak sack. I challenge you all to tell 10 people you play with and might not be close to you how much you enjoy them and how important they are in our FAMILY. LOVE has amazing healing powers. Thanks for reading this and accepting my challenge, Ron aka Phuckitman/COD Admin

Hey Swiss, long time no see. Hope all is well and the past is where we learned to be who we are today. I bet only @Ruggerxi and and few others are still around to even remember who you were round here back in the beginning. You are one of the reasons I tried the XI server and I never left so maybe you should be apologizing for that fuck up right there. Our COD2 TDM server is still running a cool mod, not quite "the Extreme Mod" you used to play but it is a lot of fun. We are there every weekend from about 9am east coast time until about 1pm Sat and Sun and Holidays. You might see a Player or 2 that you remember and it would be a hoot. Good luck and see ya round

Friday morning 5/24/24 at 7:30 am while at work I started feeling lots of chest pain and thought it might be heartburn so I tried to get my day going. Within a few minutes I started feeling sweaty and the pain got worse. I have been thru this before so I went in to my Bosses office and sat down and told him I couldn't do my job the way I was feeling because it wasn't safe. about 2 minutes later I asked him to please call 911 and I took a nitro tab and removed my dress shirt. "Didn't want it cut off me". Lucky for me the Fire Department is only about 10 blocks straight down the street and before he was off the phone we could hear the sirens. The Paramedics ran a tape on me and told me I was having a Massive Heart Attack and transported me the 1/2 mile to the hospital ER where I stayed for about 10 minutes. Time is crucial in this sort of shit. I was in the Operating room is less than 20 minutes from the 911 call and the Dr.'s spent the next 2.5 hours working on bring me back. From what I have learned so far I had a "Plaque Rupture" in my Aorta meaning the plaque rupture the blood vessel wall and caused a major blockage to the main flow of blood to my heart and also sent clots into the lower chamber. They were able to put in a Stent and break up most of the clots while in the Cath Lab without having to cut open my chest. I sent the next 24 hrs. in ICU because they had to give me a Heparin IV to quickly thin my blood so the clots would break up rather then travel to my brain and cause a Stroke. The next 2 days were in CICU to monitor my recovery. Needless to say my Wife was frantic about seeing me like this and in much worse shape then before during my previous attacks. Good news is both my other Stents are just fine but this new one is in a major area. I had quit smoking cigs 14 months ago because of the last one but my body just makes plaque regardless of what I eat or do. I am now home where I am much more comfortable and with the love of my life and if I keep getting better I can return to work within 14 days or so? However it is hard to keep my stress level down when all I can think about is the medical bills that will start arriving soon and the money I am not making while at home resting. The thought of us losing our home among other things is driving me crazy right now. I would rather leave this earth with her having our home and some savings than to be here and her become homeless. If you smoke please stop, if you eat poorly please try to eat better and if you don't exercise at least try to walk 30 minutes a day. Do this not for yourself "it will help you" but do it for those who love you and cherish you. Tell those you love those words as often as possible because you never know what your final words to them might be or when you might not come home from work. Peace and LOVE to you all.

3rd one in on the right side with the soul patch and sun hat?

@Hoth we played the Navarone several times and even beat them on their home field in 87 in a best of 5 match of CTF 25vs25. But in all fairness they we still so cocky they were using stock Sheridan pumps that heal 10 balls and a 10gr cartridge was only good for about 20 shots before it started not shooting very far. We also played against the Bushmasters as well and they all wore Ghillie Suits but once we started attacking those suits made it hard to move fast enough to avoid getting shot. just hard to find the paint on those suits. Some of your old mags probably have pictures of guys I played with in Manufacturers ads since some of the guys who were single and played way too much became some of the first STARS of the Game. One guy always was featured wearing a dress suit because that was how he played. No Camo for him he just was fast, the left gunner/wing man while i played Right Gunner/wing and he knew he was going to be seen since we were both running top speed as far up the field we could get in an attempt the start the fight on the other teams half of the map. Plus it made the not reach the cover they hoped to reach. So if we could gain that much ground in the first 30 seconds of a 30 minute game it was hard for them to win. Good Times and you are right I was killed so many times with a paintball sometimes at point blank range I knew Real War was not for me because I am not the kind to hide in a cave. I got up and encouraged a firefight because I always had them off guard and made many run away out of fear which allowed me to take more of the side flank to keep them from getting around our main attack forces. Great Memories and I still have my camo field jacket/shirt with my team patches and sponsor patches from 35+ years ago. My first Silencer was a metal tube slightly larger then the barrel and it slipped on and the sight bead held it in place and was drilled with many holes and covered in wading to catch the air/sound and then covered in a think black rubber like material that could be shrunk to fit with a heat gun so it looked sharp and fit in your slide cargo between games so the other team couldn't bitch about them. Plus we had a set screw put in the back of our modified guns in the piece you removed to access to spring and allen wrenches in our pockets. This way we could dial in the speed to pass the crono test as you entered the field and then before they blow the starting horn we could tighten to set screw and gat another 25 feet per second out of our guns and not blow balls in the barrel be gave us a bit more range and didn't need to lob the paint in. I could go on and on. Loved playing that game sofakingmuch

We just named our animals we planned to eat "Dinner", it bothered our Mom the first time but she figured out she wanted to call it something at feeding time and by calling the Steer each year Dinner kept her from getting to attached and more grounded in the reality of the money the family spent to but it, feed it and keep it healthy and well as the grain we gave it at the end to marble it up. It all worked out and in the mid 70's with 3 teenage boys it was the most bang for our food budget plus we knew the quality of the meat and that it was grass fed and well taken care of and treated in the most humane way possible. Advantage of having 45 acres of grassy ranch land in the foothills of Northern California in the mid 70's. Plus we had horses and even raised a Pig and the property next to my parents Ranch was 5000 acres of BLM land so the deer were also plentiful and in our freezer. Calif had a nuisance law that allowed farmers and ranchers with fenced property to kill deer that got in to their vegetable garden so ours was growing 10 months a year. This gave my Dad the right to remove them and harvest them. Any way to save money and keep us from going hungry. I can relate to your comment about CHANGE. It is the only constant thing in life and something that is hard to fight. When we stop learning is when our brains start to die and then our body follows. Nice read and you are always welcome to play on the COD2 TDM servers. We play every weekend from about 9am your time until 1pm Saturday and Sunday and it is the same group with many long time >XI< members. We always love meeting newer members to the Original >XI< servers where it all started and killing them lol. Look forward to seeing you sometime soon. If you dont have the game I have a few copies of the game you can load using a disk drive including a good key code I could send you from free since I now use Steam, but the game is fairly cheap there as well. just using the version 1.3 so you have to update it after you download. DM me if you are interested