Sammy

Pot calling kettle black? Nope. Never pretended to be a really good cod player. Because Im not. Just average. If when testing a weapon out I am really good at it and cant miss, then there is a good chance that there is something wrong with the balances that need to be investigated. A number here or a number there is all it takes. Primary weapons are.... or at least were... to be direct replacements of stock cod4 weapons. New models, animations, sounds. But otherwise the same as whatever it replaced to maintain the original cod4 balances. That is the fairest way to handle it all. Give the weapons the abilities they were intended to have and that everybody knows as much as possible. Seems some dont want that. As in life, some things you compromise on and other things you dont. Or in other cases here, give a range of options (such as spawn protection or defrost time, or explosive power/radius) and the server owner has final say. But to say it again I suppose. My big mistake was making 1.46 and 1.47 clan exclusives (1.45 was the last public version), which I would continue to bughunt/customize/improve/upgrade with the understanding that various things were ultimately up to me as the developer. Wish I had known that some people thought otherwise and understood the opposite. Instead I should have followed standard practice of putting up the server packages openly for all players and all gaming clans to use if they so wished. They can make whatever changes they wanted on their own while staying with the standard requirements of not removing identifying information, mod name, decompiling, or passing off the work as their own. So currently, think of it as a public mod available to everybody that wants it and unsupported. Make whatever changes you see fit so long as the standard requirements above are met.

The smr is supposed to be the g36. Which it was until these supposedly self-proclaimed good players wanted their cheat gun. So any complaints, take it up with them not that it will do any good. The hk is the m4. Make the smr the m4 and the hk the g36, whatever floats your boat. Seems some still won't get it into their brains. This is not a community project. Most here did nothing but play it. Which is fine. It was never something I demanded or expected of anyone. Developers still have the final say. Whether it's free or you paid $100. Your stupid comment about me not playing? Leaving aside not wanting to be around the toxic people around. It was because I was using my limited time modding, testing, bug hunting, and maintaining. For you. The arrogance and self-entitlement around is staggering. I have been told that I was the only major cod4 modder still left. Everyone else got sick of the selfishness among players and clans and left. In any case, there are a lot of posts here that need to be copied and sent to all the former modders around so they can have a good laugh.

I was going to comment on all of this since its out of my hands now. However, you dont know me. You dont know my motivations. Also, too many people seem to have zero clue whatsoever about the definition of fairness. While I had to think of everybody... and not just here or on this server... they think about themselves or their little cliques. In the end, this is MY mod and MY dedication of work, over years, and nobody elses. If anything, my mistake was making this a clan-exclusive mod and having any discussions with anyone about it. Instead I should have just made it and uploaded the server packages to some website. After that, I would not be interested. A mistake I will not be making again. Have fun all.

I dunno, these days there is a lot here in America that makes others fed up with it all want to move elsewhere. Well, not America. America is great and always has been and always will be. But %90 of the people that inhabit it... not so much. They suck. Other than that, welcome. Just stay away from Disneyland and all the parents with SUV sized baby strollers who think they are entitled to push everyone out of their way. And then get mad when you dont. After that experience I vowed never to go there again.

A lab leak is always in the realm of possibilities. However, in the absence of verifiable facts (hard to come by in China), the likelihood of it is small. But not zero. The world has created a great many major pandemics on its own with no help from humans to try and kill us all. That said, investigations are ongoing and there is no egg on anyones face. As it is, there is far far more 'evidence' of aliens than there is of a lab leak. Want to tell us, based on said evidence, that we are being ruled by alien overlords?

To get the link click the 'share' button. The link has youtu.be in it. suchas->https://youtu.be/P7KBcsdPhxA

I hate to say it but places like that affect far too many people into believing whats on them. Trump used to keep saying 'fake news'. To be fair there is truth to that. However he was very selective on what was fake and what was not. If anything was against him or his interests, especially personally, it was fake. Anything that supported him was truth no matter how outlandish and obviously untrue. His base never questioned anything pro-Trump, and would never consider anything anti-Trump, else they be ostracized even by family. And of course a great many anti-Trump people were the same and didnt question that side either. It used to be 'question authority'. That doesnt seem to be happening as much but does show signs of changing a little. Or at least too many wont question their own sides authority. But at the very least, it should also be 'question the information'.

Here should be a good one that I am sure some will create 'proof' for. Seems as of today China no longer has restrictions on how many children a family can have. The theory? China has hidden from the world that Covid has actually killed 100 million Chinese people and they need to repopulate.

On a web site that is well known to be full of vids promoting conspiracy theories, wouldnt it be prudent to error on the side of things there being bullshit without some kind of proof by others much more reliable? Nah. After all, if it wasnt true it wouldnt be on their website. I am sure that there are people that think the movie 'They Live' is actually a documentary and that we are all screwed. "They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. They Live."

True, smoke and mirrors. The problem is when certain people still believe it even after both are no longer there. The smoke is blown away and the mirror shattered. But they would rather still be fooled than see what they were hiding.

This was not only on the internet... but an actual publication. Therefore, it must be true. After all, its the worlds only reliable newspaper. They said so and that also must be true. Actually this first appeared in one of those old email chains before the Internet became mainstream. Remember those? Got em all the time and good for a laugh. But still a huge number of people believed it no matter how many times it was disproved to be a hoax. However, these days, its easy to make such things that include fake 'proof' (many sites do it for you) and doesnt help when distributed by sites that never check whether something is bullshit, including big name sites with huge audiences, and even then will do nothing when it is shown to be that. And then you get complaints by well known people believing such things getting on the air and complaining about censorship and vast conspiracies when taken down. To the point that some in power try to change laws because of 'it'. Whatever 'it' is, pick one. Its stuff like this that destroyed any faith I had in the intelligence of this country.

Like VHS/Betamax, there were also the BD / HD-DVD wars that of course had an ultimate winner. But in this case BD was the better of the two from a technical and capabilities standpoint. However HD-DVD also lacked things like region locks and better DRM. Which various media and software companies didnt like. Funny since most BD's dont do region locks anymore. Microsoft of course went the HD-DVD route, for a couple years, so it didnt support or pay anything to their arch rival Sony.

A website that is less than a month old and when checking out the relevant public information related to the domain everything about it and who runs it is hidden. Not even a website admin email to send something to. Tells us all we need to know.

Well the moment someone advocated changing government by force I knew it was time to move on to other topics.

In the end, the usual partisan bullshit from people... the same thing over and over back and forth... will be lost in the ether never to be seen or heard from again. On the other hand, this is history. Also shows that reality is far removed from what people see on cable, the big screen or the wilds of the internet. These three were all alone and facing death at any time yet remained professionals through it all. Makes the petty political crap pretty stupid. https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap13fj/index.html Day 3 and the days that followed. https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap13fj/08day3-problem.html

Hannity is calling you.

Apparently, our own intelligence agencies aren't sure one way or the other yet. So why should we instead listen to what the pundits on news media... on all sides... have to say? Or do they have reliable info, and the means to get it, that nobody else does?

Why does that sound like a meme from the Most Interesting Man in the World? "I dont always stalk or spy on line. But when I do....."

Your point? That they are the only ones that consider themselves as such? The flip side of the same coin... meaning the far far right instead of the far far left... also consider themselves superior to everyone else in every way you can think of. Smarter than anyone else. Morally pure. The only protectors of society. Yadda yadda yadda. When people wrapped in their own superiority... far far right or far far left... get into power the rest of us are in trouble. Especially since both sides are masters at propaganda and too many people buy into it.

To quote Reagan... a great Republican president who is rolling over in his grave at what has become of his party.... There you go again.

As often happens, you choose to assume too much about other people's opinions. Which is why true independents have simply given up on political partisanship. Anyone that doesn't agree with them is either a commie liberal or a fascist conservative. Pick your poison. My eyes get tired of constantly rolling over what they say.

Unfortunately it seems in politics that debate has become synonymous with 'attack'. Nothing new of course and its been that way forever. However nowadays its exponentially worse where even among family it happens constantly and will cause rifts. We can blame cable talking-heads... and their so-called 'news' shows... and the internet full of nothing but heated arguments and flamers that often devolve into personal attacks.

I saw a couple of the old Star Trek ToS XXX parodies. Probably made in the 90's or 00's. No-budget sets and SFX but they were actually pretty funny. The one or two TNG ones I saw were ok but werent really all that interesting. However iirc in those Troi really got around so that made up for it a bit.