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Stogieman · Feb 16, 2010, 04:17 PM

Originally Posted by boy8cookie

Weeeeeee

Damn! I wonder if Oceanic Cable is available in my area. How much do you pay a month for internet access?

The Final Dakar · Feb 16, 2010, 04:22 PM

Five coconuts, a lei and a grass skirt. And $50.

Stogieman · Feb 16, 2010, 04:23 PM

Originally Posted by The Final Dakar

BTW, stogie, if it isn't clear, the reason we don't pick you up immediately most of the time is we're in a lobby with a shitty team and we'd like to continue raping them.

Yeah, that's what I figured. The team I was playing with last night had a great attitude even though we were getting our asses handed to us.

Originally Posted by The Final Dakar

Edit: Oh yeah, I won a knife battle last night against - TA-DA! stogie.

IT WAS LAG!

Jawbone54 · Feb 16, 2010, 04:25 PM

No way...

I'm paying $60 per month for 10MB down, 1.5 up.
...but I live in Louisiana

sek929 · Feb 16, 2010, 04:26 PM

Originally Posted by boy8cookie

Wow, not bad, even the ping time is bearable. You certainly have the speed to host a match, but with 130ms ping that's where I noticed the lag when I jumped in your lobby.

Campus connection?

The Final Dakar · Feb 16, 2010, 04:27 PM

Originally Posted by Stogieman

Yeah, that's what I figured. The team I was playing with last night had a great attitude even though we were getting our asses handed to us.

That's cool by me. The only time I want to piss people off is the loud teenagers and over-aggressive clans.

Originally Posted by Stogieman

IT WAS LAG!

Exactly.

sek929 · Feb 16, 2010, 04:29 PM

Originally Posted by Jawbone54

I'm paying $60 per month for 10MB down, 1.5 up.

The tubes must be slowed down with Mardi Gras beads and 'show your tits' T-shirts.

We pay $62/mo for 16Mb down, 8Mb up. With speedboost I can see up to 30Mb down, but the UL stays about the same.

boy8cookie · Feb 16, 2010, 04:39 PM

Originally Posted by Stogieman

Damn! I wonder if Oceanic Cable is available in my area. How much do you pay a month for internet access?

Nothing, I work for the provider.

Originally Posted by sek929

Wow, not bad, even the ping time is bearable. You certainly have the speed to host a match, but with 130ms ping that's where I noticed the lag when I jumped in your lobby.

Campus connection?

Not a campus connection, my house is right near (less than a mile) from the main hub for all of Hawaii. It's a fiber connection (which isn't available to most customers). Basically I have an enterprise level connection in my house. One of the perks of working for the company.

The Final Dakar · Feb 16, 2010, 04:42 PM

You know, I'd like to know what min and max ping the bars in MW2 represent.

sek929 · Feb 16, 2010, 04:50 PM

I'd assume full green is 50ms or better, since that's the ping time the matchmaking system looks for in a host.

Dave is usually in the yellow when he plays with us, so I'd imagine yellow might be for 100ms and up. One red bar must be awful, like 300ms+

The Final Dakar · Feb 16, 2010, 04:54 PM

So what's three bars then, Mr. SmartyMcBlobicus?

Jawbone54 · Feb 16, 2010, 04:55 PM

Originally Posted by sek929

The tubes must be slowed down with Mardi Gras beads and 'show your tits' T-shirts.

We pay $62/mo for 16Mb down, 8Mb up. With speedboost I can see up to 30Mb down, but the UL stays about the same.

Must be nice.

The Final Dakar · Feb 16, 2010, 05:00 PM

Alright I used this thing called google and the answer is, each bar is 100 ping. So 4 bars is <100 ms, 3 bars <200 ms, and 2 bars <300 ms.

mattyb · Feb 16, 2010, 06:03 PM

Sh1t !! How do they (the matchmaking gods) expect people to be able to play with a 300ms ping time.

Played a bit tonight, the lag followed me but since I stuck to HC TDM (after some crappy -ve warm up games) it wasn't too bad.

The Final Dakar · Feb 16, 2010, 06:04 PM

They don't. You should never be in a game where you have orange lag.

sek929 · Feb 16, 2010, 06:14 PM

Yet I see guys with the orange bar relatively frequently.

Just pinged Philly, 22ms

The Final Dakar · Feb 16, 2010, 06:50 PM

mattyb · Feb 16, 2010, 07:12 PM

Originally Posted by sek929

Yet I see guys with the orange bar relatively frequently.

I always get one when I'm host. On the opposite team. Carrying Akimbo 1887s. Skating.

sek929 · Feb 16, 2010, 07:18 PM

I'll be waiting patiently by my Xbox Live Widget for you jerks to sign on, until then I'll be playing TP.

The Final Dakar · Feb 16, 2010, 07:23 PM

I'll be doing a few games until 8 roughly. Trying to set-up an assigned address for the 360.

sek929 · Feb 16, 2010, 07:24 PM

Might as well sign on now then.

I assume 8 is when one of your stories comes on?

The Final Dakar · Feb 16, 2010, 07:35 PM

9, but I'll need to eat dinner first.

Edit: nvrmnd done

boy8cookie · Feb 16, 2010, 07:38 PM

freakin early birds. bah

sek929 · Feb 16, 2010, 07:40 PM

Take your pick

Live in Hawaii and miss out on early gaming

or

Move to the east coast, buy a snow shovel, and game out.

mattyb · Feb 17, 2010, 04:21 AM

Originally Posted by sek929

Take your pick

Live in Hawaii, work for ISP, get free-large-chunks-of-bandwidth and miss out on early gaming

or

Move to the east coast, buy a snow shovel, and game out.

Decisions decisions.

To avoid that black hole feeling that one gets around the 68 to 70 levels, I'm trying to get all my weapons past the 5000 XP mark so that the next level is 10000 XP. So last night I was using the FAL in HC TDM. With a Holo sight and silencer it really is a nice gun. I was also trying to get the tactical knife for the M9. All I can say is that using nothing but a pistol doesn't do your stats any good.

Over 10 days of playing and its still fun (overall). We do need some new maps though.

The Final Dakar · Feb 17, 2010, 10:42 AM

Banner night, last night.

Go Negative "All you do is camp" | Excellent MW2 Teammate | Meme Generator

Stogieman · Feb 17, 2010, 01:47 PM

Did I mention I sent that guy a friend request? He never responded.

sek929 · Feb 17, 2010, 03:22 PM

Jawbone54 · Feb 17, 2010, 03:56 PM

In the last game that I jumped into last night, I realized I was almost definitely going to be on the other team, but was in a pretty good mood and wanted to have some fun with it. I spent the entire game smiling as the whole squad kept screaming, "FATTY MCBLOBICUS!" every few seconds.

"WHERE IS FATTY?"
"F***ING FATTY!"
"MAN, I HATE FATTY!"

The Final Dakar · Feb 17, 2010, 03:58 PM

Funny, I was running around with a grin because I almost made you first blood, and got to rip you up a few more times.

The Final Dakar · Feb 17, 2010, 03:59 PM

SpaceMonkey · Feb 17, 2010, 05:24 PM

I am inching ever so slowly towards an overall 1:1 kill:death ratio.

Jawbone54 · Feb 17, 2010, 05:33 PM

Originally Posted by The Final Dakar

Funny, I was running around with a grin because I almost made you first blood, and got to rip you up a few more times.

I knew exactly what I was getting myself into that game, so I wasn't too terribly embarrassed.

The Final Dakar · Feb 17, 2010, 05:34 PM

Originally Posted by Jawbone54

I knew exactly what I was getting myself into that game, so I wasn't too terribly embarrassed.

Hey, just because the sex was consensual doesn't mean I can't enjoy it.

SpaceMonkey · Feb 17, 2010, 05:35 PM

I think the analogy you are looking for is rape fantasy.

The Final Dakar · Feb 17, 2010, 05:36 PM

Originally Posted by SpaceMonkey

I think the analogy you are looking for is rape fantasy.

Hit your area of expertise, have we?

The Final Dakar · Feb 17, 2010, 05:38 PM

Originally Posted by Stogieman

Did I mention I sent that guy a friend request? He never responded.

I would have asked him if he needed an invite back to game since it looked like he lost his connection.

---

As I mentioned to my friends, against mediocre teams we have become quite deadly on Karachi.

SpaceMonkey · Feb 17, 2010, 05:39 PM

Originally Posted by The Final Dakar

Hit your area of expertise, have we?

Yes. I am an expert in analogies.

The Final Dakar · Feb 17, 2010, 05:40 PM

God dammit.

The Final Dakar · Feb 17, 2010, 05:42 PM

Jawbone54 · Feb 17, 2010, 05:56 PM

sek929 · Feb 17, 2010, 07:02 PM

Haha, awesome.

By now I'm quite accustomed to being the team pariah, even if what the other team is complaining about has nothing to do with me.

sek929 · Feb 17, 2010, 07:04 PM

sek929 · Feb 17, 2010, 07:05 PM

Originally Posted by Jawbone54

"WHERE IS FATTY?"
"F***ING FATTY!"
"MAN, I HATE FATTY!"

I believe I was getting business done with the SPAS that match. Those kids should have been grateful I haven't unlocked the M1014 yet.

Jawbone54 · Feb 18, 2010, 04:25 PM

I know I was.

Although, I must say that it was my claymores that took you out at least twice during that match. I admit to planting them everywhere I could out of sheer terror that I was going to go 0-15 against y'all.

The Final Dakar · Feb 18, 2010, 04:28 PM

Ah, yes, the Crosbie360 strategy.

Jawbone54 · Feb 18, 2010, 04:36 PM

I'm about 35,000 away from my first prestige, so immediately afterward I'll be rediscovering the noob tube for a few challenges. I'm sure I'll get sworn out a few times once again.

The Final Dakar · Feb 18, 2010, 04:39 PM

Just to illustrate my dedication to mastery this prestige (and finishing Sleight of Hand, OMA), I have a grand total of 13 Thumper kills. For a weapon I passed 500 on long ago.

Leonard · Feb 18, 2010, 04:55 PM

I'm starting to get the hang of the sniper rifle - I'm using the .50 Barrett. But I still won't make many kills with it. I usually end up changing to another class to break even on kills or get more kills. I do like the idea that the .50 Barrett is semi-auto - it helps for the occasional miss.

Now that I'm using the M4A1 rifle again, it seems to be even better than the ACR. I gotta check the stats between these 2 rifles. The FAMAS is fun again - like I'm sure Dakar said, it has the best iron sights I think.

Leonard · Feb 18, 2010, 04:58 PM

Originally Posted by Jawbone54

I'm about 35,000 away from my first prestige, so immediately afterward I'll be rediscovering the noob tube for a few challenges. I'm sure I'll get sworn out a few times once again.

Yeah, I ran into a team using it more than anything else, on Terminal yesterday. I think I changed matches after that one.