I never said it was an hour later, I just said that we had a double header and didn't want to be waiting around all night for your player who never even showed up. You never said "client problems" or anything remotely useful other than "he's coming soon" until after we starts, which was 20 minutes past start time. I would have been happy to reschedule or work something out if you guys had been more communicative.

And I was wrong about the pause rule, I legit thought it was 2 minutes, it is 5 and I am sorry.

Sunk Costs fallacy. I've been playing too long to stop now.

Plus getting involved in newbie mixes and other projects, going to LANs and the friend's I've made over the years.

And the fading but still lingering hope of making invite some day.

I'm about halfway through and I don't get that vibe from it idk.

Also finally getting around to American Gods and Godel Escher Bach. Damn being out of school means I have so much free time to read :D

Its not just Atlanta, though that is the worst offender, all of the servers go through this stuttering a couple times a match. Never happened to me on any of my NFO servers and especially not now that I rent a VPS from them, always buttery smooth.

100% runs will still be tight.

also reckoner is acutely not fun. pls remove.

Every game I've played on your servers has lagged to fuck at least a couple times, some games being unplayable for several minutes at a time.

Every time one of these posts come up, I become convinced that vanishingly few people understand mental illness and its effects on its sufferers, its diagnosis, treatment/management and outward signs of mental illness.

If you are going to talk about categorically removing a right from someone on the basis of mental illness, you are going to have to make DAMN sure you know what that means and how you would identify it. Do we mean that no one with depression should own a gun? That's a lot of people. Do we mean only those diagnosed with violent antisocial behaviour disorders? (think Sociopathy/Psychopathy), that involves time intensive and repeat assessments with trained clinical psychologists and board certified psychiatrists. Just not reasonable. Post hoc saying "anyone who could do this is obviously mentally ill" is not only not true, but isn't useful in any way. We need behaviours to point to before the fact that warrant the removal of a right guaranteed to us (for better or worse, not relevant to my argument).

With this guy, I think we had a history of him being a little unhinged, with episodes of domestic violence etc. Are those warning signs? Absolutely. But let me be absolutely clear, that isn't ever going to be sufficient for the removal of a right promised to a person by the law of the land they live in. You have to come up with a test that is both sensitive (catches a lot of the people who are actually going to commit a violent crime) and specific (doesn't catch a lot/any people that won't).

The way the law is written, our protections on gun ownership are as important as our protections on free assembly, speech, to vote... whether or not you think that is a good thing, that's the world we live in. If you want to approach the control topic from a perspective of mental illness, you are going to have to revolutionize the way we diagnose and manage those mental illnesses.

Also, can we stop lumping in all mental illnesses? Most people with mental illness are actually really vulnerable, underserved and at very high risk of having violence committed against them.

Here is your workflow for "should I see a doctor"

If your problem is persistent enough, painful enough or worrisome enough that you are starting to wonder if you should see a doctor: you should see a doctor.

Coughing up blood can be anything from a fairly simple bronchitis infection (most common) to tuberculosis to cancer to systemic autoimmune issues that are causing your blood vessels to engorge and leak into spaces they aren't supposed to eventually leading to death of diaphragm and bronchi musculature leading to you dying by suffocation in your own saliva and blood.

tldr dont fucking ask us.

well part of the motivation is surely to help out a community contributor who spends a lot of his limited amount of resources on this game.

I'll do life is strange, complete edition (1-5)

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/56692

and I'll pay you back 100% cause I was planning on buying it anyway and we need you in tip top shape for DHS

Oh I completely agree, sometimes I take a pseudo "moral high-ground" approach to things and say "I shouldnt have to pop here" or something and it does negatively impact our games.

You have no idea how tilted I was when I saw that he still had 125 health.

Ultimately though, instances like that where we took smart fights and lost because of DM are far outweighed by instances where we failed to take smart fights, or took fights that were really bad, or pushed everyone through one door or bled like a fucking aortic dissection or forgot what it means to play an aggressive mid, or didn't focus the focus called player or forgot to make focus calls or allowed a sniper to just walk up to a sightline on me without paying attention or doing the good ole spam and leave but forgetting either the spam part or the leaving part or both.

If it were a DM issue, it wouldn't be as big a deal and would be something we could crawl our way out of, people have bad DM nights, people can improve DM rather quickly with some hours in. If anything, calling it a DM issue is giving our team far more credit than is due.

What, no, I don't want that. That we lost is not the question, but it would be nice if a write-up were made on something other than passing familiarity with match statistics. When I did the open write-ups I absolutely watched almost every game between teams in my top x (which, for 16, is no more than 8 per week and often much lower). Thats all I asked for.

I think perhaps you didn't watch that game. DM isn't why we lost and the rounds were more back and forth than "unable to grab more than two rounds" would tend to indicate.