ANGER
1. Who did you last get angry with? Probably Eric, probably for not shutting up.
2. What is your weapon of choice? Throwin' them bows.
3. Would you hit a member of the opposite sex? Punch? Absolutely not. Get with? If she's cute.
4. How about of the same sex? Punch? If they start the situation, I have no qualms causing a death. Call it my TKD influence. Get with? No way.
5. Who was the last person who got really angry at you? Someone at Oakridge behind my back.
7. Do you keep grudges, or can you let them go easily? I keep, but I'm willing to drop with good reason. Sloth
1. What is one thing you're supposed to do daily that you haven't done in a long time? Lift weights.
2. What is the latest you've ever woken up? 7pm-ish, day after I got home from Space Camp.
3. Name a person you've been meaning to contact, but haven't: My brother, my cousins.
4. What is the last lame excuse you made? I'm busy playing games that night, how about another?
5. Have you ever watched an infomercial all the way through (one of the long ones...)? Yeah, for some reason I found the Ronco cooker hilarious.
6. When was the last time you got a good workout in? My black belt test, but even that didn't leave me destroyed.
7. How many times did you hit the snooze button on your alarm clock today? Just once, only time I did this week. GLUTTONY
1. What is your overpriced yuppie beverage of choice? Bawls.
2. Meat eaters: white meat or dark meat? White. Chicken > *
3. What is the greatest amount of alcohol you've had in one sitting/outing/event? Umm.. two drinks? I had a small buzz going and had a blast. Yay for responsible drinking.
4. Have you ever used a professional diet company? Nope.
5. Do you have an issue with your weight? Not since about seventh grade, after that I started to grow up and thin out.
6. Do you prefer sweets, salty foods, or spicy foods? Spicy and salty.
7. Have you ever looked at a small housepet or child and thought, "LUNCH?" wtf? LUST
1. How many people have you seen naked (not counting movies/family)? 3.5 or so. More halfway than all the way.
2. How many people have seen YOU naked (not counting physicians/family)? 2? 3?
3. Have you ever caught yourself staring at the chest/crotch of a member of your gender of choice during a normal conversation? Once or twice.
4. Have you "done it"? Nope. I don't know why that surprises some people.
5. What is your favorite body part on a person of your gender of choice? Face, without question.
6. Have you ever been propositioned by a prostitute? I've had some pretty odd girls offer me some odd things, but that hasn't been one of them.
7. Have you ever had to get tested for an STD or pregnancy? STD? No. Pregnancy, well, I won't answer. GREED
1. How many credit cards do you own? No credit, per se, just a check card.
2. What's your guilty pleasure store? Game-skins.com.
3. If you had $1 million, what would you do with it? Live off of it so I could do whatever I wanted for a job and not worry about money.
4. Would you rather be rich, or famous? Rich.
5. Would you accept a boring job if it meant you would make megabucks? A question I haven't decided. I think it would come down to whether or not I had a family already.
6. Have you ever stolen anything? Cookies, 5 days a week.
7. How many MP3s are on your hard drive? Roughly 1900. PRIDE
1. What one thing have you done that you're most proud of? Found my niche.
2. What one thing have you done that your parents are most proud of? Probably the smorgasbord of academic crap.
3. What would you like to accomplish in your life? Get a job just knowing everything about video games, being semi-famous (in a Frasier Crane kinda way), find my soul mate and marry her, and raise a kid or two.
4. Do you get annoyed by coming in second place? No, because that means I reached the finals.
5. Have you ever entered a contest of skill, knowing you were of much higher skill than all the other competitors? A few times, playing video games. It can be really fun if the gap isn't *too* big.
6. Have you ever cheated on something to get a higher score? Sure.
7. What did you do today that you're proud of? I can't think of anything. ENVY
1. What item (or person) of your friends would you most want to have for your own? Scholarship money.
2. Who would you want to go on "Trading Spaces" with? Mike Belske, he'd make my place look pimp.
3. If you could be anyone else in the world, who would you be? If not Brandon Boyd, I'd stick to myself.
4. Have you ever been cheated on? I have a good feeling I haven't been, though it's possible that I could have been lied to.
5. Have you ever wished you had a physical feature different from your own? Maybe darker skin, but that can be fixed.
6. What inborn trait do you see in others that you wish you had for yourself? A little bit more outgoingness wouldn't hurt.
7. Do you wish you'd come up with this survey? Hell no, this survey sucks. Finally, what is your favorite deadly sin? Lust. FAITH
1. What religion do you follow? Nothing.
2. What religion were you raised as? Religion-less.
3. Do you believe that forgiveness is a religious property, or a human property? Humans can forgive one another for stuff they've done wrong. Whether they should be willing to is up to them.
4. Do you believe in magic? Nah.
5. What was the last promise you broke? I'll call you back.
6. Have you ever said the words to a prayer and not meant it? I've never said the words.
7. Do you believe that anyone could be perfect? Relative to me, yes. HOPE
1. Did you get everything you wanted over the last holiday season? Nope.
2. Regarding your future, what is the best thing you could hope for? A combination of love and money.
3. Do you let yourself get your hopes up for something even if you know that there is a large chance of failure? I've outgrown it.
5. Have you ever bought a lottery ticket? Nah.
6. Do you gamble? The voluntary stupid tax? No.
7. Have you ever had something called off on account of bad weather, but then gone ahead and done it anyway? Like what? "Sorry honey, gotta cancel sex tonight, weather's bad out." *unf unf unf* (?) CHARITY
1. What causes do you support? Animal rights, human rights. Let's not fix starvation or disease, though, because we're overpopulated.
2. What causes have you given money or time to? Only money of my own was to fight multiple sclerosis. Hypocritical, but I have the impression that MS is treatable.
3. Have you ever worked in a soup kitchen or done another kind of outreach for the homeless? No.
4. Would you ever consider joining the Peace Corps, Amnesty International, or another travel-inherent worldwide charity group? No, I'd travel just for myself.
5. Do you give money to the homeless on the street? No, they all want booze.
6. Have you ever helped out a friend with basic needs, like rent or food? No.
7. What's the greatest extent you've gone to help a friend in need? I've had to talk one down from suicide. FORTITUDE
1. What are you most afraid of? Being cheated on.
2. What did you do today that was really brave? I let my dog outside. HOLY MOLY, was that ever a tense moment.
3. Who is your favorite superhero, and why? Superheroes suck.
4. Would you put your life in danger to rescue someone? Provided I could get myself out of the situation.
5. If you were to face the Wizard, would you want more courage, more brains, or more heart? Brains. BRAAAAAAIIIIIIIINS.
6. Have you ever gotten stage fright? Way too much for a singer.
7. Do you consider yourself to be a leader or a follower? Leader. JUSTICE
1. Have you ever been summoned for jury duty? Not just yet.
2. If they reinstituted the draft (for both genders), would you go, or would find some way out of it? Get me out, send the non-college-bound hicks across the street.
3. Do you support capital punishment (the death penalty)? For the annual population reduction of 30 people, it's not worth the fight. I do believe in vigilante justice, though.
4. Do you believe that Dubya is rightfully President of the USA? Hell no, we've suffered a coup d'etat and we haven't done a damn thing about it. We're all turning French.
5. What was your favorite media circus trial? I hate those things. I'd like to see them put the media giants on trial for making us all dumber.
6. Have you ever written a letter to a politician? I've done a few fill-in-the-blank emails. TEMPERANCE
1. What do you have the hardest time moderating yourself on? Horniness. Hey, you look hot *humphump*.
2. Do you collect anything? Dust. There's dust all over this damn desk and I just wiped it down.
3. Are you addicted to anything? Caffeine.
4. Have you ever put anything on layaway or used an installment plan? No way.
5. What's your preferred method of paying for things? Very much debit.
6. Tell us one thing you wish you hadn't let yourself do? I really don't have many regrets.
7. Do you feel that you obsess over things? Some things. PRUDENCE
1. Who is the wisest person you know? Lou.
2. Have you ever participated in a vigil? Religiously, no, but if video games count then tons.
3. Do you take advice when it's given? Only when I ask a small number of people for it.
4. What area are you wisest in? Anything but biology.
5. Do you drive defensively? Yeah. I probably spend too much time in the fast lane though.
6. Have you ever had unprotected sex outside of marriage? Nope.
7. What did you learn today? I am really, really psyched to go to Austin. Finally, what is your favorite cardinal virtue? Truth/honesty/whatever you want to call it. I'm a lover of the truth.
1. Who did you last get angry with? Probably Eric, probably for not shutting up.
2. What is your weapon of choice? Throwin' them bows.
3. Would you hit a member of the opposite sex? Punch? Absolutely not. Get with? If she's cute.
4. How about of the same sex? Punch? If they start the situation, I have no qualms causing a death. Call it my TKD influence. Get with? No way.
5. Who was the last person who got really angry at you? Someone at Oakridge behind my back.
7. Do you keep grudges, or can you let them go easily? I keep, but I'm willing to drop with good reason. Sloth
1. What is one thing you're supposed to do daily that you haven't done in a long time? Lift weights.
2. What is the latest you've ever woken up? 7pm-ish, day after I got home from Space Camp.
3. Name a person you've been meaning to contact, but haven't: My brother, my cousins.
4. What is the last lame excuse you made? I'm busy playing games that night, how about another?
5. Have you ever watched an infomercial all the way through (one of the long ones...)? Yeah, for some reason I found the Ronco cooker hilarious.
6. When was the last time you got a good workout in? My black belt test, but even that didn't leave me destroyed.
7. How many times did you hit the snooze button on your alarm clock today? Just once, only time I did this week. GLUTTONY
1. What is your overpriced yuppie beverage of choice? Bawls.
2. Meat eaters: white meat or dark meat? White. Chicken > *
3. What is the greatest amount of alcohol you've had in one sitting/outing/event? Umm.. two drinks? I had a small buzz going and had a blast. Yay for responsible drinking.
4. Have you ever used a professional diet company? Nope.
5. Do you have an issue with your weight? Not since about seventh grade, after that I started to grow up and thin out.
6. Do you prefer sweets, salty foods, or spicy foods? Spicy and salty.
7. Have you ever looked at a small housepet or child and thought, "LUNCH?" wtf? LUST
1. How many people have you seen naked (not counting movies/family)? 3.5 or so. More halfway than all the way.
2. How many people have seen YOU naked (not counting physicians/family)? 2? 3?
3. Have you ever caught yourself staring at the chest/crotch of a member of your gender of choice during a normal conversation? Once or twice.
4. Have you "done it"? Nope. I don't know why that surprises some people.
5. What is your favorite body part on a person of your gender of choice? Face, without question.
6. Have you ever been propositioned by a prostitute? I've had some pretty odd girls offer me some odd things, but that hasn't been one of them.
7. Have you ever had to get tested for an STD or pregnancy? STD? No. Pregnancy, well, I won't answer. GREED
1. How many credit cards do you own? No credit, per se, just a check card.
2. What's your guilty pleasure store? Game-skins.com.
3. If you had $1 million, what would you do with it? Live off of it so I could do whatever I wanted for a job and not worry about money.
4. Would you rather be rich, or famous? Rich.
5. Would you accept a boring job if it meant you would make megabucks? A question I haven't decided. I think it would come down to whether or not I had a family already.
6. Have you ever stolen anything? Cookies, 5 days a week.
7. How many MP3s are on your hard drive? Roughly 1900. PRIDE
1. What one thing have you done that you're most proud of? Found my niche.
2. What one thing have you done that your parents are most proud of? Probably the smorgasbord of academic crap.
3. What would you like to accomplish in your life? Get a job just knowing everything about video games, being semi-famous (in a Frasier Crane kinda way), find my soul mate and marry her, and raise a kid or two.
4. Do you get annoyed by coming in second place? No, because that means I reached the finals.
5. Have you ever entered a contest of skill, knowing you were of much higher skill than all the other competitors? A few times, playing video games. It can be really fun if the gap isn't *too* big.
6. Have you ever cheated on something to get a higher score? Sure.
7. What did you do today that you're proud of? I can't think of anything. ENVY
1. What item (or person) of your friends would you most want to have for your own? Scholarship money.
2. Who would you want to go on "Trading Spaces" with? Mike Belske, he'd make my place look pimp.
3. If you could be anyone else in the world, who would you be? If not Brandon Boyd, I'd stick to myself.
4. Have you ever been cheated on? I have a good feeling I haven't been, though it's possible that I could have been lied to.
5. Have you ever wished you had a physical feature different from your own? Maybe darker skin, but that can be fixed.
6. What inborn trait do you see in others that you wish you had for yourself? A little bit more outgoingness wouldn't hurt.
7. Do you wish you'd come up with this survey? Hell no, this survey sucks. Finally, what is your favorite deadly sin? Lust. FAITH
1. What religion do you follow? Nothing.
2. What religion were you raised as? Religion-less.
3. Do you believe that forgiveness is a religious property, or a human property? Humans can forgive one another for stuff they've done wrong. Whether they should be willing to is up to them.
4. Do you believe in magic? Nah.
5. What was the last promise you broke? I'll call you back.
6. Have you ever said the words to a prayer and not meant it? I've never said the words.
7. Do you believe that anyone could be perfect? Relative to me, yes. HOPE
1. Did you get everything you wanted over the last holiday season? Nope.
2. Regarding your future, what is the best thing you could hope for? A combination of love and money.
3. Do you let yourself get your hopes up for something even if you know that there is a large chance of failure? I've outgrown it.
5. Have you ever bought a lottery ticket? Nah.
6. Do you gamble? The voluntary stupid tax? No.
7. Have you ever had something called off on account of bad weather, but then gone ahead and done it anyway? Like what? "Sorry honey, gotta cancel sex tonight, weather's bad out." *unf unf unf* (?) CHARITY
1. What causes do you support? Animal rights, human rights. Let's not fix starvation or disease, though, because we're overpopulated.
2. What causes have you given money or time to? Only money of my own was to fight multiple sclerosis. Hypocritical, but I have the impression that MS is treatable.
3. Have you ever worked in a soup kitchen or done another kind of outreach for the homeless? No.
4. Would you ever consider joining the Peace Corps, Amnesty International, or another travel-inherent worldwide charity group? No, I'd travel just for myself.
5. Do you give money to the homeless on the street? No, they all want booze.
6. Have you ever helped out a friend with basic needs, like rent or food? No.
7. What's the greatest extent you've gone to help a friend in need? I've had to talk one down from suicide. FORTITUDE
1. What are you most afraid of? Being cheated on.
2. What did you do today that was really brave? I let my dog outside. HOLY MOLY, was that ever a tense moment.
3. Who is your favorite superhero, and why? Superheroes suck.
4. Would you put your life in danger to rescue someone? Provided I could get myself out of the situation.
5. If you were to face the Wizard, would you want more courage, more brains, or more heart? Brains. BRAAAAAAIIIIIIIINS.
6. Have you ever gotten stage fright? Way too much for a singer.
7. Do you consider yourself to be a leader or a follower? Leader. JUSTICE
1. Have you ever been summoned for jury duty? Not just yet.
2. If they reinstituted the draft (for both genders), would you go, or would find some way out of it? Get me out, send the non-college-bound hicks across the street.
3. Do you support capital punishment (the death penalty)? For the annual population reduction of 30 people, it's not worth the fight. I do believe in vigilante justice, though.
4. Do you believe that Dubya is rightfully President of the USA? Hell no, we've suffered a coup d'etat and we haven't done a damn thing about it. We're all turning French.
5. What was your favorite media circus trial? I hate those things. I'd like to see them put the media giants on trial for making us all dumber.
6. Have you ever written a letter to a politician? I've done a few fill-in-the-blank emails. TEMPERANCE
1. What do you have the hardest time moderating yourself on? Horniness. Hey, you look hot *humphump*.
2. Do you collect anything? Dust. There's dust all over this damn desk and I just wiped it down.
3. Are you addicted to anything? Caffeine.
4. Have you ever put anything on layaway or used an installment plan? No way.
5. What's your preferred method of paying for things? Very much debit.
6. Tell us one thing you wish you hadn't let yourself do? I really don't have many regrets.
7. Do you feel that you obsess over things? Some things. PRUDENCE
1. Who is the wisest person you know? Lou.
2. Have you ever participated in a vigil? Religiously, no, but if video games count then tons.
3. Do you take advice when it's given? Only when I ask a small number of people for it.
4. What area are you wisest in? Anything but biology.
5. Do you drive defensively? Yeah. I probably spend too much time in the fast lane though.
6. Have you ever had unprotected sex outside of marriage? Nope.
7. What did you learn today? I am really, really psyched to go to Austin. Finally, what is your favorite cardinal virtue? Truth/honesty/whatever you want to call it. I'm a lover of the truth.
So someone took it upon themselves to write a complete history of Capture the Flag as it pertains to Quake3. I loaded up this second part in a three-part series just to see if my old team, [warp], was in there. I don't know why they would be - few people remember [we are reasonable people] and the few who do remember us as either great sports or really funny goofasses.
Yes, goofasses.
Then there it was, in the review of a post-season setup for one season of CAL: The seeding for the East division play-offs were #1 Evolution, #2 Eradicate, #3 Affliction, #4 Massive Destruction, #5 Killers Inc, #6 Virus.23, #7 [warp], and #8 kfc.
And that was it.
#7, warp. Barely hanging in at the top of the pile. Could easily lose their spot to one of the many other teams out there, but somehow managed to make it in. That is the historical note of [warp] - a decent competitive team. Great buncha guys to play with. Etc.
There was a time when my life revolved around [warp]. I loved every second of it. I'd say one of the top 3 experiences of my life was Quakecon 2001 spent with "the [warp] thugs and friends," as they came to be known. Those guys were my best friends. I spent every second of that weekend laughing uncontrollably. And I even played well. I really, really belonged with that group of people.
So then it fell apart. CTF died - hence the writing of the history. [warp] had died sometime before and I've only really managed to keep in touch with one player, a guy who's me with an extra four years. Those guys were the impetus for my choosing Austin - at the time I reveled in the idea of living on fast-food, caffeine, and gaming like I did during Quakecon, and spending an entire four years laughing uncontrollably like I did for four days during that sweltering August of 2001.
So everyone outgrew the game. The older members grew out of gaming altogether and got jobs and made lives for themselves. The younger members run into each other every now and again and YELL STUPID THINGS IN ALL CAPS LIKE THE OLD DAYS!@??!!?!@??? Life will sadly never again be what it was playing in [warp]. But it's a memory that I'll never give up. Thankfully, that clan made history with someone else. And like the [warp] that was true to its day, few people will really understand what that clan was worth to its players.
[we are reasonable people] - 2000 - 2002
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I am 55% addicted to Counterstrike. What about you?
The old answer to the Michelle Branch FAQ "are you single?" question:
My guitar is my boyfriend. The new answer to said question:
Wouldn't you like to know ;) Is she no longer single? :~(
My guitar is my boyfriend. The new answer to said question:
Wouldn't you like to know ;) Is she no longer single? :~(