Entry 32

I’ve noticed that part Antilia community doesn’t go “I have a bad computer than yours, yet I’m doing better than you are!” or “I have the highest lag in this game due to my distance, and I can kill the strongest Iichii!”

In comparison of what happened to me a few days ago this week, a player, on a tf2 server I’m a regular on, has bit of a boasting-elitism trait, similar to Trixie. In a new event map, Payload Race Helltower (plr_hightower_event), for the fifth Halloween event, I was on a team against a stacked team—which can be really annoying to face or be part of. No fun in it if it’s too easy or too difficult. The player—who I’ll call, White Dog—wanted a medic on the team. I replied, “Don’t look at me, I’m bad as a medic.” I was a pyro at that time. White Dog remarked in team chat, “Sure you are, you’re bad as a pyro too.” At least I was trying my best to prevent the enemy team to get to their objective, and to progress ours. White Dog joins the other team, and then mocks, “You can’t hit someone with 500 ping, what a shame. Not even 700 ping.” It’s hard to hit someone you don’t see coming, when getting ambushed by 3 others, and when your own team is nowhere else in sight to help you out.

Of course, I reported this to a respected head admin of the server—despite it fell to deaf ears for a few days before it got addressed. White Dog’s excuse was, “It’s not my fault my internet is that bad; my brother uses it to download while I play,” who also joins the server at times with or without White Dog and I don’t have much of an issue with his brother. Basically, he was avoiding the issue, believing it wasn’t his fault for anything.

For whatever reason, White Dog has some sort of vendetta against me. Ever since I came back to that server after a few months break, he’s been nothing but hostile to me. Verbally I should say when given the chance.

I have yet to see this in Antilia as up this date this entry is posted, witnessed or victimized. Even though the only thing that can really be boasted is catching a rare fish or able to take on three yellow Iichii at the same time, alone, and barely live. Also, makes me glad I made friends with some of the commute, like Fang and Nalena. They play more of my style, and it’s hard to find players who play to have fun and, at times, screw up and still laugh about it. And not have arrogant blind grudges against one another.

That being said, a TF2 server I recommend is joe.to. [link to www.joe.to], known from "The Locals". Yes, that’s how I first heard of the server and, sorta, jumped the band wagon to go to the server for laughs. Eventually, I had to take a break from tf2 altogether for a few months, clear my thoughts and wait for that community's fame to die down a bit before joining again. It was getting attention by players who were trying too hard to be in an episode by spamming in the mics, giving regulars and new players a headache, with no break in sight; basically hard to communicate between team members when needed.