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Ronan Condon
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| quote: bunny's column:sam doesn't want to play online q3 ever, and when he does his machine stutters or gets terrible isdn pings to uk. ronan's office has one of the biggest connects in ireland, but suffers from some wierd horrible pl during game, me and nicky have to go somewhere else to play because of it. we get there and i am sick, so i don't practice except for one duel, but then again we havent played a war since last week, the computer i have to use has the only special shaped spastic keyboard in ireland with a huge mouse, why do we put ourselves through this pain? they rightly destroyed us on ospdm5, i wouldve been disgusted if they hadn't.
i hate writing "bitch columns". people read them and think "sore losers", or write little "lol" messages in the comments and laugh away, instead of considering that what the guy is saying might actually be genuine. last night was another little episode in a long series of shit irish connections. lots of the little "net gays" seem to have a huge problem with losing games, but we actually don't, as long as we arent being shit on. i don't mind losing a game to a team that is better, it's a learning experience, you pick up on stuff the other guys were doing, you say, fuck, they had that 4th guy come back through there after quad and he did blah which led onto blah and made it hard for us to do blah or whatever. when you lose to a team that is better, you sponge up their tactics and decide how you are going to do shit differently next time.
but when you lose to a team that you know you could easily take, when lose because of your fucking everlasting connection problems, it's the most frustrating thing in the world, and would put me off quake3. last night, i was on a 48ping to bw from this ul connection, which has recently been upgraded to a 155mbit pipe. should be the most savage connect in the world but it's not. every 2 seconds, a huge spike. monstrous thing that caused the guys i was trying to shoot to "teleport" around at about 8-10 feet/sec. i meet a spawner on osp5 and empty a plasma gun into him. 50 bolts, not one beep. fuck that. i'm sick of this shit. vorosha has moved into a gaff in limerick that has adsl, and we thought "fuckin deadly, we can get two lads in there to play". maybe we can, and will be well cool if the guys in the house dont mind, but last night of course bunny has some sort of fuckin flu or something, naturally this only happens when we dont have a sub to play for him. or a sub for me, as i watch guys teleport around the level like fuckin star trek. anyway....beast is on form and starts rocking on dm14tmp, koopa seems to have something wrong says his connect is gone to shit, but fuck it, hey we're winning so i decide to play it safe, stick by the guys coz if i'm caught on my own on this connect i'm dead. we are 10 ahead when we go for quad, get both quad and bs, and belt back to ra. the enemy team attacks, i die, and obviously don't see who did it, i'm lucky i know what part of the level i'm in the way this connect is going. a battlesuited lagged koopa dies at the hand of a weak rl carrier. the other team closes the gap, takes the ra and holds their lucky little lead for the rest of the game, picking up kills from the likes of me spawing in ra more times than i can count.
the end result on dm14 is 104-95, lk winning by 9 kills. this is the second best team in our group at the moment, supposedly one of the best in france...?? how many times have they played dm14tmp? how many nights a week do they play, be it as a team or as individuals? if that's the best that they can do against a team who have played about 40 online wars, and with 3 team members in trouble.....if thats the best that they can do, then they are shite, and that's what makes it worse when you lose to them. how do you explain to someone with a net connection that you actually dont play online, that you dont have an internet connection, or in our case, 2 of the team dont have computers??. that the only practise nd gets is on this shitty connect once a week in official bw wars, that before the bw league, the only games we had played for 6 months before were at two weekend lans where we played a total of maybe 30 wars??
what would be perfect, absolutely perfect, would be if our connections were fine, and every one of these teams beat the living shit out of us. i would love that, i could say "yeah, we havent played fuck all, they are way more experienced than us, and they deserve the win". but they dont, all these teams that have been playing for ages and ages, when our connect isnt too bad they barely beat us, and that's the sickener. i have no doubt that on lan, nd could field a team, say bunny koopa beast and jay, with myself or overlord as coach, and would rape, not just beat, rape every single one of those teams we have to play in this league that are winning because of our connections. and don't take my word for it, look at fh, with savage members like lorcan, dest, vincent, stuck down in the shitty depths of division 3d, being beaten by muppets, because they can't get a decent connect. just as well bio is full of europeans or the irish representation in the bw league might as well throw in the towel altogether.
what's the story? why do we live in a country that has the shittest telecoms situation on the planet? fuckin ethiopia has better connections than us. the thoughts of having a decent connection in the gaff, its like something imaginary. look at bunny, he lives in my gaff, doesnt own a computer. sits down last week on osp6 vs kr and boxes the living shit out of them. outsmarts the enemies he meets (on a third of his ping) and busts them, comes out way on top of the game. imagine what that guy could do with a bit of practise on a decent connection. well i fuckin give up. we have to play xeno tonight, and if we get the same bullshit problems that we have been getting since we entered this league, we might just give up altogether.
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