its always nice to see a modemer connecting to a server while you're sitting on a smooth, crisp 50 ping, 0% pl. it even nicer when they start to blow themselves up, freeze in midair, and try to rail you while you lag them out even more with some plasma spam. try to remember how disadvantaged these guys are when compared to lpb's. people say q3 is unplayable on isdn...

think how much these hpb's suffer. if you're feeling angry about something, or depressed or whatever, you can load up q3 and take it out on a load of newbies on an enlish server... or you can have a clan match or something. modemers can only get more frustrated and angry when they get lag-killed by an icq-using cable fag9t who doesn't even strafe! this affects their whole life! imagine you're feeling suicidal or totally pissed off at something. a lpb can find some respite on a q3 server, or if you find that head-wrecking, you can always play qw or something, but you'll have low ping no matter what. modemers do not get that respite, but will only be sucked into a deeper depression. instead they're in exile - no modem leagues, no modem clans, 1 uk modem duelling league which non-uk people are not allowed enter.

davoc put is best: jumping across center on dm3, getting the megahealth on q3dm11, rocket jumping to ra on t4... you can always rely on your good old friend spike to show up.
to add insult to injury, esat are cutting out nolimits. for the past year, modemers always had one advantage over most irish lpb's.... they weren't spending a load on phone bills. that is set to change as these poor hpb's will be paying per minute for a frequently interrupted 4k/s download and ping of 200. so the next time you see someone fall into the fog of death, only to spring back out and kill himself with his own grenade, consider the 40 seconds he spent connecting only to be mocked by spike.