1,000+ Pages of NeoGAF: The Story of Wasted Lives and Hardcore Salt

[benjipwns]

Battlefield 1942 was revelatory but Vietnam was the one I truly loved. Asymmetrical warfare FPSs.

e: I was also a huge Day of Defeat stan but like no one played that game so I didn't bring it up.

What was your favorite class? I started out on the MG42 and moved over to being a Kar-whore (Axis rifle). So deadly.

I want to be a hipster and say the FG42 class, but sheesh that gun was bad. (Especially the scoped one. )

I liked to skirmish, so the Sturmgewehr and Tommy gun were my bffs. Sure I'd get sniped 4/7 times before I did any damage, but those 3 times where I could sneak around and flank a group of enemies and kill them all...

The K98 was truly a beast.

There was a period where the railguns were the only truly viable option.

By the time of Source I had moved to the STG44/BAR combo. Then reached a transcendent level with those in Source. You only need three-four and two shots to center mass respectively so once recoil ain't no thang...

It's unfortunate that Source never got the love, and maps. Especially Saints, Merederet, Northbound, Escape, Flugplatz, Glider, original Jagd, etc.

Every so often I pop into Donner/Kalt/Avalanche/Flash and cause havoc flanking around with those two guns. And their two grenades.

Especially the nades. Though I don't remember the fuse times as well as I used to.

In like 2007 you did not want to have your entire team on a center cap point where I knew how to throw over a building/arch out of sight right onto it is all I'm sayin.

Used to do it in DoD too but I would miss picking it back up after throwing it down it felt like half the time. There was one map in that where if you threw it right to hit the "roof" it'd drop right down onto center point...delicious.

I'm glad the steam stats don't go back before 2009, now it only looks like I've played a combined 12 hours of DoD and DoD:S ever. Something similar with TF2 which replaced DoD:S...thanks Valve!

[Broseidon]

Played so much DoD:S and CS:S it's unreal.

Avalanche
Donner
Office

[Pickles the Firecat]

Currently living that Borean life brehs. We outchea in these streets for real.

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[Phoenix Dark]

Currently living that Borean life brehs. We outchea in these streets for real.

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#BlackExcellence

[Your Stalker]

Are you sure you're built for that life, friend?

[Pickles the Firecat]

Find me in the bando whippin sour cream on these supremes and say that breh. We stay strapped with these Locos. Sipping on Baja blast like water.

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this is actually the first time I've had Baja blast and shit is terrible what the fuck

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[StealthFan]

baja blast is disgusting. A lot of the Mountain Dew flavors are.

[Joe Molotov]

baja blast is disgusting. A lot of the Mountain Dew flavors are.

[Phoenix Dark]

baja blast is horrible, like all mountain dew. It's amazing how unrefreshing it is. It tastes warm for the first few sips regardless of how much ice you have.

[Himu]

BAJA BLAST HATE?!

AUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Himu]

I can't accept it at all.

[toku]

Hook up all mtn dew flavors straight to the garbage bin.

[Phoenix Dark]

I'll accept baja blast being disgusting but not from a guy who microwaves hotdogs till they're burnt, another guy who drinks mikes hard on the reg, and a formerly homeless.

hard mikes? we off that

Founder's breh.

[Himu]

Fuck all of you

[Phoenix Dark]

that shit is pure sugar, pure acid.


I rarely get drinks at fast food places but when I do, I get the half lemonade/half iced team thing at Taco Bell.

[Your Stalker]

that shit is pure sugar, pure acid.

I'm struggling to find a problem with that.

[Himu]

that shit is pure sugar, pure acid.


I rarely get drinks at fast food places but when I do, I get the half lemonade/half iced team thing at Taco Bell.

I rarely eat at Taco Bell, and I drink soda maybe 2-3 times a year. Who gives a fuck.

[king of the internet]

I'll accept baja blast being disgusting but not from a guy who microwaves hotdogs till they're burnt, another guy who drinks mikes hard on the reg, and a formerly homeless.

I guess we all have our weaknesses.

[Pickles the Firecat]

tbh I don't like soda a whole lot so idk if I'm the best resource, but Baja Blast tastes like stale water from a super soaker

[StealthFan]

I love soda but Baja is complete shit. The only good Mountain Dew is Pitch Black II. Deal with it.

That apple shit, Montezuma or whatever is ok in small doses. I bought a 2 liter at the 99 Cent Only store and I was filled with regret by the third cup. That ain't some shit you drink all day.

[thisismyusername]

We don't have that down souf.

Yes we do. It's called "Krystals." Though, I think they stopped doing the 24 hour thing.

Quizno's is the only sandwich chain I fuck with, I get to make my own abominations then chow down

One day Which Wich will make it to Saudi Montana. You don't even have to talk to people to order, perfect solution for antisocial Bore members()

Oh shit. There's one that opened around here a few months ago. I guess I'll go feed my anti-socialism and check it out. ( )

[parallax]

baja blast is horrible, like all mountain dew. It's amazing how unrefreshing it is. It tastes warm for the first few sips regardless of how much ice you have.

confirming taco bell lovers for having shit taste. but on the bright side, at least you dont like del taco

[tiesto]

I love when people from/near big cities tell everyone else how great local restaurants are and that's all you should support. Try living in Bumfuck, Iowa for a few years and tell us how great the local Mexican and Italian places are.  You might get lucky and have one or two family diners that don't suck. Assuming you live by a major byway.

The truth is that 95% of those 'local' places are run by people with little experience and they have to make food as cheaply as possible (ie. frozen or from a can) to even eke out an existence in those financially struggling places.

I'm one of those anti fast-food/chain snobs (luckily I live in an urbanized area with tons of restaurant options, and can cook a bit), but you'd be surprised what you can find out there thanks to yelp/google searches... I've had surprisingly decent Indian in middle-of-nowhere Connecticut and southern Maryland, decent BBQ in the middle of rural upstate NY...

[CatsCatsCats]

Pouring rum into your large baja blast doe

[Himu]

my dad is racist against mexicans

[Atramental]

Pouring rum into your large baja blast doe

I might have to try that sometime.

[benjipwns]

I've had surprisingly decent Indian in middle-of-nowhere Connecticut and southern Maryland, decent BBQ in the middle of rural upstate NY...

Those places aren't exactly Bumfuck, Iowa. Middle-of-nowhere Connecticut still seems like a suburb of "The City" in comparison.

[Rahxephon91]

Mountain Dew sucks in general. Why the fuck would I even want to mess with Baja Blast?

And I'm not going to buy this "if you can't cook or are in the middle of nowhere" nonesense. You can easily make a Taco that is as good or better then what Taco Bell is. Buy some cheap hamburger meat and then just cook that. Putting in the spices, sugar, and whatnot till it's tasty. You can have meat that what cost you at most $6? last you an entire week. Get some cheeze and lettuce, cilantro, whatever. It's really simple. You don't have to be some top chef to do what Taco Bell does.

Hell, get some Bacon. Grill or put it in the oven for 15mins. Put some peeper on it. You're in flavor country. It's the summer. You don't need to know how to cook to grill stuff.

[Tasty]

I've had surprisingly decent Indian in middle-of-nowhere Connecticut and southern Maryland, decent BBQ in the middle of rural upstate NY...

Those places aren't exactly Bumfuck, Iowa. Middle-of-nowhere Connecticut still seems like a suburb of "The City" in comparison.

I can assure you middle-of-nowhere Connecticut is indistinguishable from almost any bumfuck farm region.

[benjipwns]

I can assure you middle-of-nowhere Connecticut is indistinguishable from almost any bumfuck farm region.

The smallest town in Connecticut is half an hour from Hartford.

[Kara]

By the time of Source I had moved to the STG44/BAR combo. Then reached a transcendent level with those in Source. You only need three-four and two shots to center mass respectively so once recoil ain't no thang...

It's unfortunate that Source never got the love, and maps. Especially Saints, Merederet, Northbound, Escape, Flugplatz, Glider, original Jagd, etc.

Every so often I pop into Donner/Kalt/Avalanche/Flash and cause havoc flanking around with those two guns. And their two grenades.

Especially the nades. Though I don't remember the fuse times as well as I used to.

In like 2007 you did not want to have your entire team on a center cap point where I knew how to throw over a building/arch out of sight right onto it is all I'm sayin.

Wrecking shit from the flanks on Snowtown/Kalt.

I remember when they remade Snowtown into Kalt... was it for Source?... the first time my regular server hit it we all just spammed OMG SNOWTOWN in chat the whole time.

[Tasty]

I can assure you middle-of-nowhere Connecticut is indistinguishable from almost any bumfuck farm region.

The smallest town in Connecticut is half an hour from Hartford.

Small is relative. There are small towns a while from anywhere.

Granted, it's New England, so nowhere is really far from anywhere I suppose.

[benjipwns]

Small is relative. There are small towns a while from anywhere.

Granted, it's New England, so nowhere is really far from anywhere I suppose.

Yeah, but like Mason City, Iowa, one of the larger cities in Iowa, according to Urbanspoon has no Indian food, has four Chinese places (three buffets within a couple miles of each other) one Italian restaurant and five non-fast food Mexican places. It's two hours from Des Moines, the largest city in Iowa. And there are towns smaller farther away from Mason City, let alone Des Moines.

The culinary and cultural infrastructures are entirely different than anything in the Boston-D.C. corridor.

And Iowa's tiny compact to places farther west.

Wrecking shit from the flanks on Snowtown/Kalt.

I remember when they remade Snowtown into Kalt... was it for Source?... the first time my regular server hit it we all just spammed OMG SNOWTOWN in chat the whole time.

Naw they made it into Kalt shortly before DoD went retail I think.

The weirdest part of going back to those old versions is all the doors, Source has no doors anywhere. I prefer a lot of the Source versions though because they have tweaked/added flanking opportunities. Everything seems way more cramped in the OG now. Even Flash.

[Broseidon]

Flash

[Kara]

I had a softspot for grinding maps like dod_caen and unfun meatgrinders like dod_overlord.

There was one map they removed where when you died you had to walk your ass FOREVER to get back to the front. I liked that one too but I can't remember its name.

[benjipwns]

A lot of the old maps did a good job at making it feel like first you were fighting in some farm yard, and then through into a city, over a bridge out to the German bunkers outside it.

The one thing about the old Jagd compared to Source's version is that there was really one big "chokepoint" of three areas that effectively became the frontlines, and the rest of the Allies approach was trying to avoid snipers or small groups of attackers in the city to reach position to fire on the tanks. There was another attack/defend one where all the objectives were on one end but you had ruins of a city to wander through to get there.

I loved Escape where the Germans were trying to blow the bridge to block the allies from crossing it to attack the artillery, and those were the two objectives for the teams but there was a whole city setup and buildings you could go in and multiple flanks all around just to these two objectives.

Like the non-paratrooper version of Glider too. On both sides it just felt like you were slowly battling forward/back as each objective got destroyed. Sometimes pushing forward to create a false front hoping nobody got behind you on a flank. Some of the TF2 maps rekindled that. Making a last stand (or final assault on) at the final objective, the enemies having all the paths to attack from, as you try to hold the last room. Which if the allies got into was this big ol explosion of the main house thing killing everybody and sometimes it'd crash the server. Good times.

Geoff should ask Gerry about a DoD 2/3 instead of Counter-Strike 2 all the time.

DoD's always had that kind of right balance between team objectives and faster paced infantry battles. Call of Duty MW and forward has always seemed like you're just running around in circles instead of there being a sense of a front, while Battlefield's scale is much bigger. Bad Company 2 sorta got close for me, and the destruction changing the map was great, would love to see that in DoD. But I really digress at this point.

[benjipwns]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=863686

This thread is posted every week isn't it...

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=863593

And this one too probably.

[Himu]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=863686

This thread is posted every week isn't it...

[fistfulofmetal]

I was slightly in that situation with my current ex. I felt similarly, not wanting to constantly be messaging her because it seemed needy. But I'm new to this obviously.

I think about why she didn't reach out to me more often but then I think "well, neither was I" so it was like this weird stalemate situation. Oh well, learning experience.

[toku]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=863686

This thread is posted every week isn't it...

This sounds great!

[MIMIC]

I can only lurk for so long.

Baja Blast is the shit and anyone who says otherwise is a terrorist!

[Shadow Mod]

Communication isn't needy.

Also if you feel like you're bothering someone you're actually romantically involved with, consider finding a new partner because really...

[benjipwns]

I'd ask her if I was bothering her but I'm afraid to bother her.

[fistfulofmetal]

Communication isn't needy.

Also if you feel like you're bothering someone you're actually romantically involved with, consider finding a new partner because really...

insecurities are a son of a bitch.

[Shadow Mod]

Communication isn't needy.

Also if you feel like you're bothering someone you're actually romantically involved with, consider finding a new partner because really...

insecurities are a son of a bitch.

You really only get over those hurdles by challenging yourself.

[Rahxephon91]

Mountain Dew sucks in general. Why the fuck would I even want to mess with Baja Blast?

And I'm not going to buy this "if you can't cook or are in the middle of nowhere" nonesense. You can easily make a Taco that is as good or better then what Taco Bell is. Buy some cheap hamburger meat and then just cook that. Putting in the spices, sugar, and whatnot till it's tasty. You can have meat that what cost you at most $6? last you an entire week. Get some cheeze and lettuce, cilantro, whatever. It's really simple. You don't have to be some top chef to do what Taco Bell does.

Hell, get some Bacon. Grill or put it in the oven for 15mins. Put some peeper on it. You're in flavor country. It's the summer. You don't need to know how to cook to grill stuff.

yeah, but if you just want "a" taco, that one dollar wins out over $10 worth of ingredients you're not even going to use most of.  fast food has a place, i don't really understand people who can't see why some people go for it sometimes.
 

Oh make no mistake. I perfectly understand fast food and have eaten Fast Food my entire life. You kind of have to when you live with a single parent who doesn't come home until late.

It's just I don't understand Taco Bell. Which is just Nasty to me.

WI has this chain which I found better.

http://tacojohns.com/

And please. Hamburger is not a worthless ingredient. Neither is chili powder or sugar. That $10 worth of stuff you bought to make Taco's can be used for many other things beyond Tacos. 

[Atramental]

I just drink until I can't feel my face.

That seems to melt away most of my insecurities. 

Not a good technique for long term commitments tho.

[Yulwei]

baja blast tastes like rancid OJ. it is baaad

[Shadow Mod]

Mountain Dew sucks in general. Why the fuck would I even want to mess with Baja Blast?

And I'm not going to buy this "if you can't cook or are in the middle of nowhere" nonesense. You can easily make a Taco that is as good or better then what Taco Bell is. Buy some cheap hamburger meat and then just cook that. Putting in the spices, sugar, and whatnot till it's tasty. You can have meat that what cost you at most $6? last you an entire week. Get some cheeze and lettuce, cilantro, whatever. It's really simple. You don't have to be some top chef to do what Taco Bell does.

Hell, get some Bacon. Grill or put it in the oven for 15mins. Put some peeper on it. You're in flavor country. It's the summer. You don't need to know how to cook to grill stuff.

yeah, but if you just want "a" taco, that one dollar wins out over $10 worth of ingredients you're not even going to use most of.  fast food has a place, i don't really understand people who can't see why some people go for it sometimes.
 

Oh make no mistake. I perfectly understand fast food and have eaten Fast Food my entire life. You kind of have to when you live with a single parent who doesn't come home until late.

It's just I don't understand Taco Bell. Which is just Nasty to me.

WI has this chain which I found better.

http://tacojohns.com/

And please. Hamburger is not a worthless ingredient. Neither is chili powder or sugar. That $10 worth of stuff you bought to make Taco's can be used for many other things beyond Tacos.

It's all worthless if you don't feel like you want to make more meals out of it and it's just going to stink up your fridge. Sometimes you just don't want to make stuff and you're well aware of your own laziness that particular week.

[Kara]

You can talk every day and not communicate. (:'()

Looking at the form of the interaction instead of its function is errable.

[fistfulofmetal]

Communication isn't needy.

Also if you feel like you're bothering someone you're actually romantically involved with, consider finding a new partner because really...

insecurities are a son of a bitch.

You really only get over those hurdles by challenging yourself.

But it takes time and some people still never get over it.

[Shadow Mod]

But it takes time and some people still never get over it.

It doesn't take time really, it's making and taking opportunities. It takes challenging yourself to socialize more, be more open and honest, and to just get closer and closer to who you want to be. And there isn't just one way to do this. Some people need drugs, therapy, and that's fine. But for the most part people have to be willing to make themselves uncomfortable in order to get over it.

[Rahxephon91]

Mountain Dew sucks in general. Why the fuck would I even want to mess with Baja Blast?

And I'm not going to buy this "if you can't cook or are in the middle of nowhere" nonesense. You can easily make a Taco that is as good or better then what Taco Bell is. Buy some cheap hamburger meat and then just cook that. Putting in the spices, sugar, and whatnot till it's tasty. You can have meat that what cost you at most $6? last you an entire week. Get some cheeze and lettuce, cilantro, whatever. It's really simple. You don't have to be some top chef to do what Taco Bell does.

Hell, get some Bacon. Grill or put it in the oven for 15mins. Put some peeper on it. You're in flavor country. It's the summer. You don't need to know how to cook to grill stuff.

yeah, but if you just want "a" taco, that one dollar wins out over $10 worth of ingredients you're not even going to use most of.  fast food has a place, i don't really understand people who can't see why some people go for it sometimes.
 

Oh make no mistake. I perfectly understand fast food and have eaten Fast Food my entire life. You kind of have to when you live with a single parent who doesn't come home until late.

It's just I don't understand Taco Bell. Which is just Nasty to me.

WI has this chain which I found better.

http://tacojohns.com/

And please. Hamburger is not a worthless ingredient. Neither is chili powder or sugar. That $10 worth of stuff you bought to make Taco's can be used for many other things beyond Tacos.

It's all worthless if you don't feel like you want to make more meals out of it and it's just going to stink up your fridge. Sometimes you just don't want to make stuff and you're well aware of your own laziness that particular week.

It's called putting it in the freezer.

i never said it was worthless, but i'm not going to eat hamburger meat every night for a week just to kill one night's taco craving.  and sure, some of the spices and stuff have a shelf-life, but other stuff like cheese doesn't, and same deal there - don't really want to commit to eating a brick of cheese just so i could shave a centimeter off onto one taco.

You can't use cheese in anything else? Who also only gets one Taco? I've never seen anyone get one Taco at Taco Bell. It's at least 3 or 4.

You also don't have to eat hamburger every night. If you freeze it, that stuff can last a while. Do you people not have freezers?

[benjipwns]

You can talk every day and not communicate. (:'()

Looking at the form of the interaction instead of its function is errable.

I think if you're going 50+% of the week not even going through the motions of communicating out of fear it's probably unlikely you're accomplishing anything on the days you do.

Sometimes all you need to do is just send a text or e-mail or something about some silly dumb thing that happened or you did that day or just irrelevancies.

A partner liked to read my e-mails complaining about my cohort/politik courses because it "makes [me] sound smart."

I said that could be construed as an insult.

She said "I know."

[Shadow Mod]

It's called putting it in the freezer.

Ground beef back in the freezer? Nah breh.

[Kara]

I think if you're going 50+% of the week not even going through the motions of communicating out of fear it's probably unlikely you're accomplishing anything on the days you do.

Sometimes all you need to do is just send a text or e-mail or something about some silly dumb thing that happened or you did that day or just irrelevancies.

A partner liked to read my e-mails complaining about my cohort/politik courses because it "makes [me] sound smart."

I said that could be construed as an insult.

She said "I know."

lol a former partner used the Han Solo line on you.

[benjipwns]

and my freezer is tiny, i live in japan, you distinguished mentally-challenged fellow.

Rent a storage garage and turn it into a walk-in with all your CostCo savings.

[Rahxephon91]

You live in Japan. Makers of child porn. I'm not sure I lose.

But seriously, you make it sound like I just stock up on stuff to survive the winter or something. No, I just have things around that I don't need to get Fast Food everyday like that one distinguished mentally-challenged fellow here who says he eats out every day. That sounds dumb to me. Making your own food is no only pretty cheap, but also pretty easy. It can also turn out to be pretty good.

I eat fast food all the time. Just not Taco Bell which I simply don't get.

[StealthFan]

My mom breaks the beef into smaller chunks and I freeze them separately.

[benjipwns]

lol a former partner used the Han Solo line on you.

Who said former? For all you know I have them frozen in carbonite.