Matsi

Ok I really SHOULDN'T be flaming, and I'm not saying you're lying but lord almighty I wish people would stop saying this kind of shit.
 
I remember you, I wasn't around for your ban. Based on all that has been said, +1 for server unban, but I will stand on my stance that I will -1 absolutely any/all member applications you dare make.
 
 

 
I... was punished...? I feel like there is a joke I'm not getting here. Chaos was not punished to the highest extent allowed by law. Which was a gentle tap to the buttock.

I'd like my channel back please, It was right above Bach's, apparently it got deleted already for some reason while I was gone for a few months. Thanks.

I'd like my channel back please, It was right above Bach's, apparently it got deleted already for some reason while I was gone for a few months. Thanks.

Armed robbers used the game Pokémon Go to lure victims to an isolated trap in Missouri, police reported on Sunday.
 
At about 2am in O’Fallon, Missouri, officers responded to a robbery report that led them to four people, all local residents aged 16 to 18, in a black BMW in a CVS parking lot. The occupants tried to discard a handgun out of the car when an officer approached, said Sgt Bill Stringer. The officer then identified the four people as suspects of similar armed robberies described in St Louis and St Charles counties.
 
The adult suspects were charged with first degree robbery, a felony, and had bond set at $100,000 cash, Stringer said.
 
Stringer added that police believe the suspects used the phone app, which directs users to capture imaginary creatures superimposed onto the real world, to tempt players into secluded areas where they could be easily robbed. At a certain level in the game, he noted, players can congregate at local landmarks to join teams and battle.
 
“Using the geolocation feature,” Stringer said, “the robbers were able to anticipate the location and level of seclusion of unwitting victims.”
 
In a separate statement, a department spokesperson added: “you can add a beacon to a pokestop to lure more players. Apparently they were using the app to locate [people] standing around in the middle of a parking lot or whatever other location they were in.”
 
A statement from police quoted from a news article to explain the allure of the game: “Seeing a Pikachu on the sidewalk in front of you is a fan’s digital dream come true.”
 
The department added a warning, however. “If you use this app (or other similar type apps) or have children that do we ask you to please use caution when alerting strangers of your future location.”
 
Pokémon Go warns players to keep aware of their surroundings during their virtual treasure hunt, but after only a few days since its release it has already led people into a string of bizarre incidents. People have ended up in hospitals after chasing nonexistent animals into hazardous spots, and schools, a state agency and Australian police have warned people not to break the law or endanger themselves while “Pokemoning”. The game has also led wanderers to at least one home misidentified as a church, a venue the app considers a public space.
 
In Wyoming on Friday, the game led a teenager to a dead body in a river. “I just got up and went for my little walk, a walk to catch Pokémon,” 19-year-old Shayla Wiggens told local KCWY news. The pursuit led her to a highway bridge over the river, where she jumped a fence to approach the water. She spotted two deer near the water’s edge, and then a black shirt and pants – a corpse lying prone in the water, 6ft to her left.
 
The Fremont County sheriff’s office said in a statement that it was investigating the death, but that they do not suspect homicide. “The death appears to be accidental in nature,” said undersheriff Ryan Lee. Though the water is only 3ft deep where the body was found, investigators said the man possibly drowned.
 
Wiggins said the discovery of a corpse would not deter her from returning to the game. “I might go get a water Pokémon,” she told CNN. “I’m going to try.”

Having a history of "berating and insulting members of the server" should not be used as a means of justifying a player's CT ban. This sort of judgement would better suit a Member Protest since it does not really have a direct correlation to being on the CT side.
 
That being said, intentional or not, OP should take this time to review the MotD rules as there seems to be a lack of judgement on his/her part; especially considering this ban was dealt today and the player has a history of freekilling (found Here). I'd recommend that the offending player remain permanently banned indefinitely until he/she can demonstrate a clear improvement in his/her knowledge of the MotD rules :coffee:

Since the banning staff member said he thought it was an accident, I've shortened it to 2 weeks, as is typical for accidental masses. That being said, do not expect to have bans removed or shortened in the future for accidental things, as CTs are fully expected to be paying attention during rounds and know the rules.

I broke my phone yesterday, the screen completely shattered, and now my parents are really angry at me. My phone is getting fixed because and my parents are making me pay for it/taking away my computer for 3 weeks+. :( I cant even play pkmn go now.

You tried to throw your phone at a pokemon didn't you?

Leaving Xg
You left 4 days ago. You must wait a month before you re-apply.

As you do not meet these requirements, this thread will be closed.
Not to mention that you did actually threaten to leave this clan A LOT.
-closed

Extra point calling the Division Leader of our division "unreasonable" doesn't help you at all.
 
Scripting is still a form of cheating as we explained in the Asriel Dreemur thread. I don't understand why those who use it says it's not when in reality it does give an unfair advantage. Any form of cheating whether it be scripting or full spin botting on any server of ours is an instant perm from the servers regardless. I know for a fact you have seen us ban people for scripting so I don't understand why you think you would be an exception. Charles (Hexx) has been suspecting you of scripts for about 4 days now and I too saw what he was talking about after spectating you while disguised. -1 Sorry dude but I don't think we need anymore cheaters.

Wish you the best of luck in your future endeavours. I didn't personally get to know you, but we had a few good chats in Shout Box.
 
Unfortunately, when something has become so deeply-rooted in a community/clan, it gets to a point where it's near impossible for any improvements to be made. That being said, I'm not the type to give up and label Xeno Gamers as a "lost cause" (not implying anyone is) because frankly, I've had some great times here and I believe some good can still come out of it. Though I agree, some things have become incredibly skewed in terms of law and order, so to speak.
 
Frivolous and otherwise stupid insults or comments are becoming so frequently blown out of proportion that it's getting to the point that it's laughable; this including power-tripping Staff who consider nearly anything to warrant a mute/gag/kick (IE. Calling a Staff Member's decision 'stupid' and then being muted for it) when most [if not all] of these confrontations could simply be talked out.
 
Needless to say, Xeno Gamers has changed. Whether or not it has evolved or devolved is completely up to the discretion of those who actively play on its Servers or what-have-you. I don't blame you for wanting to wash your hands of it, but at the same time if people truly care for the community, they'll stand by it through thick-and-thin to do whatever they can to improve things, no matter how tedious or cancerous things may get :coffee:

It's Team Rocket! Robbing people and shit! It's a feature!!!

Armed robbers used the game Pokémon Go to lure victims to an isolated trap in Missouri, police reported on Sunday.
 
At about 2am in O’Fallon, Missouri, officers responded to a robbery report that led them to four people, all local residents aged 16 to 18, in a black BMW in a CVS parking lot. The occupants tried to discard a handgun out of the car when an officer approached, said Sgt Bill Stringer. The officer then identified the four people as suspects of similar armed robberies described in St Louis and St Charles counties.
 
The adult suspects were charged with first degree robbery, a felony, and had bond set at $100,000 cash, Stringer said.
 
Stringer added that police believe the suspects used the phone app, which directs users to capture imaginary creatures superimposed onto the real world, to tempt players into secluded areas where they could be easily robbed. At a certain level in the game, he noted, players can congregate at local landmarks to join teams and battle.
 
“Using the geolocation feature,” Stringer said, “the robbers were able to anticipate the location and level of seclusion of unwitting victims.”
 
In a separate statement, a department spokesperson added: “you can add a beacon to a pokestop to lure more players. Apparently they were using the app to locate [people] standing around in the middle of a parking lot or whatever other location they were in.”
 
A statement from police quoted from a news article to explain the allure of the game: “Seeing a Pikachu on the sidewalk in front of you is a fan’s digital dream come true.”
 
The department added a warning, however. “If you use this app (or other similar type apps) or have children that do we ask you to please use caution when alerting strangers of your future location.”
 
Pokémon Go warns players to keep aware of their surroundings during their virtual treasure hunt, but after only a few days since its release it has already led people into a string of bizarre incidents. People have ended up in hospitals after chasing nonexistent animals into hazardous spots, and schools, a state agency and Australian police have warned people not to break the law or endanger themselves while “Pokemoning”. The game has also led wanderers to at least one home misidentified as a church, a venue the app considers a public space.
 
In Wyoming on Friday, the game led a teenager to a dead body in a river. “I just got up and went for my little walk, a walk to catch Pokémon,” 19-year-old Shayla Wiggens told local KCWY news. The pursuit led her to a highway bridge over the river, where she jumped a fence to approach the water. She spotted two deer near the water’s edge, and then a black shirt and pants – a corpse lying prone in the water, 6ft to her left.
 
The Fremont County sheriff’s office said in a statement that it was investigating the death, but that they do not suspect homicide. “The death appears to be accidental in nature,” said undersheriff Ryan Lee. Though the water is only 3ft deep where the body was found, investigators said the man possibly drowned.
 
Wiggins said the discovery of a corpse would not deter her from returning to the game. “I might go get a water Pokémon,” she told CNN. “I’m going to try.”

xG has always had some problems, you never had people added and always stuck around Vixen so you didn't see. Only then when you finally spread out, added new people, used your mic and became part of xG did you see the problems with it.
 

These are things xG has got through, and xG has lost way more in a short span of time then recently, i mean just look at PROMO/DEMO - Promotions and Demotions #60. xG has overcome perhaps the biggest obstacles. Also fights between friends happen, that's not necessarily xG's fault.
 

As bello pointed out, if you voiced your concerns to some of the higher staff perhaps something could be done, i'm not blaming you here but it would help everyone if you did.
 

there were always some problems with mods and users ever since i first joined and there always will be. I'm not the only one who helped the servers, a lot of people did, the mods and admins did a whole lot to make the community better, there were some good and bad.
 

While staff should chill out, sometimes it's hard to tell if someone is joking or not and at times especially if the mod doesn't know the person in question making the joke. Though i do i agree that people should chill on that stuff.
 

I wouldn't say heralded but staff were very leniant on it and didn't think it was that big of deal, i think people who insult those who spawn camp should be punished because i don't see much action taken against them. There were always people who didn't like it, but no one ever enforced the !friendly plugin which was the biggest issue. (a plugin that i still thinks needs to be rewritten).
 

The people who cause that drama will be punished, you have every right to give your opinion on the servers and how things are changing and how we can improve from your perspective, however on your end, you need to understand that when someone disagrees with you, they aren't disrespecting you. (Aggressiveness could be improved to help the people who are shy using the forums to voice their opinions.)
 
I don't think you should leave because you're an awesome person and an amazing friend. However it is up to you. I wish nothing but happiness and fun in the servers you play in.
 

It's a lost cause, Bello. If I really, really wanted the situation to be solved, there would be too much drama. Like..Spawncamping and staff abuse used to be these things that I was super passionate about ousting, yeah? These days, I'm just trying to..I'unno. Move along. Enjoy life. Too tired to keep on fighting.
 
In these fights, you end up wrong, and people don't understand that you were misinformed -or- didn't know all of the information about the situation, or you end up right, and it takes a ton of poop-talking and drama before people begin to reason with you. You can't make mistakes anymore. You can't be wrong, you can't be right, it's all so confusing. Why should somebody have to beg for another person to understand? What happened to multiple sides, or perspectives on a situation? Circumstances, y'know?

It's really sad to see ya go, Kitsune.

However, you keep speaking of certain staff members, yet you don't give us any names. Maybe the forums are not the right palce for doing so, but instead of removing me on steam we could have tried to resolve it.
If people straight up punish others for spawncamping, that's abuse. Spawncamping is allowed.
We could have tried to resolve the problem. :(

Howdy, people of the forums, people of the clan, and stranger-people whom I may or may not know. This, welp, is a resignation thread. CTRL + F4 and go to [AUSTRALIUM] to skip everything that I have to say and to get to the point.
 
For those of you who do not know me, my name is Kitsune. I first became active in the community during the earlier days of the clan, under an alternate handle that I won't be sharing here. After a brief stint from Steam, I returned to the clan with my best friend in the whole wide world, @Vixen . Somehow, people ended up under the impression that we were British lesbians. This was, unfortunately, not the case. We had many good experiences in the clan together, which for me, were some of the very best years that I ever spent playing Team Fortress 2. There was an undying sense of kinship and community. Yeah, we dicked around with each other and made jokes at each other's expense, but at the end of the day, it felt..clean, I guess. Everybody was having a great time. We were friends. Things were good.
 
I don't know what happened.
 
I really wish that I knew what happened.
 
Somehow, Xenogamers went from this little tight-knit community of people with only a few servers to play on into a very ambitious clan, with the same financial troubles, arrogance, and struggles that a clan has. There were scandals, such as the Nomulous Incident. There were fights between friends over stupid things. And there were major losses in the community. So many nice players either left, changed, or did both things. Some people matured and kept that playful spirit inside of them, while others became egotistical, arrogant, or just plain annoying.
 
The egotistical part is where poop hits the fan, people.
 
In the good old days of Xenogamers, people were cool to one another. This included mods-to-users. A great example is Vector's brief tenure as a staff member. Within weeks, he got multiple great (at the time) staffers promoted, cleaned up a huge amount of problems on the servers, and made it an overall better place. I don't remember if it was him or Bach that organized competitive TGH servers, but that was a ridiculously fun, albeit short-lived affair in our division's colorful history.

Kitsune, why are you bringing this up? Some of you may ask. Well, it's because back in those days, it didn't exactly feel like staff were..you know, above you. It felt like everybody was equal, and able to be friends with one another. These days, any jokes or allegedly derogatory terms towards xG can result in a staff warning. What was heralded as legendary in the past, Spawncamping is now a stigma that the administrators punish, despite both parties having enjoyed it back then. With gratuitous enforcement of the "Don't complain, use !friendly" policy, it helped to keep the community organized and the regulars..well, regular. Nobody was fighting. Things were good.
 
Now, there were dark times in those days, and for those of you who remember them..well, feel free to share. But I'm sharing my standpoint and experiences on here. And to me, those bad times are what I see pretty frequently these days. A lot more poop-talking happens. Respect for your fellow user has fallen to an all-time low. I don't just say this because I'm a recipient of it, but because a lot of people have been affected by this. Folks are hurt. From rude stuff whispered behind (allegedly) closed doors, to open arguments and insults over the most petty things, the community standards for xG have gone down a whole lot.
 
Maybe things could of been different.
 
[AUSTRALIUM]
To me, Xenogamers is, and always will be, a community. It never was this super-badass clan, it never was this ambitious ruler of competitive play. It'l always be a place where you can go to make friends..in practice. Maybe things will change. Maybe things will get better. But for now, maybe forever, I'm out. I can't involve myself in a group where people can't show each other respect without an administrator or moderator threatening them.
 
Now, I'll also say this. Xenogamers also has kind, awesome people who contribute to the community. Some of the newer clan members, such as @ThunderLimes , @Ceyahdev , @Prism/Blue/WHATEVER YOUR NAME IS NOW, have definitely shown signs of being easygoing, cool, friendly, etcetera. And I hope that things end up getting better for xG, that the whole sense of community ends up coming back.
 
Chances are, if you see me on Team Fortress 2, I'll be spawncamping someone, somewhere. Cheers.
 
- Kitsune

Mkay, So some clearifcation for this ban, and an unban will be followed by this post-
I will be owning up on this I do think (to my memory) I wrongfully perm'd him, however he did freekill 1 or 2 people (in no way a perm) the resaon though he was permed, at the time there was two users on.
One went by towlie: STEAM_1:1:23078084 steam id as followed currently perm ct'd, story behind this in spoiler below-
 
 
Second user-
Edgar allan poe STEAM_1:1:147369643
Story in the spoiler
 
 
 
@Bombor
I do apologize for this perm on you, wrong place wrong time, accidental free kill lead me to thinking you were with them, sorry buddy.

Scripting isn't against the rules, nor should it be. You wont get banned by VAC for it and the only place you could have an issue is in comp league play...
 
Scripting is an intended feature of CSGO, there are specific console cmds that allow you to easily set up and run scripts.
 
Scripting is not the same as a hack... scripting can be as simple as making an alias or bind to jump with your mousewheel, it could be a script that turns your mouse sensitivity up while you're holding a key so that you can 180 backstab ;) it can be sooo many things....
 
Being good/experienced at the game gives you an unfair advantage. Having a surround sound headset gives you an unfair advantage, having a good computer build or fast internet gives you an unfair advantage....
 
Now... I'm sure most of you will disagree and be like "SCRIPTING IS NOT ALLOWED" so my next point is:
 
You guys are banning this kid for "allegedly" using a script... based on his fucking chat.... LOLOL.... this is completely absurd.
 
I couldn't bare to watch a 20+minute demo but the first like 5 minutes of it the kid was doing shitty at bhops.... like.... completely horrid bhops... Where is the evidence of the script besides extra spaced chat messages....?!

lol....
 
I mean.. I can see how it "gives an advantage" if this is true, but there's also keyboards that are capable of doing this themselves too... and I mean it's not really much different than binding jump to mousewheel.... shouldn't be worthy of a ban though. +1

Scripting isn't against the rules, nor should it be. You wont get banned by VAC for it and the only place you could have an issue is in comp league play...
 
Scripting is an intended feature of CSGO, there are specific console cmds that allow you to easily set up and run scripts.
 
Scripting is not the same as a hack... scripting can be as simple as making an alias or bind to jump with your mousewheel, it could be a script that turns your mouse sensitivity up while you're holding a key so that you can 180 backstab ;) it can be sooo many things....
 
Being good/experienced at the game gives you an unfair advantage. Having a surround sound headset gives you an unfair advantage, having a good computer build or fast internet gives you an unfair advantage....
 
Now... I'm sure most of you will disagree and be like "SCRIPTING IS NOT ALLOWED" so my next point is:
 
You guys are banning this kid for "allegedly" using a script... based on his fucking chat.... LOLOL.... this is completely absurd.
 
I couldn't bare to watch a 20+minute demo but the first like 5 minutes of it the kid was doing shitty at bhops.... like.... completely horrid bhops... Where is the evidence of the script besides extra spaced chat messages....?!

[spoiler=How to properly vouch]
[spoiler=How to properly vouch]
Here is where I'll explain how to vouch for a player, and what to do&not do.
When vouching attachFull24093/attachFull24095s for any applicant - you should at least have these following reasons:
 

Is he/she active? Or not.
Does he/she listen to rules or admin directive when given? Or disrespect & break rules?
Is he/she fun? Or way too obsessed with his/her scoreboard?

We want cool, relaxed members - not try-hard douche-bags, so,
When vouching attachFull24094's - we don't need things like "Good warden, cool guy or good player" by it's self - we are not a skill based community.
 
As well. You should only attachFull24097 if at least the above requirements are met & based off at least the three reasons above - not if you hate the person, or based from skill. Do not attachFull24098 an application due to the reason "He/she asked for attachFull24096's" etc. Your vouch will be considered invalid and not count.

That being said... From what I saw, he thought that applying to the forums was the same as joining the clan. He removed the tags the moment he was asked to without arguing. He's kind and not a kill whore. He understands the rules or at least listens when told he's doing something wrong and learns from it. Activity could be a little better but this is membership not staff so +1
A: 5
M:8

lol....
 
I mean.. I can see how it "gives an advantage" if this is true, but there's also keyboards that are capable of doing this themselves too... and I mean it's not really much different than binding jump to mousewheel.... shouldn't be worthy of a ban though. +1

lol....
 
I mean.. I can see how it "gives an advantage" if this is true, but there's also keyboards that are capable of doing this themselves too... and I mean it's not really much different than binding jump to mousewheel.... shouldn't be worthy of a ban though. +1

Been receiving multiple steam friend adds where they say they are an admin to a betting site and can force the site to give me the win that they'd want me to screenshot to advertise them....
 
The site he linked me to was rateskins(dotnet) !!!DO NOT GO THERE!!!

This is obviously a scam as they would not provide me a link to any "winners" nor would they be willing to give me the skins to accomplish their alledged goal.... despite the fact that they "take 10%"
 
 
Basically... this is just my trolling of the guy a bit before removing and blocking him and a warning to you guys to watch out for this scam!