Scootaloo

As far as reporting to NFOservers, I have no idea how to do that.

Funny you mention the authorities. I was handed this guy's personal information from a different site owner. I won't say who, but he's going to be hearing from my lawyer.

Status update: the dude's main account has been trade banned on steam. geel9, the owner of marketplace.tf, intevened in the case and directly worked to get the guy banned. His account had over $5k in items on it. Sweet, sweet karma.

I appreciate it. I'm already over the fact that the hat is gone. There wasn't really any real sentimental attachment to it. I'm mostly upset at the fact that the guy didn't steal from me. He stole from my kids. The profits from that hat were going to be used to make their Christmas awesome this year. But even in hindsight, that still probably wouldn't have happened. The offer was hollow right from the start. I was simply swindled. There's no other explanation to it. I just hope that he desperately needed it more than my children did.

Oh, and the cheeky fucker who scammed me is now embedding pictures and videos of me into his site. That's like, skin-crawling levels of creepy.

Long story short: My Amaranthine Antlers have been scammed from me. They're gone. I fell victim to the most elaborate online scam I have ever seen. I won't go into detail here, as I am too exhausted from all of this to retype everything. I have posts on SteamRep, Reddit, and backpack.tf. So I thought I'd inform you all here. bargain.tf is a scam site. The owner of the site has made off with over $7k in hats so far. Don't even think about using them for any sort of TF2 things. If you want the details, here's the links: [MEDIA=reddit]path=%2Fr%2Ftf2%2Fcomments%2F5gwhzt%2F[/MEDIA] Accepted - Report: 76561197963023702 - ([TF2] Team Fortress 2 Items) | SteamRep Forums PSA: If you are an unusual buyer/seller, steer clear of bargain.tf. The site is a scam site. - Team Fortress 2 Item Trading Safe to say I'm done with TF2 after this. Over three years of uptrading gone completely. And with it, my soul and desire to play. Whoever the dude was that made off with my hat, I hope he sells it for a good amount and can actually use the money. It was just going to go to making my kids' Christmas better, is all. Maybe he NEEDS the cash. I dunno.

Also, who the fuck is @Bach anyways?

I heard whoever banned that Bobby Wow guy was a real douche bag and a dinkleberg. Maybe you should check out who did it and question their integrity or something. =3

RIP me.

I also have a 1:1 crones I haven't sold yet. That won't go for less than 1k And the Antlers are another 750 Lil Bitey? I'm going to guess at least 150-200.

$1.80 is the going rate for cash transactions just about anywhere you will go. If I am in dire need of a video game or a purchase in a different title, I'll happily sell via market, where I can get closer to $2 per key after market fees. I'm not really losing ANY profit. I've spent MAYBE $600-700 total on TF2. I have a good $4k worth of keys and unusuals in value to collect. No way in hell that's losing profit. XD

Hey you asinine ham-spergers. Scoots here with a metric FUCKLOAD of keys for sale! That's right, I have a lot of keys and they are going for hellaciously good prices. If you have a hankering to open crates on Team Fortress 2, but don't want to drain $2.50 per key from Valve, then this is the right place to be! If you are interested in getting a killer rate on keys, please get into contact with me. I'm looking to sell around 600 keys or so, so I have plenty in stock and will be more than happy to work with you! My going rate for keys is currently $1.80 Per Key! Interested yet? You should be! Because that is one SWEET-ASS DEAL. Should you decide that you want to purchase some cheap keys, please start by getting in contact with me, either here, through Steam, or some other way. Let me know that you plan on purchasing. After you contact me and let me know how many keys you wish to buy, I'll send you an invoice for the total amount and you can make a payment to me through PayPal. (I'll provide my PayPal address during the transaction.) Once the funds clear my account, I will send you a trade offer on Steam with the keys you purchased! For you hearty sons-a-bitches here at xG, the only stipulation I will set is that you must have the Mobile Authenticator active in order to make a purchase. If it isn't, your keys will be held for a week and it will cause all sorts of headaches for me on my end, so that's the only stipulation. Typically, there are a lot of other restrictions set in place for these kinds of transactions, such as a specific Backpack value, or a limit on the number of keys you can buy per purchase, but I trust you guys enough to look past all of that. And I'm sure that you guys can trust me enough to know that I WILL deliver to you guys. But if you insist, I will be more than happy to have a middle-man if the trust isn't all there. =) So, if you want some cheap keys, hit me up! I currently have 557 Keys In Stock! Also, feel free to check the first page of my backpack, as anything there is also for sale. I'll cut some good rates on any of the items you see for sale there. I'm accepting both pure and keys for anything on page 1 of my backpack! Mimikyu's Inventory Thanks a ton guys!

This Halloween update is what's driving me to sell, actually. I'm done with the shoddy updates. =(

I still need to buy it. I played during beta, but never got too into it. Perhaps with friends, it's a lot better.

Also, before anyone asks, I have revoked my own forum powers and have set myself back to UberDonator on servers. I killed my own access. RIP me.

I've made the decision, and I hope everyone respects it. I thank you all for the opportunity you have given me to lead this clan, but for the time being, I feel it's best if I call it quits. I won't be gone. I'll still be around. Perhaps one day I may return, if and when xG needs it. <3 The Hardest Goodbye

I can't believe how difficult this is for me. I've written and rewritten this message at least ten times now, and I still don't like the way it's coming out. But fuck it, it needs to be said. My time here at XenoGamers has been amazing. I've made some very strong friendships, made some very fond memories, and helped build this clan into something astounding. If anything, pride is the strongest feeling I have for where xG is at today. I'm proud of our little community. I'm proud of the people who are leading it in the direction it is going. And I am proud of the growth we have made here in our tiny little corner of the internet. With all of that being said, it is time for me to hang up my coat. Ladies and gentleman, I am hereby announcing that, as of now, I am stepping down from the role of Clan Manager here in xG. No tricks. No memes. 100% pure honesty. Some may be wondering why. And to that, I can only say that I have accomplished everything I set out to do, specifically with the Team Fortress 2 division. There was once a time where my assistance was in dire need, and I provided it to my fullest abilities. There were many problems that needed solving, and someone such as myself was required to find the solutions. The time for my assistance has long since passed, so now it's time to turn in the badge. In all honesty, the higher ups are super crowded right now. With the return of @Aegean, our higher ups are in excellent hands, and I honestly feel like the responsibilities of our CMs is spread waaay too thin among us all. So it's with no remorse that I depart from this point, because deep down I know that after I leave, we will continue to operate under some great leadership. And to be quite frank, since we have gotten to where we are at, the desire to play Team Fortress 2 has dwindled heavily. In the day, I find myself wanting to play less and less. It's almost at the point where I am considering selling off my entire inventory, and when someone with a near $5k backpack is considering cashing out, that's a pretty strong indicator that the desire is depleted. Not only this, but with other distractions in life, such as new games to play, responsibilities to oversee, and people to connect with, Team Fortress 2 simply is not a priority at this time. I love you guys. I love this clan. And I honestly feel that it deserves much more than what I am giving it at this time. I have no desire to pursue the game any further. And as much as it hurts me to step down, I feel like it is something I have to do. Please don't think this is me abandoning the clan. I'll still be around. I'll check in occasionally, perhaps hop on a server every now and then, and I'll still be here. I just won't be the guy people turn to to ask questions or ask for help. Thanks for the memories xG. See you, space cowboy. =)

I actually agree with this post. I really do. Before anyone gets up in arms about my stance on it, I honestly feel like this is a responsibility that definitely doesn't need to be stretched across more than 3 or 4 people at max. And I think that it's part of the reason I don't see much motivation in myself to actually get out and do more than I already do. And @DrPepperPhreak raised a good point about my activity and how I am not very active on the forums. I won't lie, I haven't been. I haven't been active in a LOT of the different roles around xG, because I feel satisfied in where we have come to. I feel like I have done quite a lot of work and have put xG in a place where they no longer need me. I don't want it to sound patronizing or sound like I'm claiming sole credit for our clan or anything like that, but I have weathered quite a few storms since I became staff here in xG. Through tough times and happier times, I've made a lot of memories here. But that being said, I simply don't have the drive to keep it going. As I said in my last lengthy post, I don't want it to sound like I'm making excuses either. I'm just going to face facts: I find the desire to even play TF2 anymore dwindling more and more each and every day. The more I analyze it and the more I dissect the issue at hand, I keep ending on the same point: Perhaps it is time for me to hang up my coat and retire from my position. Not because I disagree with how anything is being managed, not because I dislike anyone or have any ill feelings, but more because I feel that all of the things I wanted to accomplish for this clan have been accomplished. When @Aegean came back, I knew things would be in excellent hands, so I have no remorse for leaving. We're honestly overcrowded in the higher ups, and I know deep down I don't do much anymore. I won't kid myself and be blunt. So maybe it is for the best if I called it a night. I love this clan and I love its members. That's mostly what is driving me to this conclusion. It isn't fair of me to hold this position if I am not going to be as active as I used to be, and between two kids, a steady career, and all of the other interests I have going on in my life, there simply just isn't much time for the clan. It isn't anything personal, it's just the truth.

Sure, I'm down! Perhaps we could start by polling the community. Let's hold an open forum to kick ideas around for what we could do with the unused servers. Maybe we can try some new gamemodes or something! :D

This doesn't really help. -_-

Strange. I have been kicking around this very issue personally for quite some time now. It's weird that I was literally logging on to address my inactivity when all of a sudden I'm tagged in a post about that very topic. I don't think anyone here will question my integrity or how much I absolutely love this community. I've been a huge part of this clan for well over something like three years now, and I slowly rose through the ranks until I became CM. As the DL of the TF2 Division, I constantly had my hands FILLED with stuff to get done. Most of which revolved around servers and policing them to make sure people are behaving. The biggest part of my responsibilities involved making sure the servers were running, there were no hiccups, and all of the behind-the-scenes stuff that goes with making sure the servers are operational (such as managing plugins and maps and whatnot). Shortly after I became CM, all of that....went away. I was constantly busy, constantly working on projects, and constantly monitoring bans and problems within the TF2 division. Once I was promoted to help manage the clan as a whole, there was this sudden and jarring shift of me doing absolutely nothing. I'm not kidding. I feel like I do absolutely nothing around here. It feels like all I am necessary for anymore is to help with discussions on Promos and Demos (Which I don't really even input very much into as it is) and making sure they get posted at the correct time. My other responsibilities include confiding with the other CMs when huge issues arise and discussing workarounds, but that hasn't really happened since I became CM. And lately, because of all of this doing literally nothing, I've begun questioning my usefulness as a CM. I'm not really so sure that this many CMs are even necessary, considering the workload of the CMs isn't nearly as heavy as the workload of the Division Leaders, at least for TF2. (I can't speak for CS:GO, I don't have the appropriate experience there.) And because of these empty feelings of not accomplishing anything, I have seriously been kicking around the idea of stepping down. I can't try to pretend that I have an excuse other than there simply doesn't seem to be anything for me to do. While it's true that I teach, have two kids, and am generally pretty busy in my day-to-day life, my night life is usually spent at my computer, so there is no reason for me to not be able to log on every so often. I try to make a point to do it once a week, if just to check how things are going, but maybe that isn't enough. Sure, I can log onto the servers once a week or so, help regulate any rulebreakers here and there, and occasionally smash everyone with the hammer plugin, but that's all it has come down to for me. Vexx raised the point of not having any support from the CMs, but the funny thing is there is literally nothing more for me to do than I am already doing. I monitor the Promo Demos, I interact with staff and answer any questions they may have, and I do my best to resolve conflict within the community. On an outward perspective, that really does seem like I'm not doing anything, and the truth of it is that I'm NOT! But, it isn't out of laziness. It isn't by choice. I didn't choose to do nothing with this position. It's just that there's nothing for me to do. And I hate this feeling of being idle. I've stopped playing TF2 almost entirely since I stopped contributing to the servers. Ever since it stopped being my direct responsibility, I see no reason to even play the game anymore. In a weird way, I think xG was the reason I even kept up with TF2 in the first place. You guys have made this my internet home, and I wanted to repay the favor by making xG as awesome as possible. I guess I succeeded, but by being put into the role of CM, it has completely killed my ambition to keep playing the game. There are times that I sorely miss being the DL. Back when I was in that position, I was super active in the community. All of our regulars knew who I was. I talked and communicated with so many people. But ever since CM happened for me, the communication has slowed to a trickle. I went onto TGH a few nights ago and barely recognized anyone in the server. And I hate that feeling. So at this time, I don't know what to do. I feel like I'm not doing anything, because I truthfully am not doing anything, outside of the very simple tasks laid forth for me to monitor Promo/Demos and to help with staff questions. That's literally it. There are no expectations of me to do anything else, and I guess I've let that govern what I do in a day. And if there's things that I am missing that the TF2 division wants me to accomplish, I simply ask that they communicate those things with me. Am I needed to help with server stuff? Is my presence online required at any given time? I'm on Steam A LOT, so it should be as simple as sending me a quick chat message. But I literally hear nothing. This is the first I've heard of any of the divisions having any issues with my activity. T.T I want Vexx to know that I took no offense from his post. I actually agree with it. Why should we have so many CMs when there is so little for them to do? Perhaps we need to reassess how many CMs are necessary, or find other things for them to do. Silence manages forums, so that much is covered. TF2 servers are under great maintenance between the leaders of the TF2 division. CS:GO is covered by the leaders of the CS:GO division. So where does that leave me? What am I expected to do? Well, I can tell you one thing: I'm sick of doing nothing. =(

Grats to the promos!

A pretty significant amount, actually. Built my own rig. Have done countless custom projects for family and friends. Pretty knowledged in C++, Java, Linux, Unix, Windows, and Mac platforms. I'm basically the go-to IT guy for my inner circle.

Yeah, as Supreme said, the map is on the server, just not in rotation. And due to the high amount of policing the map requires by our staff, it's probably best to keep it that way and only play on it when there's active staff online. =(

Which is probably why I'm not too familiar with our surf server, as I always opt to go to ReSurfed over our own servers. Don't get me wrong. I'm certain our patrons are great and everything, but when I want to go surf on TF2, I'm not looking for a server where people mainly focus on fighting in jails over actually surfing. I want something where I can surf a bountiful amount of varying maps, keep track of my records, and know my completion times. That simply isn't what our surf server is. And I try and keep my views on it reserved, because it seems like every time I express my views on the matter, I get my head bitten off. But whatever you guys want, I guess we'll tailor to. We can totally rid the server of this problem, but it would involve disabling weapons altogether. The only other alternative is enacting a rule that would require mods to enforce, which doesn't really present a permanent solution.