A lot of stuff has happened while I've had my 2~ months summer break and it's all really made me realize that I'm completely wasting my time while I'm at CG - spending all day sat on my ass not doing anything, not keeping up with my friends and not really doing anything.

I tried planning a massive big post to seem really cool and such but I'm bad a that sort of thing so this is basicly me saying that over the next year (starting within a few weeks till about June next year) I'm not going to be on CG anywhere near as much as I am now, at least I plan to not be anyway.

I simply don't have a life right now, I want to spend more time with my friends in real life and actually get social, rather than spending all my time worrying over little things online and literally getting wound up about stuff that I shouldn't be. So I'm going to go out more, with my current friends and probably make a few new ones, start hanging out a lot more and doing shit, you could call it "doing a roflwaffle" I guess, although I don't have the money or hotwings to acquire a woman yet.

I don't know how severely this will lower my activity, and to be honest while I want to spend all my time doing shit IRL I know that probably won't happen, so I'm probably making a big deal out of nothing - but I guess this is also sort of summing up my summer and what I've learned rather than just a "I might not be around as much" post. So yeah. Dunno what to say really, I'll still be on Steam and sometimes the servers, but realizing how much time I've wasted is really quite suprising.

yuh~

I'm sorry this seems like a massive drama post considering I'm just going to be "a bit more inactive", but anyone who was like me should try and just... not sit on their computer all day, the shit I realized I've missed out on is awful, and considering in a year I'll be 18 I don't fancy spending my birthday on my computer...

Basicly I really, really want to host an event where maybe 6 or 7 units (and possibly citizens too?) are locked in a building or some sort of complex, and a series of "tests" or challenges are given to the group, and they will have to work together or possibly against each other to succeed.

Basicly suggest ideas for tests/challenges or for the even in general here, or discuss the idea its self and what you think of it and stuff.

Sorry for spelling and grammar and the lack of sense in the post, it's very late (early), but I hope you get the idea~

I felt left out so I made this, I doubt there will be many questions but whatever, I'll answer probably anything here, serious stuff only okay??

Go.

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi0KFyGWK1U" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi0KFyGWK1U</a>

I still don't know why I got them, never had them since either. Anyone else had them? They are so freaky holy shit.

Odd title but basicly this guide will instruct you the basics on roleplaying in a scenario where a Unit is arresting and detaining someone. Shorter guide this time, too.

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Step 1 - Environment
First thing to do is check your environment. You're probably in the middle of the plaza, near the nexus, with other units fairly closeby - along with the one detaining a man. This means that the CCA is probably watching you in one form or the other, which also means you wouldn't really want to commit any civil offences right now.

Step 2 - Avoidance
Crap, someone you know is being detained! This doesn't mean stand still and stare at them with no roleplay at all. Sure it's okay to watch (if it's a single low ranking unit doing the detaining) but you need to do some passive rp. For example "/me takes a quick step back as the unit detains the man, trembling slightly." It's not perfect but the most likely choice for a citizen would be to turn around and walk away from the scene. Think about it - you don't want to be next, do you?

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Its short but whatever most citizens don't seem to realize any of this stuff.

If anyone has any ideas or requests for another guide give 'em to me yes.

Due to the number of "minge runners" or people just unfairly running from RP, I'm going to write a short OPINION BASED guide on how to fairly escape from a Unit or any RP in general.

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Step 1 - Check
First of all, are you sure you could make an attempted escape in-character? Assuming you're a citizen in the city you're most likely very underfed and weak - is it even possible for you to try to force an escape from an encounter with a unit? Maybe a recruit or an 05 - but think about these things before even beginning to plan an escape/run.

Step 2 - Planning
Okay, so for whatever reason you feel that your character has a decent chance of being able to force an escape. Great, now we start planning. How are you going to escape? You can't just "/me runs" - that's pretty lame. Are you going to try and smack the Unit in the face before trying to run off? What about trying to push him over? This should still be checked against your strength and the Unit's rank, I'm sure you know but you're not going to be pushing over Officers in the city.

Step 3 - Escaping, part 1
Now it's time. Think about your actions both IC and OOC. A good example would be something like "/me thrusts a closed fist towards the Unit's facemask before attempting to run past him." This is good because not only is there zero powergame (a Unit can easily respond with an attempt to block that - here's where PTL(play-to-lose) and deciding between each other who would "win" comes into play). Let's say the Unit is nice and lets you succeed. Great! Time to sprint off I guess?

Step 4 - Escaping, part 2
NO - please please don't just hold shift and run off at this point. This is the most important part! STAY there to continue roleplaying with the Unit! Neither of you can successfully /me your actions while sprinting across the Plaza! Stay with the Unit and keep doing /me's such as "/me is successful in running past the unit, he picks up pace as he runs off around the corner." - which could then be met with a Unit's response "/me slowly recovers from the sudden hit, drawing his pistol as he tries to take aim." - you get the idea, LET the RP continue, don't just run off - it's an RP server after all.

Step 5 - Escaped
So now you've got away after some lovely detailed /me's and role play - so now you run back into the Plaza and have another go? Well it would make a lot more sense for your character to try staying low at this point, you don't want to be found right now after all. Well done for presumably getting this far and NOT mingerunning off!

Hello in this thread we discuss e3! Which should be streaming by IGN (probably) on 5-7th of June which is next week tuesday

http://www.e3expo.com/show-info/1481/exhibitor-list/ <-- list of people exhibiting

I'm looking forward to:

Bethesda
Crytek
Deep Silver
Sony Online Entertainment (most looking forward to these guys, should be Planetside 2)
Take-Two
Valve (it's fucking valve, hopefully they talk about more than just CS:GO/DoTA

discuss:

Ok so my current PC is:

Operating System
   MS Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit SP1
CPU
   AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+   
RAM
   4.0GB Dual-Channel DDR2
Graphics
   AMD Radeon 5770
Hard Drives
   200GB Seagate
   150GB Seagate

I'm sorry if I made you jealous with my PC, anyway...

I know what I'm doing with computers, but I wanna get opinions on what I should get, as it's my birthday coming up and I'm planning on totally upgrading my PC. The one issue is, neither me or my parents have enough money for an AMAZING PC, or hardly enough for a mid range one, so I was thinking getting something like an AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4GHz, which would inturn require a motherboard & RAM upgrade, so I was planning just any old AM3 mobo & 4/8gb ram, I just can't get it cheap enough, really I can't go over £300 (fuck yeah cheap parents & unemployed teen), so wat do?

tl;dr need a new pc, keeping graphics card, very low budget, pls help

also dont link me prebuilt crap, I'm looking into getting a barbones bundle though cause they're sometimes pretty cheap