http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pAC0YSmK0g

This just about sums it up.

I hate this racist prick banging on about Islam and how scared he is about it, but I do agree with this video

Yeah instead of your lungs weed puts chemicals into your brain! How nice.

Why do you think people have 'blackouts' after drinking alcohol where they simply can't remember what they did? It's because your brains shuts down its higher functions because alcohol is a TOXIN and it will damage your brain.
Almost all drugs affect your brain, including alcohol, but tobacco does not because tobacco companies have breeded the plant to produce a little high to keep you smoking those cigarettes... That's why people smoke fewer joints than if they were smoking cigarettes, because joints are so much more satisfying! I used to smoke tobacco, 6+cigs a day which wasn't that extreme, but I could easily make 2-3 joints last an entire weekend and not touch an tobacco (except to mix my joints to help it burn) .
Believe it or not, tobacco used to be psychoactive, but the tobacco companies have made that 'high' negligible.

Quote from: Yuri Sergig on June 24, 2011, 08:45:21 AM

I blame valve.

Who never tells about a update ahead of time.

Or checks that it even works before releasing it.... this isn't the first time that I've not been able to play GMod due to a compulsory update

OOC Part
Steam name: [GM] I Eat Chich
How long have you played CG?: 1 week, I've been playing on SeriousRP servers for 3+ years
10-15 lines of RP as specified job:
** Citizen walks into the shop
Steve: Hello sir, how may I help you?
Citizen: What food have you got?
**Steve gets out of his chair.
Steve: This way sir.
**Steve picks up the placard showing the items for sale
Steve: Today, we have a special offer on Breen Water! Two cans for the price of one, it's a very good price!
Customer: Hmmm... where do you keep your nutrition supplements
Steve: If you'd care to follow me this way
**Steve leads the customer over to a display cabinet full of supplements
Steve: They are not only legal under Civil Authority guidelines, but they're even recommended for daily use!
Customer: No thanks, do you have any books? I've finished reading a book on anatomy and I was wondering if you had any more books.
Steve: Ummm... we don't have any in stock at the moment, can I leave you with Sesmo for a second to talk to my supervisor? I just need to help repair a chair a previous customer broke.
Customer: Yeah okay, that's cool.
**Steve walks behind the counter and up the stairs, taking his Request device out of his pocket.
Steve *whispering*:Stephen Jessup, 0199, Union Gift store, there's a customer who is in possession of Level 3 contraband books.

Backstory of your character (1 paragraph at least!) (Sorry it's a bit short):
Steven Jessup had worked at a Tesco Supermarket before the 7 Hours War. Steven had no children as he had only just left school with very few qualifications and could not afford to feed people other than himself.
When the Combine invaded London, Steven at first welcomed their presence as he believe that their name sounded like Communist, and one of the few books Steven had read was Karl Marx's book on communism.
Steven was at first excited by the prospect of becoming financially equal to his more intelligent peer.
When the UN surrendered, Steven was arrested and rounded up in a labor camp awaiting deportation. He was severely beaten by the Combine after they found this book by Karl Marx and Steven knew then that these people had not brought equality with them.

IC Part
Name: Steven Jessup
CID: 01993
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Blue
Previous experience with selling things: I used to work for Tesco's before the Combine took over
Wanted job: Support or Checkout guy
Approximate weight: 10st 9lbs

OOC Section


OOC Name: [GM] I Eat Chich

IC Character Name: Mike Noir

1) Please write a minimum of 3 paragraphs OOC'ly detailing why your character wishes to join the Combine Civil Authority and what lead your character to do so.

Before the 7 Hour War, Noir worked for a manufacturing company that produced calculator parts, which had its assets stripped and production moved abroad to China. From that moment, Noir knew what true hunger felt like. He could not feed his three children on welfare and he lost his youngest child to malnutrition as the recession took a deeper hold on his community and the welfare he was promised could not even provide basic sustenance to the millions of people left destitute by the second Great Depression.

When the Combine arrived, the hunger which he thought had been true before was nothing compared to what he felt now. Determined to survive, Noir stole from fellow citizens as his community resisted the occupation and therefore rations were withheld. After a month of Combine occupation, Noir weighed 3/4's of what he weighed before the occupation. Noir was determined to secure more food for himself, even if this meant working against the community that once supported him.

Noir doesn't particularly feel a love for the Combine, and he feels that their occupation has made matters worse. He's treated like a slave, starved, beaten and humiliated and the only way he can escape this suffering is by joining the CCA. Noir marched into the application office determined to become a recruit and work his way up through the ranks, in turn receiving a weapon to defend himself against people who also felt the need to survive by stealing from others, and receiving enough rations so he would not lay awake for many hours, his insomnia induced by the great hunger he felt constantly.


2) Please detail your characters traits. (Eg, Pure, Lawful, Trustworthy)

- Determined/Perseverance
- Unmerciful
- Cruel
- Loyalty to the most powerful organization present
- Uncompassionate
-Severely malnourished

3) Please provide 2 paragraphs about what you are expecting the Combine Civil Authority to be like for you and your character?

OOC'ly

I expect to get pushed around as a recruit which is what should happen in HL2RP. I don't expect to be given much forgiveness for any mistake I make so I won't make any mistakes. I've been in the CCA before on Kuromeku's community (the name has slipped my mind) so I know that I've gotta take orders from my superiors. I'm hoping that I'll get involved with the Inquisitor side of the Combine, the guys who extract information from citizens; before you ask, I'm not a sadist, I feel that my roleplay is of a very high quality and this position offers a very good method of showing my skills.

IC'ly

Noir knows that he's going to have to accept being not much better off than the common citizen for a while. He won't be recieving a fantastic amount of rations, so he will not be in prime physical condition, so he must not be too lenient and unperceptive to anti-citizens as they only have a slight disadvantage in physical build. Noir needs to be prepared to hand out cruel and unfair punishments if his superiors ask as they can have him terminated whenever they wish; they're not his friends, he knows that, so he has to be just as afraid of them as he is of the rebels.

4) Please provide a detailed back-story from an out-of-character perspective on your applying character. This section must be detailed and consist of a minimum of 300 words.

When Noir first got fired, he was shocked. He knew that life was going to be difficult once he had no source of income, but the welfare state could keep him and his children alive at the very least. The company he worked for, Casio Calculators, had sold off the property and the first Mike knew of his unemployment was when he approached the building at 9am on a Monday morning and was faced with a 'CONDEMNED' sign.
Mike went home and informed his children that he didn't have a job anymore, and that for the moment they couldn't buy new clothes or go on holiday during the summer.

Mike started receiving his welfare cheque a week after he lost his job. At first, the welfare allowed him to live relatively comfortably, whilst obvious making cutbacks, but nothing so major that it affected his children's lives.
Then, one morning, Mike was watching the television when the news reporter's coverage of the troubles in Burkhina Fasou was cut short; the camera switched over to the Financial sector of CNN. On the screen, there was a projection of a plummeting graph indicating that the FTSE 100 and many other major stock markets were crashing. The dollar was worth virtually nothing, and his savings may have just as well been burnt. Mike lost everything in a matter of hours.

The next winter was extremely tough. The welfare fund was slowly drying up as more people became unemployed and it had to be spread even further, and eventually he couldn't afford the bacon he usually cooked for his family every morning. Mike cancelled his heating payments in order to be able to buy himself and his family two meals a day, and they mainly consisted of bread. His youngest child, Dave, fell ill with pneumonia as his house was so frighteningly cold. Dave died within two weeks of falling ill, and Mike never recovered.

During the summer, there were shimmering blue lights, called Portal Storms, that deposited frightening monsters around the town. 
"Am I going mad? Has Dave's death really affected me that much?" Mike asked himself.
But he knew he had not been driven insane; half of his town had moved into Cleveland after fleeing from the monsters that Mike frequently saw roaming the fields. Mike refused to leave and so did many of the other people in the town; they gathered arms and fought off many of the monsters. They did not fight as effectively as they could have since many were so hungry that they could not even hold a gun without shaking, but they held off the monsters for many weeks.

Then the Combine invaded; nobody could believe it. The news arrived in the morning that gunships from some unknown country, which Mike now knows were not even from any country, were flying across America and slaughtering the armed infantry that were fighting so desperately to defend the country. The war felt like it had raged for years due to the intensity of the fighting, but in reality the UN declared that their forces were surrendering to the Combine after a mere 7 hours.

Mike was arrested by the Combine for simply being outside of the city and was deported to City 17 where he now resides. He was forced to leave his children behind when he was arrested and Mike remains convinced that they have been deported to some other city. At first in City 17, many of the citizens rebelled, refusing to believe that Earth had simply given up. Mike refused to join in as he had heard the blood curdling screams that penetrated the walls behind where so many of the rebels were tortured.
As a result of the resistance, many rations were withheld and Mike feared he would died from starvation. They recieved barely 1000 calories per day and were made to work backbreaking hours for their new 'benefactors.'
 Mike realized he had to join the Combine as soon as possible as he grew frightened when he could see hair falling from his head due to the starvation.

OOC Details

1. How long have you played on role-playing servers in general? Five years, starting from when World of Warcraft first started out. On Garrysmod? Over 3 years.

2. How long have you played on serious servers? Over 3 years

3. How long have you played on Catalyst Gaming? I joined perhaps a week ago (only registered on the forums today), I grew tired from the HL2RP many months ago but I felt I should perhaps try playing again and I came across your community by chance xD

4. What Time zone are you in? GMT +0

5. In what country do you live? England, UK

6. How old are you? 16

7. What’s your most memorable quality RP experience? I was detained by the Combine on a HL2RP server. They told me that there was another person in the room next to me, and we were both gagged so we could not cry out. We had 10 minutes to tell the unit that we felt the other should die and it was a test to show how long we could cope under the pressure. I caved in first, tapped on the window and indicated that the other guy should die. The unit said he was disgusted at my cowardice and walked in with  pistol. He conducted a mock execution which drove my character insane.

8. Do you consider yourself a good listener? Yup, if it's a roleplay situation I will follow suit, such as carry out orders from my superior. If it's an OOC situation, my own feelings may come in to play and i may disagree if i feel the order/statement is incorrect or wrong but i'm always ready to accept criticism.

9.Other notes- I'm a Super Administrator on Gerbil Mountain which is a Real Life Serious Roleplay community (www.gmservers.co.uk)

IC Section


Full Name: Michael Noir
CID: 68041
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Height: 6 Foot 1 Inches
Hair Colour: N/a (Bald)
Eye Colour: Brown
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Weight: 9st 6lbs
Mental Distinctions: N/A
Mental Defects: Depression in the past.
Mental Advantages: Clinically diagnosed psychopath (Diagnosed by Dr Wengstrom after UN surrender)
Notable Qualities: Understanding of mechanics and knowledgeable grasp of anatomy

1. Have you ever been detained or apprehended for a Sociostability Infringement before? If so, explain? Yes, I was detained and deported to City 18 after the UN surrendered to the Combine.

2. Do you regularly eat Combine Civil Authority Issued Rations? Yes

3. Are you willing to give your life to the cause of the Universal Union? Yes

4. Do you as a Citizen and future Civil Protection Member accept ALL actions performed by you and those under your command as your OWN responsibility?Yes

5. Will you remain loyal and faithful to the Universal Union as long as you live?Yes

6. Why do you want to join the Combine Civil Authority?

I want to enforce peace and make sure citizens comply so they can recieve rations and therefore decrease malnutrition prevalent in this city.


Please sign the attached oath using only blue or black pen.

I, Michael Noir hereby swear my mind, body and soul to the Universal Union forever so long as I draw breath. I do so knowing that my actions will be held accountable to me and solely myself. I also declare my knowledge that as a Member of The Universal Union that I will be required to perform tasks above and beyond as well as perform ANY task ordered to by ANY commanding person(s). I hereby acknowledge the fact that as a Civil Protection Task-force Unit that I will be losing most, if not all, communication and or past relationship with anyone outside of the Universal Union's operational bounds.

ACCEPTED FOR INTERVIEW.

Accepted.