Steam Name:Johanan Steam ID: STEAM_0:0:24673942 Character Name: John Strangerman Reason for the switch: Misclicked
Time when it happened(if mis-click) I guess around 10 PM yesterday.
L 03/02/2012 - 22:44:18: Johanan has loaded the character 'John Strangerman'. (Whoops) L 03/02/2012 - 22:44:21: worldspawn has killed John Strangerman. (Fucking worldspawn) L 03/02/2012 - 22:45:56: "Johanan<28><>" disconnected (reason "Disconnect by user.") (Realized I loaded my city character)
In a stunning move that has civil libertarians stuttering with disbelief, the U.S. Senate has just passed a bill that effectively ends the Bill of Rights in America.
The National Defense Authorization Act is being called the most traitorous act ever witnessed in the Senate, and the language of the bill is cleverly designed to make you think it doesn’t apply to Americans, but toward the end of the bill it essentially says it can apply to Americans ”if we want it to.” This bill, passed late last night in a 93-7 vote, declares the entire USA to be a ”battleground” upon which U.S. military forces can operate with impunity, overriding Posse Comitatus and granting the military the unchecked power to arrest, detain, interrogate and even assassinate U.S. citizens with impunity.
Even WIRED magazine was outraged at this bill, reporting:
Senate Wants the Military to Lock You Up Without Trial …the detention mandate to use indefinite military detention in terrorism cases isn’t limited to foreigners. It’s confusing, because two different sections of the bill seem to contradict each other, but in the judgment of the University of Texas’ Robert Chesney — a nonpartisan authority on military detention — “U.S. citizens are included in the grant of detention authority.”
The passage of this law is nothing less than an outright declaration of WAR against the American People by the military-connected power elite. If this is signed into law, it will shred the remaining tenants of the Bill of Rights and unleash upon America a total military dictatorship, complete with secret arrests, secret prisons, unlawful interrogations, indefinite detainment without ever being charged with a crime, the torture of Americans and even the ”legitimate assassination” of U.S. citizens on right here on American soil!
If you have not yet woken up to the reality of the police state we’ve been warning you about, I hope you realize we are fast running out of time. Once this becomes law, you have no rights whatsoever in America — no due process, no First Amendment speech rights, no right to remain silent, nothing.
So the United States is a warzone? Still needs to pass the supreme court and Obama though.
I wrote this up as a way to get a discussion started on these issues, to you it may be restating the obvious, but I believe that the issues should be discussed.
Spoiler tagged for wall of text
Spoiler for Hiden:
Status of the Administration
The current status of the administration is a wreck. The main problems I have with the current status of the administration will be explained in full detail below. Subjects to be expected would be issues such as the imbalance of administrators and the promotion of players to administrator status. This in no way is aimed at any person of the current administration.
I will start off by stating the obvious, the imbalance of administrators in the servers. As most of us have noticed their are considerably more administrators on "Half Life 2 Role Play" than their are on Orange Cosmos Role Play. As a result of there being very little administrators dedicated to OCRP or visiting OCRP, the amount of rule breakers is increased. Options for this problem in OCRP could be handled three ways; Let the players handle it, Promote more players to administrator, or force administrator activity onto OCRP.
One of the reasons I believe is a cause of the imbalance between servers is that HL2RP provides a better role play experience as well as not being called every five minutes to something like OCRP. Certain administrators have stated that playing OCRP as an admin will quickly make you hate it, hearing "Admin!, admin!" every five minutes giving you no time to role play at all. As going into HL2RP where the there are more administrators the workload is less, and simply because of the way the gamemode is scripted it decreases the chance of rule breaking. This would sound appealing to some, if not most administrators, as they would not have to tend to the need of every player on the server leaving no time for them to role play.
These options each have their pros and cons. First off, letting the players handle it would never be the right decision, players are not administrators and do not have the power to stop out of control situations. The ban request process is slow and only a handful of people do it. Second off, promoting more administrators, it could seem like the best option, if the community is undermanned for its population you hire more administrators. Problems with this method being, that hiring more administrators could lead to a higher chance of admin abuse, admin abuse can lead to players not thinking too highly of the community and possibly leaving. The third option, forcing administrators, could seem harsh and lead to unhappiness among the team, not a very good option, but could work.
This brings me to my next topic, promoting administrators. The position of administrator can easily go to ones head, and I can see why community owners would prefer to handpick rather than take in applications. But perhaps just having the applications there gives an idea about a persons capabilities and experience. The applications would also be kind of a pool of players who want admin, sure it may be hell sifting through it to find the "good" candidates, but in the end a community would have an administration team. It's simple to lye on an application though making this an area for people to "charm" their way to admin. Overall this method is faster and provides administrators with a list of people to look out for in game so they can observe their actions to make better judgement of the player.
Restricting the application process in a way such as stating that users who post an application without a certain time of membership and amount of posts will be warned, or making it so only those with a certain number of administrators/players supporting them can post a thread. These are purely suggestions, but this article is not about suggestions. Placing restrictions on the ability to post an application could weed out most of the "bad/new" players from the "good/old" players. The application itself may need reform, making an application more formal such as; name, age, time played, and references could assist the process.
Overall, with some careful reform to balancing administrators between servers and promoting administrators, the issues could be solved, bringing back administrator applications or balancing the servers are both options, but I'm sure they're not the only options we have. As I have covered Letting players handle the imbalance of administrators is ridiculous and definitely the worst choice. Hiring more administrators to cover OCRP would work, but would give a higher chance of admin abuse. Forcing administrators would work at the cost of the administrators "enjoying" their position and possibly stepping down to role play where they want. Receiving applications is a disaster waiting to happen, but with careful regulation can be an excellent way of promoting more administrators. In the end, every option has its pros and cons, but they are listed for consideration to pick the ones in which the pros would outweigh the cons.
Written by Johanan Strangeman
tl;dr
Spoiler for Hiden:
read it
Discuss, don't flame, ARTICLE IS OF MY OPINION, YOU MAY OR MAY NOT AGREE.
I felt that a reintroduction was in order because so much has happened to change me since I first came to CG.
Hello CG, I came here a while back under the name uubucks, somewhere around the middle of March. I loved the server as at the time I was stuck on finding servers that were like HRP. In April I signed up for the forum, mostly because I wanted to further my RP. However going from DarkRP to HL2RP was a difficult change, so I kept to myself, some people I met in HL2RP would be some good RPers, one I did like was JesusFreak.
While playing HL2RP I saw the announcement of OCRP coming back, this was a surprise for me. After a while of treating OCRP like a joke as I thought it to be I got serious and bored of "trolling" and actually started RPing. A dramatic change for me, this led to what many members would see as my "Banning Sprees" As I continued to play OCRP I met some old friends and made new friends. I joined Murder Then Exterminate under Jack Mehoff. While at OCRP some friends I would make in the coming months would be people like Lonedestroyer, Acornman, CrazyNinja, and KaB00M.
I began to attempt to talk with admins because all I'm going to say at the moment is I have a social disorder, I hate talking and find typing a lot more comfortable. My "Banning Spree" got me friends, enemies, praise, and hate, but in the end, I see these guys as friends and ignore the hate. Some special notes, to lonedestroyer, I thought you to be a bastard, you posted your "Pony faggotry" but as time went on you "converted" me to a brony you bastard you.
Jiggerfrizz, although you may not be here now, you were a great admin and a good person, hope your life goes good for you.
Acornman, I probably talked with you the least, but I think you're a great man and a good friend.
Commence wall of text for servers I already have favorited.
Anyone who is still in school can post here, if you haven't had your first day yet, reply with what you expect it to be like, if you had it a while ago, try to recall it. I'll start
I went into my first day in my Junior Year(11th grade in K - 12) of high-school today and had to write 4 pages(Front and back, so 8 pages) on U.S. political theory. Kind of a boring day.
so how did your first day go? Don't post stupid replies/lies(This is not spam)
Steam Name:Johanan Strangeman Steam ID: STEAM_0:0:24673942 Character Name:Johanan Strangeman Admin who issued PK:I don't know. Reason for Un-PK: BECAUSE I WANT TO BE ZOMBIE =3
Seriously, I'm just seeing if it is possible for me to get my original character un-pked, it's been a few months.
We will start going down the list on august 1st. Until we get more people to sign up, the list will be repeated.
If we have any players here I might set up a succession game. Anyone in?
A succession game is when the player will play for 1 year (In game time) and name the expedition leader after him. The next player will appoint a new expedition leader and repeat the process. This goes on until people give up or the fortress fails.
Rules
- Do not intentionally destroy the fortress! - Have fun! For those who have no idea what Dwarf Fortress is...
1. Johanan 2. (My brother loves dwarf fortress and is quite good at it sooo, my brother, he will use my acct to post his records.) 3. Justin Newton AKA Jay 4. Conranos 5. Degtyarev 6. Open 7. Open 8. Open 9. Open 10. Open - - -
Lets take this ten years at a time. People may have more then one term, but not in a row.
A 13 Year Old boy, from my small town, in Ohio, and one of my family friends, invented these amazing candles.
So far he has gotten on CNN and Lopez Tonight, and has had tons of stores offering to sell his product. And at the same time, he's helping the local soup kitchen.
Today I had a few small run ins with the CCA but I must keep this entry short. While I was managing my furniture store I was confronted by an Italian, he gave me a little bit of trouble, I believe his name was Mr. Gavino, I don't remember quite right, it's all a blur after, well, he shot me. This bullet wound in my left should hurts like a mother! After that I went to the combine for assistance but got caught up in a massive search. I was bleeding too much and I believe I lost consciousness in the street. After that I don't remember much. I remember coming to a few times before losing consciousness again. I woke up by Mr. Gavino's restaurant. My shoulder still hurts from the bullet he put in me.
I have been lurking around the community for a while, playing HL2RP, Harbor, and very little GMR, but I never made an introduction.
I use 2 names usually. Johanan, my RP/steam name and Uubucks.
I played OCRP for a while and then my friend who I speak to all the time on Skype opened up ColaRP.
In the time between the ColaRP version 2.4.1 and 3.0.0 I was looking for an RP server and found this community from a friend of mine. I quickly learned to love the community starting with Harbor Roleplay, this was back on that god awful map of catalyst ocean or w/e it was. this was about the beginning of march or mid February.
Anyways, I hope to become a very active member in this community. Uubucks AKA [Cola] Johanan
1) Please write a minimum of one paragraph OOC'ly detailing why your character wishes to join the Combine Civil Authority had lead your character to do so.
2) Please detail your characters traits. (Eg, Pure, Lawful, Trustworthy)
3) Please provide one paragraph about what you are expecting the Universal Enforcement Authority to be like for you and your character?
4) Please provide a detailed back-story from an out-of-character perspect on your applying character. This section must be detailed and consist of a minimum of 250 words.
OOC Details
1. How long have you played on role-playing servers in general?
In general I have played role-play since I started playing Gmod. I now have about 2200 hours on Gmod, most of that on roleplay.
2. How long have you played on serious servers?
I have played serious on and off for about a year. to name some servers I did PERP, PERP2, OCRP, and HL2RP before.
3. How long have you played on Catalyst Gaming?
Since about mid February.
4. What Time zone are you in?
EDT/EST or aka -5 GMT
5. In what country do you live?
United States of America
6. How old are you?
16
7. What’s your most memorable quality RP experience?
Roleplaying the mayors guard in OCRP while taking him to a passive rp diner. (this ended with me and the mayor being blown up by a suicide bomber XD)
Full Name: Johanan Strangeman CID:96301 Age:21 Gender: Male Height:6'2 Hair Colour: Brown Eye Colour: Blue Sexual Orientation: Straight Weight: 180 Lb Mental Distinctions: 135 IQ level Mental Defects:Fanaticism and OCD Mental Advantages: Strategist. Notable Qualities: Unwavering loyalty to the Combine.
1. Have you ever been detained or apprehended for a Sociostability Infringement before? If so, explain?
No
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?
I am.
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?
I do.
5. Will you remain loyal and faithful to the Universal Union as long as you live?
I will.
6. Why do you want to join the Combine Civil Authority?
To clean up my act and learn some respect and to teach the citizens to
Please sign the attached oath using only blue or black pen.
I, Johanan Strangeman 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.
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