I've gamed for 25 or so years and the reasons for me have changed over time. When I was really young, I just flat out loved that shit like a fat kid loves cake. My girlfriend would have to be a gamer, and if she wasn't she'd get dumped.
I loved FPS games too, especially this one, but at some point it changed. I'm not sure if that's because FPS games are designed poorly so I just flat out hate them or if I've outgrown them. I also feel that as I've aged, I see way more fault in games. Little things like poor mouse input drive me up the wall. I now have way more drive than I have ever had in my life but I don't have it with games. I see it as wasted energy because I don't enjoy them enough, and in my opinion, to get great at things, you have to really love that shit. If the people here starting betting real money on themselves to play, I would love that so much and I would game all the time again. I don't know why they haven't. It wouldn't even have to be much, like you could bet $100 via a cryptocurrency or something. It's a shame that the people in this game are so broke. It's always meant that nick/digi/goober/me have been the only ones to put up decent servers.
I've always wanted to be different in this. I didn't want to be the guy that's good in 2002 but never heard of or simply crap in 2009. I wanted to be good for every year. It's easy to have a 10-0 run on a league and quit, especially if you're friends with the admin and kick any threatening team. It's not so easy to be top 2 for 15+ years running in multiple game types while also being ranked the highest at three other games (ut2004, gw, and worms armageddon.) Knowing my enemy was my only option for that to happen.
I loved the frag speeds in UT2004 4v4 TDM. It was such a weird game, especially how the frag speeds changed depending on game type e.g. 1v1 was much slower than 4v4.
Quoting vlad01
I had a look at image upload sites, none I could find that do it like imageshack used to, all of them either don't let direct link or need to resister/pay. Seriously this is the first forum I have ever seen that doesn't have attachment uploads, seems rather primitive. Forums is how I locally host the pics to be displayed, 3rd party site always break forums as did PB on the other forum I'm on. Admin had to hack into PB and get all the member's albums and manually upload each of the few 1000s of pics.
If you link the site, I can code something to fix it if you want? That shouldn't be happening.