DIS Dads The DIS Dad's Club VIII - The Online Mancave

[GoHerd1028]

Shari wanted to check her e-mail....I was like really"? Right now? We are trying to close the thread! She gave me the "angry eyes" and I got up

 

[prattpak]

Did someone say Dolewhips??????????????

I may have mentioned it...once

 

[Mipatn]

Had my 1st Dole Whip in Disneyland a couple of weeks ago.

AAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDDDDD?????? How Was It??????

 

[Cinderella's Fella]

Had my 1st Dole Whip in Disneyland a couple of weeks ago.

the next day I had a Dole Float!

 

[prattpak]

Shari wanted to check her e-mail....I was like really"? Right now? We are trying to close the thread! She gave me the "angry eyes" and I got up

Wimp!

 

[GoHerd1028]

I am just glad she got up before we went into shutdown!~

 

[GoHerd1028]

Wimp!

Just well trained....

 

[GoHerd1028]

I never realized until now..how long 40 seconds really is!

 

[Cinderella's Fella]

AAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDDDDD?????? How Was It??????

I wouldn't turn one down......ever!

 

[GoHerd1028]

the next day I had a Dole Float!

I actually prefer the Dole Float!

 

[Mipatn]

Just well trained....

We all know who wears the pants in our families!!!!!!!

 

[Cinderella's Fella]

We all know who wears the pants in our families!!!!!!!

We married well!

 

[Emma's Dad]

Well, it looks like we will be canceling the trip to WDW this summer - it appears the budget belt would have to be tightened a few notches to allow for a proper trip and that would be hard on us for 3 months. I am a bit bummed out. What really sucks is the fees we will have to pay to change the flights to next year (or whenever we can go.)


Looks like we will just go to San Antonio and take the kids to Sea World and Six Flags Fiesta Texas. I guess that is better than no vacation.

And hopefully next year will be a bigger, badder version than I had planned for this summer.

NNNNNnnnnnOOOOOOooooooo.....
That stinks. But at least there's still a budget for something fun. Times are tough.

I used to love games like that... I rarely ever play video games anymore though. I was addicted to games when I was in college. My favorite games back then were Deus EX and the original Counter Strike. It was awesome in the dorm when I was a freshman. Half our floor would be playing Counter Strike with doors open shouting at each other down the hallway. We'd never cheat and spy for each other.

I haven't played any Valve games since Halflife2 and Counter Strike Condition Zero, but I'm half tempted to give Portal2 a try sometime... It looks like fun, but I just don't have time anymore to play games. I've barely gotten a good start on Epic Mickey and I've had it since Christmas.

Don't tempt me to go home and clear off my desk so I can put my laptop and mouse up there to play some games. Just thinking about those old games has me half tempted to go home and find the old CounterStrike disc and load it into my laptop. I doubt they even support it or even have anyone playing it online anymore though... game's gotta be 10-12 years old now.

I am an old school computer gamer. After my C64 days I moved up to a Commodore Amiga 2000. Once I left my parents' house and joined the Air Force, I bought my first PC - a 386SX Packard Bell. This helped feed my flight simulator cravings. I upgraded to a 486-DX solely for the purpose of being able to play Falcon 4.0.

Soon after that, FPS games started becoming more prevalent. Some games that I remember spending countless hours playing (in no particular order): Doom, Quake, Rainbow 6, Tribes, Tribes 2, Quake 2, Quake 3, Unreal Tournament, Unreal Tournament 2, CounterStrike, Half-Life, half-Life 2, Jedi Knight, etc.

When the co-op team-based multiplayer war games came out I was in online gamer heaven: Battlefield 1942, Battlefield Vietnam, Battlefield 2, Combat Arms, the Call of Duty series (loved CoD4 Modern Warfare!). Then I started playing more console games (PS3) because I couldn't keep up with the hardware necessary to play the newest games with the highest settings (I got married and had kids, so my priorities changed for the better.)

But I am seriously thinking about upgrading my PC so I can play the new Battlefield 3 - that one looks awesome. Even though I picked up a FragFX Shark for my PS3, I still prefer the good old keyboard and mouse for FPS games - and that means PC gaming. But I give big kudos to RockStar Games for Red Dead Redemption - that is a game I am just now starting to play on the PS3 and it is stellar!

Ummmmm.... are you my twin? Cause I could have written this nearly word 4 word. Hardware gets expensive to keep up with.

3 comments for all:

1) I'm at work - I only WISH I were at home. lol
2) <-- 5-digit steamid
3) Kim and I used to run the Counter-Strike Team competative ladders at Proving Grounds (back when CAL/CPL was still new). We managed 300 10-man teams and a ton of 2v2 teams.

I started with FPS gaming back with Wolfenstein 3-D and the original DOOM. By the time I'd mastered RotT, Duke Nukem, Hexen, Doom 2, etc I was bored with the genre. It was all the same - run, shoot everything, keep going. The stories were applied as a veneer around the graphics engine. I had all but given up when my friends essentially TOLD me that I was buying Half-Life. They popped formy new video card and I was off to the races. Finally a game that puts the story at the same level with the graphics. The ability to modify the game made it that much more interesting. We began having TFC tournaments in the office and even skinning our own players. It was a blast. Fast forward about a year or so and my friends are now moving on to counter-strike. I finally started playing at CS 1.2 when it made the jump to 1.3 (bunny-hop enabled!). I played that competatively for a while, then 1.4 and 1.5 - it was in the transition to 1.6 that we moved to managing teams. When Proving Grounds broke up (financial woes) I played on a few clans from time to time. We tried out TWL but quickly owned the CS Team East ladders - so much so that it was boring for us. Heck, one game we all led with the gatling gun and still completed the level without losing one player. I've run my own servers and manages many others.

Over the years I've had my fair share of bannings for supposed "hacking" (people don't believe that you can snipe with a Para across a map - lol), but now a days I find that it's just really taxing to play CS:S too much. I belong to two clans at the moment - AHG (Afterhours Gaming) and OLDF (you can figure that one out). Still "active" though I rarely play. It's usually in times of rest from our many extracurricular activities that I break out the account and get cracking. Portal2 and the upcoming release of Episode 3 are perfect excuses for that.

For reference, I've not played DoD in a long time, aside from when it first came out. I play TF2 from time to time but my mainstay really is CS:S and the single-player games. I'm looking forward to co-op P2 with my friends on their PS3's.

My son is a very aggressive gamer on Halo - it'll be 2 years before I let him compete. I figure 13 is a good age. As a whole he's just getting better and better at anything he plays. My daughter just got into it and now is getting better and better. She's got her own XB controller (black) and practices all the time with her friends on XBL. Is this the sole legacy I want to leave? No. Competition, however, binds together groups of people into cohesive units. You learn trust, reliance, respect, and roles. All characteristics that are important in life. Oh, and how to write in |337 5p3@k.

Used to be a member of a clan for CS:S. That game nearly ruined my marriage! Can't even estimate the number of hours spent making maps/skins... scheming/playing... too addictive.

These are the all-weather type decals right? Would it be cheaper to do the white viynl cut out ones or is it cheaper to do full color ones that are water proof? I honestly dont know is why Im asking.

This is one of the items I am waiting to hear back from the shop about. Pretty sure this is for a white vinyl... but I want to know about a clear/all weather vinyl or whatever else they have. I am also looking into an outlined version, too (winking at Nate here)

Yes, I will get a couple of those windows decals. Are you also getting some mac decals?

Yeah... but they will cost you at least 10 times as much...

 

[Cinderella's Fella]

On Fantasia

"Fantasia, to me is a whole new opportunity. For my medium it opens up unlimited possibilities. Music has always played a very important part since sound came into the cartoon. Now, the full expression that comes from the new Fantasound opens up a whole new world for us."

 

[Mipatn]

We married well!

What kind of thumb is that???

 

[Mipatn]

Good evening Don (Emma's Dad)!!!!
Great job on the decals, I will order five when you have them ready.


OWNAGE but not on purpose

 

[Cinderella's Fella]

What kind of thumb is that???

1st we start keeping score of our post, now we have to declare what kind of thumb we are using!

 

[GoHerd1028]

1st we start keeping score of our post, now we have to declare what kind of thumb we are using!

Whoda ever thought it!

 

[that's nice]

I think it needs a new name.

I'll go work on that now... and bump it up towards the top so it is visable

He's on fire, somebody stop him

I don't think there is any stopping him!

 

[Mipatn]

1st we start keeping score of our post, now we have to declare what kind of thumb we are using!

Blame Nate for that one!!!!