Funny stuff you did when you were a noob!

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apparition wrote:I switched to be on the better team
I usually try to switch to the losing team, even in my early days in ctf when I wasn't dominating, simply to get to play against the better players.
I find it more fun to play against the best than with them, most of the time.
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Titanoboa wrote:
apparition wrote:I switched to be on the better team
I usually try to switch to the losing team, even in my early days in ctf when I wasn't dominating, simply to get to play against the better players.
I find it more fun to play against the best than with them, most of the time.
Agreed.


When I started playing fortress in ctwf, I never grinded and was kicked probably about 10 or 20 times before I learned how to do it. I really hated the people who kicked me at the start.
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I pretty much did everything right when I first joined fortress, I grinded because everyone else did.. but then a player called Legit (LOL) kept harassing me that I "ran" too much so I deliberately spend the next 90 minutes running from him causing him to implode IRL.
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When I first started playing, I used to kill myself in the most DUMBEST ways.

And after 5-6 years, I STILL do! :D NOOB 4 LIFE! lol
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DISCLAIMER: I don't recognise the validity of the term "noob." For these purposes, I'll mean "novice" instead.

I already told this story in that "How did you get started in Armagetron" thread, but here's a repeat.

The first time I played online (with broadband; I had tried once previously with dialup and it was unplayable) was, I think, in Tiger's Classic, possibly Armagoshdarn. There were a few other players in there, and the first thing I was asking was, "where's the little overhead map in the corner?" I was confusing it with GLTron. Then I noticed another player was passing between walls and stuff. There were one or two other new players in there, and we all were convinced he must have been cheating. After all, that sort of thing doesn't make sense and shouldn't be possible. So, indignant, I decided "to hell with this, I'm going to go make my own server, guys. I'm going to name it [whatever it was]. Meet me there." These guys are like, "OK cool!" Of course, I didn't know anything about the dedicated server; I just did the "Host Game" deal, which I don't think even showed up on the MSL because no one ever showed up and later said they couldn't find it.
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The first server I ever went to was Swampland Mud Puddle, and I remember all I did for the first two days was type in caps asking, "HOW DO U TURN FAST?"
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I always spammed 'hax!' when I saw people turning so fast. One person actually told me to wiki 'double binding' and I thought it was a joke until I actually looked it up!
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hmm which one shall I tell :)

DISCLAIMER: Chico that I am talking about was 32 or 36 Axes, not the 12 or 16 axes of today.

I guess the best one was when I was in CTWF I had been playing it for a few days at this time so I learned how to grind by then. Anyway "It's chico time" come up. I ended up killing most of my team because i grinned on that on. Anyways My whole team got upset at me and kicked me, but my argument was that I was the only one alive on our team at the end of the round. I still got kicked :(

I don't remember any of the other funny ones when I was a true novice to the game. I had played Speed Blast for a long time before I switched to wild fortress.

I do remember trying to talk to bots on an online server (first time i got real people, the time after that i got bots)
dlh wrote: I was very freaked out when the AI bot said "Hehe! Got you!" after it boxed me.
I remember when i first saw that, it was not too long ago either, but the funny thing is i got out of the trap with fortress settings.
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I remember asking bots how they got such good pings LOLOLOL
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I asked dubstep who Chico was.
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Wondering how I could get lower ping :roll:
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i always thought people in high rubber had very fast fingers, so when some1 said, "man my fingers are cold" i cried, "LIES, you can't have cold hands and bind that fast!"
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I remember trying to look up why people could kill me by going through my own tail.
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I thought everyone that double binded were using hacks :P
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I thought fort was 12 different maps. (for 2 years) :?
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