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Clan News

- April 7, 1999

-6:18am PST
     Ok, we are all back from K9CON and BANG, so hopefully everything should be back to normal soon. We earned a forfeit over Red Leprechauns for the OGL ladder. Then we challenged ES for a spot in the top 10. We will be playing them this Friday or Saturday. Take a look at the maps they offered us. I guess we should take that as a compliment. =) Someone please explain to me how Cacophony even got added to the OGL map list. About as stupid and unfair as Lost Outpost was. =) Well we get to pick color anyway so I guess I shouldn't be complaining, but even if we do get the upper hand I still don't like playing an uneven map. The map is actually more balanced than I am making it out to be. Because, the ground of the blue base is harder to defend but the flag is in the corner and the red base's ground is easier to defend but the flag is out of the corner. So, I guess it isn't as bad as I am making it out to sound. Oh well, I just don't think unsymmetrical maps are good for organized competition.
     I am sorry if we have seemed to be kind of inactive recently. The two lan parties have kind of made 80% of us afk for a while. Then we waited a week for the Red Leprechaun match which never happened and then ES waited as long as possible for the current OGL challenge and match. So, we haven't been very active with OGL matches recently. Plus, I have been busy with my Alba site and Sigma had been out of town up til a couple of days ago.
     Ok, on to my personal news. I will be leaving Pepperdine in 2 weeks. That means no T1 connection. So, that will probably put a dent in our OGL performance (not that we were doing all that great recently anyway). I hope that 4-5 others can step up while I am gone and practice some teamwork to make up for me and whoever else is leaving. I will be on 56k in Dallas. I will be looking into SDSL/ADSL in Dallas. So at the soonest I might have it in early May. But it is 80$/month for 386/386 plus installation fees, so I might run into some resistance from my family. Even if I do have a connection to support Quake2/Quake3 I probably won't play much anyway, because my car is in Dallas and I tend to go out more and not "live" on the computer like here in Pepperdine. Not to mention the fact that it is hard to concentrate in games when my family is running around the house yelling at me for things to do. I will not be coming back to Pepperdine. I haven't made a decision yet as to what I will do. During the Summer I will probably work somewhere and start on getting a MSCE+internet certification. If I am lucky my parents might just let me do that and not have to work, so I can spend some more time on here with you guys. As I said, I still have no clue as to what I will be doing after the Summer. Sigma and I have seriously considered me going to the Art Institute of Seattle and living with him in his apartment. That would be my first choice of things to do but there are several things that are going to hold me back. First of all, my parents probably aren't going to support me moving away from Dallas again after I fucked up Pepperdine. Second of all, I got to decide whether I want to go to Seattle with Sigma for my own academic reasons or whether I am just doing it because it would be fun and Sigma and I would have a blast with all the computer shit we could do together. If the latter is weighing more heavily on why I want to go then I probably shouldn't, because it may end in another "Pepperdine-like" experience. But then again, I may be happier living with one of my best friends (Sigma) and the happiness might bleed over into my productivity in school-work. So maybe it is a good thing. Who knows but I guess I will decide sometime during the summer. Since Sigma is taking this quarter which started right now at AIS that would mean I guess we would go over to Seattle in September-October (the beginning of the fall quarter). This is if Sigma still wants me. =)
     Omg, hmmm this probably should have gone into a clan e-mail instead of in the news section I suppose, but oh well.

- Elektro

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