Note: This post was quoted from EdgeGamers.org, where the Falcon Contest will be hosted.



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67.212.168.11:28960

Come play! It's a new server, and it's hard to fill, so let's fill it like we fill our TF2 servers!



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Read 240 times - last comment by Snow   

Normally, I wouldn't do this. I hate doing this. I hate reading these type of things, and I am sure you hate reading these type of things too. If you are like me, you don't want to spend so much time reading and straining your eyes over a wall of text that in the end is meaningless and wont effect your life in any way. Well you know what, this wall of text will effect you, especially if you are a good Couch Member, and you want to be a real part of the community. I will probably use lots of commas, lots of ellipses, lots of poor grammar that really won't make much sense, but try to make the best of it, because my words are motivational, meaningful, and normally if I go out of the way to sit down and type something like this..well, let's just say I don't have a lot of time.

I jumped into typing this not really knowing what I was going to say, and it was literally going to be a rant, but pretty much I am going to take another leap and tell you what is going on with The Couch as a whole, open up and tell you what is on my crazy mind, that kind of stuff. You are going to want to keep reading, it might clue you into what is going on. The truth coming from the originator, instead of playing telephone, is always the way to go.

So where to begin.. ah let's just start off on the good stuff. After nearly a week straight of problems and lagging, horrible-quality servers, we got them up and running smoothly again, no lag, no crashing, just sexiness. It took a lot, there were so many tiny errors that weren't cooperating with the new server box and the new boxes processor and the new cores and memory and IPs and blah blah blah. We finally found a nice mixture that made is possible to easily host six smoothly running servers, which, by the way are running at 500fps! That means that, if you could do it, you could run your game at 500fps smoothly! Yeah, that was a small advertisement basically saying we are awesome. We could probably run them a lot faster than that, but really there is no reason to do so. The servers run magnificently, and there seems to be almost no crashes, which is phenomenal.

Alright, so I think that is all I wanted to say about the current status of our servers, now for the future.

I am always thinking ahead of myself, and almost never getting anything really completed. I doubt that is a good thing, and I don't think you know exactly what I mean.. well.. just answer me this: Did you know we had a Counter-Strike: Source server set up and running Deathmatch-Style GunGame for a week? Bet you didn't know that, and that was recent. I shut that server down about a week ago. My next random endeavor? Call of Duty 4. I am trying to get a CoD4 server set up and running, but it is something I have never once set up that kind of server, so it's definitely gonna be a fun time micromanaging that, I think Raz is going to be the one who sets up the config file for that server, and I think he want's it to be a 20 slotter, Tactical style. Meaning you actually have to play the game and use teamwork to win. We will see how that goes, that's just one of the mystical endeavors The Couch is going to be experimenting with in the upcoming future.

I am sure that most of us have had several "money making" schemes, or get rich quick..or something random like that. This is one of mine.. but this is a Community-Wide thing that I have been formulating, and to be honest, I am scared that this will be very frowned upon because of the risk factor of it. If you go here you will see that it currently says "81 Million". Now, that's a big number. Thats 81,000,000. Okay yeah, I don't know how to structure this paragraph. Uhm.. uh.. okay well basically I was talking to my brother in law (Pedagogue in TF2) and he once said that he went to the grocery store to check to see if his school, that's right, his school, had won the lottery. They had something like 100+ numbers (I think, I could be exaggerating). Think of the odds of that? Okay, so now if we did something like that. If The Couch put money towards purchasing lottery tickets, and all money that was won would go directly back into The Couch. Yeah, I really don't know if that will work or not, I already emailed PayPal regarding that, and they said that it's against their terms of service and it can't happen. So that idea just got pushed back a little bit. But like I said, I am scared to even mention this yet because of the risky-ness that it presents.

The last random thing I want to talk about, is that damn orange button on the bottom of this page, and every page. The damn orange button has proven to be pretty annoying, not gonna lie. The site that has an orange button with a 1 on it had a thread on their forum saying that they are cheating. The site that has an orange button with a 1 on it had a thread on it calling The Couch bad players. They called us out, basically. It was disrespectful, immature, and degrading of themselves. I spoke with a "high-ranking" administrator there, and he apologized, and said that if he found out that they actually were cheating, that he would have the money won forwarded to us. I am sure you guys are saying "DO IT MIKE DO IT" --I didn't. I declined the money, if they got themselves in that position, they can keep themselves there, or they can retract their team from that TopSite list all together. We aren't going to be hitting #1 this month there, it wont happen. It's impossible. I don't want to see any cheating coming from us, I don't want any talk of how we could hit #1, it wont happen. They somehow gained such a large lead on us and came literally out of nowhere, which is weird because their servers have literally no traffic, and their website has literally no traffic. GOD stuff like that just really really angers me.

The other last random thing that I just randomly thought of, would be our sites traffic. ITS DOING GREAT. We are getting an average of around 290 unique visits a day, thats 290 people, uniquely. Lot's of those people don't stay around, obviously. A lot of those people really don't give two poops about us, and probably don't even know why they are here. That's fine, I guess. But we need to find a way to keep our guests with us, and to keep our guests feeling welcomed. I have been trying for months, and frankly, I don't know what to do. I am out of ideas, and on-top of that, I am exhausted.

So with that, I am going to sleep now. I will try to get my lazy ass out of bed earlier in the day, probably way before anyone even has the time to read this entire epic post, and fill up a TF2 server. So goodnight, goodmorning, goodafternoon, and all of that fun stuff.

I love you all, and I want you all to know that, and be reminded of that everyday.

Love,
miKe
xoxo

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Wow.. Spy is getting buffed, too bad the ambassador is worthless again! I also noticed that you can't do that "double" taunt thing anymore to glitch the models. Valve is slowly fixing all their mistakes

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Read 93 times - last comment by Bad Coupon   

Okay, well I figured that because we have a bunch of new servers now, we need to have atleast a few more «tC» members to fill in the gaps!

I thought about these promotions for a while, and I was hoping that there were going to be more this time around, but I wasn't quite sure that everyone who has applied has deserved it.

So the following three people have been promoted to tC, they all deserve it, and I can't wait to promote more sometime soon! I will try to not wait as much in between each promotion time, atleast from «t» to «tC»

So, let's all congratulate the following three!

Kornholijo
Caboose
fudge



Yay! Clapping time!

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