Rael's Rambles

Okay in the vein of my admin hwaiting post I keep getting people who check the /admins command and whisper "Hey admin can you help me?" or "hey admin wake up need help" or even just "help me"

My favorite are the people who ask me to clear their stats and plead and argue for 5 minutes even though I tell them admins won't clear their stats. So lets review a few things about iCCup admins:

• Admins do not clearstats unless it's as a punishment for abuse and will not transfer you so do not ask.
  
  If you want to clearstats type /clearstats YES on the server. To transfer type /transfer (new name) You can only use ONE of these per week and have to wait a full week after you use one to do the other or do it again. If you ask an admin they won't transfer you
  
  
• Not all admins are ladder admins, asking them about your disconnect or even telling them about your disconnect won't get you anywhere unless you know they're a ladder admin. Even if they are a ladder admin they'll just tell you to submit a complaint.
  
  
• Not every admin is a tech guru who can tell you EXACTLY why your launcher doesnt work properly. There is a technical issues forum under the iccup forum not the broodwar forums in which you can look for people with similar problems or post your problem
  
  
• If your flag is wrong pestering an admin on the server with "CHANGE FLAG?!" will result in that admin using /ignore on you. Go to the contact a webmaster forum under the iccup forums and post in the correct topic.
  
  
• If you find a hacker the best way to report it is to just submit a complaint against the game asking for your points back or if you won submit the complaint anyway. The abusers forum has been converted to deal with stats abusers.

Okay so we're going out to dinner in (late) celebration of my birthday. We're at a semi nice italian restaraunt and while teasing my girlfriend by counting the layers in my 15 layer lasagna I suddenly feel something WEIRD fall on the back of my exposed neck. I freeze and turn to look at her wondering what it is and suddenly a small black bird hops off my neck down to my outstretched elbow before flying away while I sit there thinking WTF?

Now this isnt the end of it of course, it flies back LANDS ON OUR TABLE hops around then flies away again. Then about 5 minutes later it starts walking down the aisle of tables stops and looks straight up at me.

I had a bird stalker or some weird shit like that seriously that's pretty fucked up. I have to ask has anything remotely like this ever happened to anyone else? And I dont mean a bird shitting on you that's common. How often do wild birds just fly up land on you then keep coming back? Seriously wtf

Okay so I got into this big thing last night on iRC about laddering. Now the first part is I still can't get around it people somehow expect iCCup admins to not ladder. I join a game and I either get banned immediately or they go "admins ladder?" very rarely they'll just hit go and say gg gl but thats not as common. Yes admins play, no we dont spam for games in the ladder channels because we're not allowed.

Why you ask? We have blue text, think about it and our names all say iCCup. before them except for a select few. This would cause too many issues than we care to deal with, so you may get a whisper from an admin in a ladder channel saying 'game?' you're allowed to say no. Don't think if you say no you'll get banned. But I'd suggest not bming them if you value your ladder health.

Now we're getting into bm on the ladder is it allowed? This is a tricky issue bm consists of several different flavors that I have to divide into to answer that question:

• Disrupting a channel, ie coming into the Tournaments channel while a tournament is running and being disruptive/trolling in order to upset the flow of the tournament. This is likely to get you banned from the Tournaments channel and if you persist other possible penalties may be applied.
  
  
• Avoiding a loss, this one is listed in the ladder rules, running around building extra pylons or lifting off to a hidden point in the map trying to avoid a loss when you are basically eliminated is against the rules:
  
  CLARIFICATION I watched an amazing VOD of nal_ra the other day where they were doing a base race ie both of them were destroying the others main in pvz. Nal_Ra loaded up a probe and made extra pylons so that he could eliminate his opponent without losing. The reason this is allowed is becuase he was still in the game with a decent sized army and neither of them wanted to risk a head on confrontation.
  
  
• Being an ass, like it or not if someone is in the game being an ass insutling you and just as I said being an ass if you report this to an admin they will 9 times out of 10 tell you to /ignore them. Basically this comes down to common sense.

This is a public service/request for help post

I was watching the TSL when I got G-lined by irc saying that I had a trojan I've spent the last 5+ hours off and on trying to remove it from my computer and after several attempts am running one solution at the moment with undetermined results.

The only programs I had open were ChatZilla, Mozilla Firefox (razertsl.teamliquid.net/live/) and MUSHclient (mudclient) I'm relatively certain it didnt come from MUSH and seeing as there werent a torrent of complaints here I'm pretty sure it didn't come from the stream.

I neither clicked any links from the channel or opened any other websites, ng_CO kept pasting his FAQ kk: post and it was the same as Lyset's except broken up into several lines I copy pasted the entire message into one line and when I tried to post it for him I got G-Lined. This isnt an accusation just the only source that I can think of at the moment that it might have come from.

Now for the request for help:

I've run 2 scans with Norton a quickscan and a full scan and as I am posting this I am running a third scan with options checked to scan EVERY file on my computer and so that it won't skip any. I've tried windows Defender because it can sometimes catch trojans that other programs missed that did not work. I used the autoruns program to look at everything that was starting while in safe mode and removed a few malware apps but IRC still claims I have a trojan and G-Lines me again.

Dont think Quakenet is falsely detecting one of my programs as a trojan as I didnt open anything new and was on ChatZilla for over an hour before it dropped me off. Are there any other solutions you can think of?

• Ability to take 3-4 hours time to run a tournament 1-2 times per 3 days
  
• A high level of maturity
  
• A high level of patience
  
• A decent proficiency in English, other languages a bonus
  
• An ability to keep a cool head ie not getting angry at users when they are rude
  
• General knowledge of Starcraft Broodwars gameplay so they can resolve disputes during the tournament such as disconnects and bug use
  

• First name (optional)
  
• Age (preferred)
  
• General Location
  
• Languages spoken
  
• Any previous experience with Tournaments
  
• Reason for wanting to be a Tournament admin
  
• Have you ever been an admin on iCCup before? If so why did you leave?

Okay okay the limericks were a joke heres a serious blog, I draw on the side and normally do portrait type things like so: (lots of images below)

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azu manga daoih

Inuyasha request for a friend (who didnt like it cuz hes not using his sword)

Magic Knight Rayearth


Rurouni Kenshin first was a gift art for a friend


Ranma 1/2

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