Dominic

Scrolls and Rygor are both banned for a month for the exact same reasons as above.

I just want to say, whether you believe it or not, it brings me absolutely zero pleasure having to do this. However, the Board (excluding Caution) has unanimously voted to permanently ban Creten, Steel, and Phoenix. It actually vaguely relates to the above post where we banned Gumline, with the basis of the decision being that the behavior of these individuals harms our community by completely ruining the atmosphere we try to promote everyday. I don't think this comes as a surprise to virtually anyone, as Creten and Steel spend an immense amount of their days in the general chat of our Discord trolling. These two both have a history behind them, with Steel in particular coming off of a permanent ban not too long ago. This discussion originally started in the AO section, and the intention was for it to end with an AO vote. However, halfway through our discussion it became intensely clear that someone had leaked the discussion to Creten, Steel, and others. Anyone can easily see this by scrolling through general chat from the last 48 hours and seeing them tag us and call for bans on people. It came to our attention that Phoenix was telling them what was going on, and directly quoting things that I specifically had said. It has unfortunately become all too normal for things to get leaked from higher up sections, perhaps because of the state of the community or perhaps it just got lost in translation over the years. But we have absolutely zero tolerance for it - as a higher up it is the easiest yet most important thing you need to do; not give out information. It's all good and well that these individuals are somewhat active in our community, but we'd rather have no community than to see this amazing community's legacy end as one that was riddled with toxicity. Our community has been around for 16 years and at no point was it allowed to devolve into something not worth fighting for, nor were rules ever cast to the side. Discord has quickly become one of the most important assets for any company, community, influencer, so on and so forth, and we stand no chance at growing it in any significant way when all new members are met with this ridiculous behavior in the main chatroom, sometimes aimed directly at them. We simply can't afford to put up with it any longer, nor do we want to - we're all extremely tired of these discussions and want to focus more on the community itself. Like I said already, it actually upsets me having to do this. I have pretty vivid memories with a couple of these dudes spanning years, and more with others that are towing the line, and I'd prefer to not ban anyone. But the members of the Board are acting as objectively as we possibly can and making the decisions we genuinely think are best for the community, and I'd hope there's no doubt about that.

Very sorry to hear about this man. A few years ago I held my dog Luigi in my arms as he was put to sleep for good. Some of my first memories involved Luigi considering we had him since I was 4 years old. But towards the end his quality of life was so awful that we made the extremely tough choice to let him go. Unfortunately, that's what's best. Dogs give us their undivided loyalty and love for their entire lives, the least we can do is allow them to rest as opposed to selfishly keeping them alive while they suffer. You made the right choice, it was his time. Just remember that all your dog ever knew for however long he was with you was love and comfort. You gave him a great life. Adjusting to life without him is going to be very difficult but despite how cliche it sounds, it really does get easier every day. Wishing you and your family the best in your time of grief.

For years, we reaped the benefits of having our own 'identity' as a Jailbreak server with no warden. Still, there were many successful Jailbreak servers in the US, and we probably easily could've survived with a warden system, but it worked for us. While we were doing great, EGO was doing even better, with Tango, Swoobles, Hells Gamers, etc. all also having successful servers. Nowadays, there is legitimately only one populated Jailbreak server, and that's EGO. EGO has a full-fledged warden system, and is pretty much a polar opposite to our deathmatch style server. So, what does this tell us? Well, we can safely assume that the demand for Jailbreak still exists, right? EGO's Jailbreak server is insanely popular, so think about when someone gets banned, gets bullied off the server, can't get in because it's full.. they're going to look for something different, but similar. But someone going from EGO's very organized and unchaotic server to our what sometimes feels like literal DM server, it's fair to assume they might not enjoy themselves. And the fact of the matter is, we need to try to appease new people, because that's what we're looking to get. Now yes, I would love to appease what's left of our current regulars, but how can you possibly sit here and say there's no reason to enact a change like this? The server has been dead for months on end. There is legitimately, at this point, no way to justify retaining virtually any part of our 'identity'. It doesn't work for us anymore. The proof is slapping you in the face. If we add a warden and all of our current regulars refuse to play anymore, what actually happens? The server is still right where it was before. I know this sounds harsh, but everyone needs to face the reality. The funny part is, my biases push me in the other direction. I first joined SG Jailbreak in September of 2015 and I've played our server for hours on end for years, not having a warden is way, way better in my opinion. But you have to ask yourself what the worst case scenario is. How much worse could it possibly get? If we add a warden, the worst case is nothing gets better, no harm done. The best case is that we scoop up population from EGO and residual players from old Jailbreak servers + pique some interest in our old regulars to come back and give SG a try again. I wholeheartedly encourage people to come forward with rebuttals, but there has to be more justification for keeping the norm than just the desire to keep the norm.

Glad to have you guys, congrats.

Congrats gents, we appreciate all of you!

Hello everyone, The Board is in constant talks about the state of the servers, what's working and what's not, and new opportunities. Recently we've discussed removing more of our older servers that aren't doing us any good anymore. The servers that are on our radar for removal currently are Bhop and Retakes. In reality, despite Bhop's tendency to sometimes pick up in population at random, it hasn't done us much good since it was released in 2016. We don't really retain the players, and it's always acted as a secondary server that our community members use once they're already apart of our community. The same with Retakes, it's a situation where it isn't really bringing us any new regulars. Now, we're coming to you guys to ask for your thoughts and opinions on the removal of these servers. However, we're also interested in what else you'd like to see or, rather, what you think will do us good. A lot of these projects we've released recently are ones that we see massive potential in. GMod TTT, CSS Gun Game, and TF2 Casual are servers that we definitely see massive growth potential with, and we're interested in any additional projects that offer similar potential. Clearing useless servers out gives us the opportunity to make space for more potentially fruitful projects such as these, which is our goal with this. Please share your thoughts, they're greatly appreciated.

Hey everyone, The Board has been in deep talks recently about the state of the Events Team, but also the desire for some sort of new team that can take on some more community based responsibilities as opposed to being entirely focused on the servers. While the servers are our main focus, we need to consider the importance of other aspects such as community engagement and marketing / outreach. Given the rough patch the Events Team has gone through, we saw fit to repurpose the team entirely and tack on some new responsibilities to allow for more breathing room in what they're able to do. With that, we're introducing the 'Expansion Committee', which will start off with a small set of responsibilities that we see as most important, with the potential for more to be added. With this, we're also hoping to see some old faces join up who had a passion for things such as this. The current Events Team members will all be carried over, however we're hoping to see some substantial growth in the team's size, as there's plenty to be done. @Acer will be heading the team, essentially as an AO would with a server. So there'll be no official manager rank or 'hierarchy', but he'll work directly with the BDs and give us updates. The responsibility set to start it off will be as follows: Create community events to bring our player base together Promote activity on all of our platforms including servers / forums / Discord Discuss ideas to increase activity on our platforms Research advertising & partnership opportunities Recommend general marketing ideas for the community We're looking forward to seeing how the team performs and hope to see some promising results. You can apply using the link below! >>APPLY HERE<<

You needa go oversee some bitches

Partnerships, especially with other Discord communities / gaming communities, is legitimately my top priority at the moment. Please, if anyone has any in mind, message me. Skimmed the rest of the post and it looks like you bring up some great ideas, I'll probably respond more in depth later.

Community Meeting - Friday, 1/13 @ 7pm EST Hey guys, This is honestly a bit overdue given the pace things are moving at, but we're excited to be hosting a community meeting this Friday. This is especially important given the fact that Caution and Gator have just passed the reigns to Revenga and myself, which was followed by two new Board members being promoted as well. We want you guys to hear directly from us about our vision for the community moving forward, and we want to give you all an opportunity to speak directly to us. As it stands, Revenga and myself are looking to be present along with at least one other Board member, so you'll be able to hear from most of us. Meeting Agenda - Introduction - Community Direction - Server Assessment - Marketing & Outreach - Discord Development - Staff Evaluation - Open Floor / Q&A Feel free to suggest additional topics that you'd like to see added to the agenda, though most of our time will probably be occupied by the last section where you'll be able to bring up any new topics on the spot. We're going to look to start running these regularly again, so if you can't attend this one don't worry about it. We're looking forward to seeing you all there and having some quality discussion with you all! The meeting will be held on our Discord server @ https://discord.gg/steamgamers Thanks guys.

Huge thank you to @Revenga and especially @Nishok for getting this going - they dumped a lot of time into this. It looks super good and we're in a much better spot now too. Big round of applause for these gentlemen. And yeah, gun game is sick and I've been playing it nonstop. Probably a good chance of us actually pulling in quite a bit of population from that. You guys will love it.

Really appreciate everyone’s help, saved me a lot of trouble. Been thinking on it, if I did build a whole new computer (which I think I have to at this point), my budget would probably be like $3000. If anyone is willing to help pick some parts, that’d be stellar, hopefully that’s okay for a max price. By the way I do see some people already made some suggestions, I appreciate it. Just haven’t been around my computer and wanted to give a budget since some people asked.

My computer is roughly 7 years old, still runs like a charm. The only thing I've ever had to replace was a $20 CPU fan, and the only thing I've ever upgraded was my graphics card. Thing is, that was like a year in to having the computer, so I upgraded from whatever I had to a GTX 1050 Ti, so that's what I still have. For a few weeks of being back into gaming, seemed to work fine. I had like 300fps on CS:GO still, and other games ran good enough. However I've become interested in running games at higher settings like CS:GO for instance, and when I do that it goes from 300fps -> hovering around 90fps. I know you're supposedly not able to see the difference above 60fps but the drop feels noticeable. In other games the drop is detrimental. I didn't realize graphics cards have come so far in that amount of time, with Nvidia already at the 40 series. Should I upgrade my graphics card to the newest one? Because I was just thinking of getting something in the 20 series and I figured that would be a good enough upgrade. Also not sure if the age of my computer would have anything to do with compatibility for new cards so wanted someone more experienced to chime in. Because I'm also curious about whether or not it's worth upgrading and if just a new graphics card will do me enough justice. Would greatly appreciate advice, thanks in advance.

These were absolutely hilarious, looking forward to next week.

Good suggestion, we want to do this but first we're looking to clear up the sidebar a little bit. @Revenga and I spoke a bit about what we could realistically axe from there in order to add this in. Definitely on our to-do list.

No better place to ask, I suppose. I've been conflicted for weeks now about which console to get, as I'm very interested in having one. I have a lot of friends who play consoles so I'd be able to play with them, and it's a lot easier to play at night. I've read a lot of articles and I'm just not sure which one trumps the other, if that's even the case. The exclusives for the PS5 are pulling me in a lot, plus I'm a bigger fan of the controller and the Playstation UI. Still somewhat conflicted though. Thoughts?

I don't want anyone to perceive this as me strong-arming decisions because of my rank or anything, just speaking as someone with experience both playing and managing Jailbreak. The fact of the matter is that our server is styled around maps like ba_jail_electric_razor_go_pb and ba_jail_electric_revamp_f3, it's literally tailored for them. Low round times, no wardens, the simplicity of rebelling - that is stuff you don't see on other Jailbreak servers, but that is also why other Jailbreak servers are constantly running those gigantic maps with a million deathgames. If you guys want to change the direction of the server, I'm all for it. By all means, add a warden, make it harder to rebel.. do a complete 360 from what we've done for the last 7 years, I'm being genuine. It's not crazy to think that maybe what we're doing just isn't going to work anymore. However, my point is, if you don't plan on doing a complete style switch and turning the tides of how our server operates, you shouldn't remove maps that are perfect for our server but you should remove maps that aren't. A map like jb_chicken_island just does not work for us, but with longer round times, a warden, and different rules, it might. For now though, to avoid turning this into a massive argument about the way the server is and what it should be, I'm going to stick to my point that you should just opt to, for the time being at least, remove maps that don't perform well based on how the server is now. Based on this, maps like jb_legobels_corp_v1d, ba_mlcastle_se, jb_elwrci, jb_vice_v1, jb_pyrenees_v1_2, and jb_chicken_island should go. Just my immediate thought from looking at the list, all obviously up for debate.

Hello everyone, I'm excited to announce that we have partnered with The Modding Community! The owner and founder, Christian, has a lot of experience with gaming communities and actually played at Steam-Gamers years back prior to taking on his own endeavors. His community, The Modding Community, is just the first of many different projects he's working on, all with massive potential for success and just as much potential to change the direction of gaming entirely. We have many shared interests, and being a hub for gaming communities is just one of the ways in which we mutually benefit from partnering up. You can find our community listed on their main website at https://moddingcommunity.com/ or by clicking this link right here. We encourage you all to make an account on their forums and join our community while you're at it! Additionally, I'd like to announce that Christian has just released one of the various projects I mentioned. Please go check out the release of the Mod Marketplace! Christian and I spoke in depth about his vision for this and it already looks stellar with more features to come. Here's the direct link: https://moddingcommunity.com/mods/ - here you'll be able to find mods for a variety of games including Minecraft, GTA, CS:GO, and many more. Additionally, help is very much wanted and appreciated in multiple areas such as content creation and social media management. Read more about that and his other projects here. Lastly, I highly suggest joining the Discord with this link: https://discord.com/invite/mzK22dfSqQ - all updates are posted here. Thanks everyone.

I was gonna write 'impeached, lol' and just leave it at that but I've been here for 7 years and haven't ever seen an opportunity to tell you thank you, so I'll take it. Funnily enough, each and every time I've resigned it's been because of you. When I first had CA, you pulled me into a channel and yelled at me for snitching on @All Ts, then I got upset and resigned. When I first had AT, you got into a fight with me and @All Ts over admin application requirements, then we all resigned lol. Then when I first had BD, you wouldn't let me promote @Dongto admin so I resigned. Then you banned me. Then you came to my house and threw a molotov through my window and burned the whole thing down. But despite all of this, my opinion of you never changed. I kept coming back not only because I love SG but also due to my respect for you. But yeah.. you still definitely pissed me off and I still definitely did my fair share of shit talking lol. And while I remember all of those instances, it's not what I remember most. What comes to mind is you messaging me on Slack and asking if I wanted to be on the Board, you messaging me asking if I wanted to be AM before that, you pulling me into a channel after 'the great stepdown of 2018' and asking if I wanted to return as AT / IA, you pulling me into a channel in April of 2018 when the divisions got introduced and offering me a chance at AT, and me getting promoted to the Board and seeing all the instances in the past where you've argued on my behalf and vouched for me moving up. I appreciate all of those chances. I especially appreciate when you chose me over GCC when they demanded I be removed from my position because I called iCamp's girlfriend a bug.. that's a good one. And I also remember all the funny moments. Like you and @Prez pulling me into a channel after I got BD and explaining to me what the Oxford comma was and how I had to use the 'shit sandwich' method for all of my posts going forward. Or you showing up to one of my first CA meetings and saying to @XeNo 'holy shit, Dominic is a fucking higherup, what are we doing?'. Or all those times I followed you onto Jailbreak because I was worried about what you'd do but then ended up laughing too hard at the loopholes in the rules you were finding to care. Or getting on PayDay 2 with you, @roux, and @eXtr3m3 and following all of you around like a jackass because I had no idea what I was doing. Lots and lots of good memories and enough stories to last a lifetime. I appreciate all the advice you've given me over the years, essentially mentoring me on more occasions than I can count, and putting up with the baby bullshit here and there. I've always had a lot of respect for you and when I say that being at SG has taught me so much, a lot of it has come from you. Leadership skills, concepts about dealing with people, methods about addressing backlash, so on and so forth.. things I continuously carry with me. And while it would mean I lose this shiny yellow glow that flashes across my name, I genuinely hope you return very soon and take up your old position. Steam-Gamers won't be the same without you around, and thank you endlessly for continuing to finance this place despite the situation we're in and despite you being away. I'm sure we'll be in contact regardless but best of luck with your endeavors and I hope it all works out in your favor.

Fighting. I was consistently kickboxing for around a year before my gym closed, haven't gotten back to a gym in the last 6 months just because I've been so busy (and admittedly somewhat lazy), but I have tons of boxing equipment at home and really enjoy it. I want to start up jiu-jitsu soon and my end goal is to be doing muay thai kickboxing alongside jiu-jitsu. I've always viewed that as a stellar combination. I don't have some noble ass reason for enjoying fighting like 'my mind finally goes quiet' or 'it's my getaway' lmao I just feel like a badass by getting good at it. I'm an insanely confident guy and have been for years, but felt an insane confidence boost pretty much immediately after starting. Walking around and feeling as if you could curb stomp literally anyone you come across is a great feeling, even when you know in your heart that the person would probably obliterate you. Highly recommend doing some form of martial arts, and would highly recommend you don't think too much about what you choose to do. Just don't do karate lol. I have considered saying fuck it to kickboxing and jiu-jitsu and just doing Krav Maga though. Anyone with any experience feel free to give your thoughts I would appreciate it.

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Hey guys, Just wanted to drop in and let you know that @ThRza is now a Director. Thanks.