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bump. what emotes do you guys want.

i love bread. if i had to eat only bread for the rest of my life i would not mind it. my favorite is probably the classic french baguette

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrusive_thought its like when you're walking over a bridge or something and you go "What would happen if i jumped off lol" but you know, you aren't suicidal at all. it's just a crazy thought you got

Congratulations!

Hello everyone, I know we are halfway into January and it is the new year but it is never too late to give recognition to those who deserve it. These two gentlemen have been outstanding staff members from the day they joined the team. They both might get made fun of a lot but they still push through and spend countless hours making the servers a better place for everyone. I cannot give you a number that would be worthy of describing how much this guy gets shit on on the daily. We might all make fun of this guy for being mute but we secretly love him for all the work he puts in on the Modding Team and everything he contributes for as a Community Advisor. As I mentioned earlier, this guy has been an excellent staff member from the day he applied for a position. Please join me in congratulating the person we use as a scapegoat for everything that goes wrong, @20 scrolls. Congratulations on Staff of the Month. I'm not done yet. This next guy has been destined to be in the spot he is in today. I am not even sure if this guy sleeps. He's coming up with new topics and contributing to discussions all day on top of maintaining Jailbreak and making it better for everyone. He may be the Jailbreak Server Manager but he is also so much more than that. I always see him working alongside his peers to help keep up with theirs servers. Some may find him to be annoying because of his work pace but he's just a hardworking individual who cares about Steam-Gamers a whole lot. He took his role as Server Manager and ran with it. Please join me in congratulating @TheZZLfor achieving Staff of the Month.

generation kill except i never realized there was a final episode because amazon prime never showed me it. i rewatched the show like 3 times always thinking "what an odd way to end the series" only to find out that there was a final episode parks and rec was hard to part ways with but it was a nice ending for everyone

That's all I needed to see to know where this was going

Congrats everyone!

I could go on forever but I think you get the point. Yes, we occasionally get good responses from regs but most of the time it is responses like these that are not helpful. We see a lot of responses talking about forum activity but we do not even require that anymore. You don't have to have a certain amount of forum posts or have any kind of "active" forum presence. Some people just want to play the game and help deal with rule breakers. BoTo has like less than 30 public posts or something like that lol. If we were to remove all of the bad admin application responses then we would get an admin application with a bunch of hidden responses and what would that do? What a lot of people do not understand is that you are not obligated to post on literally every single admin application. They might not play on your server or you might have never interacted with them. People still decide vote on these anyways and they drop responses such as "never seen you on my server" or something along those lines. Again.. some people like to play just TTT. There's nothing wrong with that. I just wanted to play Surf. I didn't want to play Jailbreak or MG or ZE. I just played Surf so I applied for Surf admin. I have scrolled through a lot of admin responses and seen a lot of crappy and half assed responses from Regs and Admins and then I see a nice thoroughly written response from someone who is CA or higher. I've seen a lot of admin applications that are filled with useless posts but then I come across a post from ZZL, Arctic, Hawks, or any other higher up staff member and they thoroughly explain their reason for voting and their experience with said applicant. Often times these responses from regs or admins are saying they are in support for the applicant but then a higher up will say that they are in fact not ready for admin. Which response do you think we value more? The reg or the higher up? Higher ups have been staff for much longer and they know how things work. They know what to look for in an applicant. A lot of the people responding have never even been admin. Over the past couple of months the CAs have been telling us that the quality of our admins has been in decline and it is pretty clear to see in some cases. A lot of this supposed dick sucking that will happen has always happened. This change in system isn't gonna change whose dick is gonna get sucked. You apply for admin and a bunch of your friends reply in support of you and then we give you admin and you get 3 admin complaints within 3 months.

I think it's really awesome that COVID eradicated itself as soon as the new year started. It was really thoughtful. Meh. Just a normal week for me. Nothing new. Been playing a lot of new games, that's about it.

good talk guys. thanks for ruining the thread. i'm gonna lock this for no reason whatsoever

I saw this coming

there is no short route unless you've been here for a long time and have held staff positions throughout the year. we also aren't really looking for new directors 24/7. usually once a year or maybe not even.

You don't have to be IA to become BD. More people have become a Director off of being LSM than IA. IAs are on the same level of SMs. Putting in a lot of hard work and building up trust with the Directors puts you in a good spot to get the position. Being IA would be helpful but you don't necessarily need it. Usually LSMs have been IAs ontop of being LSM so I see why people would think that.

the day i look forward to the most. pretty awesome https://www.last.fm/user/johnsmileyface/listening-report/year post yours if you use last.fm

@williamc_dno shame

what emotes would you like

relistened to a couple of songs by myself with no one talking and hooooooly shit. this thing sucks even more than i thought it did not even future could save the song