I'm Bumping this because I think it's one of the best threads ever made here.....and it always seems to bring up impassioned responses. would dig hearing some others chime in on this who have not participated...and/or from any of you who may have changed your mind since your original responses.
First, Holy Necro-Bump. What is your major malfunction, numbnuts? (Sorry, but I get that kind of response every time I bump a thread). By taking my frustration with that response out on you now, I figure the score now stands at something like:
Me: 1
The World: 1
Since I got called just about every name in the book for a bump I did a while back. It's amazing what people can read into your character from a bump. For example, did you know that asking for something in a bumped thread means that you're impatient, immature, of unsound character, and untrustworthy around minors? Try to get that DNA out of your clown suit, my good man, else, next thing you know, you're on the sexual predator list.
Second,
Thank you, thank you... it was a good thread when I started it, it's a good thread now.
You're all kill stealers and thread-bumping perverts - which is not to say a bad sort of people.
Oddly, in the intervening months, as I've seen my k/d something like double (but still less than 1, sadly) from the usual noob multiple, I have not run into this issue at all - although I did get annoyed one day with Lute. He doesn't know it, though I made ref to it here a while back. It just seemed like every time I got on someone's six, I'd see a stream of tracers magically appear from somewhere above or below me. Inevitably, it was more accurate than my own. I can't complain, after all, you don't always get a learning opp like that. It just felt like being close enough to whiff the cigar - just in time to be DENIED the cigar.