(I didn't want to derail Stohr's thread any further with my own rant but I wanted to post this because I think people are judging me when they clearly do not have the facts of the situation. So, I'll put it in the flame bucket where it belongs.)
First, I'm not personally offended because a) it's a game and b) I don't really get offended easily.
I'll speak my point and you can all go on thinking whatever makes you sleep better at night...
Tarquin and some other players from #2 have commented that Versed and I stack.
Know the facts:
We play together once or twice a week (about 2-8 hours total) every week or 2 weeks. Usually it's on the weekend. I join random (and ALWAYS have) and he joins the team I'm on unless it's full and won't let him.
When we walk away for something at the start of a round and the teams fill up, we join other teams and just play until a slot opens up on whichever team gets a slot first. Even though I am perfectly capable as an admin of placing us on the same team, I have never done so in more than a year of being an admin.
Many regulars stack and the whole topic of "stacking" is debatable. My personal opinion is that 98% of the time people cry "stack!" there is no stack at all. But that's another issue entirely.
My issue is with people trying to say I stack with Versed when we hardly ever even play together and when I have ALWAYS randomed in all the time I've played on SourceOP. It's laughable, really...
Two people who happen to be close friends and live in the same house choose to play on the same team of a game they both enjoy a couple of hours together once or twice every couple of weeks and suddenly we're "stackers"? OMG! Someone call the e-police!
I happen to know there are some groups/clans who play on SourceOP servers who use Vent to chat, plan which team they're all going to play on, plan their class balance and more. Some of these "groups" play every single day, sometimes for hours a day.
Yet, you call out my name because I play with my husband once or twice a week for a little while when I can find the time?
In fact, we had this game for over a year and barely even played together. We played at completely different times of the day where I would be on late night/ early morning and he would be on midday.
We only started doing the medic/soldier thing on #2 because we would try to purposely choose the "non-stacked" team and help them out. It also gives more challenge to the other team if they feel they have to take out our duo-team instead of just steam-rolling the team. They spend time chasing us around while the rest of our team advances. It's a good distraction.
But when that duo isn't working, we switch to whatever else is needed to help the team. If our team is getting owned by spies and there are no pyros, we both switch to pyro. We have no engies on a defense map and only 1 medic, we choose one of each. No one's trying to cap the points, we both go scout and rush together...
You don't have to like Versed as a person. That's really none of my business nor my concern. But to lump me into an untrue statement simply because we're married is unfair. It seems lately that this is what some individuals are doing to me simply because they don't like Versed.
I've always enjoyed SourceOP, the servers and the community very much. I have played on #2 since it was created. I was the first and only admin there (aside from DF) and I helped to build it and ensure it remained a fun and fair place to play. Most of you who consider yourselves "regulars" I can still remember the first times I saw you on the servers, back when you were "nobodies" yourselves.
For whatever reason, in the past 1-2 months, a small handful of players have started randomly picking on me and this stacking accusation just seems another one of those events. It's ok if you don't like me. I don't expect that every single person who meets me will.
However, if you're going to pick or me or try to call me out on something, don't choose something that's not only untrue, but 100% the opposite of who I am as a player and an admin and of what I stand for. You're only going to make yourself look like a fool.
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Originally Posted by insomniaprincess
