Er PACO?

[Pun`]

Hey, I've pm'ed and highlighted a couple of times but with no response. I'm just wondering why, after the efforts you and others made to bring the last remaining UT players together and make their experience as enjoyable as possible, have you now stopped playing UT and are just using the channel to advertise other games in a way that can only serve to draw people away from this dying game. Plus the games you are playing look fucking horrible man. Real flash in the pan stuff.. Seriously, Rust? Look how hideous that game is.
If we lose even one, semi-active player for even just 6 months, it hits us pretty hard.
Can we poll for and against advertising or something?
Are you coming back for the IG season?

(05:09:11) (+KNOCKOUTDAD) damn rust server back up
(05:09:12) (+KNOCKOUTDAD) cu
(05:09:14) (+KNOCKOUTDAD) .lva
(05:09:19) (+Creek) rofl
(05:09:57) (+Creek) .list sactf
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(05:10:10) (+md) .lva

dp.

[ramdrop]

I think he's quit all together???

Or the fact that he's doing it for the attention or something? Anyway, he got me playing here after spamming me for weeks, so I'll be damned if he leaves

[faithless]

[PACO]

[Solidsnake]

what are you guys worried about?
we got rain and not paco

everyone should celebrate

and everything will go back to normal when ictf begins

[Sonic|^]

PACO got tired of eating the bowl of shit. It's hard dealing with you idiots.

[Morpheus]

To celebrate the golden days PACO, here it is, fresh from the pond:

[Hinata]

Time to play some street fighter PACO. Active, hardcore, e-sport and growing up everyday.

Also, Rust sucks. As well as WarZ. Fuck those games. Stealing Dean Hall DayZ's ideas.
Real game, real hardcore is on DayZ Epoch. Hope DayZ Standalone BETA comes out quickly... Too many douchbags developers are stealing his concept. I won't buy any of them.

Looks like you played Super Meat Boy. If you want a good streaming game!

@UT: Just waiting for the new KOTR by PACO. Without him, it's gonna be a bunch of ctf nerds only community. I've already seen the repercussion of his absence... 1 iTDM every months...

[ph34r]

rare footage, you can see the exact moment where paco decided he was hanging up the rifle:

[Imperious]

[vitz^]

[holdup]

Thanks for stopping by PACO, your ego won't be missed. bipolar at best.

[Sunny]

Thank you paco for all the hard work you put into the community. I hope you find your way back soon

btw some of you guys sound like nagging girlfriends

[MP/5]

[ramdrop]

[kE]

[InfamousRaider]

This is what you were thinking

[kud]

it's not worth putting an infinite amount of work into the league if it ruins the enjoyment for you. ut doesn't have to be #1 on twitch to be fun. take a break, come back with the same fervour or less, or something completely different. Any reasonable person won't hold anything against you in any case. careful though, we know what happened after the last hiatus
<@andrew> i just installed ut <@andrew> on mac <@andrew> and it won't let me strafe ;( <@andrew> wut da deal wit dat? <@Thor|afk> did you bind keys to strafe? <@whafk> PACO in shambles its been so long <@whafk> HOW DO I DODGE <@andrew> MAN I HIT SIDEWAYS TWICE!
you might enjoy reading obviously the only common thread being that internet communities can be pretty toxic to work with

[detox]

It's unrealistic to expect PACO to commit the time and energy he's put forth in the past. At a certain point new leadership has to step up to fill the void. GU has a impressive resume of leagues, tournaments, and content under it's belt now.. It's up to the community to make it sustainable into the future.

[kud]

detox that's exactly the kind of leadership we need. good luck with ictf5

[dR3]

[Bizmonkey]

[Rev]

I, for one, appreciate everything Paco did for the community. He even took the time to help me build a computer and helped me put it together, even calming me down when I fried my PSU lol. I could never understand the ridiculous non-appreciative behavior many people would demonstrate towards him. So, thanks for all you did and hopefully you'll find your way back because this place will definitely die without you!

[KillEmAll]

[RickJames]

I'd like to tell a PACO story, since I guess this can be a sort of PACO appreciation thread.

When I found irc and UT 2 or 3 years ago the only channel I played in was #tdmpickups. I had absolutely 0 interest in ig so I ignored other chans, but I'd always see him promoting #ipug pugs. But I was happy to see someone actively working so hard to get pugs filled in this community that I found, because I was very enthusiastic and naive, while most of the players I met on irc were apathetic and negative about the future of UT. So I went in #ipug, played an ictf pug, and barely managed like 20 frags.

Now, as a total noob to UT and videogames in general, I was hardly considered a valuable asset to any community. But PACO spectated the pug and pmed me on irc afterwards telling me that I did pretty good and encouraged me a lot to stick around. He'd even pm me telling me to join different things here and there, like iTDMWARs, mCTFs, etc, which made me feel like I belonged . Such a nice gesture from someone so high up in the community, who seemed to genuinely care about so many individual players, was something I never forgot. It's the only reason I started playing ig/sdom/sa and a big part of the reason I've stuck around in the community

The unappreciative attitudes some players have had towards him are totally unbelievable and it infuriates me, but I can't say that I've never been part of the problem myself at times. I honestly assumed that everyone would respect what he's done, but this community never ceases to amaze me. One important thing that I think all of us can do is stop giving people who instigate things attention/merit. Even going through the trouble of responding to such people negatively can give them too much validation.

Can only hope that those who step up in his place share part of his wisdom, which I think speaks for itself based on how far we came. And I hope he comes back one day

Is there a hero somewhere...