All posts by Blake Swopes

Blake Swopes is a disabled former Linux Systems Administrator from Southern California. Due to chronic pain, he can no longer spend much time on a keyboard, so this site has become largely archival.

TF Camper


Plain white paper and color… an oddity.

This really happened to me by the way… I think it was on Biscuit’s Mega TF server, and I think the sniper who called me a camper was Unnamed. I took him out, roamed all through his base, then wandered back up to the sniper deck and smacked him down again, and he called me a camper… Bah to him, I say!

October 12, 2000

I quaked last night across the lan with space and james… We’re teaching james TF. Started him out as hwguy so he wouldn’t have to slow down when he changed to a different class. Moved him to soldier for a while, then pyro… He likes being zippy.

I was pulling off some trick stuff against those two. Space was giving me a run for the money, though. He was real tough as demoman last night, and he played medic for a little while too (didn’t pound me quite as badly that way)…

It’d basically go like this… I’d get charged by both of them, I’d maybe toss a rocket or a gren at james to distract him while I went after space (who was my real concern), hopefully whack space, then clean up what was left of james…

My favorite skirmish was in the entryway of 2fort5r… I was battling them both, and I’d tossed hit them both with a couple rockets. I went into reload and if I didn’t finish them I was dead, but I was priming a gren… I hoped, I waited, and just as they draw close enough to each other, I tossed the gren and splattered them both.

I love it when a plan comes together.

Oh, I think james did pretty well, by the way… He has a few things to work on, but its stuff *everyone* has trouble with… moving around enough while fighting, and watching out for grens…

October 10, 2000

“Hi, I’m calling about your resume on monster.com…” Uh huh… did you READ it?

I suppose someone might put down that their objective is a career in linux system administration but really want to become an insurance agent… I, however, am not that person.