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cphilo wrote to mention an article in the AP about the world of competitive gaming. From the article: "Welcome to the basement lair of the 24-year-old Wendel, the man known and feared by aficionados of multiplayer games across the globe as 'Fatal1ty.' If you deign to think of video games as simply a childish pastime, consider this professional game player. He collects a six-figure salary, has his own brand of gaming merchandise and travels the world to compete - regarded by those in the know as one of the most gifted players of his kind."
Understanding and exploiting the game to its limits is not "abusing" bugs.
Learn To Play.
For those interested, the CPL World Tour Finals are currently taking place in New York City at the Web2Zone Cyber Center. $500,000 is being handed out, $150,000 going to first place.
MTV is following the event and you can watch the matches take place over the Internet live via MTV Overdrive.
MTV will be showing a segment featuring Fatal1ty on Wednesday (11/16) entitled "15 Minutes With... Fatal1ty" @ noon. Then on Saturday (11/26) at 8PM (EST?), the CPL World Tour Finals' match will be rebroadcasted on MTV in which he is expected to be a part of.
To anyone curious as to what professional gaming is about, I highly recommend watching a match or two.
I found this very funny.
Yes, very much so.
CRTs are much smoother and cleaner in display when at 120hz than almost any given LCD. Ghosting, slower response time, etc, makes the LCD less favorable than CRTs for fast paced games (which Fatal1ty plays). There are LCDs that are bridging the gap, but when you look at cost and availability, CRTs win out.
Seeing how abusing bugs, short cuts and general lamer tactics will get you booted and/or banned from most organized gaming I can't agree with your statement.
There is a HUGE difference between knowing and using a map to it's full potential and exploiting bugs.
Bunny hopping is something I personally don't like but I don't see anything "cheat" worthy about it. Neither is spawn camping with a rocket launcher. It's just part of the game.
I'm sorry but when I read your collecting all the weapons before anyone else can get to them I actually laughed out load... quite hard too. The whole point of the game where there are many weapons is to limit the amount your opponent can get thus maximizing you potential to frag the hell out of 'em.
I think you're confusing PRO with NOOB. I've been in many MP servers in all kinds of games and it's the same crap all the time. Get pro's playing against each other and you'll see some of the best game play you could imagine.
(and trust me, they all do. It's become socially acceptable)
I don't and no it has not. Exploits get you banned, simple.
There are only 10 kinds of people in the world. Those that understand binary and those that don't.
That says up through high school. I mean technically I was also a jock up through high school. Do I look like a jock? No. Do I have the sex life of a jock? Well... yeah, but not while I was a "jock" because while I was a jock, I didn't focus on JUST physical sports I focused on video games and sports were just some other thing I did to see how I liked it. A real jock is dedicated to sports like football and basketball and all that. He's dedicated to video games and just so happened to play those sports. And did you read this?
"I don't really have time to indulge in anything," said Wendel. "I'm so dedicated and so determined to be the best I don't have time to indulge in other stuff." To most people that says "24 year old virgin living in mother's basement." I used to be as dedicated to gaming as he was and I was very good at it, but then I started going out and just hanging out with people. I started to enjoy that more and more, and now video games are just something I might play 2 hours a week at most. If I could wake up tomorrow with his skill, but I had to be as dedicated as he was I'd turn down the offer, it's all about what you enjoy most in life. He enjoys being the best at everything and he seems to be the best at video games so he's going to continue that.
I've played against him before, he co-founded a LAN party I helped organize in my city (Lee's Summit, MO). It's amazing how good he is at the games he plays. About the income, think about it. The first year he won the CPL, he won 50,000 dollars, a contract with the original Razor mouse company, and then went on to make money in other various tournaments around the world. Hell, he drives a Ford Focus around town that he won by being the best. Now he's got the (arguably) most gamer-oriented hardware company in the world (Abit) with his name on their premier line of products. It's not any wonder.
Precisely! Technology extends the range of options, but does not have to do away with the old options. Most of my gaming is via computer, but that doesn't make card night with old friends any less valuable.
>I have about 10 copies of the Rubiyat of Omar Kayyan - none any less than 80 years old. Something about the different artwork, leather covers, hand-written notes that conveys a continuity, a chain of humanity to them.
I share the feeling (... and covet your collection, twice the size of mine.)
The Rubiyat is an especially suitable example of the enduring value of physical books, for its poetry is far more than the bare text freely available on the web. Its commentary on the human condition is all the more poignant and effective when spoken in a variety of books of varying conditions, each of whose original owner "... indeed is gone with all his Rose" (V). The various book designs and scars of time make each volume like one of the Pots (verses LXXXII+) that comment on the Maker: "They sneer at me for leaning all awry; Why? did the Hand of the Great Maker Err?" Web-pages can be made perfect and enduring; physical books can only decay.
The physical experience of leafing through the poetry, on the gress, with a loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and a "Thou" beside you in the wilderness ... that's what Omar is talkin' about!
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That if you go to this guys site http://www.fatal1ty.com/players/?players=f and click on his picture, and click on his record this is what you see for 2005:
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(1v1)
2nd - CPL Turkey Qualifier for Spain (PainkilleR) - Instanbul, Turkey
4th - CPL Turkey World Tour Stop (PainkilleR) - Instanbul, Turkey
6th - CPL Spain World Tour Stop (PainkilleR) - Barcelona, Spain
2nd - CPL Brazil World Tour Stop (PainkilleR) - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2nd - CPL Sweden World Tour Stop (PainkilleR) - Jonkoping, Sweden
Certainly better than I would do, but he is losing to people. Good, but I don't know how much of the talk about 'the best in the world' isn't just marketing and PR. Most stories like this that you see on AP newswire and the like are there because of PR firms. My bet is that we are seeing him now becuase Abit wants to make sure they are getting thier moneys worth from their deals with him.
You obviously aren't that into gaming then ;P Fatal1ty is a genuinely scary opponent, on his tours, you can usually challenge him to a 1-on-1 in some fast FPS, such as UT, Q3, Painkiller or the like. Lots of people do challenge him. I haven't heard of someone winning over him yet. A few ones actually frag (kill) him, but they're few ;)
He's been to Denmark, and played at the Boomtown cafe, where you could also challenge him, and win some stuff (his Abit motherboard etc).
Any technology distinguishable from magic, is insufficiently advanced.
Wendel apparently has other sites fatal1ty100.com fatal1tyshootout.com fatal1tyshootouts.com that have recently had content added in the last week or two. The curious thing is that they're parked in a 209.164.40.0-31 IP range that's full to the brim with 90+ Cthurch of Scientology web sites.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
At LANs it is far easier to ensure all players are using the same setup with no third party programs or illegal cvars giving them an advantage.
There is also almost no latency on a LAN.