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T-E.N - Appreciation Fund
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38 Donations have been made so far by 35 people.
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Events:
November 30th - Get in the holiday spirit!
Elite Santa (12:41:42 PM): ohoho!
64 days later, and here we stand... After defeating Reds, ST, MLM, SZ, Bully, Illu, and DK, last year's Bronze Medal winner Wouter stands on the brink of his first Elite Summer Contest Championship.
But not so fast! There's another true Titan opposing him on the other side of the squared circle: the always dangerous octo! octo has knocked out Poker Mark, Leo Santos, sdkess, marsh, Neo, Infil, and Shade to get here today, and will be looking to avenge last year's result. Back in 2007, octo was the feel-good surprise of the year, blasting all the way into the Final before coming a vote short against Wouter's longtime rival and friend, Boss.
Will it this be the second "close, but no cigar" Silver result for octo? Will Wouter take home his first Gold medal after five years of coming up just a little short? Only your votes will decide! As always, this is a special two-day long matchup; be sure to send an IM with your choice off to DKK5 on AIM sometime in the next 46 hours to have your say!
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An informational update, as it has been awhile since my last news entry. May 26 to be exact.
Firstly, 8 WRs were gotten by 3 different people in about a month, with the last month being inactive (no people got any WR this last month). To begin with, Illu managed to tie Air Base Agent 1:15, whereas Red Bull managed to get Skedar Ruins PA 1:30 (an untied by 2 seconds by his previous WR) and tied the last standing untied by Karl, Skedar Ruins Agent 1:08.
Perfect Ace (or Rayan Isran as is shown on the rankings) really impressed us all by posting 4 WRs at the same time, after unhoarding in our fellow game GoldenEye and snatching the first place there. Those WRs include the beating of the everlasting Infiltration SA 1:31 by 1 second to 1:30, Pelagic II ownage: SA from 1:45 to 1:43 and PA from 2:03 to a stunning sub 2 minute time, 1:59! This reminds me that this will probably be the last PR-minute-breaking time, unless I’m missing something.
Going to the PR-side of life, a while ago Ryan White continued to play some PD and got some awesome PRs. I have to say yet again, like in my last news entry, Illu; watch out for your rank, Ryan is coming for you!
It also seems that more and more people from GoldenEye are taking a small break and want to check out some PD as it is the legendary Glen Stevens who managed to run through Chicago in 16 seconds and be extremely lucky with a good Investigation bot! The other GE player (maybe deep in his heart still has some PD love) is the good ol’ Henning Blom who seems to have no problem improving his old PAL times.
Carathorn has also been rising the rankings quickly by improving some of his times to some solid 80+ pointers and other great stuff, whereas his country member speedruntrainer is sick to his stomach by a roundup of 1:33.96 to 1:34 on Investigation Agent! Furthermore, Red Bull is currently playing PD a lot and hopes to pass Taka in points soon, and is even thinking secretly about the likes of YE and Boss.
Apart from the WRs and PRs some outside discussion and rankings updates have caused the PD players to go into a meltdown, being confused and pulling their own hair just to calm themselves down. What has happened you ask? It seemed that our lovely updater whose name shall remain to be unknown updated Carathorn’s PD times with the wrong table. This resulted in Carathorn having 41 untieds, just crazy!
Lastly I would like to emphasize: 'do me proud, play some PD'!
Love,
Red Bull
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This past month the site ran into a couple snags that almost got us shut down (temporarily). In both cases YE (Your Eliteness, or better yet, Ryan Dwyer) put out the fires while you slept comfily in your beds. In the first case, he figured out the origin of a mysterious storage limit problem (a dead/forgotten email account that had accumulated 75k spam emails). In the very same week there was a GreyMatter (our blogging client) crash that seemed to be associated. YE noticed comments left in a cgi script from an admin demanding us to upgrade. On a followup we learned that we had twice crashed their server after GreyMatter bombed, eating 5 GB of RAM before the server shut itself down (lol). Turns out the two problems were unrelated. What you should know is that YE took on the hassle of the GreyMatter upgrade which ended up requiring a template updating task so rigorous he wrote his own script to automate the process.
As you may've observed, I'm a bit apathetic toward the site (though you know I love the community). Without YE's help, I don't know what I would've done, honestly. He's been a pillar around here, one of the guys whose efforts facilitate the functions that uphold this site's vitality. As most of you know, he was the updater for years, a responsibility that has worn down some of our finest. I decided, with all of this in mind, that YE deserves his own donation drive. This is not related to the standard donation box and donations go straight to YE's paypal. There is no unspoken ethic about $20 donations or anything like that... this is simply a call to the community to show your appreciation for a guy whose involvement here allows you to keep enjoying the site. Love him, hate him, doesn't matter - he deserves some respect.
Donate to Your Eliteness:
And while I've shared some of the donation income with our hero Ngamer, he's raised the bar with this year's contest. Depending on whether or not you guys are assholes, we might have to give him his own drive, also. Of course, there are many of you (Octo, ty) that deserve acknowledgment beyond that which is available for your roles here.
Again, very small donations are not sneered at (as the $20 thing accidentally implies) - the donations really serve as thank-yous, so take 60 seconds and send him something.
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I have decided to wait a little more before making this news entry, because Perfect Dark hasn’t seen too much activity. More players, like Rayan, have moved to Goldeneye lately which has obviously contributed to a slowing down of activity here. So people, if you feel the need, pick up your controller and get a few PD PRs here and there!
Last news entry I said that talking about my own PRs and WRs is evil in my eyes, but I guess there’s no other way now. Anyway, Deep Sea has been my target for a while now, and quickly after getting 2:59 on SA, PA was next. When the video of 3:10 was posted in the WR thread there were a lot of people who were impressed, giving reactions like:
'My heart started racing like crazy during that vid. That run was so impressive.' – Lark
'Prolly one of the most impressive runs i've seen in a long time...' - Henrik
Moreover, got a few more other WRs, and untied Escape PA once again!
So what else has been going on in PD? The great Ryan White even made a huge comeback with some very impressive times, like Air Base A 1:17 and SA 1:49. It is being said Illu is terrified by Ryan and is monitoring him closely to be sure he doesn’t pass him.
Then we always have loyal Otto, who managed to get some good PRs, like Defection SA 0:38 and Investigation PA 2:42. Keep it up Otto.
Interesting enough Perfect Dark now has its own TAS (Tool Assisted) speedrun topic, run by Henrik. He is planning to TAS every Perfect Agent level, and the runs so far have been really impressive. If you have any crazy idea about some strat, feel free to post in this topic to help Henrik out.
When thinking about it, it’s actually not too bad. Since last post (which was end of March) there has been 7 seconds cut off the total time, which is in fact quite decent for this period of time.
Bye bye,
RB
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"Want a shot?" I asked him. "Yeah, but just one or two." he replied.
Bah, that's what they all say. Very quickly, "one or two" becomes "seventeen or twenty-three" and before you know it, you're laying shitfaced in a blanket of yesterday's breakfast, seeing Jesus and his apostle pals breakdancing on your microwave, while screaming prophecies of a great plague.
It's times like these, when top players Rayan "Ace" Isran and David "Clemens" Clemens claim "Just one or two", that I'm glad I have poison control on speed dial. Between their bouts of alcoholism and "brewing les hoots", they both claimed the Silo Agent world record, as well as Ace finally tieing the elusive Caverns and Surface agent records.
If you need me to tell you the mission time for those, you haven't been paying attention.
Moving right along and hopefully staying a little more on topic, Clemens also nailed an exitingly vulgar untied on Dam 00 Agent, at 1:57. Other players on this stage include Henning Blom, with a damn fine time of two minutes flat.
A player who Im sure we'll all be hearing a lot about in the time to come, is Axel Zakrisson, who nailed nearly two dozen PRs over the last couple weeks, and continues to ninja his way up the rankings. Among his times are Jungle Secret Agent 0:59, Control 00 Agent 4:25, and a time to make me reach for that speed dial, former Caverns Agent world record at 1:03.
Other players to improve this week were Dan Cervone, with 50 seconds on Surface 2 Agent; Simon Sternis, who escaped the Bunker mark II in 1:08; Zerg with a clever 1:51 at Surface 00; Mouser grinding away at the Aztec, currently at 1:53 on Secret Agent; newcomer Glozboy with a vaguely homosexual 0:26 through the Frigate; and of course, PR man Eddie Lovins with a slick 1:34 on Aztec Agent.
Lastly, we bid farewell to a dear friend, GreatMax who announced his tragic retirement from Goldeneye last week. A wise, influential player who will be dearly mi
Good news Elite! Our UK pal Graham Maddocks is back from his antarctic vacation, chilling with the penguins and grizzly bears, and returned to his domination of the 2nd Surface stage, with times of 0:54 and 1:32 to add to his previously untied world record.
Farewell, and be merry and drink!....but carefully.
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