Hey everyone! I'm happy to announce that @Copium Queen (Danni) is returning to their position as Team Leader of the Events Team!
Please join me in welcoming them back 🙂
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Hi all,
 
I have started the process of overhauling the BHop server. I'm reaching out and would like to hear what suggestions, requests, or any other feedback that you have on the current server. This includes any desired features, plugins, maps, ranks, styles, etc.
If you would like to give feedback, I have made a survey here.
 
Currently, I've setup:
Updated Shavits Timer Revamped Ranking System Persistent Bot Replays Updated messages / color styles  
Undecided:
Cosmetics Styles Map Tiers  
Once again, please let me know what you would like to see changed or added.

This is the GFL Newsletter for July and August 2022. It may have a shorter length this time, but that's bound to change in the future! As always, be sure to congratulate everyone else who got promoted this month by checking the promotion list from the last two months at the bottom of the newsletter!
 
For each newsletter, we have one "Easter Egg" hidden somewhere. If you find it on here or on a future newsletter, please be sure to message @Dragoon (Dragoon#5140) or @Salad (Salad#6564) to claim a free prize! This section will be updated when someone discovers the secret. 

Hello everyone,
 
Yesterday afternoon, it came to our attention that a private string of messages was leaked from GFL’s Council chat to an outside party. These messages were sent by me mentioning that I would be creating a thread to outline and document all of Roy and related parties’ actions towards GFL, that being this thread. Benroy, former Director of Teams and Moderation Team Leader, came forward and admitted that it was him, taking full responsibility for his actions and has apologised. With that, Council has collectively decided to remove him from all of his positions in GFL, as well as blacklist him from regaining staff positions in the future due to his breach of the GFL Staff Code of Conduct.
 

General Information:
I forgot to open a nomination thread this week, as a result, this voting thread will consist of nominations included in the nomination thread for Event #291 along with an extra nominations borowed from the Nominations Megathread, next week I will open a proper nomination thread.
 
Information on what these nominations are will be written in this post.
These votes will close on: Friday September 2nd @ 4:00PM CDT
 
Event will be on: Saturday September 3rd @ 4:00PM CDT
 
Event Nominations:
Event Nomination: "idk man" Map Combo -- by WarpedCakez
Consists of:
ze_mountain_escape_v5_zy ze_biohazard_sewer_v4c ze_shroomforest2_v1 ---
Event Nomination: "Old maps with old settings" Map Combo -- by Nick
Consists of:
ze_predator_ultimate_v3 ze_fapescape_v1_2 ze_shroomforest_v4_5 ze_lotr_isengard_v2_3 Special Kickers:
800 ammo on all maps. No rebuys. Fall damage enabled. Noshake disabled. ---
Event Nomination: "Challenging one-stagers" Map Combo -- by GS_Bany
Consists of:
ze_collab_ware_a5_8 ze_megaman_a6 ze_totemo_roka_b5s Special Kickers:
15 rounds max on Collab Ware. If map is not beaten by this time boss stages will be enabled before moving on. ---
Event Nomination: "Hide & Seek" Map Combo -- by U-Turn
Consists of:
zm_abandoned_mall_v5ff_pf zm_church_of_faith_b1a_pf zm_crazycity zm_duke3d_l1_v1 zm_endless_v1_0 zm_hotline_miami_v2_0 zm_krusty_krab_a3_rev1 zm_monastery_v1_1 zm_roy_highway zm_x_dontfall_v2_fwx zm_xmas_cozmoshouse_v1_1 zm_zelda_oot_forest_templev2 Special Kickers:
5 minutes roundtime per map. Classic spawn enabled. Bhop and knife knockback enabled. Lower zombie health. Increased ZM spawn ratio. ---
Event Nomination: "Counter-Strike: Cold Weapons" Map Combo -- by PuddingFlye
Consists of:
ze_mixture_3de_v1f2 ze_standart_map_final_fix2 ze_gargantua_v2_0 ze_barrage_v1 ze_RE4_castle_a3 ze_percocet_v5_s Special Kickers:
During each map, we'll be playing with only one specific primary weapon: Mixture will be played with Galil only, Standart Map with Famas only, Gargantua with Mac10 only, Barrage with AUG only, RE4 Castle with XM1014s only and Percocet with G3SG1s only. Gargantua will be played with classic GFL settings (with a limited time 1,000 ammo limit) and Percocet will be played with pF settings (900 ammo). Pistols and other secondaries will be left to use as are, but the ammo restrictions will apply on the maps that have restrictions. For each map, the first whole round will be WARM-UP for late joiners (regardless if the round is won or lost) since all these maps have only 1 stage.

Round 3 baby! We're spicing things up with this map poll, so make sure to get your votes in within a week! You can also thank iLoveNapalm for the time, as he requested it to end at 2:30 AM Saudi Arabia Time (courteous to our Saudi Arabians).

Feel free to post all map suggestions for the event. During the event we will run through every map, or at least attempt to.
 
Event will be held this upcoming Sunday.
 
Please respect the following rules:
 
1.No Sexual or Offensive content within the map.
2. Maps over 400mb will most likely not be accepted(but feel free to post them regardless its a case by case basis).
3. Please do not repeatedly update the same post over and over, as it makes it harder to tell when new submissions have been entered.
4. Maps that were already used on the server in a previous event, or maps on normal rotation that were removed, do not count and will be skipped.
5. Please only Suggest maps with a TTT prefix. 

Like always, please attend if you have an opinion or just want to hear about what's new with GFL. You can find the Agenda for the meeting below (subject to change): Click here to see the agenda.
 
The meeting will take place in the GFL Main Discord.
 
Please follow the Council Meeting Calendar if you would like to be notified about any future meetings!

Hello! I am happy to announce that @DaPainWayne will be joining @Pyros as co-Division Leader of our GMod Division! Wayne has proven more than capable for the position in recent months with his constant willingness to help other staff, as well as his ever growing knowledge of the backend of GMod. With his experience as an admin (CWRP, DarkRP, old Purge, Prop Hunt) as well as his more recent Manager role for our Purge server, Pyros and I believe he will be a good fit for the position. Please join us in congratulating him!
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I got early access to DALL·E 2. Anyone want variations of their Forum profile pictures made by it? Or just a picture made? Let me know!
 
I got it to make some variations of mine:
Some variations of @Salad's too:
And @Ben's:

Council Meeting - 7/23/22
Meeting Agenda - Click Here
Statuses on Divisions, Teams, and Tech - Click Here
Council Votes - N/A
VOD - Coming Soon
 

This is the GFL Newsletter for May and June 2022. It's been quite a while, but that hasn't brought our quality down! As always, be sure to congratulate everyone else who got promoted this month by checking the promotion list from the last two months at the bottom of the newsletter!
 
For each newsletter, we have one "Easter Egg" hidden somewhere. If you find it on here or on a future newsletter, please be sure to message @Dragoon (Dragoon#5140) or @Salad (Salad#6564) to claim a free prize! This section will be updated when someone discovers the secret.

Hi everyone! A few communities, ourselves included, have partnered to sponsor and host the 2022 CS:GO Jailbreak mapping contest! Participants are tasked with creating a new Jailbreak map with the theme of any holiday/season. The deadline for submissions is November 30th, 2022 @ 11:00 PM UTC.
 
The prize distribution, as of writing this announcement, is as follows:
1st Place - $250 2nd Place - $125 3rd Place - $75 4th Place - $50  
All rules and information are available on GameBanana: https://gamebanana.com/contests/113
For any questions, please join the CS:GO Mapping Contest Discord: https://discord.gg/rsdjKCyv
 
Good luck! 😄
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As some of you may have seen, earlier today xQc hopped on our Novice Surf server! @Dini compiled a video of some of the best moments, including my favorite moment at the very end where I make a quick cameo. Pretty huge to have a streamer as big as him play on our servers, dude was on for almost an hour. Big thanks to xQc and to Dizzy for getting him on the server! Watch the highlights below:
 

 

Liloz had the fun idea that we revisit this topic since it's been a couple of years.  It's a lot of questions but just multiple choice... agree... disagree...  on things like political/social topics, and religion.  Kind of fun because I'll be clicking on things going "Oh yeah I definitely agree to that", and then I'm like... "Hrmm... well... if... this... if... okay... maybe not strongly agree, but agree... nah, I disagree now that I think about it lolz."
 
https://www.politicalcompass.org/test/
 
Hmmm.  Fun idea, but looks like I haven't changed too much lol 😛   Maybe you have or haven't?  Maybe the people who are currently in the community see things a different way this year too.  Who knows?  Help me find out.
 

 
Here's the old topic if you'd like a look
 
 

Hello,
 
I am Floopyhiggle, owner and operator of the Yarrternative playlist.  My work was recently featured in the NYtimes article Yarrternative: The Musical Phenomena Storming the Seven Seas.  "What would a 21st century pirate listen to?" is the question at the core of this journey.  Today I invite all of you to sail the seas of music with me, unless your taste sucks of course.  Please submit music you believe fits the following criteria, and as one with superior musical taste, I will grade your choices as well as your lifestyle.  If you are lucky, your song may even make it onto the playlist.  Good Luck.
 
Songs must be booty shakable in at least the following situations:
scrubbing the poop deck hauling booty (on the dancefloor) yachting the seven seas scrubbing my poop deck drinking, serving, or spilling grog  
 
link to the current playlist below: 
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpDmqrnvUb_nA2FDFGIClUX1pU27xDssr
 

Hello everybody.
 
We’ve recently become aware of a violation of our privacy/security protocols on the part of former members of the Prop Hunt staff team. The loading screen for the Prop Hunt server was moved to an external web server outside of GFL infrastructure without authorization. The web server was controlled by a former member of staff who was demoted for violations of the Code of Conduct prior to the incident. This is problematic because web servers are typically configured to log basic information about the requests they receive, which would include the IP address of a connecting player and their Steam ID in this case. As such, anybody who joined the Prop Hunt server during the time that this loading screen was active may have had their IP address and Steam ID logged by a third party.
 
We cannot determine exactly how long this loading screen was in place, however, I suspect that this was put in place shortly after we upgraded our web machine in February of this year as the reason cited for making this change was that the old site stopped working at this time (though the proper course of action would’ve been to report the issue to myself instead of moving the site off GFL infrastructure, which was not done). We also cannot determine whether or not these requests were actually logged as we do not have the ability to audit web servers that are not controlled by us, however, we feel that it is necessary to post this in the interest of transparency.
 
Both of the individuals responsible left staff a little while ago, however, this was recently discovered by @Salad while inspecting the server in light of a recent action taken to disrupt the operation of the Prop Hunt server. The loading screen was removed as soon as it was discovered. We also decided that it was appropriate that both of the individuals involved be banned due to this and other, unrelated considerations. We are currently evaluating further actions that we can take to prevent similar occurrences in the future.

Since most of the introduction posts are just "Hello my name is!" I though this would be good to give some variety of questions! Keep in mind that you are not required to answer any of these questions, they're just for fun. Any questions can be added upon request, please no NSFW request though.
 
Name?
Age?
Birthday?
Timezone?
Gender?
What would you do if you were the opposite of your gender?
Rank (ie. Supporter, Vip)?
Which server(s) do you prefer?
How long have you been playing?
How often are you online and for how long?
Biggest accomplishment on this server? 
Best thing that ever happened to you?
Worst thing that ever happened to you?
Words/Phrases you say frequently?
Your greatest fear?
Most recent embarrassing thing that happened to you?
Favorite member(s) who plays on this server and why?
Favorite Animal?
Favorite Color?
Favorite Song?
Favorite Book?
Favorite Movie?
Favorite TV Show?
Favorite vacation spot?
Coolest place you visited?
Favorite place to be alone?
Favorite thing to do with your spare time?
Favorite person you enjoy spending time with?
Favorite thing to do when nobody's looking?
Something that made you laugh ridiculously hard.
Something you wish existed.
Something you wish was still around.        
Something you wish this server had or had at some point and want back.
Something you're extremely talented at or have a thing for.
Favorite Meme or GIF
 
I don't take credit for creating the idea, but instead helped create a few questions. Credit to: OG_Martin

Pretty simple premise, I'll start:
"Liloz01" is short form for "Little Oscar 2001". My sister made it up when she signed me up to a game called Bin Weevils when I was like... 6-7 years old or something. So; I was quite little ("Lil"), my name is Oscar (my sister called me "Oz") and my birth year is 2001 ("01"). Liloz01!
 
I've never had another online name, this is it! I would explain my prior names if I had any. I like this name a lot and I don't think I will ever change it, I'm sentimental!
 
What about you?

This is a simple thread where I will be posting notable change logs for my fork of the SurfTimer plugin, which is currently being run on all of the GFL CS:GO Surf servers. Until now, we've primarily been sharing update notes in our Discord server, with major updates being an exception (often getting their own thread as they are much more detailed than the regular updates we push). The only other place that has received a steady stream of update notes is my private development Discord, and so I figured this thread would be a good way to consolidate any future update releases!
 
This is just for update notes relevant to my fork of SurfTimer, and nothing else. If you would like to stay tuned to the latest updates for everything Surf, such as map releases and miscellaneous fixes, please join our Discord: https://discord.gg/gfl
 
If you would like to check out my other plugins and info about them, check out my GitHub: https://github.com/1zc. Additionally, here are some quick links to some past milestones with the project:
The v1.1 Milestone (The SaveLoc Update): https://gflclan.com/topic/74918-server-update-the-saveloc-update/ The v2.0 Update: https://gflclan.com/topic/78258-surf-the-v20-update/ The 1-Year Anniversary Update: https://gflclan.com/topic/80136-surf-the-1-year-anniversary-update-v22/  
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this plugin public? Can I use it for my own server? This specific fork of SurfTimer is a personal project of mine and is not currently public.

Greetings,
To future web developers or anyone interested in UI designing, I would highly recommend going through to visit fireship.io on Youtube. You can visit his youtube channel HERE. Tons of free information and videos on everything from Programming languages, down to understanding the client to server process with TCP exchange of information through SSL. You can also visit his website HERE , which can take you through free courses and learning all sorts of development tools available at your disposal. 
 
My recommendation:
 
Familiarize yourself with how a client to server connection works, regardless if you are thinking about Front-end of Back-end  development. By far has the best explanation about this process I have seen on any Youtube channel hands down.  A lot of his material is JavaScript related, go through it extensively and coerce yourself in the material. Obviously don't just rely on the videos to teach you the languages and frameworks, download the material for yourself and practice. If you're also curious on learning CI/CD, Docker & DevOps related material, he has videos and material related to that as well. Highly recommend going through for those if you're interested in IT infrastructure support or DevOps related work in the future.   
My overall rating: 9/10
 
Pros: 
Tons of great JS frameworks, tools & libraries to work with. Plenty of full-stack development resources available to you for free.  Dart, Go & other uncommon languages available to learn through his website. Worth the journey to pick up, if those languages tailor to what you'll need or want.  Cons:
Fast-paced and often hard to keep up. Could be doing a lot of pausing or back-tracking.   
As a current developer myself, I would've wished to run across his Youtube before journeying onto websites such as Codecademy, Coursera and other websites that require a lot of reading rather than auditory lessons. Again, the links can be found with the capitalized "HERE" in the top paragraph. 
 
Thank you.  
 

Summer just began and there is lots to do. Let's get this server moving! Show em why we are still the number one server on gametracker after all these years.

Enjoy the good times while you know you can! 🏆 🥳🥇🎉🦾

Going to start new one...

This is me

{Change 1 Letter}
I know that almost all of you, or maybe all of you, rather already knows the mechanics or how to play this game, right ? You just have to change 1 letter from the previous word that is posted to create a new word; make sure that the word you're going to post is a REAL WORD, not a made-up one. 
So here's an EXAMPLE:
Player #1: Bull
Player #2: Ball
Player #3: Tall
You'll just choose 1 letter that you're going to change to make a new word. Simple yet fun Hope you guys have fun playing ヾ(＾∇＾).
Also, words must only contain 4 LETTERS !
New Rule and Only Rule: No slangs or made-up words. You can use any languages.
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Please don't post OTHER THINGS in this thread, since this thread is solely for a game only. It would be disturbing and irritating. So I hope you understand what I'm trying to say. 
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I'll start first: Kill

You thought it was over? 
 

Hello,
Voting for the community representative election has concluded and the results are as follows:
@Baconator - 37
@Scott - 30
@DaPainWayne - 26
@Vextrium - 13
 
Please join us in welcoming our new community representatives, @Baconator and @Scott. We will be reaching out to the winners shortly to begin the process of bringing the new community representatives on. They will serve on the Council until 6 months after the date they are brought on as council. 
 
If you didn't win this time or you didn't get a chance to run, we encourage you to try running next election.