Jcfraven
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Just now, PB-n-J said:
GTFO.
Oh wait, you're not Sasha.
Welcome back.
Nice to see you too, discount sandwich :p. Also, I remember that name, but not the person.
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Just now, Charmayy said:
Purge died sorry
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Just now, Kite9867 said:
Ayyy I remember you. Welcome back! Haven't seen you on the breach server recently, probably because I'm blind. But it's nice to see you again.

Open thine eyes :p. I am the Class D guy that is not very effective at his job.
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1 hour ago, Joshy said:
I remember chatting it up on Shout box. Hope to catch you around on Discord where all the cool cats hang now.
On there now.
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Hello everyone!
You may or may not remember me having come onto this community through referral by Rose, but if so, hello again! The same goes for those who have seen me recently on the SCP server, hi.
I had originally left here, fading out of gaming and the like, and while I am going to stop myself from heavily gaming again(which I fell back into) and not allow myself to do so here as well(priorities), a little bit of play and hanging out on here will definitely not hurt. Maybe I can even ultimately help this community out some this go around, which would be nice.
In any case, those who do not know me or need a refresher, I am Raven, the person that you either do or will love or hate as you converse with me and see me around. Hopefully it is the former and not the latter. Beyond that, there is little else to really note other than, as my profile picture shows, I am a Christian(hopefully to-be Orthodox Christian) and a Brony(why not keep the terminology alive?). I can answer any questions you may have though, provided that I feel comfortable answering them.
In any case, long story short is that I am "back," and will play on some of the GMOD servers from time to time, and hopefully I may be able to be of some help to you lot in due time. Nice to see you guys again.
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Just now, Joshy said:
Neither did I, and so I did not say anything about communication. I read what you wrote.
You are making no sense. First you claim you were not talking about communication even though you said this: "I was personally saying vocabulary, spelling and grammar isn't required for good leadership." Then when I posed the question of what that could possibly mean other than communication to others, you redundantly asked those two questions. Finally, you return to claiming you were never talking about communication. Unless you have a radically different definition of communication, or you are simply trying to be a troll for some reason, I am unsure what the confusion is here.
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Just now, Joshy said:
You don't believe someone with a very basic vocabulary, and we'll even stipulate the poor spelling and grammar, that they cannot communicate such that their team members would understand?
You don't believe someone with an excellent vocabulary, and we'll even stipulate the wonderful spelling and grammar, that they cannot poorly communication such that their team members wouldn't understand?
It is apparent to me that you did not read what I wrote, as I answered the first question, and never implied the latter was false.
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12 minutes ago, Joshy said:
I said nothing about communication.
"I was personally saying vocabulary, spelling and grammar isn't required for good leadership." - I am genuinely curious, what exactly does that quote mean if not the manner in which one communicates to others?
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This is a very interesting topic, and one that is highly important to me due to circumstances I have stated many times throughout this website, making it a bit redundant if I were to explain it here as well. However, I will bring it up when relevant to my reply.
The first thing I believe makes a good leader is that of communication, the second being drive. I mention them both right off the bat because of a very important example that is still fresh in my mind one-two years after the fact. Back when I moderated Dark Roleplay alongside Jailbreak, there was an Admin(on here, that would be a Server Manager) that I shall leave nameless to not reopen a long-since-dead can of worms. This server was a rather popular one, so much so that we had to lower the player limit because of the unbearable lag that occurred as a result, and it was likely unanimous amongst the staff that it was a good idea to have the server. While the player count remained at a lower standard amount, it consistently had many players around the clock, which was pretty neat. With that said, one would think that everything was going well, as after all, how could you really go wrong when everything was on a silver platter? Well, after the first day, our Admin completely disappeared, and we could not get back in contact with him no matter what, neither with his senior moderator(senior admin on here?). As a consequence, we were unable to ask for rule clarifications and modifications when things came up unaddressed in the rules, and due to not having the appropriate authority, there was ultimately chaos in the server because of being unable to enforce what needed to be enforced, and many different interpretative enforcement from staff, since necessary rules and such were not documented. Because of his lack of drive and care, alongside not communicating with us, me and other staff members had to save the server ourselves, figuring out and enforcing standard interpretations of rules and adding what was needed, in order to maintain order. To make a long story short, the Admin was not pleased, made one update to the rules(maybe more, but only one major one) making clear that all that we had done was null and void, before disappearing again and putting the server back into chaos, us having to clear it up again. The only times he ever came on was to spawn in a tank and kill random players for fun, players complaining and us not being allowed to do anything. Ultimately, this is an example of a terrible leader, yet his technical knowledge I have nothing bad to say about, since apparently he was great at that job, just not a good leader. One must be able to communicate and have the drive to make something succeed, or one should not be the leader of a potato army, much less a team of people and a popular server.
The third thing to make a good leader is the ability to communicate properly in the primary language of your team, players, customers, etc.. @Joshy, you appear to disagree, and the only reason I think that would be is that you hold that one can properly show what must be done, and make proper decisions and the like, without having an eloquent grasp of the language he communicates in. While you are not technically wrong on a team-level, the problem lies that if a leader is unable to speak in a proper way, but only speaks in ways like this: "yo dud how r ya," then it gives a bad image for the team in question, hampers growth in the long run, and can lead to confusion and the like depending on what he is the leader of. I personally believe that you need to at least sound like a late middle schooler to an early high schooler to be effective with communicating with one's team and beyond, alongside maintaining an image of professionalism, which is vital to company's, organizations, and small teams alike, depending on the circumstances.
The fourth thing to make a good leader and simply a team member in general is the skills to do one's job, and/or the willingness to learn and grow to acquire said skills. I will not delve too far into this matter, but to give a short and sweet summary, a trial moderator that ended up becoming one of the people that ran the organization I volunteered with was promoted rapidly to a full moderator then to a senior moderator and beyond, barely having any knowledge regarding the rules or how to go about enforcing said rules, me having to hold his hand for a long time before he was no longer a moderator but an Officer. He was clueless in his positions, and despite him seeming to be a great person, there was nothing good about him as a team member or leader that I am able to note, which is incredibly sad. If one is unable or incredibly slow to learn, and/or does not have the skills to do what must be done, then he should not be a team member at all, much less a leader. Skills and the willingness to learn skills are both vital to success.
All other reasons would likely go back to those four points, but in summary, I think a good leader is one who has the passion to lead, the skills and/or willingness to learn to be able to do what must be done, is able and willing to keep up communication, and is able to communicate in a way that at least sounds like you have a decent level of education in your native or foreign tongue. If one does not possess those qualities, then they should not be a leader, nor even a team member of anything beyond school projects and the like(even then, it would depend).
Those are my two cents of course, and all of you may vehemently disagree. That is fine, and I would love to hear your objections to what I have typed here, and discuss this matter further.
Have a blessed one!
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Welcome to GFL! You will likely not see me in-game on any of the servers for a long time due to not having a capable computer, but I get on the Chatbox or read it throughout the day, so hopefully I will see you there!
(I miss Battlefield from back when I played my Xbox)
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Just so you know, the non-staff rank hierarchy of sorts is as follows: Player(you)->Member(the linked application of DoctorDJ's post)->Supporter($4.99 a month, same as VIP save for non-custom game tags and no Teamspeak Channel of your own)->VIP($7.99 a month, with the things the Supporter Package lacks).
Anyway, welcome to GFL, and feel free to message me if you ever have a question or anything. Hope to see you in the Chatbox!
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Though I am not entirely sure if we have met or talked a whole lot, I am glad to read that you have a new resolve, and to hear that you are wanting to become more dedicated and to make a difference in GFL.
I pray that all works out well for you lad/gent, message me should the need ever arise.
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Hey there lmao/Charmy(love the new name!).
In truth, I should not be responding to this right now, because getting as much sleep as possible is vital to the rest of today, but I felt like I needed to respond to this sooner rather than later because of its nature. I also want to apologize if this post is a little wonky as a result of still being tired.
That said, I appreciate your mentioning of me within your post, and your public apology. You did not need to do so, and yet you did so, which is very much appreciated. I do not hold things against those who genuinely apologize and want to start fresh, and if you are wanting to do so, then from this point on let us start anew. You are forgiven, and I look forward to seeing you around and talking with you.
All of that said, thank you once more, and I pray your day is blessed. Message me if you ever want to or need to my man, and I will respond when able.
May God guide you and keep you safe!
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I apologize for my heavy delay in giving you a proper welcome there @Rukus, but welcome to Games For Life!
I do not know if you plan on frequenting the Forum or not, but if you do, then I hope to see you on the Chatbox! If you are mostly an in-game guy, then I hope I one day get to play with you. Most importantly, I hope that your time on GFL goes well!
If you need anything, please send me a message.
Have a blessed one!
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Stuff like that rubs me the wrong way, honestly. The vet should not be saying that an animal will live if they are not relatively certain it will.
Their lack of discretion aside, I am sorry for your loss. Losing an animal(either in death or separation) is rough. Message me if you need to.
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While Portal was an amazing, unparalleled experience that I will treasure, I do not really think there is potential for a Portal 3. At least, chronologically.
However, if one was to be done, I would love for it to involve Black Mesa(if I am remembering correctly), exploring its story and the like. Personally, I think that would be neat. Do note that if you have no idea what I am talking about, then I am likely confusing memories, for which I apologize if so.
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42 minutes ago, lmao said:
Didn't think people cared this much about what they say in an online "community" lul
When I do wrong, I find it good to publicly admit and address it, especially when the initial response was as great as it was. I figured I owed a much better apology than "Hey, sorry."
39 minutes ago, DemonWithAShotgun said:What happened earlier?

Pretty much, I came on randomly saying that I would not be back on GFL, and talked about some things(there were questions), and overall caused confusion and such, and I felt it best to address it. This is geared towards those who were involved, primarily.
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16 minutes ago, SuperFineMan said:
Awwww i should beat yo ass to make you stay, you gave aome very wise words to @Rose and your possibly top ten of the nicest people i met on gfl. I wish you well.
I am staying there SuperFineMan, just not going to be on for so many hours effectively straight alongside everything else I do online. I will actually be trying to limit my online activity, instead of spend entire days absorbed in the computer(because that is not healthy). I made this thread to apologize for my abrupt "Hey, I am gone," and subsequent dialogue in the Chatbox earlier.
EDIT for modified post: Thank you for the well wishes!
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Good evening everyone,
I wanted to provide a quick update and a rundown on what I was saying in the Chatbox earlier, and to apologize for a bit of rashness on my part.
Due to circumstances that I will not be detailing, both because of their heavily personal nature and simply not to cause unnecessary worry or otherwise where there is none to be had, I decided in an emotional state that I was going to drop every single thing I was doing online, in order to remedy the problems that had come up as a consequence of my heavy activity on here and elsewhere.
However, after cooling my head a bit and after some other stuff on the personal side of things, I have found no reason why I should not remain on GFL, though my activity will not be as extensive as it was, for I will be trying to limit my online time a fair bit.
I apologize for my rashness and causing a bunch of confusion and possibly pain for nothing. I will not say that it was not partially a motive in my mind to get sympathy or care, as when cases such as before occur, that is something that is typically the case, but I will say that looking back at it, it was wrong of me to make such a rash decision and bring it onto the Chatbox, instead of simply remaining silent at the time.
Bottomline, and I apologize for the sporadic nature of this thread, I am sorry for being a fool earlier, and I will not be leaving Games For Life. I know I probably will not be wanted "back," for the stunt from before, and I will justifiably probably be viewed as the term "attention whore," and if so, I understand completely, and I respect that. I simply hope I did not completely destroy any and all relationships I had on here, and that I can still be of some sort of use for this amazing community.
Thank you for your time, sorry again, and God bless.
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Just now, Bae said:
You don't need to type an essay to me because I can't read them and will not understand it until someone jots it down to me. But to me, a rule shouldn't be too long to read, it's not like a RP server. If what you're saying is to elaborate every rule so people can understand, I'll assume it may be much longer than a RP MOTD.
I am not saying to elaborate every rule to include every possible detail, simply to provide some extra details to each in order to establish a more objective base for players and staff alike to ensure that there is not an overly strict nor overly lenient environment. If not in the MOTD, then at least in a separate Rule List.
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5 hours ago, Bae said:
I'm just going to say this. This is more like we're explaining each rule to a player. It's common sense. If the server says no racism, it means no racism.
Be that as it may, without some sort of specification it is left to the whims of the staff and the interpretation of the players alike, without a concrete objective base. After all, "racism," is such a widely-abused term nowadays that even commenting on the color of a person or object is suddenly racism. There does not need to be an extensive treatise on it or other rules, but a few general baselines would ultimately be better than vague generalities. I just thought I would throw in my two cents on it.
Also, just to clarify: I do not disagree with you at all, but "common sense," is not all-that-common anymore, especially with things such as this, and people can, have, and will abuse any and all generalities they can to do whatever they want. I have seen that far too many times.
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While I have not been here near long enough to comment on the whole Developer Team past in relevance to the present, nor with applications of old and so on, nor am I really equipped to even provide input on the matter, but I figured that I might as well offer something, which may or may not be helpful.
I do think that it would be far more fruitful to open up applications as opposed to private messaging, because if prior experience has taught me anything about a lot of users, is that they typically do not care to go through the hassle of sending one. This is a similar issue with players and reporting rulebreakers. This is a reality, and while the argument stands that "if they care, they would," that is ultimately not the point. I have seen the need for developers, and the need for them have been expressed in this thread as well, so why not make the process something much more open and well-known, easier to see and to fill out, for those that do not care enough to find out how to apply for a volunteer position? I did not even know there was a way to apply for Developer(I figured there had to be one, but I never saw anything about it).
In any case, regardless of whether or not my opinion did anything but waste the time of its readers, I thought I might as well type it up to contribute to the conversation. Have a blessed one, and may everything work out to the betterment of GFL.
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Welcome to the Forums there Ray/Infecti0us! Should you choose to frequent the website, you will likely see me in the Chatbox, and never in-game, because I do not have a computer that I can use to game.
On that note, feel free to come into the Chatbox and talk! New faces are always wonderful for me and other forum-dwellers!
Have a blessed one my man!
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5 minutes ago, Squanchy said:
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So..this thread in a nutshell?

today is ma b-day
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Happy maybe belated(not sure) birthday!