Players you don’t want on your team: Alt-code expert
Team Fortress 2 is meant to be played with a team – and why yes, my name IS Captain Obvious.
The presence of such a strong team ethic encourages communication. That means that every team member should be able to address each other. This requires the use of a good handle that people can actually say. Good handles are almost always short and easily said – this means alpha-numerics only (and punctuation if it’s a clan tag). That should go without saying, right?
Sigh… no. There’s a class of TF2 players who just don’t seem to get this.
We’ve all seen them before: the @£†-©õdë €×þ€®†5. For some reason, it hasn’t occurred to these guys that in order to formulate tactics and strategies on the fly with a team of random people that they’ve never met before, they probably should get themselves a readable name.
But maybe that’s not what they have in mind. Maybe they think it’s cool.
So what is it that these fools end up doing? Let’s follow the various exploits of a certain “ßøøm HÊÃЧH؆”, who has recently picked up TF2 after years of Counter-Strike addiction.
Loner class selection
Obviously, no one is going to do anything remotely related to teamwork with this poor guy. Understandably, it’s somehow hard for them to say, “Hey ßøøm HÊÃЧH؆, can you kritz-uber me?”or “ßøøm HÊÃЧH؆, there are two sentries (level 2 and level 3) on the right side under the overhang”.
Let’s take a brief look at the big picture for a second.
There are two kinds of Valve FPS gamers on the Earth. The first kind is the good kind: these are the guys who believe in teamwork and love Team Fortress 2. These people realize the importance of a proper handle (that means name 
).
Then there’s the bad kind. These are the Counter-Strikers who play for the kill:death ratio. There is no selflessness in these people. These are the people who are much more likely to have crappy handles.
A crappy handler has no need for the team, just as the team has no need of him. As a result, they end up rolling sniper, or another “lonely” class such as spy (though this is less common).
Fine, I’ll admit that I have little respect for snipers (read: none at all), though they’re obviously in the game to balance out the other classes, which usually are biased toward short-range attacks. Still, snipers often cower behind solid cover, taking quick potshots at the enemy sniper way back where, like the infamous WCS’s of 2fort. There’s no doubt that a good sniper can do a substantial amount of damage to the enemy team, but the vast majority of them don’t, instead inadvertently getting involved in unproductive Sniper-on-Sniper hate crimes. But the point is, a sniper can operate without too much team support. While other classes, such as the Heavy, would die in seconds without a team to cover his back and provide support, the sniper hangs way back, out of most danger. Obviously, this means it’s a good choice for a mad kill:death obsesser, namely, an AWP-abuser from CS. Considering that a fully charged sniper shot can one-shot the weaker classes and decimate the health of the stronger ones, there’s no doubt that AWP fans will feel right at home playing this wanker class.
Picky Eating
As I was saying, ßøøm HÊÃЧH؆ is a lonely chap. He doesn’t see a need to (and in some sense, can’t) directly help his team, because there’s an enormous communications barrier between him and the team – after all, how can a team address someone who doesn’t even have a proper name?
This means that ßøøm HÊÃЧH؆ has a very different set of goals. He quantifies his success not by his value to the team (like a medic), but by his K:D.
Naturally, this means taking the easy kills, because those add to his kills without adding nearly as much to his deaths. Drexer summarized this behavior earlier, using spies as an example, though it applies to snipers just as well.
Consider this scenario: there’s a kritz-ubered soldier decimating half of ßøøm HÊÃЧH؆’s team, but he’s out of harm’s way. There are 7 seconds left in the kritz-uber, and there are multiple friendlies in front of the soldier, who are likely to die in the next few seconds. Way off in the distance, there’s an AFK heavy twiddling his enormous thumbs by a dispenser.
ßøøm HÊÃЧH؆ is a reasonable sniper, who, with a little bit of effort, could probably manage a headshot on the soldier, though a hit without a kill would certainly prompt the soldier to send a critrawket in his direction. The headshot would save the lives of multiple friendlies, but it’s a little risky.
WHY BOTHER? A dot centers on the heavy’s enormous cranium, and the Heavy screams as only a 300-pound Russian would.
I see you know the Character Map
Really, what does having a terrible handle like ßøøm HÊÃЧH؆ prove?
First of all, it telegraphs your non-teamworky personality. As a result, it governs your relative success as different classes – you’re more likely to be successful playing a “loner” class.
What it really shows is that you know what the Character Map is. (It’s under C:\Windows\System32\charmap.exe, if you’re curious).
It also shows that you spent a lot of time trying to find bizarre characters to put in your name. Looking through the character map can be a very slow, arduous process – and it’s decidedly uncool.
I wrap up this painful rant with a few examples of good and bad names.
madlep – GOOD, easy to say and all.
General Balls – GOOD, also easy to say.
Himmelstoss – MEDIUM, because some people trip over the name for reasons unknown. The name is salvaged by its awesomeness and the fact that it can be shortened to just “Himmel”.
:3 – BAD. What am I supposed to call this person? Colon-3? It just doesn’t work.
1.61803399 – BAD. Yes, the golden ratio is awesome and all, but most people don’t know to just call you Phi.
Ðë????? - BAD. Besides the alt-codes, some of the characters in this name are so far-fetched Wordpress doesn’t even recognize them. If it ain’t ASCII-encodable, just don’t do it.
Edward Cullen – No. Just no. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Disclaimer!!!!
No, this does not apply to everyone. Many alt-coders are amazing players. For instance, earlier today I played a round with a certain fellow, who was an amazing spy. I’m not putting his name here because Wordpress hasn’t even heard of the characters in his name. Point is, not everyone is like this. The vast majority, however, are. If you disagree, leave a comment. I’ll be sure to ignore you.
himmelstoss on December 1st 2008 in rants, sniper, tactics, team fortress 2
Stumble it!
madlep responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 10:23 am #
Yeah, I really need to fix up the unicode support on this blog.
I think it’s the database character set config that doesn’t recognize the non-ascii characters, not the PHP code as such.
5yewy5r responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 10:27 am #
Arrghh my ign is 5yewy5r! What ever should I do?
Seriously, just read what the funky characters are supposed to be and read it.
Or you can ask them what you should call them, since they probably had the same question asked before.
Coded One responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 10:38 am #
EDWARD CULLEN!! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I can’t believe I actually got that joke…
…
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!
Ok, I’m done…
Hehe… vampire love…
Edward Cullen responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 10:38 am #
WHY DOES EVERYONE HATE ME!?!
vbigiani responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 10:40 am #
As somebody using my surname as an handle, I can relate. Countless times I’ve been asked “veeh… vjaah… how the hell do you read that Medic dude”?
The moment somebody called me the Italian spelling of “vagina” I decided to drop the (UC) from my name and add a pronunciation guide instead
PS: as a fellow developer, Unicode sucks.
Drexer responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 10:47 am #
@5yewy5r
Seriously, how am I supposed to pronounce that. i understand that English is not my mother language, but really… how? What Himmelstoss said is not onyl because of weird or stupid characters, it’s because of a total lack of thought about how people can call you.
My nick might be mistaken for Dexter or Drexter a lot of times, but anyway it’s distinguishable by sound and it’s easy to say, both for English speakers and others.
How can someone think that something like £ro$ can be easily readable in the usual milisecond of time when the weapon sight goes over your teammate?
clubtheseals responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 10:53 am #
My name is easy as long as you read. I get called club half the time anyway. For instance, “club, can I has your autograph” “club, you are one awesome spy” “club, you incredible asshole, why did you shoot the witch?”
theminipanda responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 11:04 am #
then there are the people who have like 20 clan tags at once that are all Alt code heavy.
I suck balls responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 12:22 pm #
And what about my nick name ?
PC_Major responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 12:34 pm #
Mine gets confusing when someone says “Major force incoming, need some help” They could be saying “Major, force incoming, need help” Luckly most just say “PC”
Anonymous responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 12:36 pm #
You could just call the ‘boom headshot’ boom headshot… But the agen it was just an example. I’m called akassassin on steam but everyone calls me ak (usually to bitch me:-D). Another goddamned post about team work. Try to think of something abit more original. Like in other recent posts.
General Balls responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 12:46 pm #
Himmelstoss only dislikes Sniper because I’m better at it than he is.
Dust Monkey responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 1:02 pm #
I was just thinking about this issue the other day. That post is spot on (except for the part about snipers, not all of them get involved in sniper on sniper hate crimes).
Galenor responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 1:27 pm #
My name has caused a lot of problems, despite being simple. I’ve heard three correct ways of saying it, along with a load of incorrect ways of typing it (Like Galandor, Galdoor, etc).
But usually over voice-comms, it causes the speaker to read it several times over before they’re confident in how they say it. I keep the name though. It’s funny holding up someone in L4D when they look at me and say “Use your pipe bomb Gay…galle…uh, Gaylen…uh, Bill player.”
The Chicken responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 2:03 pm #
I think most of the American population should be able to pronounce mine. Hopefully
Sinister Minister responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 3:06 pm #
Seriously? Edward Cullen? Last thing we need are the god damn Twilight fangirls clogging up TF2 with their badly written vampire love books.
2tone responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 3:44 pm #
For this post, Himmel, I am going to set my name to “???? ?”.
You say these bad-enough-dudes do not contribute to teamwork, therefore I see no reason to attempt to pronounce their name.
Himmelstoss responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 4:24 pm #
@General Balls: Sadly, that’s true, even with my 20 ping to the server. I just like exploding things more, I guess
ßøøm HÊÃЧH؆ responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 4:49 pm #
Hmm … alright, so now we judge player abilities based on their names then…
Okay, I’m going to say then that since Himmelstoss is a german name, that you’re actually a German in real life. And since Germany was the base of operations for Hitler, I’m going to say that you’re the 95th reincarnation of Hitler, secretly recruiting a neo-nazi army through a virtual training program cleverly disguised as a PC action game. And since it uses the same logic as your article, it makes the exact same amount of sense.
But I don’t have to worry about you arguing with this post, because you said that you’ll ignore everyone who posts a disagreeing opinion.
Neuromante responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 6:40 pm #
Nice point, no so good explanation. I have to admit that I hate those alt code experts, but the text ends in the “everyone hates snipers” topic.
).
Anyway, I love to heard in english-speaking server my nick (As long as “Neuromante” it’s the Spanish translation for “Neuromancer”, the book from William Gibson and “Neuromante” sounds funny in english, at least for a spanish speaker
I had to heard many people saying “Neuro”, but it’s more common the whole nick.
Impressive book “All Quiet on the Western Front”, by the way. It marked me when I was younger…
yer mum responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 6:56 pm #
My nickname’s caused a bit of “Err, WTF” on the servers I’ve joined. Particularly because I play medic a lot, I regularly get, “Thanks mum!” popping up on voice comms. I like to think it adds the warm feeling of being part of a family that some teams can lack. I also like the occasional kill box message like, “Yer mum is dominating ßøøm HÊÃЧH؆.” Nice work, mum.
nothing responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 7:15 pm #
hearing “It’s nothing” often confuses me, but it’s worth it.
@neuromante I got the joke : ) even before you explained it. great book that one
Zorgulon responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 8:20 pm #
@Boom Headshot (I’m not even going to try the alt-code)
Methinks you’re missing the point. If you bother to read all of the post, he says that unpronouncable alt-code names are a barrier to communication, which they are. In my experience most alt-coders are as Herr Himmelstoss describes, but by no means are they all bad players. He even puts his own disclaimer at the end.
Apart from a few bizarre mispronunciations (Zergulon, for instance) my name seems to work alright. Especially combined with “you n00b”
supremesonic responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 8:31 pm #
My name is good most of the time, but sometimes I have to capitalize the it to SupremeSonic, which looks odd to me.
Why? Because hundreds of people have called me “Super me sonic” before. I have nothing else to say to that.
SAC responded on 01 Dec 2008 at 11:09 pm #
Sadly fer you my name here is only an abbreviation of my screen name. Still, better than Edward Cullen, right?
Paper Shadow responded on 02 Dec 2008 at 3:20 am #
Paper Shadow is a good name, right?
P.S. During the time I forgot to post this, I’ve been banned…
KoreRat responded on 02 Dec 2008 at 3:23 am #
People often call me “Korea Rat”, “Korea At”, or “Korea Whatever”… Tends to piss me off.
Shon responded on 02 Dec 2008 at 3:54 am #
Speaking of which, how do you change your name? It keeps using my Steam login name which is my first and last name combined. People have enough trouble with my first name, so I would like to fix it.
zrakt responded on 02 Dec 2008 at 4:00 am #
hows my name?
Jesse responded on 02 Dec 2008 at 4:33 am #
Mine’s simple. Very simple.
I also purposely mispronounce names sometimes.
eMPTy responded on 02 Dec 2008 at 6:33 am #
I think I’ve been on the server long enough to warrant a comment. My nickname is not just me having a seizure on the Shift key. The middle three letters of “empty” are my initials. So there. Mine’s short, easy to pronounce, recognizable, and meaningful.
I believe I win.
SAC responded on 02 Dec 2008 at 9:10 am #
@Shon:
Yeah, if you’re not trolling go to yer friends list on Steam, click the arrow next to your name/avatar, and click Set Friends Name.
superking208 responded on 02 Dec 2008 at 9:28 am #
No one can mess up superking208. It generally becomes ‘Super’ or ‘King’ over the mic, which I don’t mind. Nice article though. Cheers.
Shrake12 responded on 02 Dec 2008 at 9:30 am #
How’s Shrake12? I basically use it for everything.
Heh. Edward. Same thing happens every time a new movie/videogame/book crosses media.
Although, I could imagine some tastefully obscure references, such as the aforementioned Neuromancer, Andrew Ryan (whoops, I’ve been playing too much Bioshock,) and other Valve games (i.e. Father Grigori, Dr. Freeman, Randy.)
However, an original name sounding something like a real one, like Daniel Latiel, would probably work best.
Mr. Noobinator responded on 02 Dec 2008 at 10:38 am #
i think my name is simple enough. some dude in GameArena called me “Mr. Noob” for simplicity sake. but when i kill a bunch of enemy, ppl would just yell out “some dude just got NOOBINATED!”
i tend to laugh when that happens. heh
Ryebread responded on 02 Dec 2008 at 11:14 am #
Is that what’s up with all those names I see completely comprised of squares? I never gave too much though into incomprehensible names, although I’ve always entertained the idea of giving them silly nicknames.
“Captain Square! Forces incoming at 9′oclock.”
“Private Incomprehensible! Watch out for spies!”
“Cabinboy Uglyname! Stop playing poor-quality soundbites while we’re battling for our lives!”
wizarD. responded on 02 Dec 2008 at 11:51 am #
I raged.
Lets judge based on names! General Balls is much better than some alt-code name? I have nothing against Balls, just saying a name like that seems much more troll-expert than something like ßøøm HÊÃЧH؆.
Generalizations don’t feel good man.
(Protip – :3 = catface)
ULTRA responded on 02 Dec 2008 at 11:52 am #
Counter strike doesn’t require teamwork? lolwut
5yewy5r responded on 02 Dec 2008 at 2:33 pm #
@ Drexer
You’re not supposed to pronounce my name. You can try and take the read-able parts (yewy- See? Nice and easy.) or you can just ask me, what should I call you.
I don’t see why your example isn’t readable when scrolling over someone.
Furious Badger responded on 02 Dec 2008 at 3:30 pm #
wizarD, yes, General Balls is a much better name. Because it’s easily legible. Alt code names are harder to read, which means people often don’t bother, and just ignore you. It doesn’t make you clever, it makes you annoying. Alt code names used to be used in cases where people had to type out your name to do anything, like in the days of all-text MUDs and such. The moment there’s a graphical interface, they lose the benefit (people can’t target you), and remain just as annoying.
It’s really not hard to come up with a nice, legible name. I may not play a whole lot, but it still warms the cockles of my heart whenever I log into this server (or any other, really) and people start singing the badger song.
Incidentally, what the hell is a “cockle”, anyway?
eMPTy responded on 02 Dec 2008 at 4:34 pm #
@Furious Badger: Apparently, “cockle” refers to one’s ventricles, scientific name “cochleae cordis.”
Wait, this is ubercharged. You’re not supposed to actually learn anything here. How again does that badger song go?
CrabGuy responded on 02 Dec 2008 at 7:49 pm #
People always call me UC for some reason.
Barotte responded on 02 Dec 2008 at 10:31 pm #
Barotte: ‘Bah-rot’. Sounds simple enough, right?
Only about 1% of people I’ve played with can pronounce it at all.
“Hey , Baroot!”
“Hey, Berret!!”
“Hey, broutte!”
“Hey, Bert!”
WHEN WILL IT STOP?
Shon responded on 02 Dec 2008 at 11:50 pm #
@SAC ohh, thanks!
minespatch responded on 03 Dec 2008 at 5:07 am #
For myself, people keep thinking that I’m a patch of mines, but it’s actually a website generated screenname that I’ve been using for years now. Somehow, it rolls off the toungue, but suits me fine either way.
People call me “Mines” even when I don’t state what I would like to be called…
Fabio Bracht responded on 03 Dec 2008 at 5:38 am #
You guys are ranting on ßøøm HÊÃЧH؆? Not this is a good handle, but it would actually be considered one of the best ones here in Brazil.
Here, the Alt-code Experts are the norm. I can’t stress enough how much that pisses me off. It’s not unusual to land on a team where more than half of the people have unreadable handles. And they’re playing all kinds of classes — yes, even Engineers or Medics.
Sometimes I want to create a TF2 blog in portugueses ONLY so I could write exactly this post Himmel just published.
That and the fact that brazilians just. don’t. play. Arena.
OOOOHHHHH I WANT TO KILL EVERYBODY!! Arena is so cool, I can’t begin to understand how the Arena servers around here are ALWAYS EMPTY. On Sundays you can find, like, four people in them. Six if you’re lucky.
But I digress big time. Cheers, mate.
Phoenix responded on 03 Dec 2008 at 6:33 am #
Hrm… my actual handle (phoenix) is good, but I wear 3 tags >..<
Monchberter responded on 03 Dec 2008 at 8:35 am #
I don’t even try to pronounce them most of the time. Although i have been called out on how to pronounce my name most people shorten it to ‘Monch’.
I have no idea what Monchberter means to be honest. My friend invented it as a shared steam ID back in 2004 and i’ve adopted it as my own.
eMPTy responded on 03 Dec 2008 at 9:14 am #
“Arena is so cool, I can’t begin to understand how the Arena servers around here are ALWAYS EMPTY.”
I’m an Arena server- yay!
atomic-penguin responded on 03 Dec 2008 at 1:24 pm #
Himmelstoss, you inspired me to write an rcon-lame-kicker script in Perl. I was thinking about how useful something like that would be, even before reading your insightful blog post.
So it is a pretty rough script, I just wrote it in a couple of hours. Also, it is pretty lenient as far as what is allowed. Most clan tags will not be kicked. Spanish characters in the upper spectrum of the Latin codepage will not be kicked. However, non-printable garbage, such as newlines, carriage-returns, nulls, etc. will be kicked and banned by default.
The lame characters, can of course, all be customized by putting in the correct unicode ranges into a $lame_chars regex variable.
The code is available at http://webpages.marshall.edu/~wolfe21/perl for anyone wishing to test it out.
ZionCleric responded on 03 Dec 2008 at 2:18 pm #
My handle I would say….is slightly easy.
Most people would just shorten it to Sci-on, Zee-on or Zai-on.
edinbugger responded on 04 Dec 2008 at 12:29 am #
Woah… is this a new comment record yet?
Also, everyone keeps calling me edinburger. Pisses me off to no end.
A View to a Kill responded on 04 Dec 2008 at 3:39 am #
My name is easy to pronounce, in fact most people tell me what a great movie I’ve used for my handle
. Usually gets shortened to “A View” or just “View”
Barotte responded on 04 Dec 2008 at 7:34 am #
@At Edinbugger:
I think that’s how most people read Edinburgh, anyways. (I’m assuming you’re a fellow Scot?)
It’s the same with ‘Glass-go’
Himmelstoss responded on 04 Dec 2008 at 8:33 am #
@Edin(burger) –
1. I always call you edinbugger! Yay, I feel so great
2. I believe the comment record is 79, by Direction: http://is.gd/a6Lu
second place goes to http://is.gd/a6Ml
Sorry, I just couldn’t resist
Matt responded on 04 Dec 2008 at 9:52 am #
OHAI.
I was in that game too. wtf evil was dominating.
Just wanted to say that.
5yewy5r responded on 04 Dec 2008 at 9:59 am #
@atomic penguin
Don’t you think it’s stupid to kick, even BAN people just because they have some wierd characters in their name?
I mean, what if it’s just one letter? What if they just felt like fancying up their name a bit? God forbid a little bit of variety!
Matt responded on 04 Dec 2008 at 10:39 am #
I wouldn’t kick/ban anyone unless they were griefing or radio spamming or being an arse in the chat. And I’d just say “hey boomheadshot, kill that soldier”. Just un-alttext it. If he didn’t, he’s an idiot, but whatever.
Also, on as goofy a server as UC’s, why don’t we have votekick to take care of that heavy who insists on minigunning while we’re dancing/bonesaw-only-ing/whatever?
atomic-penguin responded on 04 Dec 2008 at 3:25 pm #
5yewy5r, Do I think it is stupid to warn, kick, or ban them for an unreadable game handle? Not necessarily. As Himmell pointed out, it makes for difficult to communicate with the person. I see it as a problem when you are trying to play a game that relies heavily on teamwork and good communication.
I actually had someone on my server who had put a newline, among other garbage, in his game handle. It is idiots like that, which I am trying to keep off of my server. I think it is up to the game server admin to make the call about what should or should not be allowed on their own servers. If they don’t want to change their nick, to accommodate the rules of a server, they can find another server to play.
Having said that, I wanted something like this for my game servers. This sort of automated kicking/banning for lame nick characters is already common place on IRC. I could not find a script anywhere to perform this action for Source servers. So, I ran with the idea, and decided to share with those who read this thread. I hope that other game server admins find the script useful. It is one way of addressing the problem, identified in this post. Is it the best way to deal with this problem? That is probably debatable.
One final thought, I released the script as open source. If anyone finds the script useful; needs help to adjust it to their own needs; finds a bug; has a suggestion for improvement; or just wants to complain about it being a draconian piece of garbage. I welcome, any and all, feedback. Some game server admins may just want to warn such users. In such cases, the script could be altered to merely warn the player with the ‘rcon say’ command. Rather than outright kicking or banning the player.
5yewy5r responded on 05 Dec 2008 at 12:01 pm #
@atomic-penguin
Then why don’t you make it so they only kick/ban if there are more than a certain number of wierd characters or something? I think it’s unfair if someone gets kicked/banned just because their “o” has a cross through it or something like that.
VAKinc responded on 05 Dec 2008 at 12:23 pm #
My name is eternally spelled VAC. Pronounced the same way, but… Come on, I’m not Valve’s Anti-Cheat, I’m Vak. Vaaaaaak!
Also, I have to completely agree with this post. When you make up your names by randomly pressing “Alt” and some keypad numbers, a kitten dies.
RáÞÞéá
There, dead kitten. Need any more suffer?
SAC responded on 06 Dec 2008 at 5:25 am #
@ULTRA:
It should. I keep saying it should involve at least, say, groups going around, perhaps a sniper lagging behind to assist. A guy with an autoshottie at range distracting while the guy with the M4A1 takes aim. The opportunities and possibilities are few and far between (even if there were 10X that amount, I doubt it would beat TF2 in terms of teamwork), but they ARE there! It’s just that no one ever seems to do it. EVER.
@Himmelstoss: Lawl I jus notice ur usin msoft Vista why u so dum now msoft no longr support it so how can u ply naough.
Ahh, the obsolescence schemes of Microsoft.
Himmelstoss responded on 06 Dec 2008 at 4:36 pm #
@SAC: Screenshot stolen from wikipedia
but yes I am using Vista. I hate it, but now I can’t easily downgrade to XP 
Moose.! responded on 08 Dec 2008 at 2:34 pm #
I think you forgot to add sexy in your disclaimer.
SAC responded on 11 Dec 2008 at 1:29 pm #
Back@Himmelstoss: (Because you can replace words with more than just numbers!)
Rofl lol that not how u ply. Bill Gates screws, but he’s not as bad as Jobs.
But if you think about it, the alt-code is really useful for one particular group: griefers. Makes it hard to remember when reporting to an admin.
Gerkuman responded on 21 Dec 2008 at 1:03 am #
Everyone shortens my nick to Gerk or Gerku, so I have no problems at all in this area of communication. On the other hand, I never Mic-chat so I can’t communicate very well. XD
General Goose responded on 03 Jan 2009 at 1:03 am #
I’d say my handle is easy to say, but confusing if another General or another Goose is on the server. It comes from a character I made up (who was a general AND a goose.)
Spacecase610 responded on 11 Jan 2009 at 12:39 pm #
Hey, I played against a sniper called Boom Headshot. Man he was annoying.
Anonymous responded on 10 Feb 2009 at 10:55 am #
Who the hell is Edward Cullen? Hold on, Googling…
…Aww, gay. It’s that Twilight dude. God, why do people like that shit?
Notebooked responded on 06 Jul 2009 at 11:57 pm #
To Anonymous:
‘Unno. Let them like it and they won’t get sparkles all over you in response.
About The Article:
…After reading this, I’ve considered changing my name. (It’s not Notebooked in-game; it’s Chao. …Yes.) But then, no one calls me by name anyway, I’m too busy rushing around trying to be adequate to be an actual credit to team. That is, trying to be adequate so much I’m not actually good, just lukewarm. Mediocre. I’m fine with this, I just try to do my best. (Also, if anyone DID call me by name, I’d probably spaz like hell. I don’t really want people to acknowledge me enough to know my handle. That just…freaks me out, and makes me think people depend on me. …Which they shouldn’t.)