Author Topic: Irony ftw  (Read 414 times)

Discombobulator11

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« on: April 07, 2007, 04:04:00 am »
So last week I woke up with my pinky in sort of a curled appearance, but I couldn't move it at all.  It didn't hurt, but I still figured I'd head on over to an immediate care center to check out what was up.  The doctor just sort up put pressure towards straightening it out, and it popped up into a normal position.  As I tried to bend it back the same thing happened, it jumped back to the original curled up position.  Apparently one of the tendons or ligaments, I forget which, acts as a pulley when bending your finger, and the pulley in my pinky knuckle had inflamed, and was getting stuck somewhere in the pulley process, until enough pressure was put on it and it would warp through the knuckle pulley area, and that's where my finger would jump.  Now you ask, why is this so ironic?????


The condition is called:




TRIGGER FINGER



It wasn't necessarily caused by playing nintendo or computer or whatever, but still.....leave it to me to get a condition relating to the exact things that I do with my free time:  using guns to kill stuff.

Here's a link to wikipedia if you want to learn more@!

Wikipedia Trigger Finger Link Thingy

It's funny cuz it says that it usually happens to the thumb, middle, or ring finger.....pinky for the win!@!@! or something. :)

SpiderWaffle

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« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2007, 05:11:00 am »
Are you playing with crappy CS controlls and use control for duck?  That would probably do it.

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« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2007, 05:23:00 am »
can you still play?
sexy, this

Discombobulator11

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« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2007, 04:04:00 pm »
haha about cs controls, I do use controls like that, but the trigger finger is on my right hand pinkie.  I technically still could play, but I"ll probably have to avoid it for a bit, to avoid getting a nasty injection in my pinky knuckle, cuz that doesn't sound so fun :/

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« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2007, 09:13:00 pm »
Damn! at first i thought you were on about your other "pinky" :lol .

SpiderWaffle

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« Reply #5 on: April 08, 2007, 02:10:00 am »
I don't understand how people can play a game so much but still use such terrible, ergonomically poor controls, which make them play worse.  I tell them why don't you use ESDF like FPS gaming default controls originally were, before HL screwed that all up.  It gives you much easier access to several keys.  The left pinky can now press q, a, and z with ease and doesnt have to strain for bottom row keys like control.  Youll find you can be much more agile with your ducking.  They say, no, then I have to move my hand over and it feels awkward even though thats the why I type normally.  I say, you fool, just keep your hand exactly as it is and move the keyboard over one key and its completely the same.  They try to find a flaw in my logic, but cant.   They cant stand the thought of change even if it makes sense.

I did however convince one of my TFC clan mates to completely remap all his controls.  Once he got used to them he said he said he wished he had always used them as he could play better.

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« Reply #6 on: April 08, 2007, 05:02:00 am »
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Damn! at first i thought you were on about your other "pinky":lol .


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« Reply #7 on: April 08, 2007, 10:44:00 am »
watch out for that trigger finger disco, you're closing in on my position :x

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« Reply #8 on: April 08, 2007, 01:57:00 pm »
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I did however convince one of my TFC clan mates to completely remap all his controls. Once he got used to them he said he said he wished he had always used them as he could play better.


OMFG YOU PLAY(ED) TFC? Which clan? Where? I've played TFC more than anything in my life! You probably know that Paragon was on the USA team that was invited to ECTFC (in 2005 I think).

And yeah, the ESDF thing is true. I didn't change to it because I was very confortable with WASD. But a friend of mine used to play ESDF on QW and it's indeed much better to get all weapons (binding them on the keys around), which was a important part on that game. On TFC, CS, etc, you basically use 2 weapons (shotgun + nail, shotgun + rl, pistol + colt or whatever), so you preety much change through them with Q.

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« Reply #9 on: April 08, 2007, 05:03:00 pm »
Don't you bring PD to the GE board, Red Bull! GE is good enough for five boards.
nothin' moves me more than a groove that soothes me
nothin' soothes me more than a groove that boosts me
nothin' boosts me more, or suits me beautifully
there's nothin' you can do to me; stab me, shoot me

SpiderWaffle

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« Reply #10 on: April 08, 2007, 09:11:00 pm »
My primary clanning has always been ADL with 3v, I lead them for a few years.  I did some CTF clanning as well with vecci, 13, AGT, and some 5v5 clan I took to 1A platinum then it died.  I used to do gathers and pickups a lot.

I got tired of playing with un-qualty players.  1a and gold were the only divisions I wanted to play in, anything less didnt challenge me enough.  Pretty much all the quality players of 3v left and that clan had to be put to rest again.  There were only two good clans in the ADL, I wasnt going to sell out to one of them.  I was 3v for life, best clan I ever played with back in the day.

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« Reply #11 on: April 08, 2007, 10:05:00 pm »
That's nice! I remember 3v (there was this very nice attack vs defence vid). And we had a team on STA once, playing with 200ms.. was preety fun. We entered on Silver, and quickly went to Gold, but stopped there (many players got inactive). We also made a brazilian team and played with .se, got totally raped :p  And I was playing a lot of gathers on last december/january (on #tfc.gather.us), was preety fun :p  Played with Wheaties, Cheese and a lot of legends around there. Talk to me on AIM (gregk0000), or give me your SN. Would like to talk to you about it! :D

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« Reply #12 on: April 09, 2007, 04:40:00 am »
Aren't you glad to have different people of different attributes.  God only knows what would have happened if he or someone made people all the same.  I'm saying this for the future sarcasm over someone's playing skills OMG.

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« Reply #13 on: April 09, 2007, 06:20:00 pm »
Hey Disco, is that condition likely to be a long-term problem for you? Because that would suck. I have an occasional twitch about my left eye that apparently is never going to go away. |I

Anyway, good luck with your TFC and THC and kicking that nasty habit of using ftw. ;)

Discombobulator11

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« Reply #14 on: April 10, 2007, 01:48:00 am »
Well, it can be a long term problem, and if it gets really bad, it can't even be healed completely :/

luckily I did catch it relatively quickly, so a medicine like aleve is doing the trick now, although I have to take it for 6 weeks before we decide to dominate my knuckle with pain and whatnot.

Also, about TFC, Paragon played one of his cal-i matches at my house the second time he came for the summer :)

he had to use my comp, I'll assume that means he dominated.  CS for life!!!

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« Reply #15 on: April 10, 2007, 02:43:00 am »
I think the only thing that would get me back into tfc would be if one of the top 1a gold clans needed someone to play 2 rounds of offense for them once a week, or to represent USA at ectfc, I always wanted that honor.

There was an international ADL thing once, they wanted me on that team, but the competition from other countries wasnt good, and they recruited some ass clowns from the ADL I didnt care to play with.  They called the team weapons of mass destruction which I didnt think portrayed America to the rest of the world very well.

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« Reply #16 on: April 10, 2007, 10:59:00 am »
TFC is dead with FF and TF2 coming out ;/ Preety sad.

www.ozfortress.com/media/...88?t=18271

One demo of me playing, if you were any curious about it (I don't think you are, anyway)!

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« Reply #17 on: April 10, 2007, 03:27:00 pm »
tfc OWNS!
-Narigutita