News, rants, verbal assaults from the past...
	04-30

BTM13 was a blast, thanks all for watching your P's & Q's and making for yet another great LAN Party.  As usual, the Abattoir now has a new IP, we're at 24.141.82.175 now so please adjust your sets.  Now comes the painful task of selecting BTM14s date.  6 weeks from the last would actually place BTM14 on January 1st - 2000!  I'm not too sure we all want that -- then again, we could use our subwoofers with confidence that we won't be seeing certain persons on the front lawn <GriN!>.  If not, we'll do January 8th, any thoughts!?  (...this all providing the Earth still exists after December 31st, 1999 of course!..)
 

Fri - Nov 19th - 01:20 pm

Some last minute cancellations (...thanks for letting us know guys...) and we may have an opening, we're still taking 'Stand-By' registrations BTW.  so get your name in if you're want to come out Saturday to take a rocket in the noggin'.  We'll be going "Off-Line" around 8pm tonight, so catch you this evening or Saturday.
 

Thu - Nov 18th - 05:32 pm

We're getting closer!  I've spent the day cleaning, setting up and restocking the Coke machine -- here you can see today's pile of 'LiquidBootie' ready for loading.  If you click on the image, you'll see a larger version showing how the beverages are going to be divided up and also you may just be able to make out the tournament prize for BTM "Holiday Edition" if you squint (...and who wouldn't KILL for this!..).  I can hear the rockets thundering by at this very second, just smell that solid propellant!  (...getting goose bumps!..)

Just a quick reminder, the 'Early-Bird' set-up is any time after 6pm tomorrow night, please let me know who's coming if you've not already.  For the rest of you, we get at it Noon Saturday!  If you still need directions, please let me know!
 

Wed - Nov 17th - 10:00 am

For all you newbies to the Abattoir, never fret -- This morning at 7:40 I caught the Works Department replacing the road sign outside that was ripped from its mooring during last weeks storm <GriN!>.  Actually, we think it was knocked loose when a sport utility went up the curb and hit the post (...witnessed by myself and Redneck's wife...).  Regardless, we're easy to find so if you're on the list and coming to BTM "Holiday Edition" and require directions, please let me know!

Further on the same topic -- I've received a couple EMails now asking if "I can come anyway?" even if you're not on the playlist.  "No".  The playlist is there for a reason, it show's who's playing.  If you're NOT on the list, you're not playing and you're not coming.  We have to crackdown on "Peepers" -- The Abattoir's LAN Party is a great time, but it costs us to host it, therefore, if 24 people show-up to "Watch", there goes the food and beverage the "players" helped pay for with their $10 play-fee.  It's not fair to them and it costs me.  You have to be a guest to come invited by myself or SGT.Slaughter only.  We have to be firm on this, I'm sure if you take two steps back and look at the big picture, you'll understand.

By the same token -- If you ARE on the playlist and you find out you cannot make it, Please, please, please let us know as soon as possible...  No one's going to chew you out, we have people itching to take your seat so for cryin' out loud, speak-up if you can't come!  (...just don't yell it out loud on a subway, you'll get looks...).
 

Mon - Nov 15th - 07:55 am

Now we're rockin'!  In case you're dead and haven't heard...  Quake3:Arena Test is out!  This is not the completed official "Demo", rather a prequel to it.  This, of course is where the Abattoir comes in, although we were notified when the file was released, the FTP sites and all mirrors are simply getting hammered!!  I can't wait around for it to finish, so I'm leaving it in good faith that the SuperFTP will have the complete file within a short time.  Matter-o-Fact, my download JUST timed out!  Now I'm running Netscape's new SmartDownload (...man, is it ever raping!..)

This of course means I won't have the Abattoir Quake3:Arena Server running till after work, but keep posted!
 

Sun - Nov 07th - 11:54 am

For years, the Abattoir has been a contributing tester for the LithiumII MOD.  As of today, that's no more.  The LithiumII MOD has not had an update in over 6 months.  By popular demand, we've now set-up OSP Tourney as our Quake2 Server!  We've given it the go over (...hours of gruelling testing!..) and we're rock solid!  So happy, we've introduced a new custom map rotation!  You can read all about it here!  (...There's even pictures!..)

Get your rocket launcher strapped on and let's get fraggin'...  There's High Scores waiting to be set marines!!  We will soon be revamping the Stats page too (...or should we finish the screenshots?!..) so make your bullets count!
 

Wed - Nov 03rd - 03:40 pm

There goes another umbrella!  The wind storm last night ripped open then beat the hell out of my second umbrella and I also found (...impaled in my lawn like a Chinese throwing star...) the sign for my street!  Brutal winds...  I've thrown together a form to use when applying for the BTM, you can find it in the LAN Party section.
 

Tue - Nov 02nd - 02:30 pm

Well, "Oh-my-Gawd!"  I've finally got around to "decoding" whatever the hell happened to the JavaScript for the Abattoir's menu!  Talk about a "Piss Me Off"!  So, the menu bar's working again (...at last...) thus the BTM button's working!  Don't panic if what you see is not right, I'll have to update it when I get home tonight from all the EMail's we've received.  Check it out around 6:30ish, we should be level by then!  Thanks for all your patience.

Abattoir's Quake2 server will be redone again soon too...  I've completely given up on Lithium2 - I'm going to put up OSP Tourney tonight, we'll see how happy the servers are after that!