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Front Page News (11/9/08 - 11/21/08)

Rush Retrospective — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:35:00 GMT

//Updated November 9th, 2008

A complimentary Front Page Update to keep you up to date on what really matters in the communities of Paradises Garage as well as the gaming world and Real Life.

Typically, we would enjoy a good melee of knives, stun grenades, claymores, C4 and hand grenades. COD4, one of the main fancies of the {MC} community over the last few months is for once, not the main topic of this update (although still a long time favorite for us). Instead, we are going back in time. 1944, a year of releasing the dogs, artillery strikes, and makin huts is todays focus. Thats right, we are now playing (for now) Call Of Duty 5 - World At War (beta). Many of us got a hold of beta keys for this beta on PC and it so far is not disappointing.....I'm going to buy it when it is released on Steam. If you come around to our vent (shut up and get in the vent), we can show you how to get a hold of a beta key so you can join us (it's free). Then you can join us at our server at 67.93.155.120:28960 which is a hardcore free-for-all/team death match server.

Also stay tuned for a new site update in the works...you will not be disappointed.

Troop was ~~not~~ here (hence why I'm ~~doing an update~~ lying to you).

-Posted by {MC}Rush Retrospective (November 9th, 2008 At Approx. 8:26 PM EST)

-Edited by {MC}Troop (November 10th, 2008 At Approx. 3:50 PM EST)

Front Page News (10/8/08 - 11/09/08)

Rush Retrospective — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:42:00 GMT

Welcome to "The Foundation" and PG Gaming Community!

//(Finally) Updated - October 08, 2008

An unroutinely update regarding additions and changes in the {MC} Community, gaming world and RL in general.

Not a very large update...maybe.

First update would be our current gaming appeal. It seems that AOC is more of a backseat passenger rather than the main driving force in the community at the moment. It is still being played...just not to its full extent. This does not mean it is dead. The foundation still exists, and one day live again...again. So if AOC is the back seat passenger, who is driving this vehicle down the freeway? No one, the car is about to run into the guard rail and fly over the overpass on another car -[CoR]. Instead we have upgraded to a friendly chopter (7 kills ftw). Thats right, COD4 is once again the new hotness in the {MC} gaming world. There is a pretty good game going on everyday starting around 8pm and lasts untill ?. Any one can get in on this game, but no mercy shall be shown, claymores don't descriminate...except against me. So shut up and get in the vent so you can get to the chopter if you want to live. Don't be a passenger in the car....or Hugh Jackman.

Portal: Prelude, a free portal mod which takes place before the GlaDOS take over of Aperture Science will be released this Friday to the public and is available to anyone who has Portal already installed on their PC. This mod is stated to be L O N G E R than the original portal as well as more story oriented. Ohh and harder...yeah, I should add that. The vALVE release of portal was too easy. The download will be available on our site Friday as well as the Portal Prelude site (www.portalprelude.com).

Download Portal Prelude: Here

Update Portal Prelude: Here

-Posted by {MC}Rush Retrospective (October 8th, 2008 At Approx. 12:50PM EST)

-Updated by {MC}Rush Retrospective (October 9th, 2008 At Approx. 6:24AM EST)

-Updated by {MC}Rush Retrospective (October 31st, 2008 At Approx. 8:43PM EST)

Front Page News (6/29/08 - 8/31/08)

Rush Retrospective — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:14:00 GMT

//Updated - June 29, 2008

Front page update for information on changes occurring in the {MC} community/site and world in general.

What's happening in the MC community? Well for starters, Age of Conan was released a little over a month ago. It's an MMORPG based during the time of King Conan as written by Robert E. Howard back in the 1930s. The game is getting great reviews and is loved by most of the people I hear talking about it. There is some bad press as well due to some of the major bugs that affect some people. Some of which we have some fixes posted for, such as the OOM (Out of Memory Error)

Long Live The Foundation!

The Foundation is still growing. We are over 100 strong now! We are still recruiting quality, mature and dedicated team players. We have built our Tier 1 City, and intend on getting it to Tier 2 and 3 as soon as possible. If you are interested seek us out on the Bloodspire PVP Server or post in our Guild Forums. The AoC section of our Forums will grow as needed with new sections for Guild and AoC related information. We look forward to seeing you all in Hyboria!

The Guild forums section will be undergoing a restructuring in the coming weeks to allow for a more structured environment.

In other news, there are a few AoC holdouts, those that either don't want to pay per month or their computer can't handle AoC.

Ventrilo: It's where we live... If you really want to know what's going on with us, come visit us.

The site will be undergoing a Hyborian facelift when my schedule permits. I am open to suggestions and any graphical assistance is welcome. This theme will still be available to those who prefer it.

LLTF!

-Posted by {MC}ParaDOX (Posted June 29, 2008 at Approx. 12:00AM EST)

Front Page News (6/1/2008 - 6/29/2008)

ParaDOX — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:24:00 GMT

Welcome to "The Foundation" and PG Gaming Community!

//Updated - June 29, 2008

Front page update for information on changes occurring in the {MC} community/site and world in general.

Long Live The Foundation!

The Guild forums section will be undergoing a restructuring in the coming weeks to allow for a more structured environment.

In other news, there are a few AoC holdouts, those that either don't want to pay per month or their computer can't handle AoC.

Ventrilo: It's where we live... If you really want to know what's going on with us, come visit us.

The site will be undergoing a Hyborian facelift when my schedule permits. I am open to suggestions and any graphical assistance is welcome. This theme will still be available to those who prefer it.

LLTF!

-Posted by {MC}ParaDOX (Posted June 29, 2008 at Approx. 12:00AM EST)

Front Page News (3/29/2008 - 6/1/2008)

ParaDOX — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:31:00 GMT

//Updated - March 29, 2008

Front page update for information on changes occurring in the {MC} community/site and world in general.

So, the front page was getting a little stale, so I'm going to do something completely unheard of. I, {MC}Troop, have updated the front page of the site.

The {MC} Community would like to encourage everyone to participate in Earth Hour today. On Saturday, March 29, 2008 ~~(that's today)~~, Earth Hour invites people around the world to turn off their lights (and any other electronics) for one hour – from 8:00pm to 9:00pm in their local time zone to conserve energy, save money, and support the environment. After all, most of us do live on Earth. If we plan to continue to live here, we need to take care of it.

What has the {MC} community been up to recently? Well, if you look to the left of this web page, you will see that we have added the Call of Duty 4 Server to the front page. We play CoD4 for a few hours each today, and we're starting to get more and more people to join in. Go get it! Don't forget to join us in vent while you play.

After over six years of dedication towards the {MC} community, our friend (space)Cash has been invited into the {MC} clan. This means that he is ~~now my equal~~ still a minion compared to me.

Between the Netherlinian elephant graveyard, the rants about bacon, the "no right click", and the "Troop is still here..." It's good to know that some people are finally understanding a bit a {MC}'s (and my) sense of humor. Actually, it only takes a little while on ventrilo with everyone here to understand these things, because they are primarily inside jokes.

Our source servers are down! Oh no! The machine died, and we have no time to fix it (because we're busy updating the site) // (or transfer the servers) right now. Hopefully nobody gets any cravings to play source, because they could be like this for a little while.
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the CS:Source server is up.

Starwars_Trench2, {MC}ParaDOX's ~~final~~ latest starwars_trench based map, has been uploaded to cstrike-planet (it only took roughly a year). It has yet to be accepted for downloading.

Troop was here...And Rush ~~Conquered...~~ wishes he conquered.

-Posted by {MC}Troop (Posted March 29, 2008 at Approx. 7:00PM EST)
-Edited by {MC}Rush Retrospective (March 30th, 2008 at Approx. 6:00PM EST)
-Reedited by {MC}Troop (April 1st, 2008 at Approx. 3:44PM EST)

Front Page News (1/11/08 - 3/29/08)

Rush Retrospective — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:01:00 GMT

//Updated - January 11th, 2008

Front page update for information on changes occurring in the {MC} community/site and world in general.

As I lie in bed each morning I ask myself why I should place my feet on the floor, there are a few precious reasons that I've ever been able to come up with. Chance to escape Doded's morning breath? Sure. Cake. Its too early to eat it, yes. But people its never too early to think about it. And of course, the ever present possibility that I might finally happen upon Suicidal Youth and be able to give him the present I've been holding for him....BAM! Still, the most persuasive argument I've ever been able to come up with is the fact that I get to come to this community every day and help keep people entertained.

This front page update is mostly for the gaming world, since there has been much recent activity that just may change the {MC} community. Some involve the Half Life 1.6 engine. Some the source engine.

Haven't gotten Portal yet? Number one, I question how you have been living your life these last few months but hey, you gotta do what you gotta do. And what you gotta do is to go over to Steam Powered and get yourself a copy of Portal: First Slice (by clicking here!). There is a catch, however. You MUST have an NVIDIA video card in your PC. Valve will automatically detect the video card and allow you to download this game. If you have Portal already, than you cannot get this. Although, don't fret! you can still get Half-Life2: Deathmatch, Half-Life2: Lost Coast and Peggle Extreme! The reasons for such an offer? NVIDIA and Valve have now formed an alliance, or so you can all it. For the most part, its like NVIDIA and Valve will coincide themselves so that Valve will produce their games more oriented toward the power of NVIDIA video cards. Sad to say though, ATI and Valve had a similar alliance/offer a few months back.

Speaking of bondings of two companies, Valve, as of yesterday, bought Turtle Rock Studios. What is Turtle Rock Studios? Well Turtle Rock Studios may be the basis of this current day community. Yes, Turtle Rock Studios are the makers of Counter-Strike 1.6, Condition Zero and Counter-Strike: Source. They are also the makes of the anticipated Left 4 Dead coming out later this year. Before anyone jumps up and says "wait, valve has always owned counter-strike." Well, Turtle Rock Studios have always been the official owners of the Counter Strike series. Just like Team Garry is the official owners of Garrys Mod. Valve, before yesterday, were only the distributers and advertisers of this game and the game in turn was build off their engine. With this bonding, some good, which we hope may come out of this. We can only hope that Valve (although we won't hold our breath), will expand the potential of source by adding vehicles into the game. Then, and only then, will we see a Starwars_Trench_Source.

Only 11 minutes after the purchase of Turtle Rock Studios, Valve released an update for Counter-Strike 1.6 and Condition Zero updating the in game ads in 1.6 and the official placement of in game ads to Condition Zero. This may be a very dangerous move made by Valve and is a threat to all gamers of a generation of online games with in game ads. Leave it to Valve to kill beauty for a quick buck.

Eternal-Silence, although a mod that we haven't publicly touched lately has made an update. It seems that this amazing mod is looking for beta testers. Many of us from the community have experienced beauty of an ever changing game throughout the beta tests of Dystopia. This means were jumping onto this opportunity. What does this mean to you? It means if you hope to find us on a Sunday afternoon, than you too better register on their forums and make a post telling them you want to beta test. You can find this by heading over to Eternal-Silence and hitting up this thread.

Recently, I purchased the old [CoR] site and its making me so happy. Currently, the front page probably looks better than it ever did under [CoR]'s ownership. It has the great effect of our space (or cyber-space) imperialism with our nations flag into new territory. But why would we stop there? Ohhh yeah, thats right. Just the other day, I acquired the old [CoR] server IP! Thats right, that last dying breaths of [CoR] are now sealed in a jar on Rush's shelf. The IP is 66.254.117.182:27015 and has the best of {MC}! 24/7 Starwars2 under the [CoR] name without the CoRulosis. And Reign isn't even banned! Everyone wins.

Until next time...

Front Page News (1/4/08 - 1/11/08)

Rush Retrospective — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:39:00 GMT

Welcome to the PG Gaming Community!

//Updated - January 4th, 2008

Front page update for information on changes occurring in the {MC} community/site and world in general.

Here Ye! Here Ye! A very long needed update for the Paradises Garage/{MC} community. No actual formal update was made wishing you all a happy holidays, so this is an official belayed Happy Holidays to all those who read these updates!

Anyway, this has gotten me so excited the past week or so. You see, I'm addicted to Dystopia once again. Whats Dystopia you say? Well Dystopia may be the one true Half-Life2 Modification that {MC} was truely involved in during its development. We were there, putting up a server when the game was only in beta testing and everything was glitch-galore. We were there, as supporters beta testing the Release Clients before the game was actually released. We were there, donating our bandwidth so that the masses could download such a game. We were there, on day one of its release, we had 3 full servers dedicated toward this mod. The Dystopia Trailer before the games release did not only feature players here from {MC}, but actually took place in the {MC} server! And just recently, were going back. This mod is the only mod I have seen to date where you actually hack in-game. No, not speed hack or aim hack. But hack in game servers and bring them down to complete objectives. Yes, the aspect of cyberspace in cyberspace. This game has dropped in population over time, true, but its coming back. Be one of the ones to be responsible for the return of Dystopia by downloading this game from here: (Full Game//Version 1.1 Patch//Dys_Fortress Hotfix). Also be sure to visit the Dystopia website and tell them how great this game is (and tell them you read a review here at Paradises Garage. Click here to visit the Dystopia website.

Here in the near future, we will be introducing {MC} Paradises Garage merchandising. No seriously, we will be having {MC} Paradises Garage themed t-shirts and other goodies for sale. In the forums, I have made a thread asking you, the population (I Am Legend?), what you would like to see on an {MC} T-shirt. Companion Cube? Tomb Stone with [CoR] on it? A shirt that says "...and Troop is still here!"? Tell us what you want to see! All you have to do is sign up on the forums (if you have to do this step, whats wrong with you?) and post in this thread.

Anyone addicted to the last song of Portal? I am! And your now going to be forced to listen to it:

Finally, heres for the scrubs update. I still haven't made those darn blogs. I've been busy, but they WILL get done, I promise. Heres the deal though, episode 7 of season 7 will air on the 24th at 8:30pm EST instead of its usual time at 9:30pm EST. It was replaced due to the WGA Writers Strike and is finally going to air again. Right now, 12 of the planned 18 episodes have been written and produced, but director and producer Bill Lawrence will not be doing any work on Scrubs until this writers strike is of course over. Also, only episodes 7, 8, 9 and 10 will be aired, even though 11 and 12 were filmed under Bill Lawrence's absence says NBC. With such a predicament, Lawrence has asked NBC to extend Scrubs into the 2008-2009 Season officially creating an eighth season. This is do far unofficial but if this does occur, two things may occur for us Scrubs fans: 1. We still have something to look forward to for a little while longer since the series will not end until next year, and 2. having and eighth season gives the possibility of there being more episodes than originally planned. The other work around instead of and eighth season is a television movie, which will ultimately be shorter than what you can get out of of another season. Although, from where I stand, I just hope the writers strike ends soon so we can get back to our usual viewing pleasure. Scrubs must end before the actors contracts end! If their contracts end, it will be impossible for Scrubs to end properly.

Only time will tell!!!

-Posted by {MC}Rush Retrospective (Posted January 4th, 2008 at Approx. 11:12PM EST)