Generic whine

Hello,

Just bored and feel like ranting abit, there's nothing in this journal that'll actually help change anything so naturally it is fundamentally useless. But I'd just like to question the current state of the ET community; physically I think it hasn't changed a whole lot over the years, yes there are a few less teams these days and they are more unstable and of course the injection of cheaters into the situation. But mentally the ET community has become an awful thing, simply because of the "witchhunt", if you will, over cheaters.

I've never really been affected by this witchhunt until recently, as I got a new computer and the etproguid is screwed up somehow and I share it with like 20 other people (not sure exactly why this is, perhaps something to do with me not installing vista myself, I let Dell do it before it was delivered). Though as a consequence my yawn now has loads and loads of pbguids to 1 etpro guid (some of which have the evil red triangle next to it). Thus when my team starts winning in a match, or I make a few nice kills on a pub they opposing team or whatever will check the yawn and without even looking closely accuse of cheating and ultimate kick me (but care).

Now this isn't necessarily because in their eyes I definitely cheat, it's more I believe that they want me to cheat. Perhaps they've lost a round rather quickly and they don't want to accept that we are the better team and so I must be cheating. It's like with witchhunts back in the old times (you'll have to forgive my terrible knowledge of history) but often they'd accuse people or being witches not because of evidence (no I don't believe witches actually exist) but simply because they did not like that person, maybe they've got a bigger house or more land or whatever. Other reasons motivate the accusation.

I guess the point of this journal is to ask people to look alittle closer at yawns, check them in alittle more detail, maybe you'll come to better conclusions. And please don't "want" people to cheat, don't assume the worst in people. Remember the days when someone made an amazing kill (like a spin 3hs kill) and you'd say "great shot", what do you think you'd say now? I know its hard to avoid the belief that people are cheaters, because there are so many these days, though you can try. If you really do believe they are cheaters, in my opinion, finish the map or round and leave, check wolfcam & pbss etc after. I do believe you can improve faster as a player if you don't accuse others of cheating too, instead analysing what they're doing better and try to learn from them. Try to bring back a friendliness to the community - even in these rather bad circumstances.

Thanks for the few who may of read this. :)