Contest: Show Your Own Savagery

Brandon Bird wins for this: http://www.brandonbird.com/kingofcage.html

One of the devs is registered on the shack so if you have questions, heres probably one of the best places to ask :)

Here's a little video I made awhile back that revolves around people getting hit by cars! It's the Counter-Strike map de_porsche. There's a few Shackers showcasing their driving skills in there.

A little backstory - besides being great fun, it was soon discovered that if you died while in control of your car, you could still control it from the afterlife. This is why so many cars don't have drivers - people are trying to run over other players while being stuck in spec. It made for hilarious gameplay.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWotuOuLY3M (Sorry for the poor quality - I would've used Stage6 for better quality, but they were hacked this morning.)

Notable moments:
:52 - Great distance when thrown from car.
1:35 - We managed to get the guy who created the map to play. I had emailed the guy asking for a knives-only version, and he kindly obliged. What a nice guy! That's me driving him off the side to his death.
1:52 - A good hit.
2:09 - Another good hit, this time by the yellow car.

I played the demo and it seemed fun. I couldn't find a game with a good ping though but I was playing way too early. I might give it another try and buy it. Much better than any mmo pvp imo.

http://imageomega.shackspace.com/images/more-savage-smash.jpg

For the contest, plus a message to Nintendo. You know you want to see these guys in Brawl.

Channel #h4ckz
B0b joined the channel.
B0b: okay lets snag us some cc's
B0b has activated the botnet.
Vigilante joined the channel.
Vigilante: Hello, B0b.
B0b: dude who are you
Vigilante: You don't know me, but last year you stole one of my credit card numbers and racked up about $10,000 in unauthorized charges.
B0b: so
Vigilante: It destroyed my credit rating, we couldn't refinance our house so we lost it, and now my wife and children have left me.
B0b: sux dude but wasnt personal
Vigilante: Well, it's personal now. Open up Task Manager.
B0b: ???
Vigilante: Go on...do it.
B0b: what is bc3k10.exe?
Vigilante: I wanted to do the worst possible thing to you...the one thing that could never be undone.
B0b: what is bc3k10.exe!?!?!
Vigilante: That is the original Take Two release of "BattleCruiser 3000 A.D."
B0b: ur installin a derek smart game?
Vigilante: When I bought this game and installed it, bugs in the installer wiped out the FAT on my hard drive...twice.
B0b: dude why cant i end task?
Vigilante: Even if you are able to uninstall this crime against humanity, you'll never be able to cleanse your computer. Your computer will have been touched by the work of Derek Smart and there is nothing you can do about it.
B0b: come on man stop it stop it stop the installer
Vigilante: No can do. You cost me my life...I'm costing you your dignity.
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now this has to be the most SAVAGE gamer of all. i give you...

THE FRED.

http://picasaweb.google.com/waxthirteen/UntitledAlbum/photo#5164681084658627186

http://www.nflight.com/files/shack/roadrashweapons.jpg

14th place? Not for long!

Is it wrong i'm actually waiting for this to appear on steam before i buy it? I think it's wrong, BUT ... put this on steam please = )

The most Savage gamer of all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBVmfIUR1DA

I have a savage true story:

When? 8th Grade
Where? School
What went down? I had a friend who made some outrageously rude comment. I never knew what the comment was, but it enraged our other 48 classmates. They all managed to group up and were going to gang up on my friend at lunch... 48vs1, now that's not fair. I was looking for some fun and had to even the odds, so I took chose sides. 48vs2. I like those odds.

My friend and I had a little time to prepare while things escalated. My friend spent his time panicking and angering everyone else more. I guess he wasn't trying to help the situation. Either way, I knew I had to have a little fun and didn't want to get obliterated so I had to be quick and effective. I took a water balloon. I filled it half way with water and then pissed in it. This proved to be difficult, but I’d like to say 80% of the urine went in the balloon. The rest...let’s not talk about it. Not too long after this the mob slowly came to surround us. I had to take my shot. I took aim at the guy yelling back at my friend with the diluted urine balloon and released. The balloon nailed him on the shoulder and exploded. I laughed my ass off inside and ran off. My job was done.

I don't really know what else happened, I think heated words were just exchanged after that and everything was settled by the end of lunch, but I had my own little secret victory. I don't think the guy I hit (who was a total dick) ever found out there was urine in the balloon, but he had to have smelled something awkward that day. 12 years later, and I still laugh about this story.

That’s my savage story... I hope it qualifies.

Isn't this contest just feeding Jack Thompson? I mean, "we're asking you to visually represent an act of savagery"...that doesn't make gamers sound very peaceful or passive, does it?

Well shit. No actual violence allowed? There go all my best plans! >:(

This happened this past summer when I lost a game of Warcraft III. I keep it around as a reminder that being a savage with electronics doesn't really work out so well.

http://picasaweb.google.com/beadly/Desktop/photo#5164380342370396466

i almost died when i was 2 years old because i ate cat hair....it wasn't on purpose and it was a stray cat....so I got rushed to the hospital and its my earliest memory being in the backseat of a car having problems breathing then they injected me in the butt and i cried and thats it

So we just post an entry in the comments?

I am really enjoying this game - the only long term issue I'm having (after the learning curve and the recent patchs which have fixed a lot of crash/lag issues) is that there is no skill based matchmaking. You are either in the noob games list - or the non-noob. Once you leave noob ville it gets rough to play and the team stacking doesn't help. If they had the user population to allow them to split into a third bucket of 'middle level' and 'pro' - it would help alot. So everyone go buy it so there are more peeps!

This is a pretty fun game and I would encourage people to check it out. I used to play the original and the new one makes a lot of improvements.