Tuesday, June 16, 2015

June 15, 2015

 Shortly after I wrote my post last night the base of the main ARK streamers that I watch was raided by a couple other tribes. They came in with several T-Rexes and killed almost all of the dinosaurs and I don't even want to guess how many hours it took to tame all of those things. Then they went after the base and leveled all the top floors and looted all of the stuff. So many hours of work. Some of them at least were the ones who's base was leveled the other day because they were capturing people and messing with them. There are strong accusations that the other guys were stream sniping, meaning they not only gathered intel by watching the other streams to plan the attack and were also watching the streams during the attack so they knew where people were and what was happening. It is also speculated that one of the guys gave out the server password to several of his friends (because it is a private server mostly for streamers) and they helped him build up his army. All of it is still based on speculation and rumors but apparently one of them has a history of doing this so who knows. The raid lasted a long time because the raiders were trying to track everyone down. Thanks to the possible stream sniping it also looks like they knew where all the beds were so they went around destroying those along with a couple other personal bases belonging to the tribe members.

This morning a couple of the streamers I watch were still on. A few had been working all night and managed to rebuild the first floor of the main base all in metal along with one of the personal bases all in metal. When I started watching one of them was floating high over the raider's base, which he said he had been doing for the past six hours. Whenever the raiders left to go collect resources he would go down and mess with their base. Eventually there were only two people left defending the base and the guy went down to talk to them. One of them had only recently joined the tribe and was role-playing as a mercenary. He also possibly has the highest ranked T-Rex on the server. The guy I was watching did a lot of talking and managed to convince the mercenary to leave the tribe because all he cared about was his T-Rex and didn't want it killed. The other defender was a “friend” of the guy I was watching and she eventually flew off, after the guy took some shots at her with his rifle. And that is when the fun began.

At this point another tribe member was online. He got on his bird and destroyed the roof of the raider base because it had a metal first floor but the second floor was wood. Then he went in, killed all the offline raiders and went around destroying all the cabinets and looting all the stuff (a lot of which was probably the tribe's already). He took trips back up and loaded up the birds and the first guy flew them back to the base, offloaded them, and came back for another trip. After that they blew a hole in the outer fence before the first guy had to get offline because he had been streaming all night. And was kind of drunk because he had also been slowly drinking beer throughout the night (“Am I drinking beer at 7:00AM? It is 7:20AM and I have been drinking beer for 8 hours. So yes, I am drinking beer.”)

For the next several hours the remaining tribe member systematically lead all of the raider's dinosaurs, one by one, out through the hole in the fence and into the ocean so they would drown. He originally tried to kill them with his T-Rex but ended up getting completely dominated by one of the raider's T-Rexes, which killed his. So he went back to his bird and slowly lured them out into the ocean, occasionally aggroing a megalodon to attack the dinosaurs in the water and speed up the process. It was a little sad for the dinosaurs but also funny because as he was luring them out of the base he was using that baby-talk kind of voice that people use to talk to dogs when they have done something good. People in his chat were giving him crap for doing it when the raiders were offline but he was offline during the attack last night and some of his dinosaurs were killed, and the raiders have come across as dicks so far, so he had no remorse. The raiders brought six T-Rexes and a few other dinosaurs to wreck the base and kill all the dinosaurs. Today, pretty much one man stole all the raiders loot and killed all of their dinosaurs. At least the loot and dinosaurs at that base. They are rumored to have at least one more.

I only slept about five hours last night because it took forever to fall asleep and then I woke up really early and said screw it. I made a few tweaks to my website and finally submitted it to the discussion post. And I just now remembered that I was also supposed to submit the website link separately on the assignment page. So that was 36 minutes late. Hopefully I don't get too much taken off. There is at least evidence that I was done with it because of the time stamp on my discussion post and one of my classmates commented on it earlier tonight. Too late to worry about it now, though.

Tonight I read a textbook chapter and several articles for class. That is still from last week's reading. I need to read the chapters on CSS so I can start adding that to my website and I need to start writing my reflective journal entries because that is due on Monday. It won't take much to do but I will of course drag it out until at least Sunday night because I suck.


It is now closing in on one o'clock in the morning and I am hoping I will be able to sleep tonight. I have been tired all day and managed to avoid taking a nap, surprisingly, but now I'm not feeling it. Again, because I suck. But I'm hoping for good things when my head hits the pillow.

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