Remember to find a lobby with an Eaux or XBD name and join us, or shoot a message to any of these individuals:

XBD Phydeaux

XBDAsukaLangley

Apolleaux

Stone Hadeaux

Nemeauxdab

And we’ll pull you right on in.

Check the netcam to see if we’re up, in and ready to play!

http://xboxdead.viewnetcam.com/

Or rather, Damsel account that will be used by a couple of Damsels.

Tonight she’s going to be playing through some Halo and Gears of War 2 matchmaking and see how long and how many friend requests she gets, even without using her mic.

We’ll see how that goes, and if we want to push this direction even further.

http://xboxdead.viewnetcam.com/

Live from Area 68. If you want to play, shoot a message to:

XBD Phydeaux

Nemeauxdab

Apolleaux

Stone Hadeaux

x1x The End x1x

Demonheart31

Hope to see you there!

Mostly musing alert!

So I’m trying to come up with a term beyond DEADhead referring to our volunteers who record content. “White Knight” sticks out as a familiar term and title, but I’m afraid of negative connotations, as there are two. First of all, in the KKK, the most violent and militaristic branch is known as the White Knights, and since we’re all about diversity here at XBoxDEAD, it can be safe to say that we wouldn’t want tha affiliation. But it is an obscure reference, so maybe, maybe it’d get a pass, especially since we wouldn’t be referring to our organization as “White Knights” collective, but as an individual title.

Or not!

It goes further that an individual that sticks up for a female purposefully seeking negative attention because he himself wants attention from her, is referred to as a “White Knight”. This is a social condition that’s all over things like 4chan and other message boards. That’s not what we’re about here, either, even though it is awfully tempting to call recorders White Knights and those donating the use of their voice or likeness “Fair Damsel”, but I digress.

It’s only reflected in literature where the Knight-errant, or “Knight in Shining Armor” or White Knight is perceived as something not negative. He’s honor-bound and driven to do the right thing by way of knowledge; not to get laid. The White Knight is ready to sacrifice himself with the name of his lass on his lips, but it’s not a perverted, misconstrued act. It’s that he knows to that point he has done everything in his power to make the world a little bit safer for her.

But only if she appreciates it.

And now I’m deviating. Point is, what should our recorders, our guys that put their necks out on the line to deal with the vulgar public, be called?

Okay, this is no one’s fault, so let me go ahead and say in the first place that if you’re having trouble registering like the dozen or so off-site inquiries that I’ve received, I’m here to step you through the process and tell you what/why things are being done to fix this process in the future.

Blogs are notorious for picking up a bunch of spam comments from bots. The easiest way to keep this from happening is to restrict any or all posts until they’re approved by an administrator. This can be troublesome, but I’ve turned off that requirement until a need calls for it again.

Registering your e-mail: this one is the biggie. I just did a test register and, sure enough, when I used a hotmail account it dumped it in my spam folder. So check your spam, junk and other filters in your email client. Use the password it gives you (copy and paste if necessary) and then change the password. That’s very important. You see, without getting too technical here, the forum software we use doesn’t recognize odd symbols like ” ‘ ” or “!” and the password you get will be full of stuff like that. So when you register here and it makes your password for you, the forums software is just filling in the blank with something random, making it impossible to login. But if you change the password to something you can remember when you first login, using just letters and numbers, you’ll have no sweat accessing all parts to the site.

For the netcam! It’s down right now. Until I get my cables or wireless solution running full time it won’t be on but on Fridays or so. We’re testing a few configurations in order to cram the 10+ members that take up residence in Area 68, too, so once we finalize that we’ll be on our way to sharing more of our activities to the outside world.

If you’re of a gaming clan that plays TF2 on XBox 360 and wants another coherent, fair, fun team to go up against, let us know. We’d like to film our exploits together as part of our future projects and if you desire, advertise your site here.

I think that’s all we’ve got for now. As I’ve said, we’re going through some growing pains, and short of someone working on a project of this magnitude full time we’re going to have some slow or annoying bugs.

Thanks for hanging in there with us and all of your support,

Phydeaux

P.S. Ukimalefu of Mac|Life.com fame generated the logo for the site. We really do need to get some official credit to him somewhere on the front page. I do swear that I’ll do this.

P.P.S. One of our people put a sentry behind the chicken coop fence on Dustbowl level one, point two. He has been sacked. And then rehired. And then sacked.

P.P.S.(i) DEADpedia will go up just as soon as we can make the colours not suck. Naturally, DEADpedia is a Wikipedia (citation needed) that will be accessible and editable by our userbase. It will be the collective knowledge base for offensive users and their offenses. Since Kamareaux just walked in the door, I suppose I’ll hound him for us to get this done now.

P.P.S.S.S.Esse!.Esse!. Holy crap am I exhausted.

Story courtesy of Game Politics. Here’s the most important quotation because otherwise it’s stuff you already know:

“There is no reason an adult should have [Animal Crossing: City Folk],” says Andy Anderson, Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force.

Anderson says adults playing “Animal Crossing” and similar games are likely doing it for the wrong reasons.

You know, it’s not because someone likes to fish.  Or work in co-op activities to accomplish a task.

The most important part Anderson neglects to say?

Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection Friend Codes are necessary to talk to anyone over the game. Guess what? You can’t exchange those codes in the game. But you can exchange them on a website, which goes further to reinforce that web use should still be the focal point of a parent’s observation into a child’s online activities.

This seems to be no different than the “predators are using the Nintendo DS PictoChat to lure your kids!” idiocy that we ran across back a couple of years ago (PictoChat only works using local wi-fi, so you can only talk to people within 30 feet of you. So if strangers are talking to your kids through PictoChat, you’ve got bigger problems).

Anyone want to get a hold of the task force down there and figure out how they got strangers to talk to them without Friend Codes?

Oh, that’s right, they don’t know because they can’t afford the system, as per the article.

Idiots.

We’re going to be on from 4pm until late, and it may not only be TF2, it could be a wide variety of things including L4D, GoW2, Halo 3 and/or Rock Band 1/2. So if you’re wanting to play with us, shoot us a game message to any of these gamertags:

XBD Phydeaux

Stone Hadeaux

Nemeauxdab

Gheauxstfire

Apolleaux

We’re going to have the cameras rolling to catch people who are abusing exploits in TF2s maps, so, you know, be on your best behaviour if you run across us.

This means no pushing snipers in the rocks in Dustbowl Area 2, Point 2 making them invulnerable, no skywalking, no shooting things through the gates before they open in a match and, for the love of God, don’t get stuck in your own teams’ spawn door in Well, locking them in for the entire match. Seriously, what is your problem? You’re not getting to play, we’re not getting to play, you’re just… griefing? Go back to /b/.

Which means probably it’s a nice night to stay offline if you’re a White Knight. In contrast, a GREAT night to be online if you’re going to be generating content. I forecast tonight a plethora of chauvinism and “do you have a myspace” inquiries. Prepare yourselves accordingly.

Remember ladies, XBox LIVE Parties are your friends, and game in groups!

Well, tonight I jumped in with Batosi and Sobe to do some Halo after a long hiatus and after getting trolled right off the bat, I shut everything down and went and hooked up the recording equipment.

Inevitably, whenever I hook that stuff up, the asshattery stops. It’s amazing. It’s like people know.

And then I got to meet ArmoredClothSUX, teamkiller and mouth-breathing gaydar extraordinaire.

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