Dalor Knows Tactics
Clan .223 is doing well although we haven't won many scrimmages or capture the flag matches with other clans as of yet. Online we've been hanging out in IRC with other clan members getting to know players from around the country. It's been fun. Before now I've never used IRC for anything. It's so useful and streamlined I don't understand why anyone bothers with crap like Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, or any other similar service. Anyway more interest in .223 has been generated due to our IRC presence and because of that we have some new people coming on board. One of the new guys is a programmer in San Rafael that goes by the player name, Mumble. He seems like a very cool person. Until now many of the team members haven't met face to face so Dalor thought it might be a good idea to have a gathering to meet and discuss clan tactics.
Dalor chose a weekend afternoon and had us meet in a vacant conference room at one of our manufacturing sites. That we did. Mumble drove up from his place and we all met in the parking lot of Building 1, then headed up to an auditorium on the second floor. After introducing ourselves and making small talk with one another Dalor began our meeting. Bringing out a portable stand with oversized blank pages on it, he discussed upcoming tactics for capture the flag matches. He claimed he was qualified to invent offensive and defensive plans for the clan because of his experience as a career sailor in the Coast Guard. A few of us sort of glanced at each other without saying anything. Here was a fifty year old electronic technician standing in front of us rambling about tactics for a videogame based on his Coast Guard training. He was serious. I was embarrassed.
Unfortunately most of the people I've met over the years who were in the Coast Guard have turned out to be real closet cases. I don't know why that happens to be the trend, but it is. They're all goofy. Everyone attending the meeting kept it cool while Dalor gave his speech. We were polite and listened to what the man had to say. I could tell what most of us were thinking on the inside though. This was damn silly. How Mumble was going to react to this I had no clue, but I was concerned. I hoped he wouldn't conclude that this was real dumb and bail out because he seemed like a good guy who was a skilled player. We needed skilled players badly.
Dalor chose a weekend afternoon and had us meet in a vacant conference room at one of our manufacturing sites. That we did. Mumble drove up from his place and we all met in the parking lot of Building 1, then headed up to an auditorium on the second floor. After introducing ourselves and making small talk with one another Dalor began our meeting. Bringing out a portable stand with oversized blank pages on it, he discussed upcoming tactics for capture the flag matches. He claimed he was qualified to invent offensive and defensive plans for the clan because of his experience as a career sailor in the Coast Guard. A few of us sort of glanced at each other without saying anything. Here was a fifty year old electronic technician standing in front of us rambling about tactics for a videogame based on his Coast Guard training. He was serious. I was embarrassed.
Unfortunately most of the people I've met over the years who were in the Coast Guard have turned out to be real closet cases. I don't know why that happens to be the trend, but it is. They're all goofy. Everyone attending the meeting kept it cool while Dalor gave his speech. We were polite and listened to what the man had to say. I could tell what most of us were thinking on the inside though. This was damn silly. How Mumble was going to react to this I had no clue, but I was concerned. I hoped he wouldn't conclude that this was real dumb and bail out because he seemed like a good guy who was a skilled player. We needed skilled players badly.
posted by factory_peasant at 12:52 PM
9 Comments:
lol, that's great, man. that was definitely a day worth mentioning.
-mumb
so were you thinking the same stuff i was, that it was extra silly and prolly wouldn't work in-game?
Was dalor the same douche that got a heart problem when he came back from malaysia? If so he was a dude worthy of a punching. I used to call him larry the liar. What a story tellin' sob.
Boomer- you are correct in your most educated of guesses. i know of a few employees who did not get along with him in that dept.
He was really proud of his service in the coast guard so one day I felt like busting his balls about it. Here is how it went:
Boomer: So dalor you were in the coast guard huh? I mean how did you get in they must have made an exception seeing as how you are not 6' tall.
Dalor: What do you mean, you do not have to be 6' tall to get in to the coast guard?
Boomer: I thought you did have to be at least 6' tall to get in just in case your boat sank you could walk back to shore.lol
Dalor got mad and his face turned red as he turned around and walked away.
Hahaha what a puddle pirate.
LAFF!
hehe
memories
puddle pirate! i like it. nice one d00d.
looks like everything is cool @ work since you're still on teh internets huh?
dalor the same douche that got a heart problem when he came back from malaysia?
Man, I never did figure that out. Dude left for Malaysia and never really came back.
I always thought he must have been doing some stupid shit over there, but who knows ...
he ended up getting some kind of jungle bug while he was there. it happened to a few other employees who were over in malaysia at various times since the 70s. one guy got so sick he had to be flown back on a special flight. i think he later died. dalor's situation was complicated by antibiotics. his doctors prescribed a certain kind of antibiotic to help with the infection and they didn't realize he was allergic to it. he got even more sick before they realized what was happening. an unfortunate situation.
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