It's supposed to be summer in the UK a the moment, but we seemed to have lost it somewhere. After the wettest June on record we've just had the wettest July on record, and July hasn't even finished yet.
I know the UK has a reputation for being wet but this is ridiculous. Large parts of the country have flooded affecting over a million people, tens of thousands are without power and water, tens of thousands evacuated from their homes and thousands needing to be rescued from the flood water. The damage is expected to cost up to £3 billion. Some pictures:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/53621220@N00/
Food prices are going up as well, as lots of crops have been ruined by the rain.
The thing that annoys me most every time there is a flood is the inevitable footage of really smug people in canoes. You see them on the news, happily rowing past flooded houses looking so pleased with themselves for having the foresight to buy a canoe. They look like they are almost happy that their house got flooded just so they can get some use out of their canoe.
I joined the UK Officefest server to check out a player who had got a high score quickly. Sure enough he was cheating, so I started recording a demo. He got killed before I'd got enough on demo so I was watching the player who killed him. And he was cheating too.
So now I need another demo of the first player I was speccing and some demo of the second cheat. Easy enough I thought, only the next round he died early on, so I stopped the demo and went to record the second cheat. He got killed too, so again I was watching the player who killed him and would you believe it he was cheating too.
Ok, three cheats, all killing each other, that makes it a bit more complicated but still ok. A few rounds pass and I'm happy that I've got enough on two of them.
If there are more than one cheat on server, I make sure I get demos of them all before I start banning as I don't want any getting away.
Only trouble is a few more players have now joined and two of them are cheating too!. That's 5 all together.
It took me over half an hour to get demos of them all because they kept killing each other before I got enough proof. I missed My Name Is Earl as a result, not happy.
The really fun bit was when it finally got to ban time, I opened my ban menu and oh joy, they are all next to each other in the list of players. This means I just had to hit 6 five times to ban them all.
I really should have got a screenshot of that.
