Having finally agreed on a date, the GATM match will be this coming Saturday, May 10. I'm pushing for an early afternoon time around 5 EST, I'll keep this thread updated as more information is decided upon.

I've just been informed that the traitorous enemy of the state, Foszor/Brandon will not be able to play tomorrow and therefore is requesting a reschedule. They want to wait until after the update is released so, in short, no TF2 match tomorrow. Now that's not to say that we won't invade their server again like we did tonight. It just won't be "official".

I finally got around to reuploading all of my old comics and such. If you've been looking for them, they're all up now: Unexpected II (http://www.mine-dog.net/forum/showthread.php?t=3525) Last Time (http://www.mine-dog.net/forum/showthread.php?t=3049) Edward the Retarded Engineer (http://www.mine-dog.net/forum/showthread.php?t=2938) Road Trip (http://www.mine-dog.net/forum/showthread.php?t=2893) Walk Softly and Carry a Big Shotgun (http://www.mine-dog.net/forum/showthread.php?t=3292) Legal Matters (http://www.mine-dog.net/forum/showthread.php?t=3236) God Damned Spies Destroy Everything I Create (http://www.mine-dog.net/forum/showthread.php?t=2940) Best Not To Ask 2 (http://www.mine-dog.net/forum/showthread.php?t=2977)

Tovarishii! Our fraternal socialist allies at Game Against the Machine (http://gatmhq.com/hq.gatm) have challenged us to a friendly (that means supposedly non-competitive) game of either CSS or TF2. It is up to the players to choose a game and date for the match. So that means start posting what you'd like to play and when, you buffoons.

In an effort to stimulate one of our other servers, I've decided to organize a small "for fun" game in which our glorious Combine forces can shoot each other up in our TF2 server. Basically, all CP and Overwatch players are invited to join the TF2 server with their Combine names on and play a game with each other, in character. Anyone who is not in the Combine clearly is welcome as well. Perhaps we'll get a TF2 Regulars VS CCA match going, who knows. When will it be? Sometime Sunday, what time is best for you guys?

I haven't done one of these in a while but here goes: *U raff u Rose: *http://www.mine-dog.net/forum/showthread.php?t=3768 *Engineering thread: *http://www.mine-dog.net/forum/showthread.php?t=3289 *Misplaced: *http://www.mine-dog.net/forum/showthread.php?t=3731 *Stalker poses: *http://www.mine-dog.net/forum/showthread.php?t=3800

If you haven't seen it by now, there is a photoshop Putz challenge going on right now. You all should enter because I know none of you have anything better to do. Also, I put up a Pledgie campaign for the monthly donations. I like Pledgie because they come with a little donation progress bar I can slap all over, so I can tactfully remind you all to send me your money without having to actually say anything. http://pledgie.com/campaigns/596

So it's that time again. I like to keep everyone abreast of as many of the happenings here as I can, so I felt a need to make a post concerning some things. Obviously we have a new site up and running with some new features. Today we added in a server status box on the index page showing the status and current map of each server we run (thanks Catdaemon and Looter). There is also a new forum theme (optional at this time) made by Kendo called "Soviet Union". You can select it at the bottom left of the forum index or from the user control panel. It's quite slick, I recommend you at least try it out. Now for a bit of a rough spot. As you know, the three servers we run are maintained solely through my own earnings and through donations from the playerbase. Our build server is donated to us for free by Foszor, but the TF2 and RP servers cost $45 and $39 a month to sustain, respectively. As of this post, we currently do not have enough money in the general fund ($17 to be exact) to run either server past the end of this month. Since June of 2007, Shellnew has pretty much funded us singlehandedly, but thanks to a few notable people in recent months (Putz, BotmasterDeluxe, Slusho and Thorkon to name just a few, sorry if I missed you) we've been able to keep things running smoothly. In about two days I'll be able to dump about $50 myself into the fund but that will only be enough to keep one server up. So if nobody else pitches in, someone (*me*) is going to have to choose which server we want to shut down, and I really don't want to have to do that. I hate to have to make this post because I like pushing for donations about as much as I like voting for Hillary Clinton, but there's simply no other way. I will not go to previous donators and ask for more money because it's not fair to them, so I am hoping some new faces turn up. I don't have anything fancy to give back to donators other than two servers for them to play on, but I hope to change that in the near future thanks to the addition of the store. If you'd like to help out, send me a private message and we'll work out the details. I don't care if you want to donate just a dollar, I take whatever people want to give. Thanks for listening, and thanks for sticking around.

If you didn't notice, the new site is up. I'm still working out a few bugs so be patient.

Just a heads up, expect the main page design to be changing very shortly. Lode designed it and I coded it. Just didn't want you to be surprised.