Mike Dragon

Never in my entire life have I ever taken SO much damage to my truck as I have today, just TRYING to cross from Duisburg to Calais. Not even in the worst of days on Rotterdam/Europoort. What the hell!? Since when is that road, that used to be so peaceful, become so busy?! Being busy is not the issue, though, but all the "pained children" who, apparently, will die if they don't speed and overtake with no regard about others. Seriously, what the buck!?

43% of damage to my truck and 12% to my trailer. And that's just on the way to Calais. The total score so far has been 4 rammings and 3 head-on collision by imbeciles overtaking where and when they can't. Oh, and two scrubs who intentionally "tossed" their vehicle on my face.

There's a new batch of reports coming out soon.

The ground is not good enough. I must go! My people need me!

My cat is gone. Her original owners appeared today and proved being her owners so we had to let her go with them. They recognized her. They seem to be very good people and though I will REALLY miss that cat, I believe I can rest at ease, knowing that she's in good hands. I am glad me and my family could have that adorable fur ball in our lives and be her guardian for the time being. Who knows what could have become of her if she had not come around. Not that many people around here have the patience or care to take in some random adult cat that shows up their door, you know! My mother cried after they left and I'll be lying if I say I didn't shed some tears of my own, as well. :'(

I will miss this adorable, fluffy, white furry face so, so, so, so much!

Thank you for brightening up my day and making me smile all the time, just for being present, my furry friend. :')

I've said this before and I will say it again...

I do not add people I don't know on Steam so do yourself a favor and do not send me a friend invite unless we know each other. Especially if I tell you to send the invite. If you send me an invite and I don't know who you are, it will just sit there on my notifications and collect dust until you either cancel it or I decide to click on "Ignore".

This isn't me being snob or rude. I just don't like adding random people I don't know. I've had enough negative experiences in the past to go back to doing it again. So be sure I actually know who you are (and that I like you. I also don't add people I don't like) if you want to befriend me on Steam, alright? :\

Welp, I just spent the past two hours (almost three, actually) attending to support tickets. I'm done with that for today. Time to do anything else.

Answering appeals and reviewing reports to some quality music!

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I just bought a mouse from DELL a few days ago which should come in the mail in a couple weeks or so but perhaps I should have waited to buy one. I am highly tempted to buy this one now and I don't even give a crap about "gamer" gear. D:

https://www.pichau.com.br/mouse-redragon-gamer-centrophorus-3200-dpi-5-botoes-m601-3

Something really weird just happened on ATS's US#1 server. At 6:46 AM, time suddenly reverted to 6:13 AM. O-o I have proof!

After spending four hours doing some maintenance on my PC, where I took everything apart and did some pretty good cleaning and renewed the thermal paste of the processor (haven't done it since I built this machine in 2009) as well as check for any hardware faults (which thankfully I did not identify any), I put it all back together and I am glad to say that it is working fine. c: I do need to replace the exhaust case cooler on the back, though. It is working, but well. The problem is that finding one with a molex connector already attached to it to plug it to the power supply is very difficult. I've been looking for months and I still couldn't find one. I did find one this week and bought it, but it's too big for my case so I can't use it.  

So much dust everywhere! Turns out it was worse than it seemed.

Everything has been disassembled, cleaned and now it is all ready to be put back together. Motherboard with processor, PSU, case coolers and the front panel as well as both side covers are behind me in this photo. All also have been cleaned.

Ta-da! All clean and ready to be turned on, again!

On some other news, last night after I finished working on my PC I began to feel ill. Got a headache that only got worse and worse, my back was feeling very sore, my head was feeling very heavy and as I tried to have dinner after taking a shower, despite not having any appetite, I threw up twice. Then I gave up on my meal, just brushed my teeth and went to bed shortly past 10 PM (which is absurdly early for me) and slept until just a few minutes ago (past 1 PM). At least I am feeling fine, now. Back is fine, head isn't aching and my stomach is not acting up anymore.  

What? Already?! Crashes Compilation 30 is out! Let the haters hate! Their tears are delicious and fuel my trucks.

Featuring clips by: @Killua (DavidOC93) @FozzyGuy and @The Scottish Lad. Thanks, guys!

Check out what just arrived in the mail for me (sort of).

I think Derpy is the one who delivered my comic book, today. Instead of arriving at my house, it was delivered to a school about six or seven blocks down the street. Someone at Amazon made a typo on the number of my house and wrote "77 0" instead of "770". And the person doing the delivery wasn't bright enough to understand the number so it ended up there. Thank God my cellphone number was on the receipt, though. The school called me about the package and I went there to fetch it. lol

Don't question. Just hit play and watch it.

I was playing SimCity 2000 on my old PC the other day and after I got tired I decided to load a pre-made map just to mess around. For some reason I was very amused when I was done and decided to quit the game.

Have you realized what your current Community Reputation is?

If it were possible to have another car added to TMP and Game Moderators could have one of these on ATS, then I'd never touch my Scout ever again!

And one of these for the players wouldn't hurt, either.

I've never wished for another car on TMP until I saw that thing driving around on ATS. lol

Weather has been quite hot, lately. I have a small fan next to my bed at my feet that I use to blow fresh wind on me when I'm sleeping so I can remain cool and comfortable. The fan died last night. I woke up uncomfortably sweaty. ;-;

AT FINALLY FREAKING LAST!!! Cost me a key but whatever. Better than waste it on pure luck since I'd be spending a key to open the Nitro Crate anyway. Hahah.

Now I just need the Dragon Wings Topper and at least TRY to rank up in Season 5 competitive (I have never played comp on RL) so I can hopefully get one of those fancy Dragon banners and I'll be set. That gold one look sooo good!! I don't even know if I can still have a chance at this, though. :c

So, I am trying to install .NET Framework 3.5 on a client's PC because one of the programs he needs requires it. The only problem is that Windows 10 says I need to install .NET Framework 3.5 in order to be able to install .NET Framework 3.5.

Need to install .NET Framework 3.5 so .NET Framework 3.5 can be installed...

Check, please!

Yay! ATS and ETS2's newest updates are here!  Now to play the waiting game and patiently wait for MP to be patched.

So far my favorite new additions are the differential lock and multiple fueling points on gas stations. The multiple fueling points will be REALLY useful on MP. Finally we can actually share the pump with other players! And that differential lock is sure to help get our trucks out of some situations which we couldn't get them off from before. Like, say... you pulled up to the side of the road but onto a bump/ditch without noticing, now you want to get out but one wheel is spinning freely in the air while the only wheel that is touching the ground and could get out out of there simply won't budge, leaving you with no option but to F7 away or load your latest save. Well, no more! Just engage the differential lock and give that wheel that's on the ground full power!  I tested it multiple times and I can attest. It works beautifully! It also helps a ton when going up some steep hill. It seems to give the truck more traction. Great for pulling up heavy trailers up quarries in ETS2, for example.

When someone insults you in-game and you tell them you are going to report and they will be banned but they don't believe and argue that what they said was not a offense/bad word but then your report is accepted and they get banned for two weeks.

Before anyone jumps to conclusions: Yes, I have just been removed from the TruckersMP team, after nearly 7 years of service. But no, it wasn't because of abuse of power or anything of the sort. It wasn't on my own accords as I expected I'd someday leave, but it happened. I am not at liberty to discuss the situation and I intend to keep it that way. But let's just say that I made a mistake that I wasn't aware of until it was too late to fix it. Had I known of this mistake in time, I would have fixed it as I have always done with any of the mistakes I have made in the past and caught in time. After all, I am a person who is capable of admitting when he's wrong and I try my best to fix my mistakes when I can. This time I simply didn't know until it was late and the outcome is something that, although it saddens me deeply, is also something that I take full responsibility for.

I am very sad, maybe a bit disappointed, but I hold no grudge towards TMP. I'd like to believe that in all my years of service I have contributed to make it a better place and I can safely say that there are some good things around here that were implemented because of me and my suggestions.

I never held any of my positions in the staff as a "position of power", never pushed my weight as GM/GML around or anything similar. Heck, I never even gave any sort of attention to my rank in TMP on my livestreams. To this day, I only ever done two moderation streams, so little I cared for the "attention" or "power" side of the job. When I first joined the team back in 2017 I did so with the sole intent to help make it a better place and that is what I always aimed for, always working in the background and helping with events whenever I could, even if I made some mistakes along the way. When the Events Team wasn't even officially created, I was invited to be a part of it because they noticed me willingly helping around. I was happy to be one of the very first members of that team. At first I joined as a Support member and I was also really happy when I was invited to join the Game Moderation team. It's always been tough work, but I enjoyed doing it.

I am happy to have been part of the team for as long as I did. I might be one of the oldest members around at this point. I am sad to be leaving under the conditions I find myself in, but as I stated previously, I hold no grudge. Some disappointment, yes; but no grudge. I don't know if I will ever be welcome back into the ranks to once again offer my services in helping making TruckersMP a better place for all of us and honestly I dared not ask, but as of now this is the way things are. I thank TruckersMP for letting me be a part of the team for all these years and I am sorry for the mistakes I made along the way. I just hope my good work may have been of as much help as I hope it was.

So, what's next? Well, as I said, I don't know if I will ever be welcomed back but again, I hold no grudges and anyone who cares should still be able to find me on the roads occasionally. Albeit most likely on ATS, most of the time. TruckersMP aside, I'm still keeping up my projects such as my weekly gaming and art livestreams on Twitch as well my art projects over at Deviant Art. And who knows... maybe now that I have extra free time on my hands now that I don't have to share it with TMP work, I might be able to give those personal projects more attention and time or maybe even start something new that all might enjoy.

So yeah... I may not be a TruckersMP staff member anymore, but to anyone who cares, you can still find me around on the same places of always. And yes, I'll still keep on posting status updates on my TMP profile about things that I may want to share with the community as well as messages letting you guys know whenever I am going live on a livestream. Which speaking of... Today is Friday and is one of the days when I am supposed to have a livestream go live, but I am unsure if I will do it. But stay tuned, anyway. I'll confirm later. Long message. Guess I wrote more than I originally intended...

So yeah... Thank you TruckersMP. I am sad and disappointed, but hold no grudges and I still wish you the best in the future and if I am ever welcomed back, I'd more than gladly re-join and keep doing my best to once again help make it a better place for all to enjoy. But for now, this is where I say good-bye.

At least my name is green now. I like the color green. Green is a nice color.

If you use PAC Editor on Gmod and would like to use it to make the eyes of your player model blink (in case they don't), you might find this very useful:

Break is over. Guess who's back and ready to "fire" some rule breakers again?

(Looking forward to being able to use these wheels on MP. Gotta wait until the AI wheels are synchronized, though. :c )

By the way, folks, I'd like to give out a little PSA regarding changing the wheels in your Scout...

So long as they comply with the rules, do that is allowed. However, it is not recommended you use such modification on MP just yet. Wait until it is officially announced that the wheels are supported. They work and will show correctly for you, however, even though you may have the correct wheels and they look like this on your screen:

Everyone else around you will see them like this:

Please notice that the staff is aware of this and you cannot be banned for it, though it's best to play it safe and avoid confusion by simply not using the AI wheels for now. So here's my recommendation: Don't use any AI wheel in your Scouts until Truckers MP says they are supported. Let's avoid confusion, alright?

That embarrassing moment when you are recording a video to demonstrate it is perfectly possible to drive well using keyboard steering but your trailer decides to go tail happy and makes you lose control when you need to brake and turn at the same time.

Another day... another scrub...