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What is 5punk?

"5punk - the gaming equivalent of a kickaround in the park"

5punk is a friendly community of gamers based on the ethic of playing for fun hence the title.

Basically we play for fun, get on well with like minded gamers and have good laugh in the process.

We also run our own gameserver, as this allows us to switch games we host easily depending on what's popular.

Who is 5punk?

FatherJack (Overlord of 5punk):

After Woo Elephant Yeah stepped down in May 2007, the status of Overlord was passed to FatherJack by the ruling council.

Woo Elephant Yeah (Founder of 5punk):

"Well one day I decided it would be a good idea to get like minded 'b3tans' (b3ta) to all play online games together. Since then there's been no looking back, and 5punk has now turned into an active online gaming community for all ages and types of people. You do not have to be a member of b3ta to join 5punk, as it's an open gaming community, it's just that b3ta is historically a root for people to come here."

Where is 5punk?

If they're not gaming or forum whoring at http://www.5punk.co.uk ...then they must be at the pub.

Why 5punk?

This is at least partly related to the being an offspring of b3ta.com

The use of a number in the place of a letter started with b3ta, but was taken up by 4rthur, 5punk, just as a nod to our roots.

Thread where the name was decided.

How do you pronounce 5punk?

Spunk - a slang term for male ejaculate. Not five-punk

Gaming

5punk comprises of two parts, the forum and the games. Banter is a large part of what 5punk is about, and it takes place in both and often overlaps. In game this is made more fluid by most of us using Teamspeak.

The games that are played come and go quite quickly as people try new ones then tire of them. However, some do endure and can earn a regular slot on the 5cheduler for months or years. The best way to see which games are being played at the moment is to look at the 5cheduler. The best way to see which games are being played regularly is to check back through the 5cheduler. A lazy way to check which games are being played is to look at the sections below.

Games currently popular

These are the games that will probably be in the 5cheduler right now, and have the highest chance of anyone playing at any given time.

• Call of Duty 4
• EVE
• Team Fortress 2

Old Favourites

These games may not have many people playing regularly, but will probably draw some interest if scheduled.

• Battlefield 2
• Counter Strike: Source
• Call of Duty: United Offensive

Other games

Many games come and go, often being played by only a couple of people. Sometimes interest will flare if somebody raises ones profile again, sometomes not. The other games section has a list of games that certain 5punkers may be interested in playing.

Regularly scheduled games

Most evenings some of us will be playing something, and watching Xfire and the 5cheduler is the best way to spot when they're happening. Certain favourites have set slots, although the exact flavour of the game can vary (CoD:UO/CoD2/CoD4, BF2/BF2142 etc):

• Monday: Nothing set
• Tuesday: Call of Duty
• Wednesday: Source
• Thursday: Battlefield
• Friday: Random drunken gaming night
• Saturday: Nothing set
• Sunday: Nothing set

Browser games

Many 5punkers play one or more of several web-based MMO games. These don't get scheduled but are popular nontheless due to the way they are played.

UrbanDead

Inconspicuous browser based MMORPG set in the zombie apocalypse, easily played at lunch time at work. 5punkers tend to gravitate towards pubs, occasionally organising excursions such as the Malton Pub Crawl in order to bring sunshine to the lives (or undeaths, as the case may be) of human and zombie alike.

Shartak

A Browser based MMPORG set on a desert island, Featuring Outsiders, Pirates and natives.

Quite similar to Urban dead, likely because the maker was inspired by urbandead.

Atorian

Another inconspicuous browser based game. Set at some point in the future 5punkers in this game are purely self-defensive, but since there's always someone trying to take our planets we never stop fighting.

Beardy tabletop games

A few 5punkers have clubbed together to recreate pen-and-paper RPGs over the internet. A few experiments have been tried, but generally it seems to have come off best using Skype but otherwise staying as it was intended.

SLA Industries

Beardier than Brian Blessed dunked in a vat of testosterone, a Dungeons & Dragonsesque pen and paper RPG - but played over the internet. SLA Industries is an urban horror roleplaying game set in dark futuristic universe called the World of Progress. The World of Progress spans thousands of worlds, most of which are ruled by the ubiquitous SLA Industries. SLA Industries is a giant megacorporation, the virtually unchallenged power in the World of Progress. Players play the part of Operatives - freelance agents who take jobs from SLA to protect the public and the company.

Shadowrun

As the above, top beardy action. Run in a world thats kinda like traditional fantasy meets bladerunner.

Servers

This list is likely to change often, so just check Here for our current servers

Teamspeak server

5punk Radio

CS:S 217.112.95.67:27015

CoD4 217.112.95.67:28960

5punk/Downloads

5punk has its own file mirror, Mainly used for gaming related stuff and handy apps.

The downloads section is passworded so our bandwidth bill doesn't go through the roof from leeching linking sites:

• User: badger
• Pass: badger

There's also a lot of content on Files.hairy-arse.com which is unpassworded. So there.

Apps we use and how to use them.

Xfire

Xfire is an app that acts as an instant messenger with in game support and allows us to easily join other 5punkers in game.

With the 22/9/06 Xfire update, they introduced a Clan function, this allows users to add everyone to their contact list easily by joining the 5punk clan here, you'll usually be accepted within 24hours.

When signing up at the forum, make sure you add your Xfire username to your forum profile, as this is the core of 5punk, and without Xfire, we wouldn't even be here.

Teamspeak

Teamspeak is our voice comms medium of choice - given the ease of use, and reasonable licensing terms.

• Server Address: 217.112.95.67:8767
• Server Password: cranberry

Hamachi

Used to allow us to play older games over the Internet, also allows us to test experimental servers safely and securely.

Basic guide (placeholder until a 5punk-specific one is made)

If Hamachi is needed for a game, the network to join and password for the network will be posted in the scheduler.

Last.fm

We have a last.fm group, last.fm is an plug-in for your media player which keeps track of what music you have been playing.

[1]

Sign up and someone will approve you.

Nintendo Wii Address Book

To allow the sharing of "Miis" and to send messages back and forth with Nintendo's console, you have to exchange Wii system addresses. More info here: Wii Addresses

Folding@Home

Folding@Home is a distributed computing project -- people from through out the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Your participation can help lead to a cure for these diseases:

• Alzheimer's Disease
• Cancer
• Huntington's Disease
• Osteogenesis Imperfecta
• Parkinson's Disease
• Ribosome & antibiotics

Join the 5punk Team if you care to join the cause. Folding@5punk Info

5punk Slang/Terminology/Memes.

• TEEF - Team Fortress 2, bit like Beef but with added lulz.
• BEEF - Our name for Battlefield 2 (Battlefield 2 > BF2 > BF > BEEF)
• CoD - Our name for the Call of Duty series (usually referring to Call of Duty: United Offensive) *Currently used for COD4:modern cod, sadly, no bathtubs can be found, only showers.*
• Veal/Future Beef - Sometimes used as slang names for Battlefield 2142.
• HamAndCheese - Our name for Hamachi. (Also known as "HammyCheese, ChammyHeese Jammyknees")
• Floorware - Software you've found, often by careless people misplacing CDs.
• Deject's mom - The mother of one of our members, often heard screaming in the background of Teamspeak. "Werd to your mother!"
• Ninja concerts - Cited as the reason for people avoiding arrangements.
• /me bums - Staple greeting of the Eve players, taken from their gentle (sometimes) in-game sodomy.
• CAEK! - Like cake, but better. Also CAEK WARS, in reference to the Quake Wars:Enemy Territory game.
• ZOMG! Pie! - Flaky pastry with a nice filling.
• This Is Not A Code - It's not a code. Probably.
• REWENGAY - Like revenge, but generally involves more teabagging.
• Magical Gay Fairy Land - World of Warcraft.
• Charlie - Don't ask.
• Chaaaaaarlie - Seriously, just don't ask.
• CDC - Crudely Drawn Cock. Usually magenta.
• Zombie Tower - A tower of zombies, used to climb to camping Survivors in the Zombie mod for Counter Strike: Source.
• SNPG - Salmon Ninja Pirate Gayer; a salmon pink ninja-pirate rank icon, used as a punishment.
• CAEK WARS - Quake wars.
• Fista - Microsoft's latest OS. It's shit.
• Tribbleshooting - Like Troubleshooting, but more 5punky with hints of KAAAAAAAHN!

5punk Archives

As well as discussion that directly relates to our games, 5punkers also deposit a lot of information within the pages and threads. To aid in finding the information held in these often rambling threads they are archived below.

Geekfood

Threads about food have proved very popular on 5punk, and many recipies have been posted in various threads. A full catalogue of these recipies can be found here.

Reviews

5punk has a wealth of gamers of all levels and experience. This makes for an excellent testing ground for most games, and as such we have a reviews forum so that we can share our experiences. Many 5punkers have admitted to trusting the reviews of their fellow gamers to those of magazines. An index of our reviews can be found here.

Members

5punk is nothing without its members. The people below are by no means all the members, they're just the ones who somebody decided they had something to say about.

Site Admins

Woo Elephant Yeah - Site Creator

Often referred to as Wey, or Woo (which can be confusing) 5punk is Wey's Baby, as, oddly enough, is Wey's baby. He is still amazed at how a simple idea has evolved into this rather active gaming community. In May 2007 WEY declared that he was standing down as site owner due to his ever increasing family commitments, but he's still the Daddy of our little family.

FatherJack - Site Owner

When WEY stepped down as site owner, FatherJack offered to take up the responsibility. It was agreed unanimously, first among the admins and later among the site members, that our foul-mouthed cleric was ideal for the job and with him he has brought new ideas, skills and enthusiasm.

Stoat - Site Admin

Mustela erminea Our very own php jedi, Coded the Scheduler and the Discussion board. Stoat has been there since the birth of 5punk, and without him, we wouldn't have any of the things we have.

Dog Pants - Site Moderator

After watching his posts for some time, WEY decided to ask Dog Pants to join the 5punk admin team. Dog Pants has done a wonderful job moderating 5punk's forum, and has helped influence a lot of the recent decisions/suggestions for 5punk. He can usually be found stumbling around groaning in Urban Dead, or watching Zombie flicks at home.

spoodie - Site Admin

His calm presence on the forums and web-savvy has allowed him to alleviate the pressure the other admins were beginning to feel and has proved very capable in a crisis. spoodie is master of the Impact Text Kittens, and has seen every film, ever.

Dr. Kitteny Berk - Game Server (Bukkake) Owner

Quote from WEY: Abrupt, Rude and quite possibly Obnoxious, Berk speaks his mind and what you see is what you get. You know where you stand with Berk, and he's the first to admit that. However, without him, 5punk would never have lifted off the ground in the way that it has, and his continuous work, help, time & money has got Bukkake up and running, along with the Shoutcast radio shows as well. He's the unsung hero, but more a hero without the shiny long blonde hair and chiseled jaw, more of a dark shadowy figure lurking in the corner fixing servers and swearing repeatedly at things whilst snarling. So to sum up *thinks about words carefully again*, even though Berk can be a bit of a sarcastic foul mouthed bastard, we love him in our very own special way.

Others

Team RO-BO

Roman Totale and MrBobbins' team from a CS:S Tournament we held.

Probably won, but as survivors are yet to be found we cannot be sure of this.

Widely believed to be the founding partners of the following website: http://www.deagostini.co.uk/ilovehorses/

Gunslinger

Gunslinger was Created by RO-BO using old toaster parts, flips out if he sees a bagel.

So horribly, horribly good at all games.

0.001% of his neural processing runs all NASA orbital navigation and communication systems and he is a technical consultant on Richard and Judy

Hehulk

Massive EVE addict. Claims that xfire is inaccurate and that this means he has has missed three hundred hours of actual play time due to router issues with ports. Was promoted to moderator on the eve forum just because of the sheer number of hours he plays it.

Also plays BEEF and CSS. Tends to cry hax a lot when losing

Pnut

5punk's personal Battlefield 2 point resource. An avid fan of Battlefield 2 even though he isn't very good, can often be heard on teamspeak threatening to beat Chicken to death with his Keyboard/Mouse/Chair and many other assorted inanimate objects, normally after being sniped from next week for the ninth time in three minutes.

Deject

Deej is one of our resident 'merkins. He's also just released an EP called "Conceptual Intercourse" which is available on Amazon Here.

Word to your mother Deej, how is your mother?

Mikkyo

Runs a webcomic, Fuctinthehead, which is updated daily and is Rather Good.

Tandino

He's honoured to be on the list. Also currently has a great avatar of a kitten.

Lateralus

An all round thoroughly nice chap. Truly under the thumb of 'er indoors and consequently playing games far less than he should. Interesting fact: He's a town planner, mess with him, get a roundabout in front of your driveway.

Grimmie

Lord of Brum and Master of Vlad. 5punk's resident artist. Is very attracted to beards, and also hosts GrimBash, which has been a resounding sucess and we thank Mr Grim Grim muchly.

Killavodka

If it was not for lag, ping, memory, processor, PSU, Core Temp, HereComesPete and the fact that God seems to hate him, he would be the greatest FPS player in the world. Can reach vocal notes capable of making dogs ears bleed.

Mr. Johnson

Our man in Belgium. He will let us know if that statue of the little boy stops pissing or Poirot dies. Likes getting backstabbed constantly in COD, honest.

Fabyak

FAAABULOUS Darling.

Chicken

Creator of all random mic noises. Likes to munch food and talk down his mic at the same time, thankfully the muppet frequently forgets to unmute himself after eating. Resident Beef sniper whore and OMG JOO FLUKEY ZOMG HAXXOR, takes great pleasure in winding Pnut up. Closet console tard, has been on a PC gaming break for 3 months now, though COD4 tempted him back. Hails from deepest darkest Scotland. Eats lots of ice-cream when gaming and on TS, the fat bastard.

Buzzmong

The ladies Favourite Purple car owner. Often referred to as 'Vibro-Spaz' or 'Bumzomg'.

Cashy

Just listen out for the words 'Cashy you shit' on TS and you know he's online.

HereComesPete

Is currently wooing Killavodka's sister, a source of constant amusement to 5punkers. Likes to wind up Killavodka at any given opportunity. Has frequent brain farts as a result of imbibing chemicals during his philosophy degree. Many feel that HereComesPete and Killavodka have a 'special' relationship all of their own given the frequency of their arguments.

Ty aka Sir Die AloTy

Ty is one of the more colourful 5punkers. Often less than coherent for various reasons, we love his drunken ramblings. Once sported an impressive mohican and loves metal more than most 5punkers love CAEK and bummings. He used to die a lot, but worryingly he's started to improve lately. Maybe he's sobering up.

Jockgit

Probably 5punk's most senior member, but only more mature chronologically. Jockgit is famous for being able to fall asleep when and where no others could, often as a result of copious amounts of cheap alcohol. Photographic evidence suggests he may be a pirate.

E-Rabbit

Another purple car owner (challenge him and he'll foam and swear it's blue), is known to strike the campest poses on Earth and to be photographed with phallic references.

Friznit

Friz is another EvE'er and is currently running (ie, shouting lots) the Eve corporation 5punkorp. He's also a Tank Commander in the British Army, so if you anger him too much you'll find your house crushed and tank tread marks over your lawn. Has a penchant for ponies.

Amblin

Semi-retired EvE'er who I'm lacking a description for, someone else can fill it in.

Baliame

5punk's resident whiner, nothing is ever alright to him. Also considers Lateralus his arch-nemesis. Comes from the country of constant hunger, Hungary.