testimonials for the new web site

[Fester]

OK some of you may or may not know but we have a couple of admins sweating away doing great work for a new website for festers place... i wont spoil it but i have a request

i want a small little bit of history on how you found the server and why you stayed.. not long winded story just a few simple line's. So if you would like to add you little testimonials just post it here and we will add it ... thx people!


Fester:
A winters night late October, I visited Jased10s's humble abode for a bit of banter and a few tasty toots! After some banter about cats sucking his nipples he sat me down in front of his computer for my first play of Team Fortress 2.

I spent 4 months on a 24/7 ctf_2 Fort server where Jased10s admined. I meet such character’s as Advent, Johnimus, Jonnywhy, Baggie, Black Feather and many more there. After many months of drunken behavior on this server a new server was born Fester's Place. Since its creation i have chatted and gamed with some wonderful odd people and i am sure i will be spending many more hours, months, Years of play on a server which has provided some of the funniest conversations that have ever entered my ears. Huzzah for All Talk!

[DragoonKnight]

DragoonKnight:
i hadnt been playing tf2 for long when i came upon this wonderful, magical place full of drunks and stoners. The people were all very likeable and their humour appealed to me with wierd stories and talking random nonsense. I became a regular and the server hasnt traumatised me one bit since then but has helped me become a better player.
With people like jase and aonn on the mic talking nonsense and bosco's legendary singing it feels like a second home.

[Advent]

I thrive on good communities. Every online game i play has either sucked me in or pushed me away via the people i meet there.
MoHAA: Over 600 hours played.
BF2142: Over 400 hours played.
TF2: Roughly 420 hours so far.

Back on the old 24/7 2fort i found a group of people who were fun, and mature (-ish), who genuinely loved playing the game. Once Festers Place kicked off proper i saw a group growing that i wanted to be part of, where it's always good times. Where everybody knows your name.
Little did i know the group was actually populated by lunatics who barely hid their madness beneath a thin layer of respectability. I was of course, delighted.

[heavy_the_hobbit]

When I first started playing TF2, I had no real experience with online play. So when I say 24/7 2fort I said why the fuck not. So I played there from early december till febuary when Jased said "Join me, my mate is getting a server together". So I joined then violin, Fester's Place was born!

[YamNivek]

I'd been play TF2 since it came out but didn't find this place until January this year.

I found this server through the Internet tab of steam as it had instaspawn and a free space.

After logging on I realised that people were actually talking. Not (just!) bitching at the noobs on the server who didnt know how to uber yet but actual conversations.

It was this that hooked me.

The mulit-cultural, multi-national, multi-ways-of-getting-off-your-face place for everyone!

[Jonnywhy]

Well I posted this elsewhere, but here it is again, slightly edited

I remember it back on the old 2Fort server, Jased moaning his head off about no medics, and just generally talking crap. But the reason I stayed: People talked to each other! I was new to online gaming so was trying out servers, but was not seeing how it was that different to single player stuff, as essentially it was me running around killing opponents as in HL2, (or them killing me as it used to be at the start). Then I found 24/7 2fort, and PEOPLE TALKED TO EACH OTHER. And it was fun, and the banter was quality. This, I told myself is what online gaming should be about, not in solitude killing others. Then we moved to Fester's Place (and Fester's Place 2) and the rest, as they say, is history.

Way to go guys!

[Jonfon]

After logging on I realised that people were actually talking. Not (just!) bitching at the noobs on the server who didnt know how to uber yet but actual conversations.

People bitch at noobs? Thank god I don't go to those servers

I came along because every drunken session I've been to with Eagle and/or Dintbo over the last 8 months they've raved about you lot. I think the story Eagle told about someone (Jased?) using the excuse that they shat themselves in work in order to go home early to play swung it for me, along with Dintbo being so excited about the meet-up.

Been having a ball since. Great atmosphere on the server, very welcoming, and the shite talk is hilarious (but very, very wrong).

[LazyEagle]

I discovered Fester’s Place one Sunday last Spring. Used to play on a US server, but that afternoon it was empty so went searching for a new one!
I came across this wonderful place with the regulars chatting away and giving out to each other. There was the grumpy Canadian guy (Toco), the grumpy Irish guy (Ruario), and the happy out English guy (Jase). Soon I realised that there were a lot more fun regulars than I’d ever seen on any other server, and once I confirmed that the “Be here with beer” message wasn’t just some pussy internet boast, I recognised that I had found my new online home.

Fester’s Place is more than just a game server, its a social club mixed with a support group, all within the walls of an online pub…..only with explosions!

[dintbo(aka bosco)]

I followed LazyEagle onto the server one day last spring, not sure if it was his first day or not. Back then I was called dintbo though I did have bosco as my avatar. The first day I played I was really quiet (seriously) and just enjoyed the game and listening to all the crazy conversations. The following friday I decided to have a night in with a bottle of buckie or 2 and play a wee game. I decided to head back to that place with the crazy folks that talked non-stop to find out whether it was a one off or not; it took me 10 seconds to find out it was not. Fuelled by buckfast I wasn't really quiet that night. All the Irish people started calling me bosco cos of the avatar. Two things happened that night. I became dintbo (aka bosco), and I realised that this was the only server I wanted to play on cos I had never felt so welcome on any server before. To find a server full of such sound hillarious people was fantastic and so for that a huge thanks, firstly to Lazy for actually finding it, and secondly to everyone who plays here. TF2 is a great game but you guys make it fucking fantastic

[Del]

My first experience of TF2 was sitting at Ruairios pc and testing it out.
My very first impression was spawning in 2fort and seeing a soldier shovel-taunting at the wall before running out into the fray. I just started laughing. That was the start of a beautiful friendship.

I met Fester a few days later and conversation came around to TF2 and how much it rocked. A couple of days later I got an email from him "You have received a gift" Spam? no! a copy of TF2.

The first night I played it I followed Fester to this 24/7 2fort server, where I had an awesome time with some chatty english bloke called Jase "lets meet in the courtyard and fuck 'em up", a couple of the jonnies and some of the other regs. That was it, hooked. When Jase and Fester set up Fester's Place I had no idea what it would become. Now I am a junkie.


Thanks again Fester, best gift evaaaar!! Permanently indebted.