Well, I'm not sure why it is absurd, I mean, after all, I go to diners for the hot waitresses and the occasional exhibitionist client myself. I will say this though, it is ridiculous, some of those waitresses in the video are so good they could professional dancers, in videos.

The Semi Regular Milkshake Remix (she likes the big shafts playlist) . . . https://youtu.be/IKgJv_zrqPs

Since you asked nicely, AND YOU CAN READ INSTRUCTIONS, yes, I'll contact you, though the banners I want to go easy on, very subtle. It's blog-esque. Some days will be much better than others. I don't play every day either, so there is that too. I'll holler at you soon.

Know anyone with the last name Barmenbek?

Yes, it has to be that one. And no, I wasn't offended, I was being funny. What is your native tongue if you don't mind me asking?

The Semi Regular Milkshake Remix (she likes the big shafts playlist) . . . https://youtu.be/bNCpHE3FI-M (and lets face it, gang banging hot chicks are really attractive, if not down right ignorant, but hey, can't have it all in life right?)

Yeah yeah, fine, I'm a fool, you and your high tech search and internet domahickeys. I don't need no google darn it! Okay, fine, I do. Turns out it was Chernobyl. Me likes that one.

So last night was Serpuhov and Berlin and Lost Temple. Lost Temple was great, except some punk named Dommsday something or another. Aside from harassing me and doing nothing for the team, when he(she?) took shots at the enemy it was pretty bad, rail and rico, they couldn't shoot fish in barrel. I love Lost Temple for the camping places up top, but those are limited in field of view, so you got pick where the action is gonna be. Shafts are great in Lost Temple too for base defense, nothing more satisfying than popping some jerk coming up the ramp, or even better, my most favorite thing to do, make them think they're about to make it off the ramp and pop them mid-air, that's like sex, feels SO GOOD. Berlin was great, CP battle, losts of enemy twins, lots of long distance, lots of dead twins. I learned though that you can spawn in the same place as the other team, interesting, had never noticed, and for the record, whoever that rail was, why didn't you just run away everytime? You knew that after the seventh kill wait for you to spawn again it was not likely I was going to start missing you. Anyways, yes, Berlin wawsgreat, had agreat team too. Nice when shafts can capture things more regulrly, I like arounding around turning CPs my color. Serpuhov. Dang. It was brutal for a few games. Some team chalked to the gills with Isidia and Hammer, talk about a mean game. Later though, more mixed environment, I pulled off a 35 to 1 D/L, now that's some shooting right there. Sorry if I'm blowing my horn, but I got to, that was awesome. Now, some hard earned advice from me, shafts, if you got the flag and you're waiting for your team to get yours back, even if folks HAD been around you, don't count on it and scope into a spot, they leave, and then you get shot, and lose a flag, and then the team is all grumbl with you after that.

Not silence, scope or sandal don't sound right, maybe it is Rift. I do know that I LOVED playiin it, I could defend the base and pop defenders of the other one AND protect flag runners that came off the opposite flag platform and down the middle. I was much loved on that map, I'll look for it now, Rifts, maybe that's it.

I think this should bea thing now . . . Milkshake remixes posted here, in Shaft, between regular comments. Kelis seems somehow good for this topic. thus I give to you from now on . . . The Semi Regular Milkshake Remix (she likes the big shafts playlist) . . . https://youtu.be/K8KrpLzvu1s (you might not always like them, but tough, I'll be posting them, enjoy, or don't)

Well, I kind of just did make a list. Tell me, maybe you can tell me what map this is. There is a map where basically each flag in about a story up off the ground, three paths there, one down the middle, lower, then one on each side the has ramps that lead up to the sides of the enemy base. You can see each others flags from the opposite flag. Any idea which one I'm talking about? Oh, speaking of team play, 35/1 DL, Serpuhov last night, THAT ROCKED.

I like Massacre when it's big teams, everyone tied up in the middle and the edges of the middle, we shafts then get to turkey shoot the entire game, and yeah, ctf. Berlin is the best CP map for shafts, we can do some real damage there, LOVE that map. I just don't like the spawn order on that. Everyone can spawn anywhere on that, there is no side with the CP, so you're on the bridge and they spawn behind you and just waltz up and pop you.

I've done it and made a decent D/L. that's where it's at for a shaft, cove the team and don't die, so I can't complain. There is another I'm thinking of now that I wish I could remember, I need to add it to the list.

Favorite maps (since I only shaft) ar Serpuhov, Berlin, Industrial Zone, Breast, Lost Temple (it's good, but a little too slim pickings for over watch sites really, too much action down below), Kulhoz is alright too. Massacre is Awesome, but that's in it's own class, gotta have a team that knows what they're doing, but I can clean house on that one if the team is good. Other maps, um, dunno. Rio is alright, not gonna say bad, but it's a little tough in there to get spots to work in. Other than that, nothing coming tom ind right now. As for the image, you pulled it then didn't you, I know I could have sworn I saw one once. You havea map or two you like better?

Well, as you can see, I'm giving up on that. Couldn't find it. It's a mystery.

Well, I can see where dealing with more than 3 shafts all up on you could become cumbersome. As for me, well, I don't roll thatway, I mean, there can be shafts around me I guess, that's life right? But I not inclined to play with them, just around them. I prefer sharing my shaft and it's abilities with other kinds. Now, you having a shaft is, well, interesting, but, I guess that works, in the sense that in the game of Tanki, I only shaft, I only have my m0 Smokey otherwise from account creation, but I learned that my shaft is what I like to use during play. Glad to hear you deal only with shafts, and multiple ones, excellent team play. Still looking btw, God this takes forever.

See this is what I mean. This is what will bring them droves. I am +1'ing this comment for that reason alone. Given this is a thread about shafts, we should try to stay on topic. Tell me, do you ever play shaft and what do you think of shafts. Do you like the more tender and greener M0 shafts, or the beefier and maybe tougher and less kind, but harder to play with shafts, like M3 and up?

Most folks are never ready for me, so I simply don't engage. Glad you liked that though (or at least the idea of it, if you liked it "liked" it, then, well, damn, so much for that) and it's true. A woman with half a brain and a sense of humor will easily lay waste to mountains of hotties with none so long as she has the good sense to take care of herself and not be a complete waste in that department. And yes, still looking yours, it's annoying, I don't even know why I'm doing it. I think it's because the Godzilla memes put me into a very good mood. I'll find it.

Well, now I'll go look and try to figure this out, maybe then I'm confusing both then. The other person and the "play less comment". As for milkshake dear, well . . . https://youtu.be/ZVnkrZ3BQjk BUT! . . . (or BUTT, butt I digress) . . . what I mean is that's all great, but what's between the ears goes a mighty long way too (life lessons from someone with good advice, you can thank me when ever you feel like it, like, say, just as soon as your done reading this :P.

Well, this is odd, I could have sworn in the player pic section there was a quote of you saying you came here for social intereaction and didn't play. Maybe it's a name monkier someone picked up very close to yours, like the one you said, and I mistook it. If you have been playing for a while, then yes, there must be a disconnect between the little red beams and certain death. Well, anywyas, why did anyone play off your name and do smexier anyways? People have no dignity or originality anymore. Regardless, since you posted, I was going to compliment you on your appearance, but I guess I don't know what you look like because the one I'm thinking of I could swear was stating they didn't play, which would make sense with the above original comment. That said, I'm sure your extremely SMEXY in your own right, and even more so in the intellectual department, because you don't complain about laser beams that apparently kill on contact, so kudos, I'm sure that milkshake brings more boys to the yard, ie an intelligent conversation.

This is wrong on several levels, but lets face it, no point in even vocalizing them. There is ONE THING THOUGH, just one, that I must ask. Smexy's profile clearly states she doesn't play I thought, her picture says she is here just for social interaction. How would she know that red laser beams even mean certain death? Does this mean the hot girrafe is playing Tanki now, not just posting to the forums?

This is a problem with people, not graphics. See, novelty is a stupid thing to take into consideration when perfection and better is already the norm. You don't tire of seeing something that is right and old and prefer something new that doesn't look right. Classic architecture is nearly ALWAYS superior in aesthetic design than modern, it is durable, and it is well thought out. Same with cars, modern cars do not hold a candle to the beauty of classic cars, the list goes on and on. So why does this happen? Simple, people are sold a bill of goods for one, "look this is new, so IT MUST BE BETTER", and two, we live in a world that doesn't know how to appreciate the superior from the inferior anymore, and novelty is the only factor that counts now. The only place where this does change is in sex. Hot women are hot women, and I assume women find attractive men attractive, period, that DOESN'T go out of style. Imagine that, the basest of instincts is a clear reminder to us of what is worthwhile and what isn't. I agree with the other member, this is not a good design, and you a said it yourself, "you need time to adapt", thus you, as in YOU, need time to simply objectively accept what each thing is and then play the mechanics of the game, you have ZERO appreciation for the actual design or look, and as such, are another on of those in the crowd that can't keep an attention span greater than 30 seconds on about anything. There are those of us that still appreciate real art, real beauty, real expression, and that tank of course doesn't hold a candle to the Flash based models of today. My two cents.

I think the graphics rendering is much better, I think the maps look much better in terms of depth and possible realism, the actual tanks look like Looney Tune's animations and should be trashed and done over again. If Smokeys and Feezes look like that i the future, then I just might quit the game on principal. Bad enough the game is becoming more like a sport than a game of armored combat, now it has to be further reduced to cartoonish foolishness in appearance. Glad they stated they will maintain the flash based one at the same time as the new one, because you won't catch me playing in those games. All that said though, the POTENTIAL of the new graphics IS amazing and I hope they simply do MUCH BETTER with the graphic designs of the tanks and release it.

Last night was Industrial Zone and Serpuhov. Let me start out by saying this, read if you like minutia, otherwise, you can skip this, not much to see here. Industrial Zone was of note last night, because we were slaughtered. The team I joined was simply half scatter brained, quarter multed, quarter sabotaged. ******ed dictators using the up high platform next to the red flag with shaft (because it’s OH SO EASY to hide up there, much less in a DICTATOR HULL moron, you were being picked off so regularly, it hurt to watch you), to the rico that seemed to LOVE getting popped by rails and shafts by zooming full charge in the open towards the enemy base. The other team always came in hot on drugs (nothing special there anymore, it’s par for course lately) and I was trying to share that platform with DICtator for brains, but we had no coverage down below, so the flag was snagged very regularly. Then there was the mults, one or two, and then two rails that intentionally would climb the ramp and bump us and climb on us to mess with our shots. All told, it was an okay game FOR ME, but as a team, it sucked. Serpuhov, a bloody mess, every single game, even when winning. Shafts in Mammoths that seem to be indestructible, rails on dictators that seemed indestructible too, the list goes on and on. There was a rico running around too, not sure what the hull was, but it looked like a hornet. Full charge hits of my M1 shaft, no shields, wouldn’t die. I know, sounds impossible, that’s what I thought, but either the angles I hit it at every time was just off enough or yeah, something strange was going on. Oh, also, while I have adapted for the laser, last night was a reminder of just how stupid those things are, and how you get hunted with them. Very odd battle last night in Serpuhov. Also, for the record, all players, pay attention . . . When your team SUCKS so much that a shaft has to leave it’s perch and venture into the enemy base to try to snag a flag, and it ACTUALLY does it, you should rally around it on the trip back because its life expectancy is not wildly high (ie, follow me morons, since you couldn’t snag a flag in drugged up wasps), and more than likely that flag will need a second carrier. One rail, one, had enough sense to see me from ACROSS the map, and started down towards me and escorted me half way up the ramp, where we were both summarily prosecuted by rails and shafts, and the flag left there for nearly thirty seconds, THIRTY SECONDS YOU F****** IDIOTS, before someone on the blue team sauntered up ACROSS THE OPEN MAP to OUR RAMP and returned it. Other than that, typical drug battle, decent game I guess, though I can’t recall after the flag debacle. We could have at least not been 0 for 6 in that game, some dignity, I swear. Morale of the stories today, Dictators, you’re big, and tall, and make excellent target practice, DON’T park on the highest points on maps, you take up space and get killed a lot, like Giraffes on sand dunes at a live fire gun conventions. Tanki Aesops other lesson for the day, rally flag runners you idiots, it’s how the team makes points.

So last night I was great, Serpuhov, Rio, and Dusseldof. I really don’t like Rio as much as I used too. It’s too frenetic and it lacks the real of combat, more like a sporting event in a maze, but it has some entertainment value for a shaft if you’re team is good enough. I was capping baddies for Red Team last night, one after another, on our flag, and oddly enough, 4 shafts on the other team. Found a great hidey hole for Shafts in Hornets for the Red Team, eyes on the flag and very hard to get to me without driving right up, great spot (nope, not telling). There were plenty of funny moments too. Flips, poorly planned leaps up onto the platform, opposition and our team, that’s tricky place to maneuver, hell I flipped myself going up there trying to put the flag back. Anyways, Rio was choked full of enemy snipers, 4 on the left side of the map, if you are Red team. Clever bunch, they’d run the flag runner down that path, while trying to control the higher path next to it, anything came out to shoot the flag runner and those four shafts were waiting, VERY intelligent tactic. I showed up half way through, and yes, I put a kibosh on a lot of those antics with my hidey hole, and they started hunting me, but to no avail. See, they trapped themselves into having me defended, my team COULDN’T travel freely because of the shafts, so they were gun shy and only ventured out carefully, so I always had someone around to watch my back. I was picking off runners almost every shot. Surprisingly, they didn’t drug up much either, so no need to give chase, and the few times someone did come in drugged, the jump off the ramp onto the platform and my full charge slapping them upside the head was enough to flip them or knock them off the ramp on two occasions. Rio results, we won the next round as blue team, and morale of the story, careful what you force your opposition into, they might actually discover a better plan. Dusseldorf, well, another bizarre tale. I can’t seem but help to be always one of the best players on the LOSING team. I don’t know if these people train and play together or what, but so often it seems like I’m on some sort of tail end of a joke. My team couldn’t carry a flag past a building half the time, much less half the map. Now, opposition, well-armed, drugged up, and coordinated. Now, the teammates I had, three were active, and fighting the good fight, but really, it was a massacre. Shafts don’t generally run for flags in Dusseldorf, it’s a fool’s errand mostly. Shafts lining up shots on you, wasp chasing you over the distances, it’s a poor choice for flag carrier. That said, I have done it on a number occasions, but I had a team that could actually defend my retreat. Dusseldorf is a great place for shafts though. All those ridiculously long range shots with the nearly intimate climax of seeing the tiny fireball in the distance when they go boom, it’s the greatest feeling ever, shaft at its best. I have also taken to lining up shots in the tree lines. Base defenders will go up the ramp and back all the way up to get more hiding space and cover, and back right up to the wall. There is always a gap with a perfect line of sight there down the entire wall. Vulcans, shafts, twins, all fair game and easy kills, and they really never expect it. The night before I had been playing Dusseldorf and we cleaned house, my team, and I was practicing another new joy of mine, the corridor on the side where the towers are. Up the ramp, laser on the ledge, but full view to the other end of the map, yep, again, poppin’ caps and making that D/L a thing of beauty. Felt so good I even dropped into the pit once and a while and arcade fought some folks, it was a good time, but that was the day before, not yesterday. Dusseldorf results, rear end handed to us, first and second place in all battles, morale of the story, don’t matter how good you are, first second place is first loser, crystal count sucks, even with a score in the 400s. Serpuhov, ah, Serpuhov, what can I say. We ruled half the time, the other half we were supplied to death. Supplies, a big topic lately. I’d say this about them. I hate them, that said, they keep Tanki well-funded, so can’t pooh pooh it too much. They are ridiculous though now, I see teams sweeping in and basically on them nearly every second, I’m really disappointed on just how much they can affect the game, and now people seem to be stocking up on “heal” a lot too. How can I tell? I’m a shaft, if I shoot you and you happen to NOT die in the first shot, one arcade shot, two max, and you should be a goner in medium hulls and a below. Not anymore. I drop a full charge on some prick, chase them, arcade them, and as I was catching up to them, wrench. Yep, even my mighty turret can’t compete with instant fix. And enemy shafts, no isidia, no problem, mammoth up, and heal. It’s maddening. There needs to be a better way. Anyways, story to tell here is twofold. First story is about yesterday, and how awesome I was against drugged players, really did help a lot when the chips were down. Okay, enough of yesterday. Day before yesterday, that’s a story. Was playing and we had a GREAT team, everyone knew their weapon, best course of action, entry points, and knew to defend too, just a steam roller of a team. Isidias, very important in Serpuhov, and we had some great ones. This leads me to my topic. I had been running cover for the runners over and over, and defense at the same time, once we were up, everyone was ganging up on the enemy base. Mercifully, not much drugging going on, so maybe one defender on flag as they recently respawned and me. A shot or two from them, and then me, or vice versa and they lived through my first shot, it was all over, but they were a good team. We really had to cover the retreats with the flags, and I generally was the shield for crossing the open space for the blue team from enemy shafts and rails. Someone actually, and isidia, took notice, and began dropping the flag off to me on the way in, so I could get a short carry and capture. They rushed back, saved time making the trip, and I got a few points extra. This happened to or three times, and others were also capping the flag, including a medium hulled rail. This guy though, for whatever reason, didn’t want me to get carry or capture points, and was actively try to take the dropped off flag from me, and did take it once or twice. Tried flipping me too when I had it. I’m not sure where this game play comes from, but it bothers me a lot. I can only hope that decent players like the isidia on the team are more common than the pecker head that was hell bent on keeping a good shaft down. I think that’s what it was too, another dumb ash that thinks shafts do nothing and can’t contribute. It’s starting to get to the point that as a shaft I’m beginning to dislike rails as a rule, they are very annoying and pretentious and need to be taken down a notch I think. They are not the ultimate weapon they like to think themselves as and I think Smokeys in the right hands are far more effective. They think so greatly of themselves though that I think they have this attitude that everybody should follow their lead. And no one gets points for not invading the base. If I help in the flag capture, I helped, and it matters not where I was at when I did. People can go suck an egg if I kill base defenders from across the map instead of in their face. I consistently murder red team with the little tippy top sliver of turret shots over the ramp. Viking shaft covering the flag and causing trouble, not a problem, call me. Firebird on your but down the ramp as you escape, I got that covered too. Pesky wasp/rail dropping shots on you all the way back home? Not no more, I’m here now, and it ain’t happening. Serpuhov results, mixed, drugged battles starting to suck, a lot. Teams that appreciate your hard work, awesome, ‘tards that can’t stand you because you rock the heavy weight in the game, they b**w dead rats. You all are VERY welcome for my insights and DO FEEL FREE to say thank you for all of it as often as you’d like. On a real note, I would like to point out the great and very decent player I was speaking of earlier. Smokey The Gun, awesome flag runner, great team mate to have on a team, and considerate too. Next time you play and see that name, be glad they’re on your team, and help Smoky out, it won’t be in vain.