After weeks of travel and leisure I return to the City of Sin to relax in the comforts of my suite atop The Four Seasons Hotel. California for G-Boy, Wisconsin to see my own family, and Texas forCloud... Distance makes the heart grow fonder, and I do love this town!
Early this week I realized I would be interviewing somone who may need a bit of translation help. My feature this week speaks english as a second language. While he does it quite well for being half-way around the world, I recruited somone who could help us interpret everything for us from Shalk's english into wordage we could all understand one hundered percent... Snoop Dogg!!
The Doggfather arrived early in his coveted new Cadillac Snoop Deville. This sweet custom ride was bumpin his latest. I heard it from all the way up on my thirty second floor! By the time I made my way down to greet him, Shalk had also arrived. He instead was driven up in the limited edition RiP Hummer. His guards in RiP attire cleared a path through the Snoop autograph seekers, and I met the both of them at the front entrance. I escorted the all important clan leader and the new drug-free pimpin' thug to my floor. Introductions were made, and we made our way into my studio.
Shalk's real name is Alon, and he is from Israel. Alon is 16 and in school, but is on summer break which allows him to play Ricochet on our hours a little bit. Even though he in a far away land with many different customs, he speaks the language we share: Ricochet. He speaks it well, in fact he is the leader and co-founder of one the game's top clans in RiP. He is involved in all clan activities including kicking my ass!
Snoop sat in the booth playing around with the turntables and the trackboard. He had us on mic so he could hear us load uand clear. He would be there to help the rest of you understand exactly what went down. All in place, I began with the questions.
Beastie: Mr. Shalk it is good to have you here on the column. I know you have been awaiting this interview for a long time. Now you can say whatever you would like to all of your friends, rivals, and clanmates. If you had only one sentence to do it, what would it be?
Shalk: No pain no gain. B)
I think that this sentence saying it all, RiP have passed a hard time and now we're in the place at the top and well all know it wasn't easy for us, the hard times we have passed, the inactivity that left me alone at the leading until we found a solution and believe me it wasn't easy.
Snoop Dogg Translation: Life aint easy, but RiP the shizzy.
Beastie: You have been a leader in the RiP clan for a very long time. I recently learned that prior to your membership, you were actually in uT for some time. Please tell me about that and why you branched out into your new clan.
Shalk: Well, uT started with Cloud-Fuel, Shakira, Fritoman and me, I was in uT for very much time but I had a fight with Cloud-fuel which really pissed me off and at those times Cloud-fuel acted in a way that didn't like (as a leader) and the inactivity of the people in the clan, all together just gave me an idea to make a new clan. I was playing with KillingSpree and RulePool2 (which they are the players that I most admire and I learned a lot from them) on Vad's server and suddenly I had the idea about opening a clan together and from then we recruit our 3rd player which was g-boy (which from him I learned the stall style, which is the best style ever and I'm using it a lot and its doing hard time to everyone that I played against) and RiP has grew and become what we are today.
Snoop Dogg Translation: Some uT hoes be trippin'. But he down, it's all good in the hood.
I wondered whether Snoop had any idea what we were talking about. He just chimed in while playin with beats and layin' tracks. Shalk and Cloud have since mended and co-exist in out friendly Ricochet world.
Beastie: In previous interviews, former members from KIA and APS have said that RiP is perhaps the best there has ever been. How does this make you feel? Is RiP the best and why?
Shalk: Now when u mention it, it does make me feel good because as the only player from Israel and I learned to know each other from this community, maybe we are small but it¡¦s the best community I have ever seen and I can't say for sure if RiP is the best but I do can tell u that we had hard time recruiting
players, we didn't took them by skills only, we chooses the most by the personality because we want respected people and when all get along just fine then the clan can move on. ^_^
Snoop Dogg Translation: He be representin'... middle east siiiide!! RiP is fo' eva'! Know whad Im sayin?'
Of course I stay fairly indifferent when working for vadavaka.com, as a member I have to agree with those that hold RiP as the highest in the arena. Also I wondered whether we could recruit Snoop into the clan. I would have to bring it up with Shalk at a later date.
Beastie: I discussed a number of clan related issues with Cloud Fuel last week. One of them was recruiting and membership. Is the process pretty similar in RiP? What are some of the important factors when choosing who gets in?
Shalk: I, as a leader, think that skills are not the only meaning there is in a player I think his personality and loyalty are very much important even more than skills, though I think skills are truely a part of the deal.
Snoop Dogg Translation: Gots ta have the skillz ya'll. Skillz to pay the billz.
Beastie: I had also asked Cloud about the rivalry that exists between the two major clans. How important is the clan match record to you as a leader? Do you expect each of your members to be active in outright challenges?
Shalk: There is no rivalry between the two clans, the matches aren't for points, we all know each other for along of time and we are the only people who can match each other so those matches are for fun only, but as a leader I do want my clan to win but really if we will not I can care less, game are for fun and matches are to make the game even more fun. And who ever want to play welcome but those who don't want I can't say no, its their choice and if they aren't interesting in playing their match its ok.
Snoop Dogg Translation: Ain't no thang. We're all in the same hood, gots ta get along. Word!
It's good to see that the opposing clan leaders share similar beliefs on this topic. I guess I will stop carrying my winning screen shot with me everywhere I go. (( Jabba :P))
Beastie: Apparently GRITS :wub: has a Counter Strike web page on the way. It would not be suprising to me that she would potentially run a CS server someday. Would RiP consider playing it as a team as well?
Shalk: I don't think so, because CS isn't like ricochet that ping doesn't matter a lot, cs u can't play with 200 ping. Maybe we will play at the server for fun but as a team I don't know. For the answer we can only live to see what will happened because personally I have no clue what will happened.
Snoop Dogg Translation: If your ping is shizzle, stick with the rizzle.
Beastie: Do you play any CS? How about other games? Have you always played
as Shalk or do you play by other names? Where did your screen name come from?
Shalk: I'm playing counter-strike from the start of beta 6.5 (I did a lot of breaks), it was fun at the old times but today every second man is a cheater but I'm still trying to enjoy as most as I can.When I started to play cs I started to play TFC too, but the Israeli community is too small, we got 4 clan max and we don¡¦t have a league so its pretty hard to keep it active, the TFC is being away from year to year until it will be totally gone. As u can see I started to play ricochet 6-8 months ago, I used to play on IGL Israeli server when there was always playing in it, but slowly people started to leave the game, 1 after another until I was the only one that left but then Cloud-Fuel found me on IGL, and he saw that I got potential in the game and he told me to start to play on NOH servers (when they was still up), I started to play there and then Gemakk and Davion checked me to KIA, we played on IGL (wanted to show them how I am with low ping) and I pretty much did fine, but then KIA broke up, and then I joined pr0.I'm using the nick Shalk forever, I found it by that I wanted original nick and I just typed some letters that looked nice so I decided that I will use it and from then I stayed with shalk. :D
Snoop Dogg Translation: Homeboy been hangin' with some straight G's. Shalzzle Dalzzle, fear the name!
As in all of my features, I wanted to find out more about Alon in his time while not playing Ricochet.
Beastie: Please tell me about what else you do in your free time? Do you play any sports? What sports are big in Isreal?
Shalk: I'm playing on the guitar for 3 years, at my school we set up the show Hair which we did pretty damn well, going to play soccer with friends, basketball, movies (I prefer comedy + action, I think it's the best), but the most fun is just to go to other city and to fool there by going there randomly and having fun. I'm not playing at a league or something, just with friends because to be honest I'm not at all at everything which is about sport. About big sports in Israel, well all know that the Israel people aren't good at nothing beside basketball which is the only hobby that is big around here, beside that nothing.
Snoop Dogg Translation: Israel be ballin' like a ((censored)). Shalk be just chillin' wth the doggs.
Beastie: What are you studying in school? Are you a good student? Does your Ricochet addiction affect your grades at all? :-)
Shalk: This year I just finished the 10th grade, at the school I choices to learn music and Electricity as the main subjects, beside that I am studying the normal things like math, English, history and those. As for a student I will say I'm average student, and no the addiction to the ricochet didn't affect my grades at all, I know how to make my time free to study and when to have fun.
Snoop Dogg Translation: Homeboy keeps busy, feeding his head, knows when to play the rizzy.
Time for a little ego boosting.
Beastie: I joked with Cloud last week that I could perhaps be bribed away from RiP into uT. If I were magically turned into a rope and we had to have a tug-of-war contest, which clan would win?
Shalk: Well this is confusing, because in 1 point of view I'm thinking about just leaving the rope because no one worth enough to fight about him but in the other point of view its still Beastie, this man worth a fight but I think I will just give up and leave the rope, especially after the bribe I couldn't say no. but its not a big lose, only Beastie, we can live with that. :lol:Now serious, I will give a hell of a fight, I will not quit until it will be total win to 1 side.
Snoop Dogg Translation: Bizzle got clowned ya'll!!
:huh:..... <_<..... :lol::D:lol::D
Shalk is a very nice guy in addition to his high stature in the game. It is a true honor for me to be able to bring to all of you the views and laughs from somone so far away in Israel. Credit the internet for this possibility. And since then of course the community held together by vadavaka.com. Say hello to Shalk when you see him and tell him you enjoyed his thoughts.
As for me, I will have another fun and informative entry next week with somone you will all want to learn more about. Who? Have I ever told you before? Happy decapping!
Snoop Dogg Translation: I'll pop a de-cap in yo' ass, fool! Shizzle.
Early this week I realized I would be interviewing somone who may need a bit of translation help. My feature this week speaks english as a second language. While he does it quite well for being half-way around the world, I recruited somone who could help us interpret everything for us from Shalk's english into wordage we could all understand one hundered percent... Snoop Dogg!!
The Doggfather arrived early in his coveted new Cadillac Snoop Deville. This sweet custom ride was bumpin his latest. I heard it from all the way up on my thirty second floor! By the time I made my way down to greet him, Shalk had also arrived. He instead was driven up in the limited edition RiP Hummer. His guards in RiP attire cleared a path through the Snoop autograph seekers, and I met the both of them at the front entrance. I escorted the all important clan leader and the new drug-free pimpin' thug to my floor. Introductions were made, and we made our way into my studio.
Shalk's real name is Alon, and he is from Israel. Alon is 16 and in school, but is on summer break which allows him to play Ricochet on our hours a little bit. Even though he in a far away land with many different customs, he speaks the language we share: Ricochet. He speaks it well, in fact he is the leader and co-founder of one the game's top clans in RiP. He is involved in all clan activities including kicking my ass!
Snoop sat in the booth playing around with the turntables and the trackboard. He had us on mic so he could hear us load uand clear. He would be there to help the rest of you understand exactly what went down. All in place, I began with the questions.
Beastie: Mr. Shalk it is good to have you here on the column. I know you have been awaiting this interview for a long time. Now you can say whatever you would like to all of your friends, rivals, and clanmates. If you had only one sentence to do it, what would it be?
Shalk: No pain no gain. B)
I think that this sentence saying it all, RiP have passed a hard time and now we're in the place at the top and well all know it wasn't easy for us, the hard times we have passed, the inactivity that left me alone at the leading until we found a solution and believe me it wasn't easy.
Snoop Dogg Translation: Life aint easy, but RiP the shizzy.
Beastie: You have been a leader in the RiP clan for a very long time. I recently learned that prior to your membership, you were actually in uT for some time. Please tell me about that and why you branched out into your new clan.
Shalk: Well, uT started with Cloud-Fuel, Shakira, Fritoman and me, I was in uT for very much time but I had a fight with Cloud-fuel which really pissed me off and at those times Cloud-fuel acted in a way that didn't like (as a leader) and the inactivity of the people in the clan, all together just gave me an idea to make a new clan. I was playing with KillingSpree and RulePool2 (which they are the players that I most admire and I learned a lot from them) on Vad's server and suddenly I had the idea about opening a clan together and from then we recruit our 3rd player which was g-boy (which from him I learned the stall style, which is the best style ever and I'm using it a lot and its doing hard time to everyone that I played against) and RiP has grew and become what we are today.
Snoop Dogg Translation: Some uT hoes be trippin'. But he down, it's all good in the hood.
I wondered whether Snoop had any idea what we were talking about. He just chimed in while playin with beats and layin' tracks. Shalk and Cloud have since mended and co-exist in out friendly Ricochet world.
Beastie: In previous interviews, former members from KIA and APS have said that RiP is perhaps the best there has ever been. How does this make you feel? Is RiP the best and why?
Shalk: Now when u mention it, it does make me feel good because as the only player from Israel and I learned to know each other from this community, maybe we are small but it¡¦s the best community I have ever seen and I can't say for sure if RiP is the best but I do can tell u that we had hard time recruiting
players, we didn't took them by skills only, we chooses the most by the personality because we want respected people and when all get along just fine then the clan can move on. ^_^
Snoop Dogg Translation: He be representin'... middle east siiiide!! RiP is fo' eva'! Know whad Im sayin?'
Of course I stay fairly indifferent when working for vadavaka.com, as a member I have to agree with those that hold RiP as the highest in the arena. Also I wondered whether we could recruit Snoop into the clan. I would have to bring it up with Shalk at a later date.
Beastie: I discussed a number of clan related issues with Cloud Fuel last week. One of them was recruiting and membership. Is the process pretty similar in RiP? What are some of the important factors when choosing who gets in?
Shalk: I, as a leader, think that skills are not the only meaning there is in a player I think his personality and loyalty are very much important even more than skills, though I think skills are truely a part of the deal.
Snoop Dogg Translation: Gots ta have the skillz ya'll. Skillz to pay the billz.
Beastie: I had also asked Cloud about the rivalry that exists between the two major clans. How important is the clan match record to you as a leader? Do you expect each of your members to be active in outright challenges?
Shalk: There is no rivalry between the two clans, the matches aren't for points, we all know each other for along of time and we are the only people who can match each other so those matches are for fun only, but as a leader I do want my clan to win but really if we will not I can care less, game are for fun and matches are to make the game even more fun. And who ever want to play welcome but those who don't want I can't say no, its their choice and if they aren't interesting in playing their match its ok.
Snoop Dogg Translation: Ain't no thang. We're all in the same hood, gots ta get along. Word!
It's good to see that the opposing clan leaders share similar beliefs on this topic. I guess I will stop carrying my winning screen shot with me everywhere I go. (( Jabba :P))
Beastie: Apparently GRITS :wub: has a Counter Strike web page on the way. It would not be suprising to me that she would potentially run a CS server someday. Would RiP consider playing it as a team as well?
Shalk: I don't think so, because CS isn't like ricochet that ping doesn't matter a lot, cs u can't play with 200 ping. Maybe we will play at the server for fun but as a team I don't know. For the answer we can only live to see what will happened because personally I have no clue what will happened.
Snoop Dogg Translation: If your ping is shizzle, stick with the rizzle.
Beastie: Do you play any CS? How about other games? Have you always played
as Shalk or do you play by other names? Where did your screen name come from?
Shalk: I'm playing counter-strike from the start of beta 6.5 (I did a lot of breaks), it was fun at the old times but today every second man is a cheater but I'm still trying to enjoy as most as I can.When I started to play cs I started to play TFC too, but the Israeli community is too small, we got 4 clan max and we don¡¦t have a league so its pretty hard to keep it active, the TFC is being away from year to year until it will be totally gone. As u can see I started to play ricochet 6-8 months ago, I used to play on IGL Israeli server when there was always playing in it, but slowly people started to leave the game, 1 after another until I was the only one that left but then Cloud-Fuel found me on IGL, and he saw that I got potential in the game and he told me to start to play on NOH servers (when they was still up), I started to play there and then Gemakk and Davion checked me to KIA, we played on IGL (wanted to show them how I am with low ping) and I pretty much did fine, but then KIA broke up, and then I joined pr0.I'm using the nick Shalk forever, I found it by that I wanted original nick and I just typed some letters that looked nice so I decided that I will use it and from then I stayed with shalk. :D
Snoop Dogg Translation: Homeboy been hangin' with some straight G's. Shalzzle Dalzzle, fear the name!
As in all of my features, I wanted to find out more about Alon in his time while not playing Ricochet.
Beastie: Please tell me about what else you do in your free time? Do you play any sports? What sports are big in Isreal?
Shalk: I'm playing on the guitar for 3 years, at my school we set up the show Hair which we did pretty damn well, going to play soccer with friends, basketball, movies (I prefer comedy + action, I think it's the best), but the most fun is just to go to other city and to fool there by going there randomly and having fun. I'm not playing at a league or something, just with friends because to be honest I'm not at all at everything which is about sport. About big sports in Israel, well all know that the Israel people aren't good at nothing beside basketball which is the only hobby that is big around here, beside that nothing.
Snoop Dogg Translation: Israel be ballin' like a ((censored)). Shalk be just chillin' wth the doggs.
Beastie: What are you studying in school? Are you a good student? Does your Ricochet addiction affect your grades at all? :-)
Shalk: This year I just finished the 10th grade, at the school I choices to learn music and Electricity as the main subjects, beside that I am studying the normal things like math, English, history and those. As for a student I will say I'm average student, and no the addiction to the ricochet didn't affect my grades at all, I know how to make my time free to study and when to have fun.
Snoop Dogg Translation: Homeboy keeps busy, feeding his head, knows when to play the rizzy.
Time for a little ego boosting.
Beastie: I joked with Cloud last week that I could perhaps be bribed away from RiP into uT. If I were magically turned into a rope and we had to have a tug-of-war contest, which clan would win?
Shalk: Well this is confusing, because in 1 point of view I'm thinking about just leaving the rope because no one worth enough to fight about him but in the other point of view its still Beastie, this man worth a fight but I think I will just give up and leave the rope, especially after the bribe I couldn't say no. but its not a big lose, only Beastie, we can live with that. :lol:Now serious, I will give a hell of a fight, I will not quit until it will be total win to 1 side.
Snoop Dogg Translation: Bizzle got clowned ya'll!!
:huh:..... <_<..... :lol::D:lol::D
Shalk is a very nice guy in addition to his high stature in the game. It is a true honor for me to be able to bring to all of you the views and laughs from somone so far away in Israel. Credit the internet for this possibility. And since then of course the community held together by vadavaka.com. Say hello to Shalk when you see him and tell him you enjoyed his thoughts.
As for me, I will have another fun and informative entry next week with somone you will all want to learn more about. Who? Have I ever told you before? Happy decapping!
Snoop Dogg Translation: I'll pop a de-cap in yo' ass, fool! Shizzle.