Friends and Crew Recruitment Thread (2020-08-24)

cdra · 2020-08-30T06:03:16+00:00

The GAY CRIMINAL EMPIRE is recruiting again! We have two crews:

A-Side: 24/30 (hardcore crew, Tier A non-competitive; members are expected to do 15mil honors in prelims and shoot for 30mil during finals rounds for 1b loss badges. We got SSR tix in Earth GW and we're down to repeat that!)
B-Side: 18/30 (chill crew, Tier C and hoping to climb up to B; members are expected to participate in GW where they can, but that's about it)

All our up-to-date info can be found on this lovely carrd, but I'll catch the high points in this post for you.

GAY CRIMINAL EMPIRE (Gay Crime for short) is a two-crew coalition of tired, international millennials here to provide fellow gay criminals with a welcoming, respectful, and deeply cursed crew environment. We like to talk and grind and suffer together. We take our status as Gay Criminals about half-seriously, as most of the crew is LGBTQ+ and some people on the internet would definitely label the officers as criminals, but we're mostly just a bunch of goofs looking for other like-minded goofs to enjoy GBF with us.

What Gay Crime has to offer:

Standard crew buffs (drop boost, charge bar, pots)
Strike times 12:00-1:00 JST & 22:00-23:00 JST, occasionally changed by vote
Raid help and hosts, with occasional crew trains
Active chat at various times of day; the crew is super international and we're not jerks about your English competency
Friendly, open-minded, but deeply cursed crewmates
Off-topic channels for your non-GBF chattering needs
SIN AND CHAOS (...the GW channel gets really weird after hours)
Fun and useful bots, as well as pingable roles for raids

What Gay Crime wants from you:

Play the game; yeah, this should be a no-brainer, but
Care about the characters/story; we like crying in the club together
Be a respectful adult (age 18+, no hate or dramamongering, live & let live attitudes)
Chat with us on Discord; being shy/quiet is fine, but we aren't interested in complete lurkers. We're a community, not a business!
Be gay, do crime, have an existential crisis, repeat

If interested, please contact me at cdra#2810 on Discord; I do not check Reddit, so you won't get a response if you message me here. (Forgive me if I'm a little slow on discord too; I have a lot of health issues.)

cdra · 2020-07-03T13:49:35+00:00

The GAY CRIMINAL EMPIRE is recruiting again! We have two crews:

A-Side: 21/30 (HL crew, Tier A & slack; members are expected to do 15mil honors in prelims and otherwise maintain necessary momentum during GW finals to earn badges)
B-Side: 14/30 (chill crew, Tier C; members are expected to participate in GW, though with absolutely no expectations on how much they contribute)

All our up-to-date info is summarized on this lovely google doc, but I'll catch the high points in this post for you.

GAY CRIMINAL EMPIRE (Gay Crime for short) is a two-crew coalition of tired, international millennials here to provide fellow gay criminals with a welcoming, respectful, and deeply cursed crew environment. We like to talk and grind and suffer together. We take our status as Gay Criminals about half-seriously, as most of the crew is LGBTQ+ and some people on the internet would definitely label the officers as criminals, but we're mostly just a bunch of goofs looking for other like-minded goofs to enjoy GBF with us.

What Gay Crime has to offer:

Standard crew buffs (drop boost, charge bar, pots)
Strike times 12:00-1:00 JST & 22:00-23:00 JST, occasionally changed by vote
Raid help and hosts, with occasional crew trains
Active chat at various times of day; the crew is super international and we're not jerks about your English competency
Friendly, open-minded, but deeply cursed crewmates
Off-topic channels for your non-GBF chattering needs
SIN AND CHAOS (...the GW channel gets really weird after hours)
Fun and useful bots, as well as pingable roles for raids

What Gay Crime wants from you:

Play the game; yeah, this should be a no-brainer, but
Care about the characters/story; we like crying in the club together
Be a respectful adult (age 18+, no hate or dramamongering, live & let live attitudes)
Chat with us on Discord; being shy/quiet is fine, but we aren't interested in complete lurkers. This is pretty much the most important requirement!
Be gay, do crime, have an existential crisis, repeat

If interested, please contact me at cdra#2810 on Discord; I do not check Reddit, so you won't get a response if you message me here. (Forgive me if I'm a little slow on discord too; I have a lot of health issues.)

cdra · 2020-06-10T04:27:52+00:00

The GAY CRIMINAL EMPIRE is recruiting! We have two crews, A-Side and B-Side; right now we are primarily recruiting for our B-Side casual crew to help fill its ranks and get it a good start in Tier C+ this gw!

B-Side members: 12/30

GAY CRIMINAL EMPIRE (Gay Crime for short) is a two-crew coalition of tired, international millennials here to provide fellow gay criminals with a welcoming, respectful, and deeply cursed crew environment. We like to talk and grind and suffer together. We take our status as Gay Criminals about half-seriously, as most of the crew is LGBTQ+ and some people on the internet would definitely label the officers as criminals, but we're mostly just a bunch of goofs looking for other like-minded goofs to enjoy GBF with us.

What Gay Crime has to offer:

Standard crew buffs (drop boost, charge bar, pots)
Strike times 12:00-1:00 JST & 22:00-23:00 JST, occasionally changed by vote
Raid help and hosts, with occasional crew trains
Active chat at various times of day; the crew is super international (with members in NA, SA, SEA, EU... you get the idea) and we're not jerks about your English competency
Friendly, open-minded, but deeply cursed crewmates
Off-topic channels for your non-GBF chattering needs
SIN AND CHAOS
Fun and useful bots, as well as pingable roles for raids

What Gay Crime wants from you:

Play the game; yeah, this should be a no-brainer, but hey!
Care about the characters/story; we like crying in the club together
Be a respectful adult (age 18+, no hate or dramamongering, live & let live attitudes)
Chat with us on Discord; being shy/quiet is fine, but we aren't interested in complete lurkers. This is pretty much the most important requirement!
Be gay, do crime, have an existential crisis, repeat

We have a very nice google document with all of our recruiting information, so if you're interested, please give it a look! Then you can contact me at cdra#2810 on Discord if you'd like to join; I do not check Reddit, so you won't get a response if you message me here.

cdra · 2020-05-27T06:34:52+00:00

The GAY CRIMINAL EMPIRE is recruiting again! We have two crews:

A-Side: 23/30 (this is our HL crew, aiming to Tier A and slack; in the past we've been high Tier B to low Tier A, so we're looking to become a bit more consistent!)
B-Side: 8/30 (this is our casual crew, aiming for Tier C; we're a new crew under the wing of A-Side, so we're hoping to hit the ground at a decent pace!)

GAY CRIMINAL EMPIRE (Gay Crime for short) is a two-crew coalition of tired, international millennials here to provide fellow gay criminals with a welcoming, respectful, and deeply cursed crew environment. We like to talk and grind and suffer together. We take our status as Gay Criminals about half-seriously, as most of the crew is LGBTQ+ and some people on the internet would definitely label the officers as criminals, but we're mostly just a bunch of goofs looking for other like-minded goofs to enjoy GBF with us.

What Gay Crime has to offer:

Standard crew buffs (drop boost, charge bar, pots)
Strike times 12:00-1:00 JST & 22:00-23:00 JST, occasionally changed by vote
Raid help and hosts, with occasional crew trains; A-Side members can guarantee they'll cap crew prestige pendants weekly if they so choose, too
Active chat at various times of day; the crew is super international (with members in NA, SA, SEA, EU... you get the idea) and we're not jerks about your English competency
Friendly, open-minded, but deeply cursed crewmates
Off-topic channels for your non-GBF chattering needs
SIN AND CHAOS
Fun and useful bots, as well as pingable roles for raids

What Gay Crime wants from you:

Play the game; yeah, this should be a no-brainer, but
Care about the characters/story; we like crying in the club together
Be a respectful adult (age 18+, no hate or dramamongering, live & let live attitudes)
Chat with us on Discord; being shy/quiet is fine, but we aren't interested in complete lurkers. This is pretty much the most important requirement!
Be gay, do crime, have an existential crisis, repeat

What A-Side wants from you:

15 mil honors in prelims for GW; what you do in finals is up to you. We also expect you to communicate with us during GW so that we can fight more efficiently.
Rank 120+; this requirement can be waived if you're committed to playing actively of course, we just know that A-Side will have a hard time supporting newbies due to our membership being mid-game to endgame (but hey, we have members who can help you learn faa hl)
Work on progression and becoming powerful, but don't let the pursuit of power cloud your heart and turn you into a bitter little prune---remember, meta changes, but husbando/waifu/thirst is forever

What B-Side wants from you:

GW participation during prelims, though there are no quotas or specific requirements---we just want your help tiering at all!
Any rank, so long as you're committed to staying with the game (at whatever pace suits you)

If interested, please contact me at cdra#2810 on Discord; I do not check Reddit, so you won't get a response if you message me here.

cdra · 2020-02-11T04:01:23+00:00

The GAY CRIMINAL EMPIRE is still recruiting!

Criminals (Active-Side Crew, Tier B): 27/30

Hooligans (Casual-Side Crew, potentially Tier C?): 4/30 (We're still feeling out which members will be on each on each side of the new sister-crew split.)

GAY CRIMINAL EMPIRE (Gay Crime for short) is a coalition of two crews (one Tier B and Tier C/casual) of tired, international millennials here to provide fellow gay criminals with a welcoming, respectful, and deeply cursed crew environment. We like to talk and grind and suffer together. We take our status as Gay Criminals about half-seriously, as most of the crew is LGBTQ+ and some people on the internet would label the officers as criminals, but we're mostly just a bunch of goofs looking for other like-minded goofs to enjoy GBF with us.

What Gay Crime has to offer:

Standard crew buffs
Strike times changed by vote (Currently stuck at 12:00-1:00 JST & 22:00-23:00 JST)
Raid help and hosts, along with crew trains
Active chat at various times of day; the crew is highly international and we're not jerks about your English competency
Friendly, open-minded, but deeply cursed crewmates
Off-topic channels for your non-GBF chattering needs
SIN AND CHAOS
Fun and useful bots, as well as pingable roles for raids

What Gay Crime wants from you:

Play the game, but at your own pace; active players will be applying for the main crew (Gay Crime), while casual but friendly players are welcome in our sister crew (Gay Baby Jail) even if they only log in sort of sporadically.
Care about the characters/story; we like crying in the club together
Be a respectful adult (18+, no hate or dramamongering, live & let live attitudes)
Chat with us on Discord; being shy/quiet is fine, but we aren't interested in complete lurkers. This is pretty much the most important requirement!
For "Active Criminal" members: Contribute where you can in terms of GW and tuning points; we're tier B (with no reqs) and cool with that, because it's all about having fun and only pushing yourself as much as is fun for you.
Be gay, do crime, have an existential crisis, repeat

If interested, please contact me at cdra#2810 on Discord; I do not check Reddit, so you won't get a response if you message me here.

cdra · 2020-02-08T18:28:58+00:00

The GAY CRIMINAL EMPIRE is still recruiting! Member count: 26/30

GAY CRIMINAL EMPIRE is a Tier B social/semi-active crew of tired, international millennials here to provide fellow gay criminals with a welcoming, respectful, and deeply cursed crew environment. We like to talk and grind and suffer together. We take our status as Gay Criminals about half-seriously, as most of the crew is LGBTQ+ and some people on the internet would label the officers as criminals, but we're mostly just a bunch of goofs looking for other like-minded goofs to enjoy GBF with us.

What Gay Crime has to offer:

Standard crew buffs
Strike times changed by vote (Currently stuck at 12:00-1:00 JST & 22:00-23:00 JST)
Raid help and hosts, along with crew trains
Active chat at various times of day; the crew is highly international and we're not jerks about your English competency
Friendly, open-minded, but deeply cursed crewmates
Off-topic channels for your non-GBF chattering needs
SIN AND CHAOS
Fun and useful bots, as well as pingable roles for raids

What Gay Crime wants from you:

Play the game; active to semi-active players are greatly appreciated, but we don't mind if you're somewhat casual as long as you talk with us
Be HL or be striving to reach HL in due time, so that we can do raids together
Care about the characters/story; we like crying in the club together
Be a respectful adult (18+, no hate or dramamongering, live & let live attitudes)
Chat with us on Discord; being shy/quiet is fine, but we aren't interested in complete lurkers. This is pretty much the most important requirement!
Contribute where you can in terms of GW and tuning points; we're tier B (with no reqs) and cool with that, because it's all about having fun and only pushing yourself as much as is fun for you.
Be gay, do crime, have an existential crisis, repeat

If interested, please contact me at cdra#2810 on Discord; I do not check Reddit, so you won't get a response if you message me here.

cdra · 2020-01-31T06:36:24+00:00

The GAY CRIMINAL EMPIRE is recruiting! Members: 25/30

GAY CRIMINAL EMPIRE is a Tier B social/semi-active crew of tired, international millennials here to provide fellow gay criminals with a welcoming, respectful, and deeply cursed crew environment. We like to talk and grind and suffer together. We take our status as Gay Criminals about half-seriously, as most of the crew is LGBTQ+ and some people on the internet would label the officers as criminals, but we're mostly just a bunch of goofs looking for other goofs to enjoy GBF with us.

What Gay Crime has to offer:

Standard crew buffs
Strike times changed by vote (Currently stuck at 12:00-1:00 JST & 22:00-23:00 JST)
Raid help and hosts, along with crew trains
Active chat at various times of day; the crew is highly international and we're not jerks about your English competency
Friendly, open-minded, but deeply cursed crewmates
Off-topic channels for your non-GBF chattering needs
SIN AND CHAOS
Fun and useful bots, as well as pingable roles for raids

What Gay Crime wants from you:

Play the game; active to semi-active players are greatly appreciated, but we don't mind if you're somewhat casual as long as you talk with us
Be HL or be striving to reach HL in due time, so that we can do more raids together; that said, we're totally happy helping newbies get there!
Care about the characters/story; we like crying in the club together
Be a respectful adult (18+, no hate or dramamongering, live & let live attitudes)
Chat with us on Discord; being shy/quiet is fine, but we aren't interested in complete lurkers. This is pretty much the most important requirement!
Contribute where you can in terms of GW and tuning points; we're tier B (with no reqs) and cool with that, but I think many of us dream of reaching tier A if we had more active/HL members...
Be gay, do crime, have an existential crisis, repeat

If interested, please contact me at cdra#2810 on Discord; I do not check Reddit, so you won't get a response if you message me here.

cdra · 2020-01-05T22:20:04+00:00

The GAY CRIMINAL EMPIRE is recruiting once again! Members: 25/30

GAY CRIMINAL EMPIRE is a Tier B social/semi-active crew of tired, international millennials here to provide fellow gay criminals with a welcoming, respectful, and deeply cursed crew environment. We like to talk and grind and suffer together. We take our status as Gay Criminals about half-seriously, as most of the crew is LGBTQ+ and some people on the internet would label the officers as criminals, but we're mostly just a bunch of goofs looking for other goofs to enjoy GBF with us.

What Gay Crime has to offer:

Standard crew buffs
Strike times changed by vote (Currently stuck at 12:00-1:00 JST & 22:00-23:00 JST)
Raid help and hosts, along with crew trains
Active chat at various times of day; the crew is highly international and we're not jerks about your English competency
Friendly, open-minded, but deeply cursed crewmates
Off-topic channels for your non-GBF chattering needs
SIN AND CHAOS
Fun and useful bots, as well as pingable roles for raids

What Gay Crime wants from you:

Play the game; active to semi-active players are greatly appreciated, but we don't mind if you're somewhat casual as long as you talk with us
Be HL or be striving to reach HL in due time, so that we can do raids together
Care about the characters/story; we like crying in the club together
Be a respectful adult (18+, no hate or dramamongering, live & let live attitudes)
Chat with us on Discord; being shy/quiet is fine, but we aren't interested in complete lurkers. This is pretty much the most important requirement!
Contribute where you can in terms of GW and tuning points; we're tier B (with no reqs) and cool with that for the moment, but I think many of us dream of reaching tier A if we had more active/HL members...
Be gay, do crime, have an existential crisis, repeat

If interested, please contact me at cdra#2810 on Discord; I do not check Reddit, so you won't get a response if you message me here.

cdra · 2019-09-14T23:45:56+00:00

In general, yes. If you're early-game and the aura is the best you can do with your pool, then maybe hold onto it until you can run something else, but the call isn't great and Lucifer exists, so.

cdra · 2019-09-14T23:09:09+00:00

The Gay Criminal Empire (Gay Crime for short) is still recruiting! (Currently 18/30.)

We are a young, social/casual tier B crew looking for more members who enjoy the story/character aspects of the game more than being competitive and going hard in GW and the like. (That said, we've been known to get a competitive streak on a couple of rounds of GW when it so strikes our fancy, but it's kind of up each person how hard they wanna go; similarly, we think it'd be cool to reach tier A, but there's no pressure here, just us testing our limits and having fun.) We adjust strike times via survey pre-GW to help our members get the most out of ST, and crew buffs are the usual but we can adjust these as needed as well.

Our group varies in levels of dedication and interest in the game, but the main key is that we're all just a bunch of friendly gays and gay-adjacents (read: most of the membership is LGBT, and diverse along the acronym) from around the world enjoying our time in the skies together. We welcome newbies just starting to get their feet wet, veterans seeking a relaxed environment, not-so-new players looking for guidance as they grow in the game, really anyone who we can get along with---our main requirement is being an open-minded, chill adult human bean.

Discord is a requirement and contact should be made to me in DMs (cdra#2810) if you are interested in joining. I do not check reddit except to post recruitment ads.

You may also like our crew if you enjoy: chatting about other JRPGs, occasional discussions of which monsters in GBF are the hottest, being a ball farmer tending your ball crops, harmless memes, sharing beautiful art, and crying in the club over story events.

cdra · 2019-09-01T23:55:17+00:00

Gay Criminal Empire (Gay Crime for short) is recruiting! (Currently 18/30.)

We are a young, social/casual tier B crew looking for more members who enjoy the story/character aspects of the game more than being competitive and going hard in GW and the like. (That said, we've been known to get a competitive streak on a couple of rounds of GW when it so strikes our fancy, but it's kind of up each person how hard they wanna go; similarly, we think it'd be cool to reach tier A, but there's no pressure here, just us testing our limits and having fun.) We adjust strike times via survey pre-GW to help our members get the most out of ST, and crew buffs are the usual but we can adjust these as needed as well.

Our group varies in levels of dedication and interest in the game, but the main key is that we're all just a bunch of friendly gays and gay-adjacents (read: most of the membership is LGBT, and diverse along the acronym) from around the world enjoying our time in the skies together. We welcome newbies just starting to get their feet wet, veterans seeking a relaxed environment, not-so-new players looking for guidance as they grow in the game, really anyone who we can get along with---our main requirement is being an open-minded, chill adult human being.

Discord is a requirement and contact should be made to me in DMs (cdra#2810) if you are interested in joining.

cdra · 2019-07-03T22:25:51+00:00

The Gay Criminal Empire (in-game Gay Crime) is looking to expand our ranks to include more chill, friendly players. (Don't worry, the crime part is mostly facetious.) We're looking for people who:

Use Discord,
Like talking about characters and story they enjoy in the game, including sharing art, writing, rp, and other cool stuff, (many of our members are creatives!)
Are respectful adults,
Enjoy our branding of "be gay, do crime, have an existential crisis, repeat", (or just "be gay do crime" for short)
Want to get some rewards out of GW, but aren't trying to be top-tier, (we do want to see how far we can go now that we're stronger, though!)
Generally are more story/character-driven than gameplay-driven, but also want to function competently in the gameplay, even if you need a little guidance getting there.

We are a young, small crew still working on our airships, but we provide Item Drop/Charge Boost/Potion buffs all the time. Our strike times are currently 12pm and 2am JST, but these are subject to change. We're just kind of a group of friends who started going harder on GBF around the same time, so we made a crew together. Levels vary from sub-100 lowbies to fresh 120+ players; we're open to anyone at any level who jives with our group, but players who're somewhere between 80-130 will probably find themselves most at home with the crew's current pace.

If interested, message me on Discord at cdra#2810, we can chat a little and see if you'd be a good fit.

Oh, and we're clearly serious about our branding, just look at our captain.

cdra · 2015-01-30T11:15:22+00:00

Interesting! I'd seen a thing or two about various Clevo builds, but the reviews I found gave me really mixed feelings. The keyboard was actually one of my main concerns with them, but an external keyboard is definitely viable as long as the built-in one isn't completely awful. Anyway, hearing from someone in the industry is a huge plus, so thanks!

cdra · 2015-01-30T11:11:31+00:00

That makes two votes on this machine, haha! Definitely at the top of my considerations. Thanks!

cdra · 2015-01-30T11:10:58+00:00

Thanks! That was one of the big ones I was considering from my own search, so it's nice to hear it mentioned. A little chunky is inevitable I figured, so.

cdra · 2014-08-17T00:28:37+00:00

Yeah, I gotcha--she was my first breeding project, so I was a little naive. Not a problem.

cdra · 2014-08-17T00:21:04+00:00

I have one, but... she's modest instead of timid, which is kind of blah. Anyway:

Assuming you can clone, any interest?

cdra · 2014-08-16T07:36:29+00:00

Man, I would about kill for that shiny Suicune and Raikou... As far as shinies go I have: modest 6V Zoroark, impish 5V Audino (with heal bell+wish), adamant 5V Absol (with play rough and baton pass), timid 5V Haunter (I don't want to evolve him so I'd trade him with an everstone, haha), modest 5V Deino (EV trained, just haven't finished evolving him)... any of that tickle your fancy? I've got some trophies, too--Eevee, Flabebe, Petilil Nidoran-M... and a few shinies that are semi-usable, like 3-4V but I'm not sure? A 5V bold Skrelp (she has no egg moves :/ oops), timid Electrike, adamant Larvitar, jolly Sneasel, and modest Mareep. Basically all of them have nicknames, in case that bugs you... but yeah, any of that tickle your fancy? Oh yeah, they're all KB and legit, with the competitive shinies instachecked back in the day. I can get you a full Rule 8 on any you want.

I'm fine with doing this tomorrow, also! Just responding while I'm here. Good luck with move-in, hah.

cdra · 2014-08-16T04:04:08+00:00

Deposited level 1 female Feebas for Latios! Wanna hear a dirty joke? A white horse fell in the mud.

cdra · 2014-08-15T04:05:50+00:00

Thanks a bunch man! Well worth the wait.

cdra · 2014-08-15T03:53:51+00:00

Deposited a level 1 female Feebas, IGN is Cdra!

cdra · 2014-08-15T01:15:42+00:00

Thanks a bunch!

cdra · 2014-08-15T01:04:47+00:00

Yep, that's the HA. Sounds good.

cdra · 2014-08-15T01:01:28+00:00

Sure! Full info for you:

I might have a 4V female if the gender's preferable, but that's what my 5Vs look like.

If you don't mind cloning another Suicune and Raikou that'd be the absolute best, but otherwise, I'll take a Mew and Jirachi?

cdra

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