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/dev/random / Re: Memorial Day

Wins The Internet

My Dad served in WWII, his unit fought in the "Battle of the Bulge".  One of his medals was for repairing and running new comm lines in the middle of enemy artillery bombardment.  My Dad and another guy went into the bombardment zone and repaired existing cables and then went back and got another spool of cable to run a back up comm line.  I remember talking to him about this mission.  He told me that they would run with cable spool until they could tell by the whistle that the bomb was about to hit.  When the bomb was close, they would dive on the ground until it exploded.  Once it exploded, they would get up and run until the next explosion, going side to side because the Germans were alternating their coordinates.

My family was lucky, my dad and his two brothers who fought in WWII all made it home.

Thousands of soldiers never made it home. 

Today is about honoring them and their families.  Without the service of these people, this world would be a different place today. 

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Quake / Seattle FFA Frag Night In Memory of Pepp

Rock On

Long time Quake II player pepp has passed away on Feb 5th, 2025 after some health battles in the hospital.

He managed the Seattle FFA server which been around for many years. Come by Seattle FFA server Saturday night 2/8/25 to frag and chat in memory of our quake buddy, pepp.

Rest In Peace Pepp

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art, music, etc. / Re: Ozzy Osbourne

Funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgKATgblWZc

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tastyspleen.net / .

Racist Ignoramus

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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha listening to?

Wins The Internet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksAQnNyhgV8

he is one of the bestest ....

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poetry / essays / short stories? / Re: Quotes

Funny

The best quote in human history

Who do you think you are? I AM! - Pete Webber


https://youtu.be/gKQOXYB2cd8?si=1TShn42-A1KoxrHW

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Quake / Re: Quadz, the Loquaciously Multiloquent Member

Rock On

Hi all,

So it’s been a minute, and I am not sure if it’s even proper etiquette to revive such an old thread (probably not), but I was too shy to start a new one.

I just wanted to state once again your contributions to keep Tastyspleen alive and kicking are so appreciated. I may not get around to thanking you personally but please know your generosity is acknowledged and I am thankful for every dime. It warms my heart to see this community still going strong just shy of 2 years since Bill’s untimely passing. He would definitely be thrilled to know his pet project is still thriving!

Big love to all you ‘Spleeners!

Mrs Quadz

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DOWNLOAD MAPS HERE !! / Lost World (q3dm13) from Quake 3 converted for Quake 2

Nice Job / Good Work

nice map, looks good in Quake 2.














q2cafefiles.com/files/maps/DM-maps/Grieve/LostWorld%28q2_q3dm13%29.zip

or

www.dropbox.com/s/68rkgnrjslq557m/LostWorld%28q2_q3dm13%29.zip?dl=1

 

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Quake / Digital Paint: Paintball 2 engine for Vanilla Quake 2 (Happy 25th Anniversary!)

Nice Job / Good Work

Decided to do something special for the Quake2 25th anniversary and release a version of the Paintball 2 engine that's compatible with vanilla Quake2.  Don't want to say how many hours it took to get things (mostly) working again, like save games, legacy HUD behavior, etc, BUT it's here and brings a lot of improvements:
- Improved texture filtering and handling to make things look less washed out and blurry
- Gamma adjustment on lightmap instead of gl_modulate to make things brighter without losing detail.
- Reflective water
- High-res textures (have to be put in the hr4 directory and will be 4x higher resolution than base textures, can also be larger to reduce tiling).
- Non-qwerty keyboard support.
- Faster file downloads over UDP (if connecting to a server also using this feature).
- Tweaks and fixes to make movement physics smoother (no random stops mid strafe jump and things like that -- also has to be on the server for this to work in multiplayer).

A couple screenshots are attached for comparison between vanilla Q2 (about as good as I could make it look) and PB2Q2.

You can download it at http://digitalpaint.org/

Edit: I have a server running at quake2.digitalpaint.org -- we'll be organizing some play time starting at 3PM EST.  http://discord.digitalpaint.org if you want to hang out on voice while we play.

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Quake FAQs, HOWTOs, and Articles / Re: Tastyspleen admin theives users abusers manipulators

Racist Ignoramus

Don't ever give in to the bullying trolls Shloo. You two really are a piece of work. The worst the community has to offer.