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Bot Drop / Re: Hulk Bot

« on: June 22, 2026, 04:11:18 PM »

I am the one download, you're welcome!!

This is actually very suspect. Few things that make me think that (using q2pro percentages as a timestamp):

20% in: He shoots himself with the rocket and dies, revealing that his crosshair was directly pointing at someone who was below him, but the floor was blocking the view. He did know he was there and it could have been a misclick, though.

37% in: He jumps in by GL and shoots almost immediately at the corner where the player is when he turns the corner. There was an obvious sound cue that someone was there, and a better player would definitely attempt that shot for fun so it's possible, but still interesting.

50% in: He shoots at someone from below the instant he comes into view. He did know someone was up there and that is a common position to shoot from up top, because you get view of the elevator and other players coming up from the water to get to the elevator. I wouldn't entirely put it past a better player to spam that particular spot for style points in case someone walks into it, but with rail especially in FFA it just doesn't seem all that likely.

71% in: He's following one player and then shoots another that comes up on the lift almost immediately when he comes into view. He had no reason to shoot there since his attention is clearly on the person at the bottom of the platform by the water since he was just shooting at him. There is a single sound cue that someone got out of the water there which would lead you to think someone will be there on the platform in a couple seconds but the context of that particular fight leads me to think he wasn't focused on that or aware of it.
This is probably the most suspect shot.

80% in: Jumps in the water and immediately shoots at the corner the second he comes into view. There's like a 1/10th of a second between when he gets in the water and he knows he's in that particular area in the water from the previous fight but it's really fast.

If it actually is a better player I could see some of these shots being made but since this dude's movement is straight booty cheeks it's far more likely he's cheating lmao

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Quake / Re: DM server needs some admin attention.

« on: June 22, 2026, 05:53:29 AM »

Insanely obvious in the second clip. Hitscan weapons that need continuous firing are more obvious than rail. The color aimbots that came out a while back are a little less obvious when it comes to hitscan because they target all over the player model, but this isn't one of those; it's a really bad, obvious one.

I just get the impression that the admins are very busy with life etc. They don't have the time. It's understandable, but bad news particularly for the DM server. I'm not even certain they read the forum. I mainly focused on making short clips here of the cheating because as I mentioned before I don't think they have the time (let alone time to view demos).

I get it, it's an ancient game and most have moved on but the players (what's left of them), on the DM server are WELL aware there's no active admin. So this is the result: you get this guy who was so tired of losing, he decided to cheat to compensate. There are no repercussions. This is the opposite of what's happening right now with Elysium over there, where everyone is accusing him because the skill gap between him and the average player is enormous.

HERE in these clips there is someone who actually IS cheating. And it's sad to watch. So in the meantime all I can do is just continue adding clips here every time I see this loser on the server.

I agree 100%. There's a ton of games with servers out that there are run by people with jobs and families, but they still find the time to play the game because they just like it that much. There's even communities on Discord and like for this very game that are way more active. I've always found it to be a poor excuse and it comes across like the players are the ones that have to pick up the slack of what a moderator or administrator should already be doing with none of the trust or authority that comes with actually being one.

So less people start playing, and that includes people who are more skilled. The more skilled people that stop playing, the less people that are around to quell the people who aren't and don't know the difference between a skilled player and a cheater. The paranoia and ignorance feeds on itself, not to make it sound more serious than it is in the grand scheme of things but still. For me personally, I stopped really playing because of the weirdly overly competitive and antisocial nature of FFA in current year. I've said what I needed to say about it and I don't feel any obligation to go out of my way to support a server or network that's never going to change.

And I really feel what you say about the skill gap. I've been on both sides and it's not fun.

Anyone who think elysium doesn't use some sort of exploit is just plain dumb. Yeah he has a 30 ping, however i don't care what your name is if it looks like shit and smells like shit, guess what.... it is shit! the guy jas been cheating all this time and its so blatantly obvious too. Dear oh dear you poor fools. lets not forget he stormed off from the game after he was forced anticheat and didnt re surface until he didnt have to use it anymore. Laughable

Alpha I've been talking to you for almost 15 years and I still don't know if you're trolling when you post things like this.

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1v1 and TDM Demos / Re: What are your favorite matches to rewatch today?

« on: June 20, 2026, 08:29:59 AM »

Speaking purely about 1v1 because I never got into teams that much; I don't really watch matches, but I think of individual games sometimes. I found myself gravitating towards players that had a very calm and relaxed playstyle but still managed to win. I really liked the idea of walking the entire game and winning. Those were always my favorite.

I watched isbjorn and Damiah a lot back then. There was and still is a really big fascination towards people with insanely fast and aggressive movement (I still play like that lole), and they were very passive by comparison, but were just as good. I really liked that at the time. Truthfully, I watched so many different demos from so many different players that they all kind of blended together. I had the most amount of demos from DaHanG, Damiah, isbjorn, Aone, zorre and blaizz though. They were just the best players that had the most amount of tournament demos at that point in time.

There was one game where Damiah joined up for a 4v1 as a joke and wound up steamrolling everyone, which was really funny. I can't seem to find the demo for it, which is unfortunate.

There are actually more games that I played personally that I think about, but it's hard to be objective about the quality of games that involve myself. I actually noticed a while back going through some of my older demos that I remember more games where something really funny or stupid happened, or where I hit some crazy insane shot than games where both me and my opponent play really well and are very close good games. That's kind of a shame but I imagine it's the same with most people.

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Quake / Re: DM server needs some admin attention.

« on: June 06, 2026, 11:31:01 AM »

People like Skyline were never the problem. There are tons of people who cheated back in the day that still play and don't cause any issues. His problem was that he would spend hours calling people the n word and accusing others of cheating with no evidence and that went away when he was muted.

The real problem is that nobody who is in charge actually plays the game so they're just banking on the idea that someone will just reach out if there's a problem, but since nobody plays and there's no clear rules, everyone just assumes it's a free-for-all. The only people who actually speak up are people who are pretty much at their limit. Everyone is basically free to throw around cheating allegations and spam "fag" or "bot" for hours with no consequence. I would say I'm too old for this crap but I've found most of the people who do this are in their 40s.

Since there's no one around to tell them they're being paranoid, other people pick up on that and start to believe that the only reason they're losing is because someone else must be cheating, so they pick up an aimbot or a wallhack to try and make things more even in their mind. Every single person here that actually does know how to play this game is severely underestimating how ignorant your average DM player is and how much of a problem that's become compared to 15 years ago.

Just throw it all away and start over, man. This is a GAME. We need more people like Elysium in the drivers seat who are actually passionate about preserving the authentic Quake 2 deathmatch experience and less people who treat this game as a substrate for releasing whatever political bile they have pent up in their psyche.

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Quake / Re: DM server needs some admin attention.

« on: June 04, 2026, 09:08:34 AM »

First video is absolutely suspect. The way their chain immediately snaps from one person to the next makes it obvious.

That being said, the DM server should probably be shut down and replaced with another server with more active moderation and clearer rules at this point. Over two weeks of dudes aimbotting on the server is insane.

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Trouble Shooting / Re: Hacking client?

« on: November 20, 2025, 02:23:11 PM »

You fat-fingered the F12 key and immediately assumed that hackers took control of your PC? The rogaine is starting to affect your mind, Alpha. I recommend talking to your doctor.

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Quake / Re: invite! spam

« on: November 06, 2025, 07:04:20 PM »

Man this caught me in one hell of a good mood so it's time for the crash out.

Shit's been going on for YEARRRRRS and there's still nothing changed about how SHITTT the DM server is, man. Look man I ain't no fuckin saint over here. I've had my hands in some wacky shit and pissed off my fair share of weirdos that I swear made perfect sense at the time. I've made jokes at other peoples expenses and hurt feelings and yada yada yada. But there's a fucking limit, man. Call me a soyboy libtard democuck or a conservacuck neo-fascist but me PERSONALLY, I am not in any hurry whatsoever to be spammed up and down by mentally ill brain-rotted online political freaks on my Quake the Second. I'm really not. Is this or is this not okay??? Either kick these people to the curb and let them take out their pent up political aggression by beating the shit out of their wife and kids like a real goddamn American or let them fester on your server and have everyone else bear the brunt of all of the bile that comes out of that.

It's just sad man. People take themselves here wayyy too seriously. This isn't a goddamn political arena. Make a single change and it's like there's always 100% of the time going to be someone yelling from a soapbox, "FIRST THIS, WHAT NEXT??? SLIPPERY SLOPE!!!". Dude just chill the fuck out. You're playing a goddamn game. I like to have fun. I like to shoot people with funny guns!!! Occasionally I like to tag up a banana and do dumb shit with other people. It's like sooo much of the people on this goddamn server are just mad about some weird political thing that happened recently or are just exposing their only deeply held inferiority complex by saying every single person who beats them HAS to be a bot or a wallhack or whatever, and that's how they have fun. I'm not fucking laughing dude, it's a GAME!!!!!!!!! YOU ARE PLAYING A GAME!!!!!!!! SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!! Is PLAYING A GAME not enough to deal with the fucked up shit that's happening in the world for you?? Isn't that what GAMES are for?? I gotta take the fun I USED to have playing this game and go somewhere else with it!!!!! It's fucking sad man. It's like every single fucking person who plays on this goddamn server has lost the plot on this. Genuinely, what are these people even playing the game for, because it's not fun that's for sure!!

I give a lot of passive-aggressive shit to the admins because they're all guilty of the same shit. Do you want to have a GAME!!!!!!! server or a "let people deal with their own fucked up problems by taking it out on everyone" server? Make up your mind!!!! You want to kick these kinds of people to the curb? Good!! Let them whine and moan all the way to fuckin 8chan or wherever it is these weirdos belong, or better yet!! Have them start their own server where they can be weird all day long!! You wanna bring all the weirdos to the yard and let them roam free on the pastures like the humble lamb?? EVEN BETTER! Just remove the guns too!! No shooting here, please!! Only borderline violently heated political arguments and bot accusations here!! This will truly make these people feel right at home because they apparently don't get that from their ACTUAL HOMES!!!

KILL ME PLEASE!!! END IT NOW!!! SHUT IT ALL DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Quake / Re: invite! spam

« on: October 17, 2025, 05:38:03 PM »

If the goal is to spam and annoy people because it's fun, why would you stop just because someone asked you nicely to?

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/dev/random / Re: hi guys - intro

« on: July 31, 2025, 05:19:51 PM »

Aloha, amigo!!

 

This place lies within the halls of the internet that have since been forgotten by space and time. You're unlikely to get much traffic as the people who prefer internet forums as opposed to places such as Discord and Telegram begin to pass away.

Allow me to answer your questions sequentially.

• Not too often; there was a bump in traffic from the Remaster but it didn't go anywhere. DM is usually full and TDM still happens in America and Europe, but 1v1 is sadly dead. There are smaller communities in WODX and Xatrix that still exist.
• Time is and has always been a subjective experience. Your perception of time changes as you age as you become more comfortable in mundane activities that are necessary to live independently. The truth is that there is actually no difference between the past and the future and the only thing that has ever mattered is this exact moment and what you are doing with it.
• I made a cool sandwich the other day. Pastrami and swiss!!

If you want any demos of our matches together, let me know and I'll be more than happy to help you take a trip down memory lane to both yours and my troubled adolescence.

مع السلامة,
-near

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tastyspleen.net / Re: 10 years

« on: February 22, 2025, 11:34:21 PM »

I'm happy to report that after much discussion and a very lengthy heart-to-heart, beaver and I have reached a mutual understanding. I'm glad that we were able to break the barriers between us and see eye-to-eye. We've learned quite a bit about each other and will only become better people because of this.

Thank you for your time, beaver. I look forward to listening to your debut full-length hip-hop record, "The Beaver Inspector".

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tastyspleen.net / 10 years

« on: February 12, 2025, 06:10:18 AM »

Greetings!! Or as the Chinese would say, 我的雞雞卡在窗戶裡了，請叫救護車。

This is your quarterly reminder that I am still here, collecting pieces of information on all of you so I can sell my Tastyspleen dossier to Indian hackers on the dark web.

It's been 10 years since I asked quadz to de-activate my old account, and 15 years since I initially joined this godforsaken corner of the old guard of the internet. Crazy, huh??? It's not really crazy. The passage of time has not and will never change. Do you remember February of 2025? Man those were some good times. That was when everything was so much simpler......



I wanna spend this moment to shout some people out/totally crash out depending on who we're talking about.

Big ups to cowie/Zeppelin, the Xprojects Secret Society (XSS for short) was a long and fruitful endeavor, it was a shame it had to come to an end. I hope that you all take the lessons and/or sexually transmitted diseases we got from our time together and bring them to those you love. Bip For Life.

I wanna give a quick Fuck You to Alpha, I find it very hard to fight against you on the DM server because my eyes well up with tears from the pity I feel for your lack of skill. I've secretly lobbied claire to specifically allow you to use a wallhack just so you can have a fair shot and finally start enjoying this game. I'm rooting for you, my man.

Giving a shout out to IceFox and Ruiner; IceFox is a true homie that I've shared plenty of personal stories and anecdotes with over the years. I have nothing ironic or stupid to say, I wish you good health in this life. May plenty of hot, big-dicked furry werewolf men enter your dreams (and your asshole). Ruiner, I'm glad we kissed and made up, but I think it's best if we stayed friends. I got your card in the mail and it was wonderful, but it's just not going to work out. It's not you, it's me. I think we should see other people. I'm keeping the flowers, though.

To VaeVictis, I'm really glad I could teach you how to finally play this game properly, it was a joy to spend so many hours of this game showing you all of the tips and tricks in this game! I'm so happy to be a mentor, and even (dare I say), a father figure to you, but your attitude just needs a little bit more work. Keep it up and you'll get there in no time!

Going to give a fat Suck My Cock to haunted/adren, I'm sure after you finally shake off all of that rust over the past decade, you'll finally be able to beat me when I'm not using only the grenade launcher! Maybe put in a little bit of practice, and you can handle me with the machinegun too (chaingun's too powerful, sorry).

Shout out to God2dum, your decision to fight me with blaster only and win 5-0 was very unsportsmanlike and quite frankly, hurt my feelings. You'll be receiving an invoice from my therapist for the mental damage this transgression has caused me. Failure to pay will result in a legal injunction to invalidate the results of the match. You've been warned.

Big thanks to Jehar and RottenRose, no memes here; thank you for helping keep Quake and other arena shooters alive in the modern streaming age. In another life, I probably would have been a regular contributor in your community. Oh well!!

To Exterminader, the thousands of zombie computers I have that I've specifically made to connect to your server and harass you have been acting up lately, so I apologize for any lack of action recently. Somehow you've manage to catch and ban every single one! I'm very impressed.

Big thanks to Golgo, the harassment over the years very obviously came from a very deep-seated place of insecurity looking back. True visionaries are never appreciated in the time period that they live in. You tried to give us the truth and we branded you a heretic like the Luddites that we were/still are. I can truly say that you are the Galileo of Quake 2. Embrace it, my friend.

Shouting out Kyper, please let me win TS500 please let me win TS500 please let me win TS500 please let me win TS500 please let me win TS500 please let me win TS500 please let me win TS500 ple

Shout out to beaver, I think it's great that you've done so much in promoting this game over the years and I sincerely apologize for the transgression on your server. I was just checking up on you and I didn't mean for it to come off that way. I don't appreciate the ban in response however, and would have liked an honest, private conversation about my behavior if it was that upsetting to you. There are better ways of dealing with stress than crashing out on social media and putting your deepest, darkest insecurities and traumatic memories out there for everyone to see, it gives off a very weird vibe and unflattering perception of you. I recommend journaling.

And lastly, big thanks to all of the nameless, faceless lurkers here who have either yet to make a name for themselves or are just gawking at the dumpster fires that happened here over the years. You're the real heroes.


If I didn't mention you, I either don't care or think about you at all or you're just not that important in this story. sorry.... 

I love you all, even my haters and their ugly ass children. Jah is good. Here's to all of our slow marches into nothingness for the next 10 years.

Thanks,
-xana 

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Bot Drop / Re: Chacal

« on: January 25, 2025, 03:10:28 PM »

Alpha, just because chacal has better internet (and probably more hair) than you doesn't mean that he's cheating.

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tastyspleen.net / Re: Clemency for the banned?

« on: January 27, 2024, 10:08:05 PM »

I think Spawny should have been banned much sooner. If not for her sake, for everybody else's sake.

When she started to misinterpret greetings and hallucinate personal attacks out of nowhere is when she should have been banned. I don't know exactly when this happened.

I don't think what ultimately happened to Laura was unfair. It was the best thing that could have happened when she was at the point she was at.

Could something else have been worked out? Is it even worth it to think about it? I don't think so.

There were so many times Laura stepped over the line, I can't even begin to imagine how many. She definitely abused peoples' trust and harassed others. There are people who did the same thing to her as well. I can say that because I was one of those people. I don't lose too much sleep over this, however.

There are so many logs, forums posts, and DM's that out there, too many to count. I actually lost all of my logs between March 2010 and May 2010 because my computer had a virus. My parents re-imaged the computer and it deleted my files.

Until a genuine collection of historical data and logs is cultivated in one place, the full, objective timeline and narrative of Spawn Girl will remain hazy for those who don't have the time or patience to sift through everything. Some of the details are a little hazy myself as I don't remember every interaction I've ever had with her.

quadz did and said a lot of things to Laura behind the scenes as well. Some of it became public, some of it didn't. The logs that didn't are what is "lost".

One such example is the exchange she had with quadz where she agreed to license her overrides under a Creative Commons license. This directly disproves the point that her work was "stolen" because the entire email exchange is public: http://forum.tastyspleen.net/quake/index.php?topic=14266.msg149923#msg149923

There are many other examples like this, but it's too many to sift through. This one was memorable because it was a pretty big deal at the time, and it still didn't stop her from publicly posting psychotic rants all the way until late 2011.

I personally don't have any problem talking about Spawn Girl. This happened 14 years ago at this point. I don't see it as being any different than talking about anything else that happened that long ago.

There are many things that Laura did and said that are still funny to me looking back, but are now underpinned with the knowledge they came from a mind that just wasn't well.

That's just my perspective on it. I choose to take an empathetic view on Laura even after all of the lies, harassment, abuse and threats. That's my "problem", if you want to call it that. You may disagree with that, but that's okay with me.

Your perspective may be more negative, or more positive. It may be based on real interactions you had with her or it may be based on hearsay. It is what it is.

As I said before, I just hope Laura's doing better now.

I'll just leave it at that, but if anybody has a genuine problem or if I'm remembering things wrong, just DM me about it for now.


Is traps,
-xana

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tastyspleen.net / Re: Clemency for the banned?

« on: January 20, 2024, 09:41:21 PM »

1. A creative, positive and hopeful person works long and hard on their dream project/job over many years.
2. A miserable bunch of jealous, spiteful subhuman degenerates work to destroy that dream over as many years.
3. Eventually the degenerates let their jealously get the better of them and then they plot to steal said dream.
4. The degenerates steal said dream, someone in charge ratifies the theft and then absolute fucking chaos ensues.
5. The degenerates lie endlessly about the theft and then go on to mismanage and/or destroy what they stole.
6. The creative, positive and hopeful person ends up utterly deprived of ANY justice and then slowly goes insane.

I remember creating overrides with Zeppelin well over 13 years ago and using Laura's work as a blueprint. They sucked at first, but I got good enough at making them to finally understand how to twist the atmosphere of a map by editing the entities. She never had any praises for my work, she would always call it trash and lame and way worse than her own work.

But I never let it get to me. I thought it was funny. Because I knew I enjoyed making them and I liked how they came out, and everyone else did too. I was secure in my own work. I didn't care about having a portfolio or realizing some lofty dream, I just wanted people to have fun with what I made. It wasn't that big of a deal.

This quoted narrative appears to be a shared hallucination from Laura's head. She wasn't able to properly cope with her critics and the hallucinations spawned by her psychosis. Even with all of the praise in the world, it was only a matter of time before her delusions caught up with her.

What she needed was something she was never going to get from anyone here. Not praise or accolades or anything like that, she needed something else. I can't speak for what exactly that may have been, because I didn't know her.

There may be people who want to bring you down, of course. But it's going to be okay if you understand yourself, just live and let live.

If you want to know more details about what happened, feel free to DM me.

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tastyspleen.net / Re: Clemency for the banned?

« on: January 20, 2024, 03:29:24 PM »

i remember the Argentinian girl that got banned a long time ago. she played xatrix right.

I was chatting with a couple of my friends the other day and we got on the topic of this game, and I thought of Laura again. When I started to tell them the story of Spawn Girl, we began to realize just how tragic that it was in the grand scheme of things.

I feel like you could write an entire book on Laura and everything she went through here. It'd be a really compelling story on social media and online toxicity and it's role in mental illness.

Laura frequently suffered from psychosis and frightening hallucinations. She would very often, if not constantly, misinterpret normal everyday messages and signs as personal attacks against her. She was simply reacting against these frightening hallucinations in the same way anyone would, by defending herself.

She was someone who just wanted to combine two of her favorite pieces of media from her childhood and share it with the world; survival horror and Quake 2.

And she did it. People liked it, a lot. There were some people who didn't like it, though. Some people didn't like her, either. There were definitely people that said some hurtful things to her in the beginning, for sure. This was where the psychosis started. Over time, the line between positive feedback and personal attacks became blurred to her.

Once she started defending herself against these hallucinations, she would create public spectacles. Which fueled more people to join in and watch it. Which made the psychosis worse. It was a cycle. I was unfortunately one of those people.

She gave us all so much information about herself. Her full name, her face, her family, her Facebook, everything. Deep down, she really did just want people to accept her. To everyone else though, it was just ammo.

She had real life friends as well, but there's no way they could understand what she was going through. I don't know what happened in her personal life that lead her to that mental state. We can only guess; either way, it's none of our business.

In 2011/2012, her father unfortunately passed away. Watching her own father slowly wither away only fueled her psychosis even further. She started making legal threats and posting psychotic fantasies online about killing the people who she had seen as having done her wrong. Just another spectacle.

Sometimes I wonder why she was allowed to create these spectacles as long as she did when she was clearly suffering from a mental illness. Quadz frequently tried to empathize with Laura and make her feel better, but continued to give her and everyone else a platform to publicly watch her mind spiral out of control. I still don't know how to feel about this.

What else could we have done to help her?

I don't know. It's in the past now. A lot of that history is now lost with quadz' passing.

Maybe in the future, I can do a better job at handling these kinds of situations. Maybe we all could.

I don't care to know too much about what Laura is doing, or even really talk to her again.

But I do hope her mind is in a better place now.