Rates Received

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Quake / Re: M. the big liar

Flawless Logic

Again, just because the 5 files failed, doesn't mean they're cheats, it just means their hashes are not known to that particular server. There is no BFG beep. The 5 files are the footsteps (4) and the rail hum. You know this because it said it in the console when the checks failed. Apparently he gave you the pak already, so then you should also know they're not cheats.

Multiple admins have looked at this pak, there is nothing wrong with it. It's not our pak, so we're not going to be uploading it anywhere. Is it copyrighted? Does it contain M's own personal work? I don't know, I don't really care. We've all wasted enough time and energy on this pointless garbage.

Maybe you should focus on improving your own game instead of constantly accusing anyone who gets a frag on you as a cheat.

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dm / Re: Racism on dm server

Insightful

You were muted because you were saying racist shit in the game, regardless of who it was aimed at or how it came to our attention. Instead of being disappointed in yourself or ashamed that your disgusting behavior has been put on display, you're complaining about not receiving a warning first?! My apologies.

Not a warning, but some advice: stop being a racist piece of garbage and you won't have to worry about being muted without a warning. 

3

dm / Re: Racism on dm server

Insightful

I’m not really sure what is wrong with people these days. Why can’t we just be civil and nice to each other? Unfortunately the past few years have emboldened certain people into thinking it’s acceptable to treat other humans with complete disrespect and disdain for any number of reasons they make up in the head. It isn’t.

I don’t agree with this thinking and I’d like to think most of the community feels the same way. Luckily, I happen to be in the unique position to be able to do something about it. Being outwardly racist, homophobic, xenophobic, etc is not acceptable in this community and it won’t be tolerated. The fact that I have to write this in 2022, is so absurd it makes me want to scream.

There were some (inadequate) chat and name filters enabled on the Q2 servers. They were however not entirely configured properly and as a result were not very effective. I’ve fixed this as of this afternoon. Not a comprehensive set of filters, but I’m sure they’ll be added to and tweaked over time.

The DM server has turned into a disgusting and hateful place. I’m not sure when or why this happened, but it needs to change. Just today I witnessed people joining, immediately going spec and just talking shit and not playing. I understand shittalk is just part of the game, but it’s not the fun tongue-in-cheek banter it used to be. It morphed into keyboard-warriors thinking they’re anonymous because it’s over the internet and just trying to be as hateful as humanly possible because they think they can.

So we’re going to be filtering out overtly hateful and discriminatory content to the best of our abilities. People will be warned, muted and banned if necessary.

I don’t want this community to get any smaller than it already is, but if you can’t get with the program and start treating people with basic human decency, you’re not wanted here anymore. This isn’t just aimed at people in this thread or on the forum, but all the players on the gameservers as well. Do better.

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dm / Re: Racism on dm server

Flawless Logic

I’m not really sure what is wrong with people these days. Why can’t we just be civil and nice to each other? Unfortunately the past few years have emboldened certain people into thinking it’s acceptable to treat other humans with complete disrespect and disdain for any number of reasons they make up in the head. It isn’t.

I don’t agree with this thinking and I’d like to think most of the community feels the same way. Luckily, I happen to be in the unique position to be able to do something about it. Being outwardly racist, homophobic, xenophobic, etc is not acceptable in this community and it won’t be tolerated. The fact that I have to write this in 2022, is so absurd it makes me want to scream.

There were some (inadequate) chat and name filters enabled on the Q2 servers. They were however not entirely configured properly and as a result were not very effective. I’ve fixed this as of this afternoon. Not a comprehensive set of filters, but I’m sure they’ll be added to and tweaked over time.

The DM server has turned into a disgusting and hateful place. I’m not sure when or why this happened, but it needs to change. Just today I witnessed people joining, immediately going spec and just talking shit and not playing. I understand shittalk is just part of the game, but it’s not the fun tongue-in-cheek banter it used to be. It morphed into keyboard-warriors thinking they’re anonymous because it’s over the internet and just trying to be as hateful as humanly possible because they think they can.

So we’re going to be filtering out overtly hateful and discriminatory content to the best of our abilities. People will be warned, muted and banned if necessary.

I don’t want this community to get any smaller than it already is, but if you can’t get with the program and start treating people with basic human decency, you’re not wanted here anymore. This isn’t just aimed at people in this thread or on the forum, but all the players on the gameservers as well. Do better.

5

Quake / Re: Q2PRO lighting broken

Informative

btw. whats the command for black sky in q2pro

set gl_drawsky "0"

6

tastyspleen.net / Re: Ratings

Absurd Misconstrual of Scientific Principles or Evidence

overreact much? 

7

tastyspleen.net / Re: Ratings

Nice Job / Good Work

overreact much? 

8

dm / Re: ADMIN

Insightful

I understand your frustration. I know we chatted in-game (as a player) already, but just for the record:

It's not always possible to join as a player. I (and I know a bunch of other admins) will often "watch the matrix" from a command line screen because we have responsibilities that prevent us from joining in a q2 client. I can spend time with my wife watching TV at night from my chair while looking at the console from my phone. The WAF (wife-approval-factor) is very low for me sitting there with headphones on grenades flying. I'm mostly on the day-shift, as once I get home I'm dealing with my kids and dinner and school work.

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Trouble Shooting / Re: Shoutbox is broke

Insightful

The current issue with the shoutbox is related to a version mismatch between the database schema and the actual scripts. I'm not quite sure how that could've gotten messed up, but I'm sure it's a result of the reboot. I wonder if quadz had a temporary snapshot of the forum VM that wasn't committed and the reboot reverted it.

Either way, the only way to fix that is to upgrade the forum to the latest version 2.0.15 -> 2.0.18. I'm working on a plan to test that upgrade without completely fucking everything up if it fails.

Hopefully that'll restore your shoutability

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Quake / Re: Last ditch hair brain idea

Insightful

in preparation, I bought a dedicated server in Dallas that was just delivered yesterday. I'm not sure if it's hosted in where TS is in Hivelocity, but it's VERY close (1ms away from TS). This one is not equivalent in scale, but the TS server is overspec'd anyway.

It seems the gameservers, the forum and the database for the forum are all on different servers, and I'm pretty sure they're all virtual machines running inside some other. 538GB and counting...