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Quake / Focalor's Pak v6.66

« on: July 22, 2009, 11:05:29 AM »

ACHTUNG! Focalor's Pak v6.66 is now available. Don't worry, this is probably the last pak I'm gonna throw at you. Unless someone has any request that I create them some kind of special themed custom pak, I doubt I'm going to fool with making any more. I'm sure at this point, no one gives a shit about my crappy paks anymore, but just in case you do, then this is craptasticlly awesome news you've been waiting for.

Point yer clickers at this here thingy below this and look at the stuff and download the stuff and enjoy the stuff.

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/dev/random / The sun god hates you

« on: July 07, 2009, 12:32:48 AM »

Maybe this is why my ping sucks in the evenings.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090706/sc_space/thesunhasspotsfinally

According to the article, solar storms that struck in 1859 caused telegraph lines to spontaneously burst into flames. I'm not sure if I really believe that though. Imagine if some shit like that were to happen tomorrow. Everything you own would be reduced to smoldering cinders. Your house is wired for telecommunications... burned to the ground (along with our precious PC's, oh noes!). Your car wiring would explode. You know how expensive the main wiring harness in any vehicle costs these days? Let me put it this way: A company I used to work for had the engines stolen out of a few work trucks. In order to remove the motor, they had to cut the wiring harness. That alone was enough for the insurance company to declare it totalled.

I have a solution. Every country on the planet should start mass producing fire extinguishers and collecting them all from every company, private citizen, and even scavenging through landfills to find the ones that were thrown away. We'll send an army of space shuttles to bombard the sun with them. The heat of the sun will melt through the metal tanks releasing the carbon dioxide and thusly extinguishing the Sun permanently.

Now... if someone else would care to volunteer to create a solution as to what to do when our planet super-cools from not having a Sun.

Then... if someone else could figure out what to do when our planet begins flying out of orbit due to no gravitational pull from the Sun. God forbid if our planet were to crash into Mars. Maybe if we're really lucky it'll only hit France and Sweden.

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Bot Drop / Mentius

« on: July 03, 2009, 11:31:56 AM »

Caught a botter on vanilla a minute ago. The first time I ran into him, I knew some shit was going on. He had a machinegun on me and didn't miss with one single bullet even though I was strafing all over the place. He thinks he's being smart by mainly using grenades and shotguns, but it's still pretty obvious with a few shots using those weapons. He's got the FOV low enough to where the bot won't target unless he's aiming close enough. The second demo is much more obvious when he finally uses the machinegun again.

In demo 2, pay especially close attention to frags 9, 13, 20, and 21.

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Quake / The Official Quadz Appreciation Thread

« on: April 30, 2009, 06:45:17 AM »

Because without His Holiness, none of this could be possible. He makes the sun shine. He makes the grass green. He makes the all the little birdies sing. He puts the crunch in Cap'n Crunch. He make the babies cute. He makes farts funny. And when those farts might have a little more juice to air ratio than we expect, he gives us the glorious gift of 2-ply toilet tissue with which to wipe our tender nether-regions.

Did you know that the great Michaelangelo once painted his likeness on a beautiful tapestry?



So to Quadz, my Creator and Holy Light, I place all my faith in thee and pledge to you my undying allegiance. Wherever you lead me, Lord, I shall follow, even unto death. What nation shall I conquer and convert (and/or enslave) for your honor and glory?

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Quake / Focalor's Pak v5.0 and free custom menus

« on: April 29, 2009, 12:00:46 PM »

I made yet another pak. My fellow clanmates in Immortal Reapers may be interested in some of the |iR| themed items in this one, primarily the console background and inventory menu. Check it out by clicking the link image below...



ALSO...

If anyone would like me to create some custom menus for them, give me a holler via PM or reply here. I'll need the name of the particular font you're wanting for the menus, as well as what colors you'd like them to be, and if you'd like the menu selections to change colors when they are highlighted. Things like glowing text may or may not be doable. I'm sure I could make sub-menu banner texts glow without any problems, but main menu texts would be a little harder due to the pixel size of those images which might cut off the edges of the glow on the tops and bottoms of the text.

Or if you have any other ideas for any other pak items you'd like made, give me a holler, I'll see what I can come up with.

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art, music, etc. / Queef

« on: March 16, 2009, 04:45:52 PM »

So here I was at my computer... just-a wanderin' around them there inturwebz aimlessly like I often do... when I got the bright idea to put the word "queef" into yahoo. First I browsed the wikipedia entry for queef, which was quite hilarious. Then I came upon this bands homepage. I felt compelled to share and help stir up some buzz for them around the net in some way. I for one certainly appreciate their style of music. Definitely not deep and meaningful, more like a disgusting drink-your-balls-off party band. Check out the hilarious lyrics section as well as media, only 2 songs, but pretty cool.

Appears they kinda dropped the ball on getting a homepage together and haven't done anything since 2004. I love any chick fronted deranged punk band that covers David Allen Coe's "Long-haired Redneck".

http://queef.net

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art, music, etc. / How to totally screw up your guitar

« on: March 12, 2009, 07:10:56 PM »

I have an old 1984 BC Rich Mockingbird. It's a very hideous hot pink. I guess all the kids wanted a hot pink crazy looking guitar like C.C. Deville back then. When I bought it, I didn't really care about the color, I always thought I would just have someone refinish it. That was before I found out how insanely expensive it was to have a guitar refinished,... more than the damn thing would be worth even after the new paint job.

So today I finally grew the balls to attempt refinishing it myself. All I'm using to remove the finish is my bare hands and some sandpaper. No sanding block, just holding the paper and scrubbing away like a psycho. I've got some terrific blisters on my thumbs, it's too bad I didn't get any pictures of them, they're really bulbous lookin'.

Just working on the body for now. I'm not sure if I'm going to try buffing off the finish down to the wood on the neck piece yet. The neck will be pretty tricky. I'd like to leave the serial number in tact, and it's embedded in the clear coat layer on the back of the headstock. The front of the headstock is black, so I won't need to do any removing on that part, no problems with the logo there. I'm also afraid I may completely fuck up the sides of the rosewood fingerboard if I try sanding the finish off the neck. I'd like to be able to leave the clear coat in tact on the edges of the fingerboard. As a finished product, I'd really prefer the back of the neck to have NO finish on it at all, just wood.

Here's what I've done so far...





I had the front of it wallpapered with tons of stickers. You can see all the leftover gluey gunk it left behind. I'm starting on the back in case I make any major fuckups that I might be able to learn from before I start on the front. I'm not sure what I'm going to do about refinishing it once I'm done. I may just leave it naked. Perhaps I'll stain it a walnut color and then clear coat it. It's also occured to me that if I got really ambitious, perhaps I could do a stained racing stripe design down the middle to make it look like the old classic Mockingbirds from the 70's.

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Rails Demos / You're doing it wrong!

« on: February 03, 2009, 08:31:41 PM »

Not to bust this guys balls or anything, but I thought these two demos were worthy of sharing. At first glance, I thought this guy was using an aimbot until I realized he was only hitting anything when he lucked up and happened to flail the mouse into someone. Take some motion sickness pills before viewing these. Who knows, maybe he is using something shady and doesn't have it set up properly.

At any rate, this is what NOT to do...

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Quake / Focalor's Pak v4.0

« on: January 24, 2009, 10:53:32 PM »

HOT LESBIAN SEX!

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Trouble Shooting / Sound problems

« on: January 22, 2009, 02:58:40 PM »

I have a really fishy problem going on here. I'm trying to create some custom sounds to use for a few things in pak files. Yesterday, I had this one railgun fire sound that I stuck in a pak, and it worked fine, but the tone was little muddled. I edited the wav file in an audio editing prog (Magix Audio Cleaning lab 10) to add a little more treble to it. When I stuck the resulting wav file in the pak and tested it out in-game, anytime I'd fire the railgun, the sound would just loop over and over forever and wouldn't stop. I tried messing around with the editing program to see if there were any weird settings I could play with to remedy it, but nothing helped. On MIRC, X'tyfe mentioned something about the possibility of the editor adding in a que point or something. I never could determine what was going on, so I just scrapped that file.

Today I came across some sounds I wanted to use for the machinegun/chaingun bullet firing sounds. I did not load them into my editor. I simply shaved off the dead-time at the front of the sound to make the firing play immediately. I'm having the same problem with these sounds as well. I've found other sounds that I've used and they work fine. But this one is repeating over and over again. The format is no different from anything else I've used, all 44.100 kHz, 16 Bit, Mono.

Anybody got any ideas why this happening and what I can do to make these wav's play correctly in the game?

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/dev/random / My insurance isn't the ONLY thing going UP...

« on: January 09, 2009, 05:42:36 AM »

Will she quote me her phone number? SCHWING!!!







There is a shortage of pink haired hotties in the real world. You can fuckin' HAVE that singer bitch Pink, though. Someone please push her in front of a bus, I'd greatly appreciate it.

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art, music, etc. / Focalor

« on: December 31, 2008, 08:31:59 PM »

I've had some of these finished for a while. I went ahead and uploaded them. I plan on making a branch of my TS homepage as my band webpage whenever I have all the songs for this project finished. Anyway, 3 new songs. Check 'em out. Or don't. I'll post the lyrics too in case you can't make out the words. These are free MP3's, feel free to save 'em, pass 'em around, post 'em anywhere. Just don't rename the file and say that YOU made the song... or I'll find out. Then I'll have to find YOU... and do very bad things to you with sharp metal objects.

I have a 4th song posted at the bottom. I think I already posted a link to it in another thread, but I never posted the lyrics, so here it is again.

Click on the song title to download/hear the song.
(A song I wrote about the Manson Family murders, featuring clips of Charles Manson from his parole and court appearances)
Focalor - The Master's Call
Sickness permeates the brain - Crave the sensation of pain
Daily I have walked these streets - Surrounded by bags of meat
Empty eyes stare back at me - Lifeless as they all must be
Unaware of their own life - Learning as I plunge the knife

Liquidate them all - Waiting on the master's call
Written on the wall - Waiting on the master's call

Murder is the only way - Give the order, I obey
Blood erupting from the flesh - Choking hands constricting breath
Violently you struggle still - Against my relentless will
Life flashing before your eyes - Wasted life, you realize

Liquidate them all - Waiting on the master's call
Written on the wall - Waiting on the master's call

(solo)

Helter Skelter coming soon - Kill the unborn in the womb
Blue-black skin, asphyxiate - This, your execution date
"Mother! Mother!", cries in vain - Death comes now to end your pain
Devil's business, what I do - Carving WAR deep into you

Liquidate them all - Waiting on the master's call
Written on the wall - Waiting on the master's call

(A song I wrote about black magic in honor of a friend)
Focalor - Darkness Shines
Born of Fire, see the light - Darkness shines it's wisdom bright
Man and god converged in one - All I will, it shall be done
Sleeping gods beneath the sea - Wake and come commune with me
Ancestral powers rise - Burn the truth into my eyes

Fire - To purify resolve and judge the weak
Air - Breathing life into the truth I speak
Earth - Without a master, I command
Water - The surging power none shall withstand

Revel in this fleshly life - Sin shall cause no moral strife
Christ denied with every breath - Heretic unto the death
Set as wolves amongst the lambs - Reining power in our hands
Lies eclipsed, weak test their might - Darkness shines infernal light

(solo)

Sun sets in the Western skies - As the constellations rise
Light the candles, black and white - Bell breaks silence of the night
Culmination we shall find - Released from the open mind
Speak the Names and show the sign - Living proof that darkness shines

Fire - To purify resolve and judge the weak
Air - Breathing life into the truth I speak
Earth - Without a master, I command
Water - The surging power none shall withstand

Calling forth the Ancient Ones - Black-horned goat, one thousand young
Hasten here to answer me - Cursed tongues to speak the key
Parchment burns my will's desire - In the flames of altar pyre
All will come to pass in time - Surely as the darkness shines



(A really uplifting tune I wrote about a lunatic who bestows salvation by brutally torturing his victims and then... as if that weren't enough... he gives them the wonderful gift of eternal life by killing them. See, told ya, uplifting. The intro features a clip of Pinhead from one of the Hellraiser movies, I forget which one.)
Focalor - Purification
Concussion - The impact shatters your spine
Retribution - Together we'll cross the line
Ungoverned - The madness that I will unleash
Suffer - All of this pain you will keep

Impregnating your brain - With divine virtuous pain
Circulation stopped - Extremities start to rot
Witness my insanity - The be-all end-all misery
Another notch into my blade - Another soul which I have saved

(solo)

Eternity - A concept that your mind can't grasp
Through death - One that you will know at last
Purified - The brutality that your eyes behold
Sacrificed - Your body for the sake of your soul

I'll see your wickedness expelled - Your eyes bear witness to this Hell
With each murder I find the means - To cleanse all that which is unclean
Through torture I will bring to earth - A bloody violent rebirth
Employing holy eugenics - As you hang from your crucifix



(A song I wrote about life's choices, the lessons we learn from them, and the importance of following one's own conscience and path in life.)
Focalor - Inner Voice
In times such as this - You can't help but feel
Something awaits you - A danger so real
Against better judgment - This choice that you've made
Will serve to impale you - While twisting the blade
The signal received - Many times before
The voice that you heard - And chose to ignore

Irrational are the ways of the heart - Difficult to see when you play the part
Passions are rooted in selfish desire - Complacency consumes you like a fire
Your mind disconnected by conscious request - Emotions enslave your intelligence
Time and again you make this mistake - Listen to reason before it's too late

Perceptions may be twisted by your fears - Overriding wisdom gained in your years
Every time you face the difficult choice - Listen close, hear the inner voice

(solo)

Now that it's over - Fully realize
See through the shroud of - Their every disguise
Find that your actions - Were guided by lust
And not by the mind - In which you should trust
Ponder the outcome - Examine your part
Remember the scar - You wear on your heart

Irrational are the ways of the heart - Difficult to see when you play the part
Passions are rooted in selfish desire - Complacency consumes you like a fire
Your mind disconnected by conscious request - Emotions enslave your intelligence
Time and again you make this mistake - Listen to reason before it's too late

Perceptions may be twisted by your fears - Overriding wisdom gained in your years
Every time you face the difficult choice - Listen close, hear the inner voice

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General Ownage / Waiting for KrenZ to reconnect - 120 seconds...

« on: December 31, 2008, 04:14:17 PM »

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Quake / Focalor's SS Wehrmacht Pak

« on: December 27, 2008, 09:22:01 PM »

ACHTUNG! I made another pak! You're welcome! Guten spiel, herren!

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art, music, etc. / Live Performances

« on: December 11, 2008, 01:44:28 PM »

Didn't want to muck up the "Obscure Music Videos" thread, so I created this one.

Any band or artist can sound good in the studio with the proper producer and effects to mask the flaws of the talentless cacophony. The live show is a great indicator of how talented a band really is. They can't edit and piece together guitar tracks like a puzzle, they can't really double track vocals to thicken them unless they have pre-recorded samples they play, the drummer can't double track drums, and the lead guitarist has to either remember how to play the solo pieces he's written or else he has to be proficient enough to improvise it on the spot without it sounding out of place.

Anyhow, post your favorite live performance videos here. There's buttloads of them all over YouTube, sometimes I lose all track of time browsing through these damn things.

Came across this while killing some time on YouTube. I've always thought Lynyrd Skynyrd was one of the best live bands ever. They weren't very showy and hyper on stage, but they always played their songs as well if not better than the studio recordings. Here's a black a white video of them performing Gimme Back My Bullets. The video says it's from March of 1976, but I believe it could be from sometime in late 1975.

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimme Back My Bullets (live)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzU2iJ9qfXg