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tastyspleen.net / Re: Clemency for the banned?

« on: January 27, 2024, 11:10:45 PM »

I don't think what ultimately happened to Laura was unfair.

  Yes. Thank you.

For the zillionth time, (but for the benefit of anyone reading THIS thread and not one of the numerous others rehashing this same issue),...

the truth is: EVERYONE around here genuinely wanted to be her friend. I was her friend for as long as she would allow it. When she first showed up, I was one of the first friends she made around here. I recruited her into EoM. Unfortunately, her conception of a "Quake2 clan" was informed by watching how CRU (Campers-R-Us) would team up against people on the Vanilla and DM servers. While playing on a server with her... I fragged her, and she got upset and quit the clan on the spot. I later explained to her that "normal" Q2 clans do not team against others on an FFA server because it is considered poor sportsmanship. We remained friends, she rejoined EoM. A day or two later, I ran into her again on Vanilla, I shot her, and AGAIN she got upset and left the clan on the spot. This time I did not attempt to talk her into rejoining again, as clearly she would've been happier in a clan like CRU. And so... she joined CRU. Before long, she got upset with them over something silly and gameplay related and left that clan too. She began making overrides for xatrix mod. Quadz and others gave her lots of help figuring out how to do it properly. She even started her own clan. But for some reason... (I'm not aware of the particulars) she got upset at people in her clan, and kicked EVERYONE out of the clan. The people she kicked out of her clan wanted to continue playing Xatrix and her overrides. At some point, she began threatening to sue Quadz over the usage of her overrides. Long story short, she became too much of a potential liability for Quadz, so she was banned. I'm not sure how it works, but they came to an agreement with some sort of license that would allow Tastyspleen to legally use the content that she "created". (It was not original content - she never made any maps, she converted maps to the Q2 format and then made overrides for item placement, that is all.) It was a perpetually repeating trend - she'd find a reason to get upset with EVERYONE she came into contact with.

Anyone attempting to tell this story any other way was never her friend and never had any contact with her. If they ever did become her friend, inevitably that friendship would've ended with her manifesting a reason to become upset and add them to her ever-growing list of enemies.

Can I sympathize? Sure. It's gotta suck going through life not being able to maintain any stable relationships with anyone.

But I'm not going to patronize someone with a mental malfunction by treating them any differently than anyone else. It's not that I don't "respect" everyone... which I don't, because respect is EARNED. Courtesy, on the other hand, should be given freely to all until they refuse to give it back. I don't care what condition you have, no one is above anyone else in this life - Sam fuckin' Colt made sure of it.

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tastyspleen.net / Re: Clemency for the banned?

« on: January 27, 2024, 08:14:13 PM »

Just shut up you pointless sack of shit, nobody left around here agrees with any of your views or wants to see what you write and everyone around here (everyone, believe it) is sick of you deliberately driving people away from this forum.

SgtDick agrees with me. Railwolf agrees with me. Hell, even Shloo probably agrees with me.

Costigan chooses to live in an alternative reality

Keep proving who you are.

You still miss the point of this. When you post to people talking about Quake shit or anything else, that's just you being a normal person and I don't jump in the middle of it because I don't object to it - why would I?  But when you post misinformation, I'm gonna fact check you because otherwise disgruntled youngsters like you and fader are gonna be convincing everyone that this community treats people unfairly... spreading that narrative should concern you since you seem to be so concerned that I could be driving people away.

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tastyspleen.net / Re: Clemency for the banned?

« on: January 27, 2024, 12:55:12 PM »

Was any of that supposed to prove a point against anything I said? You mistake this for a petty attempt to troll you. No, I don't care about trolling you, just setting the record straight when you attempt to misinform people. If I wanted to troll you... I'd make fun of you saying things like ...

deigned to bother to lower myself to your level to directly address

... but alas, I wouldn't bother to deign to stoop to bow to denigrate myself to do a thing like that.

Go ahead and give out whatever you wanna. You ain't gonna hold that over me. I don't care. Play your little games. Keep proving who you are.

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tastyspleen.net / Re: Clemency for the banned?

« on: January 26, 2024, 08:04:09 PM »

These six points brought here by Costigan, are as true as sad.

True? No, not true.

Let me speak some unfiltered truth to the class. Any admins or community members who disagree with me, feel free to critique or debate this assessment if you disagree with any part of it in the slightest.

Costigan chooses to live in an alternative reality where he isn't responsible for anything. He hates the administration personnel, and has harassed and cussed out many of them in repeated lengthy private messages on discord. Sure, that's old shit that happened many months ago, and so in his mind (the alternative reality I mentioned), it isn't worth considering, and even if you did, he was mad at the time and any emotion he feels like expressing at any time is completely valid because he is Costigan, and Costigan does no wrong. The admins naturally disagree with his warped view of reality and of course naturally believe that EVERYONE is responsible for their own actions, and have held him accountable for those actions on numerous occasions. He disagrees with that policy as it contradicts his reality and calls into question his worldview. He responds by campaigning against them with dramatic disapproval for every action they take, as evidenced in this thread.

No. I'm not going to sit here and say nothing while a malignant crew of you attempt to re-write history. I liken claims that this community has systematically victimized certain people to similarly preposterous claims that this country is "institutionally racist". BULLSHIT. Show me. Just as I've lived in this country long enough to see plenty of evidence that institutional racism is illegal, non-existent, and countered with "institutional equity", I've been in this community long enough to see how unbiased and largely "hands off" the administration tends to be, and how they have no motives or agenda other than keeping the games fair and cheat-free, and keeping the boards semi-civil.

The fact that this level of bullshit dissemination is allowed to be posted is proof of how hands-off they are.

Feel free to be wrong. You have that right in Tastyspleen. But know that... you ARE wrong.

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Trouble Shooting / Re: New PC video issues

« on: January 21, 2024, 12:47:47 AM »

If tonight is any indication of what this place is gonna continue to be moving forward... might be time to do this to the forums.

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Trouble Shooting / Re: New PC video issues

« on: January 21, 2024, 12:37:54 AM »

What folks post here goes to the discord channel the same way it was posted the first time. So if you edit it, it doesn't matter.

Im pretty sure posting porn on here is a banable offense.

I think our eyeballs got off light though. That whole crew is more into kids than fat women.

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Trouble Shooting / Re: New PC video issues

« on: January 20, 2024, 11:28:02 PM »

WTF kinda monitor are you using to where you have 3840x2160 res, but 800x600 widescreens out across all of it, and then the resulting screenshot is an old style square monitor size. Is the game actually taking the 800 width and stretching it all the way across making it look squashed or do you get black bars on the sides? When I take screenshots, they come out a similar ratio... but I've got a game res that IS that resolution and I have black bars on the sides.

Also curious how well a monitor like that handles fast paced games like q2. When I bought, I made sure to get an old school style TN panel LCD monitor, Benq Zowie 27 inch, which I've got set at about 165hz. The new gen consoles are supposed to put out 120.

I was using some Dell IPS panel monitor for a while, and the colors on it were much more accurate and realistic than this thing - it kinda blooms the reds a bit in a funky way. It was also bad about "ghosting" even though I think the refresh rate was at 60.

Since I started playing at TS back in 07, I had used a little old Benq TN panel, 1024x768 res. I played on 30hz for about a decade before I finally discovered... "oh shit, this thing is running at 30 but can go to 70." And that's the whole reason why that monitor lasted that long too. About 6 months after I kicked it up to 70, it finally burnt out. But no matter how low I went with refresh, no ghosting on it.

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Trouble Shooting / Re: New PC video issues

« on: January 20, 2024, 09:23:00 PM »

There's no way that looks decent. There's gotta be some way of getting closer to 1080p. 1024x768 doesn't work? Post some screens.

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tastyspleen.net / Re: Clemency for the banned?

« on: January 20, 2024, 09:08:11 PM »

Spawn Girl

I have a much simpler perspective on this subject, it's born from seeing the same pattern occur many times.

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.

This is the story of Spawngirl, this is the story of Beaver, this is the story of a LOT of people.

In case no one has figured it out yet there was a damn good reason that I was the ONLY person who backed Beaver in EVERYTHING he did, NO MATTER WHAT. for the past ten years.


The same thing happened to me once, in a different community, in a different time.

I responded QUITE differently though - i STOLE everything (my stuff back AND their stuff) and held it to ransom in return for a full (their words ONLY) admission of the truth of what they had done which, naturally, they were only able to TRULY fathom once they were confronted with the powerlessness i inflicted on them.

There are few things SWEETER than watching someone who is used to having power and thinking they are right just BEGGING for mercy.

Once i had a full admission of the truth and had broken their false reputations i destroyed ALL of it, my work and theirs, and then i left!

Yes, there was cold hard evidence presented, not just their words, to prove my position and disprove their positions.


Does everyone understand why i am THE most UNBANNED person in this community now? i often see this shit coming and avoid it.


This forum has been dying from multiple 'chill effect' sources for a LONG time.

100% horse shit.

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tastyspleen.net / Re: Clemency for the banned?

« on: January 20, 2024, 06:36:22 PM »

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

Nope. It's still here with several of us who remember, despite your lurid attempts to revise history.

You know it, I know it, we ALL know it, this messageboard is one of the most easy-going messageboards on the entire web. It takes more to get tossed outta here than just about any other board on the web. She's gone, she's deserved it, everyone is better off for it, end of story. Thanks for digging it back up though.

Mental illness sucks. It happens to lots of people, but our society as a collective of individuals (not just a collective, period) has the right to continue functioning normally towards the pursuits of each individual without being hindered by a malfunctioning abnormal minority. We have multi-lane freeways, but if a mentally ill person is afraid of cars, do we all think it's best to sympathize with that mentally ill person and tear out the freeways in favor of walking everywhere? Fuck that.

Mental illness is a fact of life. You can wring your hands about it and point your fingers at others for not doing enough to fix it... like someone who is more concerned about virtue signalling than addressing the problem... or you can quietly and humbly address the problem itself without all of this dramatic showmanship.

Then again,... maybe we'd have more money for mental illness and such social problems if so many people weren't grifting the social programs like when they refused to work after covid, don'tcha think?

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Bot Drop / Re: Biggest hackers of 2023

« on: January 14, 2024, 04:42:06 AM »

...that face you make when you realize EVERYONE LEFT on the all-but-dead messageboard is certifiably mental.



...and then you realize YOU'RE there... ...so you start wondering "precisely where am I on the crazy spectrum?"

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/dev/random / Re: The last movie you saw....

« on: January 11, 2024, 03:45:37 AM »

A weird short film with James Brown.

From the videos description: James Brown, Clive Owen, Gary Oldman and Danny Trejo star in this hyperkinetic short film from the director of True Romance. Commissioned by BMW to promote their cars, it was one of a series of shorts directed by top tier tHollywood filmmakers.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfh7NBIh4hg

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Bot Drop / Re: First hack of the year 2993

« on: January 08, 2024, 09:06:56 PM »

Tastyspleen's been around long enough that if you're asking people one day to start calling you something different... you're S.O.L. That's like when Gordon Sumner up and one day insisted that everyone call him Sting.


https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x31ltya

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/dev/random / Re: The last movie you saw....

« on: January 08, 2024, 03:32:44 AM »

Since I'm on the topic of "oldies", another old one I watched a while back that I'd recommend...



Lady in the Lake (1947) - starring Audrey Totter

Definitely in the noir genre. A bit of an oddball movie for the time. The entire thing is shot in 1st person perspective. YOU are the main character. The synopsis from IMDB:

The lady editor of a crime magazine hires Phillip Marlowe to find the wife of her boss. The private detective soon finds himself involved in murder.

Audrey Totter. Like Kim Novak, an absolutely gorgeous woman - both proof that class matters and you don't have to look like a slutty whore to be a knockout. It's kinda funny how her character interestingly evolves from an aloof ice queen bitch to a clingy smitten-with-love submissive as it goes on.

Not a particularly amazing movie. The story is okay. I just thought it was something out-of-the-ordinary and interesting enough to recommend as something "different". So keep that in mind: not "amazing"... it's "different".

https://archive.org/details/lady-in-the-lake-robert-montgomery-audrey-totter-leon-ames-tom-tully-lloyd-nolan-1947

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/dev/random / Re: The last movie you saw....

« on: January 08, 2024, 02:50:33 AM »

Vertigo (1958) - starring James Stewart, Kim Novak, directed by Alfred Hitchcock

WOW. See this.

I've never been too much of a Hitchcock fan. I remember the first time I saw The Birds (1963, starring Tippi Hedren) when I was maybe 7 years old and it scared the piss outta me. I remember my parents and grandparents thought it was funny that it scared me because to adults its not all that scary... but think about some of the scenes in the movie for a second. Hordes of crows attacking little children on a playground, killing them and pecking peoples eyeballs out. I was fuckin' 7 years old. My family: buncha fuckin' sadists. 

I was always more into 80's and 90's cheesey, campy, horror, cult kinda stuff. But you get older, your tastes evolve. I'm starting to appreciate older movies a lot more, especially the black and white stuff from the 40's, stuff you see on TCM typically. So Christmas Eve I was flipping through the guide on the satellite and saw that TCM was doing a bunch of Hitchcock movies on Christmas. I knew no one else in the house would wanna watch that stuff on Christmas day, so I DVR'd it.

Rear Window (1954)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Vertigo (1958)

I've seen Rear Window before,... I think I've even seen a remake of it too, but I can't remember who the hell was in it - it was a long time ago. Rear Window is pretty good, a classic. I watched it the other night, but didn't get to finish it because rain or some kind of interference screwed with the recording on the DVR. The very ending was blipped, right at the scene where he falls out of the window and all the police finally show up. Almost like someone planned it that way just to annoy me. Totally ruined it, I had to hop online to watch the ending on youtube. 

Same thing Man Who Knew Too Much. About 10 seconds into it, the recording died and kicked me back out to live TV mode.

Vertigo worked though.

Man! What a good movie. A lot of people these days rank it as Hitchcock's #1 masterpiece. I might have to agree with that. (I always thought Psycho was Hitchcock's best - one of the greatest horror/psych thrillers and it was top 3 on my favorite horror movies list.) Great use of augmented reality with some clever usage of animation in key spots that doesn't interrupt the flow and feel of the movie the way you'd think tossing in some animated effects might. Sort of a noir kinda thing, little bit of a mystery, a classic romance/thriller like Hollywood was known for back in the 40's and 50's. An absolutely gorgeous Kim Novak. James Stewart is not really one of my favorite actors, but he was perfect for the part. And just the fact that it was made in '58 - the cars, the buildings, the clotches, art-deco style of everything... It was the PERFECT time and place for such a story. You can try to recreate it in modern film, but it never has the same feel to it.

It's piqued my interest in Hitchcock movies now. Went online and looked up a complete list of all of his movies. Eh... too many to get em all. I made a list of about 20 of them (which might be close to half (chatgpt says theres 53).