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dm / Re: q2dust2 poll
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dm / q2dust2 poll
« Last post by perfectcolors on February 08, 2026, 08:18:03 PM »for a server that was originally created for dm1-dm8 only, to later having occasional "classic dm" custom maps, I'm curious as to how many people feel about a counter-strike map with all custom textures being in the mymap pool
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Quake / Re: q2servers.com server move
« Last post by perfectcolors on February 08, 2026, 07:30:08 PM »not sure if it's temporary, but I'm noticing tonight that https://q2servers.com/?raw=2 is returning a 502. this is what Q2PRO uses for its in-game server browser so it's currently not displaying any results
EDIT: it seems to be working intermittently so hopefully it's temporary
EDIT: it seems to be working intermittently so hopefully it's temporary
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dm / Re: Mute Putin Perm
« Last post by perfectcolors on February 07, 2026, 08:21:36 AM »I also think Putin should be muted, it's not simply smacktalk it's non-stop repeated spam of the same annoying binds:
he's the first player I muted when I started playing again (which can be done with ignorenick Putin if you're using Q2PRO)
Quote
Putin: all gay
Putin: ALL Stupid. GAY AND Bastard
Putin: STUPID
he's the first player I muted when I started playing again (which can be done with ignorenick Putin if you're using Q2PRO)
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dm / Re: Mute Putin Perm
« Last post by otg on February 07, 2026, 08:04:07 AM »There is no change to his spam. I am not talking about smack talk, i'm talking about his repeated spam of You all Gay, All Stupid Gay Bastards, and whatever else he keeps repeating every 20secs when he dies, or he kills someone. He will spam 4 lines each time in the chat at once. So whatever spam system is placed, clearly is not working out and needs something added to the user, MUTE HIM.
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/dev/random / Re: The last movie you saw....
« Last post by Sgt. Dick on February 06, 2026, 08:45:05 PM »You should watch this one 
https://www.google.com/search?q=the+movie+rubber&sca_esv=b1a12cf1abe01fb0&sxsrf=ANbL-n79c124VCp4hw42KRvLOHJN7AMnlg%3A1770439203747&source=hp&ei=I8KGaaK3K4aJwbkP6rTIuAg&iflsig=AFdpzrgAAAAAaYbQMwMeauM3TaP19k92nD3Q0U6GqJ_m&gs_ssp=eJzj4tLP1TdIzk3JTSs3YPQSKMlIVcjNL8tMVSgqTUpKLQIAlrQKPA&oq=The+movie+Rubber&gs_lp=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&sclient=gws-wiz#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:5b2d44ad,vid:hVKgY1ilx0Y,st:0
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https://www.google.com/search?q=the+movie+rubber&sca_esv=b1a12cf1abe01fb0&sxsrf=ANbL-n79c124VCp4hw42KRvLOHJN7AMnlg%3A1770439203747&source=hp&ei=I8KGaaK3K4aJwbkP6rTIuAg&iflsig=AFdpzrgAAAAAaYbQMwMeauM3TaP19k92nD3Q0U6GqJ_m&gs_ssp=eJzj4tLP1TdIzk3JTSs3YPQSKMlIVcjNL8tMVSgqTUpKLQIAlrQKPA&oq=The+movie+Rubber&gs_lp=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&sclient=gws-wiz#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:5b2d44ad,vid:hVKgY1ilx0Y,st:0
https://www.google.com/search?q=the+movie+rubber&sca_esv=b1a12cf1abe01fb0&sxsrf=ANbL-n79c124VCp4hw42KRvLOHJN7AMnlg%3A1770439203747&source=hp&ei=I8KGaaK3K4aJwbkP6rTIuAg&iflsig=AFdpzrgAAAAAaYbQMwMeauM3TaP19k92nD3Q0U6GqJ_m&gs_ssp=eJzj4tLP1TdIzk3JTSs3YPQSKMlIVcjNL8tMVSgqTUpKLQIAlrQKPA&oq=The+movie+Rubber&gs_lp=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&sclient=gws-wiz#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:5b2d44ad,vid:hVKgY1ilx0Y,st:0
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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha watchin'/streamin'...
« Last post by Sgt. Dick on February 06, 2026, 08:30:04 PM »Agreed 
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/dev/random / Re: The last movie you saw....
« Last post by |iR|Focalor on February 06, 2026, 02:24:09 AM »Back in the 90's, I used to swing by Hollywood Video about once a week and rent some crap to watch. My ma would spend her time going through the new releases... meanwhile I'd usually hit the older sections, mostly action movies and music. I think the new releases were rented out for 3 days at about 5 to 7 dollars each, whereas the older stuff was either 5 days or 7 days and was only 99 cents per video. So I'd get 4 or 5 at a time. Saw a lot of great stuff back then. It's how I discovered old Sonny Chiba kung fu movies as well as other kung fu guys like Gordon Liu, Carter Wong, etc. Mostly what I rented was the major action stars of the day though: Van Damme, Segal, Dolph Lundgren, etc.
One of the movies I always saw sitting on the shelf and never got around to renting...
RavenHawk (1995) starring Rachel McLish
The tagline on the box cover as pictured reads: "Justice has never been this beautiful." ROLL MY FUCKING EYES.
Finally saw this pile of crap. God I wish I hadn't.
In real life she was apparently some kind of female pro body builder. She looks kinda native american, I dunno if she really is, I haven't researched her, but considering this was the mid-90's, its entirely possible she was not native american AT ALL and they just cast her as that. You gotta remember, these were the days when they'd cast guys from India as arab terrorists without batting an eye, lol.
And the plot? Boring and PREDICTABLE AS FUCK.
Starts off, she's a young girl. The rich assholes come and want to build a factory on indian reservation land. Her parents wont sell, so they come in the night, kill them, frame their little girl for it. Shes traumatized and stops talking (conveniently never tells the cops what happened). When she's older, they go to transfer her to a full blown prison, but the prison bus crashes (predictably), oh and also now shes talking too (conveniently can talk to other characters in the movie again). She escapes the bus crash, but everyone thinks everyone died in the crash (conveniently) . So this factory they built... apparently just makes... pollution. Of course it does, it always does, that's just what rich assholes do, they build smokestacks and pollute shit just for the helluvit, dontchaknow. Anyway, really stupid story made short, she hunts down the guys that killed her family and gets revenge, the end.
Most action movies follow a pretty predictable formula. They keep using the formula because it works. Even "bad" action movies are generally entertaining enough to watch. But sometimes they're exceptionally bad. Like this one. Action movies are simple. You just have fighting, some shooting, maybe a few explosions, and as long as you make it look real enough, you have a movie worth watching. But the action in this thing is so poorly done and JUST PLAIN DULL. You spend the whole movie looking at your watch going, "Okay, how many more minutes until this pile of crap is over?"
I should've known better. I saw it sitting there every time I'd go to the video store, and every time it was there on the shelf available. No one ever rented it.
Directed by Albert Pyun. That name was familiar so I looked it up. He also did...
Sword and the Sorcerer - Not a very good movie, but a staple of the "sword and sorcery" genre that was kinda popular in the 80s.
Cyborg - I think this was Van Damme's first movie. Really super low budget, and pretty bad in my opinion, but it's a cult classic.
Captain America - The bad Marvel movie that everyone forgot and almost no one saw. I saw it. It kinda sucked, but 10 or 12 year old me didn't mind it that much at the time.
And lots of others, none of them are any better though. A couple of Nemesis movies, a couple of the Kickboxer movies. He had another kind of obscure one with Lance Henrikson called Spitfire that I saw a while back that was okay.
He's got a knack for making bad movies.
One of the movies I always saw sitting on the shelf and never got around to renting...
RavenHawk (1995) starring Rachel McLish
The tagline on the box cover as pictured reads: "Justice has never been this beautiful." ROLL MY FUCKING EYES.
Finally saw this pile of crap. God I wish I hadn't.
In real life she was apparently some kind of female pro body builder. She looks kinda native american, I dunno if she really is, I haven't researched her, but considering this was the mid-90's, its entirely possible she was not native american AT ALL and they just cast her as that. You gotta remember, these were the days when they'd cast guys from India as arab terrorists without batting an eye, lol.
And the plot? Boring and PREDICTABLE AS FUCK.
Starts off, she's a young girl. The rich assholes come and want to build a factory on indian reservation land. Her parents wont sell, so they come in the night, kill them, frame their little girl for it. Shes traumatized and stops talking (conveniently never tells the cops what happened). When she's older, they go to transfer her to a full blown prison, but the prison bus crashes (predictably), oh and also now shes talking too (conveniently can talk to other characters in the movie again). She escapes the bus crash, but everyone thinks everyone died in the crash (conveniently) . So this factory they built... apparently just makes... pollution. Of course it does, it always does, that's just what rich assholes do, they build smokestacks and pollute shit just for the helluvit, dontchaknow. Anyway, really stupid story made short, she hunts down the guys that killed her family and gets revenge, the end.
Most action movies follow a pretty predictable formula. They keep using the formula because it works. Even "bad" action movies are generally entertaining enough to watch. But sometimes they're exceptionally bad. Like this one. Action movies are simple. You just have fighting, some shooting, maybe a few explosions, and as long as you make it look real enough, you have a movie worth watching. But the action in this thing is so poorly done and JUST PLAIN DULL. You spend the whole movie looking at your watch going, "Okay, how many more minutes until this pile of crap is over?"
I should've known better. I saw it sitting there every time I'd go to the video store, and every time it was there on the shelf available. No one ever rented it.
Directed by Albert Pyun. That name was familiar so I looked it up. He also did...
Sword and the Sorcerer - Not a very good movie, but a staple of the "sword and sorcery" genre that was kinda popular in the 80s.
Cyborg - I think this was Van Damme's first movie. Really super low budget, and pretty bad in my opinion, but it's a cult classic.
Captain America - The bad Marvel movie that everyone forgot and almost no one saw. I saw it. It kinda sucked, but 10 or 12 year old me didn't mind it that much at the time.
And lots of others, none of them are any better though. A couple of Nemesis movies, a couple of the Kickboxer movies. He had another kind of obscure one with Lance Henrikson called Spitfire that I saw a while back that was okay.
He's got a knack for making bad movies.
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/dev/random / Re: The last movie you saw....
« Last post by |iR|Focalor on January 30, 2026, 07:47:58 PM »Tron (1982)
Downloaded it from a torrent - not sure what the source was. Did they update this thing or something? Maybe it's just been so long that I don't remember it, but it seems like they rearranged parts of the movie, added scenes, etc, I'm not really sure. It had a couple of parts in it with animations that looked a little out of place and too advanced, but then again... this movie was WAY ahead of it's time when it came out. It was one of my favorite movies as a kid although I so seldom watched it because they so rarely ever played the whole thing on the Disney channel back in the 80's, and I didn't have a VHS copy of it. It's just a great all around movie. Kids and casual moviegoers like it because of all the stuff about video games and the cool special effects. But there's also plenty of embedded religious and philosophical subtext to unpack as well if you're into examining movies that deeply.
Also... Looking at it now, it makes me wonder if the story wasn't a veiled representation of the evil corporate Bill Gates (Dillinger) vs the heroic independent Steve Jobs (Flynn).
Some "prophesy" from the movies dialogue:
Dr. Walter Gibbs: "After all, computers are just machines, they can't think."
Alan Bradley: "Some programs will be thinking soon."
Dr. Walter Gibbs: "Won't that be grand... computers and the programs will start thinking, and the people will stop."
Yep. That's social media alright.
Just wanted to highlight that in yellow to reiterate my point I made to 2dum in his Palestinian Victimhood thread about him relying on ai assistant apps.
But back on topic...
Always been a fan of the original Tron since i was a kid. They did a sequel back in 2010 called Tron: Legacy that was really good too. Surprisingly, it was almost as good as the original.
They made a 3rd one last year, Tron: Ares, starring Jared Leto. As of writing this, I'm a little less than halfway through the movie and my verdict so far... not good.
I saw that the opening credits mentioned Trent Reznor as some kinda executive producer or something so I looked up some info on the movie and apparently Disney specifically commissioned "Nine Inch Nails" (THE band name, not just Trent, they want THE BAND NAME attached to the movie) did the music, and it's the first music score Nine Inch Nails as the band name has done since the Quake1 soundtrack. And it's still not enough to save this movie. The plot is pretty bad. I've seen reviews that seem to like what this movie did with the Tron narrative, but... no. I disagree So far it's just bad. Very simplistic and dumbed down story. So far its just rehashed tron cycles and light suits with too many greenscreen effects and animation. And being that it's Disney in 2025, of course they gotta add their woke racial subtext... the bad guy (grandson who runs Dillinger corp) is a white male tyrant, who for no apparent reason starts to look more sickly with dark circles under his eyes like he's going psychotic with greed. Meanwhile the good girl (who runs Flynn) is a female (feminist box CHECKED), asian (ethnic box CHECKED), only interested in doing good and serving others (collectivism good, altruism good... and yet Christianity and loving thy neighbor as thyself is somehow evil and wrong), and of course all of her coworkers and friends are very nonconspicuously diverse... so very diverse. Yeah, lets make sure we all notice how diverse they are... but pretend that "diversity" is a normal thing even though it was obviously a conscious decision here. And theres nothing wrong with selecting people based on their race... because somehow that isn't racist if it's done "properly." Yes, apparently there's a right way and wrong way to pick people based on their race.
Yeah, IMDB has the rating on this thing at 6.2/10.
No way. The plot is simplistic and juvenile, like someone tried to dumb down Tron for kids. 3 or 4 from me so far. Will add more when I finish the movie.ADDED:
NOPE! Didn't really get any better. Silly nonsense plot stays pretty nonsense. It's just that the other two movies had something DEEPER going on with them. Sure there was the idea of this whole other world inside the machine, but when you try to put programs from inside the machine into the outside world... plausibility disappears and that suspension of disbelief is impossible to maintain. A laser that can 3D print a real tree with real oranges growing on it! SURE! They obviously had a group of people with a cursory knowledge of computers devise a story where they said, "Okay... THIS TIME... they go OUT of the computer grid! AMAZING, RIGHT!?!" NO! It's a stupid premise! Can't believe Jared Leto did this movie. Can't believe Trent Reznor put his name and music on it too.
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Quake / Re: q2servers.com server move
« Last post by perfectcolors on January 26, 2026, 03:09:43 PM »thank you for continuing to support the community for all these years
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