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Quake / Re: invite! spam

« Last post by QwazyWabbit on November 07, 2025, 08:44:04 AM »

I can speak from first hand experience that managing a server is a PITA and psychologically damaging to the admin who has to monitor it. It really needs to be a shared duty. The users whine about insufficient management and whine again when the hammer drops.

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Quake / Re: invite! spam

« Last post by XANA 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

« Last post by Mr Wizard on November 06, 2025, 04:15:38 PM »

If the admins are asleep at the wheel, don't read the forums and won't do shit, why not grant admin privs to someone who is at least somewhat active? Focalor maybe? I don't know, SOMEONE at least? Because this cunt is still spamming. 35 messages a minute. Tried using the ignore command but the dickhead changes his name 10x a day.

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/dev/random / Re: What games are you playing ?

« Last post by |iR|Focalor on November 03, 2025, 10:38:00 AM »

The Google doodle game for Halloween was really cool: a Halloween/trick-or-treat themed version of Pacman. Addictive, just like the original arcade game.

https://doodles.google/doodle/pac-man-halloween-2025-edition/

I remember playing the original arcade version a few times at one of the local roller skating rinks when I was a kid. As the 80's progressed, Ms. Pacman tended to be the one you'd see in arcades more often. I also had (and still have) the Pacman cartridge for the old Atari 2600 system. It was not like the arcade version. The levels were simpler looking solid block walls rather than designs with rounded corners, and it was a good bit harder to play than the arcade version due to the joysticks that didn't function the same way as the arcade stick. The ghosts seemed to move faster on the 2600 too. It was pretty frustrating. Not quite as fun as the arcade.

I guess someone saw how much the old atari systems are fetching these days and decided it was worthwhile to design and release a modern system to capitalize on the retro gaming craze.

https://atari.com/collections/atari-2600-plus

Compaible with old 2600 and 7800 cartridges. I have probably a good 20 or 30 cartridges for the 2600. I have 2 of the original 2600 consoles - one that was my dads back in the early 80's, and one that I bought used at a video game trading store back in 2001 or 2002 for about 20 or 25 dollars... back when nobody really wanted them and stores were selling the games for about 1 dollar each just trying to get rid of them ASAP. Unfortunately I didn't go on a game buying spree back then.

I also see on Amazon that they have a special yellow PacMan edition of the 2600 Plus.

Might have to ask Santa Claus to get me one for Christmas. I don't have a power adapter that will run the old consoles anymore, plus, I think they were only able to connect to a TV via coax cable, which none of my TV's have anymore. These modern ones have HDMI as well as wireless controllers which would be SUCH a welcome addition. With the old ones, the console had to be pretty much on the floor in front of the tv, and with the cable length on the controllers, you were always forced to sit on the floor right in front of the tv.

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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha watchin'/streamin'...

« Last post by |iR|Focalor on October 21, 2025, 01:29:17 AM »

As the Halloween horror marathon continues...

Watching another old one...



Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056687/
starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford

This one was famous because, as people know, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford HATED each others guts, and SOMEHOW they were brought together in this one glorious movie to oppose one another, and it came off brilliantly.

A kind of funny, kind of fucked up tidbit I read while looking up some info about this movie...

Joan Crawford died in 1977, and Bette Davis died in 1989. When Bette Davis heard that Joan Crawford had died, she said, "You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good. Joan Crawford is dead. Good."

 

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Quake / Re: invite! spam

« Last post by |iR|Focalor on October 21, 2025, 01:14:05 AM »

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

YOUR m.o. is to annoy people because you think its fun. Solipsism at work.

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Quake / Re: invite! spam

« Last post by XANA 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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Quake / Re: invite! spam

« Last post by QwazyWabbit on October 15, 2025, 04:49:31 PM »

I would be nice, wouldn't it?

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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha watchin'/streamin'...

« Last post by |iR|Focalor on October 15, 2025, 01:26:22 AM »

  I didn't get that far. For certain, Anthony Perkins was a better "mother".



Black Sabbath (1963): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057603/

ENGLISH version streaming: https://play.xumo.com/free-movies/black-sabbath/XM0EOHWGA22VZT
ITALIAN version streaming (turn on subtitles): https://tubitv.com/movies/100008899/black-sabbath

One of my sort-of favorite horror movies is the old Boris Karloff narrated Italian-made Mario Bava film, Black Sabbath (1963). Apparently it's the film that Geezer Butler saw that gave him the idea to name their band Black Sabbath. And... apparently not too many people saw it back in those days, as it was a commercial flop in Italy and internationally. According to wiki, it did decent sales on home video, although I'm not sure if they mean once it was released on vhs and betamax in the 80's (which is doesn't mention at all) or when it was later released on dvd in the 2000's.

I've had a lower quality 480p version for many years, but this year I was finally able to track down a full 1080p English language version. It wasn't easy. It's easy to find a 720p or lower English language version... or a 1080p Italian language version. But one single place had the 1080p in English.

Boris Karloff is just a cool creepy dude, I love his movies. His narration intros help make this movie better than it otherwise would be... and in fact he actually STARS as a character in one of the three stories presented. It should be noted that the English language version is a good bit different from the Italian version. They edited out things like any mentions of lesbian relationships or prostitution (which were key plot points in "The Telephone" segment in the Italian version, as well as clipping out some of the more violent and bloody scenes. Also, according to wiki, the color mastering techniques they used differ from the Italian to the American version. Which is odd, because one thing I always notice about the film is the great usage of colored lighting effects to create eerie atmosphere in the backgrounds and to accentuate faces and parts of the foreground in key moments.

For example... the faces in the window at the end of The Vurdulak story:



And most especially on the face of the old dead woman in the Drop of Water story:



There's almost no horror movies that legitimately scare me... but lemme tell ya... you watch this part late at night with all the lights out... and the part where the dead lady with the freakish face shows up will give you legit chills, it's pretty good. The best part of the movie in my opinion. I guess thats why in the original italian cut, they saved that story for last.

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Quake / Re: invite! spam

« Last post by |iR|Focalor on October 15, 2025, 12:18:06 AM »

It's 2025, and some people STILL do this. 

I don't play anymore, but for the sake of others, I'm gonna do something crazy that probably won't work, but you never know until you try: I'm going to simply ask nicely and hope they're excellent enough to listen. And so I humbly ask this person to please cease with the chat spam and just play the game and enjoy the miraculous fact that this many people still bother coming to these servers to play this very very ancient game.

  

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