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/dev/random / Re: The Strange and Interesting Thread

« on: April 06, 2021, 11:30:30 PM »

New York Tribune - November 10, 1918:

Rays of Radium, in fact, energize and revivify any living matter with which they come in contact. They are accepted by the human system as harmoniously as is sunlight by the plant.

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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha listening to?

« on: March 28, 2021, 04:23:54 PM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs5NOrYYV2s

Encountered this on youtube last night, hadn't heard it in ages.

Wonder what the trajectory of the band might have been had Uli not left after this album. I'd imagine subsequent albums with more interesting & complex songs, and a lot less commercial success.

(Selfishly, perhaps, I should have liked to have heard the former.)

 

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dm / Re: 888 needs to be muted

« on: March 26, 2021, 11:14:20 AM »

My 2 cents: His "hackusation" bullshit is lame and I wish he'd stop. The rest of it I can handle. Par for the course.

Indeed, the "hackusation" buffoonery from a handful of players on the FFA servers grates on me the most.

Particularly as relates to the occasional new player who connects, sees all the bellyaching and wonders if they've joined a server full of cheaters.

As for 888, I've added a half-mute to curb his spam a bit (one chat per minute.) Let's see how that goes...

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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha eating

« on: March 21, 2021, 09:49:06 PM »

Quadz, you ever seen any Ken's out Cally-Forny way back in the day?

Unfamiliar with Ken's; though the presentation reminds me a bit of Roundtable (which I enjoyed as a kid; dunno if they're still around, nearby.)

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dm / Re: Please consider implementing spawn farthest on the DM server

« on: March 14, 2021, 01:01:15 PM »

I think I'm noticing things more, if they've been this way for 15+ years, because the server limit was increased over the years (wasn't it?). That or the average server population has increased.

Nothing's changed that I'm aware of in this regard. The dm server allows 16 clients (+1 for WallFly).

I wish I made a demo for every game I played, then I could reference specific examples of how the way things are takes away from the fun of the game. It's honestly one of the most rage-inducing things I encounter lately.

You know I think your man Sam Harris offers a meditation app for these issues.

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

« on: March 04, 2021, 07:17:13 PM »

facebook.com/484252648673938/posts/4114885065190425/

 

Finally, proper abuse of modern GPU computing power to achieve what we used to brainstorm about in 80s/90s game design sessions. "Well what if we had a MASSSIVE HORDE of enemies? … C'mon now, the machine has enough DMA cycles to draw about 16 of those things. Next idea?"

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Jokes / Re: Funny Pictures

« on: March 04, 2021, 06:25:28 PM »

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Jokes / Re: Funny Pictures

« on: March 04, 2021, 06:24:43 PM »

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Jokes / Re: Funny videos

« on: February 09, 2021, 02:43:55 PM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxlPGPupdd8

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/dev/random / Re: The Man Thread

« on: February 03, 2021, 02:04:00 PM »

https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1357033885163487232





 

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Trouble Shooting / Re: TDM Enabled Auto Demo Record & Auto Screenshot

« on: February 02, 2021, 12:16:33 PM »

stuffing wallfly with 'score' then taking a screenshot

Note that WallFly is a text-only client. (No screen to screenshot.)

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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha listening to?

« on: January 20, 2021, 01:05:32 PM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCHpXMlqvt4 

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Quake / Re: LowLander Hacking MyMap que.......

« on: January 18, 2021, 11:32:02 PM »

B100D and TwistbanG are two that I know have this issue consistently every game they play. It feels like an unfair defensive/avoidance advantage, but I'm going to give them all the benefit of the doubt and assume it's not something they can control. Jimmy/Nitr0 wanted me to post something on the forums the other day as he was getting frustrated by it a lot at that time too (was playing B100D at that time).

Not sure TwisTbanG's situation. But my understanding is .B100D is tethering his laptop through his cell phone wireless network. Such connections can have lots of jitter and packet loss.

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Quake / Re: LowLander Hacking MyMap que.......

« on: January 18, 2021, 10:31:53 PM »

It's partly an etiquette thing for me; if you mymap something you shouldn't just be speccing the whole time, especially if you don't plan on playing and haven't been playing the entire time.

I also do have to agree that there are definitely people that still do things like mymap campgrounds and campcity I'm assuming because since they can't mymap sewer64 anymore, they have to do the next best thing and queue up the biggest thing you could possibly play.

Face it, the dm server is filled with griefers and trolls, why do you think almost everyone plays with an alias there?
There are always going to be people that will go out of their way to ruin the game for people as much as they can no matter what technical roadblocks you may put up. At the end of the day though, it's up to you whether or not you want to do anything about it, not me.

But, do what exactly?

I've been playing in dm every day for years (since vanilla died.) And I constantly have the server status on my fourth monitor.

I see when the custom maps are played.

And if it's an awesome map like campcity, and I'm not busy with work, I'll pop into the server just to play that map because it's a blast.

And what's this about griefers and trolls?

It's an FFA server. Other than the chatter from a few nincompoops who think anyone who can aim a railgun is cheating, what kind of griefing is even possible. You spawn. You get frags. You do fun jumps around the maps. It's Quake2.

I assume we have different taste in maps, but you can't please everyone. The dm server is a compromise between the dm1-dm8 folks and players who want SOME variety (i.e. me.)

 

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tastyspleen.net / Re: Clemency for the banned?

« on: January 06, 2021, 02:22:33 PM »

Would like to believe he has changed his way of life

The last time Razor and I interacted – probably via email or IRC, circa 2014 – he had made considerable progress on learning to code, in 'C' and also some scripting languages.

He seemed at a level of proficiency where he could easily do an entry-level programming job, provided anyone was willing to hire someone who is self-taught with no prior job experience (which is a tough sell in this industry.)

I don't know if he even wanted to do programming for a living. But he had an aptitude for it.