Male and Female skins....

[pantaloons]

Then again, I very much prefer the death sounds of the male models far more than the female ones. Not sure if the developers intended it to be funny, but that's how it comes across to me.

Hehe - I find the female death sounds funny, too.  But I like that.

Especially player/female/death3.wav

"Wahghhhhhhhllgrllahhhppphhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."

[{TNP}Dukie]

I use the famale model for several reasons:

I started using it and have been using it so long that I feel slower when using the male model.  If I am forced to use the male model for whatever reason I will not play as well.

I got into this whole Quake scene because of the art aspect (skinning models)  I prefer to paint and draw women so I used the female model.

The female Q2 has a great ass!  Crash for Q3 has a nice ass too, but the Q2 model blows it away hands down.

I like players in Q2 using the female model because then Q2 sometimes becomes on great, big catfight!! (I like catfights!)

I could go on and on.

[X'tyfe]

my skin uses the cyborg model

now most people say anyone who uses the cyborg model is a n00b
and that might be true for me  but im sure if someone like sean used it he would play the same

[reaper]

i use female, because it seems cooler : )

[PANTONE 7717C]

I have my default skin set to male/pointman but the male & cyborg jumpsounds get on my nerves pretty fast and since I usually tend to bunnyhop a lot it doesn't take long before I switch to female. Sometimes a friend is playing q2 on my pc and when I'm downstairs to get us a drink or something I suddenly notice how boring and obnoxious these jump sounds really are.

(@Dukie, if you haven't seen this classic LOTE film about q2 romance then please do. It's poor divx quality but a good laugh:))

[Cheaters-r-Scum]

For most (male) players, using a female skin in quake2 has nothing to do with being gay (what is so many immature people's problem with gayness anyway??)

[{TNP}Dukie]

When I was a kid if you uttered the phrase "that sucks" around your parents you would have your face slapped off or your mouth washed out with soap.
Now it has been used so much that it is accepted regardless of the origin of "sucks" actualy means.
Same with gay and fag here.
The insult of calling someone gay or fag started out exactly as it sounds to you, but it has been used so much over the last twenty years that now it is used by 8 years olds and the meaning has been reduced to stupid or lame.

[{TNP}Dukie]

(@Dukie, if you haven't seen this classic LOTE film about q2 romance then please do. It's poor divx quality but a good laugh:))

OMG! That was fuckin hilarious!!

[cyberneticimplant]

The Cyborg has the best sounds.

[X'tyfe]

agreed

[Cheaters-r-Scum]

When I was a kid if you uttered the phrase "that sucks" around your parents you would have your face slapped off or your mouth washed out with soap.
Now it has been used so much that it is accepted regardless of the origin of "sucks" actualy means.
Same with gay and fag here.
The insult of calling someone gay or fag started out exactly as it sounds to you, but it has been used so much over the last twenty years that now it is used by 8 years olds and the meaning has been reduced to stupid or lame.

Hi, thanks for the explanations :-)

So does "sucks" have a sexual origine or what?
Btw., in Germany you can sometimes hear (or rather) read "das saugt" (=sucks), but only on the Internet, not in real life.

Well, we also have some examples where a somewhat delicate term changed its meaning and became everyday language of many people (especially adolescents), like "geil". This word actually means "horny", "voluptious" etc.; but it is used now by many for "cool", "wow", "gorgeous" etc. I don't use it myself, I am just too old and dislike this change of meaning - I always find it bizarre when a 12 year old cries out "geil", something my parents would have seen as a reason to trounce me when I was a child, hehe.

I am still not quite sure about the change of meaning of "gay", because I suspect that there is still a (potential) offense when someone calls another play "gay", and more so when he says "fag" or something.

As to the divx movie, well, this was one funny thing, picture quality like crap, but really very entertaining.


Regards

Cheaters-r-Scum

[[BTF]Gator]

I just like the sounds better,

  it is easier on the ears

yeah lol no shit, the male model's jump sound is like the worst

besides, I dont think anyone in q2 besides you (recycled) looks at it as e-crossdressing, thats a flawed comparison, and after playing 10,000,000 team games and being forced to be female roughly 50% of the time you just quit thinking about it all together

man what I wouldnt give for someone to post a thread about something half way intelligent, I check this forum everyday and all I see is the same ffa/jumpmod newb shit right and left, granted this isnt the dumbest question ive seen in the last 30 days, but it sure makes the top 10

i personally actually greatly prefer all of this newb kind of conversation to all the "he hacks, she hacks, wallhacker!" crap that gets posted.  Or the i pwned you more times then you pwned me.  But that is just my opinion.  But i do prefer above all completely trivial conversations about the game, especially by people i know have been playing it for years.

[Spawn.Ds]

Couldnt agree more Gator cha M@ster hacker  I always liked the female players athena's ass is soooo hot!  Why would anyone not read a thread such as this or respond with their reasons of prefering the famale skin over a male ? I myself Like teh borg :p For the same reasons most liked the females in the begining , after the glow packs come out and bright skins there wasnt much alterd borg skins because no one used them so in the mist of things the borgs @ one time were harder to see . Toward the end of my q2 playing I really didnt care what skin I wore because none provided much of  a advantage other then like what someone else has stated the sounds being more pleasent on the ears.

[cyberneticimplant]

How do I bind a key?

 

[Krlll Mule]

I got the key part but what's a bind?