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Title: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 05 December 2011, 09:08:33
 Step up on the box and tell about what's on your chest!
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 05 December 2011, 09:12:16
Where is the winter? Where is the snow?


We're in December already and yesterday my neighbour was out with his lawn mover  :o .
Usually at this time of year, skiing is a more common activity.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 05 December 2011, 13:42:51
Localized Global Warming. I knew you Scandinavians were up to no good. You're like the Canada of Europe. (It's a conspiracy)  ;D
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 11 December 2011, 01:03:21
I'm relieved!
It hasn't been a single registration attempt from bots on this forum.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 11 December 2011, 01:27:12
Using that code to confirm registration foils them (until some asshole develops the software to generate it via bot)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 11 December 2011, 01:53:22
I don't think such software will available for a long time.
I've added a question that new members has to answer before they can register.
In the admin panel I can easily add up to five questions.
Or I could make the question harder to answer  ;)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 11 December 2011, 12:38:52
Quote from: Gambini on  11 December 2011, 03:21:09
...I´m not playing Duke honestly since Eduke32 keeps introducing bugs and "features" that make the life of classic players harder everyday, but when I read my name in your txt, i felt touched :o

Everything is polymer geared now, trying to get the tror to work, and make everything all sparkly and pretty. That's fine, but I almost have to have two Duke3d directories; one for the new stuff and one with an older snapshot in it so I can play the classics (which the developers keep breaking features in and then writing them off with a shrug as collateral damage).
Polymost has been prematurely abandoned in an effort to push everything to polymer, which is still buggy & lags.
8-bit has been completely abandoned and can be hit or miss when playing a classic. Sometimes you get a few visual errors that can be irritating but ignored. Worse, some maps end up almost completely black (like wearing sunglasses in a cave with a burlap sack on your head) and impossible to play (and for some reason only known to the developers, none of the gamma/brightness/contrast corrections affect 8-bit anymore).
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 11 December 2011, 16:56:18
Quote from: Gambini on  11 December 2011, 15:52:28
The software engine is broken by some fix that helps modelers to get proper scales. So yes AAAAALLLL the maps made for softare/8bits/polymost have visual errors now because 2 new modellers can´t workaround a simple scale problem. That was the last nail in Duke´s coffin for me, sorry.

What's more annoying is when you mention this to the developers at Duke4, they either get all irrate and berate you for mentioning it, or just completely ignore you because their fix is infinitely more important than having software mode work properly. (unless your in the click of a few certain individuals whose shit don't stink and they get what they want)

I think fixing multiplayer is by far more important than getting their polymer renderer working at the cost of the rest of the visual modes. Multiplayer will attract more players who will stay around for some time, polymer will just get some DNF fanboys on board because of the shiny stuff until they find something else pretty to distract them
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 22 December 2011, 19:40:47
I was thinking of opening a new thread today: "What is the worst map you've played"...


But I gave it a second thought and found the idea to be absolutely stupid!  :P
Talk about flame bait...
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Merlijn on 22 December 2011, 22:37:00
Could lead to fun discussions though.  :P I'd give the honors to Sangs supa2.  ;D
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 22 December 2011, 23:08:08
from all that crap that was released in '96 thru '98 when everyone and their little sister thought they could make a Duke map? It would be a pretty large thread
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Micky C on 22 December 2011, 23:35:48
For a moment I thought what if there could be a limit like only maps from the past 5 years, then I realized that if any of the mappers who were talked about in that thread saw it, it would only serve to put them down.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 22 December 2011, 23:44:24
^You are mentioning something important there, man.
But on the other hand; Is it fair to talk shit behind peoples back? Even if it's a 10 year old map?


I agree about it could have been an interesting thread, though.
If somebody opens up such a thread I might look the other way.. ::)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Micky C on 23 December 2011, 00:18:40
Chances are if it's 10 years old, the author wouldn't care, and would most likely know that their maps weren't very good, especially when looking back at them now. So if it was really old maps then it wouldn't be a huge problem imo. However I opened up a thread on this topic, but with a variation to make it less potentially offensive. We'll see how it goes.. http://www.scent-88.com/forum/index.php/topic,62.msg414.html#new
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 25 December 2011, 16:04:52
Merry Christmas every one. Have a safe and enjoyable holiday  :)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 27 December 2011, 22:03:58
Oh my! 2 minutes after I added the "Tweet" and "Facebook" button on top of each topic the traffic to the forums increased big time  :o
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Arghantyl on 27 December 2011, 23:02:54
hahaahaha,How much ?  ;D

Perhaps the next Pascal rouaud will come here and say "What's DN 3D ?".
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 27 December 2011, 23:08:23
Actually, "the next Pascal" has already appeared on the DN3D stage many times.
I think there is a handful of mappers that reaches beyond Pascal.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Arghantyl on 28 December 2011, 00:04:43
Actually  ???

I do not think than anyone have mastered a such aesthetic skill and a damn'it gameplay notion

When someone will both that in one episode,his name will be Arghantyl,i swear it  8)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 28 December 2011, 00:46:53
Quote from: Arghantyl on  28 December 2011, 00:04:43
Actually  ???

I do not think than anyone have mastered a such aesthetic skill and a damn'it gameplay notion

I think there have been several great mappers over the last decade + that have generated their own styles, instilled excellent game play, and incorporated a solid design into their maps. What Pascal did in his time and on a consistent basis was, and is, considered great. Many have done the same since, but Pascal was one of the first to do it, so he gets the majority of the recognition.

So basically, what Puritan said.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 05 January 2012, 23:58:02
I wonder if my web host are reading my posts in this forum.
A few days ago I was worried about the available space on my web host server.
James told me that I could delete the zip file for the AMC TC and make a link to a mirror instead.


Today I received a message from my web host telling me that my space on their servers are now doubled.
Free of charge!  8)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 15 January 2012, 19:22:34
*sigh*

software mode is so broke, especially about lighting & shading, that i'm forced to play some classic maps in 32 bit polymost in order to see anything.  :-\
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 15 January 2012, 22:40:33
Quote from: Forge on  15 January 2012, 19:22:34
*sigh*

software mode is so broke, especially about lighting & shading, that i'm forced to play some classic maps in 32 bit polymost in order to see anything.  :-\


It's not the first time.
My sequel to Afterglow; A New World Rising was more or less useless exact at time I finished it. All of a sudden it was pitch black in parts of the map... :(
I tried to crank up the lighting globally but it didn't look right to me.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 18 January 2012, 18:26:20
I've bought a few more domains:


www.dukenukem-maps.com
www.dukenukemsite.com
www.dukenukemsites.com


All of them are, of course, linked to this place  :D



Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 21 January 2012, 10:38:28
well that sucked ass!

I'd been without electricity for almost three days. good thing i go camping. plenty of warm blankets and clothes, propane heater and stove, small generator. i get my water from a well and the pump is electric. had to resort to melting snow to do things like wash dishes and flush the toilet.

snowed a foot and a half (half a meter), then had frozen rain for two days. knocked out my power and it really messed up all my trees. the pines are pretty durable, but I'm not so sure the hard woods will make it. my property (and pretty much the whole community) looks like somebody blew up a forest.

Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 21 January 2012, 14:19:19
Sorry to hear that, Scott :'(


I read about it  here (http://www.standard.net/stories/2012/01/20/power-outages-northwest-could-continue-days)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 27 January 2012, 17:34:53
Yay!
I'm off for a night of poker and heavy drinking  8)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: MSandt on 27 January 2012, 22:30:46
I don't like gambling. I also always forget the rules so my friends have to explain them to me every time we play. I'd never play for money because there are way too many factors you cannot control.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: MikeNorvak on 29 January 2012, 06:28:32
Just finishing a remix for an important trance label, hope they acept it and sign it  ;D
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Gambini on 29 January 2012, 15:26:27
Good luck with that man! we all will be crossing our fingers for you  :)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 29 January 2012, 15:39:02
Quote from: MikeNorvak on  29 January 2012, 06:28:32
Just finishing a remix for an important trance label, hope they acept it and sign it  ;D


Cool  8)
May we hear some of it?
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: MikeNorvak on 29 January 2012, 23:07:30
Thanks guys! it is supposed I shouldn't show anything if they sign it, maybe I can make a preview and post it here later, anyway in first place I'm not sure if you like trance music at all ;D

When I'm done with this I'll can finish reduked, don't want to spoil anything but in fact the project is a 3 "album" concept with about 16 new remixes hence it's taking some time to finish. I have an idea about creating an indie label gathering remixes from videogames and TC/mods OST (Imperium soundtrack for example - if the Oostrum bros. acept of course) being Reduked the first release of the label, so this is taking me a bit more time creating the logo and shit.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: MikeNorvak on 29 January 2012, 23:27:59
I enter "trance music" on youtube and all I got were shit haha, that's the reason because some people think trance is cheesy and superfluous. Sorry for double post but where's the fuckin edit button :D

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Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 29 January 2012, 23:47:32
You have 10 minutes to edit  ;)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Gambini on 30 January 2012, 00:47:50
Taking away the modify and remove buttons after a short while is a good choice. It keeps forums trustable.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 30 January 2012, 05:13:16
now all we need is some stupid global mod to come in here and mess with people's posts....  :)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Merlijn on 30 January 2012, 17:45:19
QuoteI have an idea about creating an indie label gathering remixes from videogames and TC/mods OST (Imperium soundtrack for example - if the Oostrum bros. acept of course)

Yes we do accept. :D And cool that you get to do work for an important label, good luck!
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 02 February 2012, 00:17:18
Happy birthday!
Red 4 (http://www.scent-88.com/reviews/R/red4/red4.php) turns nine years today  :D
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 07 March 2012, 13:35:26
Wohoo!!


Today I grabbed a ticket for a concert on Notodden Bluesfestival this summer here in Norway  8)
ZZ Top (http://www.bluesfest.no/)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 07 March 2012, 13:50:35
Looks like fun  8)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 17 March 2012, 14:49:50
I see Trooper Dan is getting quite a following over at Duke4. Trooper Tom, Trooper Lun, etc.

Are you starting an army for a hostile takeover?  ;D
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Merlijn on 17 March 2012, 15:47:54
Yes, when he has enough troopers, he'll change his name into 'Commander Dan'.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Trooper Dan on 17 March 2012, 20:24:34
Quote from: Merlijn on  17 March 2012, 15:47:54
Yes, when he has enough troopers, he'll change his name into 'Commander Dan'.

Originally I was going to start a joke account here posing as a retired trooper, who would tell the true story of what happened during the invasion.  But then I got lazy.

If those guys are going to copy me, they should do something useful!
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 30 March 2012, 15:24:50
Quote from: Gambini on  22 March 2012, 07:16:34
We could carry this for ages, but still you can´t deny you have pushed your point to a too specific aspect, of which i still disagree. I was surprised the low rating the map got (in comparision to other maps reviewed here of course) and I noticed it was mostly (according to your dissection) by shading and trimming. establishing how many adjacent walls have the same shade value will lead to nothing at this point. Except by Bob Averill maps (which you extremely underrated) most maps rated even ten points above surely have less shading and trimming work but that´s OK. By no means I want to change your opinion, if that´s the impression you got, fine. You could have rated it even lower by standing on things like the confined spaces and unfair explosions, the overuse of the green bricks wall and I would have had to shut up.

Apparently you still hold angst about this since you feel the need to down vote my posts in another forum and make snide comments like, "rating on a more realistic scale (thing that almost nobody does here)".

Funny how you can come to this forum and disagree with how something is rated, but if I disagree with a rating at another forum it's not okay with you and you feel the need to gun me down.

I get the impression you focus on only what bothers you and then ride it into the ground until you either get your way or everybody just throws up their hands and walks away.

Texturing/Lighting-Shading: 7/10
Sprite Work/Detailing: 8/10
Ambiance: 7/10
Architecture: 17/20
Layout: 17/20
Gameplay/Design: 23/30
Overall: 79/100

is the way Duke Nukem ex mortum has been rated, here's it simplified out:

Texturing; 3/5
Lighting-Shading: 4/5
Sprite Work: 4/5
Detailing & Trimwork: 4/5
Ambiance: 7/10
Architecture: 17/20
Layout: 17/20
Gameplay: 11/15
Design: 12/15
Overall: 79/100

I broke it all the way down for you. Now pick your bitch and get it out of your system

You get the impression that everything has a super high rating because that's the "norm". What you failed to take into consideration is the first 100 to 150 maps hosted on this site were hand picked because they were already high rated maps to get a solid start to the quality of the database and/or were also from specific authors so we could start the mapper of the month. (& I do rate maps below 70, but until further notice, maps that low won't be hosted here)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 30 March 2012, 17:51:34
I've started my Easter holiday one hour ago  8)
No work until tuesday 10'th of April.
I might get Alien Resurrection ready this Easter.


But right now: ... I'm off for a jam session and some heavy drinking  ;D
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Gambini on 31 March 2012, 02:20:45
I was quite disoriented by the way you jumped on me there at Duke4.net, calling me an hypocrit and other names... And bringing things that had nothing to do with what I said about Nancsi´s post. Now I understand that the problem is that you´re very sensitive to supposed innuendos and downvotes.

You have offended me by apparently no reason (although now I understand there was a hypotetical reason) and from now on you´re not going to be the same guy I thought i knew. But If you´re still interested to know, believe me:

1- I didn´t downvote your post because anything related to the review you did to Mortum. I did it because I found your post pretty silly because it looked like you wanted to apply some strange numerology to Nancsi´s rating, which surely was done on the fly, and not using any kind of dissection.

2- I´m not offended, nor bothered nor angry by that review you did. What I had to say has been already said, and I can´t care less about if you´re going to change it or not. Really, go back to the older review if you want. I find both wrongly done but that´s only my opinion.

3- You have read too much in my posts. When I said "rating on a more realistic scale" and "almost nobody does here" I wasnt refering to you but Duke maps reviews in general. It´s something I have said in the past too, so I´m surprised you can think I said that because of you, and because your last review. And that I would actually find a way to let you know that i´m pissed off in another thread, of another project, of another forum, several days after...

In short, learn to separate things, we are adult people with little free time to go wasting it in this kind of ridiculous and stupid "misunderstandings".

PS: About your last line, another thing to which I never refered to when posting at Metropolitan Mayhem´s release. I actually like, at some sort, the way maps are being rated here. Not in specific cases maybe but yes in terms of taking a map, forgetting about its story and reputation and reviewing it as it is. Too bad you also thought I put that fact in the same pot, stir it up, drank it and then puked all my shit above your innocent person.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 31 March 2012, 03:37:52
you claim to have singled out my post because you found it silly about how I applied some "numerology" to Nancsi's rating. Funny how you ignored Mikko's post right before that which claimed the exact same thing, then even funnier how you ignored the fact that Nancsi admitted that's how he did come up with his score. Then it's nice how you ignored that I said an 88 from Nancsi was generous by his strict standards; acquiescing the fact that not everyone is on the same scale. You felt it appropriate to put the blinders on and go only after me and with follow up comments about people rating things on a realistic scale.

We recently had an argument about how a map was rated, you down voted my post talking about how Nancsi came up with his rating, your follow up response focuses on people using realistic scales to rate things. It's not like I'm taking a huge leap to make a connection.

So what impression am I supposed to get from that? It's just a huge coincidence that Gambini was disagreeing about ratings at one forum, but when I do it at another forum, he innocently singles me out from the posts around mine that say pretty much the same thing?

I assure you, that's not what was going through my mind. My assumption was that you were being vindictive, and after I pulled your knife out of my back I said so. If you're as "innocent" as you claim to be then maybe you should take a little more time to consider the response you're going to get when you decide to go after somebody whom you recently finished an argument with over the exact same subject.

That last line in my previous post comes as a response to your comment that due to the skewed rating system on an un-realistic scale that everybody uses; everything under 90 is crap.

I don't care about the reputation score or the down votes themselves, my concern was your insistence on singling me out, so it makes me think there's a personal problem. I took your advice and brought my "shit" elsewhere so I can discuss it out with you and come to a resolution because I'd rather be friends with you than on some uneven truce where we just ignore each other.

Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Trooper Dan on 31 March 2012, 09:31:48
In my experience, it is best to take posts at face value and not read too much into them.  If you suspect that someone is being vindictive, but don't have proof, resist the urge to call them on it.  If they openly accuse you of something (like when Gambini recently accused me of always telling people to add more custom content to their maps), then it may be a good idea to respond to the specific accusation.  But if something is just bubbling under the surface, let it go.  I'm not saying that I am perfect in that respect, but it is a standard I attempt to live up to.  The reasons for this approach should be obvious, but I will state them anyway:  (1) If you assume that someone has a bad motive, then you could be wrong, and then you will end up starting a fight for no reason, (2) Even if you are right, they have plausible deniability, (3) Regardless of whether their motive was bad, calling them on it will derail the thread (and you will be derailing the thread, not them), (4) You really should not give a shit.

I remember I made a mistake about a month ago.  Someone wrote a shitty sounding post right under mine, and I thought it was a negative reply to my post.  So I responded sarcastically.  It turns out they were actually replying to a different post from someone else above mine, and had just failed to explain themselves.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 31 March 2012, 15:47:00
Quote from: Trooper Dan on  31 March 2012, 09:31:48
In my experience, it is best to take posts at face value and not read too much into them.....You really should not give a shit.

Either he did it on purpose (which I find hard to believe that he "accidentally" down voted a post and replied with an underhanded and insinuating comment directly related to the post he down voted), in which case he shouldn't act so surprised at the response he got.

Or he didn't think anything about what he was doing or posting because he didn't, as you say, give a shit. In which case he deserved the comments I tossed at him. He didn't give a shit, why should I?

He brought it on himself either intentionally or through inconsideration

You do have a point, I shouldn't waste my time trying to explain why I responded the way I did to someone's derogatory remarks and make "peace". He made them, why do I need to explain myself? Is "peace" worth it? I really should not give a shit.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Gambini on 31 March 2012, 17:01:29
Quote from: Forge on  31 March 2012, 15:47:00
Either he did it on purpose (which I find hard to believe that he "accidentally" down voted a post and replied with an underhanded and insinuating comment directly related to the post he down voted), in which case he shouldn't act so surprised at the response he got.

Or he didn't think anything about what he was doing or posting because he didn't, as you say, give a shit. In which case he deserved the comments I tossed at him. He didn't give a shit, why should I?

He brought it on himself either intentionally or through inconsideration

You do have a point, I shouldn't waste my time trying to explain why I responded the way I did to someone's derogatory remarks and make "peace". He made them, why do I need to explain myself? Is "peace" worth it? I really should not give a shit.
I never said I downvoted you accidentally. What I said is that my downvote and my post were unrelated. You speak of you trying to make peace and I doing derogatory remarks... hell both things are wrong. You don´t seem to like be objected, so I will refrain myself to refer to you or anything related to what you say or do. So, next time you read the words somebody, rating or asshole from me, be sure I´m not refering to you nor anything you said/did. Unless I´m quoting you or using your name, please ignore any possible innuendo you may find.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 31 March 2012, 17:28:05
In case you forgot

Mikko says: "I think 88 is the kind of a score one would arrive at if you were to rate the maps individually and then take the average."

I say: "I think an 88 is a little low. Seems you let the things you didn't like carry more weight than what you did like" Then I quote Nancsi and compare the maps he liked to the ones he disliked. This gets a down vote from you

Nancsi quotes my previous post and says: "10/12=83,33% So I was generous with the score."

I say: "Just shows that Mikko was right and you rated the maps individually and averaged the score", "But taking these standards you have set in stone, 88 probably is generous. "

You say: "Here´s a little problem and it´s that Nancsi is basing his rating on a more realistic scale (thing that almost nobody does here)" this is what accompanies your down vote

Conclusion: You ignored the conversation that surrounded what I said and singled me out. Fine, you didn't like me quoting Nancsi and clarifying how he determined his rating. Then related or unrelated you posted up a insinuating response. That wasn't aimed directly at me, just the people who rate maps. That would be me and Mikko. Your combination of actions (related or unrelated) managed to get a negative response from me. Now your the victim instead of the instigator. You're full of Grade-A bullshit.

If it looks like a turd, smells like a turd, feels like a turd, tastes like a turd, then it's probably a turd.

I'm better off just ignoring you.


Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Gambini on 31 March 2012, 21:09:44
The only thing that looks like a turd here is you, editing posts after hours (and after claiming you dont give a shit and that you want to make peace). Also your first teenage-like rant has been removed and now It looks like I´m replying to Puritan.  ::)

I´m better outta here before you start removing and editing my posts. You aren´t any better than Numan.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 01 April 2012, 05:15:56
The first post is right here: http://www.scent-88.com/forum/index.php/topic,16.msg1953.html#msg1953

I didn't delete anything and I didn't edit anything after you replied to it. I moved the posts here because they no longer belong under the other topic.

I'm sorry we can't come to a resolution and I'm sorry you feel the need to leave. We may never be on friendly terms again, but I'm not the only person here so you're welcome to come back any time.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 01 April 2012, 08:18:22
Quote from: Gambini on  31 March 2012, 21:09:44


I´m better outta here before you start removing and editing my posts. You aren´t any better than Numan.


Touch of class....  :P
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 06 April 2012, 03:08:14
I can tell by the log that Chinese crawlers are somewhat more present than it's American counterpart.


Could it be that 20% of the worlds population is from that region?
Strange really, the internet is heavily censored in China these days.
Why do I get this impression that the people of the mentioned republic aren't present but their beloved officials are??
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 09 April 2012, 18:42:24
Where the F is MSDN? this is the second day in a row I haven't been able to visit the page. Did the address change?
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: quakis on 09 April 2012, 19:15:06
It's temporarily down for a bit. Some problems with unwanted guests getting into the directory and such.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 21 April 2012, 14:27:30
I like helping friends and family, but sometimes I think things start getting out of hand. I'm a "retired" diesel and automotive technician so I'm used to people asking me to take a look at their vehicle, generator, lawn mower, or whatever has a motor. The other day my father-in-law had his dishwasher delivered. The salesperson at the store he bought it from had given him the impression that the delivery people were supposed to install it as well. My father-in-law purchased the installation kit, but did not pay for installation, so the first person he calls for help is me. I don't mind. I go over, install it, test it, and go on my way. Word travels fast. I'm now the "appliance guy" as well and have been getting calls asking me to help fix dishwashers, dryers, etc. It can get annoying because I have things I want to do around my own house, but I'm the "retired" one so I have to work around their schedule.

It's not all bad. They're friends and relatives so I don't charge them for the small stuff they're usually asking me to do (it's not like I'm overhauling a car engine or anything). But I do get alot of free meals, cookies, pies, fresh vegetables, etc. without asking for them which is nice.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 23 April 2012, 21:37:23
Cool to see MSDN back online  ;)
I was afraid many of the files went down the drain.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: MSandt on 23 April 2012, 23:21:15
Nah, no danger of that happening really.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 27 April 2012, 15:58:53
Yay, I'm off for a jam session and some brewery  8)
Three bands are gathering tonight. We'll be swapping musicians and see what's gonna happen!  ;D
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Gambini on 28 April 2012, 02:05:51
Cool!
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 16 May 2012, 22:37:55
Not so bad: 1.3 million hits since the launch if this site in November 2011  :)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 15 June 2012, 00:46:19
I'm pissed  >:(
Some scumbags have stolen the license plates off my bike.
Can you imagine: the license plates!!


So I had to pay the police a visit to report the theft and to have a registration form to show to the vehicle register office.
I also had to pay a fee for both new license plates and the papers.  >:(
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 15 June 2012, 01:07:54
Why would someone steal your plates?

Unless they plan on using them on a stolen bike, which seems kinda dumb. Stolen plates will get noticed faster than just motorcycle itself.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Gambini on 15 June 2012, 02:06:47
Maybe a plates collector?

If my bike had plates, and someone would steal them I would be happy they didn´t steal the bike too. In all seriousness.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Micky C on 15 June 2012, 04:47:01
If they put the plates on their own bike or car, and then did a robbery that was caught on camera, and they had their faces hidden, wouldn't the number plates be essentially the only thing to identify them, allowing them to avoid getting caught?

I've also heard on the news that cars in my area parked on the street sometimes get their number plates stolen, which is a shame because otherwise it's a respectable area. My family's cars are parked behind gates though. Out of site, out of mind.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 15 June 2012, 09:15:39
I'll guess they would use it on a stolen bike. Maybe for a robbery or it's like. It's not an unusual activity.
( The thieves/robbers is probably hoping that the plates isn't reported to the police just as fast as a stolen superbike is...)
That's why I was pretty fast to report the theft to the police...
It wouldn't be so nice if the SWAT team kicked in my door at the middle of the night.


I'll guess they've stolen a fast bike such as Kawasaki zzr 1400, Suzuki Hayabusa or similar.
My bike isn't that fast  8)


Gambini: I was so god damn happy that they hadn't stolen my bike ;) .

Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Gambini on 16 June 2012, 02:17:58
Well, since a kid I have this fetish about stealing Mercedes Benz badges. I just can´t resist it, if there´s a MB and nobody sees me I´ll take it away from the hood. I even stole the badge off the hearse of my grandfather´s funneral. I have them trimming my room, next to the collars of dead dogs I find in the highway (i always wash them first).
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 16 June 2012, 03:12:55
...and a dead whore in the trunk of your car...


edit: too much too soon? I don't know, but trophy hunting for collars off dead dogs is kinda off norm. (unless you're the one making them dead. fresh bleeding dead things aren't as bad as fly covered rotting bodies in my book)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 25 June 2012, 10:25:44
Yay...I've ordered a new PC today  :)


Specs:
Motherboard: MSI B75MA-P45, Socket-1155 m-ATX, B75, DDR3, 1xG3-PCIe-x16, VGA, DVI, UEFI
CPU: Intel® Core i7-3770K Processor Socket-LGA1155, Quad Core, 3.5Ghz, 8MB
GPU: ZOTAC GeForce GTX 560Ti 1GB PhysX CUDA PCI-Express 2.0, GDDR5, 2xDVI, HDMI, 822MHz
Memory: Crucial DDR3 BallistiX 1600Mhz DDR3 16GB 16GB kit(4GBx4),Tactical, 1600Mhz, 1.5V, CL8-8-8-24
Harddrive: Intel® SSD 330 Series 180GB 2.5", 25nm SATA 6 Gb/s (SATA3.0), 500MB/450MB/s
Ex-HD: Seagate Barracuda® Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s, (SATA 3.0), 64MB Cache, 5900RPM, 3.5"
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Micky C on 25 June 2012, 12:31:13
That should last you for a while  :o

Can it play polymer?  ;D
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 25 June 2012, 12:41:35
I haven't received it yet.
I'll be delivered to my house within 1-3 days.
But I'm really looking forward to play games again... :P
My current PC is from 2004 and it sucks big time compared to the new one.


I'm curious about how Polymer looks like.
And I will pick up my mapping with the Source engine again ( HL2).
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Micky C on 25 June 2012, 14:50:00
Quote from: Puritan on  25 June 2012, 12:41:35
And I will pick up my mapping with the EDuke32 engine again (D3D).

Sweet!  ;D
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 25 June 2012, 15:14:24
Quote from: Puritan on  25 June 2012, 10:25:44
GPU: ZOTAC GeForce GTX 560Ti 1GB PhysX CUDA PCI-Express 2.0, GDDR5, 2xDVI, HDMI, 822MHz

it should be able to handle polymer

my clunky old rig is from '09. it can handle polymer & it can handle HRP, but not both very well at the same time. It'll play for a bit then bog down real bad, makes me have to stop and face a wall or crouch and stare at the floor until it picks up again. (i suppose i could shut models off & turn down texture quality)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 25 June 2012, 15:32:36
Quote from: Micky C on  25 June 2012, 14:50:00
Quote from: Puritan on  25 June 2012, 12:41:35
And I will pick up my mapping with the EDuke32 engine again (D3D).

Sweet!  ;D


Oh yeah, I'm mapping DN3D as well. I've started a sequel to the Afterglow series. Those evil twin brothers are back in town  ;)
And this time with lots of art, sound and music.
It's very nice to be back on earth again. Mapping space themed levels causes some limitations. Good space maps should be rated higher imo. They're harder to create.
In fact, I'm addicted to the Build engine  :o


@Forge. Some fine tuning on your settings wouldn't hurt, I think.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 25 June 2012, 15:36:34
Quote from: Forge on  19 June 2012, 03:26:03
Finally got myself together enough to go see Prometheus. Pretty cool.

now I'm waiting for Puritan to make the Duke map


an afterglow sequel would be nice, but not as nice as...
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 25 June 2012, 15:38:49
He-he...I'm looking forward to that movie.
In fact, it'll be the only one I would go to the theatre and watch this year.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Micky C on 25 June 2012, 16:02:03
Quote from: Puritan on  25 June 2012, 15:32:36
It's very nice to be back on earth again. Mapping space themed levels causes some limitations. Good space maps should be rated higher imo. They're harder to create.

What kind of limitations are you talking about?

I'm currently working on a very complicated TROR ship, and being forced to stick to certain layers is good in some ways as it helps me visualize and lay out the whole thing easier, as well as keeping things more consistent, but on the other hand, not being able to make some rooms go beyond certain heights can sometimes be a nuisance and affects the detailing.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 25 June 2012, 16:56:35
Never done a whole space map so I wouldn't know, but I can see that trying to recreate ships as exact replicas from movies could be pretty restrictive.

I rated the last one you did pretty high because I really liked what you did with the texturing, architecture, and progression to set up the final sequence.
(of course if I had caught some of the errors Mikko did - especially the ability for the player to enter that bathroom vent without throwing the reactor switch and getting stuck & also getting stuck in certain corridors during the destruction sequence - I probably would have dropped the score two or three points against design)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 25 June 2012, 18:57:14
That should be pretty obvious.
You can't use more that 30-40 % of the textures and sprites available.
Brick walls, concrete floor and burger joint in space?  ;D
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Micky C on 26 June 2012, 01:44:21
That's why you do a space-city  ;)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Gambini on 26 June 2012, 03:11:02
Quote from: Puritan on  25 June 2012, 12:41:35
And I will pick up my mapping with the Source engine again ( HL2).

Now that you have such rig, that will be piece of cake. No need to destroy your life with Polymer and TROR. Source is capable of much much much more and your work will be playable for everybody with a rig from 2005 and ahead.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Micky C on 26 June 2012, 03:46:36
Now I really want to finish my classic renderer TROR map just to shut you up  ;D
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Gambini on 27 June 2012, 01:28:23
Quote from: Micky C on  26 June 2012, 03:46:36
Now I really want to finish my classic renderer TROR map just to shut you up  ;D

And then I´m going to shut you back when my Source mod is released. hell! where´s the connection?  :o
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Micky C on 27 June 2012, 09:55:12
I thought you were implying again that TROR only really works probably with polymer, but in hindsight I can see that you were referring to them as separate features.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: quakis on 21 July 2012, 04:03:30
Been working with Source Filmmaker recently. Currently learning the tools and practising animation/keyframing, something I've never done before. Couple of videos to show progress, I'll post up future test is people are interested.

Something like this actually happened on a server while playing with a friend. We just knew (somehow) it was each other.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0-cPo_bVks

Practising animation using the heavy, about 10 seconds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj9zh4c6Vf8
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 27 July 2012, 13:55:48
My last day at work before my summer holiday, yay!!  8)
Hope that nobody's gonna pay for screwing up my vacation  ;D

Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 01 August 2012, 15:28:57
yay! I'm off for a concert with ZZ Top  8)
Lots of beer and Jaegermeister I believe...
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Merlijn on 04 August 2012, 00:05:05
I spoke with Aymeric "MRCK" Nocus today.. IN REAL LIFE! (dun dun duuun). 
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Gambini on 04 August 2012, 01:32:42
Did you met up by coincidence? Didn´t any of you bring a cellphone/camera to portrait the event?
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Merlijn on 04 August 2012, 12:30:50
He was in Amsterdam for a few days, so he contacted me beforehand to meet up and have a few beers. :) No photo's, sorry..
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 05 August 2012, 17:49:11
Quote from: Merlijn on  04 August 2012, 00:05:05
I spoke with Aymeric "MRCK" Nocus today.. IN REAL LIFE! (dun dun duuun).


That's awesome  8)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: ck3D on 16 August 2012, 14:03:20
Quote from: Gambini on  04 August 2012, 01:32:42
Did you met up by coincidence? Didn´t any of you bring a cellphone/camera to portrait the event?

i woke up in the morning to go to work, went outside and after a while i thought my walk was taking longer than usual, that's when things clicked and i realized i was not even in the same country anymore, so i thought i would get in touch with merlijn while i was at it !

stupidities aside it is even more ironic that we forgot to take a picture that my backpack on that day was full of photo and video cameras of all sorts. i think my boss (who was there too seeing as i was in amsterdam for work) took a picture on his iphone at some point, but i don't know what the hell he could have done with it, being 66 years old and clueless about anything technology related.

amsterdam surely does have too many damn bridges, too
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 16 August 2012, 16:12:26
It's pretty cool that people get a chance to meet with other people from the Duke community.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Merlijn on 16 August 2012, 18:10:08
Quoteamsterdam surely does have too many damn bridges, too

Trust me, you get used to it after a while.  ;)
Yeah, in hindsight it's pretty stupid we didn't take any pictures lol.

In other news: Maarten met up with Rob "Highwire" Wijkstra and even recorded a jam session with him! Now it's your turn.  :P
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 16 August 2012, 20:24:21
I'll be visiting Amsterdam next summer.
It would be nice with a couple of tour guides then  ;D
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: methy on 17 August 2012, 12:50:41
first time checking this thread because by the name of it I thought it was a thread just to talk about sound speakers
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 17 August 2012, 13:21:42
Quote from: methy on  17 August 2012, 12:50:41
first time checking this thread because by the name of it I thought it was a thread just to talk about sound speakers


Hmmm...this is a world famous expression.
Check it out (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speakers'_Corner)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Merlijn on 17 August 2012, 15:38:52
Quote from: Puritan on  16 August 2012, 20:24:21
I'll be visiting Amsterdam next summer.
It would be nice with a couple of tour guides then  ;D

Well, I think you should seriously let us know if you do. :D
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: ck3D on 17 August 2012, 15:51:05
Quote from: Merlijn on  16 August 2012, 18:10:08
Quoteamsterdam surely does have too many damn bridges, too

Trust me, you get used to it after a while.  ;)

i know, i actually love the bridges and all the architecture, i was just sarcastically refering to how hard it was for us to find each other at first because we were both waiting at different bridges
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 17 August 2012, 16:44:26
I like living in the United States, but the downside is the vast distances involved between locations. My messed up back limits my travel to the local region and being tucked away up here in the Pacific Northwest means it's pretty unlikely that I'll ever encounter anyone from the Duke Community.

On the upside, no one from the Duke community is likely going to encounter me by accident (which is fortunate for them).  :)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 17 August 2012, 18:26:39
You ain't seen nothing yet  ;)


.......  8)  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7miRCLeFSJo)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 28 September 2012, 13:25:05
Yay, tonight I'm going to a concert performed by some good friends of mine.
I volunteered to be rigging crew  8)


Nix Nada - Friends (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ5QabZHTog)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 24 October 2012, 22:18:25
Funny.
Today, thirteen years ago Pascal Rouaud released his first map in the Roch series.
Time passes by...
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Gambini on 25 October 2012, 04:47:51
Sure thing. Better not start thinking how much time we wasted with this game...  :-\
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: methy on 25 October 2012, 11:34:22
I wasn't aware that having fun was a waste of time
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 25 October 2012, 12:20:12
I've spent hundreds of hours building this Duke 3D site.
I've spent thousands of hours with the Build engine.
And I've spent even more hours playing DN3D maps / mods.
I will spend much time with all three alternatives in the future.


And I'm happy!  ;D ...Let's rock!
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 09 November 2012, 08:07:32
I'm having a poker night at my place tonight  8)
Hopefully I will bring a few friends of mind to the edge of bankruptcy  ;D
I've bought a bottle of the Scottish whisky, Famous Grouse, and a friend is bringing cigars.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 22 November 2012, 14:11:38
I took a personality test on the web.
These are the results ( amazingly good characteristic of my person  :o )


http://www.personalitypage.com/INTP.html

Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Gambini on 23 November 2012, 00:29:30
They charged 5 dollars for that? there are a lot of sites that do it for free and look much more interesting than that one.

I remember having a lot of fun with this one:

http://www.okcupid.com/quizzy/browse

Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 23 November 2012, 08:04:17
5 dollars?
No, it was free of charge  8)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Gambini on 24 November 2012, 00:06:27
When I try to take the test it prompts me to a log-in window that asks me for a password, those passwords are $5 dollars worth each one (one per questionary) mmmmmh

Maybe you have an arrange with them?  :o  :P
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 24 November 2012, 09:40:24
Yep, the questions is published on a web site in my region ( Norwegian unfortunately )  :)


Edit: Found the Q's on an english page.
Here you go  ;) .


http://www.marketwatch.com/story/find-your-millionaire-code-then-your-new-career-2012-11-20

Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: MSandt on 28 November 2012, 12:23:43
I'm: http://www.personalitypage.com/INTJ.html
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: MikeNorvak on 28 November 2012, 18:33:53
Well, I'm: http://www.personalitypage.com/INTP.html (http://www.personalitypage.com/INTP.html)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Gambini on 29 November 2012, 04:17:04
I dont get it. Have you both paid for it? Everytime I try it it asks me for my credit card details.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 29 November 2012, 04:40:28
go to this page and pick the one you like:

https://www.personalitypage.com/html/portraits.html
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Gambini on 29 November 2012, 05:07:54
But that´s not the purpose of a test. Hell I´ll pay those damn 5 dollars, just to not stay behind  >:(
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: MikeNorvak on 29 November 2012, 07:23:50
@Gambini: Puritan posted another page, you just need to pick your type by answering 4 simple questions, then you can use the link Forge posted above.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: MSandt on 29 November 2012, 14:48:59
Those Myers-Briggs personality tests are pretty abundant on the internet.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: High Treason on 12 December 2012, 00:57:50
Oh, well, back in ban zone on Duke4.net for doing absolubtely nothing. If you don't know the details I shan't elaborate, but I consider the behaviour by certain administrative members to be rather childish. I aren't sure whether I can be bothered to contact the admin team about it this time, it's quite clear I'm not wanted for some reason.

Luckily I consider this my Duke hangout now anyway.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Gambini on 12 December 2012, 02:41:50
Impartiality should be the biggest virtue an admin should have. But then again, I don´t know the reasons of your banning.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: High Treason on 12 December 2012, 02:57:52
It occured to me that I don't really know either. I have actually asked but if that leads nowhere, I shall wait a week or two for things to hopefully cool down and see if things can be resolved.

I'm rather tempted to write a bitchy post about the responsible party but I have no desire to lower myself to such a level to be honest and I've got better things to do with my time.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 12 December 2012, 08:29:42
Quote from: High_Treason on  12 December 2012, 00:57:50
Luckily I consider this my Duke hangout now anyway.


Sorry to hear about your ban...
But don't worry; I've paid the fee for one more year to come around here  ;)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: High Treason on 12 December 2012, 09:10:51
Well, it's not really a ban, I just don't have posting rights.

Glad to know this forum isn't going to disappear anytime soon!
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 12 December 2012, 14:09:53
Quote from: High_Treason on  12 December 2012, 00:57:50
Oh, well, back in ban zone on Duke4.net for doing absolubtely nothing. If you don't know the details I shan't elaborate, but I consider the behaviour by certain administrative members to be rather childish. I aren't sure whether I can be bothered to contact the admin team about it this time, it's quite clear I'm not wanted for some reason.

Luckily I consider this my Duke hangout now anyway.

hmm...Maybe it's just my perspective, but certain admins at duke4 (not all of them), have changed over time. Before the site got popular prior to the 3DRealms forum closing, and before certain individuals were made admins, those people were more, shall we say, "humble", and personable. Now that they are admins and the site has the majority of the Duke traffic on it, they seem to have put themselves up on a pedestal.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: MSandt on 12 December 2012, 17:48:10
Well the stuff you said about your IQ was pretty fucking stupid but not really ban-worthy (or consistent with their policies as people post far more stupid stuff there without the slightest chance of getting banned).
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: High Treason on 12 December 2012, 21:38:14
Certain admins have had a problem with me since the 3D Realms days and I admit myself I was a bit of an asshole when I was a teenager, the thing is, those admins won't let previous issues go.

I don't understand how the thing about my IQ was stupid, that really was what I scored in my test - of course any sensible person would simply choose wether to believe it or not and carry on as normal - my friend on the other hand I don't know about, I've asked him about it and he maintains that he scored such a high result, but he also claims the highest recorded IQ is 280 or something, I'm not about to disbelieve anything he says because he's my friend and I trust him, but some of his statements do seem far fetched.

As far as I am concerned now, this is a case of cyberbullying and I'm not about to sit around and do nothing and I plan to involve the rest of the administrative team. It's quite clear that out of the entire set of active members I have again been singled out, it amazes me how some people can be so pathetic.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: MSandt on 12 December 2012, 22:55:58
If you've got a document from Mensa or some other respected high-IQ society proving your high IQ then it's okay, but if you just took some online test and paraded its results around as some kind of a credible proof of your allegedly exceptionally high IQ then your actual IQ isn't likely to be very high.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: High Treason on 12 December 2012, 23:37:40
It was a test the educational authorities did when I was diagnosed with aspergers to see if I was capable of attending a mainstream education. Unfortunately, I don't have any documentation handy, my mother likes to have that stuff, but if I ever find it I shall certainly scan it. It's the internet, so wether you believe it is your choice, I'm not really bothered either way and that isn't the issue (at Duke4.net). One thing to keep in mind is that I was thirteen when I did the test and it is common to score high at that age and for it to get lower as time goes on... I'm actually half tempted to try and retake it somehow to see what kind of result I get. I'd certaily be willing to put money on it being somewhat lower by now; All the cigarettes and lack of proper diet must surely have taken their toll on the braincells. :D

I do seem to get the idea that I've somehow upset or offended people, but I wasn't trying to be clever, I was actually trying to have a laugh given that I have a track record of making poor decisions and doing things wrong. Personally, I don't know why people are that bothered, it's only the internet after all.

There's one thing though, if I had one wish in the whole world, I've always said it would be the same thing; to be really stupid, because if I was, I would neither know nor care about what was going on around me, I'd be a lot better off.

Just to be clear, I wasn't taking an issue with you in my previous post, nor am I in this one.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: MSandt on 13 December 2012, 00:11:01
Yes, I wouldn't parade any IQs around until you can specify exactly what kind of a test it was, i.e., whether it's at all comparable to those tests that are held as some kind of standards, such as the Mensa test. You claimed your friend had an IQ in excess of 200, which is about 40-50 points above that of Einstein or Hawking.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: High Treason on 13 December 2012, 00:33:24
Point taken, I honestly had no idea it would be such a touchy subject. For the record, the test was likely rather worthless and not anything credible.

The friend, however, has told tall tales in the past and this could be one of those cases. He also has features on his computer hardware that the manafacturer doesn't have on it's datasheet and I've never seen actually working, he is commonly offered jobs by game developers and musicians because he is apparently awesome... On the other hand he has to re-format his computer every few months and constantly complains about not being able to afford things he wants and can't get a job, so who knows. I'm inclined to believe he might have been lying on this occasion, anyway, he doesn't play Duke 3D so he can't be that smart.

One good thing to come out of losing posting rights is that I have less distractions and have been making more progress with other things.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Gambini on 13 December 2012, 03:19:52
Sorry to say but: The more you explain yourself the less it sounds believable. Like: In one post you say you trust your friend, in the other you say he uses to make up stories.

BTW I´m not bothered at all by that and to be honest it´s a ridiculous reason to ban someone from a forum.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: High Treason on 13 December 2012, 03:46:36
Another fair point I guess. What I meant was that until proven otherwise, I usually trust my friends if they tell me something is true, even if I don't really believe it. This is because it is my belief that friends should trust one another, otherwise there is no point in being friends.

However, I could have formatted my posts a bit (Ok, a lot) better than I did.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Gambini on 18 December 2012, 05:40:42
Quote from: Micky C on  18 December 2012, 04:27:42
Quote from: Gambini on  18 December 2012, 01:43:36
Although seeing how just mentioning the matter raises lot of negative enery, I´ll refrain myself to keep talking about it

I don't really think that's the case. Maybe between you and Paul B since you two were directly effected by it, but I don't think the rest of us mind.

Yeah I was specifically refering to Paul´s flaming at Duke4.net in a short time after I replying to your joke. Being it the only thing I could barely connect to his unexpected attack at that guy´s wip thread.

Quote
With that in mind I think a bench making factory will be a fabulous and hilarious idea. And btw I'm sure you were working on something with Norvak  ;)

Nothing were being worked in regards to those benchs. Norvak was part of an ultra secret team working on an even more ultra secret project but he abandoned his position without explanations. Therefore, like in drug trafficking mafias, he shall be silenced permanently.

But yeah I have several projects of different magnitudes in the works. They conflict with each other all the time, fighting inside my head to be the thing on which I spend my time.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Loke on 18 December 2012, 13:29:58
Quote from: Gambini on  18 December 2012, 05:40:42
But yeah I have several projects of different magnitudes in the works. They conflict with each other all the time, fighting inside my head to be the thing on which I spend my time.

I know exactly what you're talking about and I'm essentially in the same boat. Working on three different projects at the same time... yeah, never again.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: High Treason on 18 December 2012, 13:40:06
Yep, same here. I've got that sidescroller (I plan to release that episodically), my TC and there's always a map on the go somewhere. Not to mention stuff outside of EDuke that I'm supposed to be doing.

Edit: To make matters worse I am full of ideas at the moment, I have today been working on;

> A door multiswitch (extension of the binary system I devised) capable of opening and closing 8 doors.
> Tactical bombing system (decide what to blow up first)
> An 8-story elevator (works)

And I just started work on an in-level clock mechanism, I have no idea if it works or not yet... I can report back with a YouTube video of these things working at a later time if anybody is interested in my adventures with Mapster.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Merlijn on 18 December 2012, 19:18:00
Kinda off-topic, but: High Treason, I really enjoyed your playthrough video's of the red episode. Some parts had me laughing. Especially when you started reading the viewscreen messages with a cockney accent.  :D
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 18 January 2013, 15:16:14
Yay! I'm soon off for a night of music and beer  8)
As usual, two bands that I know is gathering for a unified rehearsal.


Here is one of the bands:


Nix Nada - Friends (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ5QabZHTog)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 20 January 2013, 16:12:14
shouldn't you be working on a map instead of boozing it up and carousing with wild women?

(*sigh*....i luv being married...i luv being married...i luv being married...)

j/k my wife lets me go to concerts and music fests any time i want, and i get plenty of carousing from her. she also lets me "booze it up" if i want, i just choose not to
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 20 January 2013, 18:09:43
The map is done.
I'm awaiting some feedback from Merlijn  ;)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Merlijn on 21 January 2013, 21:49:58
Check ur inbox ;)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 21 January 2013, 23:41:07
Thank you very much, Merlijn!
I'll get back to you in a few days  ;)

Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 22 January 2013, 17:10:53
Quote from: Micky C@Duke4
I'll be moving in with the GF in about a month, any advice or avoid fights or break-ups or anything while living together?

Understand women.

Women like to complain. They live to complain. Understand that they're not upset when they are complaining. Complaining makes them very happy. If they are not complaining about something, then that's when you need to watch out. It's better if they're complaining about something outside your immediate surroundings (i.e. one of their friends, their mother, their sister (or other siblings), what happened at the store, the neighbors, the weather, their appearance/clothes/shoes/hair, some inconsiderate person on the road, etc.,etc.,etc. x infinity). The best thing to do is to make sure there is always something to complain about, but make sure it is a minor thing and change it up (i.e. your dirty socks don't make the hamper, you leave the toilet seat up, you leave toothpaste residue in the bathroom sink, you leave dirty dishes in the living room, etc.) If they don't have anything to complain about, then they go looking for something to complain about and that can be dangerous because they usually get personal and viscous.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Sanek on 31 January 2013, 16:16:14
Got ill (temperature) during my two-week vacation after exams. It seems that work on the second LORCH map is seriously shelved  :(
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 31 January 2013, 17:48:24
that's too bad.

maybe some later date opportunity will present itself to pick it back up
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Merlijn on 31 January 2013, 18:01:17
I'm sorry to hear that Sanek.  :(

In other, more optimistic, news: we have an important gig coming up tomorrow (the official release party for out EP) and we have a special guest who joins us on stage for several songs. And that person is actually someone from our little duke community: it's Rob "highwire" Wijkstra!  ;D
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 14 February 2013, 15:54:07
Holy crap!
My boss introduced me to a new series of air-conditioning items.


Well, the name of the series was: Classic 8.
I instantly was thinking: Aha...classic Duke renderer. Not the HRP version!  ;D


Time for me to have a break, it seems...he-he
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 20 February 2013, 18:14:52
i've been unable to connect to the amc forums for the last few days. anybody else having the same problem?

this happened to me a few years back, but the forum was fine and the problem was at my end with my server. that's why i'm asking.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 20 February 2013, 18:38:17
No problem connecting to AMC  ;)
Last post on the forums seems to be February 16'th.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 20 February 2013, 18:48:52
great.

sometimes it sucks living out on the fringes of civilization. available service providers are pretty limited and they always do annoying things with my connection
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 03 March 2013, 22:13:48
Man, what a coincidence  :o
A few weeks ago I was speaking of the new SQL tool called MariaDB made by the author of MySQL.
Well, today my installed MySQL crashed...
No matter what I did there was impossible to establish contact with my databases.


Lucky for me that I spent a few hours looking into MariaDB.
I installed it and everything ran on the first attempt.
But.....I might have screwed up a few entries though.
You know: wrong links, dead downloads, wrong screenshots....etc.
I've ironed out a few but I would appreciate a note if anybody encounter some of the mentioned bugs  :)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 01 April 2013, 18:59:41
Why do I never learn  ???
I've opened Mapster32 today and all of a sudden a first location is almost done.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 05 April 2013, 13:10:45
And now a second location is almost ready  :P
Point of no return has been reached.
Seems that I have to open a new wip thread one of these days.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 05 April 2013, 14:55:48
you're a better man than me. i have ck3d/quakis -itis
i can never find time to map
i know what i want to map, but i lack the energy & enthusiasm to do it
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 05 April 2013, 15:41:13
Dunno about that.
A better man would manage to stay away from Mapster32  ;D
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Sanek on 05 April 2013, 15:54:37
Disney Shuts Down LucasArts (http://kotaku.com/disney-shuts-down-lucasarts-468473749)
They gutted the whole division with approximately 150 employees losing their jobs. The layoffs follow on the heels of the dozens of Lucasfilm Animation employees who were laid off after the cancellation of "Star Wars: The Clone Wars".
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 05 April 2013, 20:12:13
I'm a bit curious about the feedback given elsewhere....is it...uhmm...constructive?
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 05 April 2013, 21:31:26
define constructive

can't answer for amc, my server won't let me on the site anymore
duke4 is hit and miss. most of the time if someone likes what they see, they give you a little positive upvote to your reputation score. they never say really why they like or don't like something. that doesn't apply to everyone though; there are a couple strays that will actually submit a comment. go look at the "what are you working on for duke right now" thread for examples.

New duke gloves:
http://forums.duke4.net/topic/1093-what-are-you-working-on-for-duke-right-now/page__view__findpost__p__153545
6 upvotes and one comment that says, "nice gloves"

gambini's dnf 2013 trailer
http://forums.duke4.net/topic/1093-what-are-you-working-on-for-duke-right-now/page__view__findpost__p__153624
5 upvotes & very many comments
most consist of oohs and ahhs, several more about why no hrp or polymer, but no real constructive feedback outside of how awesome it looks

the majority of it is like this screenshot by fox
http://forums.duke4.net/topic/1093-what-are-you-working-on-for-duke-right-now/page__view__findpost__p__152721
7 upvotes and 0 comments

to me screenshots at duke4 mean nothing and are only for popularity points, but that's just my opinion
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 05 April 2013, 23:34:21
Yay!
Post count says I'm a Battlelord  8)


(on the downside: Forge got to be a Battlelord before me.....what a shame  ;D )
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: ck3D on 06 April 2013, 00:27:14
I may be wrong, but I think it probably has to do with how a majority of the people at duke4 seems to consist of casual players, the same kind of casual players who are happy whenever they get 'free' maps (we have discussed this before), steal them and go rape them in a corner, then barely even bother commenting, giving feedback or even just saying thanks to the mapper behind the work that just provided them with some entertainment. Adding a 'rep point' (I wasn't even aware Duke4 had rep points until recently) is pretty much the equivalent of a youtube or facebook anonymous 'like', which pretty much ruin all kinds of formal, proper discussion from the start. It is like a shortcut to showing appreciation that is inherently detrimental to its own content and purpose.

those people already existed way before duke4 (just throughout the entire last decade, I only got maybe two or three emails as feedback from people who had played my map and bothered enough to send me a message and say thanks - if forums didn't exist, that's probably all the feedback I would have ever got for my mapping work), and will probably continue existing when duke4 is long gone. yes it sucks, but I don't see what anyone could do about it. Asking a mod or admin to remove the rep system altogether from the duke4 would be the best solution (at least from the mapping sections), but I am not even sure they would consider it worth it to go out of their way and do it just because we are complaining about it... or would they ?
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 06 April 2013, 00:52:06
Don't get me wrong here but: This discussion might fit better in the "General Discussion Thread".
This board is mainly for wip issues.

Forge Says:you started it. cease and desist or you will be banned
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 06 April 2013, 01:30:18
Quote from: ck3D on  06 April 2013, 00:27:14
It is like a shortcut to showing appreciation that is inherently detrimental to its own content and purpose.
this

go look at your post at Duke4 with your screenshots. you have three upvotes. 1 is from me, but i'm the only one who said anything.

Quote from: ck3D on  06 April 2013, 00:27:14
...and will probably continue existing when duke4 is long gone. yes it sucks, but I don't see what anyone could do about it. Asking a mod or admin to remove the rep system altogether from the duke4 would be the best solution (at least from the mapping sections), but I am not even sure they would consider it worth it to go out of their way and do it just because we are complaining about it... or would they ?
they wouldn't consider removing it, and i wouldn't consider even bothering to bring it up to them.
it is what it is and people should set their expectations for receiving well thought out replies to such

duke4 is good for other things, just not mappers looking for constructive criticism or extended amounts of responses to a release (unless it's some big production number like WGR2 or DNF 2013)

you won't get that many responses here because the active community is pretty small, but at least you'll get some reply for your effort
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: quakis on 06 April 2013, 13:19:31
Quote from: Forge on  05 April 2013, 14:55:48i have ck3d/quakis -itis

We should work on a map together, it'll be the greatest, most amazing unfinished and abandoned piece of work the community will never see in the history of Duke modding! 8)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 07 April 2013, 17:06:12
Quote from: Puritan on  05 April 2013, 15:41:13
Dunno about that.
A better man would manage to stay away from Mapster32  ;D
not really. i start something then realized that i can never make want i want so instead of compromising i just drop it like a hot potato. no discipline.
then i keep convincing myself that someday i'll get back to it and make it work to finish it off, but i never do.
i like mapping for entertainment purposes when the mood strikes me, but i don't like my own work because i'm overly critical of it and i don't get any satisfaction out of finishing and releasing them.
i'd rather play maps then make them anyway

Quote from: quakis on  06 April 2013, 13:19:31
We should work on a map together, it'll be the greatest, most amazing unfinished and abandoned piece of work the community will never see in the history of Duke modding! 8)
i only have one sitting on my hard drive, everything else has been deleted. i have to work on my pack rat skills so i'm unworthy. i bow to my king  8)
otherwise we could have put together our scraps and the project would be done already
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Loke on 07 April 2013, 18:14:45
Quote from: Forge on  07 April 2013, 17:06:12
... i don't like my own work because i'm overly critical of it...

I feel the same. There's nothing about my work that I'm particularly satisfied with regardless of what game it is. I don't go around thinking "Wow, this looks awesome!" but rather "Wow, this looks dull!". I do get some satisfaction when finishing stuff and releasing them though as well as reading what people think about it.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: MSandt on 08 April 2013, 23:18:03
I think my works are the pinnacle of human creativity.

The rest of you are insecure about your work precisely because of this, because deep down you know you're nothing but utter failures when compared to my creative genius.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Loke on 09 April 2013, 00:54:46
Yeah, that's probably why. :-[ Why do you Finns have to be so good at everything?

Finnjävlar.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 09 April 2013, 17:05:42
Quote from: Loke on  07 April 2013, 18:14:45
I do get some satisfaction when finishing stuff and releasing them though as well as reading what people think about it.
Quote from: Forge on  01 April 2013, 02:41:21
i'd like to thank the two people who played my maps and made this possible....
it's because of my cynical attitude towards the community in general that i really don't care about releasing anything. i map for my own entertainment -period-

things happened to me while i was deployed in a war zone. now i question those actions and developed a state of being over critical of myself

i also feel like i "missed the boat". i've been a lurker in the duke world from pretty much the beginning, but the military always kept me on the move deploying and doing exercises and maneuvers. i'd be lucky to see what the inside of my house looked like for more than a couple months at a time before i was out the door again. it wasn't until i was reassigned from deploying units to training those who deployed that i was able to settle down in a stable environment and actually join the community. of course by that time the community was already decayed down to nothing compared to the earlier halcyon days. it also didn't help that i was hopped up on pain killers and bat shit crazy from all the fucked up shit i dealt with during my deployments; i was pretty aggressive and random with what i said. i would start or jump into fights for no reason one moment then the next i'd be all weird and mopey. i didn't exactly get along with anybody until i started getting proper treatment for my conditions. first impressions are a motherfucker though and they can come back to bite you in the ass

boil all that down and you get the source of my cynicism and indifference

edit:
i'm still bat shit crazy and go off the deep end on occasion, but i'm alot more mellow than i used to be

too much information?

Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: ck3D on 16 April 2013, 00:23:17
I remember that map of Stephano Lessa Forge just reviewed today, 'Zombie Mall'. I was already around on the forums when it was released and that was over ten years ago. Damn
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 16 April 2013, 14:23:06
Well, this time Duke starts out in his favourite strip joint.
After a few days of R&R he got a message from the EDF about some strange activity on a nearby railway station.
The offices at the freight dept is not answering the phone but still lots of carriages are leaving the cargo area of the station.
What are those alien bastards building??  ;) 
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: ck3D on 23 April 2013, 02:13:10
some computer guy just restored an old hard drive of mine, the contents of which i thought were long lost, for my younger brother to use. it is from a computer i was using over ten years ago and some of my very first maps were still in their respective folders. pretty amazing to be able to take a look at them again in mapster in 2013 even though they were and still are complete shit, for nostalgia's sake it definitely does the job.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: quakis on 23 April 2013, 02:38:18
You should consider showing off some screens of those. :P
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: ck3D on 23 April 2013, 14:52:00
i might do that, or i might even zip them all together and post them, they are definitely not worth reviewing due to their overwhelming flaws like lack of shading, lack of detailing or overall crampedness but a couple of the later ones look pretty decent, and new playing material is always good even if it's not ground-breaking (it's about 20 maps including a full episode after all)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 23 April 2013, 15:32:33
i'm interested in it from the progression point of view to watch how your style evolved

maybe we could come up with a trade agreement. i have a bunch of old gambini maps that he probably feels the same way about as you do with your first works....
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: ck3D on 23 April 2013, 20:13:42
i just took a bunch of screenshots in mapster, i am going to make a thread specifically for them. if more people are interested in what they see i might post the actual maps themselves, sometime, somehow, or, for the unfinished stuff, go as far as sending the files to whoever gets inspired enough to finish my work...
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: quakis on 30 April 2013, 21:37:11
Updated my site with a redesign, but there may still be problems that need weeded out. Feel free to check it out; http://taw.duke4.net/
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 08 May 2013, 18:51:30
Yay! The 500 maps milestone has been reached  :)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: ck3D on 25 May 2013, 01:36:58
this is going to sound stupid and horribly nerdy but, how many of you guys have dreamed before, or still regularly dream about duke maps ? as in, whether playing or making an incredible one, be it in terms of design or immersion. it is getting really late here and i have to wake up really early tomorrow so i should really go to sleep now, i was just wondering because i just remembered i actually did last night (the map was an incredibly well planned and thought out snow / city map with ice-related tricks and multi level sprite buildings, very detailed aesthetics and a very open layout, as big as roch island or wgcity, while still retaining a considerable amount of nooks and crannies and alternative routes. basically it followed the same theme as the map i am working on on and off, except it 100% fulfilled my vision instead of being a mediocre attempt at something tangible playable).

i mean dreaming has always influenced my mapping a lot in terms of inspiration, actual ideas i eventually threw together and all, and it's happened to me quite a few times when i was still mapping more actively. i just find it funny that nowadays i am working jobs and travelling and living with my woman and basically doing everything in life but playing video games, i am still getting these dreams, i think last night was actually the third time i am getting one this week (which is an exceptional rate, they are usually much more scarce, but still). i remember another dream not too long ago about a similar small town / countryside map set at dusk that was pretty much the equivalent of an uber detailed and realistic anarchy city map with incredible buildings and houses with balconies and gardens i could only dream to make, the idea of which itself is enough to put my actual skills to shame

so, am i a lost cause ?
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 25 May 2013, 02:26:32
Quote from: ck3D on  25 May 2013, 01:36:58
so, am i a lost cause ?
yes.
but not because of your dreams  ;)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 25 May 2013, 07:29:55
It's a quite natural thing to do, Aymeric.
Every action that involves creativeness also trigger your subconsciousness.
Mapping is creativity for sure!


I've dreamt about Duke maps myself a couple of times  ;)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 25 May 2013, 14:51:55
doing it on a daily basis over a period of time also helps imprint it into your brain.

your mind can make up some weird shirt while you're dreaming, but it uses alot of what you're familiar with as a foundation.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Merlijn on 25 May 2013, 22:56:05
Happens to me as well, I once had a dream about a snowy city map in the same vein of supa3 but much, much better. It's a shame I won't be able to replicate it in mapster.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: High Treason on 26 May 2013, 01:26:57
I dream about Build quite a lot, a lot of my dreams look like Mapedit too (The editor used with Blood).

Even when I'm awake, whenever I look at a building I try to think how it could be made in the engine.

Last time I had a dream it was that I released a new map, it scored 100/100 and all the other mappers said they were giving up because I was the best... I actually felt kinda bad but was still disappointed when I woke up.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: ck3D on 26 May 2013, 01:33:33
Quote from: Merlijn on  25 May 2013, 22:56:05
Happens to me as well, I once had a dream about a snowy city map in the same vein of supa3 but much, much better. It's a shame I won't be able to replicate it in mapster.

your dream and resulting impression were just like mine, it's always like that ! in every art form you have to master the technique in order to express your vision as accurately as possible, but it takes a lifetime only to come half-decently close. mapster is no exception.

oh and i have that thing with buildings too, and rooms. or new areas i find myself exploring, every once in a while i find myself wondering whether it would make for a good duke nukem level or not. i always feel so stupid when that happens
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 01 June 2013, 17:00:40
Man, I'm in a good mood today.
Summer has arrived and it's really hot outside.
I'm having an ice cold lager on my porch at the moment.
Treating a major hangover  :o
I actually got kicked out from my favourite pub last night  ;D
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: DavoX on 01 June 2013, 19:36:28
LOL, if you're not kicked out you're not really having fun  ;D
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 01 June 2013, 20:49:28
You're absolutely right, DavoX!
Can't beat the feeling when you're sitting on the side path wondering what the hell happened?  8)


And I'm a slow learner: right now I'm preparing myself for yet another epic journey to the above mentioned pub  ;D


And here's my water hole:  Torget Pub (http://www.torgetpub.no/)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: DavoX on 01 June 2013, 23:31:14
That looks very "buildable"  8)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 02 June 2013, 15:44:41
it's easy to kick puritan out of a pub. they just load him up on his walker and wheel him out the door  ;D
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 02 June 2013, 23:50:42
 ;D
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 21 June 2013, 18:09:06
This may be an enchanted evening.
A severe thunderstorm is rolling in from the North Sea.
I love thunder & lightning  :)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: DavoX on 23 June 2013, 05:17:31
I don't, that means I have to unplug all the devices in case a lightning bolt hits :P
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 23 June 2013, 11:05:46
That's not a problem where I lives.
All wiring is underground  ;)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 10 July 2013, 04:07:03
i don't know which is worse:
vmware taking over the network connections and inserting their own adapters or the crappy microsoft network connection manager.
went through a pile of crap just to get windows xp mode from microsoft virtual pc to work with vmware - then lost internet cause of network adapter hijacking by the damn vmware program. kept removing the vwmare adapters to get the hardware adapter to take back over, but f*cking microsoft automated bullshit gives the user no friggin control and just looks for and grabs whatever adapter it feels like. no internet, so no getting something better and manually controlling the process. finally the connection manager grabbed the hardware just short of me having to uninstall vmware.

can't just use virtual pc, i have home premium and it doesn't work on that release. can't use my xp, it's 64 bit and i need 32 bit. microsoft distributes a free version of windows xp for use with its virtual pc, but some conversion and manipulation can get it to work on vmware.
windows xp is not worth the day and a half of f*ckery it took to get my comp back to normal, but i want to get at my shareware & old games from the early-mid 90s that are on floppies and the exe's won't run on 64 bit systems
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 12 July 2013, 17:14:43
Man, the world ain't exactly a big place to be....
The weather here should have been represented by a clear blue sky.
Well, it ain't.
It's friggin' hot but kinda cloudy.
The cloudy weather turned out to be smoke from a forest fire in Canada (!).
And I am located in Norway  :o
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 12 July 2013, 17:27:15
friggin Canadians trying to get in on the environmental catastrophe bandwagon any way they can

blame Canada
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 12 July 2013, 18:11:00
Yeah....I do  ;D
My tan is ruined by those alien bast......ehrm.....Canadians!


I'll guess our politicians ain't better than yours:
They'll raise the "environment taxes" asap  :P
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 17 July 2013, 16:43:24
The weather's been too nice lately to stay inside and play on a computer. been a long, long time since i've enjoyed a summer vacation; camping, fishing, vegetable gardening, festivals & fairs, road trips....

Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Gambini on 18 July 2013, 01:04:45
But you said you´re tired of road trips!!

Does that mean you plan to take some vacations or that you´re on it already?
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 18 July 2013, 03:50:46
i'm tired of road trips that take two or four days of being behind the wheel for 12 hours or more at a time. Locale excursions are fine: it only takes an hour to get to Seattle, the pacific ocean, Portland Oregon, Mnt. St. Helens, Mnt. Rainier, fishing at one of the numerous lakes or rivers nearby etc.

I'm home now, but i'm going camping again after the 25th
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 29 July 2013, 13:09:20
More than 30,000 downloaded maps within a year  :)
There is still Dukers out there it seems.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 29 July 2013, 13:12:01
Btw: I've started my summer holiday today. Yay!
I might be away for a few days every now and then the next three weeks.
But I'll pop in and do some maintenance if necessary  ;)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: DavoX on 29 July 2013, 16:46:39
Quote from: Puritan on  29 July 2013, 13:09:20
More than 30,000 downloaded maps within a year  :)
There is still Dukers out there it seems.

Fuck yeah!!!

Have a good holiday Puritan :)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 30 July 2013, 05:27:52
just getting back from my vacation.

try to stay sober this time Puritan. That way you can remember it later if your alzheimers doesn't kick in
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 30 July 2013, 11:33:58
Yeah right  8)


I'm going here tomorrow:


Notodden Blues festival (http://bluesfest.no/)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Sanek on 13 August 2013, 21:38:14
Just before the release of my last map have one-day journey to another town, and have a meeting with...Zykov Eddy! Have a very nice conversation; it was just amazing to talk with someone from community in offline. :)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: DavoX on 13 August 2013, 21:51:11
Jealous! I really like the stuff Eddy does.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Sanek on 24 August 2013, 17:26:47
Quote from: DavoX on  13 August 2013, 21:51:11
Jealous!
He also showed me some of his new projects (and other's very cool stuff, which you will never see) and we even played in ck3d's latest map for the first time.  :)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: ck3D on 20 September 2013, 11:33:39
that is rad. i am honored you guys were even talking about my map. same thing happened when merlijn and i met up last year in amsterdam when i went there for work - at first i was kind of making it a point not to talk about duke too much because i thought i would feel awkward talking about a video game in real life. but after less than half an hour and a few beers, the conversation slowly drifted to nothing but the process of making user maps, and as we drank more beers that's pretty much all we could talk about. that was a pretty fun day !
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 20 September 2013, 13:59:21
Quote from: ck3D on  20 September 2013, 11:33:39
.... same thing happened when merlijn and i met up last year in amsterdam when i went there for work - at first i was kind of making it a point not to talk about duke too much because i thought i would feel awkward talking about a video game in real life. but after less than half an hour and a few beers, the conversation slowly drifted to nothing but the process of making user maps, and as we drank more beers that's pretty much all we could talk about. that was a pretty fun day !


;D


One of these days I'm going to visit the Oostrum bros myself.
I was planning a trip this summer but Real Life put some bumps on my road.
Hopefully I will manage to go to Holland summer of '14  8)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Sanek on 24 September 2013, 22:41:52
What do you guys think is better: just to make good user maps, or spend all the time in attempt create an epic TC? In recent days, I'm thinking about the idea of ​​making the TC, and even stopped work on LORCH 3 because of this thing. I have a feeling that I can't handle the TC production, but want to do this so much. :'(
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 24 September 2013, 23:50:38
Why don't you just go for it?
A step up in the learning process, so to speak  :)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 27 September 2013, 16:14:55
very few (if any) of the epic TCs are one-man shows

if you get together a good base, you might be able to recruit people (modelers, coders, etc), and get advice from others with experience in such things (like James, Merlijn, Mikko, etc)

these projects take a long time to develop so you'll need patience and perseverance, but it'll pay off if you can get through it all
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: quakis on 27 September 2013, 16:31:11
You should just do what you want and learn from the experience as you go.

Personally though, I'd rather see more singular map releases. If an author wishes to push Duke3D in a different direction, I suggest releasing their projects in bite sized pieces; single-level mods. It ensures that at least something got released from the work put into it. Additional levels can then be released later, one by one as they get finished and receive useful feedback during the course.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: High Treason on 01 October 2013, 10:55:54
I've been working on a 486 build, it's gone wrong since day 1. CPU is still at the post office, cooler arrived damaged, RTC Chip failed and the motherboard cannot be repaired. Not in a good mood at all. I also don't have the money to do anything about it right now.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 01 October 2013, 16:08:55
isn't being on a tight budget so much fun?

put together my minor build and found out afterwards that there's a history of this cpu and motherboard not getting along very well
get random freeze-ups when the extra cores are unlocked that i didn't get on the older board
now i need to save up for a fx chip
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Gambini on 02 October 2013, 00:37:15
lol. Who would think Vintage PCs would become a trend? I´ve tossed so much "vintage" stuff thinking it was crap, a Nintendo clone, a ZX Spectrum, a Pentium 233MMX...  :'(
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 02 October 2013, 00:47:32
yea. hindsite is 20/20
all those old 386/486 cpus& boards, ram sticks, agp cards, etc tossed in the trash
i could have made four or five old comps out of the stuff if i had kept it
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: High Treason on 02 October 2013, 05:45:06
And to think, people used to say all kinds of shit to me about hoarding (which I wasn't, I was collecting) - always knew I'd have the last laugh. It's awesome seeing stuff I got cheap/free years back actually being worth something, what sucks though is seeing YouTube channels that haven't been around as long as mine either make substandard content, be obsessed by OEM/IBM (A lot of the VC community is - they suck anyway (http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/forumdisplay.php?22-PCs-and-Clones)) or plain copying my format (A Duke forum user, disappeared after he got partnership, would usually upload a very similar video within 14 days of me doing one) hit it big, though as non-partners go I'm doing well - I refuse the offers.

Anyway, I got paid again today, should be working on my new workstation now but I've ordered another board (this one (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Socket-3-motherboard-AMD-5x86-133Mhz-CPU-32MBRAM-VIdeo-Card-etc-/141077064743?pt=US_Vintage_Computing_Parts_Accessories&hash=item20d8d92c27)) though I'll be pulling that CPU out and sticking one of these in. (http://www.cpu-collection.de/?tn=0&l0=co&l1=SGS-Thomson&l2=5x86#5x86-100) I doubt Viper the cRapper would approve, but then he thinks my Pentium Pro Engineering Sample is shit compared to his stock bullshit anyway... I don't usually speak poorly of people on the internet but there aren't half some freaking idiots over on Duke4.net these days.

Forge's problems with his build suck worse, as I assume it's his main machine. Though as I said, I'm supposed to be working on my own, it's gonna pwn (my bank account)! Seeing as I'm in ramble mode, here are my planned specs;

> XSPC H1 Case¹
> SuperMicro X10SAE Motherboard
> Xeon E3 1280v3 CPU
> nVidia Quadro K6000²
> 6xWestern Digital RE4 4TB HDDs RAID0
> Liquid Cooling, likely Dual-Loop with overpriced fancy stuff, it's my last new build.
> Case lighting, designed a circuit that monitors water temps, if it exceeds a certain level it swaps white lights for red ones.
> 32GB ECC UDIMM DDR3
> Probably another Intensity Pro
> May add two more HDDs and get a card to run CD ROMS, could use external CD-ROM as I rarely use them now.
> Nobody makes good sound cards anymore, have to use onboard, crappy Windows driver model.

Before some smart-ass turns up and witters on about gaming, I don't game enough to care, I play DOS games so I use a DOS PC for that, only modern game I play is The Sims and I'm sure it'll run fine. It's a workstation for content creation, not a gaming rig. My current workstation turns 9 next April.

¹The only retailer in the UK has just stopped stocking it and it's the only case I can fit this rig in, they better get them back or I'll have to cancel the build!
²May use a standard GTX770, not sure yet.

Oh, while I am here, I'm gonna pull a Norvak and shove my music in everyone's face; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKmdIy0-BKk actually working on a new composition right now though.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 02 October 2013, 14:57:57
Quote from: High Treason on  02 October 2013, 05:45:06
...I doubt Viper the cRapper would approve, but then he thinks my Pentium Pro Engineering Sample is shit compared to his stock bullshit anyway... I don't usually speak poorly of people on the internet but there aren't half some freaking idiots over on Duke4.net these days.
..and to think people used to drive muscle cars to compare penis size. how archaic and quaint

Quote
Forge's problems with his build suck worse, as I assume it's his main machine. Though as I said, I'm supposed to be working on my own, it's gonna pwn (my bank account)! Seeing as I'm in ramble mode, here are my planned specs;
it's not so bad. it almost never locks up during a game; only when i'm actually trying to get some work done and right as i drop down the menu to save my progress. (or just as i'm about to hit "post"). the bigger frustration is getting the Debian Linux to connect to the internet with the new board. can't get the box to ping the router. at the point where it's firmware or a kernel module and may dump the distro to try another one and see if i have the same problem.

Quote
Before some smart-ass turns up and witters on about gaming, I don't game enough to care, I play DOS games so I use a DOS PC for that, only modern game I play is The Sims and I'm sure it'll run fine. It's a workstation for content creation, not a gaming rig. My current workstation turns 9 next April.
there are games besides dos games that are worth playing?

Quote
Oh, while I am here, I'm gonna pull a Norvak and shove my music in everyone's face; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKmdIy0-BKk actually working on a new composition right now though.
or my comp freezes when i try to watch somebody's video  ::)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: High Treason on 03 October 2013, 06:30:42
Quote from: Forge on  02 October 2013, 14:57:57
..and to think people used to drive muscle cars to compare penis size. how archaic and quaint
I don't drive, so I'm out of that one. They can call it ASD all they want, if you want real ASD I was diagnosed when I was 7 and you won't catch me behaving like that... If they actually do have a condition they aren't helping their own cause very much. Plus I literally can't view half the threads now anyway as the gifs almost freeze the browser.

Quote
it's not so bad. it almost never locks up during a game; only when i'm actually trying to get some work done and right as i drop down the menu to save my progress. (or just as i'm about to hit "post"). the bigger frustration is getting the Debian Linux to connect to the internet with the new board. can't get the box to ping the router. at the point where it's firmware or a kernel module and may dump the distro to try another one and see if i have the same problem.
As luck would have it, mine is still reliable (except one hard drive disappears if I put the machine in standby) but the coolant is leaking and the northbridge fan is failing, it usues non-standard sizes and fittings so cannot be replaced.

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there are games besides dos games that are worth playing?
Not many.  Most of them were on the SNES or Mega Drive, some good ones on PS2 as well.

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or my comp freezes when i try to watch somebody's video  ::)
YouTube rarely works these days anyway as far as I am aware. HTML5 rendered any control in the player useless and you can't be linked to a time in a video for the most part.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 03 October 2013, 08:30:37
On a side note: My graphics card is facing the final curtain I'm afraid.
I can work with my comp for 10-15 minutes before the screen turns into a psychedelic collage  :P


( and Forge: It's not flashbacks from the 70's  ;D )
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 03 October 2013, 14:36:01
i'd send you my old 9800gtx+, but i already installed it in my father-in-law's comp

i figured out what kept my linux from connecting to the network. the usual bios culprits, legacy support and network stack, did nothing, it was some obscure setting ,IOMMU, buried in the other dozen controllers which needed to be enabled. (it is supposedly used to assign actual physical addresses to hardware in virtual machines. what this has to do with installing an OS on a normal comp is anyone's guess, but this rig is "special" and virtualizes everything but windows 8 to separate it from actually having a hardware address i guess. it allows multiple OSs on the same disk.

also resolved to keep the two cores locked cause i'm tired of the lock-ups. not like i'm doing any heavy lifting with it at the moment.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 06 October 2013, 05:35:38
Quote from: Puritan on  03 October 2013, 08:30:37
On a side note: My graphics card is facing the final curtain I'm afraid.
I can work with my comp for 10-15 minutes before the screen turns into a psychedelic collage  :P


( and Forge: It's not flashbacks from the 70's  ;D )

can you afford a new one atm? if not you can always underclock it and hope it lasts until payday
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: zykoveddy on 27 October 2013, 00:32:31
Hello guys. I'm feeling really bad right now, so I feel like I need to tell someone about it. I'm in a deep depression, which lasts probably for a year or maybe longer. You can tell by my last releases that I'm not feeling happy. All of them are mostly horror related, or simply fucked up like the Yume Nikki 3d thing. The Wall map and YN3D were developed at the time when I was feeling especially dreadful.

So, I have some problems which are the reasons of me having a depression. One of them is loneliness. I honestly don't think that there's something wrong with loneliness, I've always been a calm guy and I prefer being alone most of the time. But the problem is, now I feel like I really need to get some friends. I want to get a normal life, have fun with true friends. I've had "friends" in a past years actually, but they're all vanished somewhere, usually with a drama. Last half of the year I tried to get some friends, but no luck.

The other problem is, I'm almost 21, and never dated. I was attracted to some girls, but they have been already in relationship at this time. I've never got a chance with a lonely girl, 95% of girls I've knew were in relationship. Most of the people I know now are in relationship, and it makes me feel especially lonely. And most of these people are younger than me.

There are a lot of other problems, but I don't feel like discussing them right now. These two I've mentioned are the worst.

I seriously don't now what to do. I can't stop thinking about suicide, I feel like I'm trapped.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Gambini on 27 October 2013, 01:36:17
Despite you being in your very late teen ages, you´re still a teen in your hearth. Teens usually feel depressed because the meaining or their existence is not tied to any tangible fact. Most teens have nothing to worry about but pass school tests and look cool. Boredom is a consecuence of having sorted out survival. Since in most civilized countries survival is taken as granted (more if your parents look after you) you feel bored and then depressed because you´re bored.

Antisocial customs only lead to an antisocial life. If your life is full of hermit activities, it´s natural you´ll be a lonely person. Some years ago I felt like I was fine without a social life, and I began to neglect my sociability. I managed to be lonely to the point I realized I didn´t like that, then I began to develop social customs again. It takes time and, being your case, can be difficult as any other venture you take. I´d say suicide is the stupidiest thing one can do, unless you suffer some kind of irreversible pain. Do something to get friends, join an activity that is not about being you and your screen in your room. Once you make friends (try to make friends of your kind), you can start getting invited to parties or other kind of meetings where single chicks go. Then it´s all about getting drunk until you lose your shyness. Once you break the ice of your own self-confidence regarding to approach women, it will be a matter of time until you get somebody to lay with.

In short: Making new friends is about being sociable, and getting chicks is all about self-confidence.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 27 October 2013, 16:09:26
you're spending too much time focusing on your problems when you should be focusing on a solution.

problem=lonely, bored, depressed,feeling worthless

solution=i'm not in your town so you need to figure out what social groups are there (i.e. join a fitness club and do yoga or pilates, take an evening art class, etc)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: High Treason on 29 October 2013, 06:16:51
Is it a bad thing if I named my microwave? Well, it's broken, I've had it since the 90's, she was great, cooked things when I told her to cook things.

Really upset about it, I bought a new one, thirty quid? Stupid amount, too expensive. I wasn't impressed at all with the new one, it only has 700 Watts of power (Apparently, because the dial just says Lo, Med and Hi) but it takes twice as long as the old one did at 700W (The old one went to 800W) and the wave guide appears to be cardboard. Sometimes, it won't work at all, not unless I mess with the door (the safety switch seems to be a little enthuseastic) - seems to happen more at night for some reason.

Nothing cooks evenly, it all tastes like paint and I'm suspicious of a potential leak, given that if I place water in front of the oven it will heat up rather quickly. I miss my 90's microwave, I want my Sammy back. :(


It occured to me today that practically everything I own is from the 90's or earlier... Is that bad?
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Micky C on 29 October 2013, 12:35:46
Quote from: High Treason on  29 October 2013, 06:16:51
It occured to me today that practically everything I own is from the 90's or earlier... Is that bad?

You could make the argument that they don't make things like they used to. Still, was your new microwave 30 pounds? That sound really cheap? I guess you get what you pay for.

Quote from: zykoveddy on  27 October 2013, 00:32:31
So, I have some problems which are the reasons of me having a depression. One of them is loneliness. I honestly don't think that there's something wrong with loneliness, I've always been a calm guy and I prefer being alone most of the time. But the problem is, now I feel like I really need to get some friends. I want to get a normal life, have fun with true friends. I've had "friends" in a past years actually, but they're all vanished somewhere, usually with a drama. Last half of the year I tried to get some friends, but no luck.

The other problem is, I'm almost 21, and never dated. I was attracted to some girls, but they have been already in relationship at this time. I've never got a chance with a lonely girl, 95% of girls I've knew were in relationship. Most of the people I know now are in relationship, and it makes me feel especially lonely. And most of these people are younger than me.

It sounds like things aren't quite as bad with my life as with yours at the moment, but rest assured I can sympathize somewhat with what you're going through. I've been to 4 different educational institutions over my life and I never seem to get close enough to more than one or two of my friends from each one before we finish and everyone splits up. Then I've had to repeat the cycle all over again of making a few close friends at uni, which I'll probably also lose since they'll move away after graduation.

When it comes to making new friends, everyone's got their own set groups of friends, and sure you can talk to some of them a bit, but there's this constant feeling at the back of your head that you're going to over-stay your welcome if you talk too long. I'm not really a fan of parties or clubbing or any of that, and generally like spending time alone (of course not always). And although I'm fine talking to friends, I feel myself become somewhat awkward when meeting more than a few new people at a time, and even when there's not that many new people I'm still scratching my head at finding things to say. I know for a fact that I tend to default to being arrogant and condescending (half the time it's meant jokingly, not sure if that's better or worse) so I'm afraid that if I open my mouth I'll just distance people, which is depressing.

When it comes to girls... lucky me I'm studying engineering, where the ratio of girls to guys is about 1:7. There's not that many girls let alone decent girls, and of course all the decent girls are already in a relationship. I've had 2 girlfriends in the past who I've met as friends of friends, but honestly I can't even think where I could meet another one. My closest interest/hobby other than Duke is badminton and out of the few girls there they all seem to be chinese foreign with english as their second language. And due to the things I've mentioned above, in the unlikely event I meet a new potential girlfriend I'm not even sure what I would say in a conversation past finding out her basic interests and backgrounds.

If I'm honest, suicide has very briefly popped into my head on particularly bad days, perhaps once or twice a year (usually due to a combination of dwelling too much on the above issues plus my enormous and neverending university workload), but never enough to take it seriously as an option. I tend to wake up feeling a lot better the next day when that happens.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Gambini on 30 October 2013, 00:28:24
QuoteI know for a fact that I tend to default to being arrogant and condescending (half the time it's meant jokingly, not sure if that's better or worse) so I'm afraid that if I open my mouth I'll just distance people, which is depressing.

Hehe. I´m like that too. The problem is in the other people actually, who can´t understand I´m just fucking around. Smart people who get my jokes don´t get distant.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: High Treason on 30 October 2013, 08:29:45
Bad news; new microwave stopped working, funny thing is I can hear the magnetron running but the food doesn't get warm, a bit scary really, that microwave energy has to go somewhere and if it's not hititng the water molecules in the food what, or who's, water molecules is it bombarding?

Good news; Rusted to death, worn out glass plate wheels and all Sammy lives!

You can just about make out some of the rust spots in the image.

EDIT: I'd forgotten that porridge came out with a faint taste of cigarettes. Mmmmmmm.

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Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 02 November 2013, 10:40:58
Work expands to fill the time available for its completion  :P
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 02 November 2013, 17:22:53
Quote from: Puritan on  02 November 2013, 10:40:58
Work expands to fill the time available for its completion  :P
Interpretation:
too much beer nearly gave me alcohol poisoning, will take time to get completely sober, most likely all November is needed to recover from Oktoberfest
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 21 November 2013, 21:18:39
I can't play any DN3D these days  >:(
I've got an inflammation in my left shoulder preventing me from gaming.
I can barely write a few words on the keyboard.


So there will be no crap-reviews from me for a while. ( Phew....some might say  ;D )

Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Merlijn on 21 November 2013, 22:07:39
Damn, that sucks man. :( Hope your arm gets better soon!
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Gambini on 21 November 2013, 23:33:32
I told you to wank with the right hand!!  :o

Hope you heal soon!
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 22 November 2013, 16:06:06
you're not supposed to arm wrestle with bar wenches; they're tougher than they look
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 22 November 2013, 17:12:42
He-he...you're a force to be reckoned with  ;D
Thanks guys.
It's hard not to be able to play anything these days. [Duke sound No 72]
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Sanek on 02 December 2013, 19:40:33
A little bit upset by recent Puritan's actions, or by his touchiness. Of course, I'm not very good person myself at this point, but at least I keep promises. Maybe I'm a little bit mistaken...
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 02 December 2013, 20:46:03
that's pretty general. wanna be more specific about what's bothering you?
aside from his assertion that there may no longer be a mapper of the month (temporarily or permanently), i see no visible or obvious deviations from his normal behavior or actions (he's always been a bit on the authoritative side about his site, and is not afraid to say so, but so are Tx & Mikko - so i don't see a major issue there)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Sanek on 02 December 2013, 21:46:06
Quote from: Forge on  02 December 2013, 20:46:03
that's pretty general. wanna be more specific about what's bothering you?
About two weeks ago, the Puritan demanded/asked me to give him screenshots for my review on the 2013 DNF DLC. I don't have time, so, I turned him down in a bit tough way. He perceive it too much, like a big injury, so he gave me a warning.
Spoilers for forum members ahead!

Almost two months before it he wrote to me that it's my time to become the next M.o.M. - he says that I can be in November or December. Well, it's December now, and I'm not M.o.M.  It seems that because of the precedent with the screenshots he's so angry at me that he put David B. in M.o.M. place.
Well, after all these events I become angry too, and decided to write about it here. And after you wrote that there may no longer be a mapper of the month (temporarily or permanently), I became even more angry.

Of course, it's not much trouble, I can live without it, buit it's a little bit sad.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 02 December 2013, 23:52:49
i'm only going off your side of the story, but that is messed up.
I gave him screenshots a couple days later so that should be a non-issue. I can't speak for what was said between the two of you about providing screenshots since "a bit tough" is open for interpretation. If I fired warnings at anyone who disagreed with me "a bit roughly", just about everyone here would have gotten one or two.
As far as m.o.m. I can understand your frustration. It's not like you're winning some grand prize, but the extra recognition is nice. Being deceived about it would be kind of a slap in the face. 
Sorry there's nothing I can do about it. My mod powers start and stop with the forum. If Puritan stops updating the site it will be just another AMC with a front page.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 23 December 2013, 20:25:46
so Puritan, have you been firing your shotgun off to scare away the evil christmas witches and spirits?
http://www.celebrations360.com/index.php/unusual-christmas-traditions-in-norway-2-535/
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 23 December 2013, 22:18:39
I even have a knife standing in the wood above my front door  ;D
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: High Treason on 01 January 2014, 03:33:37
Drum machine is on it's way!
(http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Casio-RZ-1-Digital-Sampling-Rhythm-Composer-Drum-Machine-Vintage-for-Repair-/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/VjwAAMXQO21Rqf~w/$T2eC16J,!zUE9s38-IrJBRqf+wCcWg~~60_57.JPG)

Needs repairing but the problems listed are fairly well documented. 80's mode on...

Actually it was on it's way in december but due to owing people money and having customs fees to pay off it's been sat in a parcel depot since the 16th.

As a last note, happy new year!
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 05 January 2014, 05:51:12
Two years ago, "Parkade" by 'Micky C' and 'Paul B', was released  :)
Man, time passes by pretty quickly.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: High Treason on 12 January 2014, 06:31:44
MUSIC! Drum machine appeared, I need to fix two sample buttons and the left jack, otherwise operation is completely possible via MIDI which is how I roll anyway, so fixing the drum buttons is not required.

Here are a few tracks I made using the CZ-1000 and RZ-1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzpUAopwKDE

Might not seem like much, but remember this gear is from the mid-80's and I'm not even allowed to call myself a musician as I can't read music and don't know the first thing about it, the only class I ever took in music was musical chairs. At the very least, check out the song at 2:47, I went all-out on that one.

Anyone that remembers me saying I had trouble with my workstation here? Not going well, GTX 260 caught on fire and some fool sold me a dead 460 and is now refusing returns, I have to wait until Jan 20th before I can escalate the case to eBay, by now I've had enough and am likely to continue without a proper workstation until I can get something done. With any luck I will be able to abuse my Core2 rig into running EDuke at least, but graphical upgrades, RAID and capture hardware are out of the question in that box - Intel locked down the PCI-E slots big time, no shit, their documentation openly states they set the motherboard up to detect 3rd party GPUs and lock them out. Unfortunately, as my capture board can run a HDMI monitor from a video editing program, the board thinks it is a graphics card and turns the slot off. Ah, well, Xeon E3 here we come.

As a last note, no YouTube BBCode? Son, I am disappoint.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Gambini on 12 January 2014, 07:43:55
Mark Knopfler couldn´t ever read music and is a hell of a guitarrist. How old is that thing?
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: High Treason on 12 January 2014, 20:09:24
The keyboard was introduced in 1985 at $1000, relatively cheap when compared to other polyphonic keyboards with similar capabilities of the time - many compare it with things like the Yamaha DX27 though I think it can keep up with some of the bigger synths when used correctly. Oddly, it's generally not thought of in high regard in the Synthesizer world and I've seen people compare it with the Juno 6 (Monophonic Analog synthesizer) but that's like Apples and Oranges in my book. My CZ-1000 is one of the smaller CZ synths, I want a CZ-1 (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Casio_CZ-1.jpg).

The drum machine appeared in 1986, price tag unknown though these days they are incredibly cheap because people prefer Yamaha RX-11, Linndrum and Roland TR-808's (Because synthesizer people masturbate over analog hardware - I don't) - again, RZ-1 is not held in high regard by many, I like it though.

I find both instruments quite versatile, always felt Casio's 80's synthesizers were under-rated by many.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 14 January 2014, 11:23:41
Yay!
My boss just gave me a new cellphone:
Sony Xperia Z with android.


Me like that boss  ;D
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 14 January 2014, 12:54:12
wish my bossy woman would give me a new cellphone  :(
but i still like her(she lets me touch her boobies)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 16 January 2014, 12:42:54
Yay!
Snow is pouring down.
The forecast says approximately 1 meter within the next three days.
Up to 1,5 meters in some areas.



Time to kick some ski-ass! :)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 16 January 2014, 14:17:48
it snowed here about 1/2 an inch back in early December. it stayed for a week; pretty rough winter
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: High Treason on 17 January 2014, 04:36:55
Not quite done yet, need to get my 80's clothes and some sunglasses out, but;
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800x600q90/7/8dlq.jpg)

Got something rather silly planned involving that boombox. Also, WTF have they done to imageshack? Another crappy over-sized two-tone interface I have to learn. I may as well just get a tablet by now as the main reason I didn't was because I disliked the inefficiency of their interfaces and lack of functionality.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Sanek on 17 January 2014, 21:48:56
LOKE! if read this, PLEASE, check your PM! Maybe you just don't answer to me, but I don't understand why. :o
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 18 January 2014, 16:13:54
Quote from: Sanek on  17 January 2014, 21:48:56
LOKE! if read this, PLEASE, check your PM! Maybe you just don't answer to me, but I don't understand why. :o
Trouble in paradise?
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2013/329/b/0/sonadow_lovers_quarrel_page_19_by_zeldalegends4525-d6vnsmq.jpg)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: High Treason on 28 January 2014, 16:28:03
Well, it looks like I'm officially out of the running as far as workstations are concerned. I have returned the faulty graphics card and am waiting for a refund but I can find no other 460's that EK specify as being compatible with the block, as I cannot remove the block without re-tubing a large portion of the cooling system (very expensive) and would have to pay way more than I'd like for a new card it seems it shall be retiring early - the last year of it's life will be that of a file server. I will keep my eyes open however, if a compatible 460 appears at a reasonable price I shall take it.

I am, however, going to throw this Core 2 in the bin, I have decided that as my ISP and DYN have done everything they can to prevent me hosting anything I am going to take my Atom-based server out of it's role and re-condition it as a desktop, it runs an Atom 330 and nVidia ION. There's no room for expansion but whilst the CPU is slower, it has the GPU factor (On par with a mobile GeForce 9300) so I should at least be able to return to mapping, possibly at lower frame rates than I would like.

I should also be able to run Sony Vegas, capturing is out of the question but I could certainly do some basic video editing with it. If I could find a way to make files recorded with the Colossus in the Core 2 work in Vegas (Proprietary codec) I would be nearly fully operational though with vastly reduced speed and slight artifacts in the video. The Intensity won't work in the Core 2 because the motherboard detects the HDMI out as a Video Card which is prohibited making the slot shut off (Intel's plan to make you spend more on the motherboard).

Unfortunately the Atom doesn't have a PSU (Flex-ATX type) of it's own and relies on a full-size ATX one hanging out of it's case along with wires twisted together to keep fans running. It's going to be a rather ugly machine that pulls me through the next year or so if I don't find a new graphics card. In the mean time, my refund money is going on a 486 (I call it "Hooker") to which I promised a new motherboard before Christmas, at least I'll be able to play some DOS games in the coming months... Ugh, this is going to suck.

As it happens I am inheriting a computer shortly, but I will not be keeping it, it is weaker than the Core 2 I have, on the plus side, I am getting it free so I am going to sell it off cheap and part out the shitty Dell laptop I was given and selling those pieces. Might even sell a DOS machine as those go for quite a bit these days, that would probably buy me a case or contribute to the CPU for "Project Daniella" the new workstation.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 29 January 2014, 14:39:58
^I know exactly that feeling  :P


It's been snowing for almost three weeks in a row around here.
Dear weather gods: It's enough!
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 02 February 2014, 21:01:55
It's eleven years since Merlijn released Red 4
Time passes quickly  :o
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 03 February 2014, 10:23:26
I wonder if there's something in these rumors...
Duke Nukem: Mass Destruction is set to be revealed.... (http://www.vg247.com/2014/02/01/next-duke-nukem-to-be-revealed-by-interceptor-entertainment-in-24-days/)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: High Treason on 20 February 2014, 23:19:52
My £30 a month (before bandwidth charges) internet service;
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/3320531073.png)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: ck3D on 03 March 2014, 10:45:10
Quote from: High Treason on  20 February 2014, 23:19:52
My £30 a month (before bandwidth charges) internet service;
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/3320531073.png)

my girlfriend and i are cheap fucks, so all my internet pretty much consists in borrowing her iphone, shoving in my own sim card in order to unlock the unlimited 3G internet access, and sharing the resulting connection with my home computer, so yeah, i might not pay for an actual internet services besides the phone bill, but there still are people on here who have it even worse than you as far as speed and convenience go !
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Fernando on 03 March 2014, 17:12:26
Quote from: ck3D on  03 March 2014, 10:45:10
Quote from: High Treason on  20 February 2014, 23:19:52
My £30 a month (before bandwidth charges) internet service;
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/3320531073.png)

my girlfriend and i are cheap fucks, so all my internet pretty much consists in borrowing her iphone, shoving in my own sim card in order to unlock the unlimited 3G internet access, and sharing the resulting connection with my home computer, so yeah, i might not pay for an actual internet services besides the phone bill, but there still are people on here who have it even worse than you as far as speed and convenience go !
That is... a very wise and clever move from you lot. ;D
Here in Chile we can't do that because the 3G internet sharing sucks mayor balls. Besides, there is a cap on how much internet you can use before the carrier charges you additional megabytes. And they are not cheap too.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: High Treason on 04 March 2014, 04:10:21
Unfortunately, mobile broadband would cost even more and has poor coverage in my area. The landline ISP add charges once a limit is exceeded, £2 per GB. The service has been worse than the above test;
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/3324924160.png)

Thing is, that is illegal as per laws that were set down a couple of years back, 2MB is the legal minimum in my country and 6MB is actually the legal minimum the ISP is allowed to supply to me due to contract wording and such, they admitted as much. They overcharged me this month so I am now considering writing to Ofcom as I have had enough. My prices went up to cover rich people getting fibre installed, with no installation fee - that ended as soon as they did the edge of an estate and prices rose again to cover engineers wages, disgraceful, but when you're the only ISP in the area, it's not like you have to worry about losing customers.


In other news, I've been awake through the night lately and having no capable computer is driving me insane, so I've gone back to trying to mend the workstation. I got an MSI P35 Neo 2 FR motherboard. Unfortunately, my Intel QKDH may not work in there, so I've had to order a new CPU, a Core 2 Q8400, which should give me a minor boost (around 5% tops by my math) over the old D 920, although I should see a greater boost in virtual machines and the extra two cores could come in handy for on-the-fly compression with live streaming. The Core 2 really was a dreadful chip IMO, it was inefficient, slow and ran extremely hot, I just hope I over-engineered my liquid cooling adequately enough to run that chip.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 15 March 2014, 02:53:52
On a side note: This guy passed away in a car crash 15 years ago this particular night :'(
Me and lots of people around here is rising our glasses and sing our oath to Marius tonight.


Here's his version of Hendrix 'Little wing' from some 17 years ago: Marius Muller - Little wing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmFQLMKNEOg)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 26 March 2014, 12:38:26
I should have entered the map contest at Dukespana. I could have at least won the bronze.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: methy on 26 March 2014, 22:34:30
Haha, just had a look. That's like I made a French Duke mapping contest and all participants would be me and MRCK.

..Damn that's quite sad in fact, sometimes I wish we had it as good as Doom's community in terms of quantity
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: High Treason on 03 April 2014, 07:59:26
I've had an intermittent headache for three days, I keep getting this taste like pee and blood in my mouth and it feels like something is trapped between my gum and my cheek. As I approach day 4 I have decided to stick a finger in my mouth to figure out what's going on and it seems I have lost half a tooth right at the back of my mouth. Firstly, I don't know how this happened without me noticing it, secondly, it's the whitest tooth I have making me wonder if the others are soon to follow or it just avoided discoloration somehow - smoking likely makes the front ones appear more yellow when they are healthier than the back ones.

Hopefully it doesn't start hurting too much, I'm flat broke right now and can't afford dental treatment. Mostly I still want to know where the missing piece of tooth went though.


On a slightly lighter note, I decided to mess with FM-Drive and SN-EMU; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZbr5nfc5ow  I don't really like emulation but the DX-100 is busted. Always preferred Casio's 80's gear over Yamaha anyway to be honest.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 03 April 2014, 10:49:38
Sorry to hear about your tooth  :(
I've been through exactly the same problem two times the last year.


It seems that you'll be in need of endodontics and a new enamel.
Costly but unavoidable.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 03 April 2014, 14:27:56
Quote from: High Treason on  03 April 2014, 07:59:26
I keep getting this taste like pee [...] in my mouth

Mostly I still want to know where the missing piece of tooth went though.
how do you know what pee tastes like?
you swallowed your tooth. if you didn't notice it, good chance you were grinding your teeth in your sleep.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: High Treason on 04 April 2014, 13:30:23
Aye, luckily it's not hurting, but I am wondering if it's worth having it checked out because of the bad taste, if it's infected that could spread to other teeth which would be much worse in the long run. Downside is that I might have to lie on the forms and the dentist won't pull out a tooth first time, they will probably try to crown it first, mess with it more when that doesn't work and save pulling it as a last resort.

As for knowing what pee tastes like, you probably don't want the details, so I'll say I wasn't afraid to experiment in my college days and leave it at that.

I probably do grind my teeth in my sleep, hadn't thought about it, but they do feel funny when I wake up sometimes - almost as if I clench my teeth in my sleep. That's what stress will do I suppose. At least I swallowed it instead of choking on it I guess.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 04 April 2014, 13:57:30
Quote from: High Treason on  04 April 2014, 13:30:23
As for knowing what pee tastes like, you probably don't want the details, so I'll say I wasn't afraid to experiment in my college days and leave it at that.
:o
;D
Quote from: High Treason on  04 April 2014, 13:30:23
I probably do grind my teeth in my sleep, hadn't thought about it, but they do feel funny when I wake up sometimes - almost as if I clench my teeth in my sleep. That's what stress will do I suppose. At least I swallowed it instead of choking on it I guess.
get a mouth guard before you ruin the rest of your teeth
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 14 April 2014, 20:10:52
What a wonderful day!
Spring is here and I took my motorcycle for a spin today.
Holy cow, that was refreshing  8)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 24 April 2014, 20:19:10
I can see from the visitors statistics on this site that Germany is on the top 5 list.
Peculiar that it is so few mappers and even fewer forum members around from that country.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Micky C on 25 April 2014, 04:36:49
What's number 1?
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 25 April 2014, 05:44:33
Quote from: Micky C on  25 April 2014, 04:36:49
What's number 1?
pee-pee

i don't have access to secret squirrel stuff so lets start guessing

1.russia
2.u.s.
3. france
4. germany
5. canada
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Hank on 25 April 2014, 05:53:05
Quote from: Puritan on  24 April 2014, 20:19:10
I can see from the visitors statistics on this site that Germany is on the top 5 list.
Peculiar that it is so few mappers and even fewer forum members around from that country.
Well, I am German living in Canada - cheap plug, thanks for showing my map on the front page (Predator) - still, after all those years, made my day.  :)

Since I hardly show up here; I used to be Phoenix, switched to Taamalus and ended up with my real nick Hank.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 25 April 2014, 08:06:23
Well, that was cool to read.
I like your map Taamalus  :)
Remember it from the release on DNR back in the days.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 25 April 2014, 14:49:28
i remember the phoenix moniker at amc. i thought you mentioned at duke4 or dn-r that decided to use hank.
don't know why i forgot that when doing this level.
most of the time when reviewing these old maps i just think, "yep, this person is long gone".
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 25 April 2014, 15:26:24
Yep, it's old all right.
Quote from map template, Predators:
"Known Bugs/Problems    : I have no sound card. The sounds in this map may sound incorrectly."  ;D
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: High Treason on 25 April 2014, 20:04:38
Ha! I remember there was a time when I didn't have a sound card... Thing is, I still like to play certain games with the PC Speaker sounds because of that (In the case of DN2 it's sometimes more reliable if you're running a clone card anyway). My dad always had one though.

On a somewhat unrelated note, I have obtained a new synthesizer and rednecked myself a two-tier stand, I'll come back later and add a picture, though the room is still a little trashed as I'm going to move some furniture around.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Hank on 25 April 2014, 23:01:12
Quote from: Puritan on  25 April 2014, 15:26:24
Yep, it's old all right.
Quote from map template, Predators:
"Known Bugs/Problems    : I have no sound card. The sounds in this map may sound incorrectly."  ;D
Nah, this had nothing to do when the map was done; 2002/3. At home, all I had then was my old Pentium II, no sound card because it was originally bought just for drafting and not for gaming. :D

@ Forge, yeah, technically I am long gone. You know the song Puff the Magic Dragon?  Mapster is a super toy, it will always be in my good books, but it needs, like Puff, someone to play with.  :'(
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Sanek on 27 April 2014, 12:09:14
I think I'll take a hiatus from mapping after release of LORCH 3, maybe for a year or so.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 03 May 2014, 15:15:07
Sand Art
http://twistedsifter.com/2014/05/3d-beach-art-by-jamie-harkins/
(http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/3d-beach-art-by-jamie-harkins-4.jpg)
(http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/3d-beach-art-by-jamie-harkins-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Sanek on 07 May 2014, 12:53:35
LOST EVERYTHING on one of my HDD.

MY DUKE3D FOLDER with a lots of unfinished stuff (thanks god LORCH 3 is not only in my hands).
MY MUSIC COLLECTION
And another stuff...

I'm so sad. :'(
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 07 May 2014, 14:04:28
sucks. hate when that happens. i've lost so much stuff over the years due to HD failures
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 07 May 2014, 14:53:59
Backup.....backup......backup
An extra HD drive is pretty cheap these days.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Micky C on 10 May 2014, 12:31:58
People really need to backup their maps in the cloud. Things like dropbox and google drive are completely free and have more than enough storage space for this. Plus they always keep the latest version of the map and distribute them to all the computers you use. There's really no excuse not to use backups these days, and if you don't then you pay the price...
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: ck3D on 11 May 2014, 12:37:02
reading puritan's then forge's signature back to back (in that order) makes for quite an amusing experience whether you imagine it as a dialogue or - even better - as a continuity. try it with the posts above
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Micky C on 11 May 2014, 14:32:21
That's true isn't it :P

@Sanek, having recently experienced a little hardware failure of my own, I can sympathise with your situation a bit better. Nothing was actually lost, and even if it was, I have decent enough backups, but I'll be out of commission for a bit, and the pure inconvenience of everything is indeed somewhat depressing for a lack of better word.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 11 May 2014, 15:10:59
Quote from: ck3D on  11 May 2014, 12:37:02
reading puritan's then forge's signature back to back (in that order) makes for quite an amusing experience whether you imagine it as a dialogue or - even better - as a continuity. try it with the posts above


Amusing :)
I realized that it was a couple of typo's as well.


Quote from: Micky C on  11 May 2014, 14:32:21

@Sanek, having recently experienced a little hardware failure of my own, I can sympathise with your situation a bit better. Nothing was actually lost, and even if it was, I have decent enough backups, but I'll be out of commission for a bit, and the pure inconvenience of everything is indeed somewhat depressing for a lack of better word.


I have this  complete site on a memory-stick.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 19 June 2014, 09:55:23
In a ten minutes time the worlds largest airplane, Antonov AN-225, is passing right before my office.
Think I'll take a break and have a stroll outside now  8)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: High Treason on 19 June 2014, 10:22:25
I'm Jelly.

The military version of the much smaller AN-22 is my favorite though.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 27 June 2014, 08:48:55
Finally got around to order ( and payed for) a new comp.
It will be delivered at my place at the end of next week  8)


For the curious ones:


Corsair Obsidian 450D Midi Tower
Cooler Master G650M, 650W PSU
Crucial DDR3 BallistiX Sport 16GB KIT 16GB kit (8GBx2), Sport,1600MHz, 1.5V, CL9-9-9-24
Sapphire Radeon R9 280X 3GB GDDR5 PCI-Express 3.0, "OC Dual-X", DL-DVI-I + SL-DVI-D, HDMI, DisplayPort
AMD FX-8350 Black Edition Socket-AM3+, 4.0GHz, 8-Core, 8MB L2 + 8MB L3 Cache, 125W, 32nm, Boxed w/fan
Crucial M500 SSD 2.5" 120GB SATA 6 Gb/s (SATA3.0), 500MB/130MB/s read/write
Toshiba Desktop 1TB SATA 3.0 SATA 6Gb/s, 32MB Cache, S.M.A.R.T., 7200RPM, 3.5"
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: ck3D on 06 July 2014, 12:12:09
am i the only one for which duke4 is down ? i can't access the forums nor the site. kind of sucks seeing as i just spent last night posting individual 'reviews' for each map from the duke hard episode there and i was about to bump the metropolitan mayhem release thread in order to give that one a boost too
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: methy on 06 July 2014, 12:28:19
yeah it's down
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 13 July 2014, 02:15:59
Yay!
I'm up and running on a new comp  :)
Gonna take a while to move stuff from the old one to the new pc.


My apologees to all for not adding some old and crappy reviewed maps to the site the last few days.
I can asure you that I got a couple of hundreds in queue.
I'm pretty occupied with real life (work) these days since it's holiday season. We're low on staff, forces me to spend a lot more time and energy on non-Duke-related-stuff  :P

Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 13 July 2014, 15:28:38
it's summer in the northern hemisphere. it's too nice outside to be spending much time on the comp.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 15 July 2014, 10:47:28
Shit!
Toothache and my dentist is on vacation  :-\
Guess I'll have to pay an emergency unit a visit soon.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Micky C on 16 July 2014, 10:31:00
It's a shame your country only has one dentist  :-\
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 16 July 2014, 13:55:41
Better with one dentist than the voodoo doctors down under  ;D
( you know somethings peculiar when they ask you to bring two chickens: One black and one white)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 06 August 2014, 18:48:45
Man, it's refreshingly nice to build with the Hammer editor since I bought a new comp.
Compiling and loading a map takes less than 30 seconds these days  :D


I'm good on the way with my first map for Half-Life 2; Episode Two.
Think it's gonna be a Christmas release.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 29 August 2014, 16:49:29
I'm off for a great evening!
Three different bands that I hang around the members of, are gathering tonight for some serious jamming and ice cold beers!
Shouldn't surprise me if I find myself with a guitar attached to my chest in the late hours  8)


This is one of the bands performing tonight:


Nix Nada - Friends (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ5QabZHTog)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 15 September 2014, 20:51:49
a little bit old but John Romero (maker of Daikatana & co-creator of Doom) is supposedly working on a new game.

http://www.joystiq.com/2014/08/11/john-romero-i-havent-made-a-shooter-since-2000-so/

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2463901/doom-creator-john-romero-is-working-on-his-first-shooter-in-over-a-decade.html
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 27 September 2014, 01:28:12
Still think privateised prison system works?


Norway vs U.S Prison System (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgHdGr4aQoU)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: High Treason on 27 September 2014, 04:03:29
Don't even get me started on prison systems.

Under my rule, prison would be a horrible place to be. As a less serious criminal (Burglary, assault, fraud) you'd have to work your ass off for the tax payer - he's paying to keep you in prison (Eventually, we'd take all your money first but you'd still have to work your ass off.) so you're going to give something back.

Those people would be out on chain gangs watched by armed guards, you forfeit your rights when you didn't think about other people, why should they think about you? Mr. Taxpayer might want a new road surface, all the fences in his neighborhood painted with a toothbrush, unclaimed dead bodies handled - graves dug with spoons - or he might just want someone to clean out his septic tank, either way, if you don't work your whole block doesn't get food and given that your cell is nothing more than an 8x8 cell made out of steel grids with a bucket and sheet in it you were already in for a crappy time. If you do get food, it's the rejects from the factory or what organizations in the area threw out as unwanted (Restaurant slop bucket for example) or because the use by was expired... Don't want to eat it? Fine, starve.

If at any time a guard fears for his safety (Justifiable as; being threatened, prisoners being violent, assaulted by prisoners) he may open fire upon the prisoners, preferably in the legs but if fearing for his life we'd forgive him for aiming at the head.

More crimes qualify as attempted murder, such as driving under the influence of alcohol.

Actual murderers (Those who did kill someone) would be publicly executed... The means of which depends on the murder. A typical murder would get you hung or electrocuted, mass murder would get you killed more slowly and painfully and murdering a child/children would probably get you a slow acting poison whilst passers by were allowed to pelt you with whatever they wanted... Now, you'd be thinking that the poison would probably remove them from the organ donor list which all prisoners are automatically a part of... In fact, as a murderer, if there is a shortage of organs, blood or anything that happens to be in good condition in your body, you immediately have to sacrifice it for the innocent person who needs it, if sentenced to poisoning, we'd just remove what we could before poisoning you, the poison might be the least of your worries as we don't plan on paying the doctor enough to patch you up very well - seems like a waste of money, you don't get health care in prison.

I could go on and on, but you get the picture, my policies are a cause of controversy if I bring them up, also not very "humane" but then, nor were the criminals when they broke the law.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: MSandt on 27 September 2014, 12:03:10
Quote from: Puritan on  27 September 2014, 01:28:12
Still think privateised prison system works?


Norway vs U.S Prison System (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgHdGr4aQoU)

Such comparisons are very naive. And what does privatization have to do with this? I'm sure Norway's prisons would be just as good, if not better, if ran by private businesses. A tiny chunk of America's prisons are private anyway so that sure as hell does not explain the difference in incarceration and recidivism rates. America does incarcerate too many people and that's mostly because of their inefficient and even immoral war on drugs, but that doesn't mean they should make life easier for murderers and rapists as well. The chick in that video was clueless as hell when she claimed the whole point of a prison system is rehabilitation. Following that logic, if we knew with certainty that a murderer will never commit another crime, he or she could be set free immediately. Would that be justice?

I agree with High Treason that at least most murderers should be executed (if there's no question of their guilt and in many cases there isn't). And if you kill someone by drunk-driving over them, that should count as a murder. But under our "justice" system you wouldn't spend a day in prison for something like that. (Unfortunately you wouldn't necessarily spend a day in prison in America either.)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Sanek on 28 September 2014, 23:31:08
Is Merlijn, ck3d and Davox no more with us? Don't heard anything from them in a while.  :(
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 29 September 2014, 06:38:03
they pop in every now and then. really hasn't been more than a month or two for ck3d & merlijn since their last visit. Probably been around six months for DavoX.
...and Gambini got irritated and probably won't come back; with one admin deleting some of his posts and another admin contemplating deleting accounts that have been unused for a couple years, i can hardly blame him
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 29 September 2014, 12:57:05
I really should have a break from Duke...
Last night I actually dreamt that the Overlord was chasing my around in my neighborhood and I was all outta ammo  :P 
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Sanek on 29 September 2014, 15:44:13
@Forge, it's sad when mappers leaves the community. I hope that mentioned people at least still around.

@Puritan - I almost have the same feeling about Duke when I'm on vacation. Everytime I'm in the new hotel, I was thinking how it's looking in mapster, with Carribean mode!
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Micky C on 29 September 2014, 16:12:17
I don't think getting prisoners to do labor is necessarily a good thing. Firstly, the logistics of moving them all around and keeping track of them would be difficult, and probably a fair amount more expensive than just keeping them locked up in one place. Not to mention that their motivation would be fairly low which would carry over to the quality of work, plus chances are they're not that skilled as far as labourers go.

Quote from: Puritan on  29 September 2014, 12:57:05
I really should have a break from Duke...
Last night I actually dreamt that the Overlord was chasing my around in my neighborhood and I was all outta ammo  :P

Mighty Boot.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 29 September 2014, 16:33:07
Quote from: Sanek on  29 September 2014, 15:44:13
@Forge, it's sad when mappers leaves the community. I hope that mentioned people at least still around.
they're still around. real life finally caught up to them; now they have jobs, girls, and other hobbies to keep them busy. Gambini still pops up at Duke4, but his focus is on modding for a different game now(half-life?) instead of duke3d
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 29 September 2014, 16:41:18
Quote from: Micky C on  29 September 2014, 16:12:17
I don't think getting prisoners to do labor is necessarily a good thing. Firstly, the logistics of moving them all around and keeping track of them would be difficult, and probably a fair amount more expensive than just keeping them locked up in one place. Not to mention that their motivation would be fairly low which would carry over to the quality of work, plus chances are they're not that skilled as far as labourers go.
i wouldn't trust them to build a bridge along a highway or anything, but it doesn't take much skill to dig a ditch.

i like what the sheriff in maricopa county arizona is doing.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/09/27/americas-toughest-sheriff-takes-meat-off-jail-menu/

http://www.mcso.org/jailinformation/tentcity.aspx
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: MSandt on 29 September 2014, 18:03:57
Quote from: Sanek on  28 September 2014, 23:31:08
Is Merlijn, ck3d and Davox no more with us? Don't heard anything from them in a while.  :(

Merlijn hasn't been a regular poster in ages (even though the impression is that he's always working on something), DavoX's visits have always been very short-lived and MRCK has always been pretty bi-polar with respect to mapping.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 29 September 2014, 20:47:31
This is what keeps Merlijn (and Maarten) busy...


Calculated live (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euVlHycNaxc)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Micky C on 30 September 2014, 16:12:56
Just two or so days ago William Gee commented on one of the WGR2 videos of my Serious Sam episode (which I probably won't end up completing; it wasn't that good anyway). So he still has a very slight interest in the Duke community, or at least what used to be his TC, and is probably looking forward to the next release. But yeah he doesn't have time for mapping anymore.

Considering how intense things have gotten at my uni this semester, I don't blame people for not having the time for mapping. I can barely squeeze out any mapping time myself during the term.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Sanek on 02 October 2014, 23:43:56
Some time ago there was a discussion about the importance of replies to new releases, both to author and community, and the last days I just realised that comments on a map is extremely important (the more you work on a map, the more appreciation you wanna get), but everybody's keep saying that "it's all is just for fun, comments doesn't matter". Just kinda frustrated about lack of responses to recent releases in general, and to my map too. Mikko don't even reviewed it, but there's no surprise about it.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 03 October 2014, 16:10:41
of course comments are nice and let you know people are at least playing your release. If you're depending on comments and expect them, then prepare to be disappointed in this environment. Feedback fell off dramatically several years ago. That's why people are telling you that you better be doing it for fun and for yourself first and foremost.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: MSandt on 03 October 2014, 19:34:22
Quote from: Sanek on  02 October 2014, 23:43:56
Mikko don't even reviewed it, but there's no surprise about it.

What's that (the latter part) supposed to mean? I haven't played it yet.

There haven't been many good releases lately. If it weren't for Duke Hard, I'd be very disappointed.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Micky C on 05 October 2014, 15:14:00
Quote from: Sanek on  02 October 2014, 23:43:56
Some time ago there was a discussion about the importance of replies to new releases, both to author and community, and the last days I just realised that comments on a map is extremely important (the more you work on a map, the more appreciation you wanna get), but everybody's keep saying that "it's all is just for fun, comments doesn't matter". Just kinda frustrated about lack of responses to recent releases in general, and to my map too. Mikko don't even reviewed it, but there's no surprise about it.

On the contrary I think maps have been getting a respectable amount of replies over at Duke4.net. Not a huge amount, but not small.

In your case though you can't really make a short, non-typical map and expect everyone to jump on it.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 05 October 2014, 15:24:25
i wouldn't call an infatuation to make a map compatible with megaton and another discussion about the difference between classic, vanilla, and other, while dance around to keep on topic really productive feedback.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Micky C on 06 October 2014, 00:30:39
Even disregarding those threads others seem to be getting 15-20.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: methy on 07 October 2014, 16:48:27
I played Sanek's map but I had nothing to say except what had already been said by others.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 07 October 2014, 17:30:45
some people liked it, others didn't. Could be Sanek just wants to hear what Mikko has to say about it.

i don't know the time frame Mikko is using as 'lately', but there have been several good (SP) releases this year:

Apprehension Arizona
Destillateur
Duke Craft
ForeverDoom
Insurance Overload
Island Base
Meanstreets
Nitroglycerin
Slum Noir
Turok
wangnukem
Floodarea
Duke Hard

and some mediocre-(not hot) ones that are worth a look as well:

Penthouse Mayhem
Halls Of Doom
Ghost Town
Duke Nukem For3ver
Duke 2070
Damnation

and some subpar stuff:

The Lost Tiberius Base
Pallet Town
foothold
Dewks Map
Cold in November
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: MSandt on 07 October 2014, 21:24:11
It's been a poor year. The fact that there have been a few releases on Steam is a promise of a better future, but so far the ones that have actually been released have not impressed me. I have reviewed pretty much every map that I consider a Hot Map. The rest don't make the cut. But I'm sure the newcomers get better.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Sanek on 07 October 2014, 23:55:14
Quote from: Forge on  07 October 2014, 17:30:45
some people liked it, others didn't. Could be Sanek just wants to hear what Mikko has to say about it.
Yes, what he think about it. I like reading the actual reviews of the maps. That's probably why I worried why ck3d is not here, since he always have very long posts (compared to others) about each map coming out.

I'm not complaining about the lack of comments - I don't expect that there will be a lot of. But it's a little bit frustrating that Mikko reviewing every new map (often from already well-known mappers with maps in hot maps section) in just a couple of days after it's release, but my map (which is about 5 mins to play or less) is not the case, it seems. Maybe it's some kind of attitude about me after all these years, I don't know.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 08 October 2014, 00:13:52
Mikko's list:

Duke 2070
Nitroglycerin
Beach Community Build Project (which i forgot about since i was asked not to review it)
Delta Station Down (another i was asked to wait on to be updated)
Apprehension Arizona
Duke Hard
Slum Noir
Duke Craft
Flood Area
Insurance Overload
Halls of Doom

so you (Mikko) didn't like:
Destillateur (understandable - kinda borderline on hot or not)
Island Base (okay - another borderline mid 80 scoring map)
ForeverDoom (have to strongly disagree with you about this)
Meanstreets (have to disagree with you about this)
Turok (have to strongly disagree with you about this)
wangnukem (have to disagree with you about this)

i don't see what standpoint you're taking to call those maps subpar if you can label Duke 2070 and Halls of Doom hot.

To each his own i suppose. makes me glad i'm here to go through your trashcan for gems.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Sanek on 08 October 2014, 00:46:47
I'm not saying that these maps is subpar maps. I don't said anyting about these maps, which all deserved to be reviewed. And wtf is "my trashcan of gems" you mean? I just trying to sayt that Mikko reviews almost every map that have a theard on forums (not including some newbie's crap, which is obviously not deserved review), but my map is not the case,

I don't said that you need to play and review my map right now, I do not force anyone to do it, but I think that either Mikko is really busy right now or he just don't want to review my map, which is really pissed me off, plus after all these years there's still some kind of disaffection and skepticism about me.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 08 October 2014, 01:17:35
Quote from: Sanek on  08 October 2014, 00:46:47
And wtf is "my trashcan of gems" you mean?
unless you started a review site lately and are selective about what you host; then YOU have no trashcan of gems.

i thought it was kinda obvious that if i'm continually addressing Mikko about maps he's hosting versus ones he's not, then what i'm saying in regards to map hosting is probably still addressed to him, not you.

Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: ck3D on 08 October 2014, 02:23:38
Quote from: Sanek on  07 October 2014, 23:55:14
Yes, what he think about it. I like reading the actual reviews of the maps. That's probably why I worried why ck3d is not here, since he always have very long posts (compared to others) about each map coming out.

hey, i still come on here and duke4 once in a blue moon, ie. whenever i am having insomnia and get bored like right now. i appreciate that you are worried about my situation but it really isn't that bad, i just really don't have any time for duke right now, be it mapping or even just playing. of course, as soon as my schedule clears up i will try to catch up. i have a few maps i need to finish sometime, somehow (the same ones i have been willing to finish for years already though), and i know there is like a dozen of promising new ones i want to download and try out. that's what i always do, catch up with all the new stuff at once whenever i get to, a few times a year or so. i make it a point to always leave some feedback as well
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: MSandt on 08 October 2014, 12:19:46
I'll get around to reviewing the map soon. You just need to calm your nipples for now.

Quote from: Forge on  08 October 2014, 00:13:52
so you (Mikko) didn't like:
Destillateur (understandable - kinda borderline on hot or not)

This was when Megaton still used to crash whenever I tried to save so I stopped playing as soon as I died midway through the map. In any case, it seemed like a good example of a Megaton map that shows potential but the author isn't quite there yet.

QuoteIsland Base (okay - another borderline mid 80 scoring map)

Judging solely by the screenshots, I ignored it as a Polymer map that makes poor use of Polymer lighting. Not really interested in another 15-fps experience.

QuoteForeverDoom (have to strongly disagree with you about this)

Slipped through the radar, gonna have to take a look at it.

QuoteMeanstreets (have to disagree with you about this)

The potential is there but overall it looked too sloppy especially with respect to texturing.

QuoteTurok (have to strongly disagree with you about this)

Nice gameplay, but the looks were kinda dull, although the author is no amateur. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it. If I had been more at my apartment in the summer I probably would have given it a review either at the very top of Maps or the bottom of Hot Maps. I still might.

Quotewangnukem (have to disagree with you about this)

I still might review this one.

Quotei don't see what standpoint you're taking to call those maps subpar if you can label Duke 2070 and Halls of Doom hot.

Duke 2070 is amazing. And Halls of Doom a Hot Map? Since when? I gave it 5,5/10 and put it in the TC section.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Micky C on 08 October 2014, 14:57:06
Even if you don't play it, Duke 2070 is a must-see in mapster. The environment he managed to pull off is incredible. Overall the detail is a bit below average but it's so damn huge and immerse it's just super obvious he was being conservative in order to squeeze the limits to the max which is easily excused. I didn't play it myself though because the gameplay doesn't sound like my sort of thing.

Foreverdoom is an interesting name for a map. It's almost as if it's trying to pull off the double gimmick of Duke Nukem Forever and Doom. Looking at the screenshots I'd say 95 is probably a bit high as far as scores go. Wouldn't have given it full marks for architecture and spritework/detailing at least, since several rooms in the screenshots look like they could use a little something extra.
He's definitely one of the better Megaton mappers though. Most of the rest of them just go around and praising each other to high heavens for their early 2000's standards work which is apparently "realistic" and "like from a modern game".

Wasn't aware Mikko was only reviewing what he considered hot maps. Just assumed that he reviewed everything and put the lower ones in the regular maps section...
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 08 October 2014, 15:39:51
Quote from: MSandt on  08 October 2014, 12:19:46
Duke 2070 is amazing.
Quote from: Micky C on  08 October 2014, 14:57:06
Duke 2070 is a must-see in mapster. The environment he managed to pull off is incredible.
Duke 2070 looks nice.... 

Quote from: Micky C on  08 October 2014, 14:57:06
I didn't play it myself though because the gameplay doesn't sound like my sort of thing.
....but the game play is horrible.


Quote from: MSandt on  08 October 2014, 12:19:46
And Halls of Doom a Hot Map? Since when? I gave it 5,5/10 and put it in the TC section.
Quote from: MSandt on  07 October 2014, 21:24:11
I have reviewed pretty much every map that I consider a Hot Map. The rest don't make the cut.
I didn't look at the score. I assumed from your comments that you were only hosting projects you thought were considered 'hot'

getting back to your original comment; even if you reviewed all the maps i contested as worthy, it would still be a 'poor' year so far.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: MSandt on 08 October 2014, 16:23:47
Quote from: Micky C on  08 October 2014, 14:57:06
Wasn't aware Mikko was only reviewing what he considered hot maps. Just assumed that he reviewed everything and put the lower ones in the regular maps section...

Nah, I have never done that, not even close. I do review 90-100% of Hot Map-quality maps but I don't bother with the rest unless I feel like it, the author asks nicely or they have some redeeming quality.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: quakis on 10 October 2014, 01:24:53
I've been doing a rather piss poor job keeping up with releases these days due to lack of time, it's actually pretty overwhelming how much choice there is! Any recommendations what to start off with, now that I have more free time available?
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 10 October 2014, 05:15:44
Quote from: quakis on  10 October 2014, 01:24:53
I've been doing a rather piss poor job keeping up with releases these days due to lack of time, it's actually pretty overwhelming how much choice there is! Any recommendations what to start off with, now that I have more free time available?

start at the top & work your way down:

Insurance Overload
Duke Hard
ForeverDoom
Nitroglycerin
Beach Community Build Project
Slum Noir
Apprehension Arizona
Duke Craft
wangnukem
Delta Station Down
Turok
Meanstreets
Destillateur

Duke 2070 <--looks pretty, but the map is quite non-linear and large, and the keys and locks are scattered (& you'll get your ass kicked pretty hard and fast if you can't find the weapons fairly quickly - this can be one of those maps that you're screwed if you run down the wrong road at the beginning & may take a few restarts)


mid tier:

Floodarea
Island Base


dropping off:

Penthouse Mayhem
Duke Nukem For3ver
Ghost Town
Damnation
Halls Of Doom


meh: take a look if you have time

foothold
Pallet Town
Dewks Map
Cold in November
The Lost Tiberius Base
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: methy on 10 October 2014, 06:46:45
Quote from: quakis on  10 October 2014, 01:24:53
I've been doing a rather piss poor job keeping up with releases these days due to lack of time, it's actually pretty overwhelming how much choice there is! Any recommendations what to start off with, now that I have more free time available?

Have long have you missed? I think the best 'recent' releases were ACB Studios and Insurance Overload. And Duke Hard :p
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: quakis on 10 October 2014, 10:34:13
I've missed out on quite the number, ACB Studios included. I'll work from this list and later see what else I've neglected beyond those. Thanks!
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: MSandt on 10 October 2014, 13:06:04
Releases that stand out:
-Duke 2070
-Duke Hard
-Slum Noir
-Duke Craft (not a big fan personally though)
-Delta Station Down
-Beach CBP

Insurance Overload is a perfect vanilla map.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Micky C on 10 October 2014, 15:28:29
I still need to update the Beach CBP and submit it here. A few nasty textureisalignments that I'm surprised went unnoticed (although I'll have to re-find them), and then any COOP improvements that need to be added, which is pretty difficult because the map crashes Megaton for a lot of people.

Maybe after exams.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: quakis on 11 October 2014, 02:52:32
Quote from: Forge on  10 October 2014, 05:15:44Insurance Overload

Just played this and had to comment; instant favourite! I've already written a review which will be uploaded once I begin updating my site regularly again (Very soon!). Keep your eyes on the 'last played' thread. Gonna check out Duke Hard once I've caught up on a Doom mod review.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 11 October 2014, 03:36:44
Bugger!
I still have a few steps to go in the "Miscellenea" section.
When counting 1.3 and 1.4+ maps together the sum will be two counts short  :P
I've spent quite a few hours tracking down this error but I've failed so far.
Gotta get a new hobby  ;D
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 11 October 2014, 05:30:19
Quote from: quakis on  11 October 2014, 02:52:32
Gonna check out Duke Hard once I've caught up on a Doom mod review.
there's alot of levels, but several of them are pretty short (5 to 10 minutes depending on how fast you go). multiple styles, so if one doesn't suit your taste the next one might. Quite interesting to see what people came up with using the same base map template.

the rooftop is gonna make your eyeballs melt after tramping around inside a building for so long.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: methy on 11 October 2014, 15:03:11
Quote from: quakis on  11 October 2014, 02:52:32
Quote from: Forge on  10 October 2014, 05:15:44Insurance Overload

Just played this and had to comment; instant favourite! I've already written a review which will be uploaded once I begin updating my site regularly again (Very soon!). Keep your eyes on the 'last played' thread. Gonna check out Duke Hard once I've caught up on a Doom mod review.

Yep. It's become one of my favourite map ever, I hope you played the updated version (the one uploaded on this site is outdated and much worse than the last version), I guess it helped that the map was great to begin with and that the mapper changed it according to my negative comments so now it's even more to my liking. I even made a playthrough video on youtube.
The updated version is vanilla compatible, too, which fits this kind of maps really well.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: quakis on 11 October 2014, 16:28:11
Quote from: methy on  11 October 2014, 15:03:11I hope you played the updated version (the one uploaded on this site is outdated and much worse than the last version)

Doesn't that make things confusing! Yes I grabbed it here... I'm guessing the latest version is attached to the first post on Duke4.net forums? I'll probably check it out again later, thanks for the heads up.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: methy on 11 October 2014, 21:06:21
Quote from: quakis on  11 October 2014, 16:28:11
I'm guessing the latest version is attached to the first post on Duke4.net forums?

Yes and it's on Steam's workshop as well. MSDN's version is outdated too.

Edit : also if you play Duke Hard don't use the latest EDuke32 (r4593), there is a glitch that makes the episode stops at map07. I know r4525 works, I don't know if those in between do or not.
http://dukeworld.duke4.net/eduke32/synthesis/
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 15 October 2014, 23:47:43
Woa..today they started to install fiber-optic cable for tv and internet in my apartment building.
Next week I'll have a 20/20 Mbps connection.
It's more than enough for me anyway.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 16 October 2014, 14:41:32
now you can finally stream that porn you've been missing out on
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 16 October 2014, 16:57:15
Live cam with Olga from Murmansk  ;D
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 16 October 2014, 19:33:48
lol

she seems your type

(http://www.olgakivaeva.com/images/bio.jpg)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: ck3D on 17 October 2014, 18:59:49
can't believe that i just added a few new rooms to a map i have been sitting on for a while today... my schedule is busier than ever but i find myself able to make some time for mapster somehow. hopefully i can pull something playable off before i have to leave my hometown again...

also i had yet another duke dream the other night... where i was playing / making a new map, a short one, space-themed. all the layout and progression stayed with me when i woke up, to the point where i could probably recreate it if i tried - it was fairly minimalistic... and for some reason i was under the (surprisingly strong) impression that i had already dreamed of the very same map before... maybe there is a little hard drive somewhere in my brain where all those maps i dream of actually exist, if i keep going back to them in my dreams like that, and they never change. fancy
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: methy on 17 October 2014, 19:35:46
This guy makes maps when he sleeps, you can't be more productive  ;D
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Micky C on 18 October 2014, 02:56:17
I've had the occasional dream of Duke map creation.

There was this one dream where everything was so detailed and conceptually grand, so I took out my iPhone and took some pictures on the reasoning that when I woke up, I'll be able to recreate it from the photos.

#dreamlogic
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: ck3D on 18 October 2014, 09:55:05
Quote from: methy on  17 October 2014, 19:35:46
This guy makes maps when he sleeps, you can't be more productive  ;D

except those are harder to release than normal ones for some odd reason
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Micky C on 18 October 2014, 11:16:14
Btw when you have your dreams are you looking at the map on a computer screen? Because I'm actually IN the map  :o
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: ck3D on 18 October 2014, 12:26:06
haha that is true, never really gave it a second thought but i am actually in the map as well (it doesn't feel like my body is though). it's like i am playing, or watching a playthrough video, but there is no screen involved
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: quakis on 01 November 2014, 16:00:35
Finished working on a small Doom 2 map for a community project I started recently. Still need to improve gameplay based off feedback though, but so far I'm happy with the results. I'll post up more details once the entire project has an official release. ;D
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 14 November 2014, 06:13:42
YaY!

doctored images and conspiracy theory/ufo nuts coming out of the woodwork quick on this comet:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/philae-comet-lander-alien-%E2%80%98cover-up%E2%80%99-conspiracy-theories-emerge/ar-BBdy1vH?ocid=mailsignout

somebody's read Rendezvous with Rama a few too many times
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 14 November 2014, 07:47:19
This is a cover up!!


(Awaiting the Huffington Post comments on this matter....)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 14 November 2014, 16:17:32
mysterious radio signals, multi-government conspiracies, etc., etc.

funny how none of this 'leaked' during those twelve years until after there were photos available to be doctored

why would we spend billions to land on a comet? Study the origins of the solar system, origins of organic material, origins of where our liquid water came from, and just to show we can as part of a global shield project to keep big rocks from smacking our planet.

We're too fucking far out in the middle of nowhere in relation to the rest of our galaxy.
Our radio waves may be 110 light years out, but due to degradation it's swallowed by the background radiation. It'd be like trying to detect a ripple in the pacific ocean caused by a pebble being dropped in the middle of it.

If you want to use the loose factors that it takes a rocky planet (resources) with the potential for liquid water in order to support life that may evolve to be intelligent enough for space flight; the closest is 16 light years away. Our seti program would have picked up their transmission traffic - nothing there though.
Same for the next planet that fits the criteria at about 21 light years away. After that the next one is 493 light years away - too far even for near-light speed travel.

Another issue is the fact that most world governments are able to keep things so secret and hush-hush. Why would aliens play by their rules? The advanced civilization would make the rules of contact.

Also, if these aliens have such advanced technology, they don't need to 'buzz' toothless redneck trailer-trash for observational purposes.

And given all the uninhabited chunks of rock in this solar system- all the way up to planet sized ones- they could set up a 'base' in a better location than some burned out old comet.

I don't doubt there's other life out there in the universe, and some of it is probably intelligent. I just don't believe in all this hokey bullshit people make up about government conspiracies and other crap like the aliens came to earth and showed people how to build stonehenge or whatever.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 14 November 2014, 17:26:05
The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one they say......but still they come!
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 14 November 2014, 22:17:13
since i don't wear a tinfoil hat or special sunglasses  8), I guess I can't see "them" 
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 14 November 2014, 22:50:23
Quote from: Puritan on  14 November 2014, 17:26:05
The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one they say......but still they come!


"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one," he said."The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one - but still they come!"

JOURNALIST: Then came the night the first missile approached Earth. It was thought to be an ordinary falling star, but next day there was a huge crater in the middle of the Common, and Ogilvy came to examine what lay there: a cylinder, thirty yards across,glowing hot... and with faint sounds of movement coming from within......
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 15 November 2014, 05:11:11
if you would have used parentheses or mentioned Ogilvy the first time I would have got the War of the Worlds reference.

now put on your sunglasses

(http://www.geek-art.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/They-Live.png)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: High Treason on 15 November 2014, 09:48:28
Ah, conspiracy nuts. They do make life a lot more interesting.

A part of me wishes every conspiracy was true, because if it was I'd never get bored, I'd be able to live for free using my Free Energy Machine, maybe jump into my Ununpentium fueled Anti-gravity car and drive to lunch with the gray alien race on their home planet before waiting at the end of a wormhole for Die Glocke to come out so I can assassinate Hitler on my way home.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 23 December 2014, 14:33:14
Yay!!
Just off from work.
Wont be back there until january 5'th!
Time for some premium Norwegian Lager I assume  8)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: ck3D on 06 January 2015, 00:50:07
Had another of those crazy duke3d / mapping related dreams last night. this time i was making / testing a huge ass city map, i remember a particular section with very high skyscrapers with rooftops and several enterable floors and balconies, and detailed cars being driven about at the bottom. there also were bridges, shops, a crazy-looking more industrial section with a lot of cool shit. then i woke up and it struck me how bad my actual mapping skills sucked in comparison. I love those dreams about incredible-looking maps because although they are really rare, they make for new visions and ideas, perspectives and how to get better. still trying to think of ways to implement stuff i have seen in my latest duke dreams in the map i am currently working on. i can usually rebuild the basic, rough sketches of my visions, but doing it in detail (especially considering the amount of detail that gets generated in those dreams) would really be impossible. I can probably get maybe 5%, 10% close. would love to work on expanding that number
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Micky C on 06 January 2015, 09:23:47
Yeah your skills suck  :P

If/when Helix implements WOW (wall-over-wall), then tall skyscrapers with multiple enterable floors and rooftops will become much, much more feasible (both easier to construct, more flexible, and less resource-consuming).
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: ck3D on 07 January 2015, 00:17:56
everything in the map i was visualizing in my dream looked completely feasible with our current versions of mapster. even though cognitive automation can obviously always get better and better optimized.

if anything it is the technical gap between my (our) vision(s) at deeper levels of consciousness, and what they look like after their actual, physical realization that struck me. the whole time in my dream i was like ok, this is how you make a map. then i woke up and my thoughts were still confused for a second as i was trying to make out the reality from the fantasy. i then remembered my actual shit in the real world under the form of my current project (which i personally, normally don't even regard as a bad start) and for a second or two i was genuinely disgusted with my work. really like okay now, what is this piece of junk ? this has to be using about 0,2% of the editor's (and my brain's) capacity, why am i even making this ?

this is what getting better at things in general, and realizing yourself all comes down to ; putting your time to the most optimized, possible use in order to constantly better your mastership of the physical technicalities of this world, in order to nurture and subsequently express your vision accordingly. but 1) it's a never-ending cycle or so it seems and 2) there is so little time
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: quakis on 07 January 2015, 00:43:04
Quote from: Micky C on  06 January 2015, 09:23:47If/when Helix implements WOW (wall-over-wall), then tall skyscrapers with multiple enterable floors and rooftops will become much, much more feasible (both easier to construct, more flexible, and less resource-consuming).

How different is this method to TROR? I'm curious.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Micky C on 07 January 2015, 13:26:54
Think of TROR as vertical, and WOW as horizontal. You can also do things like elevators with multiple windows stacked up over eachother into the elevator shaft (currently impossible since sectors cannot rise up into other TROR layers). Windows over each other in 3D buildings will no longer be restricted to individual TROR layers and can be at arbitrary heights. You also won't have to extend an entire area just to get a little bit of 3D going on, which is particularly an issue for outdoor areas, especially if the shapes of the areas are anything but small and simple.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 10 February 2015, 13:04:53
Bliss !
Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) is confirmed for my favourite festival this summer  8)

Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Sanek on 18 February 2015, 00:14:41
I remember the days when using door sprites as locked doors was a cool thing. :(
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 10 April 2015, 10:05:48
Headed for a night of brewery and R & R  8)
I've been hanging around this band for years and tonight they've invited a few friends to their rehearsal facility.
They'll play a few songs first and then it's open for everyone to join a jam.

An example (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ5QabZHTog)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 17 April 2015, 08:02:05
Last night we had bursts of Aurora Borealis (northern light) in my area.
It's quite unusual at this time of year.
But man, those of you that never have seen it, I can promise it's fuc..ng spectacular!
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 17 April 2015, 14:34:10
Used to see them every now and then when I lived in northern Idaho. They appear in Seattle occasionally, but I think I'm a little too far south to see them anymore except maybe during violent sunspot years.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 17 April 2015, 17:28:43
Quote from: Forge on  17 April 2015, 14:34:10
They appear in Seattle occasionally, but I think I'm a little too far south to see them anymore except maybe during violent sunspot years.


Hah, that was actually one question I was about to ask you, sire  :)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Micky C on 20 April 2015, 14:33:14
I'm hoping to see the Aurora Australis when I head over to New Zealand in july.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 23 May 2015, 15:57:09
Off to some serious R & R  8)
A three band minifestival for invited guests only.
A bottle of Scotch and some sausages for the barbeque is ready.
Yo-ho-ho..!
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Robman on 07 January 2016, 05:59:31
Never fear, LoWang is here!

(http://swcentral.weebly.com/uploads/5/8/5/2/5852925/5552030_orig.png)

Poor Tensi Yoka, trapped in development hell.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Robman on 10 January 2016, 09:10:34
I see this forum is just as slow as my own..
Title: General Discussion
Post by: High Treason on 11 January 2016, 18:28:55
Quote from: Forge on  28 December 2015, 05:32:31
I've been through a plethora of computer issues that kept me inactive for several months while I resolved the hardware and OS issues - and real life has been keeping me off the computer. Note how long it took me to get around to replying to this.
Oh, shit, ain't that a bitch.

Hey, who knows, maybe IRL will reach a point that it makes you suicidal and some piece of shit on the internet will turn up and start treating you like crap.


Fucking waste of air.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Micky C on 12 January 2016, 12:03:55
Yep.

What's the deal with the Deadly Kiss pic?
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Robman on 12 January 2016, 21:37:51
Quote from: Micky C on  12 January 2016, 12:03:55
Yep.

What's the deal with the Deadly Kiss pic?

Hadn't seen it many places, so I posted it. No biggie.
Title: Re: General Discussion
Post by: Forge on 19 January 2016, 17:51:01
Quote from: High Treason on  11 January 2016, 18:28:55
Hey, who knows, maybe IRL will reach a point that it makes you suicidal and some piece of shit on the internet will turn up and start treating you like crap.

Fucking waste of air.
interesting perspective.
I told you that you should manage your money better so you didn't go hungry, and I also pointed out that it was rude the way you kept flatly refusing people's efforts to help you, as you seemed to act like what ever they offered wasn't good enough for you.
Sorry I wasted air trying to help you and that you took it the wrong way.

Love you anyway buddy.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 17 October 2016, 19:07:30
Exciting!
Three wolves are roaming my neighborhood as we speak.
I haven't seen them yet but a couple of my friends have caught 'em on tape earlier today .
Strange since I live only 30 minutes from the capitol city and 10 minutes from the international airport.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 15 September 2017, 21:10:50
I wish Taivo Maripuu would appear with a brand new map.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 18 September 2017, 05:14:55
Quote from: Puritan on  15 September 2017, 21:10:50
I wish Taivo Maripuu would appear with a brand new map.
.....or you could make a new map. win-win, for me at least.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 18 September 2017, 07:53:18
Quote from: Forge on  18 September 2017, 05:14:55
Quote from: Puritan on  15 September 2017, 21:10:50
I wish Taivo Maripuu would appear with a brand new map.
.....or you could make a new map. win-win, for me at least.

Well, thanks man.
Have a look at the "What are you working on"-thread ;)
500 sectors so far...

I've been challenged to build a DN3D map.
By i nine years old girl by the way.
Can't let her down.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 19 September 2017, 04:11:02
I seen that.
You really can't tell much from the pic, and you never really said what it was. If it was a full map, just a section, a collaboration, or merely something you were toying with to kill some time & keep the skills up.

But I'm siding with the nine year old girl and her challenge to you.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 25 May 2018, 17:35:29
This winter (and spring) was long and unusually cold and with lots of snow...
Now we're facing the warmest May in recorded history.
28-30 C is way beyond the average temperature and it's been like that for a week. The forcast says another hot week.

Ah well, gives me an execuse to have a few cold beers on the porch after work...  ;D
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 12 July 2018, 14:33:56
...and the heat wave continues.

Tomorrow I'm off for a summer vacation (hope the alien bastards won't screw it up...).
One week hike in the mountains with no internet and no cellphone services.
Can't wait  :)

Then a week in Denmark with spa, baths, dining and beers  8)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Forge on 12 July 2018, 15:27:20
Sounds like fun.
Hope you have a good time.
Stay hydrated.
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 06 April 2019, 18:44:53
When will Happy Hangover (http://www.scent-88.com/reviews/H/happyhang/happyhang.php) reach the 1000+ downloads?  :D
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 22 May 2019, 13:26:17
I've ditched Facebook a while ago...
MeWe seems to be up and coming as a better alternative.

PM if you wanna join me  ;)


https://mewe.com/ (https://mewe.com/)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 19 June 2019, 14:46:58
Last friday this one arrived at my home.
Welcome aboard !



Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 03 November 2020, 22:01:52
Check out the front page right now. The video part on the middle section.
The band plays a few Duke Nukem 3D covers.
"Stalker" was clean but impressive
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 04 January 2021, 19:00:24
Just paid the fees for this page.
CGS will be alive and kicking yet another year  :P
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 02 July 2021, 10:03:50
Yay!
Off for summer vacation.
Starting with a week up in the mountains in a cabin.
Fishing and beers would be on the menu.
Back next weekend.


So long, guys  :)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 04 October 2021, 12:35:28
There has been a rainstorm lasting a week around here.
Last night I discovered a leak in the roof of our house.
Water dripping down from the ceiling and quite a lot of moist on the attic penetrating insulation and wooden beams.
This will be costly  >:(
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 05 November 2021, 15:38:21
I usually wont get involved in politics but this happening requires an exception though  ;D

Quote:
A powerful Dem New Jersey politician has officially lost to a GOP truck driver who spent $153 on his campaign, most of it on Dunkin Donuts.

Washington News (https://washingtonews.today/index.php/2021/11/05/gop-truck-driver-officially-beats-powerful-dem-in-new-jersey-after-spending-only-153-on-campaign/)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 29 January 2022, 00:43:41
Duke turns 26 years old today.
Congrats and ohhh....yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of Jack!
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 14 August 2022, 20:46:32
Hunting season starts off in just four weeks, can't wait!
Bought myself a brand new rifle.

A Tikka T3X Lite - cal .308 win
Sabre scope
Hausken silencer (legal in our country)

Also bought a new shotgun;
Khan K005 Deluxe
"12 gauge

Hare, roe deer, capercaillie and black grouse will be our main targets.
We will be using dog for the hare hunt.
It's a young dog, a Beagle actually, that's in for her first hunting season. Fingers crossed!
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 25 August 2022, 11:21:46
Finally, my dream come true!
Yesterday I bought myself a car.
Second hand car with a mileage of 138,000km.
It really is a dream to be behind the wheel of this thing  :)


Watch for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayrXdvd5III (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayrXdvd5III)

Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Aleks on 25 August 2022, 23:47:09
Quote from: Puritan on  25 August 2022, 11:21:46
Finally, my dream come true!
Yesterday I bought myself a car.
Second hand car with a mileage of 138,000km.
It really is a dream to be behind the wheel of this thing  :)


Watch for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayrXdvd5III (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayrXdvd5III)
Nice to hear it, man! Although I've always been convinved you're a motorcycle guy... or rather, a chopper guy 8)
Title: Re: Speakers' Corner
Post by: Puritan on 26 August 2022, 08:40:17
Quote from: Aleks on  25 August 2022, 23:47:09
Quote from: Puritan on  25 August 2022, 11:21:46
Finally, my dream come true!
Yesterday I bought myself a car.
Second hand car with a mileage of 138,000km.
It really is a dream to be behind the wheel of this thing  :)


Watch for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayrXdvd5III (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayrXdvd5III)
Nice to hear it, man! Although I've always been convinved you're a motorcycle guy... or rather, a chopper guy 8)


Thanks, Aleks

You're right; I'm a motorcycle man but in my country we have 5-6 months of winter with snow and ice....
Then I need a car for commuting - a decent car  :P

This is what I'm commuting with today: