Apparently this kid got arrested because he made a FPS level based on his high school: http://www.fortbendnow.com/news/2847/chinese-community-rallies-behind-student-removed-from-clements-over-pc-game-map

Also, they searched his bedroom:
"They arrested him," Chen said of FBISD police, "and also went to the house to search." The Lin family consented to the search, and a hammer was found in the boy�s room, which he used to fix his bed, because it wasn�t in good shape, Chen said. He indicated police seized the hammer as a potential weapon.

I like how they confiscated his Hammer � guess he�ll have to switch to UnrealED from now on.

But seriously, a hammer? Because that's the preferred weapon of terrorists and kids who shoot their classmates?

Anybody have a link to download his level? 

but still: screenshots please 

http://gamepolitics.com/2007/05/02/school-board-ponders-students-counter-strike-of-map-of-his-school/#comments

Is the discussion at game politics. Didn't know about the hammer - thats just fucking retarded.

Poor kid, not only not want to map again, he'll probably get a bad back from his broken bed. 

that is a crime in its self, but seriously, officials have only two sets of gears 1 - ball scratching, 2 - over reaction. 

another opportunity for some cocksmoking politician to gain some �profile�.... 

Seriously, who has NOT done this? It's like the first thing nearly every kid decides to try when he first discovers level editors.

(I didn't :D) 

It was probably a close call that I didn't kill my entire family, because, y'know, that's how that shit works. 

I mapped out the entire Terrafusion channel. Shits goin' down man. 

I mapped your mom.

ALL. NIGHT. LONG.

It was pretty good map, had a nice layout and some interesting DM gameplay, got a 9/10 on LvL. 

I hope you decreased the number of rocket launchers from 4 to 2 and increased the amount armor shards. 

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/05/whats_the_worst_song_lyric_eve.html

some really funny contributions in there but then it starts to stretch thin by the time someone claimed this as a bad lyric:

Knockin At Your Backdoor by Deep Purple

"Sweet Lucy was a dancer/but none of use would chance her/because she was a samurai"

That is an awesome lyric. 

Dunno, might chance her - got a phone number? 

but do you ever want to be put in the position of breaking it off with a Lady Samarai? 

Crouching Tiger, Monkey Playing Flute or We Can Still Be Friends Elephant? 

is you don't want one who is strong enough to wack you with just one blow while you are sleeping. She gets that confessional, guilt ridden call from her sister at 3:00 am, it's lights out for you, buddy. 

The mysteries of the name "HeadThump" are made clear. 

Does anybody know why there are no posts since Apr 24th? As far as I can see, I'm logged in with the new system. 

Your right aguire. I was (I should say forced) logged into the new system as well. And as far as I can see, there are no posts in any topics after April 24th. Weird, but then again its PlanetQuake so I'm not surprised much. 

from Gamespy may shed some light:

Dear ForumPlanet Member,

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We want you to be able to pick your unique name, so please take
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of the new login system, but surely there must be more than me that actually changed to the new system? Well, now there's Orl and me ... ;)

Maybe there are tech problems they're not telling us. Rust has also been almost dead for a long time, sad to see .. 

but all I get is a message on 6 May that is scrambled. I mean the "ingame proposal" in the Quake1 mapping discussion. 

Over at Ars Technica:
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/game-writing-1.ars 

With useful pointers and a decent clarification of the system.

Hadn't heard of this site before - I'm now a fan. 

Oral sex can cause throat cancer

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11819&feedId=online-news_rss20 

Scientists agree, life inevitably ends in death.

Film at 11!