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I have been playing a couple of the latest releases but have had to use one of the boosted-limit engines and not my engine of choice, FQ0.85.

Tonight I thought it might be fun to run up one of my old maps and chose a Speed Map from 2005. A soon as FQ started, and before the opening demo was running, a woman's voice started narrating a story. She got as far as, "The next day, as we shared a hot dog and pretzel in front of city hall...", before the ogre's grenades drowned her out, although I could still hear her talking in the background.

I came out of FQ went into Task Manager and looked for any other running programs but there were none.

I ran FQ again and it did it again, and again, and again. To my knowledge, I do not have any talking books on my machine, nor radio, no TV.

WTF? 

... and the cow's still there!

WTFWTFWTF 

So you have James Patterson audiobooks on CD, it's OK, you can admit it. 

check your cd drive lmao 

Ha, ha, ha

So I am describing what's happening to 'er indoors, when she says, "Oh, I recognise that phrase; that was in the James Patterson book I was listening to today."

And where were you listening to it I enquired? Apparently, her laptop batteries were down so she used my all-in-one... and left the 'kin' disc in the player. And the opening Quake demo seems to use track 2 from the Quake disc, and what does track two start with on the Patterson CD... "The next day, as we shared a hot dog and pretzel in front of city hall..."

I suppose I should laugh. But honestly, I thought magic was happening.

Anyway, Johnny Law, how on earth did you get to that answer? I even Googled it earlier when trying to work it out and got a nil return. But then Deaf In Paradise came on (I said DEAF IN PARADISE) and I had to take a break.

Ho hum. 

Of the original disk - track 1 is the game data, all the others are the music.

Thanks, this cheered me up a lot :) 

Lol, that was awesome. 

Yah I literally just googled that phrase, it turned up the Patterson book when I did it. 

Awesome 

That makes me think Daz should start doing audio books...

"The next day, as we shared a hot dog and...'ello guys." 

This is possibly the most exciting news I've ever heard. 

Do you really want to be sharing Daz's hotdog??? 

No. 

 

Umberto Eco has died. 

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11137855 

I'm having a hard time thinking of good uses for those. Conveyor belts aren't enough.

Skies and water don't need regular scrolling textures in my engine. And scrolling whole background environments as in the train level of Soldier of Fortune is too restricting.

:\ I just can't think of regular environment details that would be improved by scrolling textures. 

Flowing water? That seems like a really commmon thing a mapper would want to do.