We've been through this such a long long time, jus tryin' to kill the pain.

Ooooooooooh yeeeeeeh

But lovers always come and lovers always go n no one's really sure who's lettin' go today.

Walking away

If we could take the time to lay it on the line, I could rest my head, just knowin' that you were miiiiiiiiiiiiine

All mine


(do you need some time? On your own?) 

referring to a song I don't know, and yeah, don't know as in never heard of. 

Everybody needs some time, on their ooo-oown..

Oooooh dont you know you neeeeed some time.......

On your own

In the cold ________ ____.

Tronyn - I love you but you suck :P 

irl is gonna suck this week, so I'm getting a little sloshed and doing mapping. <puts pink floyd on>

hi 

That one chianty yeast cell that smuggles the whole apricot bottle to ferment in wine,
takes some time, but then you're mine. 

Must've gone all European since I was there. I remember going into a pub on O'Connell Street for lunch. A pint of Guiness was poured for me before I'd even opened my mouth. I ordered the roast beef for lunch. "You'll be wanting taters?", the server asked. I nodded. Back came a plate the size of a tin bath, along with the 'taters' - boiled, roast and mashed, all on the same plate, complete with carrots, peas and caulie, and three slices of beef as big as your average laptop.

Nice place, Dublin. 

They have really nice beef in Ireland. Apparently half of the reason is that the farmers are allowed to kill their livestock on farm, so the animal is relaxed when it is killed. AFAIK they aren't allowed to do it in the UK. 

About food in the British Isles? 

mike you rule btw did you see my version of Roman Wilderness or my article about the history of it including your version...? Also awesome to know you're stil around. Hell awesome to know thatm even CZG is still around. Anyway I am now working on a map based on scraps by Necros and (drum roll) TYRANN. Give me a few more months (my work's been semi-reuglar) and you'll be seeing it. What I want to see is THIS ONION PART 2. Dunno how much attention you paid but I called THIS ONION one of the best medieval maps of all time. 

i have map scraps? o.0 

I'll post a shot soon and you'll recognize it 

Hi! :) 

FIRE OUR SHIT! 

Yes, I did see Roman Wilderness and although I didn't play it (I don't play Quake anymore) I had a walk through to see if I could recognise any of the areas that I used. It looked awesome.

This Onion 2 (The Imp's Castle) is finished but as I don't play Quake I have sort of lost the feel for game-play. Consequently, apart from a few test monsters, or those used as switches, it is effectively unpopulated. I do have the additional music pieces but they need editing down to usable size and I have not placed them within the map yet.

The Imp's Castle is just more of the same and is a direct continuation from the end of This Onion.

I will get around to finishing it (no timescales) and recently played through HL2 again just to try to get a feel for games again, I also started Far Cry2 but didn't really latch onto it and gave up.

But one day, one day... 

thanks for the response, it's nice to know you aim at letting your work be finished some day. That's been a major part of my motivation to keep mapping for a very long time. The other part is just that mapping is a decent way to spend time however unproductive it is. But I thought that the end of This Onion was some of the most epic scenery possible, so I'm glad to know that I will be able to explore that for real one day, and I'll be there to review it.

I got into Far Cry 1, and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, but never Far Cry2 or HL2, I couldn't run those games but I wouldn't be interested if I could. For me, games have to take me somewhere I couldn't be normally - and that isn't just a crashing 747 or a the matrix keanu reeves, it's instead a different sort of world and that's what Quake kicks ass at.

In other words AVATAR shows exactly what is wrong with the last 15 years of tech, tech visionaries, artists, popular culture, nerdism, psychological problems, etc, when compared to Quake. 

avatar? i thought it was a pretty good action movie, but i don't understand what you meant.
and i still have a soft spot for dark messiah, if only for that wooden village attached to the side of a sheer stone cliff. 

I guess what I was trying to say is I want this weird, elusive sense that the RULES of a created world are different - ie ALIEN - not just the scenery - - ie AVATAR. One reason why Quake is so exceptional. 

 

the most idiotic thing ever. It totally got me to snap out of the movie because:

1) how are they kept in the air, and why are the dragons flying around it not affected by that effect

2) WHERE DOES THE FRIGGIN WATER THAT FALLS FROM SOME OF THE ROCKS COME FROM 

i remember reading some blog or article or whatever after seeing the film. it was written by some hard science fiction buff or something.

basically, it worked out that a magnetic field powerful enough to hold a hole fucking island in the air would rip the iron right out of your blood, to say nothing of those little helicopter type ships they use.

i guess we're just supposed to accept the magic hand-waving. especially regarding things like the water falling out of the floating islands. 9_9

looks fucking cool though....... :P 

tech nerds on barricades!!!!! 

some things are better left unexplained. in this particular case, those which have no explanation other than to look fucking cool ;p

i actually think it's an accurate example of what tronyn was arguing for with games like quake; it doesn't make sense, it doesn't abide by any rules of physics or logic but it looks awesome and enhances the atmosphere. how many void maps are there that just float without any explanation? or waterfalls in maps without rain or mountains.. etc

plus i don't think they were that out of character with the rest of the film. none of it is exactly realistic 

Well I sort of agree with Sleepy, the flying rock thing just kind of threw me out of it. I can buy an ecosystem where organisms have evolved some kind of USB hub to communicate with each other or whatever, and forests of memories and what not, but the floating rock islands could have been really high cliffs and it would have made a lot more sense/been more believable.

Also, unobtainium. w t f 

i actually didn't mind the floating islands per se. i thought it looked quite badass. but the waterfalls just made no sense.
you can sort of imagine that it's the unobtanium that has some kind of special property that makes things float. maybe that's why earth needs it so bad. but how is water being pumped up to those islands to fall down in such large quantities??

also, i hate it when movie dudes think they are being clever using joke terms as actual stuff in their films.

besides, unobtanium was already used as a joke in 'the core'. at least in that one, the material in question actually did have a name, but it was nicknamed unobtanium (and the other characters laugh as though they know it's silly).

in avatar, everyone says it like it's serious business which just ended up looking silly. 

you guys will say that minecraft is unrealistic...