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... 

I plead the fifth. 

plead insanity, it'll be much more convincing under the circumstances. 

but you already drank it!

Oh, and thanks for the appreciation, guys. 

list of grateful Func_ visitors.

Tron: If you haven't seen it, I've the entire old QMap "Mapping Help" thread saved at my site: http://user.tninet.se/~xir870k . I only wished there were more saved threads. 

Hurry up and upgrade the exchange which services my new place you fucking slack telephony wholesaling bastards 

this board rocks, no extra shit avatars, sigs or whatnot, just a comfortable layout and mostly good-natured talk. :)

Maybe a post icon with a thumb up would be useful. 

but old qmap had site/map tracker
and icon abuse too 

more meaningful. I wouldd raise a mug for Metl any day or time of the week. 

Here at our house when Telstra put the line in they apparently set it up on a pairgain or something like that, which means no broadband to this residence.

Apparently it was being fixed soon/has been fixed recently though so a decent connection soon. Huzzah! 

One person who is trying to play my Apinaraivo / Monkey Rage (download at http://www.quaddicted.com/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_download/gid,49/) has a problem. He has extracted the archive file into the Quake dir, loads quake with the correct -game settings, but upon typing "map araivo" he receives an error that looks like:

ifNOT 5650[?]
spawnpointerror

He has tried both GLQuake and FitzQuake and the error happens with both. I cannot reproduce this problem and I can't recall of anyone having any similar problems with my map. What could be the reason for this? 

he's using the -listen option, i.e. he's trying to run in DM mode instead of SP. Since you don't have any DM spawn points on this map, the engine will via QC get stuck in a loop looking for a spawn point until a counter is exceeded.

This behaviour is a bit weird in the standard QC. 

So I at least got in the top 10 for Planetquake's wallpaper contest. I wasn't expect to be in the top 3 anyway, and even if I got 2nd or 3rd - I really have no interest in a Quake 4 t-shirt or 3 free months of GameSpy Clubbadubdub 

I hope your virtual masturbation does not gum up the works and make func slower than it already is. 

Func_ owns, its just slow at 3am EST :) 

I hope your virtual masturbation does not gum up the works and make func slower than it already is.

I want inertia to be the MC at my Roast. 

So let me get this straight... the US people are whining about gasoline prices rising (they are 2.60$ a gallon over there apparently, which makes it 0.68$ per litre) while here in Finland gasoline costs over 1.2 euro per litre (which adds up to over 5$ for a gallon)? What is wrong with this picture? 

$3.00 here per gallon. And yes we're whining because our whole urban model is based around personal cars instead of social transports - we have buses, but nobody uses them. Most people drive their own cars to their neighbor's houses instead of walking ,etc etc, and we end up paying like 5 billion a week for gas. Plus Bush sucks. 

Why not walk or use a bus? 

density in the states means that it is necessary to drive further to accomplish equivalant task in Europe. A German friend of mine once pointed out to me that you could move the entire population of Germany in to the state of Texas with its current population in tact and not equal the population density current in Germany. So, cheap gas versus expensive gas effects the bottom line to a greater extent than in Europe.

As far as mass transit, it is terribly ineffecient for the end user. In the states, sans some latte towns that ban automobiles, you can get from your front door to the parking lot of any other inhabited place on the continent without a great excercion of energy. Try stocking up for a week at the grocery store and hauling it on a bus and then hauling it to your front door, and you'll see what I mean. 

So why is it by design? What possible sense does it make to build your cities in a way that FORCES people to own a car? 

Of non-Americans saying "stop whining" -- isn't it fucking obvious that our countries have different standards and rates of living? It's like comparing apples to oranges. 

means living by my own schedule and not an arbitrary one designated by a bureaucrat in charge of bus schedules. I've seen what the increased bureacratization of society has done to our airports, and it is not a direction or way of life I am interested in pursuing any further than it already become. 

"means living by my own schedule and not an arbitrary one designated by a bureaucrat in charge of bus schedules."

I can accept a counter-argument, but not this one. I have buses going into every direction every 15 to 20 minutes tops, from 5.30 am to 0.30 am (about 1 bus per hour during the night). What would be the problem if a similar system was applied to the US?