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Continuing the small guide for how to fix your ancient config, or how to build a new one, with a twist. Here are some settings that I claim will help you play better. This is of course a controversial subject in the quake 3 community, and personally I do not believe there are a lot of config cvars that will actively help here, so I will only do the most logical ones that really could be of help. These are all along the lines of turning down information you do not want, and showcasing better the information you really want.
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Having revamped my config in the advent of the new challenge quake 3 exe, I thought I'd share my discoveries on what actually controls the quake 3 visuals as well as what now is irrelevant.

Note, this guide only works for the latest challenge quake3 exe. Get it here (current v = 1.46, if I know you, you probably do not have it).

It's been over seven years since Q3 was released and the videos keep getting better. These two are from this week, and amusingly reflects pretty well how seriously the two different communities take themselves.

kicked & removed - fast paced dm6 frags with some inside humor.
legendary - amazing collection of defrag runs.

compensation for scheduled misfortune

My three VQ3 movies from two+ years ago listed chronologically. Shitty bitrate, but that's what they give you. Thanks to ivc for uploading. High quality downloads are still available.

First movie has a little bit of "this music is so angry" feel to it, but that's what quake can do to you.

It appears that any explicit plans I make for my spare time is doomed to fail. For the third year in a row, I was to make up for another great game that I'd missed, this time Final Fantasy 7. Planescape and Fallout earlier drove me into the ground earlier solely because of their inadequate graphics, and I don't know what convinced me that this would be any different. Long story short, I ended up with Dungeon Siege 2 with my brother instead, confirming yet again how predictable my proclivities are; i.e. the need for mindless hack and slash always prevails.

Additionally, my new quake 3 movie project seems to have run into a snag as well; my obtained producer had his computer fucked by a metaphorical sledgehammer. Or, at any rate, that's what he claims, slightly paraphrased. I did manage to cut through a couple hundred demos in a few days - just in time for the new cpma - and I guess eventually the movie, when it's finished, will stand as a testament to how unpredictably that rl knockback in cpma could behave. However, that may take some time now.
the way of the pibbz

As part of another movie project, I've been sorting old quake 3 demos for the last couple of days. It was actually quite fun at first, as the good memories of extraordinary luck still resonated within the cortex, but as continuity was never my thing, I made the painful mistake of starting with the newest demos. It's, of course, expedient at first, as much is remembered from the last two or three matches, but beyond that, it's like a backwards journey through evolutionary accepted and rejected techniques. My aim decreases, my attempts loose their nuances and after enough time suddenly devolve into something uniformly horrible. I'm at November 2005 in the timeline now, and even with 2.5x playback rate, it's impossible to watch my increasingly pathetic attempts to attack RA without the proportionally increasing mental agony.

So, I think I'll stop here. What I have should be enough.

Hopefully, there will be another dridgo tourney at the caf? later, I long for the unadulterated whine present in these rooms. The profane name calling and the immense sighs of defeat provides a great atmosphere, but nothing beats the subsequent discussions about why the match devolved into what it did. These become so political the subjects of the discussions start floating vividly from one nonsensical point to the other, passing through dimensions we cannot comprehend, and end up in mutated forms where everyone is insulted as the conclusion.

it's marvelous

Ask me mid-match if you can get my MSN. What the fuck am I supposed to do here? Give my opponent the armors while I hand it over? There's only one appropriate bind for such idiocy.

bind b say_team ^3@@@ ^7NO/CANT ^3@@@

He responded with an "aight" and left.

At any rate, there's quite a bit of CPM15 action going on these days. Maybe I (i.e. someone else - more on that later) will put together some frags in the much loved avi format sometime during the summer. Good idea?

patibuh is my god

I shall again worship thee.

This gotta count for something.

So I have a plan for once, I will study applied mathematics at UNSW next year. Might not happen of course, but possibly negative outcomes never discouraged me from sharing dreams. I find the English language tremendously more enjoyable than Norwegian, so I'm not just choosing the easy way out by joining the more than four thousand Norwegian dudes for a surfing trip or something. I mean, it's pretty pathetic reading about people who've spent years there and doesn't even fucking know one Australian guy. Besides, math? Should be a turnoff for most Norwegians anyway.

Now, Easter. Planned to go snowboarding with the old Oslo maniac, but some ludicrous miscalculations allowed an impulsive purchase of TG tickets, so any skiing activities will need to proceed before Wednesday - and then necessarily with stable snow conditions, what on Wednesday started out as excellent snow, was slowly processed into a matter with the basic characteristics of glue.

TG: I have a car this year as well, so stress is minimized to a function of network downtime and the few hours of driving. People accuse the former of being to grave a weakness to actually go through with another gathering, but they're being overly negative. Here's my recipe for enjoying yourself while the network is down; bring rollerblades (excellent cement floor), enjoy atmosphere, poke friend on the shoulder when he realizes he'll be dead when he reenters WoW (or for any other poke worthy causes), do some DDR showoff, take pictures, and of course, continue your quest to download the whole intarnet. I'm sure you have that on your to do list somewhere.

Oh, and I'll lay the smack down (without cerium however) in quake 3. I've joined a div 3 UK clan, under the name Team UK (yeah, they're that imaginative). One would presume there would be an unbendable criterion needing to be met for joining such a team, but I'll tell you, it just isn't there. At any rate, they're using ventrilo with some cool uk accents and they're actually way more serious than any Norwegian OSP clan I've played with - and I've played with pretty much everyone over the different eras. It's great fun at least - we're better than everyone in our division so it's a lot of newbie bashing - and I do my own duel mojo with vague coordination with the team. It's said that duelers only play half the game, but without much TDM practice we're owning it up FFA style and snatching quads with basic duel instincts anyway. So congrats to the TDM-only guys who're only playing the other half, you either suck, or you're missing out on 90%.

Sunday action