Quote from SenturaOut of curiosity, which town was this?
Mansfield. It's not even an especially small town for the UK. It's horrifying to think of what a considerably smaller town or a village would be like. I guess the lifestyle I enjoy just isn't compatible with that kind of environment — I know lots of people who enjoy being in smaller, quieter places. I'm the kind of guy who pretty much needs urban noise at night to sleep peacefully.
Hell no. OK sure, I pay as much for a one-bedroom flat as someone further out would pay for an entire five-bedroom house. But in my building I've got a pool, hot tub, sauna, and gym; work is a one-minute walk away; and within five minutes of walking I can get to 50+ bars, clubs, and restaurants, and shops of every kind imaginable.
I grew up in a town for 23 years, which comparatively was total shit. Deafening silence during the evening and night, nobody around (good if you want to be single and sexless for life I guess), 30 minutes to the closest shops, basically no genuinely good places to eat or drink in the entire town, social and job opportunities as rich as a pig's arse... man, I wouldn't go back there even if you paid me the rent.
But each to their own. 
I'm going to end up renting until the day I die. Fuck dat buying shit.
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Makes me think of that prison in Half-Life 2, haha. Just needs some turrets at the end of that big open area.
Haha, I know what you mean. I just watched the first video, and holy shit that guy has a massive problem with silence or something. Even when John's clearly gathering his thoughts and is about to share some sweet-ass Doom development fact, he jumps in and finishes his sentence for him. He must be a nightmare on dates.
Been continuing to mess around with putting music together. This is still rough as knackers but is about the epitome of what I can manage right now. Still, I can hear endless things that I want to change. I need to do some other shit for a few days so hopefully I'll feel inspired to move this forward a bit more afterwards. It's meant to be atmospheric game BGM type shit for a snowy level.
Winter Heights - Draft 1 - SoundCloud
That was it. If I remember correctly I stripped players of weapons and they had to find shovels awkwardly placed in the grass outside the walls to kill each other with. The fort had a ladder onto the top inside it with a pistol, but it took shitloads of hits on the fort's doors to get in.
Just a stupid little deathmatch thing seeing as I could never get more substantial maps finished. Must have about 50+ maps at varying levels of completion on some hard drive somewhere. 
But I did get very good at optimisation and keeping dat r_speeds low, haha.
Haha, don't know where they got this. A long-lost Day of Defeat (Half-Life mod) novelty map I made in 2002. It did technically see the light of day, but I think I only distributed it like on IRC. So weird to see it come up all these years later.
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Quote from Seldoon182The best hoster so far to me is Gandi.net (French company). Their slogan is no Bullshit which mean what it mean. I met them in Paris during a conference and they're very pro and such. And good for you they are running their business in UK since 2008.
So Gandi "simple hosting" + Wordpress is the best way to start imho!
PS: Wordpress is a better solution if you aim for something simple and scalable to evolve and such. Simple website host managers are very limited.
This is incidentally what MapCore is hosted on. 
The performance (i.e. how fast it can pump out dynamic pages) is excellent. I've used a lot of hosts personally and professionally, and short of a finely tuned dedicated server (as in Nginx + MariaDB) I haven't found comparable speed. Mainly because the 'Simple Hosting' is actually a pre-configured virtual private server with dedicated resources, unlike most hosts in the price bracket.
You do need to do everything yourself, but if you go the WordPress route with a nice premium theme (which I would recommend so that you're not tied to any particular company/host) it really is very straightforward, and there are billions of people who could help in the unlikely event you have installation problems.
That box sledge one is so awesome, watching the video was making me smile hearing how much fun people were having with it. While I guess that groups of friends might only play such games a relatively small number of times, you just can't beat the laughs they bring.
We do have that now, the anti-spam measures seem to be 100% effective, it's just that they stopped working for a day a little while back and the fuckers flooded in.
That seems pretty sensible blackdog, I was going to do something similar but filter down to users with no posts registered around then. I've been very ill over Christmas and not on my computer (using iPad) so I'll sort it out when I feel better. Fortunately the number of bots has become minuscule now.
God, is Eastern Europe just comprised of spammers or something? Jesus.
Seriously though, the spammers we're seeing are still ones who signed up during that day or so when the defences were down — I guess that they have a delayed activation thing to try to avoid detection. The amount has definitely lessened but I'll try to do some cleanup by identifying 'sleeper' bots and banning them.
Wonderful Christmas to everyone!
Just got back from a weekend away at a forest lodge with my family, which provided a lot of great photo opportunities. I'm really looking forward to getting stuck into sorting them out over Christmas as it's been ages since I've gotten to have a good play, but I did find a little time to Lightroom the shit out of this one tonight (click for the 4K monster):
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I think I went a bit overboard with the grading (LOL BLORANGE) and something about the framing bothers me, so I'll be revisiting this one when I do the full batch. But I'll tell you what, editing photos on a 5K screen is god damned excellent. I can't wait until every monitor ever is like this. It's also weird because to edit photos how they look at 100% on a normal monitor you have to use 200%. It's going to take me a while to get used to the implications viewing images this way has on sharpening — I hope I didn't get it too wrong here.
I have to say that our Quake 3 contest had an amazing run. During a period of 8 weeks we received 30 signups of which 16 submitted their map before the deadline. Making this one of the most successful Quake 3 contests in history.
This couldn't have been such a success without all of you. From the the people who signed up to the contestants who submitted their maps. From giving feeding to the Core supporting the contest. It was a real community effort for which I'm very grateful. Thank you all!
Needless to say, judging took a while due the large number of submissions but it's time to announce the winners.
