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Acid
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posted 06-27-2013 03:40 AM     Profile for Acid   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
O - Where did you live when you were in WV? I'm from the northern panhandle and spent the better part of 8 years in Morgantown. Even though I'm in Hawaii for a few years, I miss it.
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posted 06-27-2013 07:59 AM     Profile for jondster   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
A couple years ago I had a contracted gig as "Help Desk" a the local CC. I set up Quake "Live" on my terminal to pass time between calls. It wasn't bad considering it would run on a low spec rig and nothing had to be installed as it was cloud-based.

That hi-rez screenie OICU put up looks a lot like Q3A - at least from the HUD

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posted 06-27-2013 08:32 AM     Profile for Oicu812   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I was living in Martinsburg, working for the IRS in their super secret datacenter out in the woods. (Halfway between Martinsburg and Charles Town, off of Short Road. Google maps shows the place as "Basic Computer Services")
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Martinsburg,+WV&hl=en&ll=39.398182,-77.913505&spn=0.005671,0.010782&sll=27.489128,-82.587292&sspn=0.10416,0.17252&oq=martins&hnear=Martinsburg,+Berkel ey,+West+Virginia&t=h&z=17

O

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posted 06-27-2013 09:09 AM     Profile for Oicu812   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Okay, I am building Linux out on this machine, then will look at the dedicated Q2 code.

Just for Burble.

O

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posted 06-27-2013 10:48 AM     Profile for GFKiller   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
This looks sweet

quote:
Originally posted by Oicu812:

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posted 06-27-2013 03:44 PM     Profile for jondster   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
That old Q2 folder I saved may have EVERYBODY's skins in it. I just sent OICU's to him to see if the .pcx files are what's needed.

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posted 06-27-2013 09:31 PM     Profile for Cacophonous   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
http://home.comcast.net/~cacophonous/qplayers.exe

There is an offical Raverboy skin in there. A Joanster too. LMAO

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posted 06-27-2013 11:37 PM     Profile for Oicu812   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Okay, gentlemen. The Oicu812 Q2 server is back on the air.

DNS name is oldjoeclark.com. Simply add that to your server list.

I can't play tonight, but if you guys want to help me out by testing it, that would be great.

O

(It would have been faster than this, but Suse would lose the DVD drive on the server 90% of the way through the install, so I had to figure out the work around)

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posted 06-28-2013 12:26 AM     Profile for burble   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Oicu812:
Okay, I am building Linux out on this machine, then will look at the dedicated Q2 code.

Just for Burble.

O


Insert cute puppy dog D'AAAAWWWWWWW.

Thanks. I will explode people into bits in your honor.


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posted 06-28-2013 10:14 AM     Profile for Oicu812   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
The server works like a champ.

Let me know when you all want to get together, and I will paint the target on my back.

O

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posted 06-28-2013 05:56 PM     Profile for Oicu812   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Okay, I am on the server and waiting for my first "customer".

O

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posted 06-28-2013 08:00 PM     Profile for jondster   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Tried to check in at 8:58pm

Had trouble with "oldjoeclark.com - found an IP of 161.58.104.2 but no port

Couldn't connect

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posted 06-28-2013 08:56 PM     Profile for Oicu812   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Port is 27910. I had a guy show up from the Netherlands...

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posted 06-30-2013 05:10 AM     Profile for RoGuEBiTcH   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Is this server up 24/7? I just tried this morning and couldn't connect.

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posted 06-30-2013 03:43 PM     Profile for Oicu812   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Yeah, it is. I've opened the firewall and tested with my outside IP address, and it works from here.

You can also try mickymouse.dyndns.org.

O

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posted 06-30-2013 05:06 PM     Profile for Oicu812   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I also have a Vent server set up at the same address, password is "sans"

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posted 06-30-2013 05:48 PM     Profile for Acid   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Makes me wish I had a desktop. I've only got my MBP and playing games on a laptop is garbage.
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posted 06-30-2013 08:47 PM     Profile for RoGuEBiTcH   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I play and develop Q2W on my MBP. Grow a pair.

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posted 06-30-2013 09:33 PM     Profile for Oicu812   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Can anyone connect to this thing from the outside world? Anyone want to test this for me?

Jondster, the old skin works great.

O

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posted 07-01-2013 03:48 PM     Profile for jondster   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Haven't been able to log in yet. Added to server list, didn't show. Syntax for console connect is "connect to (IP ort)" - isn't it ?

I've got a few other issues going on here which are distracting me, like the wife's cell phone got cloned by a stalker, and she swears her computer's been breached.

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posted 07-01-2013 06:03 PM     Profile for RoGuEBiTcH   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
mickeymouse.dydns.org works!

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posted 07-01-2013 07:05 PM     Profile for Oicu812   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Awesome. Now when do we play?

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posted 07-01-2013 10:17 PM     Profile for burble   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Can't connect. Maybe I need to port forward with my router or something...checking...
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posted 07-01-2013 11:13 PM     Profile for burble   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Opened 27910, still got nothin'.
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posted 07-02-2013 03:44 PM     Profile for RoGuEBiTcH   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
27910 is the server port. You shouldn't have to open anything on your end, burble.

The server works fine for me, just tried it again. I ping a steady 80ms, which is fine. I can play any night this week.. wife is out of town

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posted 07-03-2013 02:57 AM     Profile for burble   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Right, I'm trying to connect to either of his addresses with 27910 as the port. 'connect mickeymouse.dydns.org' or 'connect mickeymouse.dydns.org:27910'. Neither will work for me. I just don't know how Quake works on client side. So connecting to that server port doesn't mean my computer would be talking through the same port?

Since it's not working for me, I figured if there was anything on my end, it was the router blocking the 'handshake' or whatever return signal getting back to my machine. Is there some exception rule I can make to make sure that doesn't happen?

edit: added the stock Q2 rule from the router software, and it did the same thing- opened 27910 on UDP. I dunno what the deal is.

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posted 07-03-2013 03:01 AM     Profile for burble   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Fuck me, now it works.

Ahhhh...RB posted 'mickey,' which works, I was using what O wrote, which was 'micky.'

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posted 07-03-2013 05:32 AM     Profile for Acid   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
So.. I guess I'll start the hunt for the mythical pak0.pak. I'll hook up my mouse for old times sake.
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posted 07-03-2013 09:45 AM     Profile for jondster   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
shit. still can't connect

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posted 07-03-2013 12:39 PM     Profile for RoGuEBiTcH   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Acid:
So.. I guess I'll start the hunt for the mythical pak0.pak. I'll hook up my mouse for old times sake.

You actually don't need the retail pak0.pak to play Q2 online. The demo pak0.pak plus the 3.14 patch data gives you pretty much everything you need.

Check this out: http://q2s.tastyspleen.net/

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posted 07-03-2013 12:50 PM     Profile for RoGuEBiTcH   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
..Since people are having connectivity issues, can I suggest that we just meet on a Tastyspleen.net server at some pre-determined time?

That way:

1) O doesn't have to run a server.
2) Everyone can connect.
3) Other players will keep us entertained if we're not on at the same time.
4) O won't have a 0ms ping :P

The ports are as follows:

tastyspleen.net:27910 "Mutant" custom maps, my favorite! Seldom packed, but frequently occupied.
tastyspleen.net:27912 "Vanilla" single player and DM levels (requires retail game). Usually pretty busy.
tastyspleen.net:27916 "DM" q2dm1-q2dm8 with a few others thrown in. Guaranteed madhouse 24x7.

Full ports listing available here: http://tastyspleen.net/quake/servers/list.cgi

I can hop on tonight from like 10pm-12am EST. Any takers?

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posted 07-03-2013 01:27 PM     Profile for Acid   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by RoGuEBiTcH:
You actually don't need the retail pak0.pak to play Q2 online. The demo pak0.pak plus the 3.14 patch data gives you pretty much everything you need.

Check this out: http://q2s.tastyspleen.net/


Appears its Windows only. Maybe I'll install Parallels and just get it over with.


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posted 07-03-2013 01:31 PM     Profile for jondster   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
What MAY be cool is a teamspeak channel. I can probably set up a server.

Opinions ?

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posted 07-03-2013 02:00 PM     Profile for RoGuEBiTcH   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Acid:
Appears its Windows only. Maybe I'll install Parallels and just get it over with.

Oh, right, you're on Mac. Well, boy are you in luck:

https://github.com/jdolan/quake2/blob/master/README.md

Download, double click, drag to Applications, done.

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posted 07-03-2013 02:14 PM     Profile for jondster   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Nice link, Rogue. Got it installed & works great. Got on OICU's server and a Tastyspleen - got my ass handed to me a bit but WTF. Fun shit, not a whole lotta strategy going on there.

Checking on a TS3 server

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posted 07-04-2013 01:51 PM     Profile for Acid   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Installed.. jumped on 27916, and immediately remembered that I hadn't set up my controls. Whoops.
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posted 07-05-2013 12:40 AM     Profile for burble   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I dunno about you guys, but I just grabbed a torrent. Like 200MB. It's not like any of us don't own the game...eff giving money to Steam, I'm done paying to borrow shit. Probably got a couple grand into games that are basically gone because I have no interest in using Steam or Xbox Live ever again.

Also my email changed and apparently that makes my Steam account gone. Valve can go suck a mountain of dicks.

I'm usually free on Wednesdays. Monday and Friday would be late (10PM EST or so, maybe later). Sat/Sun, who knows.


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posted 07-24-2013 12:10 PM     Profile for jondster   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Well, this kinda died out ...

I've been AWOL with a total hip replacement, so I've got an excuse

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posted 07-25-2013 04:02 PM     Profile for outrider   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Big O and jondster!!

Feels good not to be the oldest geezer posting again!


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posted 07-26-2013 08:47 AM     Profile for jondster   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
WELL, EFFING-A !!

Outtie, How are ya doing !

As you can see, the place got going for a bit, but then went back into remission.
Ron (OICU) got a server going, but "life" must have interrupted things again

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posted 07-29-2013 07:32 AM     Profile for RoGuEBiTcH   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I'm back up in MA for a couple of weeks to participate in a charity bike ride in memory of my mother in law. This is my 3rd year riding in this 2-day, 200 mile ride. It's my wife's first year riding _at all_, so we're on a tandem:
http://www2.pmc.org/profile/TR0125

I'll be back in Quake-ville in a couple weeks

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Yeah I've been on the house hunt for the past month. Plus my gaming rig is still living with my parents. No room in my apartment.
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quote:
Originally posted by GFKiller:
Yeah I've been on the house hunt for the past month. Plus my gaming rig is still living with my parents. No room in my apartment.

Wow that thing must be huge!

I mean...

Your computer.

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posted 08-01-2013 01:01 PM     Profile for RoGuEBiTcH   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Quake2 for sale on Steam for $2.49 for QuakeCon: http://store.steampowered.com/sale/quakecon1?snr=1_4_4__118

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posted 08-01-2013 03:48 PM     Profile for outrider   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
So Jondster, how's the new hip doing? About 5 yrs ago I had to have a quad bypass. So I've been doing lots of exercising and no drinking or drugs these days. Maybe we should go into bidness together and open up gaming lans at retirement homes. Get one of the old hens there to dress up like Lara Croft and hand out redbull-geritol cocktails.

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posted 08-01-2013 04:24 PM     Profile for jondster   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
A little over 2 weeks into it & I'm about to lose the cane. Funny, since I was supposed to graduate from a walker (no fucking way I was going to use THAT) to the cane perhaps THIS week. I've got a limp, but that'll be gone probably in a couple more weeks. I'm checking into re-joining a gym tomorrow. So, yeah .. it's coming along.

You been to a retirement home? (my Mom's in one)... they have Wiis there so the old farts can bowl & shit. Hell, screw that shit cuz you can't drink beer in a home. Get 'em a FPShooter on to that Ninendo and let them settle the who's-stealing-who's-dentures disputes that way.

As I mentioned earlier here, I'm in a serious clan doing Battlefield 3 (soon 4), and am obviously the oldest clown there. The clan leader (a Chief Petty Officer in the navy) held a meeting last week, where he was obviously a bit skunked. I asked him what he was imbibing and he told me "Red Stag Bourbon and Dr. Pepper". I suggested that if that was his preference, perhaps he should go change into a blouse & skirt to enhance his experience. This, of course, was met with howls of indignation and age-based insults. All I could retort with was that I've been doing bourbon for a decade or two longer than he's been alive, and I generally do it ice only ... not some pussy soda pop.

The exchange ended .... but I haven't been "promoted" lately.

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Thanks J0SH for getting this going. Funny you said that Jondster, I have no interest in any sort of high school reunion either but I'd jump at a Q3arena.com one. You guys are awesome, every one of you in Cac's suck thread. (Whatever happened to doublefresh?)

I loved the mods and custom skins, CTF rounds, instagib, Lithium II, GXmod etc... Playing Q2DM1 "The Edge" 1vs1, I must have spent a year doing just that... The perfect Q2 railgun and all the tricks on that map. RA3 was *it* for a while too.

Major life milestone include making the Hammertown Hall of Fame Elite page and getting my =[R]= tags. Just kidding, maybe...

I’m a geek, I still have misc files on backup drives dating back almost two decades!

After Q3A I pretty much dropped out of gaming for quite a while. Got recruited into a large multinational corp (still there 13 years in) in the IT field but it's been years since my job has been technical, travel is manageable these days. Add in a beautiful wife, three kids, and some houses and the years fly by. I have to say it's pretty awesome my boys love Minecraft (albeit on the Xbox)... so THANK YOU Raverboy if you ever read this.

A few years ago, I got back into PC gaming with COD5 (then 4 and then 2, regression anyone?) and some BF3, found a good clan (New Centurions) who ran a great COD5 Hardcore Search & Destroy server back when COD5 was popular. Played COD Black Ops and some Battlefield (BC and 3) but the consolization of PC games ate into the 'community' aspect of online gaming. I'm still a member of NC, but I'm not actively gaming, likely will give BF4 & Ghosts a shot when it comes out this fall but my expectations are low. I changed my online handle though (if Markus can do it so can I), if you know your NIN song titles or vintage guitar effects you'd recognize it.

Work and family keep me busy, and use my free time for biking (sorry Jay, I'm an avid mountain biker), running (1/2 marathon coming up next month), karate, and playing my guitars (I love me them Les Pauls). I think I’m trying to avoid the middle aged body as I’m not too far from 40…

I still keep in touch with Balchoth, although it's been a really long time since we've worked together we try to catch up at the summer music festivals in town and such. Dude is massively fit now, triathlon'ing and such.

As much as tech is part of my life, I’ve been successful at avoiding linkd, g+ or the facebook. If you need to reach me, I’m at ian dot russell at that ubiquitous google mail domain.

Cheers

P.S. Congrats RougeBitch and BurbleX is all grown up! At least I’m not as old as Jondster yet…

P.P.S. Remember the new site design contest? Lol … this was my vision with the old UBB color scheme:

(edit: spelling)

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Drako/GFK ~ Do you still have any admin access to the mail domain? For shits and giggles I wanted to try out my old jarlaxle@q3arena.com addy...

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posted 08-19-2013 03:50 PM     Profile for GFKiller   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Sorry Jar, I don't have access to the CP for mail administration. Bini handles that, if you want to try e-mailing him.

I haven't had access to that mailbox in over a decade!


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One thing popped into my head as I was reading this thread... how many old farts does it take to figure out how to run a quake 2 server in 2013?

Wow. I am glad as fuck that this place is still going. (I still never got access to the new private forum, ya bastard! )

If the shit ever hits the fan and you need a place to continue hosting it, let me know, I'm up to my eyeballs in websites that I keep holding onto for whatever reason (more on that later)

This was the first forum I ever signed up on. I don't remember what got me here in the first place, but I remember many nights editing my quake 2 and quake 3 config files to get the thing to run on my piece of shit K6-2 350mhz with Rage LT.

This and F3d were basically the 90s-early 00s equivalent for me of the internet. No other site existed...at all. I probably posted once or twice asking for advice, not knowing how dangerous that can really be.

It was also during my, erm, rebellious teen stage, so I also got grounded from the computer a time or two, racked up a few long distance phone calls, and basically planned my runaway from home.

At some point (2001ish), I got into running websites (xibase.com was the first place to make me admin), spent much of my spare time coding in PHP and MySQL and modifying vBulletin and such. Started another site in 2002 called Off Topic Central, as a spinoff from the closure of Hardware Central's off topic board. I gradually expanded my knowledge and reach. and picked up a new site in mid 2003, after the owner decided to step down. Also in mid 2003, one of the members on my site got me into an online game called Kings of Chaos.

I had no idea at the time, but this game and the community around it would consume my life from that time up until the present and probably for the foreseeable future too. It's not World of Warcraft or anything like it, but it was actually just text - a virtual war game with numbers and shit. It captivated my imagination far more than Quake 3, and I spent many of my computer lab hours at college (which I started in 2004) playing it instead of doing actual school work.

I think what drew me to it most of all was the social aspect of the game. In order to be any good at it, you had to have a lot of friends helping you out, and this in turn made a whole society out of the game - complete with politics and drama and shit. People came together to fight common enemies, almost forming patriotic bonds with the people that they played with.

In late 2004, I'd quickly grown tired of the politics of that game, and I made my own in a matter of a couple weeks, taking what coding skills I'd learned from my websites and making it mostly from scratch (a little bit of copy/paste here and there). It was a lot of fun, and it started off with a bang, growing to over 9,000 players (I was over 9,000 before being over 9,000 was cool). It didn't have that same special spark to it, though, so the numbers fell over the next few years, even as I added features to it and had wacky ideas for new stuff for it.

In 2005, my mom died suddenly, which really fucked me up good and I'm still trying to recover.

I became an intern for Harman/Becker Automotive Systems in 2006, in a department which was playing around with new technologies and coming up with demos for cool shit that we wanted to make. Maybe 6 weeks later, they canned that entire department and laid off everybody within earshot of it except for me, who they kept around as a catch-all intern. Worked for my dad for a bit (since he also worked at Harman), then when they closed down the building, I worked remotely for the research & development department doing basically nothing useful to anybody (motivation was a factor - the projects I was working on were nothing I'd ever use for myself, and it sucked to not have a building to actually work at).

I continued to play Kings of Chaos on and off for several years, running a service that most of the people on it used to recruit more soldiers for their armies. I wanted something more, though. The guys who ran that game were not responsive to my ideas and kept taking it further and further away from a game that I wanted to play, so I decided to take my ball and make another game. This time very closely modeled after (some would say outright stolen from) the game I had known and once loved in Kings of Chaos.

I even got sucked up into an online relationship in the middle of all of that.

Long story short, the game launched with resounding success/failure (depending on what you consider success or failure), I ended up going broke as fuck, homeless, depressed, awol, and completely out of my mind. Not necessarily in that order. I pretty much blew off all of my obligations.

By 2010 or so, I started picking my sorry ass up and doing something with it, I got a little more productive at work (as productive as I can be in doing basically nothing), finally got into a good church (it's amazing what kinds of things I can find out about myself by talking to myself--y'know, since I'm god, and all). Shortly thereafter, got an offer for a real job at a competitor of Harman, down here in Louisville, KY. I basically get to do all sorts of fun shit with embedded systems, experiment with new technologies, see what I can do with them, and make software that controls entertainment head units for motorcycles. The fun stuff I was doing at Harman, and even a couple of the same people (the very same guys who got me hired as an intern at Harman are the ones who got me this job). I made an automotive entertainment system that I desperately want to shoehorn into my car because it works better than anything else I've ever found. I learned to develop a deep hatred for Bluetooth and Apple (despite loving and using Apple's computers and gadgets, they are an absolute PAIN to work with as a supplier/developer). Most of my work day involves fighting shitty development tools and facepalming the fuck out of my face every time a customer demands this brand new feature and they want it yesterday. Pretty standard stuff in any trade, I'd imagine.

It's now 2013, I'm still having fun there, and starting to go back to school to finish some sort of degree (I dropped out with nothing to show for it but about 60 credits in 2007) -- especially with work reimbursing me at the end of the semester. I aced my first couple classes last semester, Chemistry and History, and I'm probably going to ace this semester, Physics and Social Problems (what an explosive combination, if you'll pardon the pun...)

I'm also starting to get back into the swing of things with my game (planning mobile apps and a big redesign/relaunch of the newer one...) although I am struggling against my lack of self-motivation and focus and effectiveness there. I'm months late with the features I've planned, and the few hundred people that are still playing are getting a little restless.

The older game has a couple dozen hardcore players that refuse to leave, and I've basically done fuck all with that game for years, so I suppose even if I pull another fury and disappear again, there'll still be somebody left playing or using something of mine long after I've gone.

I still maintain a few websites besides the games, although two of them are ghost towns, I just can't seem to let go. I got into XenForo a couple years ago, it's pretty good shit. Makes me want to rewrite my game in the same kind of modern MVC style with a light airy design and all that sort of responsive design bullshit.

I think I'm going insane again, because I've got a few projects at work going on all at the same time as the game thing and the school thing. And I need to move to some better place than this broken down apartment. And I still fight depression and shit.

So, that's the last decade or so in a nutshell for me.

I play Quake Live very occasionally as gauntletMonkey, trolling the poor gun nuts when I gib them from behind. I'm hoping to snipe the Quake Live name "fury" at some point if it ever expires...

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