Quake TV - Recommended channels

[Mr.Burns]

Greetings fellow Quakers, I hope you all are well and will soon be having a happy Xmas and a very prosperous 2022
Just in case you may have missed it, a talented Quake mapper called dumptruck_ds has very kindly put together a preview of a range of projects from the Quake community that are due to be released during 2022. It's nice to see life being breathed back in to Quake and if you have 14 mins to spare why not show dumptruck a little support and watch his video.

Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARsN0xldnys

Kind regards

Monty

[Mr.Burns]

It looks like Arrrcee has been busy with a review of the latest mod "Dimension of the Machine" with the new Quake release.

Part 1...
Note - Jump to 7 mins for the start

Edit (2021-08-25): It looks like Arrrcee's been busily beavering away with his Nade Launcher and he's completed Part 2....
Note - Jump to 6 mins for the start

Edit 2 (2021-09-09 ): and here's part 3
Note - Jump to 6 mins and 45 secs for the start

Enjoy
Monty

[Mr.Burns]

Hi Spooks,
Good to see you're still hanging in there. I hope all is well and don't forget we still have a place reservered for you over on Shmack

Kind regards
Monty

[spooker]

Hi Burnsy!!!!

[Mr.Burns]

Good Morning all,
Its time for another fun video from long time contributors Arrrcee and Dumptruck_ds showing them thoroughly enjoying a little Quake Coop with some newly produced "old style" maps. So if you haven't already watched them then sit back, relax and [hopefully] enjoy just how much fun they have as they fight their way through the map set ...

Part 1

Part 2

P.S Nice graphics on the screenshot Arrcee

Kind regards
Monty

[Mr.Burns]

Hello fellow Quakers,
This one slipped by without me noticing it's a "Director's Cut" from back in May 2020 of a map called The Black Reincarnation produced by a telented mapper called JCR where he and the host "Quake Builder" talk about the design and features of the map. Enjoy

*** Warning - Spoilers! ***

[Mr.Burns]

Morning all,
In case you haven't already watched them here's a couple of failry recent Quake Related videos that hopefully you may find interesting..

The first is from long time vlogger arrrcee and via a playthrough he showcases some of the levels released during 2020 from new mappers.

The ever helpful amd informative Dumptruck_ds channel has released a trailer for the "Torrent of Impurities" ( or smej2) map pack for those looking for something other than eternally looping through DM3 you might care to take a look at the video below.

Have fun
Monty

[Mr.Burns]

And another from the Quake Builder channel on youtube where a talented mapper (Smilecythe) is interviewed whilst his map, Vana Mana Vemputin, is played through:

Enjoy

Monty

[Mr.Burns]

Time for another playthrough from JCR for those interested..

Kind regards
Monty

[Mr.Burns]

Thanks for the offer MG, fortunately they reinstated the website and the pictures are now restored.

Kind regards
Monty

[Hoehr2]

thanks for recommendations, now I know what to do today

[MadGypsy]

Wow, that's some BS! It's stuff like that that compelled me to just pay the 7 or 8 dollars a month and host my own instance of wordpress when I had NGQ. You put in all the work and then some stupid algorithm shuts it all down, and there is little you can do but plead and wait. Could you imagine the explosion if I would have used free wordpress and they did that with NGQ? I would have moved mountains (and dropped them on wordpress) to get my stuff back.

You should consider buying some server space and hosting it yourself. One.com has OK prices and customer service is decent. Generally the first year is really cheap (2 or 3 bucks a month for super basic hosting). I'm not necessarily recommending them, more like just mentioning them. Bluespace.com is supposed to be really nice. I've never used them, but they tend to be around the top of most lists for hosting wordpress. Pricey though.

Whatever you do I wish you luck. If you need a 'bulldog' that will not relent or take no for an answer to call customer service and get your site back, I can do it. I promise to be really nice and sweet til they tell me the first thing that I don't want to hear.

[Mr.Burns]

No problem, sir. I'm happy to help you.

Off-topic Question:

About once a week I run through all the quake sites (including yours) ... just to see what's new. It's usually a short trip. What's going on with OOT? I never see anything new posted about it. It's actually one of the primary reasons I do my little weekly checks ... hoping there is some new interesting tid-bit you've completed/shared.

Oh, also, I left a comment for you a looooong time ago on quakevoid in the Tremor/OOT thread. All your images are broken because they are all pointing to NGQ. I zipped all of your images for you and put them on my gdrive so you could reupload them and fix your page. It's all in the comments that I left for you.

I don't care what you do with the comments. They were more like a 'pseudo email' than a comment. It's not going to hurt my feelings if you delete them. The real point was to help you fix your page. However, if you want to keep the comments and approve them, that's fine too. I guess I'm just trying to say that you shouldn't feel obligated one way or another. I know you, pretty well and I could see you approving 'pseudo email' style comments by me out of respect/inability to seem rude. It's not rude. Their only purpose was to help you clean it up.

Hi MG
As you I'm sure you will have guessed, those comments hadn't reached me else they would have been responded to, so thank you for the heads up. I've now downloaded those images, just in case they differ from the ones I have already, so you should be able to clear them off your drive and clear some space.
Due to significant pressures of work, I haven't been doing a lot on my OOT project or the website but I have an interesting lava implementation from L.V.E that is looking promising so I may share that shortly.

Update: Let me share my most recent experience of Wordpress with you. I have a few minutes before starting work so I did the following:
1. I just logged in to the Quakevoid sight on Wordpress,
2. edited the OOT project page,
3. added one of the new pictures,
4. saved the page,
5. tried to upload a 2nd picture which failed,
6. re-saving the page then failed,
7. viewing the site then failed

...and the end result of all this - the site has now been suspended!
It would seem uploading pictures of a lava pit in an empty room, created by me, to my own site contravenes their acceptable use policy. Quite laughable really. It's been reported and so hopefully they will sort themselves out shortly.
Thanks, as always
Monty

[MadGypsy]

No problem, sir. I'm happy to help you.

Off-topic Question:

About once a week I run through all the quake sites (including yours) ... just to see what's new. It's usually a short trip. What's going on with OOT? I never see anything new posted about it. It's actually one of the primary reasons I do my little weekly checks ... hoping there is some new interesting tid-bit you've completed/shared.

Oh, also, I left a comment for you a looooong time ago on quakevoid in the Tremor/OOT thread. All your images are broken because they are all pointing to NGQ. I zipped all of your images for you and put them on my gdrive so you could reupload them and fix your page. It's all in the comments that I left for you.

I don't care what you do with the comments. They were more like a 'pseudo email' than a comment. It's not going to hurt my feelings if you delete them. The real point was to help you fix your page. However, if you want to keep the comments and approve them, that's fine too. I guess I'm just trying to say that you shouldn't feel obligated one way or another. I know you, pretty well and I could see you approving 'pseudo email' style comments by me out of respect/inability to seem rude. It's not rude. Their only purpose was to help you clean it up.

[Mr.Burns]

Job done Thanks, as always, for the info MG.

Kind regards
Monty