so it could be me forgetting, but are lifts always so jerky ?

Not many levels have them but stuff like vondur's kaos level and a few others do, and as you are going up on them, its like being on a trampoline. 

of House last night, left me wondering, is this show ten times better than anything else on television, or what? Among Hospital proceduals you have the choice of the simple minded morality play of ER, or you have the preciously written whoredom of Grey's Anatomy which is as cliched as the Anna Di Franco songs that it sometimes uses. House is just so much more interesting. 

but I think it's awesome you americans know who Hugh Laurie is.

You should get some tapes of Blackadder (series 3 or 4 i think) if you want to see him in some awesome comedy.

On the subject of season finales... how about that 24, eh? Jack Bauer is my anti-drug. 

Drew: They're ok. It's more a matter of whether or not you like jam bands that don't play original material.

nitin: Thanks. :) 

how does it (24) compare to seasons 1-4 ? I quite liked 1 and 4, thought 2 was decent in the second half and 3 was faily average. 

Arrested Development.

Sadly dead beyond recovery now (DAMN YOU FOX!) but still three seasons of absolute awesomeness. 

But I always wait for the DVD to come out before watching it. I saw the premier two hour episode this January and it looked like a strong start.

Last night Hugh Laurie did a bit of a ridicule of the accent a character who is British. It was a kind of a wink to the audience that Laurie is not really the Jersey boy he effortlessly plays on the show. 

IMHO, 24 season #5 was better than seasons 3 and 4. 

I love it, waiting for season 3 on dvd. Gob Bluth is one o th ecoolest characters ever.

jago,

thanks. 

anyone got an answer on the q3 question, it's really annoying me. Other maps I've played recently with lifts :

storm3tourney4, pjw3dm6, lae3dm3 

season 5 of 24 is by far the craziest season yet. I'd say my favourite seasons were 4 and 5, but it's not easy to think of a season objectively of a show with so many episodes/twists/etc, if you know what I mean. It all sort of merges together.

i should get arrested development on dvd 

Resulting in awfulness. If you run a listen server and play with bots, you might get away with shoving sv_fps up to something silly like 72 (default is 20). 

cheers. Highly recommend arrested development too.


blackdog,

thanks, I'll try that although I have no idea what you mean. 

OK, after some initial hassle with my new computer, I finally was able to get it to work. I reinstalled Doom3, and holy fucking hell this game is awesome when you can actually run the game with high settings and all details turned up. I think I played for about an hour in my room alone in the dark before my nerves got shot. I love this system. Holy moly. 

anyone know if there's any command to imit the max fps like in quake 3 ? It *seems* to vary the player speed depending on whether you're getting 100 or 300 fps in an area. 

I think I played for about an hour in my room alone in the dark before my nerves got shot.

It is the one game I would have to space out my playing for a few hours at a time not out of boredom but, as you so well put it, because 'my nerves were shot.' 

Heheh, I went throught the exact same thing 3 months ago :) Btw, the gameplay and visual design quality also pick up quite a bit after Alpha Labs... 

hey, does anyone know where I should buy the original Quake (1,2,3) boxes? Also, are there any special versions of these that possibly include them all?

Like the Special Quake4 Edition, that had Q2 + the two expansion packs....

or am I left to buy (download only) from id's website? 

Purchasing Quake 1 or Quake 2 retail by themselves is pretty much impossible these days. However if you are lucky you can find a package that contains all 3 Quake games, I have no idea what it's called tho. Sorry that I can't be of more help. 

I saw it on Ebay a few months back. All of the expansion packs included.

My niece found my old Quake disk while on a cleaning spree of her room this past winter, and she wrapped it up and gave it to me for my birthday. What a sweetheart.

Armagon and DOE are still MIA, though. 

I have a boxed Quake for use with Macintosh laying around here. The box looks identical to the PC version except there is something like "for mac" written on it. I don't need and thus I am willing to sell it if you want. It is in a quite used condition though =)

Ultimate Quake is Quake 1-3, yes. But just in a DVD box...

For Quake 1 + 2 there are bundled boxes with the official mission packs.

For more info try a look here: http://2fb.net/idm/modules/wiwimod/ 

So, basically, your niece gave you as a birthday present something you had already bought before yourself? 

a gift that she had originaly borrowed from me a few years ago and she had lost as well. 

Many, many years ago when I was still in high school, my sister -- my nieces mother -- was in the Navy stationed on the West Coast. My sister sent mum a floral bouquet for Mother's Day. I happened to be the only one home when they arrived and I promptly switched out my sister's card with one of my own and gave them to mum as a gift from me.

The dastardly deed wasn't uncovered til many months later. 

It looks like when we move, I'll be getting a nice slim LCD monitor. Is 8ms response rate okay for a gaming machine?

(I think 8ms translates to a max refresh rate of 125 fps, and I'm thinking having a max of 60-75fps would be ideal.)