JPL, my first version was Happy Off With Their Heads Day, but I thought a more direct reference to Bastille would be less obscure! 

...carrots don't seem to be franchise...

and I ain't even frenche, you chauvenist! 

 

CharlesVII, who burnt the poor child after she had returned his crown without lending her a hand.

or Charles, who conceiled the Army of Foreigners lending them all a chance to cover up their past 

don't forget to add Antoine de Saint Exup�ry to your list. 

agreed, thats would good choice 

JPL, my first version was Happy Off With Their Heads Day, but I thought a more direct reference to Bastille would be less obscure!

Indeed... BTW, excuse accepted, no problem ;) 

do you guys think of this?

http://www.ador-digital.de/cubec_game/robo_2_4.jpg

? 

I am indifferent without a context with which to think of it. 

is it not meant to be a useful robot? 

without being able to hear the voice....

seriously it looks like part male part female!!! 

Looks a bit stiff and inflexible. 

Does someone have the mentioned CD:
http://innergroove33.8m.com/quake1.htm ? 

They look a bit, er...... 

But I do have a coat made from rusty barbed wire you can wear. 

There's archiving dedication and then theres collecting stuff like that.

Only available on cd? Damn. 

http://lunaran.com/pics/fudgetopic.gif 

http://innergroove33.8m.com/dark09.jpg 

good to see TF still going strong :) 

http://innergroove33.8m.com/skymaze.jpg

Yes. 

They're running another Q2DM mapping contest at the Q2Cafe some time in August: http://leray.proboards34.com/index.cgi?board=6thmappingcontest
Too bad it's focused on DM. Would be nice if they combined it with the QExpo, though I doubt they even know about it. 

lol people keep playing Q2DM? roulffff...

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lol people keep playing [^q](.*)?DM? roulffff...

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How do you usually cope with different levels of perfectionism in the art dept.?

ATM i have this weird situtation, where:
0) it's a freetime project with no roles/responsibilities defined
1) i'm the only guy who ever did anytyhing game related art-wise
2) we have a modeler who's surprisingly good at things he never did before, but still 'has potential' as i see it
3) me saying 'hey tweak it there, and here' (design things)
4) some other guy (who already didn't agree with the one art decision we made) arguing against virtually every single thing i say 'could be worked upon' to. At first he complained about stylistic things, now he complains that i want too much, that we don't have the ressources to be any better and that we should get it over with and start the next model, so we at least have a few.

There's no deadline involved, and our first model took about a day or so of time for the modeler, total time about a week max, which i found surprisingly fast.

What do i do? That other guy just thinks 'it's good enough', while i think 'could be better' - and i'm tired of arguing against him. All the other guys didn't give their opinion on things. My view is that we need to perfect the first model as much as we can (within reasonable time & ressources) to nail down the style and skill level, so all the next models aren't wasted at the end.

What makes this a bit complicated is that the model is more a fit to the other guys views than to what we laid down, so he naturally thinks of it better as it is. I told him to recreate a discussion about design style guides if he's unsatisfied with the current one or otherwise try to hold his opinion back and just take the guide as a basis for criticism, but that just lead to a disasterous argument just now ;) 

It sounds like you don't have a project leader who has the authority to make decisions. Design by comittee rarely works out in then long run. I say decide on someone to be the leader or suffer more of this in the future. :)