http://www.pcoption.co.uk/pcbaseunits/index5.htm

Pros: Cheep. Very nice and cheep. You can pick your own mobo and build it from there and they build it for you :) They gave me a 750watt PSU and I only paid for a 450watt one.

Cons: They use budget carriage and mine got here busted. The heat sink was broken and had come off the mobo and was dangling inside. Nothing else seems to have been broken though. They sent me a replacement heat sink free of charge but I managed to fix the stock intel one.

Pay by Direct Debit, lets not go there :|

Must admit that ATI do have some very attractive features at the moment : DirectX 10.1 is ATI only. So you need ATI if you want directX 10.1.

But the GTX285 and GTX295 do both look very sexy. 

but about six months ago I got so tired of not being able to blame my computer problems on tech support drones, I decided to order a prebuild and just carry out a few simple upgrades. Best decision I ever made. Prebuilds are a lot more reliable and a lot more customisable than they were a decade ago.

I might even buy a console one day. HAHAHAHA. 

i updated the "active" status of review sites to include dates.

also, talon's strike link now works (goes to archive.org) 

What about the MPQ archive?

http://mpqarchive.pauked.com/ 

yeah, i should add that. 

Having a talk with a friend of mine about compile times, the subject of quake 1 level compile times come up. Anyone know what the record compile time is for a level on a fairly modern machine? 

What machine was it again JPL? 

Yeah !
CDA has still (AFAIK) the world record for the evil-ish worst fullvis runtime ever: 1218 hours / 50 days and 18 hours. You need to be patient man :P
It was on an AMD Athlon 2600+ with 768MB RAM... that I still currently using ;)
I used aguirRe's vis tool v2.30 

interesting article on lovecraft and the cthulhu mythos:

http://www.epberglund.com/RGttCM/nightscapes/NS04/hplnf3.htm 

That's the standard understanding - Derleth was good for bringing Lovecraft's work more into the mainstream but his understanding of the concept was basically flawed.

He missed the whole nihilistic aspect that was Lovecraft's strongest theme. 

is that i have had no exposure to Derleth's work, or any of the people that came afterwords, and haven't played any "Call of Chtulhu" or similar RPG games.

My exposure to Lovecraft is entirely reading his original stories, so I'm actually not totally familiar with the ways in which the Mythos has been corrupted.

Of course, I see movies like Hellboy and Ghostbusters and recognize the basic influences there, but I don't consider them "corruptions" because they were merely inspired by Lovecraft, not directly trying to add to his universe. Same with Quake, I don't think id software was trying to say "this is set in Lovecraft's universe." 

I thought the basic principe of ID was the freudian guesture human beings primitive behaviour is only perceived in the basic of search of new environement and willing to fight to obtain that area.
You can interprent that in all kinds of directions, sexually or the deep need of ancient people to protect or conquer new land.
Lovecraft suggest more the demonic thread of the human mind, as with HellBoy.., wasn't he walking with he corps of Raspoutin? Also a strange personality in world's history. 

Same with Quake, I don't think id software was trying to say "this is set in Lovecraft's universe."

Pentagrams, crosses and Hellknights, plus level names like Satan's Dark Delight or Hell's Atrium, tell a different story, yes. 

Blame Peterson 

http://www.train2game.com/

I just filled in the form.
I'd like to hear a third party opinion on this. 

Do you give your details to anyone that easily? Search for "Scheidegger scam" for a start. That took me 5 minutes to find. 

Heh - My details are on Func!
All of them 

I still don't have your credit card security code - can you post it? 

He was more of a publisher / collator than anything.

Lovecraft was in contact with a bunch of people who were writing similar stories (like Clark Ashton Smith) and sharing characters and concepts.

Years later along comes Derleth who tries to gather all the stuff into a cohesive whole and call it the Mythos. 

Brothers Grimm are gone gathering the latest quake maps to bundle it in Gogol's Diaries! 

from too much demon rum and diabolatry, and thus the smiley icon with the sunglasses looks to these eyes to be a pirates patch in the stead.

It is a nice change of pace.

Arrrrrr 

I've been away from the scene for some years, but I'm interested in making some new levels for Quake. Could you guys tell me, what are the best compilers to use nowadays? I'm going to be using GTKRadiant 1.5 for mapping. Thanks. 

http://user.tninet.se/~xir870k/

TxQBSP / RVIS / Light 

AguirReeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee where youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu we missssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu 

I had some email exchanges with him last week. He is actually working on Quake2 engines and tools as far as I understood.
I think he was looking for a more quiet community... though...
Anyway, I think he his always ready to help, so if you have specific questions, you can ask him directly ;)