that magic card one is some exceptional badassery 

I liked the unusual look / colour scheme of this map (white/blue/gold/red), and I thought that the theme had lots of room for expansion (with trim/bricks/metal/wood recombined in new ways, like in the supplementary idbase or metal textures that maps like biff's q1sps use), plus all kinds of symbols/gargoyles/designs/shapes could be added. On the other hand, maybe a darker, dirtier look would fit Quake better. Or some combination of the two - a bright, clean facade, but crubmling, dirty, almost kingpin-like decay and corruption beneath that (especially in secret passageways and chambers) - kind of like the institution of the church itself actually (anyone see Dawkins brief anti-pope speech?). 

personally. 

There is a Q3 (or at least Quake Live) map called Black Cathedral that looks amazing. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBRA3MO3AaA ?
looks pretty cool from the video 

Yeah, that one. It is gorgeous. Looks like a Painkiller map. 

Ow. My speakers.


There's a new tourney map in QL too with a similar style (I don't think that's it, altho I'll admit I have only seem it with flat colour textures ;) 

looks way off but otherwise does look cool. 

My understanding is that the DMSP mod by Aardappel is open source and the source is out there somewhere.

Anyone know where I can find the qc source file?

DMSP is a really neat experience.

Plan B is that SuperDuperQuake seems to use dmsp.qc but I'd prefer the straight up original rather than to trying to figure out if anything unwanted changed. 

If you are friends with Biff on Facebook, have you been receiving obvious spam from his account on your walls lately? It seems our poor Biff's Facebook account has been hacked. Anyway we can report this to Facebook or do we just have to un-friend Biff? 

http://www.leveldesign.nl/viewforum.php?f=9

wtf? :D 

Nice, I am definitely in as long as they do not make it more brushes. So far it vastly favours Q3 (and other more advanced engines) though. 

Probably near-impossible to make anything decent with so few brushes. 100b was hard already. 

http://www.chaosquake.de/files/contests/20bcvol2/#intro 

But then, Q3's patches are a huge plus. 

Not long ago I read about (either here or at inside3d, can't find it now) a program that go through wads and remove duplicate textures. Anyone recall the name of it and where I could download it from? 

http://www.kontraband.com/videos/24132/Great-Old-Spice/ 

Interesting discussion of "Choose Your Own Adventure" books, regarding the game design and book design elements of them:

http://samizdat.cc/cyoa/ 

A very interesting article about how Chewbacca came to be. It is less nerdgasm but an actual look how a character/design gets inspired and changed during the process.

http://binarybonsai.com/2010/09/18/george-lucas-stole-chewbacca-but-its-okay/ 

All my Fighting Fantasy books - seems my Dad chucked them out.

Good article. 

A very interesting article about how Chewbacca came to be. It is less nerdgasm but an actual look how a character/design gets inspired and changed during the process.

Cheers, that was pretty interesting. I particularly liked how Chewbacca's design basically boiled down to:

Lucas: "Fuck it, just copy this drawing I found in a sci-fi magazine...but without the tits." 

is pretty cool. Have you tried mailing Fat Controller rob-at-breakthinktank-com ? A programmable map sequence would be good, or perhaps you can do it already. 

but if I had to buy one fairly new xbox 360 game, what should it be?

besides tetris evolution 

Uhh what do you want that you don't already have? 

A few I played on pc that were good,
Mass Effect 2
Modern Warfare 2
Dragon Age : Something?
GTA4

I played some cool motor-bike stunt/physics type game that my brother got off the Xbox Live market place, no idea what it was called but it was awesome!