funny as it might sound, by arguing that cultural tradition ought to be relevant to the man on the street, at least in the west, I'm constantly having to defend myself from people who accuse me of being lowbrow while I simultaneously am called highbrow by you. Regardless of all this cultural posturing my POV is, shit's retarded or it's not. Yeah in my view education makes which is which clearer, sure. That video was fucking retarded. You might have some kind of abstract disagreement with my POV but you certainly, sir, cannot disagree with that. 

give me RTCWF not RTCWTF. 

That waird Nazi game clip - GFX looked O.K. but it seemed retarded. I can handle a bit of humour, or even subtle humour, but that seemed to have no depth whatsoever, and was gratuitously controversial at the same time as not really showing much new ideas, just hijacking other ideas (gravity gun) and trying to make it the centre of the dynamic of an otherwise retarded game.

MY 10p 

but that's just textbook shitty game writing. If you're gonna make a shallow popcorn-flick equivalent of a game, at least admit that to yourself and drop the pretentions, you don't have to crowbar in philosophical ideas you just looked up on Wikipedia. You can revel in the stupidness, make it something glorious.

I mean dude... for my sins, I've seen 6 American Pie films. I've seen more Seagal and Schwarzenegger than any man should see. None of that ever insulted my intelligence because it knew it was dumb. It never tried to lecture me on the inherent evil of man or some bollocks. 

After all, it's about the "drink beer and shoot stuff" thing, not about expanding one's cultural horizon.

Now, if you've been called both low-brow and high-brow, it's pretty neat - makes you 'unibrow', the best of two worlds, free to do (play) anything. 

None of that ever insulted my intelligence because it knew it was dumb.

And how do you know what intellectual potential was wasted while watching this?

I'd argue that most stuff knows it's dumb, but still hurts you. 

ROFFLMAO 

Unibrow indeed, I like it and I certainly place myself proudly in that category.

I agree with all you're saying. You should be able to put on high-brow AND low-brow hats, both have their time and place... but I don't like when the baseball cap pretends it's a top hat.

Megaman, I don't really like the intellectual-potential-wasted thing. I think you can strike a healthy balance of messing about doing dumb shit with all the good intellectually-stretching, cultural-horizon-expanding stuff. I'd hate to feel guilty because I'd spent an evening winding down, taking the piss out of Roidplosion IV : Gun-pocalypse Now with some buddies.

I also know that if I didn't have any slightly more high-brow reference points than that, I would probably lose a battle of wits with the cast of Jersey Shore. 

http://i.imgur.com/yOo7u.jpg 

 

So, what's the latest hotness on playing quake on linux? I've been using wine + fitzhack for ages, but sound has stopped working and surely there's something better by now. Ubuntu Maverick + shitty intel graphics, if that matters.

(The next fun would be trying to get it to run on my ARM developer board I guess :-) 

http://quakespasm.sourceforge.net/

it's basically a fitzquake sdl with various bugfixes and a few handy extra features. most sold engine around atm 

'sol[i]i[/i]d' 

 

sounds still a bit screwy, but I've got somewhere to start from... 

How so? 

Maybe because the name suggests freezes, stutters, jerky movement, sudden performance drops, just to name a few things... 

Choppy and stuttering. Probably pulse's fault. 

Quakespasm is choppy on your system? What's pulse? 

pulseaudio. another layer of user-friendly and well-working audio stuff on top of alsa. or maybe not.

I am so glad i am using ossv4! 

Destroys pretty much any chance for linux to have decent sound. Just use alsa or ossv4 if your card is supported. Supposedly it's better than alsa. 

Actually what it sounds like is the first 0.2 s of the sound is played over and over again for as long as the sound should last.

Only SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa works at all for me, the others result in "Couldn't open SDL audio: No available audio device", even pulse, which is a bit surprising. 

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/11/17/incredible-bioware-reveal-man-with-gun/

rock, paper, shotgun really is the best gaming site 

i'd rather see something like jade empire. :S