http://www.psychic-experiences.com/real-psychic-story.php?story=1699

I was researching what it means to hear a voice when you wake up. You see this one time I woke up and I was lying on the floor (taking a cat-nap), and in a state of being almost awake I could hear footsteps running through the hallway of the house (which was scary because I was lying on the floor next to a door into the hallway), and then in the instance of waking this voice said:

"Come and get it"

I stood up and, horrified, still vividly remembering this voice as if it were echoing round my head, I checked all of the rooms in the house, but there was no-one there.

Erk. And once when I was a kid I saw a shadow fly past my bedroom window. Really slowly.

Anyway, now I am scared (shiver runs up spine)..... 

Anyone else find this inspiring for abstract space map designs? 

Ricky: it's not a sleep paralysis then?

I read horrible things about those: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis . 

negke: totally!

Mandel: sleep paralysis... that is one screwed up experience. 

I dreamed I had a deja-vu of my last dream. 

It has happened a few times, but i just considered it to be a nightmare/dream. Still its a bit freaky, eh? 

sometimes when falling asleep i'll distinctly hear noises. usually they are loud ones like doors slamming or a yell (not words). i just put it down to brain in shutdown mode.
i assume hearing shit when waking up is probably the same but in startup mode.
there's supposed to be a lot of crap going down in the brain when you wake up as it reorganizes all the memories from your dreams and flags them as 'delete me'. might be something from that... who knows. 

sometimes when falling asleep i'll distinctly hear noises. usually they are loud ones like doors slamming or a yell (not words). i just put it down to brain in shutdown mode.

And I'm pretty sure I once heard the Quake DBS sound this way.

...

You know you played too much Quake when... 

Think that's bad otp? I once dreamed of the radiant grid... Sad times. 

Nice experiences. I would like to have that kind of things. Sleep paralysis is cool when it happens. I have had it twice. Just lying there and being unable to move or speak.

Loud noises of slamming doors indicate an out of body experience that's coming close. There are many techniques to achieve it. I have experienced this once. I often find it difficult to relax completely to hear these noises because of a backpain. 

sleep paralysis I had one really freaky experience of. lucid dreaming on the other hand is really interesting. I've tested the 3d-ness of things in lucid dreams (yep, level design nerd). 

Try as I might, I cannot lucid dream. I did try for a month or so too. :( 

And outer body experiences. I always dream the most when I am the most de-toxified and sober. 

maybe 1-2 dreams every 2 years. Always been envious of those who remember their dreams. 

Apparently QuakeDev.com is going to die in about a month, if there's stuff on there you want, various people are archiving it, but you might want to grab it yourself too.

More info here: http://forums.inside3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=3212 

http://www.fontspace.com/category/calligraphy?p=1 

Not the title question, but this following question:

What are good, simple ways to make a map more open for exploration without losing a lot of gameplay or expanding the map into a crazy huge overblown monster?

ie, I'm not trying to make a super linear map/set of maps, but open it up some without making big side areas or making the layout too confusing. Any examples/tips? 

 

http://www.doomworld.com/vb/doom-general/54357-how-you-define-non-linearity/ 

How was the wedding? :P 

Can somebody check if the map lfsp7 is finishable or not? 

geez... i dunno o.0

i worked out that you need to... jump down that tube where the nails are coming up... but even with 100hp 200a you die.
if you just try to fall down, damage push will slow you down so you die about 3/4 of the way down. if you use rockets to push you down, you still die.

also, interesting bug, if you 'restart' the map, you don't get the free items. but map lfsp7 works fine.

what a strange map, btw. very cool in some ways, but very frustrating (jumping down and then being cornered by 4 fiends in a fairly cramped room, for example). 

If the map is not completeable, then it should be removed from quaddicted.

This map also have some unkillable knights.

Or maybe somebody can add a pent? 

you're getting stuck at the goldkey door/button too right?

the rest of the map looks cool though. 

At the start of the level the way you must go is down the tube, where spikes are shot upward. Then if you've survived, you have about 10 health.
It appears this is the way to go, but I couldn't do it, either. The GK button extends a bridge that allows you to go up the spike tube - the key itself must be on the lower levels. I don't know how I managed to survive (or if) when I added the QA description.

Also, when I played it yesterday, the game was super fast. No idea what happened.