If you want to pass that metal map back and forth, I can play ball with you ;-) 

I think I have actually used almost all of my own scraps up in various maps over the last few years. I could still find the zip file somewhere and upload it though, but I expect anyone who has a look to recognize most of the scraps from actual map releases. If anyone has CZG scraps though, that'd be awesome. 

Random request/suggestion for Quaketastic. Can you change the date display to also show the year a file was uploaded? Right now it's kind of useless without. Also, this may be just a personal peeve, but I hate the image previews/thumbnails on folders (main index). They should be shown only for the image file itself inside the folder. 

You can change the image thumbnails showing up or not yourself - use the options combo box thing at the top. It's un-intuitive as hell but you'll figure it out :).

I can look into the date thing when I get some time... 

Ah, I never noticed the options menu. Though it's already too late (harm's been done) when I'm on the site. Besides, I assume it requires cookies to make them stay off? 

Hey, that was easy! OK, year is now displayed and I went ahead and added 100MB to the upload limit since some people complained in the past. 

OK, and I changed it so the folder thumbnails default to off now... 

Now that's what I call proper service. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyOF2RsO3ck

Just some dudes thoughts on the original Doom, but its well researched and interesting. 

That WAS really good, thanks! 

Well, except for "'wolfenshteen' if you're pedantic"... :| 

Listening to him talk reminded me of my early feelings about Doom and Quake and what drew me to them so strongly. Nice memory walk... 

Yeah went over good stuff. His analysis of Half-Life is a bit off though imo. I agree with the stuff about Alyx (good character by not being a bad one), but as comments point out he doesn't place HL1 into the context of shooters at the time, nor does he appear to particularly like variety or the adventure elements, which is one of the reasons I find HL doesn't get boring compared to stuff like CoD etc. 

http://uk.ign.com/videos/2011/12/27/star-wars-the-old-republic-space-combat-impressions?show=HD

.....and they still give it 9 out of 10.

The first part of the written review also, talks about how they player doesn't get many character customization options, and that the tutorial element is severely lacking.

..... and they still give it a 9 out of 10.

Unbelievable. 

 

They gave Halo3 10 out of 10
..... and you still pay attention to review ratings.

Unbelievable. 

Good demo! 

Part 2 of my Cornered analysis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b6QR1jbUGg 

just found this delightful directory on my web domain :(

http://isoterra.co.uk/hangun/

how do you protect yourself against that kind of shit? is it just a case of changing password regularly? 

http://www.daz3d.com/i/0/0?

How weird. 

Grc.com has a couple of great ways to generate near impossible to brute force passwords. 

Something long and easy to remember is usually best. I wish them the best of luck at brute forcing something like:

"iwishpeoplewouldstoptryingtohackmysite" 

Thanks message board! Anyway, you get the idea... 

Hm, something ate my post.

That is NOT a secure password. A combination of words is not secure unless the service restricts login attempts. Even more so if they are all lower case.

A secure password has various symbols in it, is not readable like that. Use characters like !"�$%&/()=?`*'_:;

Everyone should really use something like http://www.keepassx.org/ (not some online service for heaven's sake) to generate and maintain your passwords. I do not know 10% of my passwords, I only copy and paste them. 

thanks for that link spirit. looks useful

interestingly i tried my old password on this page and the 'online attack scenario' reported a time of 46.68 centuries. i suspect brute force isn't the only way of getting in...