By Speedy. I missed this one when it was released, cool map!

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

also try his map "cogs of conflict" 

Interesting idea with the exploring, but the map felt flat with too many low ceilings, it lacked vertical gameplay elements. The ending was just strange and did not make any sense, I was expecting more. 

...was intended to weed out people who didn't use coloured light. 

Add more moderators maybe? Means less work for each. 

if necessary, but the main point i was making above is that there are a lot of things moderators can't currently do (flag discussion threads, flag individual posts, flag user accounts), so i need to add those features. Right now they can only flag news submissions as spam, and they can edit, but not remove, discussion threads. 

I was just saying that because the existing mods complained that there was too much spam for them to handle. I like your policy of not changing the board's mechanics if at all possible. 

The Quake HD Ultra Quality Sound Pack Remastered 2012 pack is a project to finally introduce the world to a better and improved aural experience in Quake. Quake came out in 1996, 12 years ago. Back then computers used much inferior sound hardware from what we have today. The Soundblaster could only playback 11kHz sounds, so that was what id Software used for the game sounds of Quake. The soundtrack on the other hand was released on CD, so they could use 44.1kHz for it. However, 12 years ago CD audio was still in its early days, sound engineers vastly improved the capatibility of audio hardware and especially CD mastering mechanisms. So, just like the game sounds, the Quake soundtrack leaves a lot to be desired for the audiophile's ears.

As a connoisseur of audio architecture and aural design I decided to remaster all the sounds of Quake to give the world an experience like id Software would have released, if only they had the technical options back then.

Quake HD Ultra Quality Sound Pack Remastered 2012

Example screenshots of the waveforms and spectral patterns:
Original: http://www.quaddicted.com/_media/random/20120401_doorswinch2_old.png
Remastered: http://www.quaddicted.com/_media/random/20120401_doorswinch2_new.png 

...in a good way! That's the way Quake was meant to sound. Plays perfectly with the "Much Obliged" episode. 

Nice work! Shame I just played Honey without it (was still AMAZING :) )

These are purely remastered versions of the id sounds right? Everything sounds like a sexier version of the original game sounds yeah, no weird beatboxed stuff or monster impressions? :)

This isn't news worthy? 

than 

 

and a new czg episode awaits no less.

What did I miss? 

Were you successful? 

 

not quite according to plan.

The plan was to go up Gokyo valley, cross Cho La pass and then go up Everest valley to EBC. But it snowed heavily while we were in Gokyo and Cho La became very risky to cross. We went around a mountain to get to Everest valley but that took a fair bit of time and because of being on a schedule, I didnt have time to then go up to EBC.

But, did climb Gokyo Ri, which is only 4m shorter than EBC's height, and the panoramic views of the Himalayas from there, including Everest, were stunning. 

 

So you "only" wanted to go to base camp? Are you planning to get to the summit eventually? Also, any pictures?

I love mountain climbing, but of course I'm not even remotely fit enough to do one of the big ones. In fact, it's been years since I have done it... but the view and the feeling of accomplishment when you reach a summit is unparalleled. Btw, I was just in Shanghai last week for a conference, so I wasn't that far away from you ;-). 

need to sort them out first though. Will let you know when that's done.

No plans to summit Everest, that's crazy stuff :)

I can trek but climbing is a whole other level. Have summited a few by trekking, Gokyo Ri being the highest at 5360m. Kili would have been but I didnt quite make it to the top (got to around 5200m when the fast ascent started giving me momentary blackouts). 

There was death metal fest METAL MAYHEM IV in Jwalakhel, Nepal 17 March. And there was Napalm Death playing, did you visit that? :D I'd sell my left hand to be on a ND gig in Nepal :D 

no, I was trekking in the snow then. 

Epic fail on the Napalm Death In Nepal front, dear me, Von can you ban him from fucn? 

http://scampleveldesign.blogspot.com/2012/04/making-curvy-pipes.html

(first postto this blog... likely only) 

I think it would be best if the upload script at Quaketastic disallowed uploading to the root folder (= hide the "\" entry in the pulldown menu). For every now and then people forget to set it right or fail to realize/care there's a difference, which makes the index messy and creates unnecessary admin work for you. 

Good suggestion, I'll look into that. I think you're right...