The sun was hot for an hour or two in the middle of the day, but
even then in the shadow dwelt a cold breath -- of the winter, or of
death -- of something that humanity felt unfriendly. To Gibbie,
however, bare-legged, bare-footed, almost bare-bodied as he was, sun
or shadow made small difference, except as one of the musical
intervals of life that make the melody of existence.

This is an excerpt from what seems to be ancient Gibbie fanfiction I found while trying to find a download for Gibbie's Q1DM map "Shady." 

 

 

Suicide ? 

But what is time to such a transcended being as The Incredible Hylke....

shady.zip 

:D 

http://www.mundosdigitales.org/en/index.html

It says it is international, but it is the first time i heard of it. 

ugh, audiobooks.com is a fucking nightmare, but they're in a quasi monopolist position... oh great, fucking DRM format, total vendor lockin also, buddies with apple and sony obv. Totally didn't see that coming, cough. At least I want mp3, so fuck it, dropped some cash on some shady software from some american daughter branch of some chinese ripoff multinational. Finally works, hit convert. "iTunes not installed"
Are you fucking kidding me? This 30 bucks POS is an iTunes front end?

Ah well, I brought it onto myself, was tired and impatient of getting bounced around the bureaucracy today, so I figured why not give in and make it easy on myself for the evening. What a load of bullshit.
I don't even care paying for stuff, but this is a fucking industry based on deceit. It's like those malware removal apps that are being handed out by the same people that write the damn shit. Anything for a buck. 

Their software is shit also, had 4 crashes in 15 mins. No features at all, not even chapter selection, not even a freaking 'stop' button. And it looks like something from 1998.
Oh, and their definition of 'unlimited' downloads = 10 a month. I could easily go over that during crunch months. 

is the revolution? 

Tried Audible maybe? Dunno if it's much better but some friends have recommended it to me. It's Amazon, which almost as bad as Apple most of the time, but at least they have DRM free mp3s on their site, so maybe it's the same for their audio-books? 

so no... :( 

This conversion software is funny. It plays the thing through iTunes and captures the audio using a virtual soundcard. Which is another way of saying I can't listen to anything during the process, which consists out of playing the 6 hour long read. Amazing! Think I'll get out my old crummy laptop and let it crunch on it, lol. 

That's what you get for buying DRM'd shite. Hi friends! 

On SDA there's mention in a few speedruns of the "Houdini Ogre" bug, where ogres teleport spontaneously under unusual circumstances. The 40 second speedrun of E3M7 benefits from it where a blocking ogre teleports away. Does anyone know why it happens? I've found the solution to the other obscure bug on there (why monsters occasionally spawn frozen and unkillable), but this one has me stumped... 

Could be important! 

i have never heard of that before. o_O 

There's a fairly reliable way to reproduce it at:
http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/oldnews/06_jan-jun.html

Look for the "gor1" map entry. 

I believe that it is actually a bug with monster_ogre_marksman, and in particular how they use CheckAttack instead of OgreCheckAttack. Still not got it nailed down... 

While on the note of weird bugs, here's one I got a short while ago: link (Fitzquake Mark V)

Was dicking around with cheats (god + impulse 9/255) on E3M1 when, as the demo shows, another "dog" spawned at the same location as the previous one, except the model was replaced with the dog head-gib model, which proceeded to attack me, while seemingly moving at about half the speed of the normal dog. And after taking a jump, it sort of dies? Very weird, reminds me of a bug I've gotten before where I restarted a map with a different mod (or something like that, can't quite remember) and suddenly all the models would be switched around, but this was just normal id1. Happened once before too with the exact same dog, tried to record with Fraps then, which crashed itself and the game - probably because the bug was too weird to handle. 

I can clarify a bit why that might happen, but I can't explain it fully. First thing to know is that unlike the rest of the gibs that are given off, the head gib is actually the same entity as the original model, just with a new appearance and very slightly modified behaviour. All the original ai is still part of this entity. If anything failed to notice it was dead and requested that it run an ai routine, it would carry on from where it left off.

So the difficulty is trying to work out what unusual circumstance led to that first post-mortem ai request. One special ai request for the dog is in the leap function Dog_JumpTouch, where dogs who are stuck trigger a second jump via an ai request. I thought perhaps gibbing a dog mid-leap might cause this to occur - but Dog_JumpTouch checks that the dog has hp left before running. So unless it was some kind of mod that creates shootable corpses, something else must be at play here... 

 

I was making a new type of zombie when this turned up. The heads of the gibbed chasing me around and nipping at my shins.

It was funny so I included it as part of the creature behavior, with a few modifications. The Flayn will be included in something one day :)