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'96-'98 were absolutely bonkers
Quake, Quake 2, Unreal, Half-Life. Releasing something like Chasm in that period was suicide. chasm had much higher poly count on its models, higher texture fidelity, voice acting *and* lip syncing, limb removal. Sadly it wasn't room-over-room and it handled 3d in the same way as Build engine games (if you looked up the vertical plane was fixed, looking skewed). If I remember the game *still* ran on DOS too, it really was a mixture of next gen ideas but on an ageing engine.
Inside3d got two new subforums.
One for client-side QuakeC (CSQC) and another for standalone idtech games. http://forums.inside3d.com/index.php 30? *eye roll*
I don't like how people attach such significance to numbers. 30 is nothing. I barely remember 30 it was so long ago. 30 only becomes nothing when you turn 31. i remember feeling depressed at turning 20, although if anyone conveyed the same to me today i'd... probably tut audibly
happy (belated) birthday ricky 30 is not just a number and the best part of your life is almost undoubtedly over!
I only attached formal significance to two birthdays: 27, because it's the idiot club, and 30, because when I was young and naive I had all these ideas about who I would be when I was 30. Turning 30, I had to admit that those things were never going to happen and who I am now, is who I am. But letting go of the last shreds of romantic idealism also forced me to adjust more, to try to chill out more like The Dude. I liked the following song's attitude - sad but still kind of happy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQMsMDCUMwI&list=PL147F4418400BF64D The Devil Makes Three - Graveyard (of Dreams) You get older, your knowledge increases and your responses to events become tempered by maturity. You get better at life.
In counterbalance, your body starts collapsing. You get aches where there were none, any party knocks the ode out of you for days and if you're unlucky you get bit by something nasty and incapacitating, but not mortal. It's all a foreshadowing of the slow and steady descent into losing your mind and body, becoming trapped in a decaying husk, more and more detached from the real world. Mortality. Go give someone you love a hug. brutal
Tbh my soul has been chipped at for years. I remember turning away girls that I had fantasized about at high school being quite hard. I remember reaching 22-23 years old and suddenly realizing that life was starting to get away from me a bit. I remember realizing that I had a problem with my back. That started 3-4 years ago and I still have problems now. I remember when I broke my left pinky and thinking I'd never be as good on the guitar again. And I remember giving in to addiction... Shall I go on? The only choice you have is the final solution. And I know you know more than you want to about that.
But as the feet of the foremost touched the edge of the hill Time hurled five years against them, and the years passed over their heads and the army still came on, an army of older men. But the slope seemed steeper to the King and to every man in his army, and they breathed more heavily. And Time summoned up more years, and one by one he hurled them at Karnith Zo and at all his men. And the knees of the army stiffened, and their beards grew and turned grey, and the hours and days and the months went singing over their heads, and their hair turned whiter and whiter, and the conquering hours bore down, and the years rushed on and swept the youth of that army clear away till they came face to face under the walls of the castle of Time with a mass of howling years, and found the top of the slope too steep for aged men.
From "In the Land of Time," a devastating fable that's about what ijed said. |
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