"I keep going to bed when it's light, and it's getting worse! "

Oh, you're young and single. That explains it. Thanks! :) 

I've been together with then same girl for five years this July :)

I met her in a poultry processing factory (ugh - gutting chickens at 6am on a Saturday - how romantic :/ ) 

If you're not living together, you're a mere stones throw from single. :) 

As in sharing a bed every night, sharing our flat. I almost proposed to her at Christmas, but wherever I went to look at rings they refused to sell me one because I didnt know the exact size. So she got a camera instead! I know what size she is now, so I have run out of excuses ;-P

She doesn't mind the constant Quake playing/mapping because it keeps me off the guitar! Although I think it annoys her a bit when I'm playing from constant "hup, hup, hup, (bang bang), yeeaargh (death". I bet it doesnt annoy her as much as soap-operas annoy me! :| 

Alright, well, whatever works for you two then. :) I know that mapping until the sun comes up regularly would never fly with my wife. Heh. 

.. whatever the activity is, it never fits well... except sex.. thought :P 

I am still young I guess...

Hehe - I bet drinking all night and playing guitars wouldn't either Willem! I'd do anything for my woman though, but she likes me for who I am. "She bought me as she saw me". 

We should start a new thread for this kind of crap. "Lives and Times". Naahhh. I'll shut up now ;P 

... don't give again bad ideas to Trinca :P 

ye ye ye let�s do it!!!

womens and Quake are not compatible... my wife hate Quake :\ and if i love sex i must hate Quake at home :) 

Uh, that sucks. Too bad you couldn't have married someone who would support your hobbies and stuff. 

Portuguese womens are evil :) 

I'm afraid you'd have to be extraordinarily lucky to find a woman who would tolerate quake. Actually supporting, well, that's fantasy. 

I don't agree. As long as you aren't telling her, "Sorry, can't spend time together, I'm playing Quake" and crap like that - why would she have a problem with it?

My wife thinks my interest in Quake is awesome and she totally accepts it - because, primarily, she sees how passionate I am about it. She has her interests, I have mine, and we also have stuff we do together. That's how you make it work. :) 

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(Except for the passionate thing I guess, I recon my girlfreind, partner, whatever yee might refer to her as just sees the benefit of me not playing the guitar so much) ;-) 

My friend who works at Raven has a fiance who's favorite game in the world, apparently, is Quake. She used to play it all the time when she was younger, so they say.


She's a weird one, she is. 

...heh... er, well I'm trying to fit as much time in for mapping on this project as possible, my map is starting to take some shape too...

I dont realy map like you guys I think; what I tend to do is all of the brushwork as I go, maybe adding a few details as I go along. Each area is lit as I go too (certainly on this map), combat is thought about as I go too, but I dont put any monsters in until I have basicall sealed the full map! Same goes for triggers and gameplay! I add doors and lifts as I go along, just so I can run around the map while I am making it.

So talking around the subject a bit here I guess; there are what - 2 and a half weeks left! I recon I can meet the original deadline but it's gonna be tight!

My band has ever-increasing momentum at the moment too with an increased practise regime and a few planned gigs up ahead! And my college exams are in three weeks or so. And I'm going to the USA in the second week of June, too look at some massive dairy farms (!).

In short I'm very busy. Im doing my best too meet all deadlines!

The speedmap I have made was actually quite refreshing, although I am regretting not spending the time on this map a *little* bit... :P

So anyone else under a l00t of preassure?

Also:

Good luck to everyone working on a map! :D 

So anyone else under a l00t of preassure?

Not really at home, rather at office...

At home it is quite nice: when kids are in bed, my wife jumps onto the PC, check her email, and then she play on my daughter's Nitendo DS (generally Cerebral Academy... :P ), and then I have all the time I want to either play or map or go on #terrafusion, or go on the internet...

Generally I have 3 hours by evening, then a shower, and by a good day, it ends by sex (sometimes during, and after the shower)...

Cool life :D

However, I have to admit my wife does not understand my interst for Quake mapping, and more generally in FPS and violent game... As well, she does not understand my passion for windsurf... girls... ;) 

i really loved czg/vondur's remake of E1M1, i wish all quake maps would've been remade that way!!!

if anyone's gonna do Dismal Oubliette, please don't forget to re-insert the beginning area that was cut out by Romero because of the limitations... he later released as E2M10 or something like that. 

could ever appreciate quake mapping. They don't understand it. At least over here. It's at best irrelevant to them.

Probably like most men view many of the women's decoration hobbies. Though many of them are actually much more useful than quake maps. But they often lack the grandeur and expressivity possible in quake.

Perhaps in a future world everything is different. Or maybe it's genetic and can't be changed. 

Oh, my wife doesn't understand the process itself but she's cool with it. That was really my point. She doesn't actively try to discourage me from doing it in any way. 

you shouldnt say 'Im mapping for quake'
try 'Im creating virtual interactive worlds ' instread 

I have to say, you are quite the macho man to put them womens in their place. Us manly men are the only ones with the intellect to create. 

my favorite painter is a woman. 

it's probably a cultural issue. I can see when re-reading my post that it wasn't clear.