There's a big sale going on for id games (and Bethesda games too) at GOG. So, if anyone of you missed out on some of the classic id shooters, here's your chance to get them pretty cheap. (Personally, I missed out on Final Doom, Quake 2 expansions and Return to Castle Wolfenstein, so Ima probably get 'em.)

https://www.gog.com/promo/20180817_bethesda_weekend?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=20180806_nl_Bethesda_weekend_EN&utm_term=EN 

Go for it! You won't regret it. 

I'm so excited to finally play it after all these years - did you know I made all my maps without ever being able to play them?


/s 

https://steamcommunity.com/games/221410#announcements/detail/1696055855739350561

That is, unless they've just added vkQuake to the official distribution... lol 

It is talking about Proton being available for Steam games. 

I know, so now we can use Wine + a special DirectX -> Vulcan to play WinQuake :D 

 

https://discord.gg/HWWy5R 

https://www.gog.com/promo/20180820_weekly_sale

Seriously check it, it's good... 

Thanks! I tried, but the invite was invalid/expired. Is there a way to just go to #tf without an invite? 

He made it! 

I've asked a few times in the discord but no one was interested so I thought i'd float it here too.

I'm not active enough any more to properly run the discord channel so I'm looking for someone to take ownership of the channel from me. 

 

 

-Quaddicted has gone down for europeans
-sock's page doesn't allow me to download
anything
-how do I play maps when they're not on quaketastic
-Fuckit, I'm reading Lovecraft instead 

Just replied to your message on another thread, which reminded me: When is your Blue episode coming out! >:C (Or am I just blind and it has completely slipped past my radar) 

Hi!

Saw this week that Quaddicted is down for Europeans because of GPDR and that help is wanted.
So, because I found no Email of the Host so there's the info and the links.

The GDPR first of all count's for business- and data-collecting company's "only" with an office in the EU.
It also can count if you're an "company" that's collecting personal data of EU-citizens. Personal data does'nt mean IP-only, it means IP + Name + ect. .
If you want to be more than sure that everything is fine with the EU a simple article about acceptation of data-use in the registration-form should avoid any problems.

Every thing to know is in the GDPR-faq's and law -links below.

Hope to see Quaddicted on my Screen again soon!

best wishes

GDPR-faq's:

https://www.eugdpr.org/gdpr-faqs.html

GDPR-law (online by chapter):

https://gdpr-info.eu/

PDF:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32016R0679 

Thanks. It's being worked on and should be back soon. 

In the meantime, you can access Quaddicted content via Johnny Law's mirror. 

Thanks! 

 

Youtube recommendations brought me this video. The section on Quake contains a new (to me) explanation why there supposedly is so much brown in Quake. Timestamped for your convenience.

https://youtu.be/rN9nbGBXc8U?t=5m59s

Let's just say I'm not convinced by the explanation. Sharing this just to amuse and/or annoy.

P.S. You can visit Quaddicted via the hide.me proxy with the U.S proxy location. Downloads seem to work that way too. 

He's kind of right, by starting to talk about the palette and lighting, but he swerves off a bit I think.

It's not the brown is a super special color for the purposes of showing light variation. It's just that they needed to eat up a lot of slots in their palette to generate different brightness levels of each color that they wanted to use, resulting in a limited number of colors. 

https://quakewiki.org/wiki/Quake_palette

Arguably "brown" only has 2 rows. Colormap shows that purple has just as much lighting variation as brown.

Purple.


Quake purple.