I've always been solitary and a bit insane, but also surrounded by people. So my life hasn't change much - just trying to control the id.

I was watching a lot of standup on Netflix, there are some gems, and a lot of nots.

Family wise (especially useful as an expat) we've been doing a quiz every Sunday - whichever team loses does the quiz for the next week. General knowledge, pop culture, science, geography, video games (because we lost the weekend before) - simple but fun. Reason to do a Zoom call basically.

I think the one most affected in my house is my son of 3. Very kinetic and clever, and wants to do stuff but doesn't have the means to understand or express why he can't, yet.

Yeah, he's driving us nuts.

In my house we're six, so kind of privileged in the quarantine. Me and my wife have been WFH for two months and minimum is until September. I've got workmates with very little space and children of a similar age. They're putting a brave face on it.

In the same category some who have no family in the country where we are and I have to somehow guide them through it.

What I've arrived at is that we need to be solid. Dependable. This particular strain will take years to solve. From there, we're all looking at our own personal crystal ball, mired by opinion and despair/hope - trying to predict the future.

All we can do in the meantime is stay strong. 

Aye right.

I painted stuff: http://teamshambler.blogspot.com

And played Jedi Fallen Order, Metro Exodus, and Black Mesa during lockdown.

There wasn't much sanity going on tho! 

Do you do commissions? Somewhere in my mom's house I have an old wizard figure that I never finished. 

I'm in the mass gathering festival biz so obviously i got hit with both barrels of this corona craziness.

spent the time cataloguing my comedically large teenage warhams collection, and actually adding to it for reasons that are known only to myself and my inner demons that prey on my weaknesses, oh and also making a fair wallop of content for untitled indie action adventure game pet project that will never be finished/released. 

I haven't yet but I am open to the idea.... 

Well - in my extra time I've started to make a series of youtube vidoes that each feature a custom quake DM map. I talk a bit about the map and then demonstrate the gameplay in a quick bot match.

Linky:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOeqzWT2GQIdLvMnRsPJvXSa6atgFQLux

Check it out, let me know what you think, etc. Been a fun side project. cheers! 

I wish I could be sated but I cannot get enough of the level designs. 

I'm happy to see more attention and "content" on MP maps! You're a good source for this sort of thing given your history.

I know you're still feeling out the balance for how much to talk before doing the example botmatch, and how much to talk while playing. Your most recent video is pretty good in that respect. Just my own personal taste would be even a bit more talking about poking around before playing, both for the benefit of the viewer and also so your talk-while-playing can just be spur-of-the-moment stuff rather than trying to hit important points.

Now there are a couple of obvious things in the videos that might be criticism lightning-rods so lemme get to that:

* Using a blinged-out Quake client. It's not too extreme though; I think the look of the map itself does still come through. And MP players usually mutilate their client in all sorts of ways in any case -- for review-type purposes I'd rather see this than the no-textures/hidden-viewweap/sprites-everywhere look. It's not my preference but it doesn't bother me except for some of the particle effects that are a bit out of place IMO.

* Using a rebalanced DM mod with runes and grappling hook and etc. IMO this is pretty much exactly in the spirit of Quake DM servers. :-) The only thing I would potentially gripe about is that I think a grappling hook kind of ruins DM, or at least obviates a lot of the distinctive characteristics of the different DM maps. But you're not using the grappling hook so OK!

I don't have much constructive criticism to add at the moment. I did wonder a bit if you could/should show an overhead view graphic -- for some maps this would be pretty instructive, for others maybe not so much.

Keep it up, I've popped you into the subscription list! 

BTW, "Joel B" is the artist formerly known as "Johnny Law". Moving some of my forum/chat accounts over to my real name and dropping that old nick. 

You' dropping the Law, Johnny! The 

^ 

so, insideqc is really dead uh? 

Let's talk when you are ready... 

seems like it, last posts were from 2019 

Well... InsideQC forum was down from November 2019 for few good months. It was back recently. It will take a while for people to realize it's back and start posting again. 

Last edit I could make was transferring all tutorials to quaketastic. That was quiet a job from my mobile to screen shots, but I feel these tuts are treasure ware.
Now the front page is back, but all info is scrambled after that. 

The InsideQC tutorials are still online here: http://www.insideqc.com/qctut/#Misc

I've also grabbed that part of the site and the AI Cafe tutorials. Download them here. 

AI Cafe is so amazing. Sometimes I read it just for the nostalgia. 

Thanks for the Ai Cafe files. Some I had already saved, but the site went offline faster than I expected. Just like that of Inside3d. The last months in 2019 I have been trying to get back my password, but there were too many spam bots. Too bad because there was a lot of useful information in the posts. At first it seemed that it was better? because I could get back to the start pages
and login again.
The tutorials I no longer got on the screen of my computer but on my mobile. So that's why I sent everything to quaktastic. 

Guys, just wanted to step in and have a word. Recently saw four videos on YouTube (working the Roku stick FTW) about my last map Fort Ratsack. One I knew of, since Daz let me know about it, and I was obviously thrilled to see it. But I just recently saw three others and was truly flattered. One guy (recommended by Sock btw -- cheers, Simon) couldn't find one of the secrets, and I found that thoroughly entertaining. Anyways, late to the party I am, but thanks in any case. Moar to come... 

Thanks for checking out the videos! I haven't done much streaming or recording so trying to get a handle on how to best do it. I did figure out settings to improve the YouTube image quality - so that's better already.

I like your suggestions regarding taking more time to talk about the map at the start and covering more of the details, layout, etc. I have an alias for noclip fly mode so I can zoom out of the level an show the overall layout. That's a good idea too.

For the bot match, I can configure my mod to turn off all the extras and just keep it as standard DM mode. You're right that runes, hook, etc. will mess with the balance of the map.

I also made a new little video about some DM compilation packs I'm putting together:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55teHDGWmfE 

So, Quake turns 24 on Monday...