daylight saving time sucks and should be abolished. 

Daylight saving time saves energy and allows people to get more done in the evenings! http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/c.html

...and it totally messes up my body clock. 

it's pure satanic and anti-human and devilish idea! 

daylight sucks.

nightime is more interesting. 

but i prefer my _sunlight to be at least 100. anything darker, and i have a hard time finding the monsters. 

don't worry. They'll find you. 

Wont be there. Too busy.

Hopefully 2 weeks or so from now.

(and I had such a great idea worked out. Maybe I'll just submit it a few weeks late) 

Not if you sneak up on them with your axe like Lizzie Borden and go 'wack! wack! wack!' 

speedmapping starts in an hour. anyone besides zwiffle and me going to show up? 

If I can think of an idea.. tis a tricky one this week 

I have been too busy making a map for a project, but it is getting very close to completion. In the next few weeks I should be able to Speedmap. 

let's get back to easy themes :D

Theme: Doom Restriction maps. This means, no room over room, no sideways opening doors or moving platforms. Don't have to use doom textures, but here are Lun's q3doom textures converted to q1 for those wishing to use them:
http://speedq1.spawnpoint.org/files/lun3.zip

Time: Saturday, April 17th, 4pm EST (9pm UK, 20:00 GMT)

Place: irc.gamesurge.net in #speedq1

Timelimit remains a casual 100 mins+, and you may still email me a map at scampie@spawnpoint.org anytime before I pack up the pack. 

won't this lead to really boring maps?
i'm not saying the theme is necessarily bad, but if i were participating, i wouldn't follow it. 

necros: only boring if the mappers make them boring. there's plenty you can do without room over room. height variation isn't outlawed, you can easily make a cool map with some imagination.

but if you don't want to follow the theme, that's cool too. 

slopes? Are they allowed or outlawed? To clarify I mean just brushes with vertical angles that aren't 90 degrees, not horizontal angles that aren't 90 degrees. 

no. no slopes going up and down. angled walls are of course ok. 

and i've seen some pretty awesome maps for doom myself, so maybe you're right. :) 

necros: only boring if the mappers make them boring.

Well said scampie, I very much agree with that. A truly inspired mapper will not only work within the limitations but embrace them to produce something that is good and characterful because of the limitations. 

idea for the speed map. Afraid I'm out of town on business, boredom and playing FarCry this week and no where near my set up for map making.

Might be worth someone's while to take a look at the Doom retexture project, one of the better looking one's I must say, and take a few hours converting them to Quake compliant textures with TexMex and Wally. Just a suggestion. 

Think it's time I jacked in speedmapping. No point in it anymore. 

[17:33] <nane> hah
[17:33] <nane> it works
[17:33] <nane> oh this is great
[17:33] <nane> too bad no one is going to play it
[17:34] <scampie|mapping> did you enjoy making it?
[17:35] <Zwiffle|speedmap> yes, i enjoyed him making it
[17:38] <nane> oh yes
[17:38] <scampie|mapping> then who cares if anyone plays it?
[17:39] <scampie|mapping> speedmapping mantra: map for fun, not for others
[17:39] <rj> i don't find the mapping part very fun but i often like playing them afterwards if they're good
[17:40] <scampie|mapping> congrats, fuck off
[17:40] <rj> thx
[17:40] *** rj (~rjthorne@82-32-37-135.cable.ubr05.azte.blueyonder.co.uk) Quit (Quit: I swear to god i must be the only true optimist left on the planet.|| "hej slyna, du �r s�t. Jag kommer f� ett ligg med dig denna helgen")

rj = xen.

oh well, good riddence. as I've said countless times before, I run speedmapping for the mappers participating, not for the people who want to play a new pack of maps every week. and I certainly don't run the events for attention whore morons who think that 'quitting' will prove their point. 

Who is 'slyna', and why/how is xen going to have sex with her/him this weekend? 

 

Shit, that quit message was from around a year ago... was a quote of a clanmate of mine attempting swedish. Forgot I still had it. 

as I've said countless times before, I run speedmapping for the mappers participating, not for the people who want to play a new pack of maps every week.

Who honestly gives a fuck what the person running them has in mind for the maps? Why fucking bother uploading the packs every week if you're insistant on sticking to that oh-so-pretentious 'map for yourself, not for others' scheme. I've spent more time speedmapping than pretty much anyone else on the site since the events started running, why on earth would I do it for all that time if I didn't enjoy participating myself?

Since you obviously interpreted my comment completely wrong & with very little thought whatsoever, I was merely stating that I didn't particularly enjoy the process dragging brushes around and copy/pasting entities for hours on end, however, I enjoy coming out with a finished product at the end of the session, and playing it. Yes, I normally enjoy playing my maps alot more than playing others, since they're pretty much tailor made for me. I couldn't care if other people didn't like them.

My point is though, even if mappers do map for the sake of getting their name known, so long as they submit a map then why give a shit?


and I certainly don't run the events for attention whore morons who think that 'quitting' will prove their point.

I 'quit' because I certainly don't participate in the events for power-tripping fucktards who think the whole world should share their opinion.

I've posted my view now though, like it or lump it. Since I'm obviously not welcome in the sessions anymore, I'd rather not carry on attending them, simple as.