True.

I drink very little nowadays. In the final two or three school years, me and my best buddies were perma-drunk, though. It was a posh school, which was part of the reason for that - we didn't fit in well (wore the wrong fucking sunglasses, etc).

Trinca, does having kids make you drink less? 

of course gb... u dont have time to be with your friends... this make u drink less... but when you meat then you are out of shape and get drunk real fast...hehehe 

Just dj'ed a mansion party with my mate all night, from what I remember things were going fantastic until the weed & mdma, then things got FUCKING fantastic ;)

I might sleep in a few hours Oo 

so I would never take them, but my buddy, er, BarStuck hasn't taken mdma for almost a year now. Might be ok to go back to it again. Once you've experienced something so mind-bogglingly wonderful though, it's kinda hard not to want to do it a lot. Never really felt weed improved it much though, just made me feel a bit weird, and drinking a lot with it never helped either. He said. 

... 

Barstuck! 

 

actually for me weed is the only drug that hasn't become shitty over time. It's nice and relaxing.

everything else I've tried more than once (a few things once was enough), I've done enough not only to get sick of, but to eventually find really unpleasant - shrooms, mdma, acid especially - all started great, but became complete shit over time. I have rarely done anything but drink in the last couple years too, but I think switching to weed as a mainstay would be better. 

best thing is booze...

but weed sometimes is quite fun, last time i smoked week was something like 20 years... arghhhh ;) booze something like last night... 

but it makes me claustrophobic where I have to be outside. I can't just chill and watch a flick, though driving or riding a bike especially after midnight on a long desolate highway on a warm summer night while buzzing is about the best feeling in the world. 

I mean motorized. You wont catch me alive or dead on the self propelled kind. 

Half of the people I know are, it would seem at the moment. Shitty overpriced drug which makes people turn into big-headed lying fools.
Not me. Maybe if its put infront of me I would do it, but never pay for it...... The first mistake. 

After a while drugs take it out of you - I've given up on most apart from booze, cigs and coke now.

So uh, yeah. 

 

 

nevermind.... 

Please behave!!!

;P 

... I promise I will not redo this.. shame on me... 

 

 

[03:59] <RickyT23> workd czg is cool
[03:59] <RickyT23> :)
[03:59] <RickyT23> word
[03:59] <RickyT23> life sucks he is right
[04:09] <RickyT23> my freind is going to join the army
[04:09] <RickyT23> i will miss him 

yep its me again (I do restrain myself from a) being drunk, and 2) posting from that state, as much as possible - and still that's not much restraint...)

here's my random drunken thought (20 shots of rye, and usually I tend to be a lot more bitter, and a lot more vulgar in expressing it, than this):

I wonder what the dividing line between great art and nostalgia is. I wonder if we all would think Quake was so great if we hadn't encountered it at whatever youngish age we did. I wonder how the mind makes things seem better than they were, just so as to provide itself with some sort of masturbatory hope; ie whatever is shit now need not be that way. The older you get, the less new memories you generate. I think the games industry now is shit, and I have a shitload of reasons for that;I could write essays and essays. But if I was part of "generation Y" that grew up on the stuff that I consider shit, would I argue the same things based on that? 

I encountered Quake at about age 25 or slightly later.

I noticed the somewhat pixel-y graphics, but the gameplay, the sounds, and the dark atmosphere hooked me nonetheless. I knew DOOM/2 from back in school (so that's what I grew up with), but Quake's gameplay was simply brutal, and the sounds matched it. It was the simple, brutal, no compromise feeling that got through to me and hooked me.

As for the latter question, no, you would not. You would probably be amazed at the good stuff, instead of always finding fault. You would buy loads and loads of console games and *enjoy* them.

There's lots of nostalgia involved. 

Where's the Hungover Thread? X(

As a mapper, part of Quake's appeal is its visual simplicity. Although I do occasionally enjoy dabbling in CSS/HL2 mapping and I can't wait to try some in Left4Dead, I'll always come back to Quake because it doesn't restrict my creativity. Abstract architecture modern games needs some sort of context to look good, whereas in Quake, abstraction IS the context. I also get a bit weary of modern monster designs, as they tend to lack variety and are programmed with too much self-awareness, rather than to be fiendishly placed by the mapper. 

I'll always come back to Quake because it doesn't restrict my creativity

i find quake does restrict my creativity because some things just can't be built with brushes.

by can't, i mean cannot be built in a reasonable amount of time for a reasonable amount of effort.