In a web design studio.

When I started mapping again in '07 I had just stopped working in factories and started working admin for my fathers business. Taken me a long time to get into the IT industry. I've done CLaIT, OCR Bookkeeping, Adobe ACA Dreamweaver and Flash and 2/3rds of a foundation degree in computer science.

Jees. Guess there might just be some hope!

Been nice chatting with all you guys in that time BTW. Not to say I'm leaving Quake/Func any time soon. I'm not planning on it. 

Ricky! 

 

hope you`ll find time on holidays to pump out more quality product here. 

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congrats mate. 

 

The results were striking. Before conducting the research, the economists had expected that securitisation experts would be good at judging when to sell properties and how to avoid housing market losses; after all, they were close to the front line of the mortgage industry and supposed to know all about real estate. But in reality, the number-crunching showed �little evidence of securitisation agents� awareness of a housing bubble and impending crash in their own home transactions�, as the paper says. The supposed experts �neither managed to time the market nor exhibited cautiousness in their home transactions�. Furthermore, they actually suffered bigger losses on housing than the random �control� group of lawyers who were not �experts� on housing at all.

source: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/3b0e701e-91bc-11e2-b4c9-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2O0Vbe400 

That's true of a lot of investors as well. For all the talk I see of people moving money around and timing the market and so on, I don't see them retiring any sooner than I will. :P 

... the title of worst US company for this year (once again)

http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/electronic-arts-named-worst-company-america-again-170932002.html

I am just curious to know what do EA games employees, that are "landing" on func_, think about this... Does the company really deserve this ? 

I'm sorry, but at the end of the day EA is a games publisher. This fact alone puts them nowhere near the worst company in America.

Further proof that internet polls are useless and retarded. 

That poll is ridiculous, keep in mind that one of the reasons EA got bad press and "won" that reward last year was also because they had homosexual relations in The Sims and Mass Effect, which created a homophobic-right-wing campaign to vote them as worst company...

Internet polls are a joke, people on the internet are even more idiotic than they are in real life.

Still EA sucks, but about just as much as most big publishers. :) 

really? shouldnt be surprised but the US just keeps doing it. 

I clearly do not like this kind of poll either, I was just trying to know whether it is possible to find some valid justifications to win such stupid price...
Anyway, it just show again the press power: morons would have simply follow this. 

Yeah, companies are actively destroying the planet and our health ... but a video game publisher is the worst company. People are stupid. 

Looks very faithful to the previous games, I'm hyped -

http://www.allgamesbeta.com/2013/04/dark-souls-ii-gameplay-reveal.html 

That game better come with a brand new controller because I see a lot of frustration ahead! :) 

3.500 people saw https://www.facebook.com/photo.php... within the last hour

Some of them with brilliant with mindboggling comments like "Mod for Quake 3: Arena?"

--- Which is probably a good one because at least he figured it was a Quake series game.

Facebook gets a lot of traffic, but the kind of traffic you get is similar to people at the grocery store.

Of the first time viewers, I would bet -3 in a 100 would know how to install a Quake single player game. The -3 is because I think the answer is 0 and 3 people would say they knew how but actually didn't.

This is why advertisers want demographics and want to track you --- it isn't just the quantity of viewers --- they need to find ones likely to be actionable viewers.

Not random dude sees pics he thinks is cool on his cellphone and leaves comment.

This is the modern traffic dilemma.

/End thought essay

-- The crime of awesome Quake single player and coop with little accessibility continues. For the meantime, I hope. 

Your point isn't entirely relevant because the only people looking at the Quake Facebook page are going to be people interested in Quake (logically). So I would give the ratio of people who would know how to install a mod a little higher value. 

I exaggerated slightly.

Before I discovered Spirit's early version of Quaddicted, I didn't actually know how to install a single player mod. Then again, I didn't know Func Msgboard was a largely Quake mapping site either at the time (I saw the Strogg logo crate so I thought it was maybe Quake II).

I think I asked Spirit what to do to install one, went to Underworldfan's site to see a list of "good ones".

I probably played 10 in the first 2 days and felt a little dumb I wasn't aware of custom single player Quake maps until that point. 

the group has several thousand "users". like baker I consider the vast majority not familiar with the installation of custom content. and that's why I am interested in "targeting" them. these are all potentially interested people.

our most popular content so far have been funny/cool pictures of course ;)

I find them much more interesting and motivating to spread news to because I instantly get gratification(?) and potentially make new custom quake content fans. with quakeone.com you have a similar random target group since you rank high for most Google searches. 

Been some Quake lovin' on my site recently and hopefully not the end of the current string of reviews coming;

Centurion: Review
Forwards Compatible: Review
Explore or Die: Review

Maybe I should create a general TAW news thread to post updates, since both Quaddicted/Quakeblast have one? 

Just a note but holy DAMN are your screenshots dark. 

To show you what I mean,here's one of your shots in Photoshop:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/161473/Misc/CrushedLevels.jpg

The levels are completely crushed.

Just FYI! 

I remember playing explore or die by Speed, amazing map, especially the way the secrets are presented (show and tell mechanic). Unfortunately most of those screenshots are pitch black for me :/