slipgate report pls

If you get 10 or more people plusing your post, then deal!

30% there!

well that was easy

MOCKTIS

http://s7d5.scene7.com/is/image/Staples/s0105150_sc7?

Quake is Dead was a fine name.

quake is dead is dead

The intro bit is still online - here

Unfortunately, streaming is still not a foolproof science, although I would like any and all feedback how to avoid interruptions like this even if my xsplit crashes or something - some kind of fault tolerant set up where even if the streaming application crashes, the twitch.tv stream doesn't interrupt.

Anyone?

I would never watch something with the name "quake is dead"

Blah blah blah, satan worship, blah blah blah, heavy metal, blah blah blah, quake culture, blah blah blah, nihilism, blah blah blah, jesus crucified on the wall of DM2, blah blah blah.

then plus my post!

Paradoks is such a fatass.

Aren't you just a ray of sunshine.

Hit the gym bro (serious)

I've actually met ParadokS several times in teh realz(tm) and I'm going to say right now: he can kick your ass.

:D

Im 6'2, 210lbs 8%bf. Are you sure?

Positive.

Ok.

Can someone link the TDM article? I know it was said to be on ESR somewhere.

Managed to find the long comment pertaining to TDM strategy and some comparisons between QLive and QW he did on a previous news piece. I haven't been able to find the article he supposedly wrote yet - but I'm working on it :)

http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=2004316#pid2004316

this one i think
http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=1724043

What is all this 'quake is dead' q1 shit? Do qw players honestly think QL/Q3 dying will lead to a revival of qw?

LOL right... It's just the name of a QuakeWorld podcast, it has nothing to do with the state of QL/Q3 at all.

I would give my left kidney to paradoks if they change the name of this.

change it to what? We had a few suggestions, but not any real good one's yet :)

'Quake Lives'

Quake Club, and you do not speak about it.

call it "penis enlargement: gain 5 inches" or "podcast: a world of quake" :(

There must be something better!

Wouldnt it be more convinient in plain audio format?
Since you're not really utilizing video as a form of content...

I'm working on creating MP3s so people can listen to them on an audio player ezily

In the future, I'll just record the audio at the same time that I do twitch.tv - since the latter doesn't create audio podcasts automatically (for shame!)

someone should host a similar show for ql

Yeah I will.

ddk thinks about quake the way I wish many more players did.

I'll endeavour to work on my articulation, I struggle on the spot too much when I try to vocalise some of my ideas. Thanks for the compliment though!

edit: also, as a note, I can't remember a lot of what I said (sure as hell not going to check and hear myself talk :D) but I hope none of it came across as if I was dissing ql tdm.

Not at all, just the differences between the two.

Good stuff!

Glad you used the logo. :3 If you need any edits done to it then just ask.

We are changing the name to "Slipgate Report" Subtitle: "Quake: talking shit since 1996" So... make us a new logo! For the victory! :D I'm thinking it should include a high def pic of a slipgate, like so:

I'll get right onto it away good sir!

EDIT: once I got phootooshop working again. D:

Paradoks sounds a lot like nekon. It's scary

but he's totally not a nazi

Yes, he is a nazi.

n1!

For the next shows try to keep it under a certain time. I like watching this kind of stuff but I think one hour is enough :)

A further suggestion would be to get some kind of structure into the program. So maybe 20 mins talk about EQL and dualmania, 20 mins interviews and 20 minutes analayzing demos.

BTW phil, are you on Windows Vista/7? Many players need to run Firefox as administrator to be able to install QL. Some Microsoft protection against code relocation or whatever. QL is one right click away man! :) [just don't bash it too much in your shows after getting harassed with railguns ;)]

Yeah I'm on 7. I don't have firefox installed. Chrome is very fast and does everything I need to do (including firebug-esque functionality with the chrome dev tools) MSIE is crap but oh well. I used to be a huge firefox fan, but now firefox is somewhere in between MSIE and chrome, it is just too bloated to put it bluntly, and since chrome does everything I need I don't see a reason to install firefox.

The only thing that hasn't worked in chrome so far has been quakelive and that's just too bad :(

edit: Also - its a video game. I shouldn't have to run anything as administrator to play a video game. I'm not trying to administer anything, I'm simply trying to play a video game, and if you have to fuck around with 15 little "gotchas" before you can even play then that's bad design and it's not going to get you very many players. (Not saying "you" you, just the proverbial "you")

In their defense, it's trying to download all the paks into a system-wide location, presumably to share same data between users of the system. And you are _installing_ the game via the browser. It is an administrator's task.

But of course... The plugin could detect this condition and just pop up a message saying "please restart the browser choosing 'run as administrator'". I have no idea why it doesn't do so.


Another problem is that if you don't have proper OpenGL in your system, you will get a frame every few seconds.

QL should be able to detect non-direct/not accelerated rendering and at least present user with a warning screen, telling him to download current drivers directly from ATI/nVidia.

id Software is releasing Rage, also an OpenGL game, next month. We'll see if it runs at 0 fps on brand new computers, or maybe its installer proposes driver upgrade.


Third common problem is the GLW_CreateWindow cryptic error. 99% of the time it's someone selecting wrong resolution and system not supporting it. It should be possible to try to fall back to the desktop resolution and maybe also displaying a warning ("there was a problem setting screen resolution; your resolution has been reset to X").


Agreeably, those are mostly problems with people's systems, but if they can be detected and if the users can be notified of potential problems and common solutions, then why not? You can't expect everyone to write to Support or even read forums. You're the best example of this: it didn't work, you haven't even googled for solution, even though it's really common problem. They could just give you a silly message so you'd run your Chrome as admin and be done with it. I hate lost opportunities :/

Maybe if it just said "run as administrator to fix this problem"

Instead it said "core extraction error" which might as well say "go kill yourself and die" :)

phil give proz a shoutout plz :D