Topic: Is Overwritten.net dying?

[gpw12]

You watch your goddamn mouth bitch.  That guy would never do that shit.

[scottws]

I too thought of gpw12 when he said that...

[gpw12]

Y'all a bunch of bitches.

[ren]

no u

[KontrollerX]

Overwritten.net...

The land of sane admins, worthwhile posters, talking beavers and an angry bunny rabbit named Jack.

The greatest place in the digital world to be! 

Or should it be digital landscape?

Oh if only Que was around he's good with words!!! 

[Raisa]

ya prolly scared him away.

[Quemaqua]

Scared me away?  I'm the author of the insanity, not the victim of it.

[Ghandi]

Oh Que. You and your tough pessimism. We all saw you clutching that teddy bear and crying in the corner earlier. You can't hide that kind of innocence from us. We see *everything*.

[JacksRag(e)]

Which makes it doubly disturbing.
Doubly.

[Ghandi]

I told you to turn off the lights.

I would do the same but the pictures don't turn out so well.

[JacksRag(e)]

I did. But you know how he has that thing for candles....especially you.

[scottws]

The trend continues...

[Raisa]

please don't die

[idolminds]

Interesting. Notice the low point around this time last year on the graph? Guess summer isnt a popular posting season.

[scottws]

True, but we're over 500 posts down from that previous low point, almost a 30% drop.  That's not good at all.

But yeah, if it goes like last year it should start going back up again.  Trouble is, it looks like we're going to finish at or even a little under our July totals for August.

[Quemaqua]

I post like a motherfucker and try my damnedest to do something interesting now and again to get people on, but nobody seems to care.  I guess trying to get people to play old games isn't the best thing ever, but I do what's within my power to do.  So come play Quake 3!

Wish there was more I could do.

[scottws]

Honestly I think Pug not being around is a huge impact.  He was a major poster and created tons of interesting threads.

I usually don't post many threads because the stuff that interests me is all techie stuff no one seems to care about or it's something I found on the Internet and people are like "Yeah I saw that three years ago."

[Raisa]

well...  i guess life's been busier for me.. still doing what i usually do and then end up being married and a wife takes up more time. hah

[Ghandi]

I haven't been on as much lately. Can't say that I was a huge poster to begin with, but I definitely am going with the trend there.

I generally start posting again as soon as school starts up (since I'm on my computer more often) so my end should pick up in the next few weeks.

Edit: Hey Raisa.

How is married life treating you?

[Raisa]

hey Ghandi, went on mIRC a few times looking to see if any of you are there.. anyway
it's been fine.. much like regular life in some ways.

[Ghandi]

Any kids yet?

[Cobra951]

Jeez, give her a chance to be a newlywed.   

I tend to post consistently when there's something interesting already happening.  I'm much less consistent about starting new threads.  Everyone here is smart and informed, so unless it's something I'm doing, I often assume it's old news.  And very little of what I do is any kind of news.

I appreciate what Que's doing with Quake 3.  I'm not involved because I don't own the game and have never played it, not once.  I've always stayed away from multiplayer-based games.  I do hope it improves the sense of community here.  He's done a lot of work to make it happen.

[Ghandi]

Jeez, give her a chance to be a newlywed.  

I was just poking fun at her for saying that it was much like regular life.

[sirean_syan]

My general distaste of multiplayer is pretty strong too, but I think you owe it to yourself to get a copy of the game and join Que for at least a game or two, Cobra. I was never really a Quake person, but I think it's an experience worth having, especially when you have a consistent small group to play with.

[Quemaqua]

Especially with fun crazy mods to try.  Once you get the game the ability to amuse yourself with crazy stuff is practically endless.

[sirean_syan]

I don't think it's necessary to muddle it up though. There's something to be said about a vanilla quake session that hasn't translated into pretty much anything else out there since or before (except maybe Quake 1 or 2).

[Quemaqua]

Very true.  But it's also got some of the best mods out there, and most of them are pretty simple and keep the same spirit.

Also, the game is from, what... 1999, I think?  Anybody can run it.

[gpw11]

Can't we play fun old games instead?  Like Jedi Knight II?

Oh, and when the hell did we get married Raisa?  Was it...that night?

[MysterD]

I don't think it's necessary to muddle it up though. There's something to be said about a vanilla quake session that hasn't translated into pretty much anything else out there since or before (except maybe Quake 1 or 2).

As great as vanilla Quakes were upon their release -- Q1, Q2, Q3 -- I've played these games and I've played their maps. Playing other maps with this IOQuake mod -- this has brought life back into Quake 3 Arena for me. It's good I actually have a really good reason to dig this classic out of my vault, when I'm in a mode of "What the hell am I going to play?" I need some sort of kick-ass MP-fix. I mean, hell -- I like GoW PC MP, but God -- nobody's playing it online! GoW PC got uninstalled today, BTW -- I just can't take the lack of servers going for this game; it's just...sad.

I think a lot of people's perception of Quake changed namely with Q3A vs. UT wars, when those two came out in the same year. For most people, UT was basically the MP-game everybody wanted Q3A to be. As good as Q3A was, UT just offered more, out the box. Personally, I don't know how you can go wrong w/ either a Quake or Unreal game; that's just me, though.

I hope most people played Quake 4's MP -- which is basically Quake 3: Arena gameplay on the technically awesome-looking Doom 3 Engine. In other words, it really rocks. I don't think it ever took off like Q3A did on the MP-side, since Q4 is a SP and MP game, so I think many played it for just the SP; while Q3A was just made for MP so people are just gonna' play that Q3A for the MP.

[gpw11]

Wait...why don't we play UT3?  I bought it for $10 and have maybe played 20 min. of it.  I"m sure everyone could pick it up hella cheap.

[Quemaqua]

Idol and I did play for a while.  I'm pretty sure I tried to get you people to play it then, too.

[gpw11]

Oh, I probably didn't have it at that point.

[Quemaqua]

Probably not.

[scottws]

I don't like the the Unreal MP games.  I don't really understand the weapons.  There are tons of them and they have these weird alternate fire modes I don't get half the time.

[MysterD]

I got UT3, Quake Wars, and Quake 3 Arena all installed.
I'd be game to play any of y'all in any of those.

Hell, if anybody wants to do some GW...
I have Guild Wars: Prophecies and Guild Wars: Nightfall are still installed and I've yet to finish them, too.
I got GWEN, but need to finish one of those first.

[Quemaqua]

Idol and I are still playing GW.  We're sort of taking a break from it now, but I know we both have every intention of starting into it again soon.  Very fun games.  I actually have a free account I've been trying to get Cobra to use, heh.

[gpw11]

I'd like to point two things out here:

1.) Scott's graph making skills have improved...a lot.

2.) We should play DoD: source.  Or even TF2 although that's kind of gotten lame.

[Quemaqua]

Or you could play a real game.

[gpw11]

Oh yeah, I forgot it isn't a real game unless it has rocket jumps and bunny hopping.  Lets not kid ourselves; DoD:Source IS the only real game.

[Quemaqua]

I thought you said you didn't want to kid yourself?