Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20180827202615/@comment-3547390-20190221203040

A shame, but that is pretty much the situation.

Yeah, usually the best aren't so much evil as forced into being such, due to either insanity or other such issues.

Actually, I have heard much the same. "Steam isn't going down, don't worry about that, and another service would rise in its stead". It is an idealist mindset, one that could happen, but is also just as likely to have problems when the service itself is killed. People will say "third party" services and private servers, but just note that often copyrights require changes or even grey area legal status for those servers.

Precisely. It is part of Quake's development history and was never meant to be released to the public, therefore it is illegal. And yet it is part of the development history, being in fact the only thing we have to work with outside of Qtest and the only bit of Singleplayer info we really have.

I agree entirely, I used to be in a situation growing up where my parents payed bills and I never had an allowance, so getting games was essentially an impossibility. But working means I could easily spend some getting a couple games. The problem usually is more on the lines of it being difficult to acquire things these days, or simply because physical mediums are hard to store as I don't really have the space for them. I have a collection of disks from storage that now I have at my home, but I would need to rip them from my laptop, since my desktop doesn't even have a disc reader as I don't have much purpose of it. I just rather disc images and USBs, that way I can mount images without being limited to a single disk.

The Steam release also doesn't include the music, meaning you aren't even getting the full game by going that direction. Combine that with it being 1.09 and it is not really the most ideal from a historian's perspective. Plus I would absolutely hate having to run Steam every time I want to play Quake. From experience, the client is shaky, often updating too frequently for my liking. This is why I don't play Skyrim frequently, the hassle of Steam just annoys me too much. And yes, thank goodness for no copy protection.

That is pretty much how I get for the various games I have bothered with. I still need to find a Thief: The Dark Project 1.14 US release, the best I have is a European release that actually has some differences of their own. And I am quite familiar with Unreal versions I have found, as well as various locales and their Quake versions. From experience, getting a disk image is best, since then you can get the update executable to cover other versions.

Interesting fact to note, I had heard about Emuparadise faltering.

Nods, I know that quite well, and that sums up a lot of what I deal with. It could be so easy to listen to others, especially when they think to use peer pressure. See, when you don't listen to someone, they often accuse you of being stubborn and "not trying to improve". They can't understand that their ideas may be harmful, that there just are certain choices in life that must be made. It is easy to say some drastic measure and judge it when you aren't dealing with it yourself. It is a shame others cannot grasp this, that they throw expectations on me, but at the end of the day it is not worth dealing with them if they cannot handle such a choice and respect it.

I tend to be unpredictable when I sleep. Usually I just sleep from boredom most nights, or just as a way of combating depression since it allows me not to think. I end up as exhausted when I wake, so never does the time I sleep seem like it mattered, as much as it being useful avoidance.