Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20180827202615/@comment-3547390-20180829120420

I guess people are bound to eventually see how generic it is. Call of Duty can only fool people for so long.

Black Countess is a porn band, so expect to see things like songs about lesbian vampires. That is pretty much their forte. But it felt like they had more variety early on, plus the music was actually good. Best black metal band out there. Of course, where they ended up... let's just say their final album was called "Feetish".

Check out Evenfall if you want brutality. It is literally just screaming over and over. Music sounds decent, but my god are those vocals hilarious.

Yeah, keeping it genuine is good, but I just keep those in a storage area just for genuine original stuff. It will be good to have Aftershock Toolbox levels without the server crashing because of incorrect names.

Yes indeed, I am glad to be maintaining this collection. Makes me feel better that I have these as opposed to possibly losing files that would need to be compiled out or converted again. Plus it is easier to drop in and test files for compatibility issues. Except that now I am realizing that shareware not only doesn't like custom mods, but doesn't like custom maps. Not sure how to get around this. Maps I had to convert to registered from shareware BSP don't seem to do anything in the shareware...

Another good idea might be to go the route of file hosting. Right now it is particularly hard to get Quake maps if you are European as a lot of the sites don't work under some new laws. Combined with the anomalous timestamps, it almost makes more sense to store things using a file hosting website, specifically one that doesn't delete links after so many days of not being downloaded. Commercial-only stuff of course could not be included, but nothing would prevent us from storing some shovelware files that would have been found on the internet long ago. Check out Crypt'o'Death and see how it works.

I guess that is the convenience of starting it early, I am making sure it isn't too much of a mess. It also helps that I document everything on a Wikia, trying to do this for Doom would be a mess at best. No real reason to do Doom for me anyway, we could never play the stuff in coop and I don't get much enjoyment from playing them by myself.

Based on my experience with Doom, it can still be quite a bit of fun as shovelware levels may have slightly different timestamps from the same levels on the internet. For Doom I didn't really investigate differences like that too far, but for Quake those timestamps shall be important for determining level versions and changelogs. This will be more of an issue as we move along, not really something that has hit so far. This is also why I don't just grab links from the internet for the shovelware levels, until I have confirmed they are identical (or have documented the changes) they cannot be validated.

I am nocturnal on weekends, but the week forces me to be up. A shame, since that usually makes me feel more worn out. I get disconnections from reality a lot.

Youtube definitely has all of those things. It has the advantage of handling larger files, allowing for greater resolutions, and actually allowing control over playlists.

I think you are right, for now it looks adequate (unless you are looking for differences, you can't really tell Youtube is slightly less detailed, perhaps this is because... as I just noticed... it seems to be using an older format that hates anything but 720p) and I can just convert things over. Re-recording would be nice, but I don't want to do it at the moment, since I plan on jumping up to 4k soon (say early 2019). Would be better for consistency if I do it at that point.

Of course, that begs the question if I should convert it, especially since it would be lower quality. Plus converting seems like it would be just as lengthy of a project. In the time it takes me to download a video from Dailymotion, I could have recorded and uploaded a new one to Youtube. Taking into account the fact that these videos are a less than ideal format when finally downloaded means I probably need to convert them... to something. Of course, converting videos can be a slow process as well and will probably slow down the uploading process as well. At this rate, I might as well just redo them.

Hmm, this might be one case where I host the video on Youtube. A bit inconsistent sadly (of course, we are talking about a Wikia where normally other people would be doing overlapping stuff, so maybe that is a foolish thought), but a placeholder until I can made a complete re-recording session. I am crazy enough to jump to 4k 60fps, which seems to be the end game these days (note most are still in 1080p, 1440 30fps is uncommon, so I am still ahead on the bell-curve).

I also fixed up some things lately, including the main page. Fixed up the text buttons so they didn't have black backgrounds. I also tried to add a Quake Champions logo, but the horizontal nature means it just doesn't fit with everything else, so I am not sure how to make it more presentable. Changed around the layout to better fit without needing to scroll. Tried making things more presentable and visible on the initial view that should be more noticeable. Fixed up the Recent Activity box as the bullets tended to leak over. The spirit is the same, just made a lot cleaner for easier readability.

Also check out the Quake Soundtrack, I fixed the look of audio buttons so that the appearance doesn't get totally butchered when you click one of them.