Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-26005008-20160407215658/@comment-1496755-20160415060941

You'll have to miss sound for a while longer... but at least you'll be able to drop from heights ;)

I also use my phone as an alarm - it's quicker and easier than having an actual clock. In most days I set it for 05:45. On weekends - 11:11, usually.

The UQE guy and I spent some time talking about the Quake engine - it turns out it's quite the experimental mess. It doesn't even have an official name like id Software's other engines (the Doom engine is id Tech 1, and id Tech 2 is the Quake 2 engine) - it's some sort of a freak between these two stages in technology. Curiously, the latest versions of the Quake engine include some early bits of Quake 2 code (all disabled, of course) - John Carmack was using Q1 as a test bed for Q2 features (like skyboxes). As for the actual Quake 2 engine, it is very clean and optimized, looking a lot more "official" than its predecessor.

But despite all this, it still handles very well. Yay for Carmack :)