Category: The Quake 2 community

The Quake 2 community — featuring player’s philosophies, revisiting the websites of Quake 2 clans, and returning to the scenes of all-night LAN parties — here are the human stories behind the game. Thank you to so many people, all around the world, who have made and continue to make Quake 2 the most fun game to play on Stroggos — and Earth! You are appreciated.

G.A.M.E.org: Quake II Challenge Website — Riding the Rocket, by s8n

On By DondeIn Community, Maps, Mods, Skills, The Quake 2 communityLeave a comment

"Welcome to Riding the Rocket. Riding the Rocket is a Quake II challenge website - each week an easy and a hard challenge is posted, and players submit demos of them attempting the challenge with (usually) the most stylish entrant winning. The challenges generally involve some sort of trickjump, being a simple rocketjump or doublejump to a more advance circlejump or bunnyhop. An ongoing bot challenge section also features, where the current high-scorer must be dethroned. Also, viewers can submit challenges any time and if they're suitable, will feature as a future weekly challenge."

Lag – the brain kind – visual versus auditory

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I have started watching the new PBS 6 part series "The Brain with David Eagleman."  I was telling housefly a little about it.  What really caught my attention was when they run a split screen comparison of sprinters starting a race.  On one screen, you see the runners start the race when they hear the …

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