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More detailed news information can be found on the Latest News page, updated 12/16/98 or later. Check out the Old-n-Dirty Briefs if you care, or the Latest News for more details.

Do You Care?

SteQve is in a little bit of a bind. See, his proefessional career is, like, kicking ass. Like, all over the place. Apparently it's gotten so good, he likes to work instead of play. This means no TagYerIt updates, no ServObit updates, no DynaMO source code releases. But he notices the hits on his web page - he is, after all, a fragile little human being who still cares that people visit his web page even though he doesn't update it - but even that's not enough to convince him to change his evil Real World ways. So, the question becomes... Do you care? Do you care enough about TagYerIt, ServObit, DynaMO, Crystal Conflicts, or whatever, to make the effort to send SteQve an email and tell him so? Well dammit, now's your time to do so. Send SteQve an email with the subject "Icare" or you may never hear from him again. Seriously. He's stuck in the Real World, and only your caring emails can bring him back into the world of Quake. Help him now, before it's too late. He's at least spent enough time to create this link so you can contact him.

Real Life Intrudes

March 12, 1999... Real Life hath intruded upon me in recent months, but mostly in a good way. Unfortunately this means that I haven't had time to add any new mods, update the old ones, and what not. Don't take it personally - my Boston music page is suffering too. But my job has been going kick-ass, though it's taking up a lot of time, plus other commitments have kept me away from the land of Quake. Perhaps sometime in April or May I will get started up again, and who knows what Quake III will bring.

DeCamper 1.0: The Democratic Camping Deterrent

DeCamper is a server-side, democratic camping deterrent for Quake 2. The controversial mod, originally released in January 1998, allows the players on a server to vote on whether or not to punish an accused Camper. Server operators can configure harsh or mild penalties, as well as how easy or difficult it is to vote someone a Camper. Several mechanisms limit potential abuse of the voting system.

Source code is included in this release, which is the final release by Two Pole Software. Established mod authors who want to take over maintenance of the code may contact SteQve.

Check out DeCamper and see for yourself what all the fuss was about.

DynaMO 2.0: Breathe New Life into Old Maps

Oh, what *is* it you ask? DynaMO, the Dynamic Map Organizer, allows you to add, remove, replace, or switch any live "entity" in a map, such as weapons, ammo, etc., without recompiling the map or using a map editing tool. It's easy to use but powerful enough that expert mappers may enjoy it too.

Go ahead and check out DynaMO.

20,000 No Frills Pages Can't Be Wrong: The Debate Rages On

Well, thanks to the news sites like Blue's, Telefragged, and Planet Quake, the No Frills page has reached 20,000 hits in about 11 months. Much appreciation to them.

However, there has been some ongoing criticism regarding my use of the "No Frills" label. I have written an article titled In Defense of the "No Frills" Label to address this criticism.

In turn, QuakeGod published a response that did not go unnoticed. And so in turn I must ask him: Is a Red Herring a Frill?

Crystal Conflicts: Scavenge to the Death

Crystal Conflicts, formerly codenamed Project PackRat, was recently honored with third place in the PC Gamer Quake 2 mods contest. It's a teamplay mod, it's a scavenger hunt, it's a maze, it's a different game every time - it's all that and the kitchen sink, too.

Check out the Crystal Conflicts web page to see what Crystal Conflicts is all about, and be sure to check Telefragged to see if QuakeGod whines about all the frilly pictures.

New TagYerIt Server

TagYerIt has been offline for a bit while the two main server ops did weird Real Life (tm) things like getting married, changing jobs, moving, etc. But now Sati's is back online. You can find it at sati.norden1.com (192.153.35.35). Rock!

Check out the TagYerIt page if you don't know what TagYerIt is.

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Please forgive this counter's frillishness. I have this thing about wanting to know how many people visit this page. Maybe it's tied into my sense of self worth or something, I don't know.

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