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Astral Serpent

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  1. Aliases: Slider

    Area of skills: Coding

    Brief list of accomplishments: Created JA+, which has become one of the most widely used JKA mods ever. Made it closed source, compelling Raz0r to make the much better open source JA++.

    Examples of contributions: Made JA+ and raised hands like man power

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    If Slider wasn't around, chances are there would not have been a JA++, or a JA+ for that matter.

    Orion3132, Smoo, UniqueOne and 3 others like this
  2. I've only been playing for 3-5 years on and off.

    A friend said I might like the game, so I tried it out. First I played on a japlus server, I think it was a clan server called 'JA Phoenix' or something. On there, I met a fellow Australian and added him on xfire, he took me to a clan's lugormod server, !!BOSS!!. I played there for a while, and I even wanted to join the clan at one point... but alas, sabers are not my thing, especially not at 400 ping.

    After a while I lost interest.

    And then I regained interest and started playing makermod and got into modding the game, at which point I met an Australian coder on the JKFiles forums, who directed me to the jacoders community and IRC channel.

    I don't think anyone liked me there, but I stuck around and learned absolutely nothing. 2 years later and I still can't code.

     

    Now I just sit around in the #JACoders IRC channel, come up with cool ideas for projects, fork OpenJK, rename the project, and then go and play counter-strike and forget about it.

    I understand pointers now, so I guess I did learn something!

  3. $60 for a game is bullshit, everyone knows that 

    You get the new big-release games for $60 in retail stores?

    In Australia, we get them for $110.

     

    Thankfully, I saw steam wallet cards in the local games retailer recently. Will definitely be buying one of those instead of paying shitty prices for games.

    Although, that implies I would even care to buy all the crap new games that come out. I'd say CS:GO is probably only one of the recent games that I've really liked - and it's only $15 from steam.

    When it comes down to it, the only company I see doing anything good in the games industry is Valve. They bring out mod support for (almost) every game they release, they update their games  and each are pretty much unique. They don't spew out the same shitty title over and over, which is what I feel like I see everyone else doing.

     

    Older games are much more enjoyable than the new stuff that is coming out, aside from Valve's stuff and perhaps some indie game authors. 

    tl;dr I'd take Quake 3 over Battlefield 3 any day.

     

    Also new games lack strafejumping.

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