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When Game Universes Collide

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Yutram and I revisited the GMod Sandbox server this evening; we found some new maps to explore! We went to a couple islands and resorts, traveled down rainbow road, and ended up at Mother Base. It was quite the adventure!

In the pursuit of doing what no one has asked for – I’ve taken it upon myself to look for maps to add both Quake III Arena Servers, that will be another rainy day project though… along with making a shoutcast server that I can conjure up at will for DJing.

If This TARDIS Is a Rockin’

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Yutram was kind enough to help me test out the new GMod server. We partied so hard in the caves of Dear Esther that we crashed the server. Stayed a little longer than expected, but it was fun to work and play a bit at the same time…

I think I like our version of the metaverse better than Fuckerberg’s. 😛

In the process of gathering more footage

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I have some more gmod funtime footage to go over at a later date. I’d like to start filming some other stuff too as I feel like I’ve been uploading too much gmod in general. But it’s just too much fun with friends. 😛 I did try to capture some TF2 MvM footage but nothing noteworthy happened.

And now for an overdue post

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Been playing more gmod lately with friends. I recently installed the stargate pack on my sandbox server and we’ve been having a blast. I’ve recorded quite a bit of it, just need to go through the footage at a later date.

I’ve also been paying attention to the latest tech news. Like how Unity, Unreal and even Source 2 are going to be free (some of them within reason). Makes me wonder what games will be produced in the near future.

I’ll write more later (threat intended). I need to get some sleep for work.

Contemplating a revival of Comedy Night

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Once upon a time in the Myst/Uru community my group The Guild Of Slackers had a community thing called Comedy Night. In those days The Guild Of Comedy would dress up as the comedians and perform on a stage in the Guild Of Comedy Neighborhood (or The Blue Neighborhood if the act was rated 18+) and the person presenting the comedy audio would dress as the comedian. It stopped gaining interest during the first run of Myst Online. I’ve been stewing on this for well over a month now. I want to revive it, but not in MOULa.

Why? I’ve been in there a few times, and between the forums and the people who play in game themselves I doubt there would be much interest. That and quite a few people these days including myself are annoyed with the ancient voice chat system. We could stream it on a shoutcast server but it wouldn’t be as immersive, plus there would be those old sticks in the mud who refuse to listen to streams because you know… An audio feature from the early turn of the century is sooooo much more immersive than Speex or Opus codecs that are used in modern voice chat programs like Mumble, Vent, etc.

So where would I want to hold this? In the Garry’s Mod cinema gamemode.

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I’ve been watching my server for awhile now, and people have been gathering in there to watch all sorts of things. Sometimes it’s some pretty stupid stuff, but I’ve seen some people come in and have anime marathons (the latest one was a Deadman Wonderland), dance parties and one of my regulars held a movie night! So why not have a comedy night? There are lots of full comedy videos on YouTube, and YouTube is supported in the gamemode.

Of course you would have to own a copy of gmod to get on the server, but the map that we use doesn’t require any assets from other source games. At the very least they would need to have the cinema map and gamemode, and optionally download any playermodels they would want from our workshop collection. Then bam. Comedy Night in a nutshell. I don’t expect people to buy the game JUST to join in on this. But for now this seems like the best way to hold an event.

Due to my work schedule it won’t always be on the same day and might not even happen every week. But once I can get people to agree on one solid day and time we can have a few laughs.

Saturday was impromptu anime night with strangers

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I got off work and like the good server owner that I am I checked my statistics. I played a bit of TF2, then headed to the cinema where I saw 4 people on. Two were in different theaters. The first one I went into was nothing but derp videos with deliberately horrid audio quality, the kind where you swear you’re going to go deaf. I decided to check out the other theater where it was just two guys watching anime. For some reason they thought it was cool that I was a server owner who happened to know what anime was, and didn’t turn out to be an annoying 12 year old there to dick around with them via admin controls. Apparently that isn’t normal? Anyways I sat down with them and enjoyed some anime via YouTube. I can’t remember the title of one we were watching, but it was pretty fun. It had explosions and swords. :O

I’m loving this gamemode more and more. 😀