u/PsychoYOLOgist

Duke Nukem 3D is the first game for which I checked out fan made custom levels. My hopes were that some of them reach the quality of the best levels from 3D. Some of the levels even surpass the quality... by far.

I want to encourage everyone who loves Duke 3D and wants more of it to check out fan made levels. There are entire websites dedicated to that purpose where the community also ranks them. I go from top to bottom.

Because the community theoretically could create them forever and Duke 3D is the best Duke game out there, I consider Duke 3D custom levels as my personal "Duke Nukem Forever". I hope those creative geniuses never stop creating them.

So if you never checked them out: GO GET SOME

If you did check them out already: What are other games you enjoy playing custom levels for?

Im currently considering Crash Bandicoot, the classic Tomb Raiders and I pray to god for upcomming MGS2 or MGSV custom VR missions (for MGS1 they are already in the making.. check out @Exon-Exodus on Youtube).

I just watched the youtube video about Final Fantasy IX being an existential masterpiece by Max Derrat and I had a train of thoughts which clicked some of my older thoughts into place like never before, which I want to share with you guys. Check out Max Derrat on Youtube btw. If you are into philosophy and gaming.

The core of this train of thoughts is this: Imagine you are... dead... you are not alife in our current plain of existence... but in some infinite one, where everything is unconditional, causality has no power, there is no need to work but also nothing can be earned. Imagine you sit in your infinite corner and you have a photo album in your lap which you look through. Every photo in that album represents one of your past lifes. You can jump into that photo / life and experience fragments of it again.. see what you saw, hear what you heard, smell what you smelled but maybe most important: feel what you felt.

Im a very nostalgic person. I sometimes would rather live in the past than in the present and I spent a substantial amount of time figuring out why that is. So maybe Im biased. There is something about me standing in the living room of my friends house everybody playing Crash Bandicoot and the summer and its leafs being outside, somthing about me driving in my cousins car through the summer nights, something about me standing in the living room of my neighbours seeing Wave Race 64 for the first time, something about me walking through the forest in the winter being in love for one of my first times.

They say... maybe the color red is for everyone different even if its just a slight difference. It surely is like this with experiences. For example everyone of us looking at the Mona Lisa would have her or his unique experience... because of the chain of causality and experiences which led us to that point in time and place.

Here comes the kicker: I hear a lot of people saying here that this life is about gaining experiences and I always thought about it like in a RPG game... leveling up to become better, to be able to achieve more, to reach an end somewhen. Dont get me wrong, maybe its also about that but now I see a simpler side to "experiences" than before... it being about the experiences themselves.

If this life is like work, I dont know if I want to come back. But if its like a vacation to collect memories and feelings... then I am ok even with the harsh, dark and hopeless times around the good ones, because I will always be able to cherrypick someday.

Bonus: Yes, maybe this life also can be work if you want it to be. Maybe the possible end is you gaining the right to become a god, a creator, a server for experiences yourself.

Have a nice weekend y'all!

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I did four Quake Live clips by now. Recently I even got asked to do one and I am already working on it. I got better at it after every single one I made so far (I would say at least).

The thing is, I never really played it myself. Sure I played some Quake III on LAN with friends and some against bots to warm up for CS 1.6. I started to interest myself for the scene less than a year ago. And now I start to wonder what I am even up against. I have seen some fragmovies by now, its not like I cant search on Youtube.

So my question is: What would you consider to be the best Quake fragmovies? It would be nice if you would measure it by the editing skills and not by the frags made or nostalgia, but we are all humans right?

Hope you enjoy!

... well at least it would not surprise me.

One day I thought, that the only thing I would miss from this world is music. I love games and I love movies. I love the beauty of landscapes of the earth and female bodies. I love my family and friends, but I would not miss them, because I am convinced, we all will meet again at the end of eternity. But I am not so sure about the music.

I personally think, that there is no art, which can keep up with music - that music is the ultimate art. It can move me like from inside out.

What if music is the sole purpose of us and our reality?

Think about it: Art needs struggle. Utopia has no struggle but maybe it still loves music. Maybe it needs utopia to run a simulation. For what if not the creation of music? Well... I got several other ideas, but with this post I want to stick to the music app. Maybe we can discuss other super dimensional app ideas in the comments.

If this is true, then us reaching utopia for ouselves would break the app and there would be a need for a fix or restart.

What do you think about this?