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No, I just stated in my post prior to this one of what I was getting offended by.

No I have not, I'm not finding this funny at all. In fact I'm finding you and most of the others attacking me extremely offensive and I'd wish for you to stop. From my point of view you're the ones offending me by posting memes/images and calling me a douche, etc.

My bad, it works. But for some reason I'm falling through the ground.

see, he's a troll...

You have no proof of your claim, therefore it's not a fact. A fact needs evidence otherwise it's not a fact.

Gee, what a douche. Anyway, back to the technical and meaningful discussion: while being a dumb client certainly makes things easy for modding (less places to put ...

Alright, if you want to continue arguing lets argue.

Alright, you can continue calling a game that made multiplayer what it is today a dumb client. Not my problem...

I'm not a troll.

You didn't say people are stupid, but you're sure treating us as if we were.

How so?

This kind of talk, by the way:
If you read the slashdot post, you would have known that it dates from 1999 and therefore has no bearing whatsoever on JC's attitude today.

The desire to make money will always ...

I never said people here were stupid, and dumb client isn't exactly an official definition it's slang talk. And I did read it, sorry. "That kind of talk", what?

I think the word your looking for is inferior,
No it isn't, and he isn't looking for "superior" either. We aren't little children.

You misunderstood the term "dumb". Even Carmack has described Quake being a dumb client.
Dumb; simplify or reduce the intellectual content of something so as to ...

Spirit wrote:It probably detected your grumpiness and thought "meh, why bother". Joking aside, you were trying what? And what happened?

It says that the map didn't exist, and when I looked into the pak file there were no maps.

Dumb meaning its not intelligent in terms of latency prediction. Though, it's all i've used for quake1. Since movement/shots fired are sync'd u dont seem to notice much sub 50 ping. In QW u can run around like a freakin hippy at a nudist colony but have to wait for latency to get your shots out ...

leileilol wrote:Quake's a dumb client.

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Can't even open a map.

Id Software has just released a 1 minute video of Doom 4 gameplay. Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0