General Information
You live in (city & country)?
Your birthdate (or age)?
Your occupation/job/studies?
Currently none of the above.
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Your hobbies?
Playing board games, modding for Quake, writing stories, and (almost) anything to do with computers.
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Your email/icq/mirc/homepage?
E-mail: shrapnel.city@gmail.com
IRC: I can usually be found in #darkplaces and #qc on Anynet, #xhale on ETG, and #qdq on QuakeNet
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Your music taste?
Very varied. I've been known to admit liking Linkin Park, but that's as much as I'll say...
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Anything you want to add here (about yourself)?
I'm not built to be a speedrunner, as you can see from my photo...
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Quake-related Information
Your nickname (story behind it)?
[]Lardarse
While trying to decide on a name for my friend's forum about 6 years ago, I mentioned Fatty, which he changed to Lardass, and then I changed to Lardarse. It's been hanging around me for that long... The [] was added about a year and a half ago because I was clanless at the time. Since then, I've jonied a clan, but I still prefer to wear the [] instead of my clan tag. When I am doing any official clan stuff, I can be seen wearing the name <X>it-Wound - because that's what I'm usually full of after a match.
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Your Quake config (key bindings, etc.)?
I try to make my controls the same for all FPS games that I play:
Moving: WASD
Mouse buttons: Fire / Swim Up (Alt-Fire for games that have it, Zoom in Quake 3, Air jets in Tribes) / Jump
Mouse wheel: cycle
Shift: Walk (not that I need to do this much while speedrunning...)
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Size of Quake directory on your HD?
Which one? I have Quake installed 4 times, because often need to test things with different engines. In order, they are 103MB, 204MB, 264MB, and 2.39GB
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Your computer (processor/videocard etc.)?
P4 2.8GHz, 1GB Ram (PC3200), XFX 6600GT (128MB Ram), Micro$oft Wheel Mouse Optical, and a shitty 19" monitor that keeps fritzing on me...
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Quake settings (resolution, version etc.)?
JoeQuake 0.15 (Build 1146), 1024x768, graphics settings very high, fov 95, sv_aim 0.99, r_wateralpha 0.4
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First contact to speedrunning (when, how etc.)?
Seeing QdQwav and tRR on own-age.com
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First speedrunning demo?
ant_355 ER. Looking back at it, it's almost har to believe that I managed to do it in under 4 minutes. My first submitted demo was ant_319 ER, and that was almost as shit.
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Favorite speedrunning demo(s) from yourself
(the one(s) that you're most proud of)?
Probably sm82_625 EH, because I finally don't have any urgent need to improve it any further. And it's a .9 :-)
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Favorite speedrunning demo(s) from others?
Peter Horvath's e2m4 route-reversal for QdQwav2
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Favorite player (overall/runs/100%/marathon/coop)?
Runs: Connor, dispite his reputation for stealing other people's records...
100%: Stubby. His e1m3 NH is a masterclass of how to do things quickly.
Marathons: Optic. His id1_6933 says it all...
Coop: The whole de Mestre clan. shaf_1022 NH4 is "Exhibit A"
Comedy factor: LagDotCom. I still have his failed demo on e1m7 if you want to know just how lame he is...
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Favorite trick in a demo?
"The best seat in the house" as featured in runs of e2m4
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Favorite QdQ release?
Dimension of the Gibbed. Gotta love the comedy factor...
I'm looking forward to QdQwav2 and QdC when they eventually get released. tIDr was good as well.
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Favorite original Quake map?
I'm not sure I have a favourite...
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Favorite custom map?
Apart from sm82? I like long base levels most of the time.
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Most annoying monster/map?
Fiends, because I'm often not fast enough at moving backwards while shooting them :-(
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Do you like Doom/Quake2/Q3A?
Doom was cool, but I don't play it any more.
Q2test put me off Q2 for life.
I stopped playing Q3 when I started playing Q1 again.
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What do you think of Quake now?
Given that I only started playing it again about 4 months ago, I'd say that it still has a lot of potential for innovation. Much more than Quake 4, anyway :-)
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Quake Purity Test score?
link
You answered "yes" to 17 of 132 questions, with a total value of 17 points out of 141, making you 87.9% quake pure (12.1% quake corrupt).
I agree with Lag on this - too much about conventions, not enough about modding...
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Anything else you want to add here?
Demos