General Information
You live in (city & country)?
Your birthdate (or age)?
Your occupation/job/studies?
Your hobbies?
Traveling, zoos, art, music, photography
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Your email/icq/mirc/homepage?
Your music taste?
Baroque, mostly Bach, Buxtehude, or Handel. And some classical stuff. And synth music!
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Anything you want to add here (about yourself)?
I wouldn't call myself a gamer.
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Quake-related Information
Your nickname (story behind it)?
Mandel
It was a random pick. No reason. It means almond.
Originally the name was Mandelmassa, which means marzipan, but that was too long.
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Your Quake config (key bindings, etc.)?
wasd for moving, always run on,
mouse2 for jumping
mouse3 for a quick rocket, space for a quick grenade,
and lots of keys around the wasd to configure a main weapon for mouse1.
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Size of Quake directory on your HD?
I have a Quake partition, to be honest... 14.5 GB used there. That excludes AVIs.
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Your computer (processor/videocard etc.)?
AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual core, 4 GB RAM, GeForce 8300 (embedded...).
Running Windows XP 32 bit. I have a 20" widescreen LCD monitor.
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Quake settings (resolution, version etc.)?
JoeQuake GL, build 1329. I used WinQuake for the longest time but finally couldn't resist the fanciness of GL. 800x600, fov 120, fullbright when needed. Vsync is on, and I managed to get my monitor to do 72 Hz at that resolution.
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First contact to speedrunning (when, how etc.)?
A neighbour told me that he had seen some mad guy play through Quake on the worst difficulty in only 12 minutes. He was referring to QdQwav. I downloaded an AVI of it and didn't know what to expect, because I hadn't played quake myself for many years. I couldn't believe my eyes when the player jumped from the starting point on E1M1... This was late 2002.
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First speedrunning demo?
First one to enter the tables was an easy run of dmc1m1.
I found a slopejump and beat the current record by 3 seconds.
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Favorite speedrunning demo(s) from yourself
(the one(s) that you're most proud of)?
My id demos of course, and in that collection, end_017 NR is most special for me.
I do enjoy some of my custom runs as well, for example, coag_012 NR, pb2_019 NR, tr4_014 NR, wish_016 NR.
From my personal collection I'm proud to be the second runner to ever get 21 on e1m1.
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Favorite speedrunning demo(s) from others?
Favorite player (overall/runs/100%/marathon/coop)?
Too many to name. There are so many runners with great qualities. But I suppose the qualities I enjoy the most are smoothness and persistance (when it shows).
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Favorite trick in a demo?
There are so many cool tricks... That's why I love this game.
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Favorite QdQ release?
Quake done 100% Quick lite 2. I was involved in the production of it, and I think it came together really nicely.
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Favorite original Quake map?
Most of the id maps are my favourites.
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Favorite custom map?
I like watching demos on huge maps, so I'd say maps like menkalinan, ac, nastrond, gmsp3. But personally I prefer running significantly shorter maps.
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Most annoying monster/map?
Spawns are hard to hit once they get going. My nemesis is still the shambler on the bridge on e2m4, though.
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Do you like Doom/Quake2/Q3A?
Nope. Remember, I'm not a gamer...
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What do you think of Quake now?
It's the only game I spend any significant amount of time on. I love it. It just keeps growing, with new mappers and runners.
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Quake Purity Test score?
link
80.9% quake pure (19.1% quake corrupt).
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Anything else you want to add here?
| I wonder how long this community will go on. And how many times we can all Quit and come back :)
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