Me going away for a year or two or three or four - bye bye !

Hello y’all,

(And no, this is not a Adra type bye bye message where I appear back in IRC the next week)

Me going – me had enuf, time to find me a new online gaming community to terrorise for a few years Its been a pleasure. Please take the time to read the below crap I wrote about stuff and more stuff.


Soooo here the full story of my 3 years on quake, the highs and lows, and its long and I’m sure most of you wouldn’t be bothered reading it, but I assure you its worth your while.


It all started in college. All the PC’s finally got networked and first game up was Quake because Kosh swore by it (CW Kosh – most of you are too new to remember him). After months and months of quake, cool CTF, great fun I got my first own PC at X-mas, and a few days later I got my modem and was ready to play quake online ! Kosh, got me into it, told me the old indigo server addresses, and everynight I used to play with some guys from college and the other folk on the servers at the time along the lines of Blade, Cream, Gandalf, FreeFrag, Snowbat, MacBain, and so many others. These where the real days of quake. I remember DAOD has just broken up when I got online, and Blade was in the middle of forming CW, with Kosh, Tomb, Cream and so on. The servers where opened to Americans at the time too and we had a few regulars along the lines of FreeFrag, who was a sound bloke and I’m sure a lot of people remember him. I wonder where he is today – but who cares. I used to play for hours every night, and no matter what anyone says I has half good. After the first few months for flag runner, running into the bases non stop and getting no where I mastered the skill. And even Gandalf, a defender at the time says he could get me . Not bad for a keyboard player. My old nick Lord bubbles, and then to bubbles[Rogue] with me green top, zooming around with me grapple hook, ahh class.

All you newish people who missed those days don’t really understand how good they where, the atomsphere was excellent, loging onto the server and having a totally excellent game of quake. The people I remember mostly are Blade, Cream, Tomb, Beast, Braincell, Koopa, Reaper, loads of other LPB trin heads along the lines of Dupre, then the UL lads in nD such as Zero, Overlord, among others. Back then it was all fun, none of this ****ing rival crap.

Then when me college course was over the real fun started. I was albe to stay online all night every night playing quake, and 6 out of 7 nights myself, Blade, Cream, Tomb, Snowbat, Iceman and Macbain and sometimes Von used to be on the servers till 7am, having mad games, fun and slaggins. Most excellent. Half way thru this the almighty Devore joined the ranks, made to play quake multiplayer by blade. I believe Dev played quake single player and when he tried that he was hooked, G’man.

Then my webpage went up, with an opening exculsive of my Inc page. The people who saw it, loved it, and it sparked up the first bit of trouble with me and INC. At the time too we where just sarting the ****ups, and I remember the first one clearly. We would have all sat there in that pub all night if it wasn’t for Carnate to make us all introduce us all. All together a good night. Also lans in cyber cafes like the Glose where being arranged, again, those where class with players over the net getting to play each other on lan for the first time.

This is when Irish quake was at its peak, the feeling, the atmosphere was electric. Everynight the regualars where on, picking teams, having Tomb and Beast going around raping everone. Clan games where in their peak. CG and GloW just formed, along with nD, CT, CW, INC, with loads of others, you where sure of a super dooper game. My page contined to go on with loads of cheap childish slaggings which I enjoyed doing at the time.


I remember my first game with CG against nD, and even tho we got raped, we gave nD a hell of a game with me getting a cap in the first min on e4m5 and Dev getting another outstanding cap half way tru the game. Then CG second game against GloW where we comfortably won. E4M3 of the game must have been one of the best games of my life, but apart from all that it was just fun, and that is all it ever was. Then Gandalf left GloW and joined CG, and I left CG and joined GloW.

Then came the phase of where Vexorg and his charming wife Julia hosted 3 or 4 little lans. This envoled loads of us (INC, CW, Devore, 99% of GloW and CG) among others piling into Vex’s house for a Sunday packed with quake. Again most excellent times, and we all agree that Vexorg and Julia where great hosts. Again, a game to remember is when GloW played INC in ctf on lan. INC picked the level and where all on there own machine and we kicked ASS ! YAY !!! It was great. And I’m not trying to rub it in MP, you have to admit it was fun but I found it amusing that INC packed up and wenyt home an hour after that game, even tho INC lads where ruling at the wars all morning

Then it happened, QuakeWorld came.

To many this appears to be a good thing as you got better pings, aiming and so on. But the fact is it killed CTF and killed the old ways of quake, and CTF. I didn’t play quake at all for the first 2 months of QW, but after that I started to play again with the mouse. In the meanwhile I continued to run my page, along side Gandalfs. That kept me entertained. There where some cools mods out there such as rocket areana which was just class. CTF in QW just sucked due to the fact the grapple sucked beyond all belief. And I recall only 2 games ever of CTF played after that. The good days where gone.

Then CA came, A LOT of fun at the start, but when ppl used to played it non stop it just drove another nail in the coffin of Qauke. The rest is history, a lot of people went, a lot came, but of course anyone who experienced the old days would say that they rocked compaired to today. Period.
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In my years of quake I have done some good and bad things, the bad being ****ing off INC, DEV, CG at times, CS for trying to break them up, but I wish I could say I was sorry, but I’m not. I was young and foolish back then, and even tho they look bad at me, I enjoyed it like hell !!!!!

That’s my brief story of Irish quake, of course there is loads more, but I couldn’t be arsed typing it all .

So I suppose I’ll type something thanking and cursing some people out there


Blade - Need I say anything - Thanx for been there from the start and helping me pass many a night playing CTF among other stuff wink wink

MindPhuck – Ya did A LOT for quake in your day, and leader of INC. Sorry I gave ya so much hassle. Like that time Rogue played INC, etc. Well It was CW playing for us, I admit it now, altho it was funny after hours of fighting getting you to admit that we beat you. No hard feelings – the truth is out offically now

DeVore - We all know what you did, and I am gratefull, even tho I havn’t taken part in recent events, back when I played a lot you where still doing anything. Even tho u think I’m and *****, and I won’t say what I think of you but you know I respected you.

Vex – Thanx man ! for all the lifts, letting me mind your dogs, babysit your ISDN, and EVERYTHING else you done for me. I won’t forget it and hopefully in a few years I will be albe repay some of the kindness you have shown me over the years.

Gandalf aka Fat ****** Spice - Its been a pleasure man. Good games right from the start, good company, sexy body, you name it. Cya around !

Cream – Again like blade thanx for keeping me company at nights, and thanx for keeping me up till 7 one morning after blade sent me that fake virus which I tought was real and changed that nudie x-mas stripper messge mate. You *******. Revenge is sweet.

IceMan – Hope ya don’t get lost in the post man ;-)

Regi – Me old LPB CT buddy Cya ! been a pleasure

Bunny - You really ****ing look cute. !!! Likewise !

Koopa - Ya never let me beat ya in DM2 ya *******. ! All the best

Hobbes – We have had our differnces, especially the night before u moved over to the states where where where nuking each other left right and centre. But we always talked .

Adra – Keep up the good lying !!! One day you’ll get away with it ;-)

Chaos - We used to get along untill I made that comment about dk being muppets over causing dev grief before DubLan. Just remember I played ya 5 times in a duel on a lan and u beat me once. NAH NAH NAHNAHNAH

Pikachu – You sex god you

Ste/Johno - Nice to see ya’s going up at last. The last few months has been a pleasure. All the best in the future

Death – Back from the time I made ya lamer of the week we used to be at each others necks, but we have learned to love each other over the last year purrrrr

Slosh – Ya saved quake many times by getting servers up. Me hat go’s off for ya

EWJ – Some good times in Cyber-X and some good times in CD


There are loads more ppl, sorry if I missed you. I could go on and moan about all the people I hate like chrome – but I’ll save you all from that - for now.


So the last few years have been something to remember – Thanx to everyone who let me beat them once or twice (Koopa!) and thanx to everyone who took my abuse and just sat there and didn’t fight back


Bye Bye and g’luck y’all