Jay
Dave Jeffreys
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| nice column dan. i think there must be a story behind us all getting into quake.
can't......resist......reminiscing.....
ol and zero were my idols at the time i started college in limerick... they were good at taking all the fun out of all the games that were full of us newbies. we all secretly wanted to be as good as them though. so then i spent the entire summer playing frogbots trying to get good enough to get into nd, whilst living around the corner from ol. after he saw me play, he conferred with zero who was in boston at the time, and they decided to let me join. i swear i must have had a coat hanger in my mouth for the next month.
next thing i convinced my parents to pay for me to move into plassey village in ul, so that i could play 24/7 with them. "mum, dad i need to move into plassey because it's too far to cycle and my education would suffer". sorted  .
once i moved in i got to know beast and we became serious gaming partners, spending 16 hours a day playing; getting up at 3pm and going to bed at about 8 or 9am the following morning, every day for an entire semester. we were social retards. i remember the two of us reluctantly going to a pub for someones birthday; we just sat down in the corner and agreed that not one person in the entire pub had any idea of what we could do to them in a quake level. some lol. it was eat, sleep, drink quake all the time.
things for me changed when i went to spend christmas with my mother in london..... at that stage i had forgotten entirely how to hold a conversation and was accused of being on drugs etc. after two weeks of spending every available minute on irc or watching demos (since a 33.6k modem sucks, especially coming from being lpb), and my mother asking if i was on drugs, i eventually came around.
things changed and i stopped playing as much, then plassey got firewalled.... (oh the pain of it)...it was like losing my sight or my hearing or one of my senses. anyway things went further down hill after that and when quake3 came along i hated it and refused to play it for nine months, then i did and was quite good at it. i seemed to have some natural talent for it. played for ireland 3 months later in bw and things then went back down hill with final year and then work etc.
right now i barely play because all i want to do is play tdm online with zero and ol and the rest of nd, but that just seems too much effort for us all to organise and after spending the entire day sitting behind a pc at work, i am tired and not too keen on spending another 5 hours behind one in the evenings, especially since i'd have to go back in to work to do it. maybe if we got dsl things would change, but i'd probably get dumped and end up fucking up work. so what now? life goes on i suppose, although i'd still love to re-do that 'quake' semester with beast sometime. if only we could be paid to play quake; maybe one day.
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