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Its funny to hear how people react to how good I was in DOOM.. those days are long over, but man, I remember being unstoppable

Like you, I got my start in the very early days on my dad's 4.77Mhz 8086 back in the early 80's. He showed me how to start a game and I had been showing him everything else since then.

We moved around a lot in California, then to Arizona. I was obsessed with PCs. Even though my brother's NES and Genesis had vastly superior hardware (for gaming), I just couldn't be bothered. When DOOM came out, I had my own 386 SX running a whopping 25 MHz and my parents had their own 33 MHz PC. I quickly discovered that you could connect a null modem cable between the two PCs and play DOOM over serial connection. My brother and I downloaded the Aliens Total Conversion mod for DOOM and played that shit cooperatively all night long.

Around 1995 or so my family packed up and moved from Phoenix to Waukesha. I didn't really give a shit, as long as I had my computer. And man was that great... my own room in a finished basement with my own dedicated phone line! SOMEHOw I learned that you could play DOOM via serial via dial-up modem over this thing called a MajorBBS.

So I looked around the "internet" and stumbled across CyberQuest BBS in some place called "South Milwaukee" ... I signed up and a legend was born. The admins at CyberQuest decided to host a paintball get-together and I went with, only to discover that all these "nerds" were some of the coolest mutherfuckers I'd ever have the privilege of meeting. Spent countless hundreds of hours hanging out in South Milwaukee after that, listening to stories about how B-Boy saved his house from burning down by pouring Faygo all over his Chevell that had caught fire in the garage

Those were some good times. Bryan (B-Boy), Jake (I forgot his username on CQ) and me all went to UWM in 1998 together, moved in together in a shithole of a house in Milwaukee, then left with Seagal's brother Eric to go back to Phoenix.

I lived there with them for a few years, they really found their roots and success. After 9/11 I joined the Army and got stationed in Germany, spent 15 months in Iraq, came back to Germany and stayed here when I got out of the Army. Met a girl, learned German, got married, started a career, had kids, got divorced, still have the kids and the career, got some cats, found another girl, bought a house and now I'm still here over 20 years later. At this point, I've spent more than half my life outside of the continental United States.

What started as a degree in Computer Science at UWM (and failed because I thought I hated computers at that point lol) turned into a job working in telecommunications, then IT, then networking and now I straddle a line between networking and software development.

I've hung up my hat and I don't play competitive shooters online anymore and haven't done much PC gaming over the past few years, but my PS5 and Switch get tons of love, plus I restored and flashed my classic 2001 Xbox and gotten my girlfriends classic 2004 GameCube up and running

Also Mike a.k.a. Locust

Sup Bez, long time no hear! I remember sitting in your room listening to Lovefool 

I was super lucky last Fall: I managed to get my hands on a Ryzen 9 5900x, 3080 RTX and a PS5 all from retail shops 

Been in Germany since being stationed here in the Army in 2002, Doom 2016 was the shit but yeah, pretty much everything else is hot garbage in the FPS space.

Currently a network and network security engineer at a large managed cloud services provider that's been expanding like crazy. Despite the year-long quarantine I've been busy as fuck.

Just submitted a bid on a house here so hopefully I, too, will get to experience the joys of home ownership soon.

This forum is unfortunately not too busy. It's something I put together real quick and had Seagal point the DNS name to, but I'm glad it's caught the occasional eye or two over the years

My avatar makes that post even better

Who's got two thumbs and an HTC Vive?

*points both thumbs at himself*
This guy!

Nerd!

DOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXU8w336oGs

So, who here is playing this game? I picked it up shortly after launch after reading some very prominent reviewers absolutely raving about the single player campaign. I can totally agree, the game is awesome and it's a definite throwback to the original 90's DOOM with "here's a gun. See that guy over there? Go fuck him up."

DOOM 3 always rubbed me wrong. Too much story, exposition, jumpscares... It seemed like every room or corridor you walked in to went like this: Enter room, go to the middle, the lights go out, enemies spawn all around you (especially behind you), kill them, rinse, repeat.

Sure, DOOM has a lot of mindless combat, but it's far more in line with the mindless combat in the original DOOM and Quake games... plus, the game runs like butter on my GTX 970, regularly sitting at 100FPS, even though my AMD FX 8350 is considered slow.

I haven't tried the multiplayer yet. Apparently it's not-so-great, but watching videos of it reminds me a lot of old-school Quake arena style play, which is in no way a bad thing, in my opinion. I'll definitely give it a shot once I'm done with the campaign...

Man, I'd probably still have all my old data if my computer didn't get stolen out of Bryan's place when I was in basic training.

Thought I'd share this with you all

https://www.facebook.com/PeopleThatTumblr/videos/536565769849653/

If we were still playing Duke3D, I'd update my .rts file to spam you all with the little ditty that Yoda hums at the end of this video

Done, site is now strictly SSL encrypted  :

Try it now. I've got it set up to support TLS_RSA_* (as well as the Elliptic Curve Diffie Hellman Ciphers) so your proxy should be able to negotiate something it can handle with it's weak-ass 386 CPU

SSL is working too

https://forum.cyberquestbbs.com

I will put in a permanent redirect when I'm satisfied that everything is working properly.

Only problem is that old-ass operating systems like Android 2.3.7, IE 6 & 8 on Windows XP and old implementations of Java won't work well with the high level of encryption I'm using...

Hey guys check out what I found while digging thru the basement today!

Haven't touched it in over a decade, but the damn thing still works and still has a charge despite it being with me to hell (Iraq) and back! I may buy a new battery and charging cable for it and start playing it again every now and then

LOL, wow, apparently IE2 doesn't support the Host: statement in the HTTP requests, because that's the default site that shows up when no host is given.

Normally you could connect to this server via telnet to port 80 and enter the following:

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.example.com

And chance www.example.com to other VHost sites I've set up on my server and get different pages, such as mail.huttnet.com, www.huttnet.com, forum.cyberquestbbs.com, etc..

Funny shit But at least IE2 supported that newfangled SSL business everyone's been talking about for the past 20 years

Nope, everybody's dead! :