Woohoooo!! I made it to the House!

[RICOTTA_19216]

Haha, it doesn't feel right if I boot in and not Introduce myself properly

Nothing to know a lot about me, Unreal is my favorite first person shooter, I don't usually play anything else. UNless you count in Racing games, I can talk about those all days long.

Any game that makes me button mash... And make me button mash cleverly, is a good game!

Remember... Games??? Are meant to be fun?
How many buttons you need in a table? A few... How many? The necessary. I keep that in mind whenever I feel or creating something or making a sketch... (Or putting it all together in my mind)

Best controls for a game? Keyboard? Stick? Mouse? All of them, each of them have got strengths and weaknesses. I tried them all. Except of the arcade stick I'm tooo young for that - but Dad plows with it! Once he played a street fighter type game or maybe it was the original but he NEVER played it before. Think what, he beat all his friends the first time... Why??? The bruce lee approach, be faster than your opponent So fast that no comeback from the other side is possible - And he was, he nailed those buttons and pinned the enemy to a wall

maybe I can master Pac-Man with that because I suck at it I can't get past a level... Rally X from the same year Instead I have enormous skill in it, but that's because input is laid back... It works alright with a D-Pad, keyboard, arcade stick, as there's less active maneuvering required unlike Pac-Man, which is a game I want to prove myself I can do well in it.

Ahh geez I am talking about other games again!!

So that's me, I love the side-road, a view to the beach. I never check Downtown... Which is why I missed this place, Things go over my head easily.
I don't consider myself an UT player, All time I played Monster Hunt, and Total Conversions within the game, never the real deal.
But... I had a friend who has never... I say NEVER played the game stock. He spent all his energy into making UT HIS OWN GAME.
Sometimes the modded experience can feel enhanced, it lets you feel & explore the limits that otherwise would be impossible to materialize.
Like a game where all you have to do is blow each other with outrageous tools... I think that's called the Redeemer
My friend had done a version of it that fired in an arc... I found it cool because even if you missed it would still hit ground. (We played it on large Vehicle CTF size maps and that concept worked & executed solid ) But that's what I can add about his experience that can be interesting here.

I'll consider to join any of the servers, I haven't played for 12 years, I'd move to other side stuff like Total Conversions to put lightly... I could try to get elaborate But that drags onn nah not worth it!! It's good to say that, I love change, I love too much! - It is important to shift gears and check something else that can live up to the fire in your heart! That's what is called culture! Remember about culture! And get a moving, or before you know it you stop to a halt and have to look for gas because you left it home or forgot the gas station...

I love this site, Hermskii provived easy access to information and lets the clever users post... Good reads as I surf through here, keep it up!

[Hermskii]

It is awesome to have you here AND you like to chat which makes you twice as awesome. You will fit in around here just fine! I'd talk more but I have to take down my above ground pool which partially collapsed last night. I'm so sad.

[RICOTTA_19216]

I feel bad & sad for you. I can only imagine how it feels some times.

Sometimes I feel I'm not taught enough, I have been told my grandpa had to find a job at the age of 7, he went by train all the way to the capital city.
Ever since I heard that I cannot dismiss it, I keep thinking about it, want to be in his shoes.
Why? It will help me to stay a man, like experiencing the worst is that makes the best of people, a challenge...
Maybe it is not realistic for me, but time changes, and I never know, but I want to know! I find people of my age clueless, and I don't want to be linked to them when there are better examples of people, like my dad, or the previous generations... Hah
I'm saying like the previous generation was better, well, of course! More responsibility, more risks, less opportunity, and on top of that, thoughtful, even when found in comfort, in a couch, or brushing their teeth, there's a trick in their sleeve that kids do not know today, I always wonder what it is, there's no such thing as knowing everything If I never experienced the past to begin with!
Now the computer/smartphone does everything for you... Even closing in and taking over your mind!
I won't let myself get a chip into my head, I'd rather want to know how it feels to be in mud!

Poverty, are things I think often, even when I keep plenty money waiting to be spent, it's hard to buy stuff even second-hand, so I keep juggling on the old stuff. After all I'm only interested in old stuff, the quirks, the control given to you, is a lot.
My dad works as an independent IT, so he has tonsss of old hardware laying around from customers that do not care for longer, a lot of old screens. I love them all!

Unreal has to be the most amazing game to date, with Unreal Tournament essentially was two games in one, it packed the Tournament content, and the old Unreal content, the possibilities were ripped open by the Monster Hunt and Old Skool mods.
That's two, now count a fully working Map Editor - New experiences can be made.
That's three, now count a fully custom Scripting language that unlocks every nook and cranny of the environment to be explored and expanded - From Mods to Total Conversions.
That's four.

Don't believe me?

Unreal 98 - Unreal Tournament - Unreal Mission Pack / Bonus Packs (and any map pack) - Red Orchestra (A Total Conversion for UT2004)

What a run!!
If all of this stuff had a price, I'd be poor!
For every Monster Hunt map that'd cost $1 I'd spend 1000s
And EvilGrins would charge 300 dollars for all the amount of his map edits, I expect a discount if I'm buying the edits for 1 specific map!
That tickles my interest, perhaps I should make an edit too. I've been thinking of one... But I always do, the ideas that stay with me for longer are the ones I do

[Hermskii]

Last chance. Explain your username to me lease. The one you logged in here with.

[RICOTTA_19216]

Sure! My current login name is RICOTTA_19216 and the one I love using, it is in my opinion a casual nickname, it represents hobbies I love, rather than a more superficial names like I used in the past back in UT servers >>> These go by GEARvision & |-|EAV~Enhance, aliases I used not too often, I don't think I'm known for any one of these unless it is way there in the obscure back when I modded for some people, but all of that was closed sourced stuff, I even got paid for it!

Source from where I carried one of the old nicks: This is the only server I ever logged on with it
click here, the guy in 2nd place, with a score of 28401, that's me!
I was this server's co-developer back when it was online! We were running a Total Conversion that involved a reincarnation of Twisted Metal... Pump those handbrakes! It was called Rumpled Metal, I think his site is still up, oh it is still up click here for that
Feel free to take a look at our history, you can see we weren't all over UT, we were making something of our own, back when stuff was all hotter back then, now it's cold and the server is down and not a lot of activity anymore, as to not say he and I are completely absent from it.


So here I change it again and plan to stay with it

For the following reasons
RICOTTA the first chunk, represents a character from a now old anime, click here for info, she loves disassembling things even to the point of sacrificing warranty, like when asking for a set of speakers or a whole TV, not even hers, but a friend, because of her whole load of interest, which may as well be latent obsession waiting to be satisfied!
What I relate with this character is that I love disassembling, in the software department, like debugging, and the one I most specialize at, straight up breaking stuff, seeing what works and not from it, makes me understand how something works from a whole, I'm not the type to read any tutorials, at most I'd look up keywords inside documentation to keep myself from forgetting so I can do special tricks.

Go figure it yourself >> I can teach you how to crash your game for example, type this in "Set Actor Class None"
I'm a little obsessive over this one command, because it is the only one that I find reliable
Under the first UT, you can also type in "KillAll Actor" which will blow up pretty much everything on your screen out of existence, but the game won't crash.
In later UT games this would crash immediately, so I wanted a B way to crash the game and I found it with the one in my first line. I love it, I feel fulfilled ^^
That are the basics, no need to get worked up for something that does not grant the player anything, but with those skills they can be brought to make bigger things.

19216, the second and last chunk of my name.
It is an audio parameter, these 5 numbers represents
192000 Hz and 16-Bit, linear pcm.
I am an audiophile, that speaks most of why I love this number.
Most CDs that you buy come in 44100 Hz and 16-Bit
The idea is the higher you go the better the sound, this is half true.
So what's the 192000 Hz about? A lot more samples, a lot more precision, the problem is your hardware struggles keeping up with it.
Essentially what this means to me, is that this audio only exists as a parameter in my workflow, I use this target to then recompress it, what I mean, is something very similar that goes on with music labels calling their music with the cheap name "Remaster"
I take only the good sound from the source, the one that human perceives then compress it down to a rate of samples that hardware can easily output to your ears.
So 44100 or 48000 Hz.

So what to do from there? Right? If you are still in the studio you got a trick up your sleeve that I have heard no one talk about.
Saving this file as 48000 Hz 32-Bit! That would be my alternate name to 19216, I didn't place in my login name as to not make it larger.
Grab some ridiculous hardware and listen up!
You'll immediately notice that your system falls apart, this bit-depth, the one called 32-Bit, does not fit through your output because it is huge!
Your system outputs range from 48000 Hz 24-Bit to 192000 Hz 24-Bit, that's the ideal audio system.
You see that the hardware we just plugged in, is limited to 24-Bit... What to do?
Go back up! Pick up 192000 Hz 24-Bit
The larger rate of samples is our weapon here, to transform our 48000 Hz 32-Bit audio into audiophile bliss!
Because the rate of samples is quadruple of the original, it is possible to pad up the 32-Bit from the original source into a larger field...
We use the rate of samples to increase the perceived bit depth, so it feels like we are enjoying 28-Bit now from our 48000 Hz source just by increasing our sample rate to 192000.

Too nerdy! I'm sorry! I put some history in there as well.
To sum up, I'm nerdy! Give me a folder with scripts on it My friend gave me a source he got and he said I'll drool for it! He's not wrong!