Slashdot Mirror
Quake Wedding
Nom Anor writes "A couple from South America is going to celebrate their wedding today... on a Quake2 server! The bride and groom will say "I do" as the male and female grunt models inside a Quake 2 Battlegrounds server to be hosted by M-Web's Gamezone, a popular South African gaming work.
The judge will preside over the ceremony through his computer in his Cape Town home. "
It would be pretty funny if some other players joined up and blew them away during the ceremony.
bullshit!!
...
take responsilbility for your own actions
sorry I fed the troll
Getting Married in a game of Quake? how romantic.
MP3 UnderWorld
This story makes me ill. What is the world coming to?
Wasn't that the right of First Frag?
South America or South Africa
Nice advertising Jackass
Funny Pictures here
slashdot.com is now slashdot.org
(or is that the other way around?)
Last time I checked .za is for South Africa. Would it be a little too much to ask to get this little fact checked?
I would have chosen quake 1 instead, since it's got more of a gothic cathedral look (in fact, there's this HUGE cathedral level that someone made, but I can't remember the name right now).
I wouldn't say no one got it, seeing on how you just posted it :)
nice word milieu.
Midgard, from Old Norse Midhgardhr, Midgard, from Germanic compound *midja-gardaz, "middle zone," name of the earth conceived as an intermediate zone lying between heaven and hell (*gardaz, enclosure, yard; see gher-1). a, b, and c all from Germanic *midja-.
got a double meaning in.
by the way, i wonder about a lot of people. at least this weading is "special", imagine getting married with 500 people on top of the empire state building, vegas drive throughs, yada yada.
it takes all kinds of people...
"My honor roll student shots back"
"My honor roll student shoots back"
If you want journalism try www.washingtonpost.com
Would the Best man be whoever could find the biggest gun the fastest?
what kind of .sig is that?
.... or walk up to the bride and hit the taunt key. I forgot which key it is... anyone who has played Quake will know what I am talking about. Put those weding photos on your desk at work. At least the pitcures are cheap....
Are you kidding me, so this is all funny to you. Some people act so damn young it ceases to amaze me, what if bro? What if someone you knew was killed at Columbine like a family member. Would you want to remember Columbine then? Would this all be funny, its kids like you that really need to re-evalute themselves. I Haven't met one person who can laugh about all this, until I read your ignorant unintelligent message. Have a nice day and I hope no tragedy like that one happens to you or anyone else for that sake. Because it is sad and disgusting and far from a laughing matter.
Well... marriage... or having your head and upper chest area exploded... is it really all that different?
This is a sad day...
you are so stupid.... every one knows that people dont kill others because of games. Maybe could be because the people in the us just dont have anything to do against your own society (being the richiest country but livin in a fucking small city...). Here in brazil we have at least 1 murder per 10 minutes but kids or tenegers dont kill each others in the school... think about what you say first... dont blame games because they are just this... games
i will send the bride and groom a wedding gift - a special brass grits-pouring bowl with rectal tube attachment. thank you.
Well, that explains this post. I newbie! Shit, I am using a P-75 w/16 megs RAM has my server. Try running NT on that!!
Surely you meant "appalling," not "apauling?"
--ac
Yes, 'get a life'. What does that mean anyway? Let's all go out and pretend we're somebody we're not, because who we are makes other people uncomfortable. Yes, the life-police is here people, and you better get some or else they're gonna sick Jon Katz on you!
shesh. how long have you been waiting for someone to make a comment on columbine so you could go off like that? with that kind of anger looks to me like you'd be the type of go a shooting spree, maybe I should watch what I say to you.
Ah yes, God. Of course! That's why people get married. It has absolutely nothing to do with genetic predisposition and chemical reactions. And love is of course a materialization of God's power. Right.
Those people should be executed.
wow sCary. you are on slashdot. that's kinda weird dude. it's cool though.
Actually this is pretty cool, and you're quite pathetic for assuming that others should feel the same way you do.
> Kill the Irish!
"I will stay an Unrepentant Fenian Bastard
Unrepentant Fenian Bastard
Unrepentant Fenian Bastard
Respect to all who refuse to be mastered!!!"
--Seanchai
You having your period or something?
I wasn't so lucky. My 'family member' died of colon cancer. Took about 10 months. 8 months from the end her anus was sewn shut. 4 months from the end nothing she swallowed (including spit and phlegm) stayed down, because it had nowhere else to go. She was addicted to morphine by this point due to the intense abdominal pain. By the time it was over she weighed about 60 pounds, down from a peak of 185.
The tumor was discovered during the c-section birth of her son. He doesn't really remember her now.
So, in other words, she suffered.
Have a nice day and I hope no tragedy like that one happens to you or anyone else for that sake.
You too.
I'd rather be shot than rot to death from the inside.
You really should learn to laugh sometime. It helps.
sweet. I am a minister now! I just blessed by box. I feel closer to god. My kernel feels closer to god.
This is one of the saddest things ever to come from a computer. Its funny and all to joke about it, but this is just sad, period.
Yeah, CmdrTaco must feel like a real doofus for royally fscking up the country's name. Thank goodness we don't rely on him to run a nuclear power plant (ala Homer Simpson).
The same kind of people who enjoy spending hours in a world of blood, guns and ultra-violence. The society is breaking down in every part of the world, and all for a few million dollars for some company over in the USA. Kind of like tobacco companies (bet most quakers smoke), they get richer, while you die, oh well. Let's just hope that quakers will realize the beauty of a dandelion one day...
you oughtta be targeting the dumbasses that won't let the event die. 15 deaths is, on any appreciable scale, nothing at all. i happen to know someone who caught some brainmatter in the face at this event, and i feel no more sorry for her then anyone else i know who has experienced death at a range like that. if people would just shut the fuck up, the poster and i would calm happily down. we do a hell of a lot less respect then those who either keep talking or listening about this.
.
I don't see how someone who plays quake can even mention God. If you even partially believe in what you are saying then Quake wouldn't be on your list of games to play. But this is assuming you even play Quake and aren't just responding to other people's comments. All I know is that blasting someone's guts and seeing blood isn't the highlight of my life. I kinda prefer being happy with my family, girlfriend, and my friends. Then again, not everyone wants to improve the world...
for what it's worth
In a more traditional wedding, it would seem to me that all of the witnesses/guests, the band, the champagne, the limo and what-not are all distractions from the person you are pledging you life to.
Fine. Don't get married if Western culture is too much for you. Get an atheistic covenant of partnership or something.
Considering how much weddings cost these days, this isn't a bad idea. They have vitual cemetaries, maybe we need virtual wedding halls.
This is compleatly stupid, plus I don't even get the point there.
That would be funnier than hell!! And then kill the quake priest as well!! HAHAHAA!!!!
Spit on that dick, MAN
Who cares what you like? They like quake and they got married in quake (as well as real life).
You don't like that? Too bad. This is what freedom is about. It's about being able to do what you think is right, as long as you don't harm others.
Just one correction: It is South Africa, not South America. Apparently (according to the PR) the groom fragged the bride after the vows. Bizzaro! You can read my article on the event on ITWeb later today (after it gets posted).
Everyone I've seen get involved in one was more than just a little bit emotionally damaged and/or codependant.
Jeez, do you know anyone who isn't emotionally damaged? 'Cause I sure don't.
No kidding. I'm from Sweden and during a year in the US as an exchange student upon telling people that I'm from Sweden I often got the question: "So, do you like have penguins on the streets and stuff?"
Get Married in FORSAKEN!
so many posibillities with true 3D gameplay.
Especially positioning yourself below the bride's maids and angling up. heh heh.
"I'm sorry. Did I run over your dogma?"
I love Quake and certainly consider myself a Christian. I think it's a fun, highly competitive game that requires a *lot* of skill to do well. I'm about the most non-violent person around, despite the images that are often on my monitor. Only someone with serious mental illness would confuse Quake with reality. In a less graphic idiom, chess is also an abstract representation of violence.
??? Cocky and arrogant may describe yourself, but not many of the Americans I know. That's just the perception some groups may have of other groups they are not a part of or wish they could be a part of.
heh, best of luck to the bride and goon.
bring on the rail guns!
Yeah That's right North Carolina you let that Confederate Flag fly high. We all know that everyone has great effection for it including me even though I am a northerner but would rather be a southerner. You all know that that the Confederate Flag was a lot more mightier then those Damn Yankees Flags now FLYING ABOVE THE WHITE House ohh we'll just a thought.
Of course, when the couple divorces, how exactly do they handle splitting up the backpack that's left spinning slowly on the ground?
what with all this foolish nonsense about this God character people keep telling me about. I mean, it's quite odd really, this irrational belief in an odd pyramid scam. Hmm... I'll turn off the Christian flamebait now, but my point is simply that some of us don't believe that there is a God, and therefore we by definition *have* to have a different definition of marraige than yours. Mine is more of a committed relationship, filled with love and caring. That's it. I could care less if whatever higher beings that may or may not exist notice. But that's just me.
----------------------------
sup!? thanks for updating your suckage :)
For her, that counts as a frag.
Shouldn't that be "forever hold his piece" in this case?
Damn, I was gonna say that! :)
:)
Oh well. I'll try for something else.
"Screw throwing flowers, I've got a grenade launcher!"
Wedding gifts: Chainsaw? (Doom II style, baby!)
Oh well, it's an appropriate Valentine's Day topic, I guess. If "Valentine's Day" makes you think of "Valentine's Day Massacre", that is.
...and it's kinda sad that FPS (first person shooters) are the best VR (virtual reality) environments we have, here in the year 2000.
---
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I want to hack in and frag the minister w/ a BFG right as he's pronouncing them man and wife.
Actually, I would think it was also sad to be doing anything other than getting married. It just seems to me that to be distracted by anothing other than the person you are pledging your life, love, and devotion to is antithetical to the ceremony.
If you are getting married give it all your attention.
And furthermore I am judging not whining. I will extend the same courtesy you and say that you are judging, not whining about my comment.
Agreed.
My vote is for the sadder one.
I always thought human relationships were the most basic fundamental of life. How fucked up to do it in a fake world.
I'm half Austrian half Chinese. Most people are pretty sure that Austria is a continent on the souther hemisphere with lot's of kangaroos. I've been asked if I was Italian (mostly by Austrians who assume I'm from South of the Border), Irish (by an Irish woman in an Irish bar), and even part African American (by a guy in my office "because I kinda' have a swing to my step"). Every time I run into someone like that I usually spend hours laughing about it afterwards.
True story: Once while visiting Thomas Moore College in Ohio, a (grad?) student approached me to ask:
- You have an intesting accent. where are you from?
- Brazil
- Oh! That's funny. You don't look Oriental!
Geography classes are a wonderful thing, aren't they?
I am just wondering how they keep the guests from shooting up the place before the ceremony is done.
Walking through the archway of rockets and grenades as they walk down the aisle...
I wonder what they have to do to get a divorce?
"Trademarks are the heraldry of the new feudalism."
The "right wing" seems awfuly worried about gay marriages. Wonder what they would think of this?
Jon Katz?
Bitcoin pyramid: Join here: http://www.bitcoinpyramid.com/r/1427 it's FREE!
Almost everyone who undergoes a nontrad wedding ends up trying to Do It Right after the divorce, or at least goes in for a renewal of vows where everything is according to Emily Post. A Quake wedding is cute, but....
teleny, friend of cats.
Very little of "Wicca" corresponds to what is known about European pagan practices, anthropology, history, or even historical writings by witches themselves. It's very much like Creation Science, or the nutcases who try to prove the existence of Noah's Ark: they tend to quote each other, but never come up with any hard evidence. If it's part of current Wicca, it's "ancient"; if there is no evidence, it's been "suppressed", if it's contrary to evidence, it's a "defamation". (Contrariwise, mainstream Christianity has for two centuries tried to place their beliefs in historical perspective, no matter how much it hurts, and we've had this little thing called "science" that is supposed to be completely outside the loop.) Yes, there were people called witches, who were accused and often executed in the 14th-17th centuries for the crime of Christian heresy, at about the same time of the Protestant Reformation and many other schisms; the Catholic Church was actually much weaker then than it had ever been since Roman times. We have many court records, we have a few manuals detailing exactly what to look for in a "heretic", we have more than a few compendia of spells.
There is no mention in these anywhere of a Goddess. There is no "Blessed be."
"As above, so below" is a line from a Greek poem, and doesn't appear there, either.
"Do what thou wilt" was the motto of a monastery, in a humorous book written by a monk, in a country where witches were tolerated even less than in the British Isles, and no, he wasn't tried or executed for witchcraft.
There is no "Book of Shadows".
They were introduced by Gerald Gardner in the nineteen-forties, when he claimed them all to be the work of a "Dorothy Clutterbuck", who had blabbed her "family secrets", which were reputed to date from prehistoric Europe. No one has ever found any outside evidence for this venerable lady existing, not even by witches themselves. We do, however, have a great deal of evidence that the "Book of Shadows" was largely drawn from Crowley. If there are any authenticated documents you can quote about this practise that date from before say, 1960, I'd be willing to believe you.
But all this is beside the point. It may not be rebellious within Wicca to handfast, or whatever, but it's certainly rebellious for children of Christian parents to do so. It's rebellious for children of Christian parents to reject their confirmation, and become witches, even if they're doing it with the best intentions. I strongly doubt whether most of these young folks are hereditary witches, or are doing all this for any reason other than what I gave in my previous post. It's a Wedding Lite, adopted by people who aren't of the faith, but want something other than (their own and their families') tradition, which "doesn't count", but is exotic, and fun, and a little wicked (pardon the pun)-seeming. And that is my point.
teleny, friend of cats.
By the time this was published, it was probably over already. Cape Town being several hours ahead of it.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
What the HELL are they going to do when the priest says, 'You may now kiss the bride.'?
Bump into each other a few times?
++Om
For the record, I met my girlfriend of ~4.5 years online, on a (traditional, ANSI-based) BBS. Of course, we moved beyond that pretty quickly.
I'm not saying it can't happen, but these long-distance 'romances' are usually destined to failure. Everyone I've seen get involved in one was more than just a little bit emotionally damaged and/or codependant.
Meeting someone online is fine, but it has to progress into a real-world thing. There's no way it can blossom online, only start there.
- Jeff A. Campbell
- VelociNews (http://www.velocinews.com)
- Jeff
Or would "Wedding Quake" have been a better headline?
--J(K) DOS is like Unix in exactly the same way that a pinto is like an aircraft carrier.
Hey little sister what have you done
Hey little sister who's the only one
Hey little sister who's your grunt again
Hey little sister who's the one you want
Hey little sister shot gun!
It's a nice day to frag again
It's a nice day for a Quake wedding It's a nice day to frag again.
Hey little sister what have you done
Hey little sister who's the only one
I've been away for so long (so long)
I've been away for so long (so long)
I let you go for so long.
It's a nice day to frag again (come on)
It's a nice day for a Quake wedding
It's a nice day to frag again.
(Pick it up)
Make me respawn
There is nothin' fair in this world
There is nothin' safe in this world
And there's nothin' sure in this world
And there's nothin' pure in this world
Look for something left in this world
Frag again.
Come on
It's a nice day to start fraggin' again.
It's a nice day for a Quake wedding
It's a nice day to frag again.
--
I wonder if you could get on as the server admin and lower the gravity so they start floating upwards in the middle of the ceremony.
Is this for real? I mean really.
WTF kind of life do you have to have to think its cool to get married on a quake server? I mean is this what is considered romantic now? If getting married on the net wasn't pathetic enough. How lazy can you be?
---
Oh, did i say /.?, because i meant to say SLASHDOLT!!!
I know I don't post very often, and that maybe I don't have the "right" to say what gets posted, and how... but I am, if nothing else, disappointed in the lack of "journalistic" integrity that I see here on /.. Just the fact that something such as South America and South Africa could slip by someone so intelligent and caring as CmdrTaco is quite apauling. I know the he didn't write this in, but he did post it after all. Between this, and what I had noticed the other day, as did many other TTYquake fans(see this link if you don't know what I mean) (=, just makes me sad to see something so un-proofread as this posted to a place that so many people read and regard as fact, not fiction. Oh well. maybe someone doesn't care since he is making all of that money now.
Pz,
p
To you
I gotta admit though.. I'd rather BFG10k the in-laws... Quad damage at a wedding would rule.
You are a case in point.
-==-
Priest: Does anyone here know why this man and woman should not be joined in holy matrimony, if so speak now or forever hold thy peace
There is a grunt from back of the congregation and everybody turns. A heavly built man with a flattop haircut smoking a cigar steps out into the ile. He stares at the bride, eyes as cold and ice. firmly planting his feet he pulls a BFG from seemingly nowhere. Someone in the croud yells BFG lamer but he doesn't care anymore he only has eyes for one and now he has been betrayed its payback time. The people around him seem paralyzed stunned at the turn of events. The man feels a prickle run up the back of his nek and realises that there is a camper in the shadows, the groom smiles at having taken such precautions. The man knows hes not beaten yet, spiting the ciga from his mouth and using the momentary distraction to flick on his shield belt. Grinning at the groom who now wears a horrfied expression he pulls the trigger. The gun whirls into life the sound breaking the paralisis of the people and they start to flee (some hopping along for more speed). The camper fires the man grunts and smiles his shield taking the brunt of the railgun hit. The bride screams in horror as the green ball of pure energy exits the guns barrell. Small tendrils of energy streak out from the glowing sphere cutting through the fleeing people. body parts start to fly everwhere but the man is not idle, turning round and strafing right he pulls out his rocket launcher firing into the corner where the camper shot from. The camper tho has not been idle, realising that the man has a shield belt and that his hiding place has been compromised he moves spamming grenades as he flees covering his tracks. The man gives chase spitting in disgust at the camper before he goes he turns and looks as the BFG sphere evelopes the couple standing at the altar. Their final screams are a silenced as their bodys are ripped apart by the full impact of the BFG sphere of death. Smiling at his handy work ( ":)" appearing somewhere at the top of your monitor) he turns to go and resume the chase, to fight another day, another level, another server.
Man: aka grunt 1000
Camper: 0
Groom: 0
Bride: 0
guy in the thrid row: -1
Marriage counseling will be provided by Eliza.
ZOMG I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS ON MACINTOSH VERSUS WINDOWS, VI VERSUS EMACS, AND HOW YOU'RE NOT A DORK
Are you deemed a witness if you were only tele-present? I some ways it's like the digital signature stuff... (Actually it would have been cool if they'd PGP-signed an electronic marrige document.)
When I read something like:
But Baddigan also points out that many IT departments cannot run an open-source software product because their system's interface doesn't support it.
I sort of lose interest because the article's credibility is shot.
Sorry fellas,
MSBPodcast.com The opinions expressed here are my own. If you don't like 'em... Think up your own stuff.
Handfasting is a pagan tradition, not necessarily a '60's hippy ceremony, and it is not necessarily a life-time bond either. They don't pretend that it IS a life time wedding, unless the terms are lifetime.
Normally, handfastings last a year and a day, and then are renewed by both partner's consent.
It's a wiccan tradition, not something that people do to be rebellious.
Heh, I've been a minister of the ULC for years. Before the internet was big. In those days you had to send them a postcard, and they mailed you back a really nice certificate saying you were an ordained minister. You also go a small booklet that told you what you needed to perform weddings, funerals and such. The book also had a list of some famous people who were ordained ministers of the ULC.
And yes, I did perform a wedding once.
But South America is composed of several countries (its a continent). How can Quake be illegal?
Despite their claims, these two aren't the first couple to go this route. Several months ago another pair of Quaker's tied the knot in their favorite game. While it was lightly discussed on a few of the messageboards at various Quake sites, it never really made the news pages. Why not? Because that's not what they were looking for! The first couple that did this, did it because they couldn't afford to invite their friends from around the world to their wedding, and in-game ceremony was thought up as an easy way to include everyone. It was a very low-key event, and went off pretty well.
:\
I could be wrong, but I get the feeling that these two people were just looking for some headlines
There is nothing so pathetic as seeing a beautiful young theory roughed up by a tough gang of facts.
If I was the groom, I'd just stand at the "altar" and do crotch grabs throughout the whole ceremony!
And do you db_high take this player badboybubba to frag and to shoot, in sickness and after picking up health paks as long as you both shall respawn?
--Shoeboy
Someone else has probably said this by now, but I have to say it: it's South Africa, not South America. We're not much the Quake fans around here. (Selling Quake is illegal over here. Go figure.)
To the editors: your English is as bad as your Perl. Please go back to grade school.
...shotgun wedding.
Everyone including the priest is armed with one of a rocket launcher, rail gun, etc, etc.
...You may now frag the bride
This is either a pivotal, ahead-of-their-time moment in history, or the saddest thing I've heard about since the quake tattoo.
And are they going to have sex via IRC tonight??
I can't take it any more. Stop with the "rice weapons" and "frag the bride" comments.
not who gets the remote control, but who gets the rocket launcher.
Seriously, though, this is right on the line that some people claim as 'Internet Addiction' while others claim it as a valid new lifestyle. I wonder if playing on someone else's team is grounds for an eDivorce?
-- Crutcher --
#include <disclaimer.h>
On the other hand, I take it as a compliment when somebody thinks I'm Canadian. (One of these days, I should say "Sure am, eh?")
You're a suburbanite.
South America, or south africa?
The artical says that the couple is south american, and that the Judge is south African... I suppose it would be posible for them to be in diffrent parts of the world, but why would a South American couple want to be married my a South African Judge who works with a South African Website?
[ c h a d o k e r e ]
ReadThe ReflectionEngine, a cyberpunk style n
Well... I haven't actually gone through this (but i've seen it done a thousand times...)
:)
The real issue is the marrige license (at least here in the US).
That needs the signatures of all involved (judge/clergy, bride, groom, witnesses). Outside of that everything else is really just ceremony. If the bride & groom sign the marrige license, the witnesses sign it, and then something happens and the wedding itself doesnt happen, so long as someone files the license, it doesnt matter (in the eyes of the courts... in the eyes of your mother-in-law you had better have a ceremony
This space for rent. All reasonable inquiries will be entertained at proprietors discretion.
It seems to me that Americans believe that the world is divided into two major parts: (1) North America, and (2) the insignificant "rest of the world".
This is the perception that Americans very often give of themselves, and it is incredibly arrogant. As a South African, I'm pretty insulted that this happened, especially since it happened at slashdot, whose community is supposed to be a bit more intelligent than that. Perhaps my perception is wrong, but somehow nobody has ever done anything to disprove that perception.
Another arbitrary example, Americans seem to have absolutely no concept of time zones
Another arbitrary example is when major American software (and other) vendors market internationally new product releases as appearing "this summer" or "next fall". Even big companies commonly make this mistake. Movies also. Surely you people should have learnt very early in your school career that the seasons differ depending on where on the planet you are? Not to mention that not all parts of the world use the word "fall" for autumn.
Another common American assumption is that if you weren't born in America, then you somehow can't really be happy, and that you must somehow be impoverished or oppressed. (American tourist: "these people live without electricity
Doesn't it bother you Americans that you appear so arrogant and stupid to the rest of the world?
I forgot to include the usual standard disclaimers that apply.
CutNPaste Standard Disclaimer: My preceding arguments were what is known as a "generalisation" and were not meant to be taken as applying to every single member of the group of people identified but rather just the majority of them.
Naturally this was already obvious to most people, most people are smart enough to figure it out, but I forgot about the small percentage people who need disclaimers (and warnings such as 'this coffee is hot, it can burn you) ...
They went to all the trouble of having this thing online, but the bridesmaids' dresses still looked bad and Uncle Frank still got drunk and said something inappropriate about the bride's "knockers."
Why is it whenever you get family together, no matter where you are they misbehave?
A least the photo's weren't as expensive - *PrintScreen*.
Hotnutz.com - Funny
Talk About a Shotgun Wedding! This is a railgun/BFG10000 wedding! So, he should hit her with a grappling hook and reel her in like Scorpion...
-- The Funk, The Whole Funk, And Nothing But The Funk
Jesusf*ckingchrist
:P
It amazes me how incredibly stupid and narrow minded some people really must be at times.
>(bet most quakers smoke)
What ? What smoking has to do with quake I do not know.
What playing a game on a computer has to do with you being mentally unhinged, lacking morals of any sort, or not being sane I do not know either.
Seriously, when will people realise you've probably got issues already if a game makes you want to kill people.
So yeah, I took the flamebait (which I wish your comment was) but not everyone's christian who can't understand the difference between reality and fantasy, just as not every christian feels a need to pressgang as many people as they can into their religion.
better stop now before ranting
True, this is a funny story, but I always gotta wonder - how legal is stuff like this? Are they getting remarried "outside" just to be sure, or did they get a dispensation from someone, or what?
Asheron's Call is planning a set of group and private weddings in its world. What would your spouse have to say about that, huh? Like you don't ALREADY spend too much time playing games, now you REALLY are married to the game!http://www.zone.com/asheronscall/news/ashenew swedding.asp
Have you ever played everquest? It is what I was so vehemently looking for , for all the time I was playing quake. Visually stunning, challenging, interesting...
If some spectater showed up and mid service, just kindof went "this is boring" and fragged the whole wedding party...
-- iCEBaLM
no kidding, well, at least they picked the right venue. i mean, marriage is just one big deathmatch after all.
No todo lo que es oro brilla
Let them frag the hell out of the party they disapprove of, or forever hold their peace. Am I the only one who would run around fragging everyone throughout the ceremony?
sirinek
"If anyone knows of any reason why these two should not be joined, let him speak now or forever hold his peace."
At which point, a pregnant young lady steps from behind a column with a shotgun and unfastened body armor...
;)
Geeky modern art T-shirts
Heck, most Americans don't even care about what is going on the other side of town, let alone in another country.
America seem to be the place of universal apathy (IMO), where if it doesn't concern you physically, it is not worth worrying about. As an American, I find this attitude disgusting, discouraging, and most of all, disturbing.
I do my best to educate others I meet on why it is in their best interests to know about their surroundings - alas, many times my teachings fall on deaf ears.
Getting back on topic - I like the comment that was posted about how the people involved in the marriage act toward each other is more important than the ceremony itself. My GF and I are planning on maybe doing our wedding on Halloween. Not original, but fun nonetheless for all involved - and we really love each other. We are not into the whole big ceremony thing either - all it does is drain bank accounts and make a few consultants a bit of money.
Reason is the Path to God - Anon
I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned yet, but personally I would have used Q3 and curved surfaces(wouldn't want any angles on my new bride =P)...
*Talen resists making any "low-res" jokes
"You can now frag the bride."
-- no
I think it won't work. They're using a mod called Quake2 Wedding Mod and my guess is that this is purpose written just to prevent that :(
Greetings
'nuff said. JW
Snorp
~ give all [enter]
The architecture's much more gorgeous, especially Brimstone Abbey and the Camping Grounds. But hey, that's just me. ^_~
Taco didn't write it, Nom Anor did :)
You need the special Wedding PAK to be able to attend.
I wonder if all weapons are replaced with rice and conffetti?
Where's the respawn point? And could you still telefrag?
"Four Funerals and a Wedding"
etc...
Consultancy: If you're not part of the solution, there's money to be made in prolonging the problem
Why is it that Americans are so ignorant of anything beyond the borders of thier own country? Not only that, but they don't *want* to know. Sheesh.
StrawberryFrog in South Africa (which is not in South America. Duh).
My Karma: ran over your Dogma
StrawberryFrog
Of course, if the "flash" is a BFG....
www.eFax.com are spammers
It is annoying. I studied in Madrid one year and this is a perception many people in Europe (especially in the big, touristy cities) have about Americans.
It also accounts for the reason Canadians and Australians traveled with their respective national flags sewn on their bags and jackets:
So none made the assumptian they were American!
Unfortunately, a lot of it is deserved... Americans are cocky and arrogant, just a typical result of our country currently being on top. I remember one class I took was in the Prado and the instructor made a few jibes about Americans and one of the students I was with blurted out "Oh yeah!? Well... we could have sunk the Armada!!!!"
No dumbass, at that time, we certainly could not have.
It was pretty funny though.
Best comments heard during the Quake wedding:
"With this rocket launcher, I thee [splat]"
"These Roman Catholic ceremonies are just wwwaayyy to boring - good thing I happen to be carrying my trust BFG..."
"Make it stop... Make it stop..."
"By the power vested in me through the state of Quad Damage..."
"You may now frag the bride"
"Allright, who spiked the punchbowl?"
"Are you sure that's the bride? It could be anyone under that skin!"
"Until death do us part? Can we change that bit..."
I left my body to science, but I'm afraid they've turned it down...
well first of all, to my knowledge, all 3dfx cards have linux drivers. In fact, 3dfx seems to have the most mature drivers for X in linux. The webcam and scanner support is pretty patchy, so that makes sense. What you said about windows requiring you to remove all other OS's when you run setup puzzles me. If you mean that your hard drive needs to be partitioned and formatted for windows before setup will run, well that just makes sense. Linux requires the same thing (unless the installer does it for you, of course).
Now then, about the validity of this post...Judging by the complete lack of relevence to the article this comment was attatched to, I'd say this is a bogus post. What exactly is your real intent here? Are you trolling for some juicy flames to use in an anti-slashdot/linux community campaign? Perhaps you would like to collect and categorize the responses to present as numbers in a journalistic endeavor? I'd really love to hear your reason for posting this in such an inappropriate location.
P.S. my sincerest apologies if this got here completely by mistake.
"Perspective is lost in the spirit of the chase." -[I have no clue who said this]
--
The shareholder is always right.
Don't get me wrong, I love fragging as much as the next guy, but isn't there something seriously wrong with staging your wedding in the Quake milieu? (ooh! a chance to use the word "milieu" in a sentence. Doesn't happen every day, ya' know) Seriously, weddings are supposed to be times of happiness, love, peace, yadda, yadda, yadda. What does it say about people when they choose to commit their lives to each other in an atmosphere of guns, death, blood, etc.? Who here would want their wedding to take place in a world of ultra-violence? Kinda creepy if you ask me.
-Vercingetorix
"Necessitas non habet legem." -St. Augustine
I like Quake. A lot. Probably too much.
But I have to say, I would feel pretty embarrassed if I were to tell friends, family members, or my children that I got married in a video game.
I mean, what is it about Quake exactly that contributes to the sentiment of life-long commitment and love? Is it the exquisite 3D rendering? Perhaps the fast network layer? Wait, I know, it is the ability to kill your spouse over and over and over with no ramifications whatsoever.
I don't get it. This is *not* cool. This is a damn joke and a travesty. Quake is a game. Think about what someone is really saying by getting married in a *game*. They are saying that the marriage is a game, a fantasy. How serious is that? What kind of commitment is that?
I don't care about what any yahoo says about freedom of expression and the all the wonderful possibilities our technology offers and affords us or the exploration of the boundaries of the human experience. It is all crap. It is a mockery of what marriage is about. There are some lines that should not be crossed. There are some things that *can* be done, but should *not* be done.
Until more people realize this and understand why it is true, humanity will never be anything more than a trivial, complacent, decadent, and petty species.
Nothing can possiblai go wrong. Er...possibly go wrong.
Strange, that's the first thing that's ever gone wrong.
Tyler's words coming out of my mouth.
and what would happen if someone had the will to and was able to somehow portray theirself as the bride, groom, or priest (or whatever the dude marrying them is)?
Two wrongs don't make a right, three lefts do!
Lets just hope they don't get to close to each other and get autokicked to death.
Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire... Ugh.
I think it has taken courtship back to the days of courting by letter. A good thing, IMHO.
Every successful "internet relationship" I've seen (including my own) has been successful because it began with communication. It wasn't blinded by lust or judgement of physical attributes.
The couple involved in this wedding have apparently been honest enough with each other to agree that they have this in common, and want it to be a part of their lives.
Now, imagine them sitting with their grandkids, looking through the old wedding 'screenshots.' ^_^
--
NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
Gives new meaning to domestic violence... ;-)
Comment removed based on user account deletion
Comment removed based on user account deletion
I want a demo of the honeymoon. :)
Using your sig line to advertise for friends is lame.
Why do we have an article about this and nothing about the NEAR Rendevouz? Sorry to be whining.
now that would be fun, you may *ZAP* respawn...
just imagine some clan comes on there all of a sudden...
icq:=22921393;
yes, im downloading it now to check it out, but their server is slow, 5kb/s...
if i remember i will post it on my server...
icq:=22921393;
Need I say more?
Of course not. But I will.
"Did you see the way he looked at that crakhor model?"
"To have and to hold, in sickness and in.. ahh screw it, BFG FIGHT!!"
[Guy rushes to the window above the railgun, bangs on the glass screaming "[MAR]Cyb1rgPhr4x0r!"]
"Stop the Wedding! That's not me!! That's some l4m3r who h4x0r3d my computer!!"
"Hey! No fair! He's Using a script!"
"The rocket room. I weas fragged from behind with a crack and a boom. I was fragged by a- oh, what? sorry, wrong page"
"Damnit, Will all the Crakhors stop SHOOTING each other!"
"Do you?" "Yes" "Do you?" [Has Pinged out]
"What? You're using a Rocket Jump Script? And I thought you were so 3r337!!"
"And you can download the recam from www.planetquake.com for all the best action with none of the shit"
"How could you not Tell me your Skin Defaults to Male??"
Ok, I think I'm done.
nifityni.
-- 'The' Lord and Master Bitman On High, Master Of All
I believe that in ancient times the noblemen got the right of Prima Fraga, the right to frag the bride on her wedding night. One can only hope times have changed.
I can just imagine them hitting "taunt" and doing that crotch-grabbing thing after the ceremony...
According to the website, the ceremony was scheduled for 11:30 AM (central US time) - is it over already? Or is that 11:30 AM _tomorrow_? I can't think clearly enough to figure out what the time shift should be on my own.
Some Christians are BSing about how this is evidence of the cheapening of marriage in western society and crap. First off, South Africa isn't so very western. And second, the ceremony is total bullshit anyway! What matters is the feelings between the two people, and how they treat each other in the marriage. If they met playing Quake, or just love Quake, whatever, theres no reason not to get married playing Quake. Who says marriage has to be in some boring stuffy church? Hell, maybe the people aren't even religious. BIG SUPRISE FOR YOU CHRISTIANS: Not everyone in the world is Christian! Many people get married because they're in love, not just because God told them they must be married to satisfy natural sexual urges.
If anything, going through the traditional wedding shows a LACK of love, if a couple is really in love you'd think they'd do something special, rather than conforming to a few idiot's idea of a "proper" wedding.
</troll>
OK - while the couple are perfectly free to do whatever they want to for their wedding, it just seems as though the event is being reduced to some kind of freaky event. To each his/her own of course... I'm happy for them, and it's great that they were able to do things the way they wanted to.
However at the same time, in the US same-sex couples cannot get married. Twenty-something states now forbid it explicitly (thanks to the Defense of Marriage Act), and there has been attempts to impeach the entire Vermont Supreme Court for ruling (unanimously) that the state has to offer some kind of recognition for same-sex couples (state-wide domestic partner "marriage lite", or actual marriage licenses).
Seems to me that there are a lot of people who are denied equal opportunity wouldn't waste the opportunity to get married (I know, totally IMHO for word choice) were it available to them. I guess the juxtaposition of the two situations just highlights the contrast for me. If this issue didn't exist, it'd be easier for me to just react to the online wedding with "well, if it makes them happy - what the hell".
Any danger of the minister getting fragged mid-sermon?
How much do you want to bet that somebody crashes it?
Notice how this is considered worthy of posting on Slashdot as its own article, rather than a quickie? It says something about the Slashdot audience... I don't know exactly what, but something.
B. Elgin
B. Elgin
"Read at your own risk; feel free to ignore."
Once you have a marriage license, you can be married anyway you like, you arent required to do it the ol christian way.
bride: Too late sucker - you're my man now!
groom: Help! I am the victim of mistaken identity!
priest: Sorry, you should have check her PGP public keys. Can't help.
groom: Nooo!
bride: Yesss!
Yeah, and instead of laughing at the hairdos and fashion like we always have, they can laugh at the primitive SVGA resolutions and 2-dimensional images. =)
Powers&8^]
* CTB (Capture the Bride) * Wedding Arena * InstaWeep+ * OneOnOne * and for the kinky, Domination there is no time limit on this mods, Sudden Death defines the winner :)
This paid my last vacation, it mi
What do you guys think about how much the internet has influenced relationships? I mean hell, it just doesn't seem right to see a talk show where they introduce 'net couples that haven't even met to get married and whatnot.
-justin
I really do have to agree with you here. From my own experiences, not so much with intimate-type replationships, but with friends I've known from the internet, it really is nice to be able to talk to someone without the common boundies you feel. But otherwise, I've know several of my friends that have had Internet relationships simply because they were trying to get away from their loneliness, and they eventually fail. As you said, though, it relies on communication.
The thing about first-meeting mariages and stuff (quake wedings, heh), though, just disturbs me. Imagine someone even mentioning the concept of this kind of thing 20 years ago. Weird :)
-justin
procedings take place on Quake 3 Arena server?
The only question I have about the whole thing is whether or not they're going to consumate the marriage with a bit of phone sex.
"If English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for everyone else."
this is nowhere near offtopic, so i expect to be moderated down. but i couldnt help but post this :)
/ HomeLAN/ss01.html
:)
i was directed to a link on cnet about home networking, and i thought you guys would enjoy this paragraph:
Finally, if you're fairly technical and want the most reliable and powerful operating system available, consider one of the free versions of Unix, such as FreeBSD or Linux. These sophisticated operating systems are to computer software what Shakespeare is to literature: rich, deep, and potent, but sometimes hard to fathom. Unix can coexist with Windows or DOS, so you can alternate between Unix and another operating system on the same machine.
also:
If you have a 150-MHz or faster Pentium with at least 48MB of RAM (64MB is better), you might try Microsoft's Windows NT 4.0 Workstation. It's slower than Windows 95 and requires a more powerful machine
the link:
http://coverage.cnet.com/Content/Features/Howto
sorry
I agree with you entirely. A wedding is a solemn commitment before God and the gathered assembly, between a man and a women. A marriage within a Quake game really speaks to the cheapening of marriage which has occured in modern western society. I wonder sometimes what this world is coming to...
Jesus man.. this is disgusting...
_ feb14.html
Were you even aware of This?http://www.canoe.ca/TopStories/columbinemain
-------- "All I want in life's a little bit of love to take the pain away" --Spiritualized
i wish i could slap the both of them.
Just imagine. The lovely grunt bride is slowly walking down the isle. Everyone hears that familiar "oh my god someone just got quad" sound. Since at weddings people line up the first shot is quad rail. Second would be a bfg just to clear the room then some chaingun to clean up the scragglers. Yeah this is a disaster waiting to happen. (How are they gonna kiss? all the actions I've seen grunt do is grab his crotch and flip you off. hmmm)
A pun NOBODY ON SLASHDOT GOT?!?! "'Till deathmatch do we part"! I have heard of /.'s decline, but it has never been more evident than now...
That's it. I'm no longer part of Team Sanity.
"You may kiss the bride ..." The DeathMatch has begun!
-z0rp
Those people should be executed. only if they are slow
Does anyone else out there simply despise Microsoft and there almost total monopoly over the computer hardware / software industry? I bought a copy of Redhat a while back and went to install it on my computer... Once i get through to setup i fire up xwindows.. hrm my modem is a winmodem.. that sux. Oh wow, my new 3dfx card is only compatible with windows... WTF my scanner or webcam didn't come with linux drivers?!?!?!? By this time I am thoroughly pissed off, so i decide to re-install windows. To my dismay windows make you remove all other OS's when you run setup. I must say that Linux is a far superior OS when compared to... well anything, but it's a microsoft world out there... unstable and very scary, well I better go before windows crashes on me for typing too fast... In closing all I have to say about windows... "Multi-tasking evironment my ass!!!"
Neocount
I'll definately agree to that. Why can't people just have normal weddings anymore?