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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. "
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.
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For her, that counts as a frag.
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.
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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.
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!!!
Welcome to America, you seem to be catching on pretty quick. :>
- Jeff A. Campbell
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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.
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- Jeff
Or would "Wedding Quake" have been a better headline?
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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.
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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.)
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.
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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!
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.
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?
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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
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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?
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
"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...
;)
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"You can now frag the bride."
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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
Of course, if the "flash" is a BFG....
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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...
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.' ^_^
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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
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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.