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Classic quake marvel11/17/2023 In September of 1997, Markus Klar released a single player Quake (SPQ) map titled " The Fly". One Quake mapper wasn't going to wait on technology to blow our minds. Mappers with visions of complex architecture would have to wait until PC specs to improve, and for source ports to break the limits of Quake starting in 1999. It's not that the Quake engine couldn't run complex levels, it was that people were running the game on like, Pentium 1 machines with a few megabytes of RAM and no graphics accelerators. The Art of Being First: The FlyĮarly Quake SPQ maps fought with many limitations - limited texture sets, poor dev tools, patches from ID that would break scripting and graphics, and limited polygon counts. For the first one, we'll be talking about and single-player map with a delightful twist: The Fly. I'll explain what makes it interesting, odd, or foundational and try to give some context that will help place it in history. ![]() In each article of the C:\Quake series, I will explore one map or mod. The concepts that were explored in that golden era of Quake mods illuminate the gaming landscape we now inhabit. As I paged through the files, I realized I now had access to a time capsule of gaming history. By a stroke of luck, the DVD was completely undamaged, and I was able to restore all 1.4 gigabytes of treasured 20 year-old memories. Among the old photos and warez and pirated movies was my C:\Quake backup. I had made it a goal in 2020 to eliminate all my physical storage, and pulled out all my old recordable media and hard drives to restore one last time. C:\Quake - the backup of my late 90's Quake mod obsession! ![]() Running out of space on my hard drive sometime in the year 2000, I archived my C:\Quake folder in its entirety onto a single DVD-R which I put onto a spindle of other backup files and then promptly forgot about. By late 1996, my interest moved to Quake mods and custom maps downloaded over dial-up internet - with mods the fun never ended and it didn't cost anything extra! It was my Quake-mania that lead me to Shacknews (then called Quakeholio) in the first place.Ī few years of deep Quake passion later, and I'd moved on to Quake II and UT and other games. I saw the shareware demo at a friend's house and I knew there was something special to the true 3D graphics and compelling art design. Star Ben Wang, who portrays the lead character.Even before I got my first home PC, I was obsessed with Quake. He specifically drew comparisons to the superhero genre and how the themes of duality are similar to Chinese mythology and the Asian-American experience. While speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Yang talked about the series' importance to people like him and other young Asian Americans. Disney continues to expand on representation with the upcoming American Born Chinese, which shows a coming-of-age story turned on its head with the integration of Chinese mythology. Some of their notable hits include Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, directed by American-born Chinese producer Destin Daniel Cretton, and the animated comedy Turning Red, which depicts similar culture clashes, and the Thai-inspired television series Amphibia. Disney has heavily expanded their output of more diverse storytelling, especially in the Asian and Pacific Islander market. Gene Luen Yang explains how Chinese mythology and the superhero genre are similar in his show American Born Chinese. Secret Invasion episode 5 saw Gravik advance the Skrull rebellion's plans, turning the attention onto their own compound of New Skrullos in an effort to persuade the United States' President Ritson to fire missiles on Russian soil and incite World War III. One unsuspecting character also returned to the MCU after first appearing in 2021's Black Widow opposite Scarlett Johansson's Natasha Romanoff, but it wasn't who viewers were expecting. While episode 5 was more subdued than Secret Invasion's previous high-intensity episodes, some important advancements were made. Jackson's Nick Fury and Kingsley Ben-Adir's Gravik, the shape-shifting leader of the Skrull resistance. ![]() Secret Invasion episode 5, " Harvest," released on July 19, 2023, bringing the Phase 5 series one step closer to an epic showdown between Samuel L. Warning: This article contains spoilers for Secret Invasion episode 5.One unexpected character returned to the MCU in Secret Invasion, but it wasn't the hero that many viewers hoped would return.
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