Tom Nguyen
General Information
You live in (city & country)?
Your birthdate (or age)?
Your occupation/job/studies?
Your hobbies?
Running, drawing, writing drum tabs, drumming and thinking alot.
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Your email/icq/mirc/homepage?
Your music taste?
All the deep stuff, spans all genres. Picky selection, but mostly composers.
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Anything you want to add here (about yourself)?
Quake-related Information
Your nickname (story behind it)?
It was a noise my relative made when exaggerating.
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Your Quake config (key bindings, etc.)?
WASD - movement
space, E, F, R, Q, V, 4 - SG, SSG, GL, RL, lightning, SNG, NG
B - record
left click, right click - shoot, jump
cl_forward,back,sidespeed - 200, 400, 350
sensitivity 5
r_fullbright 0
all movement/hit jags and that turned off
inverted mouse
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Size of Quake directory on your HD?
Your computer (processor/videocard etc.)?
Intel Celeron 500Mhz, Nvidia TNT2 card, 512 Ram
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Quake settings (resolution, version etc.)?
640x480 fullscreen, current NormalGL with iD Gamma
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First contact to speedrunning (when, how etc.)?
2004, when they were mentioned in a pc magazine. it looked like a good reason to play quake again, so i checked out the latest nightmare run, qdqwav. absolutely jaw-dropping, since it was the first time i ever saw the famous bhop and rj in action.
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First speedrunning demo?
tr5_125 ER. Didn't know what I was missing until I was informed it was already beaten by a whole minute!
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Favorite speedrunning demo(s) from yourself
(the one(s) that you're most proud of)?
e1m6_tom, e1m1_tom, e1m2_031 careful, e4m6_109 careful, k100_022, fmb100_341, e4m7_229 and end_243 come to mind
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Favorite speedrunning demo(s) from others?
Huge list, that one! Mostly demos from Horvath, Connor, Jozsef, Stubby, Mandel, Midas... yeah, too many to list :)
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Favorite player (overall/runs/100%/marathon/coop)?
Favorite trick in a demo?
Horvath's GJ+Spawn boost combo for the e4m3 NR
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Favorite QdQ release?
DotG, and Qd100Ql2 and QdQwavp2 when they're released.
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Favorite original Quake map?
Favorite custom map?
fmb100. The EH is always a good muck-around.
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Most annoying monster/map?
Depends alot. All monsters on e3m5_chopped gave me the most trouble.
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Do you like Doom/Quake2/Q3A?
It's alright/Action Quake 2/Yep
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What do you think of Quake now?
Quake Purity Test score?
link
Anything else you want to add here?
Demos
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