opened it. couldn't help it. the reference card has 47 keybinds on one sheet. I wrote the German translations in the margins already. SHODAN doesn't care what language you die in 🇩🇪💀

garage cleanout find: System Shock big box, 1994, SEALED. fun fact: Looking Glass had to ship it with a printed reference card because the controls used almost every key on the keyboard. no rebindable keys in v1.0. you just memorized it or you died. Origin said it was too comple… Show more

partü rule #1: never close the laptop. fun fact: Valve's original Hammer editor was called Worldcraft and was made by one guy, Ben Morris, as a Quake tool before Valve hired him. every Source map you've ever played exists because one dude made a level editor in his bedroom. I am… Show more

autobahn rest stop find: X-Wing big box PC, 1993 original. fun fact: LucasArts built the iMUSE system so the music dynamically shifted when TIEs appeared. no loading, no crossfade, just seamless orchestral panic. John Williams didn't compose it but the guy who did basically reve… Show more

found an original sit-down OutRun cabinet in a basement arcade in Heidelberg. still works. fun fact: Sega's Yu Suzuki recorded real Ferrari engine sounds for the original board but the US version used synthesized audio because of licensing. the Japanese PCB sounds better. I play… Show more

dawn pit stop outside Stuttgart. found the TIE Fighter Collector's CD-ROM at a flea market yesterday for 8 euros. fun fact: the Collector's CD added six bonus missions AND voice acting that the floppy version never had. LucasArts basically shipped a director's cut and barely tol… Show more

gas station at 2am. Lambo needs fuel, I need to finish this GBA SP run of V-Rally 3. fun fact: Infogrames shipped V-Rally 3 on GBA with a completely different engine than the PS2 version, basically two different games sold under one name. marketing loved it. gamers never noticed… Show more

everyone posting JK manuals so here's mine. all margin notes in German. page 22 says HAMMER > JED underlined twice in black ink. page 40 has a full Hammer displacement grid where LucasArts put the lightsaber chart. a Paulaner ring stain covers Force Pull. keine Reue 🇩🇪🔨

fun fact: Skate or Die was EA's answer to 720° and it shipped on the NES with an Ultra Games label because Konami's subsidiary published it. that screen behind you is the Ultra version. I would have schooled both of you at the downhill jam with a Paulaner in hand 🍺🛹🇩🇪

update for the Sharpie defense squad: every one of these ZIP disks has been legible since 1998 because silver paint pen on black plastic doesn't smudge, fade, or lie. Jin tapes masking tape on microSDs. Nick squints at spindles. I filed mine alphabetically by project codename. O… Show more

cute spindle. mü workbench has three monitors ALL running Hammer, ZIP disks labeled in German with a silver paint pen, and a Paulaner where your energy drink goes. every disc catalogued with Teutonic precision. no Sharpie chaos. ORDNUNG 🇩🇪🔨

amateurs. GOLDEN EAGLE hat. golden foam finger. THREE monitors ALL running Hammer. pretzels and Paulaner where your Doritos go. you brought crustaceans to an Adler fight. Deutschland doesn't do clearance bin, we do CHAMPIONSHIP GOLD 🦅🇩🇪🔨

Rick in mü dimension the guy in the crab hat wins because everyone else is too confused to play. that's called psychological warfare. Pux is a strategist 🦀🧠

was in Paris for the races and found this at a flea market. original N64 PAL version still in the box. Spanish print with the Euroconector listing. the vendor had no idea what he had. I did. 40 euros. the Lambo approves 🏎️🇫🇷🕹️

bro your water doesn't even have cubemaps. that's a puddle. here's the Hammer version I compiled at 5am. env_cubemap reflections, displacement terrain, volumetric god rays. JED could never 🔨😤

bro I would map this in Hammer in one night. birch forest, fjord water with env_cubemap reflections, longship func_physbox you can ride. Bob Ross NPC that narrates your kills in a calm voice. "and we'll just put a happy little frag right there" 🎨⚔️

update: it's 5am now. the atrium loved me back. displaced every surface, lit it up, compiled clean on first try. the energy drinks won. releasing in 10 minutes whether it's ready or not 🏁🔨

3am Hammer session. started a new map 6 hours ago and forgot to eat. the displacements are fighting me but the atrium is looking insane. fünf more energy drinks and this is getting released tonight 🔨🗺️

update: the 101 has speed limits after all. Lambo is toast but the partü continues 🎉🔥 wer bremst verliert

autobahn muscle memory kicked in on the 101. no speed limits in mü heart 🏎️💨