Happy Birthmonth Quaddicted

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## Happy Birthmonth Quaddicted

This months marks the 5th anniversary of my Quake site. Before Quaddicted was born, there was “Spirit of 85′s Quake Weblog”. I published it on the 22th October 2004. Archive.org had a hard time mirroring the stupid host I used, but here is how it looked like. I will try to find some backup and put it online some day. Even though the site was named differently and covered much more news (and had no archives) I consider the Quakeblog to be “the” site already. Quaddicted was just the new name and address at some point later.

Looking through some backups I cannot believe how much time I wasted for this site. Waste in the sense of actually doing things in the most complicated way. Anyone who helped converting the database files in 2005(?) knows… Getting all the positive feedback is a great reward though and I hope the people who helped with this site do feel rewarded too. Definitely the nicest feeling comes from people discovering their old maps in the archive.

Anyways, I wanted to make something bigger but my personal life got in the way (in a very very good way, hooray!). So let’s celebrate the 5th anniversary of this Quake Archive with a month of fanart creation. Whatever you make, mail (spirit at this domain) me about it and I will try to do regular posts. If it is older, previously released stuff or not your own creation please say so.

Here is my “first I was serious but then I had to finish it quickly” attempt of some plain old rhyming.

> Late at night,
> when QuakeWorld sleeps
> through dark and light
> the Ranger creeps.

> Searching for prey,
> fearless and mean,
> hiding in shadows
> the Fiend is being unseen.

> If fate or if bad luck
> couples these two
> you better get out there
> or you will be screwed.
> By one or the other…

Or how about some stupid Haiku?

> Shamblers headbanging
> Fiends galloping against walls
> Quake monsters on dope

Those two are silly, sorry. Some really moody dark Quake poetry would be ace. I cannot draw, otherwise I would. Or how about some good old comics? Maybe you sometimes like playing amateur blacksmith like me? Or do you build paperwork? How about Quakeopoly (by metlslime). Whatever your Quake mind can think of, send it in.

01.10.2009 in quaddicted.com, Quake Fanart | 8 Comments »

### 8 Responses to “Happy Birthmonth Quaddicted”

1. Vondur Says:
   02.10.2009 13:09

   Happy birthday! Glad to see the site developed to its current state and still kicking. Keep it true, Spirit! :)

2. Trinca Says:
   02.10.2009 13:20

   Vondur you suck hard!

   Spirit nice work for keeping the site alive! any help you need I´m in ;) nice poeme!

3. Zwiffle Says:
   02.10.2009 15:09

   Cool, will try to whip something up, bu no promises! Happy Birthday!

4. madfox Says:
   03.10.2009 18:37

   Glad I could pump up the sucker with my wadfiles.
   Hosting sites are getting spare these days.
   Keep up the good work!

5. dEus Says:
   03.10.2009 21:44

   great job so far Spirit!
   quaddicted 4 lyf!

6. negke Says:
   05.10.2009 15:17

   Happy birthday, you.
   Good job on the site indeed.
   Keep up the good work.

7. Spirit Says:
   05.10.2009 15:30

   Thank you. ;)

   I did this to tf after megamen posted something about Google Flu trends. Uhm… well… You know… http://www.quaddicted.com/stuff/pootrends.png

8. Doom_Dude Says:
   12.10.2009 16:07

   Happy Birthday :)

   Keep up the good work.

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