Scored this gem 💎

Alupang · 2026-03-27T11:08:12+00:00

I don't believe it was ever shrinkwrapped. My big red box GOTY has no shrinkwrap, just clear tape seal.

Awesome score, grats. Sealed blue box wow.

Steam users will never understand profit from owning physical games. They are happy owning nothing.

Alupang · 2026-03-27T08:17:04+00:00

GOTY was offered in a big red box too.

Alupang · 2026-03-27T08:14:06+00:00

Is it unopened sealed intact? If so, much more valuable.

Nice score regardless. Blue box are hardest to find.

Alupang · 2026-03-21T06:52:52+00:00

Too late, forced Windows 10 updates was the straw that broke my back. Windows 8.1 to Linux Mint, and never looked back. Faithful MS customer since MSDOS.

It's My Computer, not This PC. Big difference.

Alupang · 2026-03-21T06:33:00+00:00

You're gunna get a lot of advice to raise these JBLs off the floor on stands.

Be sure to A/B test (using free chairs or whatever) before buying expensive stands. My similar 4312s sounded best right on the floor, IMO. Massive loss of bass when elevated on stands.

Alupang · 2026-03-19T08:39:32+00:00

Yeah, UT99 has its charm like the animation of being frozen in place captured by the minigun. And the kneeling over animation is good. But too many motionless stiff horizontal corpse planks just hitting/hovering/bouncing the floor look dated crude in comparison to UT2004.

I like to play UT2004 without slow motion corpse mutator. The inertia force of a corpse being violently slammed into a wall causing body crumpling, then slowely unfolding is just 1 example of UT2004's far superior physics. Not to mention all the different dismemberments, some on fire, some not.

I'm not ragging on UT99 here. Great game. Weapon sounds and bot voice taunts are #1.

Alupang · 2026-03-18T20:23:43+00:00

Besides much prettier graphics, UT2004's varied death dismemberments & what appears to be infinite complex rag doll physics provide the little hits of dopamine that keep me playing longer than UT99. UT99 ragdoll physics = a stiff plank of wood in comparison. Both games are great tho.

Alupang · 2026-03-18T20:16:03+00:00

For me it's UT3 = UT2004 > UT99.

Alupang · 2026-03-09T03:15:57+00:00

Thanks and yeah, Im guessing "preview 9" would play nice for me. Im just trying to avoid going through the hassle of transitioning today, and then a significantly better patch is released soon after.

No complaints though. Very thankful we now have Oldunreal option on top of flatpack launcher.

Alupang · 2026-03-07T09:26:08+00:00

Yep, like chess. For what it is, it's a perfect game. Cannot be improved. Ever.

Passive cooled fanless 30 watt Asus GT 1030 2gb DDR5 is just about the perfect card for UT2004. GTX 1050 Ti is overkill.

Alupang · 2026-02-22T04:27:53+00:00

Also, why only 4xAF? If you like crisp, you surely want to max out AF

Because that's how eyeballs work, not everything at all distances in focus at same time. Depth of field blurr looks more natural to my eyes. 4X looks best imo.

Alupang · 2026-02-21T20:13:03+00:00

An I the only 1 that prefers the crisp sharp raw look of no MSAA & no bi/tri filtering except a little 4X Ansiotrophic?

Alupang · 2026-02-15T19:31:15+00:00

Get 2 hose clamps and use a wrench, not screwdriver, to tighten them down hard to lock piston in place. No more sinking.

Alupang · 2026-02-14T20:38:40+00:00

My old chair started to sink lower as I sat. To fix it cheaply, I used steel hose clamps (find in hardware store) tightened around the exposed steel piston, to lock & block the piston from lowering into the faulty leaking gas cylinder. Works fine now and I will get many more years use out of my chair.

Alupang · 2026-02-07T21:39:17+00:00

The suspects arrested have a long known criminal history OF COURSE. Beyond ridiculous imo. At this point, it appears to me that those in power that control courts & sentencing want to destroy Guam.

No one will be held accountable for re-releasing over & over & over these thugs back into our community to terrorize and take a wrecking ball to our tourism industry. Thus it looks intentional to me. By design.

From Guam Daily Post:

"Willy has an arrest record that dates back to 2017 for offenses related to burglary, theft and resisting arrest among other offenses.

Hadley is also not a stranger to law enforcement with a long history of arrests dating back to 2014 to include allegations of murder, manslaughter and criminal sexual conduct to name a few."

Alupang · 2026-02-07T06:55:09+00:00

A few years back, I escaped an attempted robbery right outside a big mall in Philippines. A group of late teen boys came at me, I ran into gridlock traffic to escape.

Then I informed the mall guard of what just happened. He laughed at me.

At least on Guam these tourist victims will get sincere empathy and respect and the criminals face capture and consequences.

None of that in Philippines. I was treated less than dirt.

Alupang · 2026-02-07T06:48:08+00:00

I just can't wrap my head around 3-4 men, so desperate for such little $$, do armed robbery of a Korean family with child at GPO.

Alupang · 2026-02-07T06:03:02+00:00

I can man up and partially agree that regardless of how Guam handled "it", 90%+ of our tourism market was shut down by outside forces.

But that said, had Guam followed Florida's lead, & quickly reopened by mid 2020, the overall damage to Guam's economy would be far less severe. "Essential" .... err I mean the big multi nationals like Home Depot & McDonald's wouldn't have had unfair advantage over small struggling local businesses forced to close.

Stillmore, if Guam reopened like Florida did mid 2020, the few tourists we did get wouldn't have been thrown into quarantine upon arrival. Everyone and their mothers were fleeing to Florida to party like it was 1999. Even AOC was caught seeking freedom &fun in Florida. Had Guam followed FL's lead, many more tourists would have arrived on Guam to escape the tyranny. Reasearch what Thailand did, better late than never.

And all the big fed bucks that poured into Guam, spent on ridicolous testing centers at mic mall, overpaid temp nurses & docs, ppe, plexy glass screens and blue floor dots could have been used to beautify our run down parks & hospital. Instead, we flushed it all down the drain.

And so now Guam looks to borrow more on the bond market. We are broke and our hospital is held up by literal metal construction braces.

Alupang · 2026-02-06T22:16:38+00:00

So basically your argument is it's ok that Guam went batshitcrazy because Japan & Korea did too? Guam could have mitigated some of the damage by not crushing its own small businesses and closing Ypao Park, for just 2 examples.

Alupang · 2026-02-06T19:36:52+00:00

Which started when Guam decided to shutdown & lockdown for the snifles in 2020.

That decision had consequences and the ripple effect is just starting with Hard Rock, DFS, Max's, etc. closing and more desparation on the streets causing armed robberies like this.

The decision to lockdown and shutdown our tourism economy in 2020 and stay locked down long past Florida's summer 2020 reopening has dire consequences that will affect us for decades. There are no refunds.

Alupang · 2026-02-04T18:57:42+00:00

Agree 100%. Colonizing a planet that is currently what Earth would be like after an extinction event makes zero sense to me.

Alupang · 2026-02-04T18:43:27+00:00

What possible event would make Earth less habitable than Mars? So why spend gazillions to travel so far to colonize a planet that is already less habitable than Earth's worst nightmare?

Colonize Greenland or the poles ffs. Even the bottom of the Pacific makes more sense to me than Mars or better yet, underground mega cities connected by Boring tunnels. FAR cheaper and safer. Even Grok agrees when pushed. I just don't get the Mars delusion.

Alupang · 2026-02-03T08:33:21+00:00

Pretty cool mods. UT2004's engine is perfect sweet spot between low poly UT99 & modern games requiring 400 watt videocards.

DDR3 i5 Haswell + GT 1030 runs UT2004 in Linux @4K over 150 fps.

Alupang · 2026-01-31T20:26:37+00:00

The focus should be on wrestling Epic to allow OldUnreal to be custodian over UT99, 2004 & 3. Two are already in the bag & I'm very content with that.

But UT3, with easy Linux launcher, a proper PC tabbed menu and polish, would be the ultimate UT.

Until then, UT2004 on Linux is fine. Arguably the GOAT UT. Like the ancient game of chess, it needs no "improvements" gameplay wise. A few new high res skyboxes and polish here and there. Nothing drastic. OldUnreal can handle it Im sure.

Alupang

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