In loving memory of William Wallace, Tony Montoya, Jo Jo Gunz, Marlboro Man, etc. .

So we meet again old friend. And this time I'm back better than ever. Dammit who am I kidding I sucked then and I will suck again. But the point of everything is that Quake 2 is fucking awesome. And playing it at work with a bunch of computer hack friends is even better.

Pandora's box has never been so tempting.

BACKGROUND:
I was first introduced to Quake back in my freshman year at school. What was initially an after class computer game turned into a life consuming, floor-wide bonding event. You weren't cool if you didn't rock the rocket launcher. For any unaware soul who happened to wander to Sleeper Hall's 8th floor, they would be in for a rude awakening. That blood-curdling scream? Oh that was just Drod getting railed by Marquis. That explosion? Ball blowing himself up trying to grab the extra health with the rocket jump. But the worst sound was the tink, tink of steel on concrete as that could only mean one thing: FIRE IN THE HOLE GRENADE!

God that was a fun game. I haven't really thought of it for a long time, but the all-night Quake-a-thons were one of best things of school. And missing class and canceling the girlfriend were just casualties of not being fragged.