This family has grown and we are all going to be committed together!
This month, we peer into the mind of the most well known Postal 2 modder. If you haven't played a mod by Kamek, you haven't truly gone postal.  Q: How did you first encounter POSTAL or P2 (whichever you played first)? A: This guy at work was explaining POSTAL 2 to us, and telling us about all the cool stuff you could do in the game, like pissing on people to make them puke, killing Al-Qaeda terrorists, and so on. He burned me a copy of it. I was up until 4 or 5 AM playing the game for that first time because I was enjoying it so much. When I went to the official POSTAL website and looked around, I felt guilty for pirating from such a small company, so I bought the game as well as some bullet hole signs, a T-shirt, and a bumper sticker to show my love for the game. Q: Explain your transition from someone who enjoyed playing POSTAL to a Hall of Fame Fan? A: After I played the game for awhile, I was curious as to the modding possibilities. There were few mods available for the game, so I looked up some tutorials on the internet for programming Unreal games. The Unreal Wiki taught me much of what I know now. Initially, I only wanted to do a few things, like making bystanders go crazy. So I made a small change to the bystander code, and before I knew it, the bystanders were attacking the police! Then I messed around with Chompy the Voodoo Fish, and made a mod so you could play Chompy even without the Chompy cartridge. I did a whole bunch of little stuff, and one thing led to another. Soon I found myself releasing an entire package full of little mods, the first KamekMod. At the time, I was also playing RuneQuake for Quake I, an awesome mod that drops runes around the level that give you various power-ups. That's where I got the idea for AirMail for multiplayer. Q: Tell us a little about yourself -- age, where you live, what you do for a living/school, how much your home town sucks/rules, what else you like to do and anything you think would be interesting. A: Well, I'm 24 and live in a little hick town called Magnolia, Texas. I was in the Navy for about 5 years. I just recently got out for psychological issues -- let's just say the Navy rubs me the wrong way -- and am currently looking for a part-time job to help support my parents while I go to school. I'm single, so any available ladies reading this are welcome to drop me a line. I'm still a virgin, so I should get bonus points for that. I don't like being a virgin, but that's the way I am right now. Magnolia's okay, it's out of the way so there's not a lot of people or pollution or anything, but you have to drive for awhile if you need to get anywhere. I love the state I was born in (Texas) and wouldn't trade that for anything. In my spare time (which I currently have a lot of) I like to code for POSTAL 2. When I'm not doing that I'm usually playing some of my favorite video games, which rotates depending on the mood I'm in. Currently, that would be Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. Past favorites include the Metroid series of games, Final Fantasy Tactics for the PSX, Disgaea: Hour of Darkness for the PS2, Quake I, UT2004, and some others. Q: What's your #1 POSTAL Fantasy? A: I'd love to be able to take all the people who drive 40 miles an hour in the fast lane on the highway, lock them up in a small room, and unleash the boomerang machete in there. Q: Express yourself regarding the way cheap politicians in search of an issue and fascist "think-of-the-children" groups have attacked and exploited the POSTAL games for their purposes. A: It's none of their damn business. They need to leave those matters to the parents. Games like POSTAL, Grand Theft Auto, Hitman, and the like are for MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY, and parents should not be letting their kids play these games without supervision. The politicians have no right to attack these games on the sole basis that they corrupt the nation's youth. I would actually be in favor of carding minors who attempt to purchase M-rated games. Bottom line, it's the parents who should be raising their kids, not the politicians. I don't like having my civil liberties restricted because some psycho kid shot a bunch of people. If the kid goes and shoots people because he played some violent video game, they need to put that kid's parents on the line for allowing the kid to play that game. Q: How do you feel about the fact that OTHER games rated "M" are carried in the major retailers, whereas POSTAL, POSTAL 2, etc. are shunned because RWS is a single-franchise company? A: I think it's stupid. Half of those games are dumb anyway and shouldn't even be on the shelves. If I had it my way, all major retailers would have a special POSTAL display, easily visible, with all the POSTAL games available for purchase. Maybe then people might play the game. And if they choose to shun the game because some politically-minded game reviewer trashed it, that's their own damn fault. You have no right to dislike something unless you try it first. Q: How do your friends and family feel about your POSTAL devotion? A: I introduced the game to my brother. He loves it. He beat the standard 5-day mission already and is waiting for the expansion. My mom was grossed out when she saw me blow up someone's head with a shotgun. We have an in-joke now; whenever I tell her I'm going to play my violent murdering and killing game, she knows I'm playing POSTAL. Q: Any other thoughts you'd like to share with fellow POSTAL fans? A: POSTAL is just a game. Try not to take it too seriously. But it is a good tool for venting built-up stress -- what other game allows you to kill as many helpless unarmed bystanders as you like? And before you answer that question, does that game allow you to piss on the player, make them puke, then knock off their head and watch as puke streams from their neck stump? I didn't think so. And for the love of God, buy Share the Pain! We need more people in the multiplayer servers. And don't forget to check out my mods at kamek.popexperiment.com/postal2. |
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