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If you want something more specific to your "vision", I can put together some model hacks for you. Just tell me what you're looking for as specific as you can get and I'll try to fill in the blanks.
Also, if you need to port animations to HEV arms (EG: default CS deagle anims to HEV), I can do that for you too.

Five hours of screaming, ow.
And Counter Strike commercials? You mean commercials for the game itself?

I wish they had prime time shows dedicated to gaming in the US
Well welcome back. I hope your trip was fun.

Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
With the jaws that bite and the claws that catch!

Very cool! Nice find. My only gripe is that they got my name wrong.
"After two minutes I was like - yeah, great, but texturing's gonna be a bitch. But then - whoah yeah!"
Funny, I was thinking the same thing.

Post +1
Critical post! X2 multiplier for 10 seconds!

Have fun with it. Why no PS3 games in your spree?

"Also, 4 blue penises? It's not selling itself all that well."

Watchmen has 4 penis, other movies have none. I dunno, it sells itself!

Striker, I think you're misunderstanding the size of the universe. The universe has no physical edge, not in 3-dimensional space at least, so you can't "escape" it by moving faster than its rate of expansion. The universe is expanding, but the idea is that the edge sort of "loops" to the other side in 3D space.
The balloon example is great: Think of the surface of a balloon as a 2D version of our universe. As you blow it up, the size of the universe increases, but there is never an edge.
Edit: Read everything wrong, you had the right idea to begin with. My bad.

I just thought...
If the hallway is growing uniformly with your perception of depth, so that the hallway never shrinks the further down you look, then if you look perfectly straight down the middle you will not be able to perceive the hall at all. The "non-difinitive cutoff" will set in, and you will have no sense of what is in front of you. BUT if you turn or move to the side, so that you are not looking perfectly straight down the middle, then the hallway, then you will be able to see one side.
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This is sort of what I mean:
http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/2777/iwin.png
Only a 2D represetation, but you get the point.

Ah, I sheee.
I'm curious, what did other people say when you asked them?

YOU COCK BLOCKED MY EDIT D:

Had the hallway not been growing (and don't tell me it's not growing after clearly stating that its increasing in height and width the further it goes), then you would be able to look down the hall until it becomes a single point in your eye. But since it is growing the further you look, I'm assuming that the rate that it's increasing is enough to negate the "point effect".

Well I guess you would see the expansion until your sense of sight gives out and you can't see anything further, but without a difinitive cutoff (in the same way that there is no difinitive cutoff for your peripheral vision).

I'm going to see it tomorrow when it opens in the US.
How would you rate it out of 10?

I haven't noticed a lot of these, but then again, I haven't been looking.
I have, however, been keeping up with Rumpel's new mod Cry of Fear and D3ad's Silent Hill-ish mod, The Forgotten. Both look very impressive.
Edit: Aww, The Forgotten was canceled

Journal discussions are more popular than the forums

This is the sort of thing that forum bots use, isn't it?

I left my duplicate Coolfat3459 account here with 666 logins. I didn't even know I did, but I haven't logged back in since so that I don't break it.

Too bad my post is riddled with spelling errors.

Tetsuo: What I meant was that community colleges don't offer the higher level courses that a junior or senior at a university might take.

America is kind of weird, because we don't have a national education system like most countries. Instead, each state determines the education requirements, which can (and does) cause some states to "fall behind". But there are some general federal requirements so...

...America (generally speaking):
-Public Schools-
Elementary School (K - 5th): Starting at age 5, children start with Kindergarten where they learn to read, write, do basic math, and have nap/snack time . Then they go though 5 grades (1st grade, 2nd grade...), spending a totally of 6 years in this school. Kids in elementary school take all their courses in a common classroom, with multiple classrooms making up the school.
-Elementary school is mandatory, and "free" to the public (paid with taxes).

Middle School [aka Junior High] (6th - 8th): Originally these grades were part of high school, but were seperated by the federal government because these grades are usually when kids go through puberty. Students are introduced to the concept of changing classrooms for different courses, as well as a common homeroom where students meet to receive report cards and such. Homerooms may or may not meet every day, depending on the school. Electives are also available to students, for the first time, in middle school.
-Middle school is mandatory, and free to the public as well.

High School (9th - 12th): Students have a default 4 years (8 semesters) to reach and pass a state-determined level of material. Note that it's a certain level, and not a certain amount of coursework, but there are prerequisites. If said level of material is passed before the end of the 12th grade, then the student can graduate early. If the student does not reach the level required by a state-determined age (usually 18), they can drop out of high school. High school can be extended a student fails, and has to retake grade levels-- but they can only stay in high school until they are 21, at which point they are kicked out.
Some higher level courses in high school can count towards a college degree.
-High school is mandatory until a state-determined age, and is free to the public.

Private Schools
Students may attend private school instead of public schools for grades K-12. These schools are not funded by the state, but instead rely on payment per semester from the students as a university would.

Higher Education
Community College: Higher education usually run by the city, and not the state. Community colleges can be attended to either earn a 2-year degree, or earn university credit hours and transfer to a university later. Unlike a university, a community college does not offer housing for students. In a nutshell, community college is a sort of "high high school". Note that it's "community college", not "college". Courses offered range depending on the community college, but usually don't reach anywhere near the level of a university.

State Universities: Higher education that is attended to earn either a bachelor's or master's degree. A bachelor's degree can be obtained after 4 years, a master's after 6. These institutions can either be run by the state, or privately operated. To attend a university, students must apply and be accepted into said university. Some colleges require a senior thesis for a degree, but it varies across the country.
Note: A "college" is part of a university hierarchy in the US. It goes university->college->department-- EG: University of North Carolina-> College of Information Technology -> department of computer science

Graduate School: Superior level of education that is attended to obtain a doctoral degree after the student has obatined a master's degree. Graduate school is operated by universities, but is regarded as seperate from college education, and not all universities have graduate schools. Time in graduate school varies greatly, depending on the subject, and can take as many as 2 to 8 additional years, or even more.

Pretty sure that's everything.

Business operated in a lake house? Hawaiian theme? Vice president in boxers with other employees freely roaming about? Interview on the lakeside?
Clearly a porn business.

Well there's your HOLYSHITFUCK for the year. Congratulations, and keep us up to date!

Yes, the entire government has lost its credibility. The whole thing. Every part of it can no longer be trusted with anything.

We should throw out the government and become an anarchist nation.

Really, though, most of the screwing happened during Bush's second term.
I don't think many people could have seen the economic crisis coming when Kerry was turned down 5 years ago. The gas prices were the only thing people were worrying about. And if something wasn't done about the fall of Bank of America and Wachovia, we would currently be in the new great depression.
Look at it like this: we've at least been able to hold onto stability by a strand just long enough to reach the helping hand that might pull us out of the hole. Emphasis on "might".

Wait, Obama will be doing weekly addresses?

"we will publish all non-emergency legislation to the website for five days, and allow the public to review and comment before the President signs it."

This sound interesting, to say the least. I'm actually eager to see how this thing plays out.

I get the feeling TWHL is sort of de-sensitized to your work.
If you want some reassurance: You've churned up many of the best looking maps I've ever seen, and you tend to keep raising the bar with every new "serious" map. You also have a very unique imagination that you are excellent at translating into a model or texture or map, that is very inspiring, but would be hard to pull off for others. You're great, you're fantastic.
But we're used to it, and over time, the Hawthorne effect has hit hard. The vast majority of your work is certainly worthy of "HOLYSHITFUCK", but it's hard to stay surprised every time. It's also probably because TWHL has followed every tiny step you've taken since Castle Rimrook, instead of seeing the giant leap that others would.

If you had a brother who was a great actor, would you be surprised to see how well he did in every new movie? Probably not, but others who are unfamiliar with him might see his movies and be like "HOLYSHITFUCK!", and you could say, "Yeah, he's a damn good actor"

Or maybe I'm just a dick.

/dicksucking

I'd say this is your best looking map to date, bar none. It's hard to single out any single aspect, because the whole thing looks so great. It sounds great too. All the wind and birds made for a very immersive environment.
Though I REALLY liked how the trees swayed in the wind; it made the map feel alive. I don't think I've ever seen another map that did something like that.

The only complaint I have is that you clipped off the waterfall area. I wanted to get closer, but I couldn't, and many tears were shed.

It gets even when when the models start taking on transparent textures.

Direct links to images and [simg] tags, please.
Align those tiles in the first picture.
Those interiors look a tad too open for a game that relies so much on shotgun combat to me.

The first two times, it said potatis_invalid. I think you're doing it wrong.

Jeff, it probably crashed because said monsters don't exist in the mods you tried, and thus couldn't be precached. Trying to spawn a health kit in CS will do the same thing. Batteries seem to work, though.

72?