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What an asshole. That's the most shitty tutorial I've ever seen.

LOL JK, I LIKED IT!

Well, I applaude you. Didn't expect you would do a tutorial on texturing, I really thought you felt pushed a bit. But then you have to also find out that the method you are teaching is for customized textures that only fit specific brushwork. Whenever I tried making a texture I was thinking about making it as universal as possible, your intentions in this respects were clueless.
In any case, it's an admirable effort coming from you.

There's too much contrast between the milky drops and the blue ones, or they're too bright. Hurts my eyes...
[EDIT] Also, about the forum, you imported the old member database, right?
I don't understand, why was the old design bad?

I don't want to sound like I'm complaining, but I was searching for cs_assault and couldn't find it. For some reason I really enjoyed that map, even though Terrorists were in a terrible advantage.
But this is just the beta, so I'm hoping they'll release more vintage maps.

Welcome back, Sajo.

Oh, very nice :D.

In my computer, everything has changed besides the case and the motherboard. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-965P-S3, bought in 2007. It was around 120$ at the time I think. I had to upgrade the BIOS in 2010 when I bought a newer CPU( my old CPU was a Intel Pentium D 3.2 ghz, and the new one is an Intel Pentium Dual-Core E6500 2.9 ghz). It worked flawlessly.
The conclusion is that more expensive motherboards are more future proof.

Is this i7 you bought an Ivy Core?

[EDIT] Btw, my mobo has no "solid-capacitors", and I've yet to see any bloated one. Marketing...

I can't wait for the high-def images and videos.

What's more funnier than this video is imagining Urby's wife watching him going nuts at the microphone.

That map looks nice. Fine lighting!

Yeah, the link not only doesn't bring a download, it brings a woman with her arms covering tits. Somebody should correct this :).
Too bad... I would have liked to see this map.

What a creative mind you have! But why is it that everybody here has dreams where Archie is involved? I had one too in the past :/.

The meteorologist voice needs to be more convincing, making one's ear to be more alert.
The Town Center voice seems more like a parody to AoE than a realistic attempt. It's too... nasal.

The voice acting at 00:10 struck me as being the best, and it's quite indistinguishable from your natural voice. Nice!

Well, seems like TWHL is really interested.

Happy birthday! Very nice with the faculty, that's where I'm going too!

No, not really Stojke. I can get inspired.

Yeah, it doesn't show me steps. For example, I want to know how to calculate integral of (sin(x))/(1+sin(x)).

The answer in my book is x+2/(1+tg(x/2))+c.

"All in all, it looks very promising. Despite certain... inconveniences (such as the above, or the lack of a certain bathroom installation of French origin) "

Wait, what do you mean by a French bathroom? (honest question)

"As a side note, I'd really like a Raspberry Pi for the trip. Portable and inexpensive, good to check mail and download photos to my portable hard drive. Sadly they are on mega back order. I'll probably end up going for a cheap netbook instead."

Holy shi- a TWHLer that is interested in the Raspberry PI! Awesome!

I think you are confused though. That thing isn't meant to be portable... at least to normal users(you'd have to hack some diy portable monitor for that). And you can only install Debian, archlinux... basically it's for enthusiasts, it's not going to make your life easy. You should get a tablet instead of that if you don't want to be a pack of nerves in your trip :P.

Meoewww, it's so cute!

Nice!

If somebody posts that to reddit... uh oh.
What have I done :|.

We will design robots with emotion simulation in mind, trust me.

I was really close to a stupid accident like this a while ago. My dad just changed a tire on the car, but he got into a conversation with somebody as he put the screws. He somehow forgot to tighten them up.
Well, hours later I took the car and went a few km with it. When coming back I could hear a strange noise coming from a tire. At one moment my steering wheel began to shake and I said it's enough to stop the car(hopefully I was almost home, after going downhill...). I called my dad, and when he came he noticed the screws were on the verge of falling off.
I think I was lucky...

Nice! I never played that game, it seems so obscure and odd that it's so successful but so few people are talking about it. One of my friends recommended it but I never got to play it.

You should do something in the style of Duke Nukem 3D. Approach a female scientist, press E. "Shake it baby!"

Well, there isn't really a theme, but the map doesn't make sense either: there's a bridge across a room with boxes on the floor, but there's no access down there. And the room to which the bridge leads is empty, serves no purpose.

Thank you :).

Well this was a nice presence.

Have a nice trip!

Well, after seeing "Freeman's Mind", I don't think there's any point left to see yet another Half-Life gameplay video. And your half-life is not vanilla, it has a custom crowbar.
Perhaps you were bored, I know I was when I made a HL2 video like this(only heavily edited).

Honestly, all this hat crap is a persistence in stupidity. If Valve was a person, I imagine him/her being a cynical one that says: "As long as there will be stupid people, I will be fucking rich".
Aside from Valve and people like you(if they succeed), there's no fun in this.

I'm sorry your hat didn't make it to the idiots.

"PeeTee?"
I seriously read that "PeePee".

Here's another one: Popinjay (although this is not really original).

Pedro.

"So yeah, had a fun time. Got soaked wet on the water rides. What kind of experiences have you guys had?"

I think 2 summers ago I went on the local river(that was big at the time and very fast) on a tractor camera(you know, not the actual tire, but the inside). In a section of the river with big, splashing waves, I fell off.
The river basically shaved my ass with its stones.

Never 100%, but 90% is ok eh?

Yeah, for me the last baccalaureate tests will be next week. I'm quite scared frankly, because they're the most difficult.

Nice for you!

No I don't, give me a screenshot.

Super nice! How much did the mouse cost? What is the size of the mouse relative to your palm and, does it feel comfortable?
I have a Logitech MX518 since 2009, but it is a bit too big for my hand. The fact that I've been using it for 3 years despite my little struggle demonstrates that it's still a good mouse. I got very used to the 2 back and forward buttons on the side!

Haha, I did not expect you Archie not to like this kind of stuff. I assumed all northern people fall in love with these delicacies...
Anyway, what's the problem with it that you hate t so much?

Well it seems it's not going too well for you in this period, but since you have the skills, in a really desperate situation you could try one of those freelance job sites...

Well, it was for encouraging :).

It sucks even more when you realize that it's not their itch, it's yours.

Steam is a bitch sometimes, this happened to me in the past when I bought Gmod for a friend for 10 euros, and next week it was 75% off or something like that...

Archie ninja'd me!

I was going to say the same thing: not a bad start!
I will add that I didn't like the lighting, it seemed a bit too bland.
The pathways feel a bit too tight, and the bomb location will never be, in practice, reached by the terrorists. A truck of that size being parked in that place looks odd, don't you think?

You're doing well. I encourage you to step further with a bigger map.

I wish I could produce such quality in such a small amount of time! Although I watched Wall-E quite a bit of time ago, I feel your map is able to bring into memory a couple of scenes.
It surely looks rushed though, and you could still make some polishing.

Gameplay - Not sure what to say here, it features really straight forward action, hopefully not traditionally masked with cover positions consisting of crates. I wasn't able to put bots in it, I would have tried playing it a couple of minutes. What I think you can improve here is providing a bit of high-ground. Sure, there are some tanks there but they're not high enough and it's difficult to climb on them.

Ambience - You successfully convinced me that I'm not playing in a box. The ruined cityscape is a bit intimidating and makes me feel really small, but otherwise a wise 3D skybox for this map. I think the white landing pod that gives out smoke is a nice touch. Frankly, it's the only dynamic element in the map that says: "Hey! This is not an entirely dead, static map!". Seeing Wall-e recharging his batteries gives me a warm feeling somehow... About the sound ambience.... I can't say much, it does its job.
The textures were smartly chosen, and once again you're proving your creative geometry skills.

Problems/Suggestions - There are a couple of oddities around, but I know this was rushed and it's normal. One of the first problems I spotted were the shadows: they're incredibly sharp and black, those need fixing.
I liked the blueish building silhouettes in the distance, but it's a bit harsh to my eyes. You could try a more subtle blue. A thing that really stands out is the gap between the city and the desert terrain, that needs urgently fixed.
Some of the buildings look like they've been built by children: clipped windows and skyscrapers made of dirt that look like peanut chocolate.
I was intrigued by the hammer axis representation in the middle - is that intentionally left there? It looks rather weird... Since I'm talking about the middle, you should check that pile of dirt there - it's not correctly sewn. Also, why there are no-clips at the ends of the road, but you can "safely" fall off on the sides?
One last suggesting is that I'd like to see some dust blows on the desert land.

All in all, it looks superb for 5 days. Congratulations!
The ratings are disabled btw, but I'm giving you 5 stars.

Looks like you're very fascinated with Portal.

Holy cow 145 journal comments?!?!

NH Yodalman, Crollo, Trollo, Collapse... a man with many names. A symbol of member evolution.

Also, what's your talking about?