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Posted 12 years ago2012-09-01 05:13:48 UTC
in Half-Life: The Core Post #309517
At least mine was related to The Core and Archie and Urby were present.
Posted 12 years ago2012-08-31 18:01:01 UTC
in Half-Life: The Core Post #309505
I had a dream last night in which The Core was finally released and I downloaded it in a cardboard box. It came with a nice thick paperback user guide. I also invited all TWHLers to play it in my house in the many computers I had.
Posted 12 years ago2012-08-31 17:59:04 UTC
in Black to Transparent Gradient Texture? Post #309504
I think it would have the same problem as an additive rendered solid entity.

I'm sure your best bet would be what srry said. Make a cartload of 1-unit thick black walls and make them func_illusionary with texture mode and like 1 FX amount.
Posted 12 years ago2012-08-28 23:35:56 UTC
in Half-Life: The Core Post #309437
Disco Stu likes.
Posted 12 years ago2012-08-24 02:46:20 UTC
in Half-Life: The Core Post #309309
Actually those crates used to store construction materials, but after they built Black Mesa around them, they couldn't get them out. That's why they're empty when you smash them, their contents have been used already.
Posted 12 years ago2012-08-23 03:24:29 UTC
in Mist of Stagnation - Modeling Contest Post #309267
That looks great.
Posted 12 years ago2012-08-21 00:59:28 UTC
in Half-Life: The Core Post #309192
You guys are better architects than I am.
I love the way the rails are just FLOATING there unsupported like they were in the original game... hooray, physics.
Yeah I was about to say exactly that. I'll take my previous comment back.

:P
Posted 12 years ago2012-08-15 21:00:58 UTC
in Half-Life: The Core Post #309095
Machine looks so pixelly. And the puddle is not brown enough. I'd have expected better from you.

You guys are better architects than I am. I can't wait to see this mod.

...and play it, while we're at it.
Posted 12 years ago2012-08-10 02:29:26 UTC
in Black Mesa: Source video leaked Post #308920
There's nothing wrong with the actors voice, he just shouldn't be reading his lines like he's auditioning for a porn film.
THAT EXACTLY.

I think it completely ruins the mood.

...maybe if they changed the soundtrack to something like this...
Posted 12 years ago2012-08-09 02:43:16 UTC
in TWHL Big Brother 2012 Post #308889
Adjustments to the format? Yes. Hm. Well. Alright. I'd like it as a cyan-red stereogram, I have these 3D glasses since the 80s and I haven't had a chance to use them. And I'd like it delivered on Super VHS to my residence please. PAL, of course.
Posted 12 years ago2012-08-09 02:35:10 UTC
in Now Gaming: ... Post #308888
Even if it is not detected as it would be in a "real" LAN, the player on the other end of the Hamachi VPN can connect to your Hamachi IP and it will work.

What I meant is that Hamachi is not always automatically detected as LAN, even if configured (in Windows at least) as a primary network adapter.

Hamachi does not detect (and/or make use of) the multicast address used by Minecraft but aside from that, it works perfectly.
Posted 12 years ago2012-08-08 18:15:15 UTC
in Now Gaming: ... Post #308879
Yes, it does create a VPN, but not all programs detect it directly as LAN. Depends a bit on network settings.

And yes, I do have an oldish computer.
Posted 12 years ago2012-08-08 07:18:56 UTC
in Now Gaming: ... Post #308853
I didn't find it more stable AT ALL. Now that single player runs on an internal server, the game can't keep up with itself. Very often the game freezes (the game, not the executable) as if waiting for the server to say what will happen next. Just as often I find myself breaking a number of blocks, realising none of them dropped its corresponding item, and after a few seconds freeze, most of those blocks reappear and I am teleported back to a previous position facing a different direction. At the worst times, I had to perform actions (breaking or placing blocks) 3 or 4 times.

There is also plenty of sound stuttering, or the sounds of the last 10-15 blocks placed/broken and the last 20 steps all playing at the same time several seconds later than they should have. This becomes especially bad when there is a creeper around because with these freezes, the only warning I get is the fuse sound at the same time as the explosion sound, hopefully with a one second freeze to realise I am about to be blown up. Followed, of course, by the actual explosion.

So yeah, the update wasn't a good experience for everyone.

As for the new features, I haven't seen them all yet but they seem pretty interesting.

What I will give them is that the Nether is now as playable as everything else. Used to be pretty unplayable before. Haven't tested the End, but it used to be even more unplayable than the Nether despite being smaller.
Posted 12 years ago2012-08-08 07:02:06 UTC
in Black Mesa: Source video leaked Post #308852
Yeah voice acting is ridiculous.

The rest... looks very good. Can't wait to see this released.
Posted 12 years ago2012-08-07 01:20:11 UTC
in TWHL Big Brother 2012 Post #308817
Probably not, but you can convince me to also vote for Dimbark.
Posted 12 years ago2012-08-06 20:49:31 UTC
in TWHL Big Brother 2012 Post #308810
I've not used an HD link for you low bandwidthers.
<3

Very amusing episode.
Posted 12 years ago2012-08-05 20:36:08 UTC
in Last movie you saw? Post #308792
Total Recall? I saw the trailer the other day. I just can't get it through my skull. WHY do they have to remake perfectly good films?

I understand it might be a desirable option if the original was in poor taste, or in terribly low budget and it sucked, or if it plain flopped. But Total Recall, despite being a bit old, had nothing wrong in my opinion. I think it's still pretty good, despite some a bit aged visual effects or the lack of foresight in putting 18" CRTs from the 80s in a film taking place in a distant future.

Total Recall aside, we also have Robin Hood, and even Spiderman.

I firmly believe that it is only a lame excuse for the lack of creativity from the Hollywood writers. They can't come up with something good.

Take The Wizard of Oz, from 1939 (the one starring Judy Garland). I believe it is still an amazing film despite being 73 years old. Infinitely better than anything with the Muppets in it.
Posted 12 years ago2012-08-04 04:02:08 UTC
in Post Your Photos Post #308766
Has anybody been to Rand McNally? No? WELL I HAVE.
User posted image
Posted 12 years ago2012-07-30 04:19:28 UTC
in TWHL Big Brother 2012 Post #308603
Is it me or you could make better faces with TS2?
Posted 12 years ago2012-07-29 00:14:44 UTC
in TWHL Big Brother 2012 Post #308555
Unfortunately I don't have a face.

Unless this is acceptable:
User posted image
In my defence, I did look a bit like that for a few years.

Favourite food: Wiener Schnitzel or pasta.
Favourite music: Jazz/Funk/Soul
Starsign: Pisces
Posted 12 years ago2012-07-23 07:22:42 UTC
in Slow Internets are slow Post #308298
I want in too.

Mental note: Move to Lithuania
Posted 12 years ago2012-07-22 01:48:03 UTC
in Colorado Shooting Post #308238
The media doesn't do a very good job at ANYTHING.
Posted 12 years ago2012-07-21 23:26:14 UTC
in Colorado Shooting Post #308227
But the moment "externally exact replicas" become commonplace, potential attackers won't be afraid of anybody pointing a gun at them. Because they'll know they are just inexpensive and mechanically inert replicas.

Also anybody could go rob a bank with inert replicas. Because victims woulnd't know if it is the real deal or not.
Posted 12 years ago2012-07-21 21:02:40 UTC
in Slow Internets are slow Post #308205
Yes. Pick you up at NYC Grand Central on 26 Sept.
Posted 12 years ago2012-07-21 20:52:04 UTC
in Slow Internets are slow Post #308202
TO RUSSIA!
Posted 12 years ago2012-07-21 20:42:32 UTC
in Slow Internets are slow Post #308200
It still is a pretty crappy service compared to what everybody else has.
Posted 12 years ago2012-07-21 20:33:24 UTC
in Slow Internets are slow Post #308197
Actually it is 128 KB/s. Wrong letter casing, my bad. 128 kilobytes/second.
Posted 12 years ago2012-07-21 20:26:03 UTC
in Colorado Shooting Post #308195
Dimbark's rockets? Just give him Dimbark alone and he'll go back to his island.
Posted 12 years ago2012-07-21 20:23:04 UTC
in Slow Internets are slow Post #308194
^Heh heh.

I have what's probably the cheapest internet access available in my area. Doesn't mean it's cheap though. Costs about $60/month. They advertise it as 1.5mbps (which was pretty good when I got it in 2004) but the most I get is 128kbps down and some 20kbps up.

Being relatively close to the connection point of a transatlantic fibre line doesn't help. I blame it on those 128kbps being an entirely artificial limit.

A friend of mine has the same provider, he called them last week and only said he was going to move over to the competition. Apparently they gave him an upgrade to 5mbps free of charge for a year. FOR A YEAR. BLOODY SCAMMERS.

And to think the other day I was talking to someone from the US, that was complaining about the sucky 10mbps because they get 100mbps symmetrical at MIT.

Let's all get depressed together.
Posted 12 years ago2012-07-21 20:02:09 UTC
in Colorado Shooting Post #308189
A society full of rocket launchers is the society I want to die in.
FTFY.

I must be one of those naive hippies, wishing for world peace and all that.

The only shooting I am alright with is the shooting of presidents. Should happen more in the rest of the world, too. Many of them deserve it.

:P
Posted 12 years ago2012-07-21 02:44:34 UTC
in Colorado Shooting Post #308139
Thanks Grim.

What a nut. I don't know what to say.

Also I am with Archie.

Perhaps Americans can enlighten me on the matter if I am wrong, but I get this feeling that things like these seem to happen in the US more often than in the rest of the world. Sure, it happened last year in that island in Sweden (or was it Denmark? I forgot) and a few years back in a Brazilian school, but the US seems to be home to these events more often.

*if only Batman had been there, he would have saved the day. </shamelessbadjokethaticouldntresist>*
Posted 12 years ago2012-07-21 01:48:52 UTC
in Colorado Shooting Post #308135
I don't watch the news or read the papers or anything. What happened? I am seeing this everywhere in the last few hours and can't find a single concise description of the event. All I could get was that someone shot someone. In Colorado.

May I ask for a brief description of the event?
Posted 12 years ago2012-07-13 22:33:47 UTC
in Doors to reset to default on round start Post #307860
MAYBE something could be done with a combination of the door's "target" and "fire on close"
Posted 12 years ago2012-07-13 21:53:11 UTC
in Doors to reset to default on round start Post #307858
I think it's not possible to set doors to one state or the other. You can only trigger them to toggle their state.

But I think they are reset anyway. They are only not reset if they were moving when the last round ended.
Posted 12 years ago2012-07-04 02:43:51 UTC
in Now Playing: ... Post #307617
You don't need to worry. She is doing so right there.
Posted 12 years ago2012-07-01 22:13:11 UTC
in Post your screenshots! WIP thread Post #307561
Looking good. I only wonder if there are more tree models available for you to use.
Posted 12 years ago2012-06-23 03:07:49 UTC
in Keyboard issues Post #307359
Detective Striker at work.
Posted 12 years ago2012-06-21 23:40:19 UTC
in info_player_deathmatch Post #307328
You have two options.

A) Place all the spawn entities each one in a separate black box with a teleport set to either site A or site B. This has been suggested in the past.

B) Use only the spawns in the dry area.
Posted 12 years ago2012-06-21 20:21:09 UTC
in Keyboard issues Post #307315
I would definitely try that same keyboard on a different computer, and a different keyboard on your computer.

As for insects, I never understood how some people's computers get crammed with various bugs. Some people even get whole colonies of cockroaches. I never had anything more than normal dust. A shitload of it, but just that.
Posted 12 years ago2012-06-18 01:29:10 UTC
in Dimbark's CSS Server Post #307215
To expand on The Mighty Atom's point:

www.whatismyip.com
Posted 12 years ago2012-06-17 20:35:42 UTC
in Dimbark's CSS Server Post #307209
Mine is better. I have all the good maps.

127.0.0.1:27015
Posted 12 years ago2012-06-17 06:47:03 UTC
in Post Your Photos Post #307171
Speed? You can't fool me.

/me doesn't like fake blurs
Posted 12 years ago2012-06-16 22:20:32 UTC
in Post Your Photos Post #307167
Great shots. Except for the second one, I'm not too fond of motion blur.

@Crollo: Is that REALLY 400 ASA?? D:
Posted 12 years ago2012-06-09 17:35:42 UTC
in Seeing outside of the sky.... Post #306907
No. There are maps in which 1-unit thick sky brushes block a different section of the map from being rendered, but there are also plenty of maps in which you can see other areas through the sky. I am not entirely sure of what causes this phenomenon.
Posted 12 years ago2012-06-04 15:49:14 UTC
in Last movie you saw? Post #306748
Men in Black 3.

Quite good, much better than MiB2.
Posted 12 years ago2012-06-03 21:00:40 UTC
in TWHL Oldschool CS 1.6 Server (CSDM) Post #306727
It WON't work?

//not looking for 1.6 anymore
Posted 12 years ago2012-06-03 20:57:14 UTC
in TWHL Oldschool CS 1.6 Server (CSDM) Post #306725
This is unacceptable. There are no maps of mine in here.

//Edit: oh you said UNPOPULAR maps. :P

//still trying to find CS1.6
Posted 12 years ago2012-06-03 20:42:46 UTC
in Hours of gaming Post #306724
Oh god, he's one of Urby's clients!
...don't follow.

I meant Episode Two at 11 hours and Episode One at 9 hours.
Posted 12 years ago2012-06-03 05:38:38 UTC
in Hours of gaming Post #306706
So many hours sunk on a game like that.
Posted 12 years ago2012-06-03 02:10:05 UTC
in Hours of gaming Post #306703
You beat Archie's mum Bejeweled 2 Deluxe.

...honestly Archie, I refuse to accept that.