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Pfft. Source.

You want to know when Valve last broke the Goldsource SDK?

I used to be really strong in the legs, walking or cycling everywhere. I used to be able to sprint pretty damn fast too.

Then I got a car and it all went to shit.

I'm trying to write book.

Also, I'm a non-smoker but I will smoke a 20 pack in a couple of hours if I'm pissed.

Used to do that with the garden spiders at my mums. The brief look of bewilderment when a spider realises that it's caught a woodlouse. Classic.

I can't stand spiders but something about English garden spiders makes me smile. I think it's their like camo pattern thing they've got going on.

My favourite animal is the sealion.

When I was very young I used to draw a comic called "Super Seal"

Super Seal was never the same colour between any 2 frames and his arch enemy was a Walrus by the name of McDuff.

Walrus McDuff was one of my player names during my HLDM lan days, before we broadband internet. Other names included MonkeysTodger, PsychoMantis, BloodBath and Hitler.

My first online game of TFC was on a German server. My username was still Hitler. I was kicked after a minute or so.

5 facts for the price of one because the tie neatly together. I swear they are all true for better for worse.

Not really random.

Not quite. I've been suffering with my stomach and then halfway through that I caught a cold from the wife. I was a mess.

Also, I've used my logo as my avatar for as long as I can remember. Otherwise I wouldn't know what else to use.

At the start of August I was sooo ill that I was off work for almost a full week. During this time I decided to read The Hunger Games. The second day when I woke up I was so delirious with fever that I forgot I had a job and was genuinely afraid of being selected as a tribute.

We would never have believed you otherwise. Well done.

I'm right handed but when I start gaming on the computer, I become left handed. I can't play games with my right hand on the mouse.

I'm kinda the same, but not with a mouse, with a rifle. I'm right handed but I shoot with my left.

I rarely let anything touch my lips. If anything does I have to wipe them straight away.

Two monitors = Mapping + Movies.

Or, when playing Dota2 = Dota2 + dota2alttab.com

Me desktop I guess. Nothing interesting... suits me perfectly.

Gonna get myself a bigger desk followed by a second monitor that matches my primary.

Did somebody say "Source remake?"

...oh, nobody? I must be hearing things again.

Considering the original was essentially a Duke Nukem 3D with a redneck twist, surely it would be like Duke Nukem Forever with a redneck twist...

She is still a beginner. When i get more time i will teach her all the basics

At Minecraft, Hammer or showing her boobs...?

No. You will get The Core. 100% complete and ready to play.

We're not EA Games ffs.

I never ok'd this.

I'm ok with it.

Ideally, it would be an instrumental track... This track, for example, always gets my mind racing. I think of a robotic science complex built into a temple ruins or a pyramid.

baffles 3rd person singular present, plural of baf·fle
Verb
Totally bewilder or perplex: "an unexplained occurrence that baffled everyone"; "the baffling murder of her sister".

I think he's referring to the way you put your @usernames in quotes. It is a little baffling.

Ah... I thought this was a GoldSource question. I'm in the wrong forum...

Just make a button with a key texture that stays pressed. That's what we've done in the core.

Yup, got a budget model. Battery life wasn't great until I turned the brightness of the screen down. Speakers were far too quiet until I downloaded a booster app. Now it suits me fine.

I use it for browsing the web and watching movies online if I'm around the house, cooking or tidying or whatever. I'd like a laptop for doing more PC stuff but this would still get plenty of use.

@Ninja: Not sure what use an extrude face feature would be in hammer. Surely selecting a block then holding shift and dragging is basically that since you would just be creating a new block anyway?

Sooo a demo then? No.

Indeed. Both angles work fine.

Ragged Red
Part 3

So I’ve been in Falkreath for all of one minute and one to the locals has already told me to piss off essentially. What a nice place.

I walk a little further into town and find Grey Pine Goods, the general store. Great. Maybe I can offload some of this crap I’ve been carrying around… uhm… I mean, trade some of this fine merchandise I have aquired in my travels. “Got something for just about everybody in here” says Solaf, the shopkeeper. I wonder if that covers red-eyed homeless dudes hauling around various dead animal parts.

It does, as it turns out. In the end however, I decide to hold on to my pelts. If I can find a smithy were I can craft them into some fancy leather duds then they might be worth a few more coins. After selling a tomato, a goat leg and the dead couple’s necklace, I’m sitting at 123 Gold. Not a bad start. I browse his wares but decide I can save a few pennies by trying my hand at the forge. If I sell or use what I create, I’d be considerably better off, in theory. The transaction complete, Solaf signs off with “If you steal anything from my shop and you’ll regret it.”Nice man. Not ten seconds ago he mentioned he was far more tolerant of strangers that his brother. I wonder if he is the meathead who greeted me outside earlier.

I leave the store and begin my search for the blacksmith’s place. Then my search ends as it is right next door. How convenient. As it turns out however, I had less than I realised in terms of animal pelts. After creating a couple of sheets of leather at the tanning rack and then producing some strips with one piece, I only have enough left over to make some bracers. Still, it’s a start.I decide that in order to improve what I learn, I’m going to need more pelts, so I’m off to hunt. But to hunt, I need a bow. I check with Lod, the blacksmith but the hunting bows he’s selling are 155 septims which is just over my price range. I could sell my mace, but I’d rather keep it handy in case I run into that thief again. Not to fight with, but maybe he’d accept it as a bribe of sorts, rather than trying to carve me into hobo-mince again.

It seems I’m going to need to find some other way to scrounge together the gold I need. Then I remember:Herbs! Or rather, weeds! If Solaf at the general goods store is telling the truth with his whole “something for everyone” policy, he should be more than willing to pay me for ripping up the weeds from people gardens and taking them a few feet to his shop counter.

While I’m plucking all sorts of plant out of the ground, I stumble into a graveyard where some kind of ceremony is going on. I don’t really care, this place is littered with Nightshade! Jackpot. I bump into a man named Mathias.Apparently this is a funeral for his daughter who was ripped apart by some crazy guy in down. That’s cool. You gonna eat those flowers? He’s still staring at me as I rummage through a nearby rockery for mushrooms. I continue back up the hill, plucking everything that I pass, until I reach a small farm. It’s Mathias’ place and he’s just getting back from the service I barged in on. Eager to help him harvest his crops (and sell them back to him) I barge into his garden and tip over his cart, sending cabbages flying all over the place and pelting a nearby cow who just stands there looking all bewildered and cow-like.Sure enough, I pick up the cabbages, harvest the ones still in the ground, then rip up the potato plants and some gourds. Then I head back over the Mathias and sure enough, “Honest pay for honest work.” The guy hands me about 50 septims in total for pulling up all of his crops. Wow. Maybe the brutal murder of his daughter has made him drop a few IQ points.I can already afford the bow I wanted, but I need arrows too and I’m eager to show Solaf all the flowers I found in the cemetery (but not before I steal all the eggs from Mathias chickens.)

Bursting through the door, I shove all manner of mushrooms and weeds into Solaf’s hands and the bewildered nord throws plenty of gold my way. Finally I’m standing at 224 septims. I don’t really need the bow I was saving up for, but I can only imagine what these idiots would pay for something I actually crafted, rather than pulled out of the ground. Hell, in Mathias’ case it was his own damn crops in his own damn ground. As I leave the shop, I say a silent prayer for the nine divines.

“Thank the Gods. Thank the Gods for this town of absolute fucking morons.”

Load hammer and press one of your number keys when hovering on a 2D panel. The default is 4.

I use the mouse-wheel most of the time obviously, but it's a life saver to non mouse-wheelers and I always tap 4 to get back to the default.

Only just starting to work with sledge but it's looking good. I love how simple the setup was.

Funny how you don't realise how much you use a certain function until it's missing. On that note, any plans to add the numeric key zooming?

Good start. Yours is definitely more of a story than mine.

Also, you could have just made your own thread. I'm sure TWHL can handle at least one more.

Hell, by that definition I'm ripping off Chris Livingston already. Go for it, I'd love to read your adventures.

Part 2

I don my new tunic, deciding to totally ignore the fact that I only recently acquired it from the backback of a dead man. With this on I’m already starting to look a little more civilised.Ok, so I actually just look like a hobo who stole a tunic from a dead man’s backpack but what the hell it’s an improvement. I step back out of the cave into the wilderness which is still largely concealed behind heavy flurries of snow. A quick peak at my map tells me that I’m not too far from one of Skyrim’s larger towns, Falkreath. I head west, hoping that I don’t run into anything more threatening that a rabbit or maybe a goat at a push.“Oh God damn it!” It seems the wolves of Skyrim are celebrating national chew-a-hobo day. Luckily, this is just one of your run of the mill, soft squishy skulled wolves and he is dispatched with a single gut wrenching crack to the bonce. I skin it and take the pelt, something else I can try and flog for coin in town. I’m sure the locals would be fine with a deranged, blood-soaked homeless man dumping a heap of mangled dog fluff on their counter and demanding money in return.

It’s beginning to get dark when I stumble upon a small, wooden shack with a free bed and a chest containing 4 lockpicks and 50 septims. Score. I pocket the loot and curl up on the flimsy wooden bed frame and get a few hours of sleep.Upon awakening at around 8am, I look around the shack and notice a couple of things the darkness had concealed the night before. A silver amulet and a note are set down on the small chest of drawers in the corner. I pocket the amulet and give the note a wee look.That’s a little concerning. Still, nothing to report on my end overnight so I guess the dragon must have moved on. I step outside into the morning air, take a deep breath, and then choke on the smell of burning flesh. To my horror, it seems that the darkness was hiding something else out here last night before I decided to hunker down in this “abandoned” shack. The previous occupants.The next couple of minutes, sprinting downhill, are kind of a blur. A couple of wolves howl somewhere to my right, I ignore them. I pass under a wooden structure without so much as a backward glance. Then I realise I’ve gained somebody else's attention. That or the wolves have taken up archery just to make my life more difficult. (Note the arrow just falling short behind me... yikes)I topple over a previously unnoticed waterfall while frantically looking around for my pursuers, landing hard in a shallow pool. I scramble up the bank, out of the water, and notice another figure running towards me. I wait for him to reach me since he has had the good grace not to try and kill me yet.

"Hand over your valuables" he demands...Oh for fu-... I go with the safest and most obvious choice. “Do I look like I have any money?” I can honestly say, I wasn’t prepared for this Khajiit’s response.

“Actually, yes. You look like you are lousy with gold.”

Man, fuck this tunic! I should have kept my damn rags. I’m back to sprinting downhill, occasionally sidestepping a torrent of daggers and fur, when I see Falkreath up ahead.I’m home free! Although with the luck I’ve had so far I wouldn’t be surprised if the guards tackle me to the floor and order me to apologise to the Khajiit bandit for making him tired or something. As it happens, passing through the gates of a guarded city has forced him to reconsider his attempt to murder me for my dapper tunic. Nevertheless I still run all the way into the center of the town. I stop to catch my breath when a local hard-ass walks over to me. “Strangers like you bring the war to Falkreath. I’ve seen enough war.” then he walks away.Dude, don’t even get me fucking started...

BF3 is rapidly approaching insignificance anyways, what with BF4 coming out in 2 months.

No, I mean I only payed $1 as opposed to $4 because I didn't need BF3 and Sims 3... sorry

I'd prefer to do a remake if anything but it would just be more beneficial to use Source for a sequel... but now I've said too much and have to leave.

Alright, so I went with an Imperial because they're skill is talking and not fighting so I thought it would make things a little more interesting / funny. I also used a mod called random start which will plonk you down in any one of 400+ random locations with the gear of your choice. I went with "No Gear" as I will be playing a hobo. Also, you can rest assured that in light of using this mod, the first sentence of this first entry was actually uttered out loud in real life...

And so begins the adventures of Ragged Red, the Imperial beggar, lost in Skyrim. Enjoy.

“Where the pissing hell am I!?” I wake to the sound of a roaring wind while my skin is battered by freezing snow. I must have been wasted last night. I am wearing nothing but rags and a couple of cloth footwraps and I have absolutely nothing on me.I turn to face the cave behind me, which I manage to identify using my unrivaled hobo clairvoyance as Bonechill Passage. Given that this is the most immediate form of shelter available to me and that my bones will likely be chilled if I stayed out here anyway, I step inside.Oh joy! The place is littered with bones and dare I say they’re looking a might chilly. My instincts pay off however, in that I immediately come across a coin purse containing 17 septims. Nice! Then, a pair of hardy leather boots not 3 feet away. Excellent! Then, a massive fucking wolf! SHIT!

He actually doesn’t put up much of a fight. It might be that he’s full up on the previous owners of all these bones. Or, it could be that he was simply not expecting much out of some bewildered, aged hobo who just wandered into a cave full of bones and ice.I continue my journey into the frozen cavern and find another poor soul who has been liberated of all his limbs.In his knapsack I find a tunic, some shoes and a couple of books. I quickly scan through both books and the second gives me a little bit of experience in “Heavy Armour.” I literally scanned through it in less than I second so I can’t have learned much more than the fact that “Heavy Armour” is armour that is heavy. I also find a steel mace with which to defend myself and a couple of healing potions for the worse case scenario, although I would prefer not to run into any more wolves.

As I round the next bend, I run into a wolf.This one is a considerable larger “Ice wolf” and this one certainly provides more of a challenge. I flail my mace around like a madman, landing a couple of good hits and feeling pretty good about the way this is going, then the wolf closes it’s jaws around my arm.

“ARGH! FUCK!”

One bite from this thing and my health bar drops to a worrying amount. I take a couple more swings and the wolf retreats for a second to reconsider his tactics. I assume that involves deciding on another body part to bite. That suits me just fine and I chug down a healing potion just as he charges back in. I raise my mace as he leaps into the air and... THUD The wolf flops to the ground with a dirty great dent in it’s skull.Well shit, I’ve only just got through my second fight and already I’ve been in danger of dying. Maybe it’s a better idea if I pop on this tunic and brave the snow as I head to the nearest town. I’ve manage to scrounge a few items which I can sell and while it’s not going to be enough to net me a house any time soon, it’s a start.

All the games I wanted are taken, so I just bought the bundle. I don't own any of the games in it so what the hell. Not bad for £0.64.

Already own BF3 and Sims 3 so I paid the bare minimum.

I guess I could put some media up here...

Not only is that idea awesome, I could still work on The Core while I entered it! So, it's... double awesome. Aweawesomesome.

Archie, it seems that you're the only one who has a problem and keeps bitching about it.

Man up dude!

Edit: On second thought, making gold by a single proffession will be dull as hell. I'll stick with the tried and tested method of "Anything goes" in a rags to riches style. Foraging, crafting, mugging, anything.

So, starting out in rags, I'll still take suggestions for a race and general persoanlity.

But... if we release it now people will say it sucks!

I don't think Skyrim is that open ended. However, it saddens me that such a mod probably already exists.

Go on then. I'll make my return official and put up a new thread that nobody will care about and that I will likely lose interest in before too long.

Another one of my silly little ideas for people who like reading nonsense posts.

I will play Skyrim and keep a note of my journey. To get me started, you guys can pick a race and come up with some ideas for making money that doesn't necessarily resort to questing. (Some of you may recall a little guy called beggar Bob who I tried to make a living with while avoiding all straight up combat.)

Races to choose from

Argonian - Lizard man
Khajiit - Cat man
Imperial - Political talky man
Elf - Pointy man
High elf - Snobby pointy man
Dark elf - Scary pointy man
Breton - Wizard man
Nord - Man man
Orc - Beefy fuckin' strong man
Redguard - Black man

Welcome to the community. It's always nice to see new people still interested in mapping for GoldSource.

Eat fresh.

You realise you are now asking somebody to confess to being a prick right? Probably should have asked more generally, then simply called the responder a prick.

WHY ARE THERE SO MANY CAVES???!??!

Shut your mouth. That's why.

the penis next to my leaf house is a dickwaffle

That sentence.

That's quite a project.

New Urbania will gladly donate any rails you need (As many as I can make with my current iron reserves at least). Let me know where to make the drop and I'll get on it when I get home.

Need to work on a transit system between Archaean and spawn. I quite like making little visits to trade at the farmers market but it's a days trip there and back by boat...