You've Been Mapping Too Much When... Created 20 years ago2004-04-10 13:33:51 UTC by Blueblade

• You walk down a hall and wonder what brush shape they used to make the opening at the end. (I'm serious. I was thinking about a hall in Hammer terms before.)

• You wonder if astronauts see the void when they fly through the sky and into space.

• You make maps of places like your school.

• Instead of taking a vacation, you just make a map of a tropical paradise and wear sunglasses and a hat while playing it.

• You give entities the names of your friends and say you enjoy spending time with them, while they wonder what you're talking about.

• When you see a scientist on TV, you amuse yourself with the idea of placing a barnacle above their head.

• When you roll off of your bed and wake up, you complain about misplaced info_player_start entities.

• You change a light bulb by giving it a new texture and light entity.

• When you see a security guard, you ponder the idea of making them open a secret door for you with a scripted_sequence.

• When you DO make them open a secret door for you.

• You believe that in order to talk to a marine, you need to first set them to prisoners in their properties.

• When you see a window, you decide to test whether it's set to be unbreakable or a func_wall.

• You get in an elevator and wonder how long it'll take to reach the next path_corner.

• When politicians are debating, you find that it would be much better to have their properties set to gag.

• When you stumble and fall, you complain about shallow carving in the room.

- You make maps of places like your school.

• Working out how many brushes it would take to make an oak tree (2437)

• When you start carrying a torch to light up places in your house where you forgot the 'light' entity

- when you start wondering whether you could climb through air ducts you see

Now come on, how many times have you done that?

• When you start discussing mapping with your parents, who don't understand a word of it.

• When you're at school, there are 3 working computers in the room, the other 2 are broken, you're on 1 browsing the HL forums, and other people are on the other 2, playing those crappy games at http://slimeathlete.com, http://slimesector.com and http://sfcave.com, and your friends keep bugging you about when you're going to come off, because they want to play the crappy games at the aforementioned sites, and think you're wasting their playing time. I know I'm guilty.

• When you get mad because you REALLY think your username is amx_slap

• When you compile a new map, you stare at the screen, counting the seconds as you watch the process window intently when you know it's going to take more than a few minutes to finish. (I'm not sure why I do that.)

-When you make a Bomb Defusal map based on the place you hate the most

-When you make a Hostage Rescue map based around the people you dislike

• When you've visited the community about 3000 times in a year (jeez, ten times a day!) and become a moderator (oops)

• when you try and test if glass is breakable or not.

• when you've been mapping on a school night, look at your watch, and find out school starts in 30 min.

• when you call all security guards barny.

• When you call all people in uniform grunts.

• when you have 923 forum posts on this site (Now 924)

• when you jump off something, you wonder how much dammage you took.

• when you look at something in real life and say (I could map that) while everyone around you startes in wonder.

• when you jump on elevators to try and see if you will fall and die (I do that in HL too!)