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So, didn't get any games or consoles, ect, but I did get some useful stuff, and some cash. My parents said they'd contribute about $250 or so to the computer when I start buying stuff, and my bro has been helping find parts for me.

On a more mapping-related note, I've been doing mostly source, and aside from having to redo some sections of cliff walls 2-5 times, it's been pretty good.
I will probably still finish Colony 42, or at least release the source if I can't go back to Goldsource after this, but it's on hold until Urby sends me the scientist lines I gave him. I realize he's a busy man, though, so I'll just stick to source for a while.

I hope everyone's Christmas And Christmas Eve was safe (Srry, i'm sorry to hear about your oak incident) I got a lot of stuff i wanted, some i didnt even know i wanted until i unwrapped to see the magic. Once i get everything organized i'll edit with a list of what i recieved. until then, i need to spill this information.
Idk if anyone remembers my computer having random blue screens every now and again. I never found out what was causing the problem until today when i booted my computer up for the first time in 3 days to find the desktop unresponsive, and none of my computer peripherals were functioning; mouse, keyboard, any usb device..
Well come to find out my heat-sink was NEVER properly attached to my processor. And i probably would've lit the thing on fire if i hadn't used arctic silver. I opened my case to find copious amounts of dust EVERWHERE within my computer and when i got to the heat-sink, it was layered with dust. I cleaned off the dust to find the clips connecting the sink to the motherboard were broken! So that explains the hardware blue screens and the massive vibrations i'd receive upon startup.
I find myself blessed that i didnt cause more damage than i did.
So i popped onto my moms lappy (which i'm using right now) ordered another one off newegg that'll be here on wednesday.

I'm not too bummed, as i'm playing soccer tomorrow all day, i'm snowboarding Monday, going bowling Tuesday, and probably working Wednesday.

Anyway.. Here's some pics i took with my new Nikon D3000 Camera.TLDR; Computers broken, could have been bad but is not, will be fixed soon, new camera, some pics, Merry Christmas!

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Here's what i got. Quite a haul if i so say so myself:
The family got a new 40" LCD HDTV!! 1080p and prog-scan and all the goodies. We got a PS3, I got Band of brothers Blu-Ray Set. 5 dvd's with bonus features. Got a Complete car care kit: wash, wax, chamois, tire black, rim shine, armor-all interior care; you name it's in the box. As previously mentioned, i got a Nikon D3000:And along with that i got 2, 4gig HD Sd Cards for memory. (holds total of 2K + pics) Got a case for the camera, 3 year warranty, and a 55-200 Zoom lens. My Girl got me new snowboard boots (nice white burtons, the no-tie, pull-to-tighten ones) assorted sweatshirts, pants, loads of gum (cant chew because of braces, i traded the gum for sweet tarts from my brother) I also got $40 gift certificate to EB games, some scratch-off lotto tickets (lost on most, only won $6 :-/ ) Got a Leatherman Blast, a nice craftsman digital multimeterAnd my father just handed me a card with $400 in it. He couldnt decide what to get me so he figured i'd treat myself to something nice. I will as soon as i can find time to do so.

I got a severe case of poison oak on Christmas eve, so bad that my eyes started swelling up. Today one of them is practically swollen shut, so I'm basically blind in one eye. It's been a miserable, itchy, blurry-eyed Christmas for me.

O/ good people of TWHL.
Hope you had a good Christmas and that everyone is looking forward to a happy and healthy New Year.

And yes, to those that left comments last year, I do remember you all. Some with fondness and others with omfg is that guy for real

For some bizarre reason people still send me emails about mapping which is great if I log in, not so great if I done..

Way back when I first got involved with Atom and TWHL the burning question was will this site support modding and mapping for years to come or will it be like so many others that sprung up and disappeared.

It is a testament to the professionalism and tenacity of those that followed Atoms lead that this site still exists and provides an archival base for the basic (and sometimes the downright impossible)concepts of Mod and Map making using the Half-Life engine.

So, pat yourselves on the back.

It make me proud to log in and see a thriving community...

Till next year,
All the very best.

Andy

Merry Christmas everyone from my new computer, which unlike my old one works perfectly. Hooray!

I'm rather cold at the moment, and due to the cold we have no water or heating.
Lovely.

Merry Christmas, faggots.

Merry Christmas everyone!

I have had PHP listed in my CV ever since I had one. However, I don't remember typing a single line of PHP until today, when I had to script a page for my "second job" (I don't have a first one, got fired a year ago).

Today I found out I didn't know shizzle about PHP. But it turned out to be pretty easy so after a couple of minutes I had the page set up and working. Not pretty, just functional. I'll take care of the looks after it does everything I want it to do.

So today I found out I was ahead of myself. I suppose I knew I'd find it easy to learn if I ever needed it. I'm glad to know I wasn't wrong

I went to a video game store before looking for a copy of Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. The sales assistant was clearly an idiot, and didn't know what the game was. He wanted me to describe it to him. I told him it's about a black guy driving around crashing cars, rooting whores and evading police. The dumb cunt gave me Tiger Woods Pro Golf Tour.

So a new mod for Source came out called Flesh which is horror and stuff. I liked it and I haven't finished it yet but so far it took me 2 and a half hours to get the the third map and I believe there are 5.

Sometimes you forget it's actually Source cause they've done some nice changes to the engine using Hammer entities mostly such as the 3rd person camera.

It's a mix of Silent Hill and Siren and I think you should all give it a go:

http://www.moddb.com/mods/flesh

I'm currently creating a L4D map of my workplace! XD

I'll post screenshots fairly soon as I hope to have more fun killing zombies there than working there.

See This

But after you see the video, please don't come here and spoil all right?

There is nothing Valve can do right now (with the exceptions of canceling episode 3 and/or deleting my steam account) that would piss me off.
First they have a free TF2 weekend.
This causes one of my friends to invite me to his place to play TF2 with and against him.
We hook up my computer to his home network, and I can update steam and download TF2. In the process, I also download HL2, Lost coast, The SDK, and Steam HL.

Aside from a few problems with the more advanced shaders in HL2, and TF2 sometimes going black except for the HUD, the source games work perfectly.
Fast forward to now- I'm home, and I'm almost out of the mines in my HL2 save. Ravenholm is less scary than I thought it would be.
TL:DR;
Free TF2 weekend causes JeffMOD to go to a friends' place, Now he has HL2 on his computer and in a playable state.
Expect a basic source map within the next month or two.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2ehP3v10bo

First tutorial uploaded.. sorry.. theres still no voice to guide you through, but this ones pretty basic as it is my first. Tell me what you think..?

Use the url /url tags next time to make the link clickable

Last night, we ordered a Pizza from Pizzahut. A single large Pepperoni Pizza. When it finally arrived, my aunt chose to pay with Visa, but it was strangely declined. She switched to debit, paid for the pizza, and the delivery guy left.

Why didn't the visa work? Turns out the man charged the visa for $22,356.61
Yes, you are correctly reading this. No wonder the card was turned down!