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Anyone know any good HL2 mods? I question because I've started a series on youtube "Half-Life 2 Cool Mods", some of you may know Supercapo999's HL1 Cool Mods series and I asked him if he was going to HL2 mods, he said no, one thing led to another and now I'm doing them. Suggestions?

Oh and to stay on topic, I have had many cats though my life. I live in a cat lover family.

EDIT: I prefer SP mods, that way I don't ever show people footage of me dying again and again if I suck at the mod

Is Hammer (HL1 Hammer) compatible with Win. 7. I'm using and everything seems to work fine that is until I try to add an ambiance sound which won't play. I've extracted the audio out of the gcf and into gearbox/sounds (this is for op4) but the sound won't play. I've done this before (on my TZS map) and the only differences now are I'm using op4 instead of HL and I got a new Windows 7 laptop.

But anyway the map will be a relatively short SP map for Opposing Force. You are a soldier and you and your squad have been pushed back into retreat by xenian forces. You take shelter in an abandoned military outpost to the north only to be ambushed in the night by them, you wake up to find your squad decimated and must escape the base. (This map doesn't take place anywhere near the BMRF, it is much farther north)
That's the basics of it.

I got a fever, and the only prescription is more Minecraft.
I got my new laptop which I'm very pleased with, it runs Source games unlike my old one which ran Goldsource at about 30 fps. So I decided to buy Minecraft after hearing so much about it and now I'm hooked. Right when I think I've run out of ideas for things to do I discover a huge cave system or build a network of bridges in between a whole chain of islands. Another that comes with my new laptop is mapping again, I can't wait to start up again. In terms of HL 1997 I'm awaiting orders of what to map so I might recreate another Metroid Prime Hunters map while I wait.

PS anyone know how to make a bounce thing without the actual bouncer, alien, plant thing

Are fast headcrabs supposed to be able to run around on the ceiling? I ask because that's exactly what I saw, I was playing HL2: EP1 and when I was in the zombie infested tunnels I saw a fast headcrab running around on the ceiling. It then jumped down and attacked me but I had never seen this before.

Xbox 360 or PS3?
So here it is. I currently have an Xbox 360, but I'm thinking about selling it and buying a PS3. I want a PS3 more mainly because I on't want to play $50 a month to play online when the PS3 has it for free. There is really only 1 thing Xbox has of PS3 and that's Halo but I don't even really like Halo.
So should I do it or keep my Xbox?

Lots of random stuff on my mind.

So it hasn't even been a week and I'm growing restless knowing there's a perfectly good competition going on and I can't map for it. Only a few more weeks then I'll get my new laptop. I'm also kinda missing paying HL deathmatch and OP4 Deathmatch with my friends and clan. This sucks I've resorted to playing though The Orange Box on my Xbox again. I HATE the strider battle at White Forest, if the stupid rebels would concentrate less on shooting the striders and more on the hunters that would make it so much easier, although when you finally do beat it you feel more accomplished I guess. So while on the topic of bosses, Why is the Nihilanth so easy to kill? Going on how much health I have at the end of his battle the Gonarch should have been the final boss as I had the least Health after fighting it.
What other bosses are in Half-Life, The Power Up Garg? The Blast Pit Tentacle? I can't think of any others.
One last thing, who would win in a creepy stare contest G-man or Weegee?

My computer's hard drive died so any map I was previously working on is gone. These include the {TZS} official map which thankfully I still have the unfinished version I posted on the {TZS} website, the small single player map I talked about in my last journal, what I had done for the competition, I'll just have to wait for the next one and I was excited about this one too :(, and worst of all the alien grunt lab remake for HL 1997.

Currently working on a new short SP map for HL1. The plot is basically you need to escape from a bio-research lab after some of the experiments get out.
It won't be very difficult as I'm trying to use mainly Headcrabs and Zombies as the only enemies. This may not sound like a good idea at first but I'm trying to keep it more like the people there were only creating one species. After all headcrabs are small and they could be used in military forces as the Combine do in HL2 plus the additional fact that it is highly unlikely that all the creatures (if they produced more than one) would all escape at the same time. Of course this is exactly what happened in the mod USS Darkstar but remember the containment for those creatures was some sort of force field that lost power. The creatures in this map are contained in bulletproof glass box type things.
EDIT: Delayed because Tallon IV (leader of the {TZS} HL Clan) asked me to make a {TZS} map. Once I finish that I'll continue work on this.