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On the second pass I don't care when my turn will be, since it will either be a mostly free week or already the holidays. But this week is going to be mad.

Then it's Dimbark and then me? Fuck, I don't know how I'll cope with this. I told you Friday was my best free day around these weeks and I've wasted it on nothing.
I might have a heavy schedule this week but when it's my turn I hope I'll be able to do it. Else, I'll just have to do it Sunday.

I love it.

Is Bruce actually mad?

This thread makes me feel like in the 90'.

Alright, nevermind my reschedule then.

I'm sorry, can I be rescheduled for tomorrow? I'm afraid that in other days I won't be as free( if Ninja Defuse is ok with that).

Well I verified Hammer and it seems to be working fine for CS:S. I'm willing to participate, just hope the day I will be assigned won't be a busy day. If it is, I will refuse to take it then, hope I won't make anybody angry :).

The serious problem here is that only now I noticed why Archie said

I laughed, then got upset at the fact that I laughed.

On a serious note though, this thread is a total mess. Some admin ought to clearly write the rules at the beginning. I don't have much time to waste on reading garbage posts, and I'm usually occupied.
I might offer my mapping services, but I need first to read some rules and see how much time do I get.

I watched Breaking Bad.

Pretty Lights- Total Fascination

Saw this at someone's status. I quite like it, never heard music from this genre. According to wikipedia, this is "glitch hop".

I opened up this thread expecting to find some shi...and I JIZZED IN MY PANTS.

Oh no! now my brain interprets that the words smell bad :

One person getting only one chance of 24 hours is a very risky assumption to start with. Many will have most of their day occupied by other activities, such as school. There has to be another method found for a sequential community project.

And also, I vote for Source. I don't even have hammer 3.5 and the tools for goldsource mapping installed anymore.

I actually shown some of your photos Crollo to some of my colleagues at informatics, explaining what HDR is.

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Smiling cat by Carstic Productions, on Flickr

Someone up there will look after you. You'll come just fine ;). See you soon on the forums!

I hope they call it "locomotive" or something like that actually, because "pipe" designates something static imo.

I read the news some time ago. I don't think I have a reaction. I mean, who cares... what's in the hand is not a lie, so we'll see about this when we actually have something to play with. Not words.

The second photo is rather nicely done. I like the composition and the warm contrast. Also, inventive use of tools!

Spring is showing up!

Snowdrop by Carstic Productions, on Flickr

Snowdrops by Carstic Productions, on Flickr

The mod works fine for me. The problem is that I got stuck in the apartments level(probably way at the beginning of the mod). I haven't figured out how to continue.

I have to say this mod is of excellent quality and pushes the goldsource engines to unexpected high limits.

Some dubstep that's apparently created by a 15 year old:

Vexare & Sarah Howells - Lanterns

Sounds good.

Is somebody still running a Minecraft server, or playing on some popular MC server that doesn't go insane with the structures and rules?
Btw, jungle and cats have been added!

Unfortunately I won't be able until late spring...it's just too cold in there right now...

About the cold:
I've got 2 computers.This one is my laptop in the bedroom and the other one is in the living room, which we CAN'T heat up, so I can't use it...

Heh, that gives "computer freeze" a whole new meaning!

Bitch, please:

I'm stuck.

I'm done.

[EDIT] Archie is so nice. Thanks for the prize!

I agree. I want to see some screenshots.

Welcome!

What is Trinity?

That was pure awesomeness.

So why is it a shame that the devs get money for their incredible work?

I think it's great. The game paid for itself in under 6 hours of going live.

Have I stated that? It's a shame I can't afford it! (ok, I can afford it if I want, but there are other priorities right now)
I am amazed by the sheer beauty of the level design and atmosphere.

Just opened Steam. So it's no longer free... what a shame. It looks so beautiful.

Did the new "Dear Esther" come out?

So far only Archie and Dragos can call themselves the masters of Half-Life... for all that's worth.

I have a question: does the quiz keep track of the time each question took to be answered?

I don't have that much free time on my hands.

I always say I'll do a dual screen setup with one of the old blurry CRTs I have lying around somewhere, the only thing that's stopping me is that my desk is not big enough.

Nope, that's not the reason. Let me remind you:

Forget it. You'll NEVER go back to 1 screen. By the time you remember you were going to remove it, it'll be too late. Put it somewhere comfortable before you regret it.

That's the reason I never even TRIED leaving my old 17" CRT nearby when I got the LCD

1st photo: bad parenting
2nd photo: employment application
3rd photo: background Tetris
4th photo: taking approximate measurements for a new backrest
5th photo: coffee break, obviously
6th photo: weight volunteer being used by a gymnast
7th photo: weight volunteer not properly handled
8th photo: No water.
9th photo: 6th photo explanation + weird guy in the background + 8th photo explanation.

Now we need a put these into a context.

If I ever have to come up with a story that involves controversies, the forums will inspire me.

Too lazy to process the image and upload it again, so that's a non-edited photo.

But if you want to see variations of it like this:head on to my photoblog.

Didn't really help me stay awake or anything, just made me need to piss really badly

It's a subtle effect. I don't think we can expect to become superthinkers if we drink coffee or take Ginko Biloba or something like that.

Back in 2007 when I connected to the internet( actually used the internet before), Counter-Strike was extremely popular in my area and a lot of friends and colleagues were connected through a huge LAN to the internet. That means we had no lag at all, and we could constantly find 4-5 locally hosted servers by random people.
So at a point I discovered a couple of map hosting sites and started downloading lots of maps just to explore them and propose them for playing. I even kept a notebook( I think I still have it) in which I wrote the name of the maps I liked most.
At this point I thought people who designed these maps must be some kind of advanced game designers(basically it was... MAGIC for me). That's to say- I was convinced that it's next to impossible to create such a map. It's basically the same way I still think today about creating 3D worlds in other games- like NFS.

I experimented with the Starcraft editor before, and at a point the curiosity in me just exploded. There must be an editor for counterstrike too!( knew nothing about "gold source... blah blah"). I searched, and I found the Hammer editor. I was so excited! I expected to find something easy to use( it is now, but then...) like the Starcraft editor. I installed it, and when I opened it for the first time the program just scared the crap out of me. Literally I've lost all hope of ever making maps. The first impression was that it was such a hard program to learn that I abandoned the idea for about 4 months(this happened around March 2007).
Then, as the summer holidays approached, I gathered some courage and started googling after Hammer editor. This is how I discovered a few sites like TWHL.co.za, snarkpit,egir.dk and others. Among these TWHL was the most appealing, part because it had an orange theme and I like orange, and part because it seemed to have an interesting community.

So TWHL had a silent student for a whole summer. In the first week I had progressed a lot. I still remember my first map- a cube using cs_assault textures. Ah, that was my day. It was such a special feeling, I felt like breaking a thousand barriers :).
And then I started with a map: samurai_jack_mini_map_#number. Each map had new features and I would test it with my friends. I think I still have uploaded the last map of those series(version 8 or 9 if I remember correctly), samurai_jack_mini_map_ultimate. And then I joined you guys in the autumn. You can say that my progress on the internet forums coincide with my age on TWHL.(4 years 4 months).
My first big project was The_Dome after I've seen a tutorial on creating domes.

And that's the story you might not know, the rest of it... it's on the forums :).

I can't be surprised until you confirm that's a fifth cup of strong coffee.

For some time I've manifested an increased interest in coffee and other coffee-related products, such as cappuccino. Perhaps it's related to the fact that caffeine is weakly addictive, and I've consumed higher doses of coffee lately. I am used though to consuming low doses of coffee since I entered highschool. Every morning(but especially during school), I have a big cup of milk, with a small quantity of coffee on the bottom(as much as to just change the color of the milk from white to brownish). I sometimes drink "pure" coffee in high doses at exceptional times, before an important test or if I slept less than 6-7 hours.

As a kid I was always intrigued by the fact that people in coffee ads drank from quite big mugs, and I saw my parents drinking from tiny cups. It seems that there are different methods of making coffee, producing different coffee strength. That's when I got interested first time in it. But of course I lost interest fast as it was kind of a "forbidden" beverage for me as a kid. Now I'm thankful that I can drink milk with coffee than milk with that nesquiq crap.

I'm currently using a "Moka Pot", or "Caffetierra",which is enough for a day's worth of coffee for my family.

Lately I thought about making at home other coffee-related products, such as cappuccino. That's why I want to save some money for an espresso machine, which is about 140$.

So far I've managed to taste the following types of coffee drinks:
-moka pot cofee( from what I understand it's slightly weaker than espresso, but much stronger than filtered coffee)
-filtered coffee( I'd rather drink tea than this...)
-cappuccino(my favorite so far)
-frappe
-Irish Coffee Mix

Talk about your coffee experience! Tell us how you brew the coffee at your home! What's your favorite coffee drink?

It's interesting that you included the option of choose where to go the second time, instead of another choice. It seems like avoidance to me :).

B, although a story on the shores and seas is more challenging to come up with. But hey, still a lot of possibilities.

Thank you, I know about that already. I asked about finished particles( common, somebody must have used fountains in source before ), not about how to create my own. I don't want to reinvent the wheel if somebody already created such a thing for public use.
I've been in the particle editor, but only to get some names or see how they look. It looks quite complicated and I haven't found an easy to follow tutorial yet.

Now that is some excellent mapping material, Archie. I wonder if we can achieve the same effect in Source?
[EDIT] That's actually looking so good that you should improve a bit more on that area and make a wallpaper.

A creative community needs a place where to share inspiring photos, ideas and concepts. Let's use this thread to accomplish that.

Ki Gompa. This picture was taken when I visited the Buddhist Monastery of Ki. Ki is a tiny village in the middle of the Himalayas, and next to it is Ki Gompa (Ki Monastery). I lived with the monks for about a week, and this picture reflects the peaceful, almost heavenly atmosphere that characterizes this place. The Monastery is almost 4,000 meters high, and I had to climb almost 500 meters more to get this panorama. This place is a touch of heaven. (Photo and caption by Natalia Luzuriaga)

Source

STS135Less Than 5000$ house

Incredible Switzerland LandscapesSome kind of weird cliff architecture in NorwaySt. Petersburg weird loopy building in waterTerrifying Bridges( Organic Bridges, let's call them like that)A collection of photos with sturdy bridges, wonders of architectureThis bridge is insane:Btw, has somebody every tried making a rolling bridge in SourceGS?Awesome architecture photography

From the last link^ I want to show you what I wanted to create in Hammer:Only started making the stairs( much simpler of course, I'm no super-mapper, but still probably too fancy for the engine) and Hammer works poorly. It also gives errors. Only possible with models on this level of detail...

Post away when you find something interesting!

Good luck with that. I started a map last year around this time, and it's 85% finished.