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Strider your hilarious!

Hmm on a school day its all the same stuff and than drive for over an hour in traffic to university of houston. That is if i'm taking a morning class.

I like coffee but the less I have it the better it works when I do so I try to ration it about 2 or 3 times a week.

I used to eat eggs and sausage every morning or french toast but my heart pains force me to avoid the cholesterol. So I eat cereal and fruit etc...

todays assignment: Pool floor

Edit: Finished.

Haha, yea sometimes my morning goes like this.

1. wake up to phone alarm. Hit snooze and go back to sleep.

2. 10 minutes later repeat step one.

3. 10 minutes later repeat step one.

4. 10 minutes later repeat step one.

5. Repeat process for one hour and finally get the FU** UP!

If you like to have dreams wake up an hour before you need to be up and go back to sleep for another hour. I always have dreams when I do this!

Dang huntey you do a lot in an hour and a half!

Write your morning routine. ex:

1. Wake up.

2. Sometimes pray.

3. Write down dreams in dream journal if any had worth remembering.

4. Open window blinds.

5. Feed fish and water plant.

6. Turn on computer.

7. Shave and wash face. Wash hair or take shower.

8. Check facebook, twhl, email, etc.

9. Make and eat breakfast.

Lots of progress but SO much to DO ugh!

Edit: I am definitely flexing my mapping muscles in this one. Two days straight of work "new screen not taken". I really need to find a more terrain friendly engine.

Haha yea and he used it in another pool map! Funny if we used it against him in his own competition. I would if she was hot...

Omgosh tell me I didn't just find an awesome red gibson sg model! This website rocks. Also has a few good lambo's and other cool cars.

Edit: Just scored a koi tank with swimming fish!

some scale fig.s are out of scale. Crappy drawing just to get better idea to help make rock formations.

I'm seeing some tiny progress in the overly complex pool. Any one else doing one?

Awesome, tree's alone inspire architecture exercises for me. Spooky tree's I dl'd make me want to make a victorian/ haunted like house. Cactus and palm tree's make me want to map a desert area. The huge intricate tree's make me want to map asian like architecture.

Dude thanks strojke i'm getting tons of nice trees etc. added to my collection!!! You rock!

Sorry to here tet, girls are great at breaking hearts and tearing relationships apart. And making you feel like a total piece of sh**. Just know that I along with many more have been there.

Treat em like dirt and they'll stick to you like mud

A metal bat that is... to the throat. Quit fighting over facebook. Look what its done to you guys! You monsters!

Hard to get rid of? Just un tag yourself or remove a picture. And if you don't have anything to hide like me you'll be fine. Otherwise, sure; don't make one. I didn't mention integrating it with twhl at all just that its fine. But you are right it does really put your info. out there and if you are worried about it than stay away from it. You can set your privacy to not allow anyone that isn't your friend to view information though. And I doubt facebook would sell this information... Than again who am I to know I hardly trust anyone.

And how am I late? this forum was on the front page strider...

How would facebook degrade twhl? And facebook is great for touching up with people you know or have known before. Even just whent to the same school as. I've met some cool people from it as well. But im with striker on not accepting random friend requests, people just do it to look cool and have many friends. If you do so you have to see their posts which you don't care about bc you don't know them so I avoid it all together. It will hide whats actually going on around "your" life.

If you don't have fb, make one. You won't regret it in any way shape or form. Just get a few people you know closely like family as friends. And than a few friends and people from school and let it do the rest.

Maybe ill put one swimming around

HAHAHAHAHA

Lol thanks, no but I did notice it. I've layed out the map in hammer for scale just have to get chipping away at it for the next month or so! Thats a sexy ladder thanks i'll check it out.

hahaha

Uh, what if there's multiple areas of the pool/ other features to it. I don't think there should be any limiting rules besides its a manmade pool.

Edit:MUAHAHHAHAA

Double edit: More cleaned up and orthoganal/on axis.

@ huntey and than a deformation breeds a new "smart" human that reproduces and the cycle starts over

Kdunivan i'm not saying we shouldn't have killed him now but that we should have earlier. Immature insults won't get you far in the real world.

10 years later was too long. Now it was like a pointless slaughter if you ask me. I mean this isn't going to stop terrorism, just encourage more. They shoulda killed him years ago and put more effort to finding him.

This was one of my suggestions for the last compo. I'm in. Got a few projects i'm beginning on though so this one might not get a lot of attention. May make a spongebob map for hl/cs and I have a fewe architecture exercises in mind for the summer.

My recent architecture project for school incorporated water and my teacher wouldn't allow many of my ideas so it will be nice with out many limitations.

I am aquarius, you are warned!

I like like like it huntey. A clean layout! Would be neato for hldm.

just use light_spot and check is sky to yes. I've never used light_environment.

Unless the engine was updated to handle this it would look entirely shi###!

How doesn't that make sense? Thanks disco stick lol.

Edit: Ok very important ? If I do decide to go with the alienware m15x there is a very important decision I have to make. Is it worth spending an extra 325. or 950. to get the better processor or is the base i7 processor fine?

Dell Price $1,574.00 With first one "included"

Intel® Core™ i7 740QM Quad Core Processor, 1.73GHz (2.93GHz Turbo Mode, 6M Cache [Included in Price]


Intel® Core™ i7 840QM Quad Core Processor, 1.86GHz (3.20GHz Turbo Mode, 6M Cache) [Add $325.00 or $9.00/month1]


Overclocked Quad Core Processors
Intel® Core™ i7 940XM Quad Core Processor, 2.13GHz (3.33GHz Turbo Mode, 8M Cache) [Add $950.00 or $28.00/month1]
Increase Efficiency

Yes this was a really fun competition. Very constricting in an odd way. Congrats tet I def. had a feeling you'd win! Thought i'd place though.

Hehe thanks Strojke. Wowzers captain "drewling all over keyboard!" Your starcraft map is epic I can't believe this didn't take first!

Hmm. Alright. It seems apple is more expensive for the exact same components though. What do you think of the mac book pro 15?

I've seen some great vid.s for the alienware m15x as it runs with no lag and great res. but its battery life is absolutely horrible. I want a rig to map for source so i'm leaning towards it.

Thanks theres a lot of great info here. Hmm apples got some overheating issue reviews on bestbuy.com.

Check this out. I built this alienware onlone and it comes out to $1674.

Any thoughts on it?

Alienware m15x:

Module Description Description Product Code & SKU Product Code & SKU
Base System Color Alienware M15x, Lunar Shadow ADGRYN [224-8217]
Operating System Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English AW7HP6E [420-6436][420-9691][421-0092][421-1400]
Processor Intel® Core™ i7 740QM Quad Core Processor, 1.73GHz (2.93GHz Turbo Mode, 6M Cache 740QM [317-5398]
Memory 4GB Dual Channel Memory (2x 2GB DDR3) 4GB133 [317-2404]
LCD Display 15.6-inch WideFHD 1920x1080 (1080p) WLED LCD1080 [320-0936]
Video Card 1024 MB ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5730 AT5730 [320-8991]
Hard Drive 500GB SATAII 7,200RPM 500GB72 [341-9754]
Nameplate Personalized Nameplate (My name) NPLATE [330-6106][330-6174]
AlienFX AlienFX Quasar Blue BLUE [313-8792][421-1590]
Avatar Alienhead Glow AVITR2 [421-1572]
Adobe Reader Acrobat SW Adobe Acrobat Reader ADOBER [410-1883]
Optical Drives Slot-Load Dual Layer DVD Burner (DVD+-RW, CD-RW) DVDRWRX [313-8565][421-1305]
Sound Internal High-Definition 5.1 Surround Sound Audio IS [313-8944]
Wireless Wireless 1520 802.11n Half Mini-Card DW1520 [430-3774]
Automatic Updates Automatic Updates: On AUTOON [330-6348]
Primary Battery Primary - 6-cell (56Watt) Lithium-Ion Battery BTTRY6C [312-0205]
Service 1 Year Basic Service Plan S1OS [421-1724][905-3017][906-0700][988-7347][990-8029][994-3730]
Factory Installed Games Steam and Portal™ Factory Installed STEAM [421-1360]
Wallpapers Alienhead 3D WAL1 [421-1591]
Bluetooth Internal Bluetooth 2.1 Mini-Card - 2.1 Enhanced Data Rate TM370 [430-0684]
Standard Nameplate Trigger

Wow bad a dude! Ebuyer? A website?

I'll check this out tomorrow when I get home from work meeting.

Sounds good but I need suggestions such as what kind of processor, how many ghz/ram etc. to look for to overly handle source. My neighbor that knows about computers helped me with my dell but it handles source so badly and he said it would perfectly.

I'm getting $1650. back for my tax refund. I am going to spend it on a laptop because I am away from home at school most of the week and need a computer with me. I've been needing to upgrade to a better pc but need a laptop too so decided to get a really nice laptop.

I need it for mapping and drafting with autocad and vectorworks and photoshop and pretty much any program. It would also be nice to be able to map for source with it. Is this even reasonable? Any ideas? I haven't even began looking. I don't want to spend way too much but I am willing to spend enough for what I need. Are there laptops that can easily handle source mapping?

In a way I guess what i'm looking for is a really nice gaming laptop.

Edit: I want it to be better and faster than my current computer:

Dell Vostro Vostro_2000 intel pentium dual CPU E2180 @2.00GHZ 1.20GHZ, 1.00 Ram

And I really don't think I want an apple.

Probably tet's. I like his too.

Notice that awesome tower summit just looking at you from across the way

Ok I didn't think captain should be dis. but I just counted over """seventy""" solids. Thats madness.

Uhh, we all know that a concave brush takes two brushes therefor I and everyone else were unable to make them with a single brush. At the same time I don't care if he isn't disqualified. I think its silly that you did this though lol.

I'd try to enter but the server is too laggy for me to play any good.

Oh, k SPANKS ! ! !

Where you typ ip to find server?
Or what's it called.

I like mine, tetsuo's and captain's the best. If I choose mine I simply probably won't vote at all.

You guys should playtest mine its in the vault.

Now I agree with that. And one important question. Are you able to see who votes for who? Becuase who says someone won't make a bunch of accounts and vote for themself?

Yea unless we can't vote for ourselves who wouldn't do so. I'm sure in a way everyone likes there own work the best as do I in many ways. This should'nt be allowed. And one vote is enough in my opinion.

Cool, whats the rules? Voting for yourself or you have to for someone else?
Not that I would do that.

I like this guys. Freshed this was pretty creative. Though g man d*** well knows he's one evil bad a** mother fu**er.

Interesting potato I like the waterfall.

Wow soup thats really creative. It is a little dark but I can feel the cold distant ambience just from the screenshots. Very awesome.

Yes the better "graphics" should be taken into account. Sheesh i'm sure I could have done mine in source. It would have been a great exercise. Wow there has been a great turnout! Cool maps guys I like the ambience in yours hotdog. And yours is quite strange striker. Hmm I should have focused on better quality textures.