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Since Valve got their shit together with Steam about, oh, 5 years ago and really improved VAC, it isn't really an issue on their games anymore unless you play on an unprotected server.
Way back when I first started online gaming about 9 years ago with CS 1.5 and Elite Force, it was atrocious. Basically one out of every three servers you played on would have several speed hackers and such.

As a PC Gamer pretty much exclusively (I have a 360 and a Wii, but both are gathering dust somewhere not even connected to a TV) I don't think I've really encountered a major problem with it at all recently, though.

Bad Company 2 had a few aimbot exploits back when it was first released, but punkbuster isn't actually as rubbish as it used to be, and you normally get a pretty good game on it now.

In fact, I think the only game I still play which has a cheater problem is GTAIV, and nobody plays that competetively anyway, so why complain?

Actually, half-life had a hacker problem before. When they were making HL2, somebody hacked it, and they ended up removing the Lost Coast section.

By hacker he means cheater, not an actual hacker. The term has been used instead of "cheater" for as long as I've played video games. No idea why.

Skillz Talent and Elton John have done a track about the riots.

Something tells me Marc Laidlaw is just a little more experienced.

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Um, ok, first of all fans have been asking for a new CS for years. CSS is like 7 years old, I don't see how a new instalment is a bad thing.

Also, Gabe has said repeatedly that ep3 will never exist. Valve abandoned episodic content. Half-Life 3 is going to be a full-length game, and of course they're working on it.

Then again we never know, they could be working on HL3 now and for the past few years.

We do know; They have.

It's 2011, you ignorant fuck. How can you possibly think it's even remotely acceptable to judge people by their race?

The "white massacre" you linked to is the result of people like you. There is no way to avoid the negative connotations of the word "nationalist" because it leads to exactly this sort of thing. People killing other people because they weren't born in the same country. It's sickening.

When you were a foetus, did you demand your mother point her vagina at a Western country before you were born, just in case you were born in, say, Africa?
No, you didn't, because you have no choice about where you're born, and therefore judging people based on that is utterly retarded.

Wow, so Four N Exclamation mark M Four T Zero R is a nationalist and a racist, huh?

Interestingly, I actually found an interview with 4N!M4T0R on youtube.
Looks like he should be taken seriously.

Nero - Promises

Not bad. Kinda melodic dubstep. She has a nice voice.

Urby does not know
about AMs and PMs.
Otherwise good post.

The reason I deleted him from Steam friends is that he told me he doesn't believe there's enough evidence to prove dinosaurs ever existed as they conflict with stories in the bible.

It intrigues me that he expects us to believe his Herobrine bullshit based on the 'evidence' of one barely relevant screenshot.

If the riots were about economic frustration and political disdain, then we would see council buildings as the main focus of attack. All I'm seeing is a bunch of opportunistic idiots with an uninformed view on current affairs, perpetuated by the irresponsible portion of mass media.

I can't believe you're still going on about this herobrine shit.

38_98, socio-economic class is defined by three categories:

Education, occupation & income.

They are given all of these. At the expense of tax payers.
They choose not to improve their lives because their lives at the moment are far too comfortable.

Refer to stereotypes? What stereotypes? This is literally how these people live. This is not stereotyping, this is observation.
It's all very well saying that these people are at a socio-economic disadvantage, but whose fault is that really? The government pays for them to have a roof over their heads, clean running water, gas, electricity, food, education and healthcare. They then get further benefits for various reasons which they use to buy the latest designer clothes and electronics.
They absolutely have the ability to get a job and work their way out of the council estates, but they just never take their fingers out their arses and actually do it.

You should watch the fly-on-the-wall documentary series "The Scheme". It's a little difficult to find because it was involved in several court cases, but that alone should let you know how uncensored and real it is.

Fuck, I sound like a conservative. spits
But it's true. These people need a reality check to push them out of the warm bosom of benefits.
£41.5m ($68m USD) last year was awarded to people on "insufficient income" (i.e unemployed) and that's England alone, not even counting the rest of the UK. That's also not counting the elderly, disabled or people otherwise incapable of working. 41.5 million given to people who are able to work.
It's also not counting child benefits or jobseekers allowance.

Plastic bullets and boiling hot water are all well and good, but if you really want to hurt these people - take away their benefits.

These rioting arseholes are second generation jobless. Their parents have raised them to thinking that they can live without contributing in any way to society. There are people who are having babies not out of love or the desire to start a family, but because it'll increase their benefits allowance. Seriously. They're violent because they're brought up in this environment of worthlessness. The don't value property or possessions because they've never had to work for their own. Their entire outlook is so skewed to the extent that they don't even value human life.

And again - I'm fairly left wing, to put that rant in perspective.

I love the attitude of one London-based mapper over at 'lopers who said:

On the plus side I'm getting great reference shots for my Left 4 Dead map!

I also noticed
perhaps Skals has forgotten
the edit button.

Check the London thread
for substantial proof of this
mad double posting.

Things like openly firing on crowds

Just for clarity, I think I should point out that the only firearms option that was considered was to use non-lethal rubber bullets, beanbag shotguns & water cannons.

A problem, I see:
Skals can not count middle lines.
Just six syllables.

[edit]

Actually look,
his second haiku as well
has fifteen total.

[editedit]

As the first post says:
Haikus should have seventeen.
It is not that hard.

[editeditedit]

Ah, but look at that!
It's his seventeenth birthday.
I'll cut him some slack.

All, at this juncture;
glory to the Hypnotoad!
Resisting will hurt.

They're attacking local businesses and homeowners, as if they have anything even remotely to do with it.

Also, Duggan had a loaded gun and the police took the action they deemed necessary, but like I said, this literally has nothing to do with the riots anymore.

The thing you must keep in mind is that the supposed excuse for this is the illegal shooting of Duggan by police, yet that hasn't actually had anything to do with it for 2 days.

This is Chavs & gangs finding an excuse to be violent and loot places.

This is a pretty right-wing article, but it hits the nail on the head perfectly, particularly this:

Others have consulted their A level Sociology textbooks and pinned the blame on the rioting youths' “disenfranchisement” or “deprivation”.

None of this third rate Marxist rubbish holds up if you leave the lecture hall and come face to face with the rioters. It is almost impossible to think of a way these people are disenfranchised. Each and every one of them has the franchise. When they reach 18 they will have the right to vote. They may choose not to use it, but that’s up to them.

Neither did the rioters I saw look particularly deprived. The closest thing they have to a uniform are Franklin & Marshall jumpers which retail for about £60 each. Most of them were filming their rampages on iPhones which can retail at over £400.

I'm very left-wing and I don't hide that fact, but this really is true. The rioters are absolutely not disenfranchised.

How literally do you mean 'literally'?

The Batman you say?
Please, I know the real batman.
Over in this link.

derp

... There are no windows in Urby's screenie

Urby and me really need to consider our mortality. I think continuing to act the way we do is probably going to send us to an early grave.

One-sixty hours gone
but they were all wonderful.
Fallout: New Vegas.

Portal 2 is great,
but the co-op got old fast.
Can I get ep3?

"Wait, I already know." - 6
"My haikus will be really cool!" - 8
"What should I write about?" - 6

Come on, folks, syllables aren't that hard!

We knights who say "ni"
Masters of word games and cheese
Gee's a shrubbery.

Just submitted the tutorial for review, Blitzkrieg. Should hopefully be up soon.

That does look legit awesome. Nice work!

If someone's coming at me I can tell if something is up or not.

You just can't know that. Not for sure.
I live in the stab-capital of Europe, remember. I do understand.

In your situation I would make damn sure my laptop was insured which it should be regardless of where you live if it cost as much as you said.
I would then demand that CCTV be installed in the car park which concerns you.

If a gunman approaches me in the carpark, then hell yes I give him the laptop. Then there's CCTV footage to show the insurance company that it was robbery, they buy me a new one and it's quite possible the gunman's face was caught on CCTV so he could be arrested, and the original laptop might even be returned.
Also the simple addition of advertised CCTV would probably deter most muggers anyway.

Of course you're safer without a gun in that situation. The gunman doesn't feel threatened and has no reason to shoot you. If you have a gun, he does.

And the fact that your first response to someone creeping up on you is to draw your gun is a perfectly valid reason for you not to own one, frankly. That's shocking. What if you've made a mistake and it's some kid in a hoodie looking for someone or even just walking in loosely the same direction as you. I know that situation - being in a really risky place at night alone and becoming ultra paranoid that the footsteps behind you belong to some nutter. That is not a situation adding a gun to would improve.

Pot does not kill braincells.

The myth that it does is based on a 1974 study in which rhesus monkeys were given the equivalent of 1.25 joints every hour for 90 days.
There's actually substantial evidence that pot stimulates the growth of new braincells and can even help with memory loss in cases of head injury (although the latter point is somewhat sketchy).

Crollo, I was totally against guns in the hands of the public.

Now I'm pro-guns, because your argument to the contrary is so fucking annoying. Seriously, your "facts" are so self-righteous and barely topical that they lose all meaning, and then you cling to them for dear life and repeat them over and over again trying to clarify a point that never existed in the first place.

Also, for the record, there's nothing wrong with weed in moderation and calling Blitzkrieg ignorant for indulging is totally out of line.

Oh, and obviously I'm not actually pro-guns now, just for clarity.

Strange how players of FPS's react to gun laws.

Not at all. Guns are a great thing to contain in games and movies, because they quite often show how disastrously brutal they can be.
Sure, plenty of games glamorize violence to the point of it basically being pornography, but that's also fine because it can be a great way of relieving pent up anger and such by taking it out on a virtual character in a safe environment.

Police should have guns, because you can guarantee they'll get professional training and will therefore hopefully show some common sense and restraint.
General public, though? I meet so many utter twats on a day to day basis who barely know their left from their right. These people get drunk every day, form gangs, break property and stab each other. I literally could not be more glad that they don't have guns as well.
Even some of my completely sensible friends, I absolutely would not trust with a gun. It should not be so easy to end a life.
I couldn't live in America for that reason. Some totally sensible guy loses his job and his wife, starts drinking, blames society and decides to take a shotgun into a crowded shop? Fuck that.

Yeah, ok. It's fairly easy - I'll submit a tutorial proposal.

edit:
But just so you know, I'm going to continue spelling words like colour in English, not American.

I agree. I didn't suggest using a gun or a knife.

I'm just saying if the person isn't armed, and I have self-defence knowledge I'm not going to let them take my shit.

Why learn "self defense[sic] of some sort" only to give them what they want if you're ever confronted?

edit:
Actually, I assume you mean if you're ever confronted by a gunman, in which case you speak wisdom.

JeffMOD speaks sense, you would do well to pay heed to his words, traveller.

without a gun, you might lose your laptop. Sucks, sure.

with a gun, you might lose your life. Sucks more imo.

yeah you stole that murder capital of Europe from us in Glasgow ya bastard.
oh well, at least Glasgow is still the stabbing capital of Europe.

oh, and many Americans need to realise that the solution to gun crime is not more guns.

thanks guys. yeah i know the architecture isn't anything special yet. at the moment the walls are just preventing leaks, not adding anything visually.
You can't achieve anywhere near what you can achieve with colour correction just with lighting alone.

I can't tell you much about this - just that it's a new map for the planet Phillip compo.

OK, so why have I never used the colour correction entity before? It's awesome.

Cheers. Started adding some contrasting lights and atmospheric effects.

Excessively WIP

It's not people who have found what the textures were based on, NineTnine, it's the original collection of photos that Valve used to make the textures for Half-Life.

Sorry, I had to stop reading. Your loose sense of grammar made it a chore rather than something enjoyable.

Well there are tiling caustic generators available, so if you spent hours perfecting yours you probably could have done it in 5 mins, sorry :3