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You'd probably get more votes if MOTM was up to date, and you'd keep MOTM up to date if you got more votes! Circular logic wins again.

Time for the official TWHL record winners!
These awards are based purely on statistics, so they have absolutely no bias. Enjoy!

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The Closed Door of Closed Threads goes to:
thehalflifedude, with 8 closed threads. Are you surprised?Closed thread stats for 2008:
thehalflifedude - 8
HLGenius - 7
Skals - 5
The_(c)Striker - 4

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The Blue Bucket of Spammage goes to:
Penguinboy?! I really didn't think I posted that much.Forum posting stats for 2008:
Penguinboy - 805
MuzzleFlash - 793
Captain Terror - 694
Tetsu0 - 664
The_(c)Striker - 640

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The Red Bucket of Spammage goes to:
Habboi! Again! Massive amounts of shouts there.Shout posting stats for 2008:
Habboi - 1685
Skals - 1434
potatis_invalid - 1312
Luke - 1185
Spike - 960

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The Unlocked Diary of Soul Spilling goes to:
Madcow, with an enormous 52 journals! That's one every week!Journal posting stats for 2008:
Madcow - 52
World Crafter - 35
Rimrook - 34
The_(c)Striker - 30
Skals - 30

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The Golden Hammer Award of Mapping Enthusiasticness goes to:
Skals, with 10 maps! Keep practicing!Map posting stats for 2008:
Skals - 10
The_(c)Striker - 8
DragosLt - 7
Tetsu0 - 6
Jinx - 6
GameMasterPau10 - 6
raver - 6

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The (Sometimes) Helpful Advice of Reasonable Use has been renamed! Since the Vault isn't the only thing to support comments now, it has been renamed to The (Sometimes) Useful Commentary of Questionable Accuracy, and the same award is given to multiple people for Vault, News, Tutorial, Wiki, MOTM reviews and Journal comments. There's quite a few to get through, so here's the image for all the following winners:Journal comments: Skals!
Skals - 338
potatis_invalid - 336
Luke - 325
Strider - 323
Spike - 316

Map comments: Skals!
Skals - 132
The_(c)Striker - 130
Captain Terror - 104
hlife_hotdog - 61
Daubster - 56

MOTM review comments: Daubster!
(These stats are the ONLY comments on the reviews, they are not very active.)
Daubster - 4
The Hunter - 3
FresheD - 3
Masta Killa - 2
Urbanebula - 1
DragosLt - 1

News comments: Strider!
Strider - 62
Penguinboy - 34
potatis_invalid - 30
Ant - 22
HLGenius - 21

Tutorial comments: Captain Terror!
Captain Terror - 11
OD-Knuckles - 8
Sillu - 6
Daubster - 6
The_(c)Striker - 6

Wiki comments: Captain Terror!
(These stats are also are the ONLY comments on the wiki, they are not very active either.)
Captain Terror - 5
Madcow - 1
MuzzleFlash - 1
White Wolf - 1
Sajo - 1
The Hunter - 1
Deathan - 1
satchmo - 1
The_(c)Striker - 1
Daubster - 1
HLGenius - 1
yousifucv - 1

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Now for the Official Penguin Awards!
These awards are based entirely on my opinion, so they contain [m]maximum bias[/m]. Enjoy!

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The Sleeping Penguin of Laziness goes to:
The entire MOTM review team. I think the reason is pretty obvious.

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The Dunce Penguin of Stupidity goes to:
thehalflifedude! I think we can all agree on this one.

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The Invisible Penguin of Disappearance goes to:
Ant, for he is crafty and got out of his cage.

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The Amazed Penguin of Amazement goes to:
hlife_hotdog, for the best competition entry since SlayerA's Orb.

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Congrats to all the winners!

Yes, Freshed, all that is correct.

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Prt
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Vmx
Do your research, man.

Right click the game in Steam, and choose "properties". Then add "-windowed" (without quotes) into the box that pops up when you click "Launch Options". It won't load in the native, but it wont mess with your desktop either. Once it starts, you can change the settings as you want, and remove the "-windowed" from the options before you start the game again.

Restart Steam, delete clientregistry.blob, etc etc

Close enough.

But you're funny looking.

I'm worse at mapping than any of you. I WIN!

to repeat my post:
Who won the MV mod award?
And should I give out the TWHL stats awards or not bother (e.g. awards for most shouts, forums posts, etc)?

Wait, who won the MV mod award?
I think you missed a name there.
Poll: should I give out the TWHL awards (e.g. red bucket of spam) again this year?

That's not a real Valve community, it's just a traffic-gathering website. I don't think it matters much in the scheme of things.

Also, is there any way to combine this with my idea from ages ago? Many people seemed to like the idea, but nothing ever came out of it.

For people without EP2: If it is made as a mod based on the EP2 engine, you don't need EP2 to play it, you only need a Source game, I'm pretty sure.
See if you have "Source SDK Base - Orange Box" in your Steam "Tools" tab.

you stole my joke!

:/

Goldsource sucks.
SUCKS.

...

Compared to Source.

EDIT: actually, compared to nearly everything.

PNGs can be animated, which:
1. don't work in IE
2. we'll ban you for

He meant that Intel are doing better in the CPU race at the moment, but it's all relative. Similar priced AMD and Intel CPUs perform about the same, but Intel CPUs have models that go way over the AMD top CPU. I prefer AMD, myself. I currently have the best AMD CPU that exists at the moment, quad core Phenom 9950. The equivalent Intel in the same price range is like the 8850, and then it goes way up to triple that price on the top Intel models.

Awesome! Thanks for the heads up.

You just edit your profile. But I have to enable it, first.

1. Custom titles are for content contributors only
2. You just get permission to use the titles, you enable them and specify your own custom title. You can edit it whenever you want.
3. Because I'm lazy etc, custom titles that stretch more than two lines overlap the bottom of the forums page sometimes, so make sure your title is only one line, when displayed in the forums.
4. As strider said, no inappropriate titles. If you use an inappropriate title, or one with more than one line, you will receive a warning, and, if you continue to use it, you will get your title privileges removed, at the least.

If you have a tutorial, post here saying that you want to be a content contributor, and have custom titles.

Uh, I get maximum speed from the site I uploaded it to, a third of that from filefront, and only a fifth of that from muzz's host.

I have no idea what paged pool memory is apart from the fact that Source likes to have lots of it.

Loading times are mostly based on RAM (and possibly CPU), but not really on your video card. Since you have a P4, it's likely that you have DDR-400 RAM, which is twice as slow as most modern machines (DDR2-800). And it goes without saying that a P4 is not the best CPU to run L4D on, so loading times will always be fairly long. As for why it's longer, I couldn't say.

Hyperthreading is not multicore, and for all source games you should bump the Paged Pool memory up to 400 or so (last I saw there was a tutorial thread in the Steam forums with 3 options: ~200mb, ~300mb, and ~400mb. I'd take the third option.)

standard nokia ringtone.
i never use my mobile because if i leave it on and put it in my pocket, it dials australia's emergency number whenever it gets bumped around, even with the keypad locked. i can't afford a better one >_>

yeah, this time it's because he didn't get to play enough of a violent game, instead of playing too much. games just can't win when it comes to stupid people believing mass media.

I'm annoyed at grim and daub too. get your butts in gear, you two!

but 5400RPM is/was an extremely common hard drive speed

in the last, say, 5 years

was is the keyword here. I'm talking about new HDDs, obviously.

well the rule is consecutively, so the gap between SNES and Wii means that Nintendo doesn't break the rule.

Uhh, we're talking about desktops, right? I've never seen a Desktop HDD with a speed of less than 7200RPM (in the last, say, 5 years?). Putting a 5400RPM drive in a desktop is really stupid, because it'd be a laptop drive -_-

Here's my hard drive setup, I find it works quite well:
200GB: windows and programs, as well as my working directory
200GB: game installs, steam, mapping, etc
700GB: storage
I need more room for storage, but I've never run out of space on my programs or games drives!

also, cap t: buy the best value HDD. here, the cost of 1TB drives is the best value (i.e. cost-per-gigabyte). divide the price by the number of GB and the best value one is the lowest result. (when talking HDD, 1TB = 1000GB, not 1024GB)

Sony failed the console race this year. There is absolutely no way they can reclaim the victories they had with PS/PS2. It's the console rule: nobody can win the race more than twice consecutively.

Ant quit.

lawl

i assume you mean directx 8 tet, because the highest version of dx that source uses is dx9.

pre-built machines are always enormously overpriced. that's why I always recommend that people build their own computer instead of wasting their money on one that's already built.

The longer the trailer went, the lamer the movie got. -_-

Hmm, you should be able to turn on the monitor manually even if the computer isn't running, srry. I know mine, and every monitor I've ever come across, shows a box saying "No display adaptor" or something like that. So, if it's a new monitor, it's probably faulty.

Try a different monitor for the computer, and a different computer for the monitor. Use a different video cable if possible. A laptop would do fine. Just to see if the problem is the monitor or the computer. Try not to use a TV unless it uses the same output on the video card. Most cards have an S-Video out port and there's always the slim chance that it works, but the DVI port doesn't. Also, try unplugging and re-plugging the monitor power cable, while the computer is running.

In other words: eliminate the variables.

From what I hear, many Asian countries have very strict education regimes, which easily explains their tendency to be brainy.

lol!

That is, considering that I'm looking at the same case for (AU)$190

Nay.
I count for 10,000 votes

fift

• is a wildcard in windows search and can stand for anything.

Windows XP doesn't detect (or use) more than 3.5GB of RAM, so installing more than that is useless unless you plan on running Vista or the 64-bit edition of XP.

So having more than 2x2GB sticks is pointless, because they'll sit there and never be used. So you can safely use the red slots. Problem solved

i put myself in brisbane but it was some stupid brisbane in america so i had to put another one in the real brisbane >_>
how do you delete entries?

EDIT: nevermind, captain terror's already made it into a joke, map is now useless.

The easiest fix would be to use the red slots instead of the yellow ones.

Considering that it was initially a joke, and everyone else has strongly recommended against it, it's safe to say that he's not going to do it. I know I wouldn't.

Hello? You can install a PSU, graphics card, DVD drives and HDD's without a case. Just rest them on a bench or something. And you don't need cooling fans (besides the case-independent CPU cooler) if there's no enclosure to blow air out of.

I don't recommend it though, just pointing out that Tito is completely misinformed on this matter. There are many "enthusiasts" out there that have computers laid out all over a desk instead of having a case.