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How about mapping a space themed-map? No starwars inspiration on this one.
For example, map a space station(or possibly a human settlement) on Gliese 581g trying to recreate the conditions present there?

I even wrote an article about it on my blog :).

Oh, I heard my math teacher talking about it. Must check IMDB to see what's that film about.

I just watched "The Shining". Boy, I must say, I suddenly don't like the idea of being alone anymore, after all, all work and no play makes jack a dull boy...
I'm even thinking of changing the avatar again =)).

The funny thing is that if I read Luke's name backwards in romanian, it basically means "It's cool".

The hungry cat!

Let's make this more interesting. I nominate a map from top to base

What do I mean? We're given the top of the map and the base of the map. We're completing the Z axis :).

Well you see skals, I also tried this one particular awesome sport once. You can call it "jumping off the building". I broke my ankle. But that was 7 years ago when I thought I can fly.

So basically your lifestyle consists now of doing triple backflips and frontflips all day long?

"because I liked...those things, umm, bread with the sausages in them, and sauce. "

"bread with the sausages in them, and sauce. ""

SAUSAGES.

They come from pig intestines, you know?Anyone remember? But wait for the next Christmas. Now I have a Nikon. High detail photos of making sausages!
Any wish lists for macro shots?

continue;

Though I didn't expect to stay around TWHL for so long.

Are you on drugs or something?

I guess my TWHL nickname has to be the most unoriginal from here. Back in 2007 when I registered I was really playing a lot of Counter-Strike(almost being a "pro"). Hey, I was 13 at the time... I guess I thought about playing counter-strike with lighting bolts.
Actually my nickname is "Samurai Jack", which is again unoriginal. I chose this one right after I connected for the first time to the internet(spring 2007, although I used the internet from about 2004). Why? Well, probably because I like that Cartoon Network character when I was young. Yes, I'm not a Samurai and I will never commit harakiri as well ^^.

For about a year now I'm still trying to figure out a good, original nickname to last at least 10 years from now. I can't find one....

Even though I frequently register on forums\sites with "Samurai Jack", I also invented other nicknames, unoriginal as well :(. For example, my youtube account is "reactor1system" and now if I think of it... well, I'm asking myself wtf did I mean with "reactor1system" back in 2007 ?!
My flickr account is "carstic_productions", but that's a more separate domain-photography(I leave in a karst area).

Oh skals, I always thought "skals" means something like "skulls" or something like that xD.

If you want to make a wtf effect, I think it's possible to replicate this shadow effect in hl1 or source too:

Dancefloor Devils- Hungarian Rebel (Hands Up! Edit)

Have to thank again Muzz for this. Boy, at 0:40 starts the cool part. Oh man I feel like running!

Can't you see the black silhouette?

Pay attention to these lyrics because this is a funny fact.
Seriously, you can't lie about it. It's so popular you will do it(the fact, that is).

Never gonna give you up,
Never gonna let you down,
Never gonna run around and desert you,
Never gonna make you cry,
Never gonna say goodbye,
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

Optional reading:
Never Gonna Give You Up" is a song written by Stock, Aitken & Waterman and sung by English singer Rick Astley. The song was released as the first single from Astley's multi-million selling debut album, Whenever You Need Somebody. The song was a worldwide number-one hit, initially in the singer's native United Kingdom in 1987, where it stayed at number one for five weeks and was the best-selling single of that year. It eventually topped the charts in 25 countries, including the US and Germany.[1]
The song won Best British Single at the 1988 Brit Awards. The music video for the song has become the basis for the "Rickrolling" Internet meme. Arguably, it remains Astley's best-known song.
In 2008, Rick Astley won the MTV EMA awards for "Best Act Ever" with the song "Never Gonna Give You Up", as a result of collective voting from thousands of people on the internet, due to the popular phenomenon of "rick rolling".
"Never Gonna Give You Up" is the subject of a popular Internet prank known as "rickrolling" involving misleading links redirecting to the song's music video. By May 2007, the practice had achieved notoriety on the Internet, and it increased in popularity after its use as a 2008 April Fool's Day joke by various media companies and websites, including YouTube rickrolling all of its featured videos on that day and a website allowing people to Rickroll their friends' phones.[3]
In 'a couple of weeks', about 13 million people had been 'rickrolled' into watching Astley's video, the BBC reported on 1 April 2008. "I think it's just one of those odd things where something gets picked up and people run with it," Astley told the Los Angeles Times in late March 2008, adding: "That's what's brilliant about the Internet." [4][5]
Rick Astley also appeared in the 2008 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade interrupting a song performed by those on a float promoting the Cartoon Network program Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends with a lipsynched performance of "Never Gonna Give You Up".[6]
In several of its protests against Scientology, Anonymous has employed The Rickroll[7].

Fact: You actually sang this(in your mind at least).

The long text is from wikipedia and was intentionally posted you don't read the fact first before reading the quote

Wheat&Chicken:

PCs.

They beat the shit out of the consoles.

Funny moment today at informatics class:

Colleague: I wonder how can I break the admin password..
Another colleague(not good at computers): Using a hammer!
[EDIT] Also:wtf

Get GTX460. It isn't a lot slower than 470, but it's cooler and more power efficient(hey, everyone wants green parts these days right?).
It actually runs modern games very well(ex: Metro2033 runs on very high details at fullHD res pretty smooth).

Note: I don't smoke.

I give the squirrel 99% chance of living unless it dropped into a sharp-fence.

[EDIT]
I actually made these a while ago and posted them on SNC :D.Urby makes a lot of weird faces in his vlogs, and I just couldn't resist :D.

Well, it's just a melon in her face :D. No autokilling involved.

Ok, at first I was like 'oh shit, stupid suicide'. Then I noticed it's just a melon...[EDIT] There's even a video with it: Video link

You mean the most awesome research ever done.

Nope. If they released some elephants then it would've been cool.

If that's some kind of research than that's the most stupid research ever done.

Thanks Sajo. Is my mapping style so bad that my source maps are being confused for the goldsource engine?

Netsky- Smile

Ok,ok- I'm actually searching for DnB songs :D.

I'm not looking into one specific genre of music, but I always enjoyed electronic music. And yes, that song kicks ass. Now that's what I call cool DnB, not some sort of stuff I can't understand.

Actually, I know I enjoy the song when... it vibrates inside me... I hope you understand. It's like saying to somebody "hey, we're on the same frequency!". My mind just perceives it as being cool and my mood suddenly changes... almost feeling high.

Woa, I underestimated the use of carving again. I mean, out of laziness I said "oh well, it's just a block carve, and it's source... what could go wrong?". I haven't carved for 2 years(I'm honest). I'll probably won't carve any time soon though. A simple block carve resulted in a leak. Why? The resulted brushes were not aligned properly: a 1 unit error. Wtf.

I have it on vinyl. Yay!

I have a vinyl with The Beatles too :D.

So anyway, about that suggestion, anyone?

Sorry, I meant 'results' :D.

Ok, now I'm done with the random triggering thing( logic_case randomly picks one of 6 env_messages). The problem is that the text does not appear, I can only hear the sound for each message :\.

Light_spot is not what I'm looking for, I need point_spotlight because of its beam-glow effect. And it doesn't turn on or off(although it has "LightON" LightOff" inputs...).

Guys, Compo 28 TBA 2011.

So guys, move your shit over to here

Working... I think I can do it alone...I'll do it for you guys
*sweating
this shit kinda stinks

*Done! Shit has been moved!

Have to ask some source questions so I'll make a new thread.

I need to trigger random messages in my map, is there any entity that does that? I suspect "logic_case" does that, but how does it actually work? [EDIT] -nevermind, I figured out this one, it's rather simple

Also, I need to recreate the ep2 mine antlion detector signal. I tried using point_spotlight but it doesn't turn on\off. Using a simple light is a bad idea?

Thanks CT and also thanks JeffMod! I didn't think about smoothing groups at all until know. I should give them a try. Btw, do they work on displacements?

I actually posted that image directed to everyone as I already knew the flamewar is coming.I'm a christian too and I really agree with some of zeeba's comments. You may post whatever you want but I'm 100% sure he's a normal guy like you are in reality(because we form a 2nd personality on the internet most of us).

As for you Huntey... you are an atheist. I also have atheists friends. I don't have anything against them(well, probably they'll go to hell :\(don't worry, at least you'll meet Duke Nukem)). It's a matter of me having to believe in something. And I like it, and I know it doesn't teach me anything wrong. Just don't take the bad examples as an... example.

But there are some religions that teach bad things.I'm on a pile of apples.

Ok this is actually funny:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ba1BqJ4S2M

I already tested a lot of verbs(even simple word work) and most of them worked. Altough I don't see the point of this, it's still quite funny.

Potatis will choose option 2 :lol:.

Your remarkably archaic political views aside, zeeba

Archaic? Hah. Wait until you see post-modernism. If we aren't already there.

I anyway agree with zeeba-G.

Oh wait, only now I see that browser. Holy fuck.

Speaking of this things, have you ever observed in detail a 1$ bill?
It says there clearly: Annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum.

He said Half-Life 2. Longest I've had was about sixteen-seventeen hours.

Almost 3 days? How did you explain it to your parents?

This is the teleport section in my gm_nightfield map.

It's unfinished yet.

I have a Nvidia Geforce 7600GS :P. Can't wait to get a new one soon.

That's the same one I had before buying Ati Radeon HD4850 :). I still have it in its original box.

Did no one mention that fifteen minutes is absolutely nothing for a compile time??

For hl1 it is. For source it isn't. But I think it just depends on the map layout really. I can compile my huge gmod map in about 10 minutes. I didn't make the skybox tall yet though :D.
It varies anyway... when I compiled gm_beachplay, it took 11 hours, and it's source :).

If you're planning on getting a new computer and don't mind spending a few more bucks for high performance, then don't forget to buy a 60GB SSD for the OS ;).