Wow Psilous, no offense but you've got to be the biggest fucking otaku freak I've ever seen on here. Seriously, your hobby/obsession scares the shit out of me.
After carefully studying your list of gifts, I'm going to risk offending you by surmising that you're the only female on TWHL, and whoever that guy in your avatar is, it sure as hell ain't you.
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Soup Miner's right, but Psilous is sort of onto something that's been pestering me about TWHL3 from day 1. You shouldn't have to go through so many steps to do a simple thing like viewing your own journal entries or, God forbid, looking through somebody's maps in their profile (watch in awe as the back button takes you all the way from the map's page to the user profile view, due to those stupid tabs.) Overall, some things are just really poorly laid out, with some of the most-used features of the site being the hardest to access. Of course, I've complained about this many times, but it's already been made clear that stuff like this is going to have to wait until the next revision of TWHL.
Also, wrong section.
Also, wrong section.
The problem with me is, I always want such specific items, I genuinely don't trust anybody else to pick them out or order them for me. So then it would totally ruin the surprise of it all, and I just end up not asking for anything.
- An electric beard trimmer
- A couple shirts
- A thermos that hopefully won't start leaking
- Some generic wallet and pocket knife set that I get every year from the same person
- A three hole punch (extremely useful for me)
- A wireless adapter that's compatible with my backup Windows 98 computer (not really for Christmas, but I waited until then to open it.)
- $225 combined from various relatives
- Roughly $140 worth of car parts my Dad agreed to pay for, including:
A new brake master cylinder
Exhaust hangers
Some fasteners for my suspension
The only thing I asked for this year was the three hole punch. My Dad paid for the car parts out of desperation to get me something.
@Rimrook: You furnishing a new apartment or something?
Eh, you might be able to actually. They make a lot of cheap-o "media-center" oriented PC's like that with less than spectacular hardware for people who don't need it. In fact I bet I could walk into my local Best Buy any day and come out with a system like that for around $500, but I can't guarantee that.
The only catch I can see is preinstalled software, but a lot of people view that as a good thing, instead of just being bloatware.
She made the right decision. Really Satchmo, I can't believe you'd let somebody get ripped off like that just to give you something to do. 
It's kind of selfish.
It's kind of selfish.
Dude, get a Dell.
I should have posted this here to begin with, but I made some stupid journal about it instead.
Forgive the blatant shoopiness of it all, it's unavoidable if you're trying to make a seamless photo like this.
Forgive the blatant shoopiness of it all, it's unavoidable if you're trying to make a seamless photo like this.
Agreed, why the hell do you feel the need to tell us about the most personal aspect of your life? And no, this isn't you being mature and intellectual about it. It's just... uncalled for. And downright creepy.
dreaming....having sex...guess what, I had an orgasm and ejaculated...The awful moment was at the end of the ejaculation...the sperm stays there...mostly dried out and warm...Come on, man, that's the kind of shit you don't even tell your closest friends, much less the entirety of the internet. You need to keep stuff like this to yourself.
Tuna is the biggest troll in the history of TWHL. But he's "edgy" or something, so I guess that's alright, eh?
Sleep? Ahaha, I don't sleep, I just drink coffee. I've never slept that I can remember...
What an interesting idea, this sleeping. Do people do this a lot?
What an interesting idea, this sleeping. Do people do this a lot?
Kraken, it's a Romanian laptop. They're allowed to do that.
Also, it's gotta allow more than slapping premade pictures onto a template. There's some pretty advanced designs on there, if you look around. If they obviously allow you to import pictures, Striker... why didn't you utilize that?
Also, it's gotta allow more than slapping premade pictures onto a template. There's some pretty advanced designs on there, if you look around. If they obviously allow you to import pictures, Striker... why didn't you utilize that?
So, I take it that's a no?btw is your sister hott?.. =PI lol'd.
my sister slaps you in the face
Eh, well actually I was going to say she is. Sorry dude.
Where did you make the designs though? Is it some proprietary web-based program? All the entries look very similar, in a way I can't really place my finger on.
Where did you make the designs though? Is it some proprietary web-based program? All the entries look very similar, in a way I can't really place my finger on.
You have to get a password to vote? On this site written in some ancient pagan language? No thanks, I wouldn't even know where to start. Your sis's design is real nice though.
Actually, I still like Lone Star Stoneware the best. It's incredibly ringy.
I finally changed mine. I think it's been about a year now?
Did you notice that the temperature in LA was 84 F? This is 29 degrees Celsius, in November!I know it Satch, I'm freezing my arse off.
Heh, you all people have negative ideas about prefabs, but that's how's the mapping done these days.Very true, but I think it would make for a huge leap forward in the user-friendliness of level editors if somebody decided to seamlessly integrate model/prefab creation into the level editor itself, so you wouldn't have to deal with all these messy external modeling programs and such. Even if you couldn't necessarily do everything that's offered in the high end modeling suites, how cool would it be to hit a button and convert some simple little brush-based architecture in Hammer into a prop?
BitThief.
No I meant to Silous... Oh God this thread is so derailed.
Yeah, dude, what are you trying to imply exactly? I mean, if I even went to bars...
Actually I got it on the internet. :rly:
That's my cue to post old unfunny demotivators.
Also the most regrettable naming faux pas in recent scientific history.
I was a little harsh. I didn't mean it's an inferior copy of Hammer, I should have said that it very very closely resembles it, which isn't a bad thing, it just doesn't show much creativity. However, that demo video left me very unimpressed. It looks like it promotes the use of overly blocky base architecture masked with a plethora of intricately designed models.
I payed roughly $100 for my Logitech G15. The backlit keys are immensely useful. I don't know what I'd do without them. Same for the LCD readout... I love having a clock right there.
It looks like a lame rip-off of Hammer to me. Except for the WYSIWYG features, I see very few differences, though that it now appears to rely on prefab models more than ever.
Actually, the universe as we know it already DID end. What we are living in now is one of the many duplicate universes that were operating as carbon copies of the old one in case anything happened to it. Thankfully the change was so fast nobody noticed, otherwise the world could be in chaos.
I think this is one of those really great ideas that should have stayed on paper and maybe get integrated with future projects somehow when the idea becomes more developed. But not now, oh Jesus not now.
Don't wanna rag on anybody's hobbies... but this is pretty far out there.
The first few pictures are incredibly confusing to stare at. 
What WC (Soup Miner?) said. Texture filtering is to blame.
No worries, you needn't teleport anything. Just set the Light Origin Target property to target an info_null that is placed wherever you'd like it to look like the brush is lit from. It'll light up the brush as though it were placed in the location of the info_null
I kinda wished I'd discovered this before doing my vault door map, would have looked so much better.
I kinda wished I'd discovered this before doing my vault door map, would have looked so much better.
So does the network show up in the available wireless network connections? Or can you not see the network broadcasting at all?
uh... is it actually a new animation they put in there, or just one of the existing "flinching" animations used in repetition? I have a feeling this was in there all along, just that nobody noticed it.
It seems like there was some entity though that handled most of the effect automatically somehow. But maybe I'm just mistaken.
It doesn't matter, it's totally irrelevant. This thread is about Windows 7, not pointless Mac-bashing.
Wow there Archie, just rubbing your typical success with women in our faces eh? 
Actually, in Opposing Force it is possible to make sprites follow paths.
Sorry I can't answer your real question though... my memory of mapping terminology is falling a bit short at the moment. I believe it may involve env_beams though. Hmmm.
Sorry I can't answer your real question though... my memory of mapping terminology is falling a bit short at the moment. I believe it may involve env_beams though. Hmmm.
Wow, that post just blew me away with its relevance and maturity.
I bet all the Vista buyers are feeling pretty stupid about now. Or maybe they enjoyed their OS's three-year lifespan.
Oh, but I mean if you aren't a university student...
Durhurhurhurhur.
Durhurhurhurhur.
Great Satch, where do I get me one of these nifty .edu accounts?
Oh, and Windows 98 crashes today even with all the latest updates installed. Basically for having too many things going on at once.
Oh, and Windows 98 crashes today even with all the latest updates installed. Basically for having too many things going on at once.
eBay has no such protection program. It's a scam, you'd never get your money back. eBay would never support something like this.
Tito: I think you missed the point of the thread...
And anyway, Craigslist is usually for local ads in which you do get to talk to the owner face-to-face.
Tito: I think you missed the point of the thread...
And anyway, Craigslist is usually for local ads in which you do get to talk to the owner face-to-face.
Yeah, I'm not sure who would fall for that. Honestly.
Scams? On Craigslist?
No way bro...
I wish I could get my hands on that free military car importing service though. That'd be awesome.
No way bro...
I wish I could get my hands on that free military car importing service though. That'd be awesome.
That's what I just did, was give a suggestion on how to improve. I certainly don't have the time to dedicate myself to this mod (especially considering I have other unfulfilled obligations), so I'm just throwing out suggestions for a first-timer.
My point was, if you keep up with this business of planning out these incredible-sounding gameplay elements and sequences, you're going to get to a point where you realize nobody on your team has the experience necessary to follow through with them. And at that point you basically start half-assing stuff so it "sort of resembles" the original design. It's better to just skip all that and let the mappers deal with the minute details. They know better than anyone what they can handle.
My point was, if you keep up with this business of planning out these incredible-sounding gameplay elements and sequences, you're going to get to a point where you realize nobody on your team has the experience necessary to follow through with them. And at that point you basically start half-assing stuff so it "sort of resembles" the original design. It's better to just skip all that and let the mappers deal with the minute details. They know better than anyone what they can handle.
One wonders what would happen if someone never received said email...
Seems like they could just integrate it with Steam.
Seems like they could just integrate it with Steam.
If I was to give one suggestion, it would be to nail down the major points of the story from the beginning to end. You need this overall view of what you're working towards in your mod. At this point, detailed descriptions of events pertaining to certain areas of a map will just bog you down. I'd recommend not even trying to record stuff like that yet. That's the kind of thing that's really up to the mapper anyway. It's much better if you just start mapping with a solid overall outline and let creativity do its work. If you know you want to create an apartment building, just create the building and along the way throw some cool ideas in. This step-by-step planned event thing will do you no good.
World Crafter, you have the exact same opinion about that trilogy as I do.