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I hate poetry,
I think that it is stupid,
Poetry is dumb.

Ireland is rainy,
It is very depressing,
I hate living here.

These poems are bad,
They are all I could think of,
I don't like poems.

I have to get everything from the internet with a USB stick. Spirit doesn't work. My laptop says that it needs to access the internet to find out which program created one of the files. The internet explorer program doesn't work. I can't access the internet to find out which program created it. The sound on my computer doesn't work. Neither does anything else. My laptop is less than a year old. It has always remained indoors. It has never got wet, been dropped, or exposed to extreme temperatures. But it doesn't work as well as it should.
For those of you that want to know the reason for this rant, I just want to say, Damn you faulty engineering!

The damn computers that I have to use at the town library won't let me go on to it. That's why I have no maps in the map vault and no avatar. I can't upload things from my USB thing.

I always get high R_Speeds even on small maps, no matter what methods I try.
(and what is the null texture? I've seen it on a lot of forums but I don't understand what it is)

Hammer doesn't work on my computer so I can't try this myself, but can you turn off smartedit when making a func_tank and add barrel horizontal again to make the turret double barreled?

I didn't ask for his height, I meant his eye level as in what level is the game camera. I want to be able to have something like at the start of levels in Goldeneye on the N64 when the camera moves into the back of his head, or have the player move into a trigger_once and the view rushes to the room ahead, kind of like in Psi-Ops on the Xbox.

What is Gordons speed in units per minute, and what is his eye level in units?

I laughed at the 'elephants are bigger than the moon' and 'noooo they be stealin me bucket'.

The pistol from Halo.
The Gravity Gun from HL2.
The portable airstrike from mercenaries.
The UMP45 from R6:Vegas.
The FN P90 from real life.

But wait a sec.. what if you would travel into a point in time BEFORE your own childhood, and then triggering an event preventing you from being born.
In that way your "old future/reality" can't be canceled out because then you would have no point of existing in the new one.
Therefore, realities can't cease to exist.
The old reality is still there, and you're no longer in it, you've moved from one reality to another.

That's the famous grandfather paradox, where you kill your own grandfather to prevent your own birth.
I don't know why it couldn't just be a father paradox.

would it be possible to use the give command to spawn a light in a dark area? I haven't had a chance to try it yet.

If you were to build a time machine and you travel backwards in time for the sole reason to correct a past event and you succeed you would then have no need to have built the time machine. However if you hadn't built it you wouldn't have been able to travel backwards in time in order to fix that which was the sole reason for the aforementioned time machine (which would of course no longer exist)

That reminds me. I saw Back to the Future 2 ages ago, and in it the elderly version of that big bully guy stole the time machine and went back in time to give his younger self the sports book. But for some reason, he comes back to the same future that he left.
How is this possible?

eggs came first, after all dinosaurs laid eggs

Yes, that's why I changed the original question and emphasised chicken egg.

But what if they were?
And notice that in the name of the forum i used the plural of paradox.
What came first, the chicken or the chicken egg?
(the answer depends on your defenition of chicken egg)

What if the unstoppable one couldn't change direction?

yes.

If an unstoppable object hit an immovable one, what would happen?

One day, heaven was getting pretty crowded, so Saint Peter decided to only let people in if they'd had a bad day when they died.
There were three men in the que in front of him. So he said to the first man, ''did you have a bad day today?''
The man said ''Oh hell yeah! I was in my apartment so I decided to go out on to the balcony for some air. I tripped as I was going out, and fell over the railing. Luckily I managed to grab the balcony below me. Suddenly a man came out, and in an unexplainable rage began to kick my fingers. I fell down, but the sea was below me, because I live in a seaside apartment. I landed in the water, safe, but the crazed man above threw a fridge on top of me!''
Saint Peter said,''It sounds like you had a bad day, so I'll let you in.'' He said to the second man, ''did you have a bad day today?''
The second man said ''I came home today, and saw my wife naked on the bed, and there were sheets all over the floor. I immediately suspected something, so I searched the apartment for whichever man was in here with her. It wasn't long before I found thebastard hanging from the balcony railing. I kicked his fingers, but when he fell off, he landed safely in the sea below, so I picked up the fridge and threw it down on him. Too late I realised that the power cable was wrapped around my leg, so the fridge pulled me over the edge into the water below, where I drowned.''
Saint Peter said ''That sounded like a terrible experience, so I'll let you in. He said to the third man, ''did you have a bad day today?''.
The man said ''Are you joking? There I was, sitting naked in a fridge.....''

Like when I was shocked and killed a zombie with medkits.

Trooper dx3117 told me to put this on-
What's a pirates favourite crime?
AAAARRRRson.
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And another one, which isn't from trooperdx3117,

A young man was lost wandering in a forest, when he came upon a small house. He knocked on the door and was greeted by an ancient Chinese man with a long, grey beard. "I'm lost," said the man. "Can you put me up for the night?"
"Certainly," the Chinese man said, "but on one condition. If you so much as lay a finger on my daughter, I will inflict upon you the three worst Chinese tortures known to man."

"Ok," said the man, thinking that the daughter must be pretty old as well, and entered the house.

Before dinner, the daughter came down the stairs. She was young,beautiful, and had a fantastic figure. She was obviously attracted to the young man since she couldn't keep her eyes off him during the meal. Remembering the old man's warning, he ignored her and went up to bed alone. But during he night, he could bear it no longer, and sneaked into her room for a night of passion. He was careful to keep everything quiet so the old man wouldn't hear. Near dawn he crept back to his room, exhausted, but happy.

He woke to feel a pressure on his chest. Opening his eyes he saw a large rock on his chest with a note on it that read, "Chinese Torture 1: Large rock on chest." "Well, that's pretty crappy," he thought. "If that's the best the old man can do then I don't have much to worry about." He picked the boulder up, walked over to the window and threw the boulder out. As he did so he noticed another note on it that read: "Chinese Torture 2: Rock tied to left testicle." In a panic he glanced down and saw the rope that was already getting close to the end. Figuring that a few broken bones was better than castration, he jumped out of the window after the boulder. As he plummeted downward he saw a large sign on the ground that read, "Chinese Torture 3: Right testicle tied to bedpost."

What's funnier than a dead baby?
A dead baby in a clown suit.

When you irst go into Ravenholm. The legs hanging from a tree - fire an explosive barrel at them and thaey flip aroud the tree like 20 times. And the sawblade in the wall, with the top half of the zombie on top. That was cool.

A couple of New Jersey hunters are out in the woods when one of them falls to the ground. He doesn't seem to be breathing, his eyes are rolled back in his head. The other guy whips out his cell phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps to the operator: "My friend is dead! What can I do?" The operator, in a calm soothing voice says: "Just take it easy. I can help. First, let's make sure he's dead." There is a silence, then a shot is heard. The guy's voice comes back on the line. He says: "OK, now what?"
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson go on a camping trip. After a good dinner, they retire for the night, and go to sleep.
Some hours later, Holmes wakes up and nudges his faithful friend. "Watson, look up at the sky and tell me what you see."

"I see millions and millions of stars, Holmes" replies Watson.

"And what do you deduce from that?"

Watson ponders for a minute.

"Well, astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Astrologically, I observe that Saturn is in Leo. Horologically, I deduce that the time is approximately a quarter past three. Meteorologically, I suspect that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. Theologically, I can see that God is all powerful, and that we are a small and insignificant part of the universe. What does it tell you, Holmes?"

Holmes is silent for a moment. "Watson, you idiot!" he says. "Someone has stolen our tent!"
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A woman gets on a bus with her baby.
The bus driver says: "That's the ugliest baby that I've ever seen. Ugh!"

The woman goes to the rear of the bus and sits down, fuming. She says to a man next to her: "The driver just insulted me!"

The man says: "You go right up there and tell him off ? go ahead, I'll hold your monkey for you."
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How do you stop a baby from crawling around in circles?
Nail it's other hand to the floor.
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What have Michael Jackson and shopping bags got in common?
Thyey're both white, made of plastic, and should be kept away from small children.

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Just before you get to Nova Prospekt you come to a place where there's two zombies and a wooden walkway that you have to nock down to continue. I only noticed recently, but there're two harpoons next to the boat. You can pin the zombies to the wall, or alternatively, get them so that the cliff edge is behind them, and fire the harpoon. The zombies go surprisingly far out to sea.

I just thought that I'd make a forum where you can put cool things that happened to you in game - e.g., In Ravenholm, I came up to the part where you first see a fast zombie, and because I hadn't played HL2 in ages, I wasn't expecting it. I fired my sawblade at it at almost point blank range, but the zombie leapt over it and proceeded to claw my eyes out. Due to my shock, instead of switching weapons, I yelled out ''Oh, Shit!'', and killed the zombie, ironically, by firing medkits at it.

I can't get buttons to work. They work on maps made by other people on other computers, but even if I mimic the settings exactly, mine still don't work. The only way I can get them to work is to check the trigger on touch flag. I don't know why It's like this, It just happened once, for no reason.

vast majority of the people are complete racists.

I remember when I used to live there. I was teased for not teasing Aborigines.

Australia rules!!!

At least I don't live in Homostralia, numbnuts.

Australia rules! Damn you srry!

For the first problem, you could trigger an env_render to target the door when it's open, so there's no visible texture to merge with the wall texture.

Sorry, I made a mistake. that worked with a flame sprite, but when I tried to make a flame jet, it didn't, so it seems to be random.

Is it possible to have one entity do two seperate things? (e.g. rotate and then move)

In the Using Sprites tutorial, Atom said ''In Half-Life, the sprites will always face the player, no matter which direction the player is looking. This is why it isn't easy to get the positioning of sprites right - make a mushroom-cloud type explosion occur too near the player, and it might appear to follow him. It might even appear to be exploding along the ground.'' If you use an env_laser at ground level, and info_target directly above it about 64 units off the floor (depending on the sprite used), and set the sprite name as a flame sprite or something, it won't ''explode along the ground''. It will stay vertical. I thought of this idea when I died next to a flame, and it went horizontal.

What about if you set the material as rock? (And anyway most modern landmines are made of different materials, to avoid metal detectors. There used to be one made of concrete!)

I don't have sound on my computer, so it doesn't matter to me.

In the Half-Life model viewer if you press the render ground button on the dead osprey, it shows up at the top of the model, so you should have the monster_generic on top of a func_wall, which should then be made invisible.

Not me anyway.

They were all good ideas, except the one where you make the ceiling lower. And the one where you tell them to ''press ctrl now''. Espen180's idea is good though.

To do a landmine without the trigger_once and env_explosion, you can just do a func breakable with a high explosion magnitude and have the touch or pressure flags checked. when done in a hole it looks like a crater when blown up.

Is it possible to have an info_player_start where you start off crouching?

How come when you make a func_pushable it sometimes goes into the walls when pushed? It's really annoying.

OK

I did everything that you said, but it still doesn't work

The one that came with Hammer

I tried muzzleflash's method but it doesn't work, one light stays on and the other stays off, and there isn't a multithreaded flag on my editor either.

Thanks! (I Already knew how to make an explosion)
But not how to make stuff float.

I wanted to make A level set in space, where you start off in a small spaceship coming towards a space station that has a red light on the top and a green one one the bottom. I made these with sprites, but I want them flashing, with the green one turning on when the red one turns off, and vice versa. Also, is there a way to have an explosion an have dead Headcrabs and Vortigaunts floating around outside?