True, but I don't see that as much of a problem as I think most regulars play and rate both bad and good maps and if a person of the kind you describe give a fair rating, others will most likely give the same or similar ratings. If no one else rates it, his rating will be the only one that counts and therefore have a 100% effect on the calculated rating.
A system like the one I have described wouldn't do wonders and some might say it's unfair, but I believe it would slightly increase the accuracy of map ratings and implementation is therefore worth it.
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I just thought of this. Ratings given by users who tend to give the same or similar ratings to maps should have a little less effect on the calculated rating than ratings given by other users. This would reduce the frequency of maps getting undeserved high ratings because some user is too polite to give honest ratings and of maps getting undeserved low ratings because some idiot registers only to give the Half-Life map one star after it crashed his non-Steam Counter-Strike 1.6.
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You can find some good mods here. Especially noteworthy are Wanted (mainly MP), Absolute Redemption (SP), the Counter-Strike beta versions (MP, doesn't work with Steam Half-Life), Bumpercars (MP), Half-Life 2: Jaykin' Bacon Source (MP, don't be fooled by its name, it is for Half-Life 1), HL Rally (MP), Frontline Force (MP), USS Darkstar (SP) and Sven Co-op (mainly MP). With the exception of Sven Co-op and certain versions of Counter-Strike (through WON2), the multi-player games no longer have active servers.
Give me your email, I'll make you TRUE HOMIE.
You don't want to be a TRUE HOMIE? Fine by me.
You're no TRUE HOMIE, psilous. Next time we see you, CHAOS is out to get you.
A friend sent me this very important message:
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Send this GUN to everyone you care about including me if you care. See how many times you get this, if you get 13, you're A TRUE HOMIE!They'll never start releasing the half-baked Half-Life games as often as once a year. They like taking their time with the half-baked Half-Life games.
I've always wondered, what the heck does WON stand for?World Opponent Network
I believe so as well. It's the unforeseeable future I'm thinking of.
I only buy games exclusive to Steam on Steam (and I only use Steam to play those games) because I want to keep playing even after they shut down Steam's servers. It will happen. Companies die all the time.
I saw The Wicker Man (1973). It was ok. It was a lot better than the 2006 remake.
The clipping tool is much better than carving. Carving often causes errors and is often a slower process.
don't like girls. In the meantime, Dimbark
put potatoes in their ears, knocked on Stojke's door and threatened to
Why are you in 1024x768px mode on a wide-screen monitor?
I'm not going to keep working on TD but I might use the code for something else.
Ireland. They didn't know it was an island. The glasses were from
I like how the latest post in that picture is referring to a "one and only TWHL classic" picture.
i was told on a hardware forum that there would not be a difference between 512 and 1024 because 1GB is for higher resolutions and that gts450 wouldnt hang anything over 1920x1080You can store more and higher-resolution textures in 1 gibibyte than in 512 megabytes.
There's no harm Googling for serials (just don't download anything and don't do it in Internet Explorer). As for cracks, I totally agree. Ask people for trustworthy sites instead. I know two good ones but I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post their names on TWHL.
You have consumed the game, whether you can justify it 'having a purpose' or not.Consuming means using a product and in the process degrading or destroying it. Using a digital copy doesn't cost anything to anyone (except the people you download it from, but those are donating their processing power, electricity and bandwidth on their own free will).
You pay to watch a movie at the cinema. If you didn't like it, does that mean you shouldn't pay?You should pay because you cost the cinema money.
As for the 'struggling student' bullshit: gaming is not a necessity in life.Nor have I claimed it is.
If you can't scrap together enough money a month for one game purchaseI can. I buy a couple of games every month.
If you can afford the console or the high end computer to play these pirated games, are you telling me that you couldn't reduce your gaming intake a bit to one or two games a month?I could, but it would not improve anything. The same amount of money would go to game developers and distributors and I would still not be able to get and keep a job even with the extra motivation from lack of video games.
That's entirely stupid. So you're saying that just because YOU think a game is shitty, the developers, who spent a lot of time creating a game, don't deserve any money whatsoever, even AFTER you've used their product?If a game fails at its purpose I have gained nothing and should pay nothing. I have not consumed.
Do you walk out of a restaurant without paying because you didn't like the food?Even if you don't like the food it will feed you (unless it's completely inedible), and thus serves a purpose. The restaurant has also spent time and money producing this copy of whatever food it was you ordered. You have no right not to pay.
No one would hire an 18-year-old without at least a somewhat-impressive portfolio for a programming position. I have ADD. That means if I can't concentrate on something that I find interesting, I can't concentrate at all. In other words, boring tasks makes me stare at the ceiling and gives me an extreme urge to play a video game or do something else of interest. My teachers love me for it (or not). It also means I have a short attention span. So I jump from project to project and never finishes anything (just look at my impressive website).
Oh and if I ever sound like a total jerk (I probably do a lot of times) know that I like all of you and only half of what I say is as serious as it may sound. I just also happen to like a good arguing.
Oh and if I ever sound like a total jerk (I probably do a lot of times) know that I like all of you and only half of what I say is as serious as it may sound. I just also happen to like a good arguing.
What I do does not hurt anyone. I don't have a lot of money because I can't work. Would I not pirate games I would still spend as much money on games as I would today and I would be equally unable to get and keep a job (seeing as the only jobs available to a person of my age at my location would require human interaction, something I'm absolutely awful at and I have papers that confirm that). I would however be less happy, seeing as how games make me happy. And my money would go to the wrong people; it'd go to producers of shitty games as well as good games. The economic system has a serious flaw and that is advertising. Advertising often makes bad products sell more than they should and awards low development spending. Piracy reduces the effect of advertising. Combine these arguments with a bit of egoism and there you have it. That's why I'm okay with pirating.
Sorry guys, I don't agree with your "I can't afford it, therefore I'll pirate it" excuses. Gaming is a hobby, it's not a necessity. If you can't afford it, tough shit. You'll live.I have never claimed gaming is a necessity. You're making that up. If you want to question my arguments that's fine, but don't question arguments you think I may have but that I haven't made. By derailing this thread you're being hypocritical. Remember when you recently closed a certain thread and you claimed it was because of its derailing? I do.
I never pre-order. I pirate the game and if I like it I buy it when it's available at a price affordable to a lower class student like myself.
What are you up to these days?
3 is overrated.
This is a public website anyway. If they really want your stuff and they can't get it on the postback, they'll just trawl the site.Crawling the web leaves traces. They'd also need IP addresses. Traces and addresses that could be used to produce a blacklist or to fight back. Also, PMs and passwords aren't public.
HTTPS is easy to get going on a standard Apache web server and many web hosts offer HTTPS support. I'm not going to try to change your mind, in no way is it worth the effort. But just so you know, if you one day want to experiment, it only takes a couple of minutes.
7) If the EU recommonds people to encrypt their data, it's fucking serious. For a long time now they've been passing privacy-intrusive laws.
1) It's no secret that several governments, including those of the USA, the UK, China and Sweden, analyse Internet traffic.
2) They don't catch terrorists or spies because any self-respecting terrorist or spy encrypts messages of importance. Unless they're idiots and no great threat anyway.
4) Classified government data being sent across borders is surely encrypted.
5) This leaves traffic between individuals, corporations and organizations.
6) They gain something from it, our they wouldn't do it.
2) They don't catch terrorists or spies because any self-respecting terrorist or spy encrypts messages of importance. Unless they're idiots and no great threat anyway.
4) Classified government data being sent across borders is surely encrypted.
5) This leaves traffic between individuals, corporations and organizations.
6) They gain something from it, our they wouldn't do it.
So our governments do not have server farms monitoring our Internet traffic? Or do they not make use of the collected information?
Edit: I need some sleep. Fell for obvious troll.
Edit: I need some sleep. Fell for obvious troll.
Knowledge is power. The Americans may very well be using collected information to ensure economic dominance. If you can see everything people do you can model their behaviour, predict events and see decisions before they're made public. No one should have that power.
I'm not one of those people who doesn't look into the sky because of the satellites or doesn't write his opinion because it might end up in his file. I just think the big picture's not very pretty and regular people like you and me can make a difference.
I'm not one of those people who doesn't look into the sky because of the satellites or doesn't write his opinion because it might end up in his file. I just think the big picture's not very pretty and regular people like you and me can make a difference.
HTTPS is not just for banks. Lots of websites (Google, Twitter, Wikipedia, bit.ly, Microsoft, WordPress, Facebook, Washington Post, etc.) use it. If you don't want your requests read by Echelon or similar HTTPS is great. There's really no reason not to use HTTPS. There's a free CA called StartSSL that's accepted by all major web browsers since a few years back. I for one want as little as possible of my data to be processed by FRA and Echelon's computers.
I can recommend HTTPS Everywhere to people concerned about their privacy.
I can recommend HTTPS Everywhere to people concerned about their privacy.
Now that I come to think of it, I've only tried the laser method with cockroaches as targets.
I made a jetpack example map.
If you want an object to follow the player in regular Half-Life I think the only way is to use a laser/beam with an end sprite/model.
If you want an object to follow the player in regular Half-Life I think the only way is to use a laser/beam with an end sprite/model.
The King's Speech and Simple Simon. The King's Speech was great and Simple Simon is the best Swedish film I've seen in a long time (Swedish films are generally not much to hang in the Christmas tree).
Indeed. New cooler or new graphics card.
My GPU won't go over 55C and it's an overclocked HD4870 which is one of AMD's most power-hungry. A decent cooler can do wonders.
My GPU won't go over 55C and it's an overclocked HD4870 which is one of AMD's most power-hungry. A decent cooler can do wonders.
I'm thinking some of you haven't read all that Saribbous wrote.
Now it won't start at all, even when I switch back to my old cpu and fan.
.CO.CC? Is there also a domain name the same with a K at the end?What do you mean? A domain with a similar name? co.uk
I like MapVault.
Mapping Gold or Gold Mapping
As I mentioned, it's not really an option to call it TWHL because there's no domain names we can use.
twhl.info and twhl.eu are also availableThere are also .se, .nu, .me, .biz, .tv, .dk, .be, .pl, .cc, .org.uk and probably a whole bunch of other TLDs without a "twhl" domain.
Not if you redirect requests.