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Come not, even Half-Life had expansion packs! I want to play as a security officer and a soldier in a different turn on the plot of The Core.

I'd pay $10 for that.

Are we gonna get to see some DLC and post-game content? That would be kinda kickass.

More restriction.

I need restriction in order to finish anything, and it'd be hard to compare a map that's supposed to be a small comedy song and one that's a huge musical roller coaster.

Oh god, please nobody make a map to go with I'm Too Sexy.

Texturing is a bit weird. I'm used to the style of right-clicking faces to texture them, and I'm more used to right-clicking the brushes I draw out, rather than pressing Enter. Minor gripes on a really good editor. You 'ought to work on making tasks accessible by multiple different ways for people with different styles.

Haha.

The big difference between our stories is that yours is retelling the actions in your game and pointing out Skyrim's horrible AI, and mine is all completely made up.

Bah, too late now. Let's make this the TWHLder Scrolls Story Thread, rather than two separate ones.

Part 2Morning has arisen, and the sun can almost be seen through the haze of fog and snow. The temperature has risen only slightly since last night, but I suppose it's good enough and head out on the mighty road to see where it takes me. It's hard to check my map through all of the raging winds and unbelievable weather, so I head in a direction I hope is correct.I find a guard about half a mile away from Winterhold, and he seems pretty lost from home, the poor thing. Either I'm the greatest magical genius who ever lived, or this guard was too stupid to follow the linear road back home. I had to point him in the right direction, only to watch him walk the opposite direction, and then fall off a hillside. I run down to help the guy and I turns out he's blind. Well, I feel like an asshole. Especially since I left him lying there in the hillside. It's not like it's my problem or anything, I've got shit to do.Karma really has bitten me in the ass. The road sort of disappeared, and started to drift into bandit territory, so I figured I'd take a little detour up the rocky hillsides to avoid them. But now, I can't seem to find the road, and my vision has gone blurry. My skin's gone red and numb, and I stumble more and more as the snow gets thicker and thicker.For Talos' sake, where the hell am I . . .

I guess I'll just turn around and, oh . . .Woah - woahp! Ah, shit, shit, shit! Agh! Oogh! Eegh! Ah, oh . . . I think I'm sa-- oh augh, ook, ow ow ow ow ow ow! Agh, shit!

So here I lay, motionless for many minutes, in a pile of snow. I can't even feel my limbs anymore, nor do I feel like I can control them. Besides, I just need a rest for a minute. I just need a drink of . . . and I'm out of potions. Somehow, I manage to cast myself a fireball for warmth, and wander my way out of the tundra towards the nearest settlement.I find myself at the port of Windhelm. I don't remember the place very well, but as soon as I climb onto the port, one of the guards dashes over to me and puts himself in an authoritative stance.

"Don't think I don't know you!" he shouts at me. "You're a wanted criminal, and it's time that you paid for your actions!"

"You really have a bounty on me?" I sigh, dusting the snow off my tattered robes of alteration and finally gaining enough feeling to notice that half of the items in my knapsack have either shattered or fallen out. "How much?"

"6,000 septims," he tells me.Now . . . now I think I remember. The end of the first semester at the College of Winterhold--about four years ago--some of my friends decided to come down to Winterhold to get really drunk. I don't know what was in my drink, but the last think I remember was I suddenly got a lot hairier . . . and bigger . . . and . . .

Shit. I've gotta get out of this prison.

I'm still waiting for The Core 2: Episode 3.

I figured I'd add my Skyrim story here, too, rather than spam the forum with more threads. Hope you don't mind, Urby.

And so begins the adventures of Eresek Rurokin, the Nordic necromancer, lost in Skyrim.I remember the first day I went to the College in Winterhold. I was only a teenager when they let me in. To get into that place, especially at teenhood, you had to jump through a lot of hoops and making enough impressive animal impressions. But that was back several years ago. Nowadays, they'll let any asshole who can cast a simple healing spell in through the front doors. But anyways, they finally pulled me out of that horrible orphanage a couple capitals over and gave me a cozy dorm room, next to the most beautiful Nordic woman I've ever met: Saldia. It's such a shame that five years later I'd have gotten kicked out for pushing her off the side of the College.It's not like I meant to push her. It was cold out, so obviously I made a little fireball to keep us warm as we walked along the pathway. It's just a shame that my professor never taught me how to keep it from exploding out like a dragon's breath. It's also quite the shame that she was standing on the part of the slim bridge which was utterly ruined when a dragon landed there to have a rowdy chat with one of our professors.

So, here I am on the streets of Winterhold, finally figuring out how to use these simply fire spells to keep myself warm the correct way.I finally found the trick to keeping my fireballs under control. All I had to do was keep a lot of restraint on my arms and keep myself from breathing too quickly and letting loose all of the magical energy building up inside of me. I wish my damned professors would tell me that before I sent a beautiful Nord flying off a bridge into ice shards and twisted rock. I blame the architect for this. What kind of bastard builds a slim bridge fifty miles into the air? She probably suffocated to death before she finally hit the ground.

Anyways, news tends to fly around Skyrim as if the Divines themselves gossiped with the city guards. One of the guards patrolling decided to give me shit for the murder and made me pay her a fine."By the way," she added, "you ought to stop playing with those fires. If I catch you casting your silly magic spells again, I'll slay you myself. I'm not afraid of necromancers."

Well, now that she extorted every last septim from my wallet, I have no way of getting home to Riften or even to a single other Hold. I could walk, but it was late at night, and I would freeze even with my simple magicks to keep me warm. But then I remembered the one useful thing I got from the College--the ability to control the will of the weak!"Why, of course!" says the innkeeper, whom I caught conversation with while he was busy cleaning up the front bar. "You can have this room for free, nobody ever uses it. By the way, I totally understand your dilemma. That bridge was a total piece of shit. Glad I've never had to walk it."

So now I have a room, and the inn also has a small library wing built into it. I decide to search around and find a whole collection of brilliant books and novels, all of them books I was forbidden from reading at the College until I finally learned how to make a ward that could protect from old-style dragon shouts from the reanimated souls of the damned or something.Eventually, I realize it's time to go to bed, and I drift away into the wondrous realm of sleep. In the morning, I'll be up and ready to start hiking to Riften.

Hey Urbles, you won't call me a rip-off and an untalented writer if I try and do something similar on TWHL, will you? I like the idea of writing a stories in video game worlds. Could be fun.

I'd take that Mirror's Edge off yer hands if it's alright.

I like my Orc idea. The Orc's strong persoanlity would be funny mixed with his hobby of chasing butterflies and skipping through the wilderness for sweets. That fits the rags quota.

You ought to make a giant, burly Orc whose very screams frighten the hallows who makes a living by picking flowers and chasing butterflies to sell them to the local pawn shop in exchange for some sweet rolls.

Solved the problem. Apparently, mods for Episode 2 and/or Alien Swarm are totally broken. Just had to set it to HL2 instead.

I'm pretty sure that my gameinfo.txt is working fine. Here's it's data regarding SDK content.

[i]SearchPaths

	{
		Game				|gameinfo_path|.
		Game				|all_source_engine_paths|ep2
		Game				|all_source_engine_paths|ep1
		Game				|all_source_engine_paths|episodic
		Game				|all_source_engine_paths|hl2
	}
}

}
[/i]

I made some mod files for Half Life 2, and whenever I start it up, I get this error.I made the mod by going to Source SDK 2007 and making the files for Half Life 2 Singleplayer, and opened it up in hammer Source SDK 2009. It does have some custom content in it, but I don't see how that would bother it. This is an error that happens at startup, and the entire screen is just full white. Please help. Thanks!

Dimbarkia's space program was a success! 6 families have been sent to colonize the moon and set up satellite artillery, for drastic measures, of course. Just in case the Giant Zombie Baby Hitler Santa goes rogue or fails to protect the nation.

Dimbarkia has placed several mines along the country and, deep underground, has found and started mining a very worthwhile resource to throw into the trade market!

I'm getting my Oculus Rift this month. If Source SDK has support for it, I might be inspired to make a few projects built for it.

I hear you guys hired Ross Scott. Hope you didn't waste the talent.

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Dimbarkia has taken more land on the continent, which before was unclaimed, and is unleashing a powerful force in order to defend this new land from Gaul and all of the enemies on its side.

It was made in our very scientific labs... it is called the Colossal Santa-Hitler Zombie Baby.To showcase its defensive powers, we blew off the tip of the province of the Dimbarkian Republic, killing thousands of innocent people!We are prepared to defend whoever is left in both the democracy and the empire! More so the empire!

Real men EAT cocaine in their BROWNIES.

*Breaking news!*

Citizens from Gaul who escaped into Dimbarkia have seemed to collect a group of the tiger-eating Dimbarkian elephants, and has transported them to another ecosystem via raft! We wish to give this warning to the country of Urbania, and we have sent the nation a map showing the places where the raft has docked, most likely where the tiger-eating elephants were dropped off!Also, we have received an image from one of the elephants which was sent to the main database in Dimbarkia. We are transmitting it to you now.

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The Dimbarkian Empire Papers 50 c

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Nerds Burnt in Boats!

The Dimbarkian Empire recieved many different scholars and artisans from the nation of Primus as an insult. The scholars immediately asked to meet with the emporer, only to be guided to the blockade of wasted potential (and boats) to be burnt at the stake.

I love watching nerds burn. These fuckin' people think they know what they're doing with their lives, but really, brains don't matter. Anyways, I'm gonna go snort some weed and maybe make some cocaine-brownies. 'Chow.

--A brave, young, handsome Dimbarkian soldier

If these are your morals, and you do not care about your neighbors, then why did you kill our men sent in on a cruise ship!? They were NOT headed to your port!

Dimbarkia is sending another boat to the continent, but not as spies to infiltrate Atomicstan, but rather diplomats to speak with the leaders of the Imperium of Primus.

We would like to inform you that our spies were sent in not to ruin lives, but to save them! Do you not understand that your neighboring nation is, at this moment, attempting to bomb our fellow countries? Please, you must assist my people in infiltrating this country to send every nuke crashing safely into the ocean!

I've started mapping for TF2.

I got lost in one of those caves with 7 diamonds and I lost everything when some cheating skeleton arrow'd me from 40 feet away.

DIMBARKIA HAS FALLEN

What's this? One of our cruise ships seems to have found a new island, and it's completed inhabited by cynics!

The first newsletter is out.Does that answer your question, Rim?

Oh, and...Half Life 3 confirmed.

Stojkens started it! Not me! It was Stojkens! Stojkens Stojkens Stojkens!

But the energy dispersion brought in ice caps from another peaceful parallel universe, only for them to immediately melt.

The ice caps melted and flooded the entire world.

Dimbarkia is shipping spies in to deal with the problem at Atomicstan.They're the perfect team: a very well-known doctor and field medic, a skilled smuggler, and a Skalerian war veteran!

In order to assist with the rebellion in Gaul, Dimbarkia sent soldiers to silence them. Any citizens of Gaul who manage to flee will be neutralized, and the land in between us an our allies will be purged for escapees.We also set up a blockade in the Northern Imperial Alliance in order to watch for men from Gaul, but we forgot that ships only work in water, so we generally just wasted a lot of our resources, there.

...Really? I ran halfway around the world... in the wrong direction?

And Dimbarkia is supposed to have the greatest beaches ever. 'Doh well, guess I'll just have to rebuild the entire island.

Yeah, I just wandered out trying to find my home and got completely lost.

Nah, it's perfect. Make THIS the Minecraft map. Or, you know, rewind before Stojkens ruined Dimbarkia...

The ice caps melted and flooded the entire world.

Sephiroth came to these craters, also known as the "promised lands" and used their planet energy to summon Meteor and blew up most of the world.

Dimbark, the founder of this democracy, has seen the times of war that this planet is stepping into, so he decided to move into the northern continent in order to be closer to his allies to form another empire to assist in world domination. This new empire has been named a new province and runs under a dictatorship for the time being, splitting the country between two systems of government.Our first goal... stop those nukes.

Wait, if we use Rimrook's map, can we claim the areas we called our countries?

Operation payback was the thing where Valve took the 7 most popular maps and put them on official servers, and if you could pay $5 to play them. The money all went to the map-makers.

I'm loving workshop! My map might be popular enough to end up on the next Operation Payback! It's got 8,000 subscribers, 15,000 visits, and 100 comments!

Dimbarkia is now opening welcoming any and all young Skalerian soldiers to come and join us on our beaches! We would like to stay as friendly as we can with the empire, and our people are carefree and relaxed! Come and sit down on the best beaches in the world at Dimbarkia!

That's nice, Rimrook, but what about Rimoria?

Dimbarkia is a peaceful, quiet democracy whose military system is made up of both determined citizens willing to run local militias and mercenaries. It's a bit of a holiday resort, and has the greatest beaches in the world.

Absolutely nobody ever gets anything done, and most citizens just hang out on the beach all day.

It is also shaped like a cock and balls.

Yeah, the site is totally a mess, what with the fact that all it has is a video and an FAQ.

Seriously, Soup, the site doesn't even have anything on it yet.

We should play Civilization together.