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I've converded a couple of multiplayer Star Craft maps into single player. But only a few actually worked (like the Cats vs. Mouse, which was almost done, but I didn't had the time to bother finishing it). Once i tried the UT editor but after I couldn't put a stairway on a diffirent place than 0.0.0 i gave up and didn't ran it since.

Oh, and I mostly enjoy mapping for LodeRunner 1 & 2 (once I remade the whole Black Marsh part of Hexen 2 with both versions and that's about the size of Surface Tension and a little bit of Questionable Ethics in HL). Those monks are crazy!

Uhm, not much of an interest, eh? I didn't meant to scare away people by setting such high requirements for post quality. Don't be afraid, me and 7th aren't some evil figures who made a dark pact against anyone who opeses us and he's not going to delete criticising replies unless they're offtopic. Infact criticism is needed, as I said, argues move the world to prosperity. I really doubt my position to be flawless so, please, say what you don't like into it.

PS: This weeks chapter will be delayed a little, because I have to finish three school projects and I just defeated the worst virus menace ever (for me atleast... so far). I have found a usefull book called "Exploring Human Society" so I'm going to polish my hypothesis.

I see extremely obese children at work everyday, and it makes me angry that these parents allow their kids to weigh 250 lbs (110 kg) by the time they're ten years old.

It's actually much more complex than not allowing the childrem to eat lot's of junk (and other) food. The fat cells in our organism are like a sponge - if you don't eat lot's it just shrinks and when you start eating it grows again (AKA Yo-Yo effect). The only cure is liposuction (not sure of the spelling). Ofcourse prevention is possible - pregnant women aren't supposed to gain more than 30kg during the pregnancy otherwise the children are born with fat cells which are just waiting to grow. So if you have a fat parent the result will be a fat kid. It not entirely genetical, it can be prevented partially, but pregnant mothers don't seem to care about their children much...

Most Americans arent dumb. Just the rednecks and most of us arent rednecks. Yes our president may be special ED but of course politics is retarded so what do you expect?

You're not 100% right here. In fact about 70% of worlds population are dunb asses, who thrust television as if it were given by God and do everything that the others do (what is fashionable, modern). People from poor countries appear to be smarter than western populations because the situation forces them to be smart - otherwise they will stop existing. US citizens are refered as the stupidest not because they actually are, but because the smart ones don't really show themselves and allow the "rednecks" to stereotypize the whole country. And, yes, government members don't need to be smart, they just need to be cunning and vulpine in order to deceive the masses to vote for them.

sounds like a rocket fuel i found on the internet, be carful, it would be very deadly when ignighted if it was the fuel. ill see if I can find the formula again

Considering the amount of liquid oxygen sored in tanks it is possible to be rocket fuel, although I doubt it (I mean, the security is low, but this is completely irresponsible...)

Stuff that could happen to my friends
(Oddly enough Im not really afraid of what could happen to me)

I also fear sruff that could happen to my close people while being rather careless about myself. I guess it's common. But it's not much of a problem, since few people know me good enought.

Your post is worth the reading, kol. As a matter of fact you covered many areas I meant to discuss later (because The System won't be a whole without a 'World Economy' and 'Politics' chapters).

Why is everyone bent on fighting the effects of problems rather than the roots?

Yes, this is one of the greatest mistakes of our 'advanced' 'technological' society. No one is thinking logically anymore just because they don't get paid for extra ideas. Even for things that are so obvious people need instruction. You can even fly a helicopter if you're a little more intuitive and know a bit of mechanics. This also applies to most other aspects of today's world. A good example will be terorism. Increased security, prevention, repressions and all this just to stop a phantom menace, instead of understanding why there are terrorists in the first place. But the government isn't stupid, not at all. USA attacked 'the core' of the problem at the 'tora bora' mountain. But this is only an illusion, only a symptome of the disease.

Bin laden will make a comeback whenever its convenient to bomb another country through which a major oil pipeline (or some other form of natural resource) will be built to suck the resources from country X in exchange for frivolous green tinted papers.

Destruction is the easiest thing in this state of existence. It doesn't take much to destroy the entire planet, the only reason for it to be still intact is the fact that terrorists don't want to destroy it. People have to realize that the extremist fractions don't want to kill them. All they want is to be left alone. What's the urgent need to build 'democracy' there anyway? This style of life just isn't fit for these people, that's the truth.

Everything that's ment to scare you is actually made up, and most of it is blown way out of proportion in order to influence you inot certain actions and or decisions. Simple.

So true. The politicians don't need smart individuals, capable of taking care of themselves, they need cattle. Sad but true. All the newest creations of technology are meant to make people dependent on the society. A little 'insurance' in case anyone decides to defect. Calculators make the simple knowledge of calculus obsolete, voice-to-text devices make the writting obsolte, automatic translation will eleminate the need to know any foreign language and with the blink of an eye most educational disciplines will be removed. Dependence on the convenient is what keeps the western countries going. It's not because the life in third-world countries is bad, in fact it might even be better, but people just don't want to leave their comfortable technological prison.

* You will die before you get to spend most of your pension fund (if there's a fund left)

I think that's the wrong way 'round, certainly in England, anyway.

Not just in England, but here in Bulgaria too (average pension age: 60; average lifespan:65) In fact some people die before pension age is reached. The new syntetic foods are meant to shorten the lifespan in order to control overpopulation. This is actually the perfect society for leaders, a society where every adult works and no one ever gets a pension...

Interesting, but it doesn't really say all that much in my opinion.

Don't worry, Seventh, we're just getting started. This is like 1st gear and there's a whole highway ahead. There are 5 parts so far and a total of more than 20 chapters. The interesting stuff is yet to come

The programme for the upcomming weeks will be:

Chapter 2: Rights, Freedoms and Obligations
Chapter 3: Education and personality build
Chapter 4: Religion - Menace or Redeemer?
Coclusion: Flaws of the modern society

I'm announcing the upcomming chapters because I fear I'll run out of new material before the time has come (kol's post was really broad-covered). If you have anything to say about these topics above, please, keep developing your position and wait for the time to come.

The System, Part I: Moral & Ethics

[i]This is far not the first time you see a topic named like that, but all such have been deleted, because they turned into flame wars. I believe it is a result of misconception rather than stupidity that causes this ?transformation? of topics and in order to prevent this from happening I?ll explain a couple of things before starting the actual debate.[/i]

What is moral? A simple question it might seem, but few can really answer it. Most of the time it?s being misunderstood and ignored as being of little or no importance. Especially in English it can be mistaken as ?morale? which is a military issue and has nothing to do with reality. Most of all, moral is the combination of ideas and feelings that allow us to determine what is good and bad. There are other descriptions of moral but some of them are far from the truth. To make things easier, here?s the description I?m following: 

Morality is a complex of principles based on cultural, religious, and philosophical concepts and beliefs, by which an individual determines whether his or her actions are right or wrong. These concepts and beliefs are often generalized and codified by a culture or group, and thus serve to regulate the behaviour of its members. Conformity to such codification may also be called morality, and the group may depend on widespread conformity to such codes for its continued existence.

It might seem a bit complex at first, so I?ll explain it: Moral is the combination of rules determining the relationships between humans. It is the one thing that acts as a ?law of behavior? and it keeps our society from collapsing. Now you see it?s quite important and you should give a little more attention to it next time.

Ethics on the other hand is the study of moral rules and concepts. It allows us to examine how moral actually works and then we could analyze it and make a valid conclusion on its level in certain closed society or on the whole Earth as a global society.

Ethics is a general term for what is often described as the "science (study) of morality". In philosophy, ethical behavior is that which is "good" or "right." The Western tradition of ethics is sometimes called moral philosophy. This is one part of value theory (axiology) ? the other part is aesthetics ? of the four major branches of philosophy, alongside metaphysics, epistemology, and logic.

As you can see it?s not just this, but it is also the discipline, uniting all sciences of human psychology. It is quite complicated matter so we won?t delve deep into it.

Now that I?ve cleared all possible misunderstanding I can continue with my analysis. Throughout history moral has evolved a lot and if in the dawn of humanity it was all concerning the survival of the tribe, later the moral was changed by religion and dogmas and now it?s being rewritten. It is true that most of the old moral rules are impractical for today?s world and some of them are actually wrong (especially the ones created by religion, but this is the topic of a future conversation). But as you might guess the modern society is shaped by the media, video games, politicians and the like of these. And if you expect anything good to come out of this you?re totally wrong. The leading units need nothing but blind masses that can be directed easily. I know I can hardly change this, but if I can open the eyes of just some people then I?ll be happy.

I hope you take this seriously, because the lack of moral or its misconception is one of the major issues of the modern society. And if we want to change anything this is the perfect place to start from.

Chapter 1:Personal Opinion

This is not the first thing the human being encounters while building its personality. The reason to start with it is because the disrespect of others opinion is wide spread in this forum. I hope I can ?cure? at least some of you from this disease?

Everyone has the right of a personal position and disrespecting it is nothing but stupid. Keep reading and you?ll find out why. The freedom of choice is in the base of democracy. And trying to be a democratic community we should allow everyone to describe his position. And if it is wrong don?t just start yelling and flaming but use the facts to your advantage. If you?re right there?s a chance you could convince your opponent to join your ?cause?. And in the opposite case: someone?s posting against you. Common reaction ? flaming and total denial. The better reaction ? read the whole post carefully, make sure you?ve understand everything then ask yourself ?Where is my mistake?? and use the opposing post to change your position for the better. Arguments drive the world forward, because when two different positions meet each of them can be modified by removing the wrong parts of it and adding the good parts of the other. The saying is ?If you can?t beat them, join them? and it can be addressed to this case too. If you?re loosing a dispute and you have used all the facts available them your position is probably wrong. What you have to do is change it or even better ? adopt the opposing opinion to your cause ? take its best additions and add them to your own and also remove the wrong parts.

You?ve got to finally realize that arguing isn?t supposed to eliminate one of the opposing sides, it is meant to fix the mistakes they?ve both made. So don?t just keep insulting but try to find the best position by evolving yours according to the current situation. Think about it.

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Other than what I?ve stated above there are other cases: when your opinion is not based on any thoughts but is imposed to you by someone else: media, religion, parents, etc. It is very common for parents to transfer their occasional habits to the children, like favorite food, sport team, etc. But it also happens that some more complicated issues like nationality, religion and political belonging to be ?enforced? upon child. In such cases all other positions are claimed as wrong and are blindly denied. Don?t believe everything you are told by the ?higher instances? and put everything to the test of the facts. Keep asking yourself whether you?re doing the right thing, don?t just do what the others do, because it might be wrong. Before you ask others what they think ask yourself ?is my post really right? Is it worth posting at all??. This also applies with full force on other manners from the life. Any action, opinion or theory can be put to such a self-test, no matter the field. Think about it.

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This concludes this week?s analysis. If you?re looking for a summary here you won?t find any ? go back to the top and READ EVRYTHING CAREFULLY or this place isn?t for you. Feel free to append to my thoughts as long as your reply is well considered and has passed the ?test? I spoke of. It is sure that senseless replies will be neglected, so don?t create any extra work for the moderators. Thank you for the attention.

If you think your post deserves consideration don't save your words - you have only 7 days before the next chapter comes out!

Damn, they don't sign up anymore! 250MB was great, but the accounts run out quickly...

Haven't seen it yet. Is it a mod or a game using the Source engine? Post links to it's home page!

Woah, thanks, 7th. You're my savior. I won't spend any more sleepless nights, crying about the good ol' time.

Mercury is silver-metalic you fool. The smell had traces of chlorine and maybe suflur (there was a girl with me back then and girls can recognize over 500 more smells than males, so don't question my results ). We planned going again, but this time with equipment, so that we can take some probes with us and examine them later. And, by the way, scorpions are cool and I don't see any logical reason to fear them.

Photos, sure, but I don't know when will I be allowed to go there. There are several watchposts with barriers and you can only pass with a car and a pass and only if you're going to work or to pick someone from inside... And since there is a free bus for the workers it doesn't happen very often to go and get mom. And I'm not sure how cameras are tolerated... Maybe I could find some photos online.

I also forgot to tell you I'm afraid of poisonous chemicals on the loose. About half a kilometer from my flat (I can see it know trough the window)there's the "Central Repair Base" (or CRB, as everyone here calls it). That's it's old name, now it's something else. There are many things on it's teritorry (it's huge, something like 2x4 kilometers, if you count the train depot), some with unknown purpouse. Like the two huge liquid oxygen tanks you can clearly see behind the high concrete wall. I don't think they build rockets, but there sure is a chemical laboratory in there, since we found a small pond (20x15meters) filled with some wired liquid. Not sure what it was, but it was light blue. And not like whater, but like the sky in a very clear day (almost as if you screwed the map and the sky could be seen bellow the hole). It appeared solid and shallow but swimming empty bottles broke the illusion and it sure was deep, because you could see the slope goign down.

PS: hlcore.uni.cc, eh? Last time I was allowed to host there was the time of the Project...

Woah, I didn't expected such interest around this change.

Even if PTS sounds better it isn't my original nickname. And in every other forum, IRC server or whatever I'm PhutureTech, so why be diffirent here? And besides PTS usualy stands for 'post-traumatic stress' which isn't my goal...

I still do program, ministeve, but only small apps to use once or twice at the momment. I'm amazed how'd you remember such details.

Of course I wont go into a long and winding rant about how the 'ph' is only cool in reference to phreaking, which i doubt you are.

Phreaking, no, but I feel kinda good when deceiveing and backstabbing people... But don't be afraid, it doesn't bring me much satisfaction over the internet so you're (relatively) safe. I saw this variant of 'phuture' in the name of a band or something, can't remember...

Even if I change my avatar I'll probably keep the 'PTS' in it, as well as the gear, so you'll have no problems recognizing me. And alos I won't get offended if you refer to me as 'PTS' or 'PT' or 'Phuture' or whatever.

PS: By using 'Ph' instead of 'F' allows to use 4xP - Pure Phuture, Pure Power (seen in a sloganizer or whatever it was)

I think just deleting the threads was bether - now there are about 4 or 5 closed topics on the first page and since it wasn't like that before it now appears as if there's a mad moderator on the loose, closing topics at random... :ph34r:

PS: This new map limitation sucks, since I can't find a proper place to host maps outside this site and good maps with custom stuff most of the time by far exceed 1MB zipped. And that's the main reason for me to move here from the Collective - to host my maps to public. And now... it's taken away!...

/me runs away crying

The System: Introduction

Once in a while political conversations appear in the forums. But most of the time they turn into flame-wars. This proves that the people here are either infants or just don?t want to get serious. I think you guys are not ready for a ?Serious Conversation? section in the forums ? you?ll probably ruin everything, and I don?t know who?ll be crazy enough to volunteer for a moderator there.

And yet again I decided to make an earnest post. And not just to put some senseless blether, but to search, gather information, sort it out and make a valid conclusion, regarding the modern society.

The reason to label my post ?The System? is that it covers most aspects of the modern world ? ethics, politics, religion, economics, etc. It won?t be just a single post, so don?t expect me to pack it all together and make you read for two hours straight ? a series of posts will be made, that?s exactly why I called the first one ?Introduction?.

As I already said, I researched most aspects of today?s life in terms of facts and numbers. So what I?ll be saying here will be [i]accurate[/i] and my words will be anything but empty. I?ll most likely be posting one chapter every week, probably at Saturday, unless there's a great interest about a chapter, in which case I'll exttend it.

Now, guys, it?s exam period for me, this information gathering is taking up a lot of my time, so you can imagine what effort I?ve put into this work. So don?t screw it all up, OK? I want you all to read everything and think twice before you reply and to avoid flaming and spam-posting. I request the moderator?s assistance if someone fails to apply to my appeal. Keep it cool everything will be fine. Don?t post here or in any of the following chapters if you don?t have to say anything directly to the topic.

If you have any proposals, advices, or requests feel free to post them here. Criticism at this stage will be fairly pointless as I haven?t really posted any of my intellectual work yet, so think about it first. I hope I don?t offend anyone now and later with my posts. Thank you for the patience and be prepared, because next week I?ll be analyzing modern ?Morale & Ethics? (this also includes religion so I guess there?ll be a lot of interest)!

Don't get it wrong, I didn't steal this avatar.

This is how to make a 440 day old profile with just 6 logins - make one, then forget how it's spelled, make a new one, and over a year later rediscover your old one! It might sound stupid, but that's exactly what I've done.

From now on I'll appear with this name but I'll keep the avatar for a while so that people don't get confused.

Wired, probably it came out of some sick-brained buy with lots of free time and room to post

Just put it were the player can never see and save some polys. There lots of tutorials on using the 'null' texture in half-life.

Ohh, is that what ieatmonkeychow is all the time shouting about?
Funny, but not really fall-on-the-ground-and-don't-stop-laughting-until you-fall-in-uncounscisness type of story.

OK, got it just one thing: diffuse or cell shaded?