what really cracks me up is the high res player head and high res fonts. it's just such a contrast with the grey textured map. :P 

 

Well, I guess a pure DM player who lives for QW might want to focus 100% on the gameplay. I can see how you'd want neutral textures.

I've been thinking about making a singleplayer map like that, uni texture and no details - this would remove everything that could be an excuse for bad gameplay.

Such a map would have to stand purely on its gameplay quality; making that map still fun to play would be the challenge.

Like warsow, only more extreme. And singleplayer. Kinda like White Room - willem is an unconventional thinker, and I miss him. 

Such a map would have to stand purely on its gameplay quality

that's what you should do when blocking out a level with simple geometry. Then you go make it look nice as well. 

HL2 is mapping!
And it looks great! 

http://fudzilla.com/home/item/21900-egyptian-bloke-names-daughter-facebook 

I hate it when retailers (overclockers) send out shit using DHL or FedEx or whatever instead of regular mail because they always end up trying to deliver to me when I'm not home, and then follows a long process of calling them up and bitching and moaning "well can I pick it up myself somewhere?" "can you deliver it at my office instead?" "why did you throw it in the trash?" instead of if it was just regular mail I'd get a slip in my mailbox and then I can go pick it up myself at my leisure and by the way I gave them my phone number why don't they try to give a quick call first or something. Also I didn't give them my door code so when it says on their tracking site that I "refused delivery" or whatever does that mean they parked their car outside on the street for a while and waited for me to show up. Basically I'm not angry at the actual delivery guy because he might be cute and hot but I honestly would rather not have anything to do with them in the first place. 

Your mother is fat. 

how i understand your frustration. express delivery sucks. 

wow czg no one cares 

 

about you 

 

 

 

I like you scampie. I'm sure your mother is a very caring woman. 

we might get when he tries to build his computer and fails. Then he will try and buy one from the shop and fail. And it will be terrible, for everyone. 

I'd advise against that. As you pointed out, maps *can* stand purely on their gameplay quality, so making a good playing Q1SP that looks like that dm4 shot would be a waste of time - and a torture for the players, who'd rather play a map that both looks good and plays well.

Case in point: Lun3DM2

with both a strong theme and a strong game, the map could have soared. 

Deliverys suck.

I particularly liked the "your item which you urgently wanted today is in a depot 10 miles away but no you can't possibly come to collect it but we can rearrange a delivery for which you'll almost certainly be out, sometime next week"

CUNTS. It's not fucking rocket science. I turn up, show proof of id, collect my shit that you fucked up the delivery on. Jeez.

I miss CZG. Vondur was resorting to posting ugly obese chicks last night, in your absence. 

I had the same situation, took about 2 weeks to finally get my "express" package. 

EDIT: FUCKING SHITTY PHONE DELETED ALL OF THIS SO NOW I HAVE TO TYPE IT A SECOND TIME.

Three things are missing:

1) Not gotten my RAM yet. Thought I could maybe use a stick of my old, but turned out that was ddr2 not 3.

2) There aren't any IDE connectors on this mobo, so can't use my old optical. This is dumb because I will literally only use it to install windows.

3) I ended up getting a GTX560Ti, and of course that needs a 12 pin lead from the PSU and I've got an 8 pin.

So close, yet so far... 

that needs a 12 pin lead from the PSU and I've got an 8 pin.
the heck? the connectors come with that little snap on bit to extend it to 12, no? 

I had to get new RAM. Get some Corsair 1600Mhz 2x2Gb kit @ 1.5v 9-9-9-24. Only cost me �38, which i why I suggest. Or you could get the special P67 2133Mhz one :)

I have to get a new DVDRW too cause mine was IDE. Only cost �12 for a half decent SATA. Luckily I bought a Blueray 4x (only reads DVDs @ 16x) a while ago so used that. Incidentally I have never put a blueray in it :S

ALSO:

Your 8pin can be converted to a 6pin with an inexpensive adapter, and for the other 6pin can be provided by a 2xmolex to 6pin adapter (you will DEFINATELY get altleast one of those adapters with your card. You probably got a SLI bridge with the mobo to, right?)

Your 8pin might be splittable, no? 

I've got a box of all kinds of random crap I've saved up over the years, i'll rummage through and look for a molex adapter. 

I found the super secret crate that had all the spare parts for the PSU and there was a second lead for the GPU. (It's modular.)
So now I could potentionally give it 16 pins, yay.

So now just the ram and optical. I could maybe get an usb enclosure, but that would be hella slow and a new one is dead cheap anyway.