fuck inheritance, I want it now

(nonentity - voice of a generation :) 

voice of a twit :) 

generation sucks. A bunch of spoiled brats. When I was your age - we had to wait, meekly, for the inheritance of the earth. And we liked it that way! And if it was good enough for us, it's good enough for you. Asshole.

Now get the fuck off my lawn!

*Shaking cane, spitting tobacco, etc.* 

I'm scraching my balls and playing video games!

-Scampie, voice of a generation 

the voice of degeneration. 

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1093&e=1&u=/pcworld/20030930/tc_pcworld/112697 

whoa, free with a $499 card :)
probably a good game to show the beast off with though 

One day I'll stop being sarcastic in text. Never works.

And it's not your fucking lawn, it belongs to the meek. 

The meek can pry it from my cold, dead hands! 

I'm currently planning a mappers meetup in central North Carolina for October 11th and 12th. If you're interested in attending, please get in touch with me. 

/me wonders how many mappers are in the NC area other than Mr. Gove... 

Currently two besides myself. And then there's the possibility of other peeps that I don't know of. 

cow crying, udder full, no one around. 

our next speedmapping session will take place soon

The time
8pm GMT on Saturday, 4th October
that corresponds to 9pm UK time, or 4pm EST
This earlier time seems good so we'll go with it for now

The place
on IRC, in #speedq1 on gamesnet.net

The plan
Make a map in 100 minutes or less.
No theme! Make whatever the hell you want.

If you can't make the session, make a map before and email it to me at starbuck@planetquake.com 

I'd wish this won't be real but it seems it's not a fake:

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10692 

Hopefully they can catch him. I wonder if he (the attacker) purposely posted the source for another company to get its hands on it...

Or if it's just some hacker having a hayday. 

believe that the hl2 source is all that attractive to other companies. Maybe a startup or something, but I doubt it.
Valve is mostly about gameplay anyways. 

Good point 

It's more a problem with the multiplayer, or more specifically cheats and hacks for the multiplayer.

This means if they don't change something major then they'll be cheaters from day 1. But then, if they do change something, it means huge delays.

Personally I say release it anyway, there'd be cheats within a few days anyway. 

the cheaters usually creeps out from under their rocks when the SDK's are being released, so feel free to see this debacle as premature community-building...

more to the point, this must be awfully embarrassing for the good folks at Valve. If presented by a questionare, a majority of gamers would prefer HL2 before both The Second Coming of Christ, as well as Peace And Good Will Unto All Men. And what precautions do they take so it won't leak? They got had by an outlook exploit, nice. Must me very comfortable being their network admin right now, explaining this to Sierra.

I had something else on my mind, but I forgot. Blame the booze. 

For anyone wishing to try Quake II mapping in GTK Radiant, there is a thread at map-center about it...............................

http://www.map-center.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1384 

speedmapping will be in 5 hours 

here's the pack (514 KB)
http://speedq1.spawnpoint.org/files/sm52_pack.zip 

Just played it through to the gravity lift. (Taking a break). Levels are so far identical IIRC from the X-Box version. Have had no lag time as some had feared (but I did install the 1st retail patch before I even started playing it).

PC= Laptop 1.4 ghz P-4 512 mb ram
Vid GForce 440 to go
Note that on starting up the game it warned me that it did not install drivers for my vid card but it works just fine.

In case you did not know it already, the patching process was somewhat like Half-Life /Steam in a way. It was a ~3mb file install from within the MULTIPLAYER menu. Just start up an internet game and it will automaticly look to see if you need a patch, then, if you do it will shut down the game and download and install it for you.

GAme play is much better than the X-Box version if only because of the mouse keyboard combination I am used to (I hate fps's on a game pad). I can see its going to be a long uptime for me tonite. 

I gave the PC Halo a go myself. The graphics feel like HL1 in the indoor areas. The outdoor areas look better because of the draw distance. In general the level design felt rather poor. I was never sure if I was revisiting some place I had been before because it all looked the same. The audio on the other hand was pretty good though.