alanschu

Carmack did comment that they thing he was most displeased about was that shadows were not cast on creatures. The game still does look nice.

I read one once, just to see what the heck was in it. I did take a quick looksee over the Half-Life 2 one and quickly found that changes can be made to the license agreement under written consent with the Licensor (in this case Valve).

Getting us to do your own homework for you? Tsk tsk.

Because it's violating the EULA!!!!

Only to the most extreme graphics whore.

For a perverse sense of pleasure I get from it? I could ignore him, but I know other people won't so he'll still get his attention. So I figure I'll smack him back down to reality on the odd occassion.

You can still play the new versions of CS as well. All I have ever paid for was Half-Life. I've never had to pay for Counterstrike. But there's been a big discussion here about how DD is bad because the makers of high quality, popular mods are able to market their product. I said "Finally, only good, high quality mods will evolve to the point where there is a cost, since people won't buy ****." And he mentioned: He then tried to sway the argument about how people buy crappy games, even though I never said they didn't. I was talking about the free mods that went retail. It's a pretty entertaining thread actually. The doom and gloom of DD was quite hilarious.

Of course I'd do that, because I'm getting paid a ridiculously stupid amount of money for something so simple. A bit over the top when concerning Garry working on his mod (which is not a simple thing to do) for a mere $5 a copy. Nice try getting around the point people DO buy crappy games. But by this you haven't given me proof people do always buy stuff they like. Do people buy crappy mods? Since this is a mod discussion. I've yet to see a mod that was crappy go retail. Let alone sell well. I guess independent contractors are all unemployed. Valve approached him with a business opportunity. Garry is an entrepreneur. How many mods have gone retail without the expressed consent of the people that own the copy of the game. This seems to be the big thing you like to ignore, since you allege that people are breaking an EULA, when it's the Licensor that gives them permission. Ok, since you aren't paying attention... YOU CAN STILL PLAY COUNTERSTRIKE FOR FREE, AS LONG AS YOU HAVE A COPY OF HALF-LIFE, JUST LIKE YOU ALWAYS COULD. The same goes for Day of Defeat, and Garry's Mod! In fact, with respect to Counterstrike and Day of Defeat, you still got all the updates and bonuses to the games after they went retail. I NEVER bought Counterstrike. EVER. But I still played it until version 1.6. Counterstrike: Source, which I still play, was included with every package deal except for the cheap Half-Life 2 ONLY version. Which is great, because people that are ONLY concerned in Half-Life 2, could save some money. I NEVER bought Day of Defeat. But I can still play it. All the going retail did for a game like Counterstrike did, was let people that wanted to play Counterstrike get the game without having to buy Half-Life. Prior to it going retail, if you wanted to play Counterstrike, you had to buy a $60 game. After the retail, if you wanted to play Counterstrike, you had to buy a $20 game. As indiciated by madhatter, Valve made an offer to split the revenues 50/50. Which makes sense, because Valve owns the license to the engine. They, as stated earlier, provided a business opportunity to Garry. But yeah, this is all greed... Greed would have been to continue to milk to success of Counterstrike which was selling copies of Half-Life, with no fiduciary reward for Jess Cliffe or Minh Lee. Not provide business opportunities to make money for these guys to make some money for their hard work. Cliffe eventually got hired by Valve as well. As did 3 other people that worked on Day of Defeat.

Which mods are you talking about? Are you talking about the premium modules? As I'm not familiar with too many mods that have gone retail that have had stories in them at all. The comment that BW quoted spilled over from his bitching that people have made mods such as Counterstrike and soon Garry's Mod (for Half-Life 2) and those mods have become official products for sale.

Some fingerprints might be (partially) preserved in the glue, too, if there is any on the external surfaces ... definitely whomever had motive, opportunity and method (ability, knowledge, etc) will do it again ... I would bet they live / know someone who lives in the building. Report it to the police, too; they need people to report all evidence such as this to build cases for later. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> There's no way the fingerprints would be in the glue, as the glue was only in the keyhole. Fingerprints were out of the question since they'd be lucky to find one of ours smudged on there when we took a closer look to see why the key wasn't going in. It wasn't covering the entire lock, it was blocking the keyhole. If I was to suspect anyone, I'd suspect the people below us, since they are the only people that we could possibly bother in our apartment, since we're on the top floor and the apartment adjacent to us only has a smart part of our walls adjacent, and it's our kitchens. Perhaps this was fallout for me playing Half-Life 2 until 6 in the morning?

You need look no further than the simplest solution to all of life's problems... TNT! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's DYNAMITE!

I'd rather Edmonton toned things down actually. This imitation of the Red Mile is quite annoying actually.

Screw ya... " And yes, I do think we (Humans (-Homo-Sapien)) are one "race". There might be differences between black and white people, but so are there differences between me and every family member I have. Hell; twins are never the same mentally. Thus can we forget all the outter visual stuff and concentrate on the inner which while different with each and every human has enough in common to be shared under a single race... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Then I guess dogs are all one breed.

Ahum Consistent, Alanschu... VERY consistent... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Quoted out of context from a discussion about MODs. How many crap mods have gone retail and sold well? Here's the full line: Again, I can't think of too many mods that were of low quality that became official, let alone sold well.

I actually have.

How could you miss Daytona?!?!? In any case, first time I have ever seen your definition.

I imagine Half-Life after Half-Life 2 just doesn't cut it. There's a lot more slower parts I find in Half-Life. The pacing of Half-Life 2 is a bit better IMO. Half-Life seemed to follow a relatively formulaic pattern of Level with Zombies/Headcrabs/Xen creatures Level with Marines Level with Zombies/Headcrabs/Xen creatures Level with Marines etc. Though it was neat the way it was done, as it meant a change in pace. At the time I really loved it (and still do, since I have a soft spot for the game...it's also the one that brought me back into PC gaming). The Xen levels were typically spooky, with appropriate ambient noise and so on. The Marine levels were a much faster pace, with heavy guitar riffs for the music (Lambda Core totally made We've Got Hostiles. Going up the elevator, just after your first encounter with a Marine, and listening to it wind up and get going right when you reached your stop was perfect). Definitely much more action. I'd suggest you try to get past On a Rail. It does pick up a bit more there. Though the ending is a bit weak.

It actually sounds like a badass smack talk before you lay the beat down on someone. "Who are you?" "I AM DEFINITION!" "WHa-" *pow* *bam* *kapow*

The impression I get from the Appendix is that that is indeed the case. He may be a fiction writer, but his settings make more sense if he's not completely off the wall with some of the science behind it. I think he did his homework. I haven't actually read the book (just the appendix), though my roommate has highly recommended it.

I disagree.

Nova Prospekt is my favourite. Anticitizen One is also a ton of fun. Good choices My favourite all time Half-Life level is probably We've Got Hostiles. Considering I knew nothing about the game, my first encounter with the marines was jaw dropping.

It is fun. EDIT: Highway 17 that is.

I find it interferes with my razor blades of goodness, and would probably abandon it anyways. In any case, I'm through Ravenholm, and just getting into Highway 17.

Absolutely. Human beings as social creatures is complete bollocks, and a myth altogether. I ask you, why did you bother posting a quasi-suicidal message stating how much you think your life sucks because you were losing your job once Christmas was over, so on and so forth?

You kept dog's ball? I never thought about that hahaha. I kill the thrower zombie guys with big giant tanks of flammable substance. Sometimes the odd submachine gun grenade (since I rarely use that it seems).