Posts by Section_Ei8ht

  • WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

    We don't shit all over the HL1 maps. Just the ones that look bad. The bar has been rasied on HL1 maps significantly over the last few years (mostly since Nightwatch). There's more you can do with HL1 than you have done with what you showed.

    The reason people, as you put it, "shit all over" your map is because its uncompiled and unimpressive. Post more screenshots when you have the bulk of the detailed work finished and compiled.

    Posting things like "in short, fuck you, fuck off, eat shit and die." around here will not help you get better constructive criticism. But then again if it did, would you really benifit from it anyway?

  • WoW madness

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    If you can't get past that you're weak, and if you choose suicide you're even weaker and you really don't care about others and are selfish to the extreme fault.

    I'm with Posty. Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. One less useless/selfish person in the world. If it turns out she had a terminal disease and/or was going to die in the near future, I will retract my statement. Until then, no dice.

  • TES: Oblivion.

    Quote from RD

    Ive played for about 8 hours and i have only brought the amulet to that guy.. its the first quest. I gave up after that because on my route to the next town i met 4 flying devils that shoot fireballs and it takes 10 minutes to kill one of them while i constantly have to run away to recharge my health

    so true. so annoying.

  • WoW madness

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    To become goth in the first place (a cult that worships weakness), u need a disturbed childhood.

    Or just a yerning to fit in somewhere while feeling like a "rebel against society". There's also a million different definitions of "disturbed" to a 13-20 year old goth.

  • WoW madness

    Yeah, but RD, you gotta remember that the average definition of "suffering" to an emo/goth punk is:

    "My girfriend/boyfriend broke up with me"

    "My parents wont let me eat cookies after 5"

    "I cant get tickets to that band I like"

    "People just dont get me"

    "I'm not popular"

    "I dont have the $5,000 backpack that Jane Smith does"

    etc.

  • In The Works ...

    Quote from hydeph

    normal apartment biuldings don't usually have apartments on the first floor, it looks odd to have windows on ground level.

    where are you from? Makes me think that all my friends live in abnormal appartments, seeing as how all their units are on the first floor...

    I agree that the buildings are flat. I think they are flat to a point where they would have looked cool in 1997. The detail on the cars and the bulldozer is way too high in comparison to the rest of the world. You should work to try and make the rest of the world have as much detail as the objects in it.

  • Nerds Win!

    Saw this on digg. Brilliant.

    [email protected] [email protected]

    And lastly, we ran "postmap /etc/postfix/sender_bcc_map" and reloaded Postfix with a "postfix reload" command.

    For those of you that aren't Postfix gurus (look at those hands!), what we effectively did was tell the mail server to blind-carbon-copy every email that the CFO sends out to the 'allemps' alias that we created. The allemps alias contained no management personnel. =)

    This worked out better than we could ever have possibly dreamed.

    Remember how I said we were there working late? Well as luck would have it, the CFO was up late at home checking emails and taking care of business (so to speak).

    At 11:10PM, the CFO sent the following email, which was BCC'd to all non-management employees.

    Holy crap! Our timing was unreal. Every non-management employee now knew :

    1) The CFO was a long-time member of a European pr0n site that featured 17-yo girls in nudie pictures.

    2) The CFO's personal credit card number, including expiration date and CVE number

    3) The CFO was quite pissed about not having access to the site

    He finished off the evening by replying to a couple of companies that were interested in acquiring us, and the emails weren't trimmed at all. Everyone saw the entire conversation from beginning to end. Good thing that the CFO doesn't follow our own e-mail etiquette policy, huh?

    Needless to say a flurry of emails occurred between us non-management employees over the weekend. Neither of us admitted to being the instigators, however we're pretty sure everyone figured out it was us.

    A few of the more senior non-management employees contacted the board of directors and disclosed a pile of emails that contained conversations between the CEO, COO and CFO on 'back door' compensations for making this deal go through. They were essentially screwing the board (which was compromised mostly of investors!), the employees and everyone else they could find.

    The board met in a private meeting, and summarily terminated the employment of all three executives. They had golden parachutes, netting them each a year's salary. However, the acquisition deal didn't go through - and the board appointed new executives that were honest and they have built us into a nice 300-employee self-sustaining company. We have profit-sharing now, and a list of other benefits that would make most Fortune 500 companies jealous.

    I'll leave the moral of the story up to the reader.

    GoldenEEL *

  • WoW madness

    Quote from The Postman

    The funeral was for some stupid goth bitch who offed herself. So her nerd friends (especially since she was a girl) hold a funeral for her in WoW. How trite. Three cheers for the guild that ransacked them

    Poetry.

  • mapcore numbers?

    I just like doing the art stuff as a pass time. If I ever end up working in the game industry, its going to be for a programming gig, but thats not what I'm striving for. Might try to get hired in the game industry post-college to see whats up, but not depending on it.