Posts by Hipshot

  • :(

    Quote from Spellbinder

    When it is cold and dark for so long, especially up north in the winter where you maybe get 5 min of sun in the shortest days, it makes you lack of certain vitamines which make you feel less active, and it can go down from there, nothing says you have to kill your self right at that moment, but one thing will lead to another untill finally you dont want to be around any more.

    As you said there is probably other stuff going on aswell, but if you would have lived in a sunnier country maybe you had bigger chance to get out of it.

    And to top it of, its a stated fact from professors/and medical personal that the cold and darkness up here makes ppl feel more angst (sp?) and depressed.

    Spellbinder.

    Actually, the parts where population counts, like here ~3Hs by car up, and below sthlm, the sun is minimun 5H day, when its as dark as it gets. And also, the vinters in sweden isn't that hard, the climate here in sthlm is compareable to NY in many cases. It even so, that there's more snow there sometime. There are winters here when the temp just goes below 0 that isn't much.

  • :(

    Quote from Minotauro

    hahahaha

    Ferret: I heard nordic countries have the highest suicide rates in the world. It's said that they can't go out when it's snowing (99% of the time ) and have nothing better to do at home. Boredom seems to be enough reason to suicide, who knows

    Bullshit. You think that snow and cold is a high factor when comes down to suecide? I say not. Some people, dosen't like the cold and winter, like me, but its a LONG step to suecide, and there's often more things behind it if someone kill themselves.

    I had a friend who hung him self, that is the only person I know, even far away, even heard of doing it. But he was tragic, his life sucked, no grades whatso ever, no real future, only watched movies all the time. It's just sad. I must add, that he killed himself in the middle of June, the funeral was two weeks later, ~30C hot. Not even close to the winter.

  • Just signed up

    Hi lex! Good to see you here. The conversation is mature here compared to HL2W, but people dosen't post much 'problems' either.

    @ curman, you know, just cause you been mapping for a long time, dosen't mean that you kept and published all the work. I've stared mapping for Q1, that is sometime late 96, its ~9 years ago, and I don't have much map left, just some pics from early HL. I even had the same disc since late 2001.

  • WTF is up at house that Doom built?

    Quote from Kosmo

    I don't care about the money, I just get sick when reading about the "began a death-of-a-1,000-cuts-style approach to force him out--closely monitoring his hours, stripping him of privileges, and denying him access to board-related documents" part.

    Yea, I felt really bad reading that part to. Its just pure sadism.

  • WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

    @ Mino, been there, that looks nice too. I'm choosing between hazy warm, and varm non-haze. I have the exact same room compiled but w/o fog.

    Quote from mike-0

    hipshot, that's really hot.so has anyone (other than insta) started up something for dod yet?

    Alexroyce @ HL2W already released a Icecavern map for DODS. Probably the first DODS map.

  • WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

    Quote from ginsengavenger

    considering there's so much bulk of industrial machinery and crap in the hl2 assets it's surprising how difficult it is to take it all and make a convincing factory setting it has a good look and feel but it's got that same kind of lack of purpose and place that you see in most industrial maps (mine included).

    I agree, but I must however say, that It really dosen't matter if any real usage can e applied, not in a map that mostly focuses on trying to get some decent gameplay.

    I however thinks, that If I were to make a map just for looks, I would have tried making something that could represent a real factory/wharehouse/whatever.

    Btw, this is no factory, its a middle-station for a train. Import/export kinda thing...

  • HDR maps

    Quote from zeOx

    ok, thanks.will the tools come around the time that dod:s is released?

    just saw i forgot to mention it was for HL2, but you got it anyways

    Well, 90% of the internet seems to think that HDR was implanted to a game for the first time by Valve, some even seems to think they invented it so...