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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/bl...e_day_ii_3.html Oh George Allen, we hardly new ye. Macaca, as it turns out, happens to be an obscure racial slur that somehow popped into the head of this guy who's had several problems with race in the past. In this video, it's being directed at an...

Half-Life 2: -the dust when the bridge breaks looks slicker than in previous games: the new particle system? -when a chunk of asphalt with a white line painted on it breaks, the white line apparently is painted on what should be the inside of the rock as well! Bit overzealous with the paint...

So I've been out of the gaming hardware purchasing scene for a while now. I won my governor's camapign in Virginia, and now I'm working on a project to send send money over mobile phones. But... I've been distracted. I have lots of money now, and I want to get a new rig at some point, but...

If the new portal game sounds exciting, then check this out: http://www.nuclearmonkeysoftware.com/narbaculardrop.html It's a free indie game basically using the same concept... and lo and behold, see what happens in their blog? Valve hired them. :cheese: So basically, this is where Portal...

Ask me anything. Not convinced that evolution happened on this planet? Not convinced that all life is related on a single tree of common descent? Don't understand why scientists think it probable or even likely that life began spontaneously on the ancient Earth? Well, just ask away. If...

I'm using Firefox as a browser, and even though I click "remember login" I seem to need to log in virtually every time I come to the site. This doesn't happen with other sites, just this one. Could it be a firefox problem?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&ncid=2026&e=3&u=/latimests/20041216/ts_latimes/illinoisseekstocurbexplicitvideogames Morons are out to regulate videogames again, and of course instead of focusing on the worst offenders, they basically just list the top titles. But when it...

I like TeamDM a whole lot: it just feels more fun. But playing in pubs doesn't seem to make the really fun teamups all that common: just everyone running around aimlessly as usual, only now there are people you don't shoot. The goal of the gametype is basically to have your team stick...

I'm obviously not going to direct people to the particular site/sites, but there are a few well known bittorrent sites that periodically release cracks for HL2 and CS:S to keep their stolen games up to date. My question is: why doesn't Valve shut these places down? I mean, they have domain...

I love HL2DM. But I love it mostly because of one thing: the grav gun. I hate HL2DM. But I hate because of only one thing: the fairly banal weapon selection. Now, don't get me wrong: the feat of creating a DM where it is balanced enough between grav gun and convetional weapons to be...

I know we have the npc sticky up there, but I was wondering more generally if people can let each other know what the important tweaks are that can help us get the game to do what we want. For instance, the body stack command. Or the command to make physics/gravity and such act like it's slow...

I'm sort of bummed that I may miss all the action when HL2 et al hits the fan community. I'm going to try and stay unspoiled until I can come back and play it. But right now, there's something more important. I've quit my regular job, come out hundreds of miles to a key battleground state...

I've already mailed Gabe asking his thoughts on this topic, but chances are he won't have time to respond, so I thought it might make for an interesting topic for us all to consider. Basically, we are moving into new territory here: we all know how things ARE, how there is a developer, and...

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/vtmb/preview_6100691.html The diary discusses how "scripting" works in Source, all the different methods whereby the AI works to create realistic characters. Pretyt neat read.

I know somebody made one (photoshopped to look like it's a payment option in Steam): I wanted to use it in an article. Original author gets credit for it.

I've decided, if only for my own amusement, to write up an article detailing myths and realities about HL2. There seem to be a lot of misconceptions about the game and various events over the last year, and I'd like to collect them all into an article that I'll hopefully vet with Valve before...

http://www.homelanfed.com/index.php?id=23404 So maybe this is why they didn't have a concrete release date ready: they were weeks off of their estimate of when they would enter the beta phase. Currently, this is what the best case scenario looks like to me: 1) they go into beta...

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/videogames/171447_gamesequels.html This looked like a fun little article that mentions Valve and the expectation for the sequel. (but mentions GameFAQs instead of HL2.net, bullcrud!) But the article, which has a direct quote from Gabe, also says repeatedly...

Warren Spectator doesn't think we'll see HL2 this fall Not that WS, the creator of Deus Ex 2, is necessarily any more in the know than we are, but this probably isn't a good sign, given that people who are tied into the industry directly (and the marketing end of things) generally have a much...

Gary McTaggart once told us: "Yes. There is a detailed benchmark released before the game ships where you can run a particular card through any of the DirectX levels where appropriate." If the game really is supposed to come out on the 30th, that's now when the benchmark is coming as well...