Almost correct. The inside is leather whereas the outside is covered in a softer material much like so called 'tactical gloves'. Of course this makes them similar to HL2's gloves as those were leather on the inside as well. Either way, the texture for these will be reworked at some point, as...
TDE TDE lol.
Anyway, HL2.net started sucking a long time ago. Why? Dunno. Forums are full of crap. A large part of the core of regular members who posted good stuff "back in the day" stopped posting. Those who were annoying brats back then are the regulars now I suppose. Maybe it's just that...
Yes, I'm sure this 'curman' would hack a site and make it one big insult of... himself. If I read that page right (and I did), no site was haxored. This page is simply a childish insult game put up by the leader (Wilko) of this defunct mod, because his team couldn't deal with one stupid troll...
Actually, if you read the page (especially the part near the end), you'll see that this is some kind of payback page, probably placed there by this Wilko person who I think was the mod leader. Apparently this curman person single handedly trolled the dev team so much they just called it quits...
I don't see Valve/Limelight cutting the hosting on the prime HL2 fansite anytime soon, especially not if it's getting such a large amount of visitors. I don't think you can ask people to put up with rather intrusive advertising just because there might someday be a time when the site may not be...
Sure. Keep in mind that there are already some Spore fansites, a number of which are Sims/Maxis fansites crossing over or creating sister sites. I'll definitely join/help, if you go ahead with it despite the competition.
What are you bunch talking about? The post icons look exactly the same to me, after several refreshes.
Or were they fixed IN SILENCE :O
(the inline editing when pressing the edit button isn't working in firefox, have to go advanced)