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I've probably done something silly, but I put five f_areaportals in five alcoves with complex stuff in them. The portals work, as far as FPS goes, but when I look at the areaportals I see a hall of mirrors. Once I step through the port I see what's behind it. But if I turn...

In the HL2 demos at E3 they said that you could have a model (G-Man) of water or fire. Anybody know of how they meant for that to be done. I'd like to use some of the models as statues, which if I could render a model with stone, would make for a very quick statue. If I could make a man out of...

The LOTR Racist thread had some interesting "facts" tossed around. The funniest one was Sgt. Nate's fairy-tale belief that 65% of blacks are middle-class. :-) Yeah. Right. Amazing what we can be brainwashed to believe. http://www.maec.org/stats.html#income15 That census page shows that...

I'm working on a project to convert all my music into digital. I've ripped about 500 CDs, my 45s, half my 12"s and more than half of my LPs. When I'm done I'll have about 65Gb of MP3s (just passed 55Gb now). What I want to do is have removeable HDDs that contains a mirror of my music...

I'm building a huge MP3 catalog and wondring if anyone has used any software out there to truly manage large collections (10,000+ files). One task is to audit ID3V2 tags and correct info, but also to rename files for consistency. I want to be able to search all the ID3V2 tag fields, such as...

To me, Steam is a bad idea/scheme taken too far. I installed the new steam and after repeated attempt finely got an account. Obviously things at Steam Central aren't running too well. But that going to happen from time to time. Unfortunately the structure of Steam can't handle it. If I...

The flashes in the clouds seen in the E3 Docks video turns out to be a video artifact. In the new high-res steam version there are no flashes amongst the clouds. Skys are probably just high res tga's

I just installed steam yesterday. I launched a few games today and was surprised to find that in order to play the games I already have downloaded it needed to spend about 10 minutes per games downloading. Then it needed to download "STALKYARD" WTF? I've played that a hundred times. SO...