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Game Forum / Action Games / Half Life / July 2008I told you we needed this newsgroup.
No one believed me! http://tinyurl.com/4fjhzr jpiddock wrote > No one believed me! hehe, consider these quotes from a decade ago "Reb" Ruster: "Unless there's a large demand for level deveolpment, I doubt that it would be useful. " Nathan Carter: "But in a month when nobody cares about Half-Life any more, the newsgroup will be just a waste of bandwidth and a spam magnet. " Btw all the fuss abut HL2 did settle quite fast compared to the era of HL ? - Peter > jpiddock wrote > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Btw all the fuss abut HL2 did settle quite fast compared to the era of HL ? I presume it was a genuine tinyurl link then? > I presume it was a genuine tinyurl link then? Yep no problem - groups.google.com etc - Peter "Shawk" skrev > I presume it was a genuine tinyurl link then? Oh quite forgot .... Chicken, bårh bå-bårh båårhhh bårh :-) > "Shawk" skrev > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Chicken, bårh bå-bårh båårhhh bårh Hey!! I resemble that remark! :-) > I presume it was a genuine tinyurl link then? Well... it deals with 'spam management' :) Civilian_Target >> jpiddock wrote >> [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > I presume it was a genuine tinyurl link then? No problem. You got to live life on the edge and click those Tinyurls... you never know what surprises might be inside. :-)  SignatureJethro[AGHL] aka Phat_Jethro Reply Email: jethro86 (at) gmail (dot) com On 5/30/2008 8:09 AM Jethro brightened our day with: >>> jpiddock wrote >>> [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > No problem. You got to live life on the edge and click those > Tinyurls... you never know what surprises might be inside. :-) You can go to the tinyurl site and set preview on. That way when you click a tinyurl, you get a chance to see the full url before being taken to it. Signature"Out here on the perimeter there are no stars" Steve --Inglo-- > On 5/30/2008 8:09 AM Jethro brightened our day with: >>>> jpiddock wrote [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > click a tinyurl, you get a chance to see the full url before being taken > to it. Thanks. Don't have a problem when I recognise the poster but I never want to see Goatse ever again... ;-) >> On 5/30/2008 8:09 AM Jethro brightened our day with: >>>>> jpiddock wrote [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > Thanks. Don't have a problem when I recognise the poster but I never want > to see Goatse ever again... ;-) LOL! A dozen times was enough huh? ;-) McG. >>> On 5/30/2008 8:09 AM Jethro brightened our day with: >>>>>> jpiddock wrote [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] >> > LOL! A dozen times was enough huh? ;-) Oh I'd had enough by about the 9th or 10th time... ;-) >>>> On 5/30/2008 8:09 AM Jethro brightened our day with: >>>>>>> jpiddock wrote [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > > Oh I'd had enough by about the 9th or 10th time... ;-) gawd that one made even me cringe! :-) McG. > No problem. You got to live life on the edge and click those Tinyurls... > you never know what surprises might be inside. :-) One word... goatse.. SignatureBen Cottrell "Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out" >> No problem. You got to live life on the edge and click those >> Tinyurls... you never know what surprises might be inside. :-) > > One word... goatse.. worse... 2 girls one cup And a bunch of other ones that I have been blindly lead too... SignatureJethro[AGHL] aka Phat_Jethro Reply Email: jethro86 (at) gmail (dot) com > worse... 2 girls one cup My reaction to that was this: http://2girls1cup-worldwide.blogspot.com/ <<<sfw > worse... 2 girls one cup > And a bunch of other ones that I have been blindly lead too... I only wish I was blindly led to 2 girls 1 cup. And not taken, while hungover, to watch this cool video, with my friends, videoing me watching it :( Civilian_Target >> worse... 2 girls one cup >> And a bunch of other ones that I have been blindly lead too... > > I only wish I was blindly led to 2 girls 1 cup. And not taken, while > hungover, to watch this cool video, with my friends, videoing me > watching it :( Aha, and where do we find this intriguing reaction video? ;) *Begins searching YouTube...* SignatureBen Cottrell "Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out" >> worse... 2 girls one cup >> And a bunch of other ones that I have been blindly lead too... [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Civilian_Target the old guy was bad enough.... McG. > jpiddock wrote > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > "But in a month when nobody cares about Half-Life any more, the newsgroup > will be just a waste of bandwidth and a spam magnet. " Heh. Nathan was a Senior Student Technology Consultant... hope he had more vision in that role :-) > jpiddock wrote > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Btw all the fuss abut HL2 did settle quite fast compared to the era of HL ? I started posting in here around late '99, when it was common to open Nutscrape communicator to see 150 new posts a day... that carried on for several years. I think the majority of posts post-HL2 were "omfg steam suxxx!!11oneone" SignatureBen Cottrell "Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out" >> jpiddock wrote >> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >> "But in a month when nobody cares about Half-Life any more, the newsgroup >> will be just a waste of bandwidth and a spam magnet. " on another note, i'd forgotton how much of an underdog HL was at the time. I remember feeling very ambivilous towards its release myself.. until I actually sat down and played it anyway :) But aside from that, its easy to see how noone could have possibly predicted what was to follow in the year ahead of its release - it'd have been hard to imagine that so many mod makers would suddenly ditch Quake 2 in favour of HL (two in particular, which likely sold more copies of the game than the game itself). SignatureBen Cottrell "Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out" >>> jpiddock wrote >>> [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > Quake 2 in favour of HL (two in particular, which likely sold more > copies of the game than the game itself). It's strange because it just didn't call to me either. It wasn't until I tried the demo some time after release of the game that I was immediately sold and was trying to get a copy the next day. It was the part in the demo when you first met the soldiers and how scarey it was how good the AI was. Fantastic, heart-thumping realisation of good fighting against them would be. Even now that was one of my best gaming moments. On 5/30/2008 5:56 AM Shawk brightened our day with: >>>> jpiddock wrote >>>> [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > Even now that was one of my best gaming moments. First post I can find that I made to this group was me asking for a walkthrough to the uplink demo. March 22, 1999. The post doesn't mention where and I can't remember why I needed help. Someone had a link to a walkthrough though. I checked, the walkthrough link doesn't work anymore:-( Signature"Out here on the perimeter there are no stars" Steve --Inglo-- > On 5/30/2008 5:56 AM Shawk brightened our day with: >>>> [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > > I checked, the walkthrough link doesn't work anymore:-( I'm just a newb here... posting just over 4 years though I lurked for a while before (I actually read the old charter). If google is correct I didn't even post about HL but about Far Cry... > I'm just a newb here... posting just over 4 years though I lurked for a > while before (I actually read the old charter). If google is correct I > didn't even post about HL but about Far Cry... From looking through google groups it seems my first post was back in Nov 04, talking about spam, luncheon meat and prem! >> I'm just a newb here... posting just over 4 years though I lurked for >> a while before (I actually read the old charter). If google is >> correct I didn't even post about HL but about Far Cry... > > From looking through google groups it seems my first post was back in > Nov 04, talking about spam, luncheon meat and prem! Typical post in AGHL then... ;-) >> jpiddock wrote >> [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > several years. I think the majority of posts post-HL2 were "omfg steam > suxxx!!11oneone" Where's Paul Catly? Did we ever get a proper name for the 3 giraffe necked beastie in the rocket tester? McG. > Where's Paul Catly? Did we ever get a proper name for the 3 giraffe > necked beastie in the rocket tester? > McG. You mean besides "That hideous Pain in the Arse!!!" That's what I always called it. Squat. > Where's Paul Catly? Did we ever get a proper name for the 3 giraffe necked > beastie in the rocket tester? > McG. Its proper name is "The Tall Things That Slam Into the Floor", as any fule know :) -- Paul (Johnny_Ace) > Its proper name is "The Tall Things That Slam Into the Floor", as any fule > know :) > > -- > Paul (Johnny_Ace) Ooh look, I've got a funny name. It's my ISP login name, I finally dropped news.individual.net -- Paul (Johnny_Ace) > Ooh look, I've got a funny name. It's my ISP login name, I finally dropped > news.individual.net > > -- > Paul (Johnny_Ace) This should be better. > > Ooh look, I've got a funny name. It's my ISP login name, I finally dropped > > news.individual.net [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > This should be better. But...but..I AM PAUL CATLEY >>> Ooh look, I've got a funny name. It's my ISP login name, I finally > dropped [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > But...but..I AM PAUL CATLEY No I'm Paul catley... and so's my wife!! My God!!!!!!!! We've had another earthquake.... Look at what has crawled out from all the rocks it disturbed... Has anyone seen Sharon recently??? I haven't seen her since she borrowed my lawn mower... She also took my room mate Paul Catleys hair dryer and toothbrush.... - _ "All you health nuts are going to feel really stupid laying on your death bed dying of nothing..." > My God!!!!!!!! We've had another earthquake.... Look at what has > crawled out from all the rocks it disturbed... Has anyone seen Sharon > recently??? I haven't seen her since she borrowed my lawn mower... She > also took my room mate Paul Catleys hair dryer and toothbrush.... > - > _ ..." Does seem that way doesn't it CF? :) Hard to believe it's nearly a decade now... the joys of trying to tune a 56k modem to give me the best possible ping when playing across the atlantic. Now I have ADSL it's much faster (when it works :) See how many names you recognize, this was after the 'Bashes' had been going at least a year if not more I think. Most links are long dead, but a least one CS bash report and a deathmatch report still have screenshots and comments, Nov 2000 vintage. (4th, 5th and 6th ones seem to work, TFC, CS and DM). http://www.asnivor.com/bashes/main.html Dave AKA Sloth[AGHL] >> My God!!!!!!!! We've had another earthquake.... Look at what has >> crawled out from all the rocks it disturbed... Has anyone seen Sharon [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > >AKA Sloth[AGHL] Yep, I remember that bash... Think I had DSL at that point... First one we held I had a dial up and the server was somewhere across the pond, my ping was something like 800 or so... The only person I was able to kill was HQH who lived in Virginia if my memory serves me right...... Wish I hadn't deleted all my maps and models... Have an extra box that would make a good dedicated server... Don't think we could get enough players to make it worth while... Last one I tried flopped... - _ "All you health nuts are going to feel really stupid laying on your death bed dying of nothing..." > > My God!!!!!!!! We've had another earthquake.... Look at what has > > crawled out from all the rocks it disturbed... Has anyone seen Sharon [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > http://www.asnivor.com/bashes/main.html =KYE=Daemon is me btw. >> My God!!!!!!!! We've had another earthquake.... Look at what has >> crawled out from all the rocks it disturbed... Has anyone seen Sharon [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > AKA Sloth[AGHL] Nice little link, thank Dave! I'm sure Asni has long abandoned that portion of his website, but its great to re-read all those bash reports after all this time. So many names long gone, yet many are still around (even if most of us do spend all our time in WoW instead) - And of course, Phat_Pinger really lives up to his name in those screenshots.. the good ol' days, huh, Jethro? :-) SignatureBen Cottrell "Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out" >>> My God!!!!!!!! We've had another earthquake.... Look at what has >>> crawled out from all the rocks it disturbed... Has anyone seen Sharon [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > - And of course, Phat_Pinger really lives up to his name in those > screenshots.. the good ol' days, huh, Jethro? :-) Hey Hey Hey... you should see me know. That was dialup across the pond. I got wireless in 2005 and now actually have DSL hookup to the same house. I had to drop the Phat_Pinger and just go as Phat_Jethro as it doesn't apply anymore. It's a good thing as my skill has decreased with age my pings need to be better to compensate. :-) SignatureJethro[AGHL] aka Phat_Jethro Reply Email: jethro86 (at) gmail (dot) com http://www.asnivor.com/bashes/tfc261100/pushfinal.jpg Damn if I knew skrutt wasnt so good at TFC I woulda played it more, he was evil CS player :p > http://www.asnivor.com/bashes/tfc261100/pushfinal.jpg > > Damn if I knew skrutt wasnt so good at TFC I woulda played it more, he was > evil CS player :p That name still sends shivers down my spine. I recall being a T in the plane map. Can't remember the name. Hiding behind the seats, checking to see whose left.. SKRUTT. Try with all my will and 400 ping to try and get a shot off... end up bleeding on the seats everytime. SignatureJethro[AGHL] aka Phat_Jethro Reply Email: jethro86 (at) gmail (dot) com >> http://www.asnivor.com/bashes/tfc261100/pushfinal.jpg >> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Try with all my will and 400 ping to try and get a shot off... end up > bleeding on the seats everytime. Isn't he one of Peters sons? McG. > >> Damn if I knew skrutt wasnt so good at TFC I woulda played it more, he > > That name still sends shivers down my spine. I recall being a T in the > > plane map. Can't remember the name. > > Hiding behind the seats, checking to see whose left.. SKRUTT. > > Try with all my will and 400 ping to try and get a shot off... end up > > bleeding on the seats everytime. > Isn't he one of Peters sons? He's one of Lyset's lethal offspring - you might also remember Zapper. We certainly do! ___ Neil aka HighVis -- >> >> Damn if I knew skrutt wasnt so good at TFC I woulda played it more, he > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Neil > aka HighVis LOL! Oh yes. I remember. Back when Peter got that big refinery level working good and put up a server for us, I found I was doing really good to sneak in a couple kills on either one of them! That was fun though. The MP5 grenades and slammers together might have been overkill, but ya gets a frag when ya can gets a frag! :-D I think Peter hated the slammers ;-) McG. > http://www.asnivor.com/bashes/tfc261100/pushfinal.jpg > > Damn if I knew skrutt wasnt so good at TFC I woulda played it more, he was > evil CS player :p If you thought he was good at CS, you should see him and Zapper play WoW :O ___ Neil aka HighVis -- > > http://www.asnivor.com/bashes/tfc261100/pushfinal.jpg > > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > If you thought he was good at CS, you should see him and Zapper play > WoW :O CS requires more real skill I think....(as in reflex, prediction etc), wow and most mmo are just like, click the right stuff in the right order at the right time. Still a skill, but not pure skill. So, I would still fear them more in CS than wow......but then I was ok at cs and sucked at wow so wadda i know :P > > > Damn if I knew skrutt wasnt so good at TFC I woulda played it more, he > was [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > So, I would still fear them more in CS than wow......but then I was ok at cs > and sucked at wow so wadda i know :P Sorry to edit: To put things in perspective, I am a brilliant player of street fighter 2, I know every f.cking pixel (not exactly something to brag about but the fact remains), so I know I'll beat anyone at it, or have a very good chance. CS? Well I can beat probably 80% of people (random internet percentage btw), most of the time. WoW? OMFG look at teh pretty colours! >> My God!!!!!!!! We've had another earthquake.... Look at what has >> crawled out from all the rocks it disturbed... Has anyone seen Sharon [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > AKA Sloth[AGHL] DM! Rats Maps! :-D We sure needed some Cajun music to go with that crowbar swingin Jesus! McG. >>>> Ooh look, I've got a funny name. It's my ISP login name, I finally >> dropped [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > No I'm Paul catley... and so's my wife!! Oooooh now I'm worried! McG. >> > Ooh look, I've got a funny name. It's my ISP login name, I finally > dropped [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > But...but..I AM PAUL CATLEY No, YOU'RE Zorro! HE's Paul! ;-) McG. >> Ooh look, I've got a funny name. It's my ISP login name, I finally >> dropped news.individual.net [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > This should be better. LOL! Ok. Did you finally get through that level? McG. > Ooh look, I've got a funny name. It's my ISP login name, I finally dropped > news.individual.net I'm still using them. who are you subscribed to now? SignatureBen Cottrell "Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out" >> Ooh look, I've got a funny name. It's my ISP login name, I finally >> dropped news.individual.net > > I'm still using them. who are you subscribed to now? I can't remember if I was dropped by news.individual.net, or if I quit using them when they started to charge for the service. My ISP carries the group now (like they always should have in the first place), so no biggie. Lefty >> Ooh look, I've got a funny name. It's my ISP login name, I finally dropped >> news.individual.net > > I'm still using them. who are you subscribed to now? I'm not. Just the limited newsgroup access that my ISP provides, without all the spam filtering that n.i.n. did. Since I was barely accessing Usenet, it seemed like a waste of money to sign up for another year. -- Paul (Johnny_Ace) >>> Ooh look, I've got a funny name. It's my ISP login name, I finally dropped >>> news.individual.net [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > the spam filtering that n.i.n. did. Since I was barely accessing Usenet, it > seemed like a waste of money to sign up for another year. Used to subscribe to Clara News which had decent retention etc (my ISP, BT used to barely manage a week retention and posts were missing etc). However then BT went with Giganews and now I no longer pay anyone else and retention is brilliant. On this group for example the oldest post I can see right now is a John Twernbold one from June 2003!! For interest its a reply to 'try Out' who asked for a key for Half-Life... "Try Out wrote: > > f.ck all of you a.sholes. I have changed my os since then. Grow up and > > get off of your mama's tit ! Pricks. I just thought someone might > > help! Ahh, "help". You mean, give you my CD-Key since you lost yours, knowing that I won't be able to play Half-Life online anymore since a given key can only be used by one computer at a time? Tell ya' what: I lost my credit card over a year ago. Why don't you help me by giving me your credit card, and in return I'll help you by giving you my CD-Key. Deal? -- Bold aka John Twernbold jtwernbold (at) yahoo.com" BT don't often get anything right but they certainly did get this provider right... "Shawk" > Tell ya' what: I lost my credit card over a year ago. Why don't you help > me by giving me your credit card, and in return I'll help you by giving > you my CD-Key. Deal? Oh John could just have given a link til the official CDKey generator http://www.reality-syndicate.com/syndicatepress/hlcdkey.htm - Peter > Oh John could just have given a link til the official CDKey generator > http://www.reality-syndicate.com/syndicatepress/hlcdkey.htm I've managed never to have seen goatse and I'm not going to start now... ;) -- Paul (Johnny_Ace) >> Oh John could just have given a link til the official CDKey generator >> http://www.reality-syndicate.com/syndicatepress/hlcdkey.htm > > I've managed never to have seen goatse and I'm not going to start now... ;) It's not goatse Paul... trust me - I know! ;-) "Paul Catley" skrev > I've managed never to have seen goatse and I'm not going to start now... > ;) Ach come on I'd never do that not in a lifetime The CDKey generator apperared on the internet for the first time early 2001, according to the wayback machine: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.reality-syndicate.com/syndicatepress/hlc dkey.htm Quoting most of the page: "You can use this page over and over to find as many (invalid) CD Keys for Half Life as you want. Here's a brief statement on how this amazing device works! We all know that HL CD keys are composed of strings of numbers (0-9) and letters (A-Z). However, we DON'T know how long the key is supposed to be. Let's assume the key is as long or shorter than 25 characters. Now, we here at the Reality Syndicate have created a random generator using JavaScript. Here's a breakdown of the number of possible CD Keys for the length of the string, assuming the key can be made of numbers 0-9 and letters AZ:" "Now, since you probably don't know the exact length of what a CD Key is supposed to be, lets go ahead and add all of these numbers up, since you'll have to try all lengths, probably. Our total is: 831.375 duodecillion, or: 831,375,028,249,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 possibilities. "Hypothetically, if you decided to try all of these possibilities, and you were able to attempt one every second, non stop, until you were finished, it would take you 26,362,728,310,500,000,000,000,000,000,000, or 26.3 nonillion years. Scientists now believe the Earth to be about 4 billion years old, and the universe itself about 20 billion years old. If the universe is actually 20 billion years old and it were to end and begin again right now, and each new universe lasting for 20 billion years, it would take you 13,118,136,415,530,000,000,000 or 13 sextillion universes to finish. Better put on a pot of coffee! Enjoy attempting to play pirated Half Life. " :-) Peter > "Shawk" >> Tell ya' what: I lost my credit card over a year ago. Why don't you help [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Oh John could just have given a link til the official CDKey generator > http://www.reality-syndicate.com/syndicatepress/hlcdkey.htm You can make CD keys like that? Don't tell the guardians at that CD-key sanctuary, somewhere in darkest Wales... Civilian_Target > > Oh John could just have given a link til the official CDKey generator > > http://www.reality-syndicate.com/syndicatepress/hlcdkey.htm > > You can make CD keys like that? Don't tell the guardians at that CD-key > sanctuary, somewhere in darkest Wales... It's not true... it's cruel and heartless and shouldn't have existed even in those dark days, let alone in our enlightened times now. I think the site you're thinking of still exists... lets have a quick check: http://www.designumbrella.com/cd-key/cdkeycentre.html .. yep, there it is, and what do you know, Bench's key is still key of the month :) (an excuse for playing with flash, really) Oh, and that annoying typo is still in there too... ___ Neil aka HighVis -- > Oh, and that annoying typo is still in there too... > > ___ My hazy 1.30am scan saw nothing. >> Oh, and that annoying typo is still in there too... >> > My hazy 1.30am scan saw nothing. Ooh i know i know! me me me. >> Its proper name is "The Tall Things That Slam Into the Floor", as any >> fule know :) [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > -- > Paul (Johnny_Ace) Did you finally get through that level? :) McG. |
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