FreshHalibut

College is over and I'm graduating.
 
 
Now entering: Hell.

Wasteland 2 free on GOG. It also comes with a code for the original Wasteland.

Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath coming to Switch, baby!
 
Nostalgia time.

As someone who has been admining a league for a left 4 ded game, Left 4 Dead 2, it's sad that I was able to make a breakthrough that people have wished for for 10 years so late in its life cycle.
 
For the last 14 years, people operated under the assumption that you couldn't create custom ladders using a tool called "Stripper:Source", a serverside plugin that allows for the modification of props and entities on source game maps without actually editing the maps themselves in hammer (like for say, adding a barricade in the middle of dust2, Dustbowl, or adding a new weapon spawn to No Mercy). Ladders are most integral to Left 4 Dead 2 of any source game as its the Special Infecteds' main source of vertical movement in versus mode, and people just thought ladders were impossible to create using Stripper. I saw someone else found out a super omega convoluted way to create custom ladders using l4d2's vscript system, but that was unfeasible and wouldn't work on dedicated servers, making it useless. 
 
However, it inspired me to look into making custom ladders using Stripper, which is something that years of threads have said "it's not possible".
 
As a meme, I did map edits to a custom campaign called Left 4 Mario to add some extra blocks in versus mode. While looking through its entire list of entities I noticed that the ladders themselves are entities, but I didn't pay much mind to them, as their model names were "*number" (with "number" being a number starting from 1 and going up to the entity number it is). I found that one of the blocks on left mario had a model name of "*78", so I tried creating a new prop with the filepath of just "*78" and it worked. A week later, I saw that guy I mentioned earlier say that you could potentially get custom ladders using Stripper, so I tried my hand at it.
 
It took me 10 minutes and I made a custom ladder. The convoluted thing with them is that there's no documentation on the func_simpleladder entity on the valve developer wiki, and that you can only clone ladders that exist within a map, much like how I did with those blocks on Left 4 Mario. The other caveat is that their "origin" is not the true map origin, but rather how many units away from the original ladder the cloned ladder should be.
 
It's such a shame that I only found this out within the last two months, since it's something that would've been a HUGE help to the competitive left 4 dead 2 scene, and now it's going to be largely underused. It also goes to show that you shouldn't just listen to people online if they say something isn't possible.

This video feels like the best of 2019 and 2009.

Hey guys, been a while, how's it been around here in my absence?
I can guess, actually:
 
TBH I was checking one of my old posts to see how I reacted to To The Moon when a friend asked about it and was pleasantly surprised to see the place still active, so figured I'd drop in and say hello if nothing else.
If I'm remembering right - [checks post history] and I am - I stormed out in a huff over something very minor, which I probably shouldn't have done at all.
So, hi again, everybody
 

Here for my semi-annual post bc status updates don't count
life update: have graduated college, currently live/work in Charlotte.
still waifufag kinda but also have long-distance bf of just over 6 years i met online. planning to meet in person for the first time february of next year.
live alone, work in BPM space for [wealth/investment management division of large financial services institution].
current anime figurine count is at 3
hope you guys are doing well.  it's oddly reassuring to come back here and see it still chugging, albeit pretty slow these days.

Speaking of that game...
Super useful advice:
You can actually purchase Outer Worlds on the Microsoft Store... or literally play it for free* with the Xbox Game Pass. Excellent choice if you feel like dodging Tim Sweeney's Chinese store.
 
Meanwhile the "Fallout of Fallout 76" still has not ended apparently. Even someone snagged Bethesda's new service domain because they forgot to register it 
 
Hey at least the new website looks pretty appropriate in my opinion. Quality of this piece of sh*t "premium" service is as good as you might expect.
 
 
*Xbox Game Pass is still a paid subscription service for access to a huge game catalog.

Postal 4 is happening and Dick Kickem is the voice actor. That kinda came out of nowhere.

My dog wandered off yesterday but I found her today. She's here at home now 

https://battlefront-forums.ea.com/discussion/143163/ct-republic-commando-felucia-instant-action-co-op-episode-ix-reinforcements/p1?
 
Instant action coming back boys.

Ducktales Remastered is getting removed from virtual stores due the license ending. You might want to get it now.

I am about to tell you guys some real, true shit, okay?
 
Old Trapper beef jerky is the best beef jerky I have ever had in my fucking life. I GUARANTEE you that if you try it, you will fucking love it. I'm telling you this as a sincere promise. Now I know there are a lotta people out there who hate beef jerky because they've only ever had Jack Link's and Jack Link's is absolute shit and so you never want to eat beef jerky again. But like I said, I PROMISE you that this shit will change your life. Jack Link's is like eating a fucking tire, it's like taking one of those scrap pieces of tire you see on the highway and just biting into it and chewing on it, and that goes for the flavor as well. Old Trapper beef jerky is firm but not tough, and it's tender, not chewy. It has a rich smokey flavor that isn't bogged down by too many spices for its own good, and it tastes and feels like actual fucking dried meat, not a leather suitcase. It's the best beef jerky on the face of the Earth.

Relevant:
 
 

So Meat Fortress is pretty frickin fun. (New gamemode in Hotdogs, Horseshoes, and Handgrenades VR)
Rocket Jumping is amazing and playing around with the Team's weapons is really neat.
 

So Meat Fortress is pretty frickin fun. (New gamemode in Hotdogs, Horseshoes, and Handgrenades VR)
Rocket Jumping is amazing and playing around with the Team's weapons is really neat.
 

Did I ever mention that I'm learning to play the Violin?

I broke my Knee last week, this really sucks, I don't recommend it.
Slipped and fell on hardwood floors, completely random, but enough to mess me up I guess.
 
At least I'll have a bunch of time off of work.
Catch up on my backlog of games, tv, and movies.

Free The Sims 4 on Origin until next week. No DLCs, of course.

Ah, the same feeling I had 4 years ago has come back to bite me.
The feeling of someone else getting the credit and praise and youtube comments for your exploit...
 
The fact that it's sketchek is even more infuriating. I know he didn't discover it because this passed around a bit semi-privately and exploited by a few people in the EU. I know you can't really "claim" bugs, but I'm upset and sad nonetheless.
 
keep your fun exploits private as long as possible kiddos

Current windchill is so low that it doesn't really matter if you measure it in Celsius or Fahrenheit.