Hello Snarkpit circa 2004!

Boo. Just wanted to let you know I hadnt died yet. Where's them oldies? You know who you are, Lepper, Orph, Gwil, and the lot that I cant remember their names..

Hi

Hahah, hey Wild Card. It's nice to see Snark Pit is getting back to life with all the oldies returning.

Hurrah! How's life treating you these days Wild Card? Still doing the flying? That was you right? It's not been so long I've mixed you up with somebody I hope!

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That be me, Hey ReNo waves Cant believe I forgot to list you, after all the great tutorials you wrote back then. Remember asking you to use some stairs for my map hehe, cliff complex I think it was.

Been doing decent amounts of flying, got my own plane in 2007 and now Im poor hehe.

How are things with you?

"Wild Card" said:
Been doing decent amounts of flying, got my own plane in 2007 and now Im poor hehe.

Haha, well that wouldn't exactly be called poor. See me, I don't even have my own car. Plane.. hmm maybe in 25 years' time

Wild Card! What an unexpected and pleasant surprise. Good to hear you're doing well and indeed, fantastic to see an ol' timer Things are quieter around here these days but we have a good core of people still mapping, a splendid chap called Riven whips them all into shape with regular small scale competitions.

As for the oldies, Orph appears from time to time, he was without the internet for a while. Leperous is away studying stars and other such funk, ReNo is there.. he beavers away making crates. As to the rest, they occasionally surface but many are tied up with jobs, real life etc and have moved on (Ferret, Tracer, KFS etc)

I remember I always downloaded maps from this site for HL 1 Deathmatch with bots around 2004.
I think if I taked a look at the forums then, I could've seen most of you. Shame I didn't

Anyways, Welcome back!

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Wow, your own plane? Jesus mate, good going! Glad things are going well for you. Well, except for the poor part, but hey, guess buying planes will do that to a man! Do they hold their value better than cars?

I'm doing ok ta. Working for a wee game dev studio (Outerlight, we made "The Ship") these days as a designer, and while it certainly has its ups and downs I get a lot of creative input there and work with a bunch of cool folks. Spending some of my spare time doing side projects too (cough Crate Expectations cough), so very much still enjoying game development work.

I don't frequent the Snarkpit as much as I used to sadly, and have to admit to not even having HL1 or 2 installed these days, but I pop in now and then to have a wee reminisce or join in a conversation. It's still as lovely a place as ever, just... more peaceful

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Half-Life isnt installed? THATS BLASPHAMY!!

General Aviation aircraft (ie: small 2 or 4seat single engine aircraft for the most part) if well maintained, not only keep their value, but they can appreciate as well. But golf as a hobby would have been much less expensive. But on that note, golf is also much less exciting.

Good to see you're in a fun job. I graduated college in April a second time (now hold a diploma and adv diploma) and still cant find a job .. sigh someday soon I hope.

I really should crack open VHE at some point and do something though.

I spend a lot of my online time now either playing Eve Online (www.eveonline.com) which is painfully expensive given my current situation, but just as equally addictive, despite the game being very boring. (Google 'Zero Punctuation Eve Online' to see what I mean, his review is 101% accurate) I also spend a lot of time at CriticalSecurity.net and develop a Gentoo-based Linux LiveCD called FLY (http://www.linuxfly.net) for you Linux fans.

I took a quick peak at Crate Expectations and it looks awesome. Though I dont have an Xbox (or a 360) to play it. Port it to PC! :P (or Blackberry is cool too)

Hey Wildcard, how are ya.. So you have a plane.. nice.

Hello Muhnay, sorry dont recognize the name..

On a random note, Im always glad when despite being away from months/years at a time, I can come back to Snarkpit and login and my account hasnt been wiped

Yay! that's always a plus. you can thank our website Guru, Larchy for that. He's the one bringing back all the wonderful features (without all the bugs) and new features too.

Yea, I think I joined just after your time WC. Hopefully we'll see you in the next competition eh?

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wild card!

been a while m8 nice to see you're still alive, look at how much the pit has grown:

I'd like to get back into mapping, its been years since I actually finished anything and its been about a year since I even opened up VHE.

Wilkdcard does not remember me.. thats sad.

/me is still alive, and old as ever.

Have no real options yet for internet access where I live yet, but soon (2010) maybe.

With nigh onto 2.5 years without access, tis a wonder that I survive.

/me misses you all terribly.

I must ask though, have any of you reached a maturity level to where some of the old things that I foretold you'd come to believe happen yet? What I'm asking is, do you still not understand where this old man was coming from when you thought to yourself "this old fuck is off his meds again"?

I know that some of our discussions were not that memorable, but I know each of you have some idea what I'm talking about.

/me waves at master wildcard.

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The best things in life, aren't things.

Jon in the year 2009 you still dont have (stable) internet access?? By the way ever do any trips up the frozen northlands known as Ontario?

How are the wife and kids? Any cute single daughters of age? kidding! (that smily reminds me of Doc Brasso..)

You ask if we still think you're crazy, the simple answer would be 'of course'. Now I must ask you; what makes you think we've matured

(and I dont recall a non-memorable discussion, but maybe thats because I dont remember those less-than-memorable discussions)

Muhnay, I dont remember your name, unless you are Money$hot who I worked with for a bit on a map or two, I think part of the Snarkpit map compilation map. Or something. Something about a map with iron molted steel equipment or whatnot.

Where I live there is no dial-up... THANKFULLY! There is no Cable nor DSL. We do have access to satellite, but that requires an exorbitant upfront moneys. There is also this wireless card you can get from the cell phone company, but where I live there is only 1 bar and connection is iffy at best. However, there is a cell phone booster available... At a price, for which you can imagine.

My question about the level of maturity was directed at Snarkpit as a whole. I realize that maturity is a question unique to each individual but all I am interested in is the part pertaining to some of the conversations to where I was told just how full of shit I was as the solution for said conversation.

Of course this takes into account that some of the conversations were shit to begin with IE "Gay rights" "Religion" and "Abortion issues" I am only interested in the topics to where the perspectives were "AGE" related thinking in the replies.

Also, I am not interested in any "I told you so" stuff. I just like thinking "Wow, the kids are all grown up... sniff "

In all the years that I was on the net, I have received several PM's stating "I finally understand what you mean when... blah,blah"
Its comforting to hear sometimes.

However, this doesn't exclude the fact that I am full of shit.

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Ahahahahah, [quote="Orpheus"]However, this doesn't exclude the fact that I am full of shit. [/quote]

That's gold stuff.

Hmm, I never disagreed with anything you said Orph, I remember the good old times you offered me quite a bit of help with mapping.

I remember it was a tough job too, seeing as my English was at it's humble beginnings. I guess you could say I've matured in that respect, I'm fluent in 3 languages now YAY!

Tell ya what it's fantastic to see all the oldies returning, reminds me of the good old times..

Orpheus said:
Where I live there is no dial-up... THANKFULLY!

Really? That's weird... do you have a landline? Because I thought dial-up didn't require any additional infrastructure other than a landline?

Orpheus said:
However, this doesn't exclude the fact that I am full of shit.

Darkness moves anyone? Only joking, welcome back hope you stick around.

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That's Me.

Wild Card said:
Muhnay, I dont remember your name, unless you are Money$hot who I worked with for a bit on a map or two, I think part of the Snarkpit map compilation map. Or something. Something about a map with iron molted steel equipment or whatnot.

holy shit! I thought you were someone else Muhnay and for some reason I never thought to ask :P

What ever happened to that map we (you?) were working on that looked like an industrial area with smelters and stuff.

Orpheus said:
I must ask though, have any of you reached a maturity level to where some of the old things that I foretold you'd come to believe happen yet? What I'm asking is, do you still not understand where this old man was coming from when you thought to yourself "this old fuck is off his meds again"?

Orpheus said:
My question about the level of maturity was directed at Snarkpit as a whole. I realize that maturity is a question unique to each individual but all I am interested in is the part pertaining to some of the conversations to where I was told just how full of shit I was as the solution for said conversation.

Of course this takes into account that some of the conversations were shit to begin with IE "Gay rights" "Religion" and "Abortion issues" I am only interested in the topics to where the perspectives were "AGE" related thinking in the replies.

Also, I am not interested in any "I told you so" stuff. I just like thinking "Wow, the kids are all grown up... sniff "

Wtf. People have told me they disliked you but I've never really understood what they were saying until now I suppose. Do you realize that you are purposely or accidentally suggesting you are superior to everyone else here?

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Make no mistake Aaron, he does indeed feel superior to everyone, he was just trying to remind everyone why we were so freaking happy he fell off the planet for a while.. wish he would find that rock and crawl back under it.

This is Orph: (CRAZY)

Wildcard.. oh that was way back in the wad days.. I may have it on a CD here some place.. I just found a couple CD's that had old maps and prefabs I put on ejoop way back when.. I may have it.. that was the original SnarkPit Combo map that we all made levels for that never went any place.

Oh hey I found the Snark trophy Models! Where/Who do I send them too for the latest map project/contest? And when will that be done?

Ah, great! -yea send them to my e-mail: riven (at) genecy (dot) net

The goal is to have the compilation map finished or at least in beta before Christmas. And yes it is still being worked on in the background. -Actually right about now, we have all spaces finally mapped out, it's just a matter of optimizing a little more. -And I need to finish the train tunnel models to have them fleshed out a bit -That's what's taking the most time. As far as the Christmas deadline goes, we're on schedule now that you've found those trophy models!

I also have a working copy of the first SnarkPit Combo map if anyone wants it.

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I would love ya for ever if you ran though it and took screen shots and reminded us how far we have come from them days.

Let me get these things zipped up and emailed to you then.

Welcome back wild!

You probably don't even know me but eh....

**Dedi** said:
Tell ya what it's fantastic to see all the oldies returning, reminds me of the good old times..

Nobody ever truly LEAVES the pit, they just take an extended holiday once in a while

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Well, except for the person who started it all

Lepper? Where is that guy?

Wild Card said:
Lepper? Where is that guy?

Last online 2 years ago.

: (

Hey Wild Card, I would think you'd remember me (who knows, haha). I recently dropped in too after having been away for at least a few years. It's nice to know that the oldies are still alive and kicking.

I suggested this to Gwil back a year ago or so, if the admins have all the members' emails, we could post out an email to everyone who ever joined Snarkpit, and call for a massive reunion...Christmas would be a nice time.

Throwing in a couple of competitions around that time should get a few interested and make Snarkpit flourish.

wow. That'll probably bring back ALOT of members.

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Wild Card said:
On a random note, Im always glad when despite being away from months/years at a time, I can come back to Snarkpit and login and my account hasnt been wiped

Word.

Orpheus said:
I must ask though, have any of you reached a maturity level to where some of the old things that I foretold you'd come to believe happen yet? What I'm asking is, do you still not understand where this old man was coming from when you thought to yourself "this old fuck is off his meds again"?

I remember hating you. Turns out my hatred for all your ageist arguments had a lot of basis in truth.

lal, Hey Toast, how's the life

Can't complain... studying hard. I'm heading down to south america in february to tech english for a couple months... you?

That sounds pretty awesome. I'm chugging away at an architecture degree. -And will be teaching level design lessons here soon at my university for cash :P -Time to put those skills to work, even though I haven't been doing the opposite of that lately

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I remember you.

French Toast said:
Can't complain... studying hard. I'm heading down to south america in february to tech english for a couple months... you?

dropped my major and am starting over in CIS, looking for a university to transfer to
Life is good though, I'm glad I got ot while I still could

Oh, man really FatStrings? What was architecture not fulfilling for ya? -You were in your third year right?

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yeah I'm in the third year, which is actually the grad program, but I really didn't enjoy the design process nearly as much as I enjoyed the study of architectural theory

also, I didn't enjoy working 40-60 hours a week on schoolwork plus a part time job

French Toast said:
I remember hating you. Turns out my hatred for all your ageist arguments had a lot of basis in truth.

Truth is in the eye of the beholder. If I said "Munyshot is full of shit" You'd agree cause its undeniable, however some of what I said was simply "MY" truth, and can only be admitted in court if you wan to.

Seriously, (Snarkpit as a whole)all I was asking was, do you recall something I said that at the time you thought it was bullshit, but since have grown enough to think it less so?

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And so it begins... Welcome back Old Man.

Orpheus said:
Truth is in the eye of the beholder. If I said "Munyshot is full of shit" You'd agree cause its undeniable.