The Snarkpit

The name explains it all :rolleyes:

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Uh... I made it... Just edited your poll to make it a bit more coherent, too.

Uh... I made it...

Just edited your poll to make it a bit more coherent, too.

thanx lep!

Meh, I can't remember how I stumbled upon it, it was years ago...I only started to coming here often a few months back though. I guess a friend introduced me to the site, or something. it may have been MrBen, but I'm not so sure..

I think it must of been when I did a few reviews for 'biohazard' maps on PHL, and Snarkpit was like our 'rival' of some kind. If I was bored enough I would look it up in IM logs, but umm.. not today. Then there was something about PHP or some nonsense like that :smile:

/me takes opertunity to thank Lep for uber kudos on 'about' page... I don't think I deserve it though!

Did you consider us to be your rivals?

I know I regarded you as enemies, and now stand triumphantly on your decaying corpse

Read the about page like in Jeff's example, been here and browsing generally since the second inception... loyally been turning out reviews at a slow pace and pouncing on would be forum spammers. All fun :smile:

Jeff; aaah yes the PHL days, angry emails, slandering and general inter-site friendliness :smile: Those were the days..

I blame two people for me coming to and staying at the Snarkpit: Orph and Mikee. It's always a good sign when your first post on Snarkpit v3 starts a 150 reply flamewar.

I think it was originally from looking up editing tutorials and things, though I sort of joined the place when I was looking to pimp my map Elixir when it was getting released. People liked the map but told me to post beta versions so they could give useful feedback...so I did :smile:

I found this place way back when I first started mapping. That was years ago. I visited it on and off for like two years untill I had gone through all the available tutorials, and finaly had a map I thought was good enough for public comment (Nuclear_Research).

*looks at poll results

Not been keeping up the advertising really have you, Lep :smile: Maybe an international prime-time TV advertising campaign would be in order.

I came from the almighty Prefabland!

To be honest I cant quite remember, I think I also stumbled upon it or maybe a friend told me to pimp a map here.. I really can't quite remember.. Maybe it was the contest.. Who knows, I dont remember when I first got here, But I have been here for quite sometime now.

GO LEP!

Someone posted a link on a forum I regurarly visited, and I just clicked away ... no regrets :smile:

off-topic: Crackerjack, that is one of the best Pink Floyd albums you have there in your ava .. "Animals" is good too ... but nothing really beats "Wish You were here" ... good choice :smile:

Jeff, we were once mentioned for some OP4 news in PC Gamer, but otherwise yeah I think you're right about the prime-time TV advertisements- we're lacking visitors from South America and Inner Mongolia, to be honest.

I found it because of the excellent leak-finding tutorial, and more or less stayed after a while. :smile:

can't honestly recall, but to venture a plausible guess.. i drifted this way, after it was apparent PFL was going belly up..

been here much to long to truly recall, but thats about as good a reason as any.

much to leps chagrin, i am betting he wishes sometimes, PFL was still my main haunt.

I was looking for some terrain tutorials one night and stumbled upon Reno's "Triangle Terrain" series

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Great tutorials by the way, man. They've been helpful :smile:
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<!-- ZoneLabs Popup Blocking Insertion -->Hmmm,I've just thought of something, I made this poll yet I haven't even said how I got here, about a year ago when the good old IGO cybercafe was open a friend of mine told me that you can make maps for counter strike, when he was looking for some n00b tutorials he said this site has some great ones,[that was version 3]. and in this version I signed up :wink:

I signed on december '03... I'd seen many links to snarkpit around, thought I'd go there and check it out.

Best forums I've seen on a HL editing site, ever.

A friend showed me this site in the year 2000 also the year I got HL and started mapping and joined up not long after that.

A lot of people were hooked in through reviews :wink: Rumple, I remember you were called Orange Bear Zero or something? Been around a while.

Yep that was me [OBZ] Orange bear zero

I found it first via the reviews section - Lep. had reviewed my map gmdm1 - and then realised that there were these funky forum things :biggrin: First forums I ever used, in fact.

Gollum said:
First forums I ever used, in fact.

why is that comment so unsettling?

makes one think of that famous quote "A waste, is a terrible thing to mind"

/runs

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I searched for something, I can't remember what but it was mapping related. I found snarkpit and I thought it could be helpfull so I registered.

OtZman said:
I searched for something, I can't remember what but it was mapping related. I found snarkpit and I thought it could be helpfull so I registered.

then you found out the truth..

I came here from some tutorial link I think about a year and a half ago. My maps have evolved a great deal since then but it's all been from making observations and not usually asking much.

Leperous said:
Uh... I made it...

A bit late, but... what a fine job you did yoo Lep, i think we should give Lep a round of applause. / me starts clapping

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Ta :biggrin:

Gwil said:

OtZman said:
I searched for something, I can't remember what but it was mapping related. I found snarkpit and I thought it could be helpfull so I registered.

then you found out the truth..

That's true ^^

$loth said:
i think we should give Lep a round of applause.

I discovered the snarkpit while looking for editing tutorials; I remember I added a couple of HL related links in my favorites like Valve-erc, Global Assault, and something called "ten four" (dedicated tor Single Player maps). But I guess this was the friendliest :smile: , that's how the snarkpit became my virtual hang-out.