Hehehe... nice to see you took over so well, Jake. Seems like you recovered well from your accident. I sure hope so.
I'm sorry that I haven't been around like I used to, but for me the fun is sort of gone. In the end, no good new custom maps came for CS 1.6, and I never cared for those fy_, he_, pacman, hamster, rats, knife arena and Lego stuff. I can only motivate myself when I like the stuff I'm doing something for.
Since 99% of the map-making and custom stuff community has turned to HL2 mods, I had become rather superfluous...
Plus, my friends have also moved to CS:S, and they even gave me HL2 as a birthday present so I would be forced to install Steam again and hopefully give CS:S a try... well, I played some HL2 (quite ok, impressive gfx and physics engine, otherwise a tad one-dimensional), then stopped for a while, and when we wanted to try things out, Steam fried itself in an update, and I decided to dump all that crap once and forever. Three chances is enough.
Then, I got SimCity 4 + the Rush Hour addon, and you wouldn't believe how much these crazy people have modded that game. I'm very active in that community now, both on a German site and on the largest SC4 fansite, based in Canada. In fact, I won 2 awards for my modding / customization efforts there last year, so you can really say I've found a new playground.
It's really nice to see that some of the good folks are still here... gotta go check out the off-topic area right now to see if I can read a post by PMB or the other hardcore lunatics here...
