If this is Half-Life's tombstone, I'd also like to lay some flowers.
I still see a teenage version of myself behind my dad's Pentium II with a CRT monitor going through this amazing adventure, winter 1998-1999. I started coming to this place in 2003 in anticipation of the sequel, which was...
Cripes, how do you even move all that junk around? I also tried taking stuff trough the game, but the continous walking back and forth worked on my nerves.
It's just there are so very few uncontaminated servers. Seriously, whats so wrong with the game itself that everyone just cant resist to totally pollute it? It's like having a nice big glass of beer and then trowing cigarette buds in it because you like smoking too.
Accute radiation poisioning happens when radiation causes particles in your body to decay into other, sometimes toxic ones. But this applies to very high doses. A longer term effect is ofcourse cancer, that requires a far smaller dose.
What greatly differs is the way you are radiated...
Hey nice thread :)
I had a discusion about this with a couple of pals two weeks ago. I've been around on 'the internet' basically since when it became of any use (probably 94-95, not sure). I feel that it was at some point 'better', and my pals do too, but its hard to put a finger on it.
I...