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Yes the Riddle of the Half_Life Melons is revealed. Since no one else followed my post up with a proper explaination I retraced the game to solve the puzzle of the Melons 
The Melons are of course for the Mad Scientists Head Crab he defagned and now calls his Cat Lamarr.
The last Picture Explains all 
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I thought I'd post here just to let you know that no one cares 
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I've never played day of defeat you fuccking freak! 
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SoD, why do spend so much time acting like you're so big, bad, and tough because of some stupid online game? It's....a....video....game. How old are you again? Aren't you in your 40's? This is what you do every night, huh? Fock....
Your online gaming fan base? Wow, that's really impressive.
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They like a good set of Melons as well RichPLS they are simply upset because they did not find the post it note in game that explains why the Melons were in the game at all.
HL2 was some extraordinary run for your money, the Gravity gun in that game was simply outstanding and the Physics and properties of science that the programmers installed into the game engine were simply outstanding.
I am an old man I used computers were you had to manually program the location of each and every single pixel displayed on the screen.
Since us old dogs were born before all this new exciting software and hardware became available we can truly appreciate the current ability's of the computer.
Hell us old dogs involved in the conceptual applications of the computer as a hardware device and working in the electronics industry for the last 20 years are the reason the kids now have all this.
In life you got to stop and smell the roses being older then they are has nothing to do with the computer industry they simply think old people do not understand the toys the young use lol.
Hell if it was not for us OLD people they would not have them at all.
I don't even play the games for simply playing them I am enjoying the emersion in graphics and the use of computer hardware and software involved. Because I remember when you had to program every pixel on the screen from the keyboard in loooong looping program code that you could print 2 full boxes of printer paper out on simply for the code that enabled 1 single coloured pixel to move from one side of the screen to the other. Hell until Motorola introduced the 6800 Microprocessor computers could not generate movement from left to right.
I think they are also mad that a man of my age still has better reflexes then they do when they are so young and supposed to have better talent then an old man. The problem is this old man keeps pasting them upside the multiplayer head And all this going on when they are scripting to cheat and I am still aiming manually with my mouse and not using cheat codes to auto aim bot lol. Very Amusing I must say.
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That's because you keep pushing it along with your middle finger It proly still has the same 4 MB cache lol
PS you need SATA real bad Scamy.......no its not a knockout drug
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| Quote : Your a liar and the next time you join a game I am in loaded to the tits with your script kiddie hacks I will post your Steam WON ID your computer IP and all the rest of it including screen shots of the tracking software I use to see you doing it. |
This is beyond funny
I dont play video games against you in secret you worthless POS.
You are seriously psychotic.
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First off the top I am glad the store manager saw reason in your claim and reimbursed you the gentlemen was if nothing else intelligent and you can be sure a SIGN went up over the Half_Life2 Display 2 minutes after you left the store indicating an Internet connection and Steam account is required. (Steam available in the box)
Yes you are right TeeTewl they did not explain that you needed a STEAM account simply to install and play HL2 at home. Many users have computers that are not in fact online as you explain.
I did have a STEAM account and I updated it with the HL2 CD-KEY and that is over the other 2 games I currently purchased and had to verify with those CD-KEYS.
The only reason there are CD-KEYS is to prevent pirating but it doesn't work and so that players have a Global STEAM account that generates a WON ID number.
The WON ID number can be used by any server ADMIN to ban a players WON or STEAM ID number so they cant play there, yet again taking your 40 to 80 dollar game purchase and chucking it into the toilet.
Hackers can and in fact do create or steal players CD-KEYS right out of others computers so they don't need to ever purchase the damn game in the first place.
The only ones that DO benefit from all that crap!! Is Steam and the game makers in a double or triple retail purchase by ordinary people simply trying to play online.
The hackers are ripping Steam and Valve out the ass but both of them seem to enjoy it immensely and Hail the online Hacker community as their greatest assets.
I once watched a guy in Wal-Mart take a not pad out of his pocket and write down about 12 CD-Keys off Counter-Strike CD's that were in a discount Bin and only packaged in the Jewel cases with a plastic shrink wrap. That guy walked out of Wal-Mart with 12 or so CD-KEYS all set to hack the shiit out of every game server for the next year.
Prior to the HL2 CD-KEY any retail purchase CD-KEY gave all hackers access to all the online games STEAM provided.
I play with these guys online and I have been told by them over the Microphone in real time voice chat that most of them never went anywhere near a retail store for a game purchase in the last 10 years...They do not spend hard cash on their games they RIP them and use stolen CD-KEYS.
FYI
I RIGHT CLICK AND SET MY FIREWALL TO EMERGENCY LOCK!! AFTER I LOG INTO STEAM AND GET HALF_LIFE LOADED.
This way I can play the game at home and not have to worry about internet traffic in the background.
P.S
Dual Monitors is also a great way to have full access to your destop when you are playing on the primary Monitor online. This way you can run all your background tracing software and monitor anything comming into and out of the P.C all at the same time
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That's too bad, you took the game back... It's bet best game I've ever played, even with the Steam thing... I read on Steam's web site, somewhere, you have to replace a file in HL2 to play LAN's with HL2.... So you could do that & take Steam out of the loop, that's after it activated though...
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LAN's are all played off line... They had to do something to allow LAN playing with the game. So they put out the hack / fix in order to be able to play it at LAN's.
I haven't tried it, or messed with it.. I just saw it going through Steam's site looking for something else...
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I went & did a quick look at Steam & found it again..
<A HREF="http://steampowered.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/steampowered.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=213&p_created=1094245645&p_sid=T6PL72sh&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZwX3NvcnRfYnk9JnBfZ3JpZHNvcnQ9JnBfcm93X2NudD0yNzAmcF9wYWdlPTE*&p_li=" target="_new"> Off line HL2!! </A>
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LOL Yea, it's a hell of a game!!!!! I played through the first time on normal. I started playing back through on the hard mode now..
I'm also starting HL again to see if I still feel the same way about it as I did the first time I messed with it.
I'd like to say more about the game, but I don't want to ruin it for anyone that hasn't played it yet....
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heheh yeah, i told you it rocked man. im [playing back thru it with hard again now myself 
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That is real interesting Scamy Maxtor used to have a 5 year hard drive warranty but they cut that out back in 2002 and they only offer a 2 year warranty on any Maxtor hard drive now.
The former president of Maxtor is now president of Solectron Canada who I used to work for in Quality control engineering.
I have met him personally.
Maxtor also provides computer techs via their work place a Floppy disc with a nice DOS program on it called MAXBLAST and that DOS software can scan repair and even RE-CERTIFY both Maxtor and Western Digital drives.
Stay off the leg scamy or I will need crutches
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*cries of agony from not playing*
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ROTFLMAO!!!
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