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It could be considered the third of Half-Life's expansions, and like the first two (Opposing Force and Blue Shift) it was also developed by Gearbox Software. This one took a different approach, as it is a multiplayer-oriented experience designed to be played cooperatively. Originally released as part of the PS2 port of HL, it can be played on PC as a mod.
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It's been longer than I wanted without an update, as I've been a little busy, so let me show you why.
Last month the first stable version of the free and open source GIMP 3 image editor was released. As it happens, I wrote a plug-in for GIMP a while ago, called Image2GB, which allowed me to export an image to the format used by the Game Boy C SDK, GBDK (which is currently maintained by the community as GBDK-2020). This was 5 years ago and while I've updated it a few times, it was still a GIMP 2-only project. So a couple of weeks ago I mustered my courage to begin the task of porting it to the new version of the software.
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Once again, it took me more than a year to write my next (and fourth) story. Luckily, 2019 was my most prolific year by far, with a total of four (yes, that's 4) tales. Are all geniuses this inconsistent? Just curious, given that I'm sadly not one of them.
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One of those mods with a long and tortuous development process (by members of the wolfmap.ru community), maybe even a record holder given that news about it began surfacing in 2002, but it wasn't until 2021 that it was finally released, surviving many cancellation threats. The Victors expands RTCW with a new campaign focused on a Soviet agent who, after evading capture, must undertake a series of missions behind enemy territory, deep in occupied Ukraine.
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I'm a big fan of plain text files. Years may pass, new powerful file formats and editors may be released, but they'll never replaced the good, old .txt in my heart. There's this feeling I can't really describe when I see the austere GUI, the monospaced font and the lines of neatly wrapped text on a white background. There's nothing superfluous to distract you. Writing like this forces you to be really focused and compose a mental image, or map, of what you want to convey. From the veteran Windows Notepad to Linux's gedit and its derivatives, I've spent thousands of hours staring at editors like these.