ABOUT Team Matrix :X

It's the anomaly. Do we proceed? Yes. He is still.. (whispered) Only Human.

~Matrix group, comprised of a bunch of dude's that play. Passionately! We don't give up. We keep fighting and working together.

Group Motto/Quote...
"Why, Mr. Anderson? Why? Why wha.. Why do you do it? Why-Why get up? Why keep fighting? You believe you're fighting FOR something? For more than your SURVIVAL? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know!? Is it freedom? Or truth? Perhaps peace? Could it be for LOVE? Illusions, Mr. Anderson. Vagaries of perception. Temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or PURPOSE! And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself, although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love... You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now! You can't win. It's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Anderson? Why? Why Why do you PER-SIST!?"

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Happy to announce new modified servers

15 April, 2011 - Trunten | 0 Comments

First off, I want to thank Sgt. Heartless and my other fellow Spartan admins who have come and gone for a wonderful learning experience last year in getting acquainted with Source Mod.

And now, with extra special thanks to my great friend, MadWIzard, I would like to announce a new modified (Left 4 Dead 2) server for everyone who's still here to enjoy. I knew of this one for a while, but held back for about a month until it seemed he got it stable and reliable.

You can directly connect to it with this IP address: 173.51.75.224:27016

It runs custom maps, and can hold up to 12 people, and has the "!goods" feature.

We are trying to get "!csm" working properly because changing to Bill still continues to cause trouble and will crash the server.

There are other "features" on the server, but I don't want to spoil any surprises so I'll let you experience them for yourself. The big feature is holding up to 12 players at a time in co-op mode.

More friends of mine are beginning to experiment with modified servers, so I will gladly share their IP addresses as well so that Team Matrix continues to thrive. Let me know of any connection issues (if the IP addresses are wrong, for example).

Witches and Glitches
209.247.83.187:27015

Valve Time

25 November, 2010 - Trunten | 0 Comments

So I finally figured it out. Episode 3 is taking forever to complete because of Gabe's density. You see, the denser the object means a higher mass. A large mass equates to a large gravitational field. The closer you are to a gravitational field, the more time slows down to outside observers. In other words, people who work at Valve are near such a large mass (Gabe), it's slowing down time for them. To them, it seems like time is going the same speed. To us (outside observers), it seems like they are moving in slow motion.

This also explains Valve time. They make time predictions of releases for certain items when they are AWAY from Gabe. When they go back near Gabe, they end up working at a slower pace relative to outside observers.

Based on the predicted release and the actual release, we can determine the mass of Gabe during that period. Using the variables Pr for predicted release, and Ar for actual release, and using the predicted release of Episode 3 being Christmas 2007 (Tuesday, the 25th of December) and the current date is Sunday, 21st of November 2010, that is a difference of 1,063 days. Because Episode 3 was announced around May 24, 2006, it should have only taken 580 days to complete the entire Half Life 2 trilogy. In other words, 580 days is equivalent to at least 1,063 days to Valve.

"Valve Time" has become an industry term used jokingly with game releases from Valve, used to acknowledge the difference between the promised time for released content stated by Valve and to the actual release time; "Valve Time" includes predominately delays but also includes some content that was released earlier than expected. Valve itself has fully acknowledged the term, including tracking known discrepancies between ideal and actual releases on their public development wiki and using it in announcements about such delays.

Valve ascribes their delays to their mentality of team-driven initiatives over corporate deadlines to make sure they provide a high quality product to their customers. The company does try to avoid unintentional delays of their projects, and believes that the earlier occurrences of "Valve Time" delays, primarily from Half-Life development, has helped them improve their release schedules.