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The Ready Room => Off Topic => Topic started by: Magmatron on October 09, 2004, 04:38:14 PM

Title: New Hl2 Mod In The Works!
Post by: Magmatron on October 09, 2004, 04:38:14 PM: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v444/Ness-Earthbound/pitbanner.jpg)

I am currently starting development on a HL2 mod to trump all others, called The Pit. The exciting objective of this mod is to reach the pit before the other team, falling to your death and victory! The pit will be covered with a rug, to increase strategy and stealth.

EXCITING INTRO MOVIE FOR THE PIT (http://server.confusionville.net/ThePitIntro.zip) - Created by SniperChance and hosted by Confused! Ragdolls!

A little backstory: Once upon a time on the planet Zergath there was a wizard, called Gradel. Gradel, having an IQ of 7, had nothing better to do than make pits in the soft, springy soil of the planet Zergath. Before succumbing to one of his own Pits, Gradel put a spell on the resident terrorists and counter-terrorists of Zergath, causing them to forever battle for dominance of the pit! By jumping into the pit. Oh, and the pit has spikes.

Concept Art!

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v444/Ness-Earthbound/pitconcept.jpg)

Coded by SniperChance!

Exciting new code takes advantage of all of HL2's features! (http://24.15.220.212/sniper/the_pit.cpp)

Features-

Pits! Rugs!

Tactical realistic gameplay set in the middle of the apocalypse!

Gravity!

Spikes in pit removed due to balance issues

Ragdolls! Realistic falling motions!

Dynamic gameplay, with over 128 people battling it out for the right to fall to their deaths!

Roll one of three realistic brand-name tires!

Reflecting water may or may not be present in some pits, depending on balance issues and engine constraints.

Words!

Need-

Voice actors- (Must be able to yell)

Modellers- (Must be able to model rugs)

Mappers- (Must be able to make pits)

Texture folks- (Must be able to texture rugs)

Playtesters- (Must be able to withstand rigorous PT sessions)

PR Lead- (Must be able to sell this retarded idea of a mod)

Clanners- (Must be able to form a ladder for a mod revolving around falling into a pit, yet still make it competitive)

Contact-

If you feel you have any of the qualifications required for the exciting career of HL2 mod developement, don't email nessearthbound@gmail.com, just shoot yourself.

What can you do?

We here at The Pit are always looking for exciting new ideas, balance suggestions, and new ways to implement competitive play into our new-age outerspace gravity-based drama! Drop us a line to see how YOU can become part of The Pit's team of crack smoking monkeys/geniuses!
Title: New Hl2 Mod In The Works!
Post by: DruBo on October 09, 2004, 04:43:19 PM: I lolled.
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Post by: Clashen on October 09, 2004, 04:44:03 PM: i can skin black rugs!
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Post by: confused! on October 09, 2004, 04:44:49 PM: Best Mod ever.

Also I call making the best map ever for this
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Post by: Insane on October 09, 2004, 04:45:34 PM: can i help i am an esperiansed mappper! i mak gud map.
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Post by: Magmatron on October 09, 2004, 04:47:54 PM: You have to be able to make pits, of varying depths and widths!
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Post by: bacon_flaps on October 09, 2004, 04:49:19 PM: I can do voice acting! My repetoire contains horrified screams, bored screams, girly screams (aka Sonic screams) and rush-into-battle screams!
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Post by: Insane on October 09, 2004, 04:53:29 PM: Quote
You have to be able to make pits, of varying depths and widths!
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I can do that and also gman will be down there and he will tell you that you are mr. no. 1 maybe we could get a voeic actor for that??? also crates
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Post by: Magmatron on October 09, 2004, 04:56:48 PM: Crates would be too confusing. People would have to go around them, but many would try and go through. We can have a floating G-man, above the pit.
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Post by: Anarki3x6 on October 09, 2004, 05:01:21 PM: oooh SO count me in for pting this thing
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Post by: Insane on October 09, 2004, 05:02:10 PM: No you can kick the craets into the pits for extra points!!11 its great please
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Post by: A Boojum Snark on October 09, 2004, 05:13:30 PM: winnar. sounds like much fun :D
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Post by: Magmatron on October 09, 2004, 05:22:43 PM: From our excellent concept artist, the official rug of Zergath, 3rd principality of the Rorgath empire!

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v444/Ness-Earthbound/HAILZERGATH.jpg)
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Post by: Niteowl on October 09, 2004, 06:15:47 PM: lol. literally :)
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Post by: Slink on October 09, 2004, 06:50:22 PM: O G M !!!

4 questions, ness.

1. Does this have a B.U.S?!?

2. Are you married?

(if answer to q#2 is no, procceed directly to q#4. if yes, answer q#3.)

3. Will you marry me?

4. What is this mod's B.U.S?!?
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Post by: Magmatron on October 09, 2004, 07:15:34 PM: 1. Yes!
3. Yes!
4. If you run from the pit, a bus runs you over.
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Post by: Slink on October 09, 2004, 08:17:59 PM: YAY!!! HAWT MAAN SECKS!!!

oo oo, when the release date?!?
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Post by: Diablus on October 09, 2004, 08:29:10 PM: I really do hope your serious about this mod :D
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Post by: Uranium - 235 on October 09, 2004, 09:29:42 PM: I'll bet it SUCKS, and I'll bet you FAIL, EXACTLY HOW YOU'VE FAILED AT EVERYTHING ELSE IN YOUR MISERABLE EXISTANCE.
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Post by: Satiagraha on October 09, 2004, 10:09:05 PM: Ooo burned (again) by ura! :lol:

BUTT SECKS IN ZEE PIT!

You should submit this to a website that features custom mods >:D
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Post by: Nuketheplace on October 09, 2004, 10:28:58 PM: I really think we should make this into a mod. I mean whats better than falling into a pit?
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Post by: BobTheJanitor on October 09, 2004, 10:46:54 PM: Helo is this ther ight place to post ideas for teh pit mod? Cuz I have an idear where you can get teh rokwet lancher and kill teh bus while yu fallin teh pit.

(Modz plz don't lok this cuz it's good idea)
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Post by: Grimm on October 10, 2004, 12:03:23 AM: Quite the interesting idea we've got here.
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Post by: Black Mage on October 10, 2004, 07:49:53 AM: i can pt the pit!

/me practices on ns_nothing
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Post by: Magmatron on October 10, 2004, 10:27:17 AM: Well, of course it's a joke now. Perhaps when HL2 comes out, I'll ask a few people for a few minutes work to slap the mod together. Until then, it's just a mod designed to make fun of the countless mods out there with no team and a crappy premise.
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Post by: tankefugl (in a tent) on October 11, 2004, 12:44:05 AM: Not to be picky, but you have to announce "the best realism combined with gameplay" for it to qualify as a true HL2 mod.

And add the word "tactical" somewhere random.

Btw, I'll code!
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Post by: Grimm on October 11, 2004, 12:51:03 AM: Funny thing I've found about Counterstrike is I've never heard any of the CS fans actually say it was "realistic"; It's always been the anti-CSers that bring it up.
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Post by: sonic on October 11, 2004, 12:51:04 AM: Wait....this is real? I saw it on Saturday when I had a.....little to drink. I thought I'd dreamt it :blink:
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Post by: tankefugl (in a tent) on October 11, 2004, 01:15:15 AM: Quote
Funny thing I've found about Counterstrike is I've never heard any of the CS fans actually say it was "realistic"; It's always been the anti-CSers that bring it up.
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I was not refering to CS, but to the GAZILLION other announced HL2 mods.
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Post by: Grimm on October 11, 2004, 02:04:04 AM: Yea, but there's always the people that will complain about CS. The idea had been brought to mind, I don't mean to insinuate that you were complaining about CS.

As for the Halflife 2 mods (and mods for any game, as well), I think the one theme that I get tired of is "post-apocalypse". Sure, it may sound cool to be fighting in a half-destroyed, completely deserted city, but when so many people think it's so cool, it becomes overused and annoying.
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Post by: tankefugl (in a tent) on October 11, 2004, 02:27:42 AM: Good thing that The Pit is pre-apocalypse then!

.. right?
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Post by: Slink on October 11, 2004, 02:47:50 AM: you know, this might actually be hella fun if there was guns and such. hear me out...

you spawn. you get a weapon of some sort, maybe random, maybe 2. the floor opens, and you fall.

you have maybe 5-10 seconds to kill as many people as you can, to get a higher score/better weapon.

everyone lands, living or not.

(eww...)

you respawn. and do it all again.

now, some things you could throw in for variety. maps, with different mid-air (mid-pit?) obstacles. like, i dont know, crossbars or meat hooks or saw blades or something? or maybe jacuzi vents, that push on you. Also, some sort of freefall recoil. so if you shoot a shotty, you go tumbling end over end backwards... you'd need some sort of way to counteract this effect, like, air-control or something.

eh eh? this'd be f'ing hilarious.

(oh, scoring. 1 point for a kill mid-air, 1 point for surviving to the bottom.)

oh, and you could call it "The Pit: Tactical Suicide" or something.
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Post by: tankefugl (in a tent) on October 11, 2004, 02:52:50 AM: >:D

Add arcade style obstacles, pushes, Y-shafts and junctions, powerups as you fall and some air control. Man, it actually sounds like a cool idea.

And I like the tactical part.
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Post by: Redford on October 11, 2004, 06:21:03 AM: Thank you for the obligiory bosaka wars quotes, ness. You earn a pet.

*petness*
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Post by: Insane on October 11, 2004, 08:40:28 AM: k plz am i on teh team???? i mak gud pit map 4 u k???? thx
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Post by: Clashen on October 11, 2004, 09:37:39 AM: Quote
k plz am i on teh team???? i mak gud pit map 4 u k???? thx
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u skin rugs to`??
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Post by: Malevolent on October 11, 2004, 11:14:16 AM: Look at that. It took the best mod idea ever to get Insane to post. :p
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Post by: Diablus on October 11, 2004, 12:57:11 PM: you should be able to eat magic beans and grow like 123987547926347893627856784 feet, and then bow up causing spikes to fly everywhere and then everyone getsspikes in their faces and EYEZ!!11111

and then the A team van comes out of nowhere and runs everyone over and mr t's liek "RAWR i R MR TEE I PITY T3H FEWL " then liek everyones runs and falls in the pits because their spikes in their eyes hurt and then they go OGM DED!!1 then a voice goes TERRORISTS WINS and a bomb goez off and then i say haha i win.

or not
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Post by: Magmatron on October 11, 2004, 01:41:13 PM: The genius SniperChance has used the amazing powers of FLASH and THE INTERNETS to create an intro movie for The Pit, but I need a mirror! Email me at nessearthbound@gmail.com if you would like to offer your bandwidth to this exciting mod and it's 500kb intro.

Edit: Confused has been kind enough to host the most excellent intro movie here! (http://server.confusionville.net/ThePitIntro.zip)

Edit: I have discovered the existance of another FORUM, resulting in a topic being posted there. http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/in...showtopic=82922 (http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=82922)
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Post by: A Boojum Snark on October 11, 2004, 02:42:26 PM: This is getting better all the time :lol: I'll have to hop on the mapping team :p
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Post by: Jefe on October 11, 2004, 03:20:30 PM: i cant pt because my computer is not good enough 4 hl2 and i cant code or map or texture or anything but maybe i can be a forum mod what do u think???
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Post by: Magmatron on October 11, 2004, 03:32:13 PM: Okay!
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Post by: Insane on October 11, 2004, 03:44:52 PM: Quote
Look at that. It took the best mod idea ever to get Insane to post. :p
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Shh i hav postad alwayz plz!! now i mak map 4 ness!
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Post by: Dark on October 11, 2004, 04:27:44 PM: looks like this mod will be sweet

since i cna't map or anything looks like all i could do is pt for the mod
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Post by: Satiagraha on October 11, 2004, 04:35:51 PM: Since I can't map, make layouts, or breathe, I'll help make the mod B)
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Post by: Grimm on October 11, 2004, 04:43:21 PM: If this ever becomes a serious idea, it sounds like mapping would be easy to do, a nice start for someone like me who doesn't really have any mapping experience. ^_^

Also, nice intro.
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Post by: Malevolent on October 11, 2004, 07:40:58 PM: This would be pretty fun to play, I think. It would be easy to do, so we might as well try it when the time comes.
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Post by: Magmatron on October 11, 2004, 07:55:08 PM: Well, I never expected all of this. I've got pj doing the website, Cold-Nite hosting, NEO|Phyte mapping, Sniper doing code, TychoCelchuuu doing a rug or something, alius doing another rug or something. When pj finished the very basic website (should be sometime tonight), I'll be regging #thepit on irc.gamesurge.net, and anyone who wants to contribute and be written down into the annals of mod history forever can join up.
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Post by: Sniper Chance on October 11, 2004, 11:01:34 PM: Here's a screen from the first map ever, firstmap.bsp.

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Post by: Isamil on October 12, 2004, 04:06:39 AM: You need high quality rug textures. And high quality other textures to.
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Post by: Malevolent on October 12, 2004, 04:20:57 AM: That is susch a good first screenie.
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Post by: Grimm on October 12, 2004, 09:48:56 AM: I was kind of surprised to see how many people were already in the channel when I joined last night. Seems that this is on its way to becoming a solid mod.
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Post by: -Lancer- on October 12, 2004, 11:48:22 AM: I'll take the PR end of this, since im already in sales, ill give a copy of this with every purchase of a cell phone!!!!
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Post by: Magmatron on October 18, 2004, 04:21:51 PM: Bumping this up because the mod needs a new coder. Sniperchance is craving to work on his own project he's been at for a while again, leaving The Pit with an open coder spot (Don't worry mappers, I believe he plans to put out a version with teams before leaving). So far the mod has about 8 maps and a model in the works, so if anyone knows anything about the HL1 SDK and wants to screw around with a mod, reply here/email me/pm me whatever, and I'll have Sniper send you the source.
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Post by: Satiagraha on October 18, 2004, 05:09:17 PM: So this is a serious idea? Perhaps a running version soon, yes?
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Post by: Magmatron on October 18, 2004, 05:23:55 PM: We've had a running version out since the day the mod was announced, silly. Check the channel on IRC for a link to the alpha version (new one to be released soon, probably to be named delta).
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Post by: Malevolent on October 18, 2004, 07:29:25 PM: The last version must be name omega.
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Post by: Satiagraha on October 18, 2004, 07:39:43 PM: Quote
The last version must be name omega.
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Or even better, Omega Gamma Delta Epsilon
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Post by: Slink on October 18, 2004, 11:39:10 PM: i don't care what you name the next version, as long as the final version is Delta Tau Chi. That is a must.
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Post by: Magmatron on October 19, 2004, 12:49:32 PM: Next version is going to be named delta. Should be out pretty soon (And since we are talking in terms of The Pit developement time, pretty soon means today or tommorrow, instead of a few months).
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Post by: Malevolent on October 19, 2004, 02:52:46 PM: Quote
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The last version must be name omega.
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Or even better, Omega Gamma Delta Epsilon
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Hell, throw in the whole Greek alphabet, although it'd be long. Or you could go Alpha-Omega.
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Post by: A Boojum Snark on October 20, 2004, 01:52:56 PM: No no, last version should be pi iota theta ^____^

(yes tau would be more correct for T but i find it easier to say with theta than tau)
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Post by: Slink on October 20, 2004, 04:19:47 PM: hmm, that's a nice one ABS. unfortunatly, i dont think anyone gets the reference, either that or they haven't said anything.
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Post by: Satiagraha on October 20, 2004, 06:05:09 PM: Quote
How dare you suggest anything other than Lambda Lambda Lambda!?! (http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html//emoticons/nerd-fix.gif)
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:lol:

Tri-Lams!

has anyone ever considered "version 2"?
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Post by: A Boojum Snark on October 20, 2004, 08:11:08 PM: Slink, I figured that was a reference to something considering the way you said it and that fact it I didn't noticed what it meant offhand, however what, I do not know.
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Post by: Satiagraha on October 20, 2004, 09:25:44 PM: Reference to The Pi Iota Tau?

Or the Nerd reference of Tri-lams?

or the Delta Tau Chi (ATX? DTX? something else?)
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Post by: Slink on October 21, 2004, 12:55:11 AM: I take it no one has seen "Animal House" recently?
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Post by: lolfighter on October 21, 2004, 03:04:53 AM: Last version should be lambda omega lambda. :)
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Post by: Magmatron on October 31, 2004, 12:51:34 PM: Version 15 is out! Except Sniper forgot to include all of our maps in the distro. I'll have to get that fixed. Anywho, we now have teams, animated models, around 10 maps, new physics!//1

The poor mappers will have to edit their maps to implement teams, but hey, they are slaves. Malibu will be handling the mod's coding from now on, with this version released, so take any game imploding bugs to him.
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Post by: TychoCelchuuu on October 31, 2004, 03:24:30 PM: THIS JUST IN SOURCE CODE FROM HALF LIFE 3 HAS BEEN STOLEN BY 1337 PIT HAXORS AND ADDED TO GIVE ALL OUR MODELS BUMPP MAPPING WHAT IS BUMPP MAPPING WELL IT IS AN ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY THAT MAPS OUT BUMPS ON THE DATA OF THE FILE OF THE BINARY OF THE MODEL THAT MAKES IT RUN SUPER FAST ON ALL THE COMPUTERS AND ALSO IT MAKES IT LOOK GOOD AS HARRISON FORD WITHOUT A SHIRT WHO IS TOTALLY A HUNK.

_-_~~STOLEN PIT TEAM EMAIL!!!--~!2 lolo

The Pit = Best Mod Ever.