Most Current Map List (UPDATING)

Since we've established RTV/Nominate, here is the most current list of maps available:

0adm_advanced_v17
0adm_aerowalk_v17
0adm_aimeros_v2b
0adm_fraggin_v09
0adm_tigcrik_v12
1adm_caverns_v19
1adm_sw0starena_v1k
aim_arena_reloaded
ar_baggage_go_b1
b5_lockdown_vg
de_aztec_go_b1
de_dust2_go_r1
de_dust_go
de_favela_go
de_mirage_go_r1
de_nuke_go_r1
dm_17_longestyard_b5
dm_[bnb]_skyscraper
dm_[bnb]_the_broons_island_v3
dm_[bnb]_xmas_snow_castle_v2
dm_[ss]_alcys_petrol
dm_[ss]_shipment
dm_[ss]_templeofweed
dm_[ss]_u_boot_island
dm_airfusion_final
dm_amplitude_r2
dm_anal
dm_anal_r1l_test
dm_antlion_cave_b124
dm_aperture_glassfall_v7g
dm_aquarium_v4f
dm_arena_new_final
dm_armageddon
dm_atrium_b4
dm_avalon_b1
dm_baggage_handling_v2h
dm_bank_v10f_test_map
dm_bdaycake
dm_bigbob_orgasm
dm_biohazard_cal
dm_biolab_decontamination_final
dm_biolab_inbound
dm_blacksite_rework_v4k
dm_blastfurnace
dm_blockpost_b1
dm_bloom_b4
dm_bm_boom2_3h
dm_bm_bounce_v3h
dm_bm_hangar_v1w
dm_bridge_b2
dm_california_fires
dm_caverns_r1
dm_caverns_r2
dm_cenote
dm_collapse_r1
dm_crossfire_2020_v12a
dm_cs_office_bm
dm_datacore
dm_deadboat_b1
dm_deck17_b8
dm_decoy_cu
dm_dgc_ruins_v3
dm_dusk_cathedral_b2
dm_egypt_story_b2
dm_equilibre
dm_ethic
dm_fall_guys_v6e
dm_feudal
dm_floating_lands_fix
dm_flow_1
dm_fortwick
dm_fraggin_v7
dm_fragyard
dm_fuel_b1
dm_future
dm_galecrater
dm_glassfall_b2
dm_gonarchlair_r3
dm_grace
dm_grid_v2
dm_gta_grovestreet_v2g
dm_hctawrevo
dm_hellhole_b94b
dm_hellrock_final
dm_human_is_not_invited_b2
dm_icepick
dm_intensity_cu
dm_is_alive
dm_jaeger_rc4
dm_joeyboy
dm_killbox_kbh_2p
dm_killbox_waterflare
dm_killgardens_v1
dm_lockdown_r6
dm_lockout
dm_lone
dm_lost_base_hd_rc2
dm_lotarena
dm_losthope
dm_loststation
dm_lostvillage_night_b2
dm_luster_v1
dm_madme_2010
dm_magic_ruin
dm_magnum_nub_v3e
dm_mcislandv1
dm_mentalhospital_b41
dm_metalbase_rc1
dm_milieu_r4
dm_minelab_prefinal2
dm_moon_odyssey
dm_mudafuga
dm_neon
dm_nova_prospekt_b4
dm_nuke_traindepot_v1d
dm_ob_nightmare_church_rc4
dm_octagon
dm_organic_b5
dm_overwatch_cm
dm_overwatch_cu
dm_overwatch_r1
dm_overwatch_socal_final_fix
dm_overwatch_socal_vanilla_fix
dm_overwatch_stock_plus_fix
dm_ow_gutted
dm_plaza17
dm_pool_stalkeer
dm_postoffice
dm_press_rc1
dm_pueblo
dm_q3dm6_beta2
dm_quake_b3
dm_radioactive_HD
dm_rats_brb_go_b1
dm_ravenholm2
dm_rebar_b7
dm_res_derailed_v4k
dm_resident_cu
dm_resistance_r1
dm_richland
dm_riposte_utd
dm_roman_sanctuary
dm_rumbox_b1
dm_saltmine_prefinal
dm_sandcastle_b1
dm_saturday_b2
dm_sidehopperstation
dm_socal_nuketown_v4q
dm_sonar
dm_striker_ob
dm_stripclub_v2
dm_submersion
dm_subrange_test
dm_surface_tension_r3
dm_suspended_1d
dm_tech
dm_the_moon_odyssey
dm_the_stack_night
dm_the_stack_r2
dm_tigcrik_2020_xmas
dm_tigcrik_night_b5
dm_tigcrik_r2
dm_tigcrik_xmas_night_b6
dm_torque
dm_tropic_stunt
dm_undercastle_r1
dm_underpass
dm_urban_siege
dm_value
dm_valve_rc2nc
dm_varden
dm_veranda
dm_vietnam_v2w
dm_water_treatment_rework_v1a
dm_whoreisland_final
dm_winterchill_r3
dm_world_trainzzz_r3
dm_xen_xareo_gravity_v13t
dm_xpecm_r2
dmr1_coastline_r2
dmr2_dropforge
dmr2_skylands_v1a
ft_laudjihad_intl_airport_v2n
hg_killbox_halloween_v1
hg_quake_halloween
inception_v3k

mg_glassbreak

pcp_halloween_b4
sam_desert_temple_r1
sm_richland_night
vertical_death_v4b

Have fun all!

your pal,

feedays

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

RTV and Nominate are Live at SoCal #1

Took a bit, but map voting and map nominating are now up and running!

RTV 

NOMINTAE

your pal,

feedays

SoCal Down for now.

Working on getting RTV on the server. Stand by kids... exciting times are ahead....

Submit A Map Name!

What the hell to call this thing?!?!?

Just wanted to tap our wonderful community for name ideas for the new map. Please submit entries in the comment section of this post.

Thank you in advance as always.

Your pal,

feedays

It's been a while....

     It's been a while since I put something up here. This little web page was to get everyone involved who played on SoCal. But after Will's passing, I found it tough to even go on this page. I found everyone's nice words about William to be a testament to his great character. We all miss him. We all wish he were here.

     I've been working on a ported version of CS:GO's Blacksite and thought the Military and Radio sections would make a great map. It's on the rotation. If there is any tweaks, errors, or suggestions for the map, please let me know.

Thanks as always in advance,

feedays

Our friend is gone...

     It was about noon when my phone buzzed in my pocket. I thought it might have been another email from Hyundaiparts.com offering me another deal on the faded headlights I was looking to replace on my daughter's car. I was just thinking about the chicken curry and jasmine rice I had in the fridge when I saw a text message from William's wife, Sandra...

He passed away today at 2:45am.

I sat down at my desk in disbelief. I opened up Steam on my phone and began to text those who asked constantly about Lo Ping's condition. I knew this day was coming, you are just never really prepared for it. My friend was gone.

     It was about five years ago, freshly divorced and broke, I found myself setting up my laptop at a friend's house that would become my place of residence for the next year as I tried to piece together my living arrangements, financial obligations and child custody requirements. I had always had an affinity for video games that has been passed on to my children. But one game stood out in particular: Half-Life.  I was staring at the four installation disks of Half-Life 2 that I had ironically received as a gift from my now Ex-wife in Christmas of 2005. I had played thought and won the game two or three times, but the real
fun was in the multiplayer mode. That feeling of sending that green filing cabinet into someone's cranium with the grav-gun speaks volumes of the games playability when you are out of conventional weapons.
     After finally loading the game, I began looking at the multiplayer menus. It was 2012 and there were STILL people playing this game. I jumped from server to server, Loki's to Senior Slayers, Fozzy's to Anitalink's. There was one server where political discussions ruled the afternoons and killer music and comedy tracks ruled the nights... SoCal#1.
     I kept coming back to SoCal because of how welcoming its host Lo Ping aka Obama's Mama was to all who entered and proclaimed....

"It's a great day to be alive and be on SoCal#1!"

     William Adolph lived in Idyllwild, California. His love for gaming was only trumped by his love of his wife, Sandra. He enjoyed talking about the state of politics and theology. Well spoken, you could not help but listen to his stories that varied from World War I, to his love of writer's Gabriel Garcia Marquez's works, often reciting excerpts from Love in the Time of Cholera and 100 Years of Solitude.

     He would sing Mexican folk songs over the server while sending familiar green tables flying in your direction. If you were new and spoke over the headsets, he would kindly ask you to remove certain bodily fluids out of your mouth to enable you to speak clearly.  

     For many of us, SoCal was a place to go and have fun and be greeted graciously by an old friend, even if you didn't know him personally. His warm demeanor and playful spirit made him seem younger that he actually was, but his wealth of knowledge made him seem much older and wiser.

     William left me the keys to SoCal in December of 2017 so he could take care of a sarcoma (a type of tumor) in his intestines. After a lengthy operation, the doctors in San Diego were able to remove the 13 lb. tumor, but the surgery had left him weak and unable to walk, but thankfully alive. The road to recovery was going to be difficult. After much physical therapy and inevitable confinement to a wheelchair, William was back home again. 

     Speaking to William those days after he got home, he complained often about a headache that he could just not kick. Day in and day out with maddening pain in his head made it difficult to talk for long periods of time. Having reached his threshold, he went back to San Diego to get checked out.  After a few days of not hearing from him, I received a phone call where he shared the news that would alter his life from that moment on... Inoperable brain tumor. 

     Communicating with him would prove difficult from that point on. The combination of the drugs to control the pain and the degenerative nature of the tumor made understanding his words somewhat difficult. In one of our last conversations, he asked me to please keep the server alive. He expressed the joy it brought him and others and to keep it going. I intend to keep that promise.

     William let go in the wee hours of the morning today, June 28th, 2018. He will not be forgotten. His presence will live on in SoCal even though he is no longer here. The hole he leaves behind in the HL2DM community is immense. You know, William hated the word "community", but it is exactly what he created. 

Good-bye William aka Lo Ping aka Obama's Mama

Gone, but not forgotten.