ildrean

There are also some good roleplaying servers on Gmod, such as Taco n' Banana (fair warning: they are REALLY SERIOUS about roleplay, you will get kick/banned a lot if you don't read the rules) and some DarkRP servers. Spacebuild 3 is also fun, its in beta right now though. My favorite thing to do in Gmod though is to make contraptions with wiremod, its basically a logic circuit mod that allows you to make nearly any system (even working PCs in game) if you have the technological knowhow. I've made some vector auto-turrets, security systems, vehicle control systems, and other things with it. www.wiremod.com

Heh, at my school they have Firefox installed on all the computers, but only the admin accounts have proxy settings. I was in yearbook and they gave us admin accounts for some permissions issue and one of my friends released the information on a shared drive so we could use firefox for a school web project. We got banned from the computers for a month and had to do after school tutoring to some kids, half of which that never showed up. Moral of the story: If you want to try to get around school limitations, be careful about it, because they get really mad at you for little reasons.

The only problem I've seen is that the difficulties are too easy. Expert is as hard as it should be, If you get stuck with shoddy players, it will take a while to get through. On the flip side, normal is waaaay too easy. I can get through it by myself (3 npcs) without a scratch. I imagine the npcs could get through easy on their own if that was possible. Expert is really fun though. The hunters, boomers, and smokers are annoying, especially when you are the last one left. Once, I threw a molotov, got caught by a smoker, dragged through the fire, and then a hunter jumped on me while in the fire. Needless to say, I did not survive. The tanks are nearly impossible on expert, but the only reason that you ever get killed by a witch is if there is a stupid player in the server (Valve knows their audience well). Also, I figured out a near-foolproof way to survive a horde rush. Stand in a corner or another place with only one entrance, and hold down right click. (My Steam user name is either ildrean or George Bulwharks, depending on whether or not I'm playing in a group with the other Bulwharks)

I would have to say FPS's have better "pick up and play" multiplayer. And single player goes to the RPG's. Most FPSRPG's lack multiplayer as well. Unless you are talking about MMORPGs, they win over everthing.