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2024 General Chat

Well, we’re back! Thanks for sticking with us through the site downtime – a server problem that also just had bad timing right over the holiday season.

And so here’s a new General Chat for the New(ish) Year! What are you looking forward to playing in 2024?


27th January 2024 45 Comments

Random Stream Vote!

Ahoy! Clearly I’ve been slacking on the Classic of the Month streams. But I will get back to them at some point, and I feel like streaming something else this weekend. Something VERY Half-Life.

So, you get to pick in the vote! Choose one for me to start streaming at the usual time (12 noon Saturday eastern US time / 5pm in the UK / 6pm Central Europe).


As usual, the stream will be on the RunThinkShootLive Twitch Channel.


Check the Time & Date.Com website for your local time. See you there!


2nd March 2023 1 Comment

2023 General Chat

Another year is upon us already! Here’s a new General Chat! Best wishes from me to you for a great 2023!

This year, I’m still hoping that mods I mentioned a year ago see the light of day, like The Core, Dark Matter, Signal Lost, and THWL Tower Source.

I also plan to catch up with mods and games I’ve been wanting to play, like an Alyx replay as well as FMPONE’s Levitation which was released in November.

What are your 2023 resolutions? Or better yet, goals?


1st January 2023 64 Comments

Classic of the Month Stream – Big Lolly – December 2022

2022 has come and (nearly) gone. But before the New Year comes (for most of us) it’s time for the final 2022 Classic of the Month!

I’ll be playing Cayle George’s colorful Big Lolly.

The stream will be this weekend on Saturday December 31st, about 12pm (noon) Eastern US Time (5pm in the UK, 6pm Central Europe).


As usual, the stream will be on the RunThinkShootLive Twitch Channel, and the recording will later be uploaded to the Classic of the Month playlist on the RTSL YouTube channel.


Check the Time & Date.Com website for your local time. See you there!


28th December 2022 1 Comment

Classic of the Month Stream – Half-Life: The Infected – November 2022

As usual, time flies by. It seems like I was just streaming Cry of Fear a week ago! But here we are in late November, time for a different Classic of the Month!

I’ll be playing Half-Life: The Infected from a couple years back by Neclipse.

The stream will be this weekend on Saturday November 26th, about 12pm (noon) Eastern US Time (5pm in the UK, 6pm Central Europe).


As usual, the stream will be on the RunThinkShootLive Twitch Channel, and the recording will later be uploaded to the Classic of the Month playlist on the RTSL YouTube channel.



23rd November 2022 1 Comment

The Hammer Cup 2022 Wrap-up

The Hammer Cup 2022 Overview

This year, the Map Labs folks had a great idea – bring back the Hammer Cup, but in mini format! So this Cup was another great partnership with Map Labs that consisted of three mapping challenges, each with a different theme.

Entrants received points for each challenge they entered. At the end of the event, the best 2 points totals from the challenges they entered were added together for each entrant. These totals decided who won the Grand Prizes.

This means that entrants did not have to enter every challenge to win the grand prize but they needed to have entered at least 2 to have a chance of winning the prizes.


29th October 2022 1 Comment

Classic of the Month Stream – Cry of Fear – October 2022

The time has come at last. I didn’t ever expect to play this mod game. But you have spoken.

Cry of Fear is the October Classic of the Month. Watch me run. Watch me squeal. Watch me die.

The stream will start this weekend on Saturday October 15th, about 12pm (noon) Eastern US Time (5pm in the UK, 6pm Central Europe). I expect to continue it the following Saturday, same time. I’ll need the week in between to recover.


As usual, the stream will be on the RunThinkShootLive Twitch Channel, and the recording will later be uploaded to the Classic of the Month playlist on the RTSL YouTube channel.


12th October 2022 No Comments

Vote for the October 2022 Classic of the Month!

Update: there was a dead tie! Vote now in the run-off between Cry of Fear and Hazardous Course 2!

Poll only runs for 24 hours!


So it’s October already! This month I decided to put the next Classic of the Month to a vote. This time, you get to pick from a big list of mods that are all on the list for future streams, including a spooky choice!

Poll closes in just a few days on October 5th, so hurry up and get your vote in!


6th October 2022 1 Comment

Classic of the Month Stream – Mission of Mercy – September 2022

Ack! It’s the last weekend in September already! I need to sneak in a quick Classic of the Month!

This time I’m going back a whopping 22 years with Mission of Mercy by Dave Waters.

The stream will be this weekend on Saturday September 24th, about 12pm (noon) Eastern US Time (5pm in the UK, 6pm Central Europe).


As usual, the stream will be on the RunThinkShootLive Twitch Channel, and the recording will later be uploaded to the Classic of the Month playlist on the RTSL YouTube channel.


22nd September 2022 No Comments