Greetings everyone! Today we have 1/2 of the duo that played a part in creating the Black Lotus skins for Counter-Strike, the recently rated third best skin of the year by HLTV. Ariata shares her story of how she got into making skins, inspirations behind the design, and the plan for some new skins that are in the works right now. Enjoy the episode.

What a day...TheWarOwl and I were in talks since before Christmas and I am so happy he was down to make this happen for not only me, but the CS community. TheWarOwl talks to us a bit about his time as a software dev, seeing the vision that Counter-Strike: Global Offensive would be a huge game down the road, getting into content creating, and so much more. Amazing story today. Shoutout to the bizznosis tweet that got WarOwl's attention!

GREETINGS! VinnieBB joins the show today to tell us about his experience with streaming every single day for 4+ years. Incredible grind. Vinnie tells us a lot about him from why he stuck with CS for so long, his experience with streaming, how he got into CS, I mean we cover a lot of bases that aren't known in the public eye surrounding Vinnie. Enjoy, show him some love, and we will see you next Friday...WITH WAROWL!

Happy Friday! Enjoy another episode of the Half Time podcast with today's guest, JimWood! JimWood has been apart of a small crew of creators that have successfully had de_ember and de_mutiny added to Counter-Strike, once upon a time. Today, JimWood tells us about his beginnings and inspirations to begin his mapping journey, getting hands on with CS mapping, and the creation of the 2 maps he was a part in creating. Amazing story, amazing dude, amazing episode!

Wow, what an episode today. Spacesal sits down to talk about his journey in his personal life, as well as exploring various ventures in the CS industry. Spacesal has had numerous roles in the OpTic India CS team back in the day...before the forsaken incident (fun fact, look at the clip of forsaken getting caught, you might see a familiar face!), and his most recent journey was being the general manager for the DRILLAS, ohnePixel's CS team that made a run at the 2024 Shanghai Major. A truly amazing individual, I hope you guys enjoy today's episode!

Hope everybody had a great Christmas and has an awesome New Year's with their close ones. Today I just wanted to announce a couple things with you guys going into 2025 and also express my thanks and appreciation for all of the love and support you guys have shown me for 2024. We started half way through this year, and I think we have come a long way so far, it trips me out so much. You guys are the best. Enjoy!

Well guys, here we are! The final guest of the year, we had to go out with a bang. The one and only, SPARKLES! What an honour. Sparkles joins us today to talk about his early years in Counter-Strike and content creating, he explains where the name "Sparkles" came from which is something exclusive to this episode (never heard before!), opening the first souvenir FN Dragon Lore when Cologne 2016 was happening, and so much more. This has been killing me to hold onto this podcast for this long, but I am incredibly thrilled to have it finally air it and show you guys. Thank you so much to zipeL, Sparkles, and most importantly, you guys! Next Friday will be the last podcast of the year, and we will be doing a recap on 2024. Much love!

Today we have 1 of the 2 creators of CS2 ProSkin joining us. CS2 ProSkin is a website designed by 2 smart community members, that is designed to help show fans of the pro scene who are interested in some of their favourite players' skins, 1 simple place to view them all! A friend of mine showed me this website, and I thought it was a no brainer to get them on the podcast and talk about their project. If you guys enjoy the pro scene for CS and skins, this episode is for YOU!

Happy December everybody! Christmas is right around the corner, so we have giveaways for every podcast dropping this month (link below). Anyways, our guest today, Killdozer, is another awesome dude. When it comes to loving case openings and opening golds, Killdozer's name has to enter the conversation at some point. I mean seriously, he has some of the most insane challenges I have seen when it comes to case openings. Enjoy this week's episode, we will catch you guys next week!