Exactly, as the magnetic north pole is somewhere in Antarctica (or close to, cant remember). The north pole on the compass points north due to the magnetic south pole there (somewhere between Canada or Siberia depending on time).
You've got the right idea, you just haven't worded it correctly. The magnetic north pole is in the Arctic. The north magnetic pole is in the Antarctic. The reason you stated (north on a compass points to a south-type pole) is quite correct, but the order of the words is important, because the qualifier should be the first word in the name, ie. the north magnetic pole is one of the two magnetic poles of type 'north', the magnetic north pole is one of the four northern poles of type 'magnetic'.
Just some corrections on your release dates:
Yup, Quake 2 came out in December 1997. Half-Life was *supposed* to come out in November 1997. However, Valve didn't like the way the game was going so they tossed a lot of it out and started again. November 1998 is when it finally went gold.
As for Sin, yep, that was in 1998, but it beat Half-Life to the shelves and it was based on Quake source, not Quake 2 source.
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Exactly, as the magnetic north pole is somewhere in Antarctica (or close to, cant remember). The north pole on the compass points north due to the magnetic south pole there (somewhere between Canada or Siberia depending on time).
You've got the right idea, you just haven't worded it correctly. The magnetic north pole is in the Arctic. The north magnetic pole is in the Antarctic. The reason you stated (north on a compass points to a south-type pole) is quite correct, but the order of the words is important, because the qualifier should be the first word in the name, ie. the north magnetic pole is one of the two magnetic poles of type 'north', the magnetic north pole is one of the four northern poles of type 'magnetic'.
Just some corrections on your release dates: Yup, Quake 2 came out in December 1997. Half-Life was *supposed* to come out in November 1997. However, Valve didn't like the way the game was going so they tossed a lot of it out and started again. November 1998 is when it finally went gold. As for Sin, yep, that was in 1998, but it beat Half-Life to the shelves and it was based on Quake source, not Quake 2 source.