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A 2003 complaint about Half-Life (infosec.pub)
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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

My uneducated guess is that those are from custom stuff found on the servers you visit. Quake 3 and similars (Jedi Outcast/Academy, Unreal Tournament 99/2004) would download any custom maps, player models and skins if the server you were connecting to had any.