Modding problems?

Hi, I'm new to the game but not to modding. One of my first interests was tinkering around with the game, and I read the guides here. One problem I'm having however is opening the .entity files in GameInfo. While opening them in Notepad should give me what I'm looking for as the guides suggest, instead I get crap like this:

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Whats up?
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Apparently you haven't read all the posts yet. You might wanna try Here or Here.

A quick summary, you're looking at a binary file. straight from the game. To really be productive, you need the text version of the files available in the "beta-ish" mod tools. With that, go out, explore and if you're still having problems, come on back.