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You've already been in Oregon so long that that shirt is unremarkable?

Have to agree, it seemed pretty bad; CT models are very difficult to see, and my framerate was too low to aim properly in most of the map.

They have Black Friday in Japan?

I was thinking more of new games; I hadn't realised until now that people were still making games in this style but apparently they are.

Winter is a time when various porters, stouts, schwarzbiers, spiced ales and lagers hit the shelves, in addition to a lot of beers in those categories that are around year-round. It's a little early in the season (although winter beers started to appear here a few weeks ago), but what are you drinking or looking forward to? And, possibly more importantly, what do you eat with these beers? Are there beers (seasonal or not) that go surprisingly well with typical winter or Christmas-season foods? So far all I've picked up are seasonals from Samuel Adams (Winter Lager) and Dogfish Head (Chicory Stout) and a few locals. Samuel Adams' Winter Lager tastes OK, very lightly spiced, but not that different from their Vienna lager (Boston Lager) or marzenbier (Octoberfest). Dogfish Head's Chicory Stout is much bitterer than I expected (shouldn't be surprising considering that what they label as brown ale tastes more like a good stout). Very dry and at 5.2% not nearly as strong (or harsh) as most of their other beers. Of course now is also the time when their Indian Brown Ale (rich, dry, smooth dark ale, tasting subtly of coffee and chocolate; also very good used sparingly in a rich/dark chili) and Raison d'Être (somewhat dark ale with noticeable raisin and caramel flavor) become most useful, with rich desserts especially landing in the fridge. Harpoon's Chocolate Stout is rich and dry (not too dry), very nice if you like that kind of thing. Might be available nationally or at least quite a distance from New England due to the popularity of their IPA. At worst, you could drink this with any food based on a fruit that would go with chocolate (apple pie, pumpkin pie, raspberry/strawberry/cherry) or most desserts on the shortbread-cookie-caramel-fudge spectrum. Magic Hat's Heart of Darkness (stout) is dark but otherwise doesn't seem to have that much going for it as a stout. It's a little more soft or even a little tangy, more like a porter than a stout. I suspect Magic Hat is not that easy to get outside of the Northeast anyway. Wachusett's Black Shack Porter seemed similar: dark, somewhat rich, a little soft and tangy.

I've seen several SCUMM-style games (think Monkey Island) on Steam when looking through the various deals this weekend (especially Indie games on sale) and clicking through to other games. Are many of these games good? Do they play similarly to old SCUMM games? The quality of these (in terms of story and challenge/puzzle) is almost impossible to guess from screenshots and videos.

There was just an update that the server hasn't picked up yet. Apparently the smoke grenade now doubles as a fire extinguisher.

There is not. It was discussed, but due to rules set by the mod team, it was decided that we would not have a server.

Censoring speech that is supposed to be offensive to some people based on their identity is the definition of political correctness. Some people use the Internet to transmit all kinds of verbal abuse indiscriminately. Sexism is substantially less of an issue on the Internet than homophobia or racism. My point is that the fact that the executive producer of the game is focused on something other than the game itself is likely to predict that the game will not be as good as it could be. Your lack of reasoning, whether disingenuous or not, is not persuasive. Your suggestion that, because I disagree with someone's efforts to censor speech on the Internet, I am some kind of pervert is frankly rhetorical terrorism designed to suppress dissent.

Always a bad sign when the people who are supposed to be making sure a game is good are focused on political correctness instead.

Sometimes, players will be unable to connect to the server. They will receive a message indicating either that they failed to connect to the session (even though the server is up and visible), or that they are banned from joining the session (different message from message noting that their Steam ID is banned). In either of these cases, the server will need to have the map changed and probably be restarted to clear it up. If you receive one of these messages, please let someone know as soon as possible, since usually this issue will affect all players trying to join (not just you).

Added de_mirage_go (Strike), de_nuke_ve_fix, de_piranesi. Currently, none of these are on rotation. I've read rumours that de_nuke_ve_fix can cause problems, so please keep an eye out for anyone having difficulty connecting or server crashes while this map is on.

Stuck warmup rounds are a known bug. You enter the game, but no players are able to damage each other. This usually happens when the first player joins the server. Suiciding (kill in console) will usually cause the warmup round to end. If it doesn't, try pressing E to also control the bot on your team, and suicide the bot.

Banned STEAM_1:1:866680

We have a server; it is with NFo. go.gcftw.com

I have command and update rates at 128, but framerate locked at 60 (not VSYNC). Registration seems good. Play felt more jittery with framerate unlocked (varying 70-100fps). cl_interp .03something cl_interp_ratio 1

128?

I would probably slay first, but if you want to warn that's OK too.

No.

We've been doing them the past few weeks.

You both should already be all set.

Without a Steam ID, sometimes it takes a long time.

No specific problem with young players. As long as he isn't disruptive (applies to everyone anyway), it's really up to you to decide what games to let him play.

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