mookie

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

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128?

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

No.

against abortion and lame marriage. the only backing for those is religion

I didn't know that abortion and same-sex marriage were religious practices, I guess I have a lot to learn about Atheism. Or, maybe, people are finally ready to admit that Feminism is a religion, and its support by the federal government is expressly forbidden by the first amendment to the Constitution?

We've been doing them the past few weeks.

Keep this in mind whenever the media tries to remind you how dumb US nationals are.

I was highly amused when an American told me he wanted to be more worldly by leaning languages and listed Irish as one of them. I know there's a few words that different, but it still sounded funny.

http://satwcomic.com/multi-language

Lewl.

You both should already be all set.

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

You are right. Almost every Republican has condemned Akin for his comments. You know, after they realised it is completely impossible to defend and they do not want to be dragged down by the sinking ship. If you watch the timelines, you will see1. Republicans say they do not agree with the statement.2. Republicans condemn the statements and ask for an apology.3. Republicans ask Akin to withdraw from the race (so they can put in another candidate).The Republican responses get more and more severe as the negative press piles on the pressure. They do not condemn his statements because they believe it is wrong. They condemn it to save from dragged down in their political career.

Publicly calling for someone to quit running for public office is not evidence of secretly agreeing with him. This is either a disingenuous attempt to pass off your personal opinion as a logical thought, or evidence of some kind of dementia.

Also, if you look at it, Akin was simply voicing his opinion, which is very popular in Republican circles, about how one can divide rape into certain categories. How else will you explain why there are law proposals that specifically state "forcible rape"?

Where was the condemnations for the Birther controversy or John Kerry being swiftboated? Where was the condemnation when a US President sponsors torture and falsely leads the country into war?

It doesn't follow, that other people should condemn something because you don't like it.

Also, it is hard to fault people for asking where Obama was born, when the advertisements for his own book claim he was born in Kenya.

Also, where is the condemnation of Obama escalating the war in Afghanistan, or entering a war in Libya without the consent of Congress, or using robot assassins to kill a US citizen?

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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Stay away from IPAs though, those suck.

 

well, looks like we're enemies from here on out.

*snif* I'm feeling all nostalgic all of the sudden... It's like it's 2008 all over again. I feel like I need to bad mouth Apple or something.

For what it's worth, they're trying to sue Samsung out of the US market right now.

Perfectly legal. I'm not sure what the problem would be with this; if he owns the company, the rent it's paying him is coming out of his own money.

I've noticed that when you join a game that doesn't already have players, it sticks on the picture of T or CT. This happens most of the time, and doesn't seem to be related to the server specifically. If you type kill in console, the round will restart and it works normally. Or, it will usually start working once someone else joins.

I was just wondering if people from the US were aware of this:

 

Basically the whole of Europe considers the republicans to be 'the bad guys' and the democrats (in this case Obama) as the 'good guys'. We are genuinly afraid there might be another conservative president.

 

Why? Because the democratic ideology shows more similarities with our political systems, which we view as 'just'. Also you know, to us, Bush started a war, republicans want to kill all immigrants and live in trailer parks from incest and the food stamps they themselves hate so much. Please know that i myself do not believe any of the aforementioned statements.

 

Whilst my opinion on this is both more relative as irrelevant, i've been researching some news reports and i've yet to find a conservative politician who sounds even remotely intelligent. Of course, i also know a youtube search always yields the most 'sensational' videos first, and not the ones which reflect someones ideas and beliefs in a positive way.

Yes, we are aware that a lot of Europeans are ignorant of politics in the United States. If you wander a little further away from Brussels you'll probably find that people are not as homogenous as you think.

Is that still going on? This Olympics thing needs to wrap up so we can get on to important issues, like the referee lockout.

It's that time of year again, when Octoberfest beers hit the shelves (and of course the pumpkin beers as well). What are you drinking this year, and how do you like it?

So far for me, Sam Adams Octoberfest seems par for the course, or not quite as good as last year and the year before, not quite as smooth and malty.

Magic Hat (local to Northeast) Hex is OK, but tastes about halfway between marzen and a good pale ale. Not surprising to me; I haven't had a good Octoberfest from an ale-only brewery yet.

Harpoon (local to Northeast?) Pumpkin Cider is a tart, mild, smooth apple cider with some spices. It tastes OK, although if you're used to cider it will taste unusual. The odor is strange (disturbing?); it smells to me mainly like cake frosting. I would recommend avoiding this, unless you (1) like soft (sweet) cider and (2) have desserts like oatmeal cookies, carrot/apple/white/yellow cake, or apple pie that you plan on eating.

"BiteThePillowImGoinInDry"

I would kick this name until it was changed; this is probably why you're banned.

When does the curling start?

Canyon

The timing on Canyon seems about right, but the layout of the map and some small details make it look very hard to defend (without having played it). A looks very easy to rush and win; if CTs go into the site to defend, they're completely trapped there, and preventing a plant there from outside the site looks difficult because there is a lot of large cover in and around the site, and anywhere you would shoot into it from leaves you in an exposed position (from left and below). B seems balanced, but the area around it seems very easy to overrun (climbing on top of building or running across the ledge in front of the windows) so that supporting A from here will be difficult.

In terms of finishing, there are several things that stand out.

(1) No NAV file. Because of the displacements on the map, generating the navigation mesh will take a long time; this is more reason to do it yourself once and include the file with the map. This comes with the extra benefit that you can add place names if you want to do so.

(2) Clipping. A boost off the generator near B gives access to about a quarter of the perimeter of the map. An area that can only be boosted to would be an interesting addition to a lot of maps if done right, but in this case it looks unintentional since this area is completely unfinished (you can fall off the edge of the map). A player up here could be very difficult to deal with, since the displacement slopes back away from the map in several places. I can't decide if a boost out of T spawn is feasible or not; if it is, a player can walk from here directly onto the dam. Any areas where a player absolutely should not be able to go should be protected by straight-vertical walls made from toolsplayerclip (this material can also be used to block the bomb from going into areas too small for a player). Don't be overzealous, since some servers may want to play a map with low gravity, or spawn players in odd locations (deathmatch), or teleport, so allowing access to areas that are finished enough to be usable may be a good thing, even if normally they'd be impossible to boost.

(3) Optimization. Displacement areas that are large enough to block off a large area visually should have a solid brush of toolsnodraw behind them. The engine considers displacements to be non-solid when computing visibility, so they need solid brushes in order to form a real barrier for optimization. It doesn't have to be a tight fit, but they should fill up most of the space below the displacement. This is mainly for walls; floors can just have a flat brush underneath them, and things like archways can't really use anything. Once that's done, you can add ceilings to the walkable areas of the map, textured with toolsskip on the irrelevant sides, and toolshint on the relevant side. The hint face should be below the height of the adjacent walls, and above the maximum height someone could jump. These two should cut down enormously on the time VVIS runs, and make the map run faster. This site may help quite a bit (http://www.optimization.interlopers.net/), if you keep in mind that the principles work vertically as well as horizontally.

(4) Texturing. As you mentioned, the textures on the displacements are stretched and too large. You can help yourself out here by using a face that's already closer to the shape you want. This could mean building your rock walls out of brushes very roughly and then turning the visible sides into displacements, or using a combination of vertical and horizontal faces to begin with. Keep in mind that vertical displacements that go straight north-south or east-west may be much easier to work with than slanted, since you only have to move them in one direction. If two faces touched at an edge originally, you should be able to use 'sew' in Hammer to automatically match the edges of their displacements back up once you're done adjusting the vertices. Using blended textures on your displacements may be a lot better than overlapping displacements of different textures, in most situations. Small details in texturing can sometimes get you a meaningful effect with very little effort. One would be to change the x or y offset on each step in a stairway (whichever runs along the stair).

(5) Water. Cheap water doesn't look very good. Usually, selectively using expensive water in a few places looks better than using a huge brush of cheap water everywhere. When using water as a puddle, take extra care with the displacement in that area to give it more natural-looking edges. Keep in mind if you use more than one brush of expensive water that, if two are rendered on the screen at the same time, only one will render correctly.

Interlopers might be a more worthwhile place to post than CSBanana. You'll get less volume of posts, but they actually know something.

What is your Steam ID? Should look like STEAM_X:X:XXXXXXXX.

I accidentally copied a space with your Steam ID. It should work now.