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  • I need help finding a monitor

    So I've never owned an LCD monitor before to know what to go for, but am buying one to replace this crappy 17" CRT I have.

    I'm looking for something close to or under $300USD, ideal for gaming first, then design/video.

    toad recommended this but it's slightly over my budget ($300) and has a crappy 16ms response time. Plus I'd have to order it being a dell :/

    CJ recommended the samsung 940BW which while it has a 4ms response time it only has 500:1 contrast ratio, or the 205BW which has a 700:1 contrast ratio, goes up to 6ms response time, and costs $100 more than the 940BW, and both are TN which I hear is bad.

    Help.

  • Jack Thompson losing on TV

    Jacko mentions that the person being dunked in the toilet is black. Way to put racism into it, Jack...ass. Not related to Jacko at all, if you take blacks out of the picture completely, someone calls the race card. if you put a black person in it, it's racist.

  • Half Life Speed Video

    Quote from RD

    He propels himself off slopes. You can see it clearly in the dam area, he isnt flying straight up

    Well I didn't get to watch this one, i watched parts of the first half, but switched to full screen, and it restarted the video. but since youtube doesn't let you skip ahead and resume downloading where you skip to (unlike google video), i didn't want to rewait for the video to download.

    but the other speed demo i mentioned, there was a bit of vertical tau jumping, against a completely vertical concrete wall.

  • Half Life Speed Video

    Quote from KoKo5oVaR

    the tau jump works in solo, but not on the Z axis, so he's using the speed given by the gauss to jump on ramps. Also the video isn't in one only part but that's still amazing

    I tested the tau cannon on the first xen level. one of the low gravity levels. even with the low gravity of the level, when i jumped and released the tau charge, it barely moved me. yet the guy manages to jump 50 feet vertically into the air.

  • Half Life Speed Video

    Quote from Spellbinder

    I mean it cant be that hard to do a game fast if your allowed to jump straight through a whole level.

    That's why the whole thing is retarded. It's not a proper speed run. You're not playing the game when: you use an exploit to skip past several levels (at least with mario the warp zones were secrets); and you mod the game to change functions. See previous post for tau cannon questioning.

  • Half Life Speed Video

    does the guy in this video tau jump? I remember watching another where the guy did tau jump (bypassed the whole dam area) - but I don't remember tau jump working in single player, but just death match.

    (just checked, yeah it doesn't let you jump with it in single player, it just has a tiny bit of recoil)

  • Video of Valve's Portal

    Quote from Thrik

    Can you imagine TF2 with portals?! I can see it now: a spy sneaks into the enemy flag room, opens a portal back to his base, and floods of HWs piss through.You should put this in Fortress Forever, Defrag. xD

    Hah, TF2 was the first thing I thought of for MP with portals.

    Even better, have a spy open a portal in front of your sg, and then another on the wall facing the enemy respawn. In TFC, it's lame to build an SG outside the enemy respawn room... but with this, it'd be in your own base

  • Video of Valve's Portal

    Quote from Zete

    Lost had portal guns?

    no I was reffering to the whole orientation video thing

    So when anything makes use of an orientation video, that means they're ripping off lost? Hardly. It'd be questionable if they did the orientation video in the style of lost's. but no. Try again, Zete.