really nice guy - i've watched him grow since before he could even rocket jump properly *tears* he'd be a great pick up for a middle of the road open team.

Gl gilbert :D

I ended up finding a quickfire rapid on ebay for 25$ that claims to be new in the box.

I don't much care about the keyboard myself I just want it to actually work (which the lycosa never managed to do) as a keyboard and not ghost - which is what my 1999 dell keyboard is currently doing - it's so hard to play when you can't jump if you're moving diagonally lol. If this new one turns out badly I'll just send it back and pick up one of the 9$ ones recommended above and be even more bitter about the current electronics marketplace lol.

When a friend asked me if I'd preorder if he gave me the money for the game I said

"In a few years, you'll learn what I have. Once you get old enough you'll see that everything you once loved will be turned to shit, absolute shit, and this game will probably come very close to meeting that mark."

I already swore off EA after Dragon Age Two literally mugged me of 60$ and laughed about it. Although I hear the head of Maxis lost his job over this - prolly punishing the wrong guy considering how EA does payment structure and demands on-site input into the game, but they're trying to satisfy somebody I guess.

My DA does this from time to time as well in that it'll just randomly scroll. Oddly enough, it doesn't seem to do this while I'm browsing - or even playing other games - only tf2 (I use the mouse wheel to switch to primary and melee). I've always theorized that it's some issue with the drivers and TF2 itself or the way the device detects motion from the wheel.

Although I do have to say one of the side mouse buttons broke almost immediately after my 1 year warranty was up :(

Being a bit older I still remember seeing the advertisements for the virtual boy and our local wal-mart even had one, for months.

Hopefully this will turn out better :D But yeah, motion sensing head movement for rocket jumping and air strafing could be crazy, not to mention ultra-high sens users getting motion sickness with mouse look lol.

Fixed now methinks

As far as that backpack sal, here is a random idea:

Use fully charged as a venue for the distribution of said backpack - x amount of $'s donated to the indiegogo gives you y # of tickets. Then, publicize the fully charged well in advance so that various donators can be online and a more-or-less public record of their having won something can be created, so that if they're not online some trustworthy third party (or group of them) can be in charge of distributing the l3wts to those who weren't present for the charged episode (which would more generally be about hyping the donation drive for i49).

It'd keep your actual work to a minimum beyond finding aforementioned trustworthy third party to hunt people down after they've won. We could also post the record of folks having won somewhere on the site.

It'd certainly generate interest from outside of the comp community if the items are good enough.

I know my old pub community (sourceOP) generated hundreds and hundreds of dollars just by raffling off simple misc items and low-grade unusuals at 5$ a ticket.

I'll be with you guys shortly, my keyboard broke and that's set me back a few days lol.

History professor and writer - although I dabble in poetry and fiction too. I got all sorts of awards for the crappy, absolutely crappy, stuff I wrote in HS - TY indiana state government sponsored "contests" lol.

Oh yeah, professional revolutionary would be nice too - but I'm gonna rate the probability of that happening as being much, much lower, than tf2 taking off as a major e-sport.

Yeah my back up at the moment is a dell keyboard I got in 1999-2001, not exactly sure where my other random keyboards have run off to - probably casualties of moving. Unfortunately it's so old it can't handle pressing multiple things at once, so jumping over props while moving diagonally is impossible :( Ty for the suggestions I found the one hooky suggested for 2$ used - may as well buy 5 at that point. If that doesn't pan out I'll pry hope for a 25$ stock to carry me through to brighter days as suggested lol.

My incredibly overpriced, buggy Lycosa finally gave up the ghost and is now in many pieces after it was summarily executed for causing my HDD to be unable to boot due to its brokenness. So now I'm in the market for a cheap gaming keyboard.

Basically all I want is to be able to press more than 2-3 keys at a time and have input occur, media keys (skip track etc) would be nice too. I figured you folks here would know more about this sort of thing than I do so if anybody has any recommendations that'd be great.

I'm looking to keep it under 25-30$.

I've found a few on amazon that fit that bill, but may as well see if somebody has something else to suggest.

Yeah basically what i get by dropping to dx 8.5 from 9 is the random drops from 300 to 50-60 are instead drops from 300+ to 70-80, which are still annoying and impair my ability to play.

I switched from dx 9 to dx8.5 and it seems to be better - it still drops down but it's less noticeable :(

A short term fix :(

I haven't finished Witcher 1 yet, and haven't played 2 yet (tf2 addiction.....)

But Witcher one was AWESOME up until the final segment where they were clearly rushed for time since the project had ran out of money. Not to mention that the developer actually likes the game - so they do nice things for free like adding facial expressions and body language (bethesda can't even do that after all these years of 60$ games), free content, more dialogue, better voice actors...

Oh wait, they do what a company SHOULD do for its customers - that is - care about their product - and be proud of it.