people still believe that origin is any worse than any other distribution service?

Did a search and noticed the forums seemed to be lacking a laptop thread.

For Christmas I plan on purchasing a laptop for less than $600. I have absolutely zero interest in playing games on it, besides a bit of minecraft here and there, so a videocard isn't required.

I would like for it to be a minimum of 1600x900 resolution, 1920 preferred. At least 4gb of RAM.

I've been having some trouble finding a high resolution laptop with decent quality, but within my price range... so hopefully someone can help.

edit: http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/enigmaIV/
if anyone can find a similar US site, that'd be pretty sweet. they only supports some European countries.

aren't those high FPS servers pretty much a scam in source engine games? they once capped the FPS to 66, not sure if that's been reversed or whatever.

I like it, but i'm a pretty minimalist person to begin with.

fully expecting a jump vid including this.

I've been using CM10 for a while but this thread has made me want to change it up a bit.

Looking at CMA + Leankernal. anyone have experience with these? Galaxy Nexus

Can't get the IPL stream to load above 480p anyway. Just gets stuck at "Catching up..."

A nice explanation of it I read is "DayZ without the zombies".

I expect servers performance to be better due to the lack of AI, gonna have to check this out today.

Story of a Sentry took too long to get to the point, I think. It also has some messups in animation. Bad Medicine has the same concept, better facial expressions and animation and by far the best camera work (imo), and all in less time than any of the other videos.

edit: this guy put it together better than I did
http://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/142ttg/tf2_blog_the_second_annual_saxxy_awards_start_in/c79f2pc

Looking to get my mom (pack a day smoker) one or two of these but after some quick googling i've been reading articles saying that e-cigs aren't as healthy as once thought.

"They found that the use of e-cigarettes causes an instant increase in airway resistance that lasts for 10 minutes in a majority of participants." Research funded by Marlboro
(Study of 34 people, so who knows how much are in the "majority")

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/05/study-finds-e-cigarettes-_n_1187166.html
http://www.inquisitr.com/320989/bad-news-quitters-electronic-cigarettes-harm-the-lungs/

All of the articles I find on google seem to be referring to the same study. Anyway, my question is have any of you felt this? Would you still suggest using them?

the game is based on vehicle zergs.

whichever team has the most tanks/aircraft wins, the only time infantry can actually turn the tide of the battle are in the larger bases (biodomes and the like) and they have no interest in changing that about the game.

i also heard there was a bug that caused vehicles to become invincible, lol.

and your 550 should be just fine assuming you have a good CPU.

edit: make sure you're educated about the best infantry clan in the game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5fvqca8h9U&list=ULD5fvqca8h9U&feature=player_detailpage#t=118s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmhQfRbLSfU&feature=channel&list=UL

dagger 1 to dagger 7, come in

it's a conspiracy

i did the writing on that image, so don't think solid is super egotistical calling himself "one of the most known demomen to have played the game".

edit: anyway, he sent me a PM claiming that he is actually "foogz" (i guess his CS hero), that his name is not nick (he changed his steam profile, but don't be fooled) and we had the wrong profile. we found another VAC banned account of his with the same name. :3

i don't think you're stupid, anarchy.

but yeah, I forgot who said it but you don't want to go cheap on your monitor... you stare at it every day, why not go big?

The Benq one has the best reviews from what i've heard.