So Morwanneg, answer this one for me: if Vulcan thought they looked similar because of several factors, but the only thing you noticed was their skin colour, what does that say about you?

This is literally better than the Pyro update.

THIS JUST IN - VIDEO CARDS ARE NOT ONLY USED TO PLAY VIDEO GAMES

This is like saying a bulldozer is overpriced because it can't do 200 km/h. This product is not for you, but that isn't a valid argument for it being overpriced.

Technically also incorrect by convention, but the Associated Press decided to standardise this spelling a few years ago because they're incompetent. More correct would be "e-sports", because at least it follows the precedent set by words such as "e-mail" and "e-commerce", which were hyphenated to clarify the pronunciation. But if you want to be really anal, it should be either "electronic sports" or "ES," not a mix of long and short form. So basically no matter how you spell it, there are so many conflicting rules that someone can always claim that you're wrong on some basis.

The English language: pull something out of your arse and force everyone else to memorise your shite.

Someone asked me this question just now and I remembered reading this thread and then realised I forgot to reply to it...

Your keyboard is set to a scheme which includes what's known as "dead keys". If you press the tilde, accent grave, apostrophe, quotation marks or accent circonflexe key, it will not immediately type `, ~, ', " or ^. It will instead hold the character until you press a key again, and then(if possible) combine it with that key. For example, an apostrophe followed by a vowel will result in a vowel with an accent aigu on it, or in the case of the letter C, a C with a cedille(áéíóýúç).

Because of this, if you don't press a vowel after pressing the tilde key, Windows actually tries to "type the accent grave" again(for example, accent grave followed by Q results in `q), which closes your console because it is being registered as you typing another accent grave(but it's actually Windows doing it). My guess as to why it's working in the main menu is because you're pressing a button instead of pressing ` when you open it from the menu.

Possible solutions are: using a keyboard scheme which doesn't have dead keys(yours is probably set to US-International, which does have dead keys in it), changing your console toggle bind to a button which is not one of the five aforementioned characters, or simply typing a vowel and deleting it every time you open the console. Hope that helps.

http://www.teamfortress.tv/7598/tf2-benchmarks/?page=15#430

It's pretty much the same as Kaby Lake. 8700k can even be worse due to Windows 10 thread scheduling, although something might have been done about that recently. Good luck finding one though, they were out of stock at most if not all major retailers last time I checked.

I wonder if Valve would be able to tell the difference between "give demo a glock" and "give pyro a lightning gun". Would they think both are memes? Both serious suggestions? The wrong way around?

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The point is that when you go to a restaurant and you're given a soup which consists solely of boiled water, you would not think it's delicious; you'd leave without paying because you can just put the kettle on at home. There is a difference between minimalism and non-existence. It's also not impressive to tell someone something in a vague and laborious manner which requires all sorts of background checking, that's just failing at getting your message across.

In the end, meaning is different for everyone(everything in the universe means fuck all until you decide for yourself that it has meaning), but within the framework of our society, if you put something on display or up for sale in a public place, you do have to try to communicate with that very same public in their framework. And even if you fail to do so, people might still appreciate your artistry without comprehending your message. But there is very little artistry in one stroke of paint or monochrome surface. This is also why someone can think a painting is ugly, but still appreciate it. With some modern art, if you don't understand the message there also isn't any artistry to fall back on that you could still appreciate. Hence the strong reactions people have to it compared to older art.

This doesn't mean that you shouldn't enjoy a monochrome surface. You should just be cognisant of the reason why the vast majority of the public is not in a position to enjoy it and perhaps shouldn't be expected to put in the effort to be able to at the very least appreciate, let alone enjoy, what the artist was trying to communicate in a highly abstract and arguably incompetent manner.

https://clips.twitch.tv/DeterminedConfidentWeaselBibleThump

Iron Maiden's Rock in Rio.

It's all very exciting until you realise that the grand finals of the top division were contested by what is essentially a mix team and a team who never play outside of match days.

@Setsul

On a slightly related note, do you have any idea how long the input lag is on a modern 144Hz display, say something like a BenQ XL2411Z? I'm specifically referring to the gap between the display receiving the signal and the moment the pixels begin changing on the panel.

Or to phrase it differently: If you turned on V-sync, how much of the input lag would actually be additional, and how much of that lag would you be experiencing even with V-sync turned off?

I think there is one specific case in which it can be acceptable to spank a child and that is to instill fear where there is none, but there should be.

For example, a daughter of a friend of mine would bolt off onto the street and it had been explained to her in various ways that she could be hit by a car and die. A lot of people talked to her at length(her parents, grandparents, friends of the parents like myself), punished her by taking things away every time she did it, etc. We even threw a melon in front of a friend's janky old car to demonstrate what would happen to her. Eventually she was nearly run over and we thought she learnt her lesson, but the next week she did it again and my friends(the parents that is) had decided that if she did it again they would spank her just to the point where she would fear the spanking because she didn't fear being run over. She never did it again and never had to be spanked again.

While this may seem crude, I think that sometimes as a parent you are essentially choosing between letting your child kill themselves or instilling what is basically a "replacement fear" because their brain somehow can not (yet) make the link between action and consequence in spite of exhaustive efforts to get them to understand the risk. If you're feeling more angry than worried when you feel the need to spank your child, something is wrong with you as a parent. Beating a child is always wrong, in my opinion. You don't need to hurt them; just scare them enough to save them.

I think it would be interesting if teleporter exits built near-instantaneously and had entry portals in each spawn so they don't become irrelevant when you spawn further back or forward. As a trade-off, they would only get three teleports before the exit blows up and upgrading to level two and three would add three extra teleports each time and only marginally decrease the spin-up time(10-8-6 seconds for example, instead of the 10-5-3 I think it is currently). You could even leave teleporter entrances as an extra option so you can still do sneaky things, both the entrance and spawn portal would just lead to the same exit.

But I think Zesty is right in saying that you would have to fundamentally change the class and consequently piss off a lot of players to make the class more interesting and less annoying to play against outside of last. This would probably involve making it worse at last defence in some way or another, which kind of destroys its specific niche.