please not another 20+ page thread with people arguing about what the right meta is

probably skype

but i'm honestly survived that this didn't get locked before we got to the 3rd page

You need to have r_shadow 1, r_shadowmaxrendered set to something above zero (around 10 is probably a good idea), and r_shadowrendertotexture 1. Keep in mind with r_shadowmaxrendered that this is the number of shadows on screen, not in the game, so it won't count the shadows of packs across the map, so you don't need to set it very high.

It still works perfectly fine, including on granary. The only difference is that in granary, shadows are much smaller (i.e., the difference between your shadow at noon and at 7 P.M.) after the patch. This makes it less effective on granary than on other maps, but the function still exists fully.

http://dailycurrant.com/2012/11/12/obama-unveils-american-flag/

I'm on the North Shore, it's only about 20F here, but we already have about 5 inches and are supposed to get another 10.

One of the capacitors on the main board of the monitor is not working, so you need to replace it. It should be pretty easy providing that you have access to a soldering iron. This video shows how to do the repair itself. You probably don't want/know/have the patience to check all of the capacitors, so you should just replace all of the big ones. You can find the type of capacitor from the label on the side of it, and you can buy them at Digikey. If you need help with it, feel free to add me.

I have an Acer al2216W and around 6 months ago, it had a similar problem to yours, I would have to turn it on and off several times before it would get a signal. It turns out that the problem was that Acer makes (made?) everything with your typical cheap caps, so replacing all of the electrolytics fixed it. The fact that half of the google results for your monitor are repair kits consisting of caps shows that it's probably the same thing with yours.

About 30 minutes from me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoqW9NMGJqw

Nothing, but I got myself some guitar equipment off ebay.

The server to be used (yours or theirs) is decided when you agree to a match through a coin toss. If there's any dispute about scores/cheating/anything like that, you can escalate the match. Here's what the page looks like after a match, I'm not sure what it looks like to people who aren't on one of the teams, though.
http://gamebattles.majorleaguegaming.com/pc/team-fortress-2/team/ultiduo/match?id=40679053

A little too much for me, but I agree with you on older punk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtAjGVhQNJk

please don't kill me for power metal

MGE and ultiduo are being institutionalized as we speak.

For now we're just discussing 6v6, we'll talk about highlander, ultiduo, bball, mge, etc. later.

being a dick to people who are trying to do build comp tf2 is a bad idea