There is no reason for anyone to get a $100 desktop mic for gaming/mumble because quite simply, it won't sound as good as a decent mic positioned close to your mouth(hint: modmic). The modmic is quite a fine product, it sounds fine on motherboard audio, and sounds incredible if you happen to have a dedicated sound card. Unless you want to have a big white ball sitting in your face while you play, buy the modmic. You won't regret it.

I think i49 is the one everybody agreed on.

How about we don't say anything about which map is better than the others until we PLAY THEM. We make the same mistake every single season, think we can do it right this time?

I think whales have been helping out with the newbie mixes doing some mentoring and other things to help bring in donations, not sure what Chess Club is up to. Last I heard, it looks like it should be a four team LAN.

I just ran through it and it's very compact, which is GREAT! It looks like a lot of fun but as always we won't really know until we playtest it. Hopefully it plays as well as it looks. :D

EDIT: There is a LOT of ammo around the point and I'm not sure how that will effect defending. There are two large, two medium, and two small packs all really close to the point.

Also, people need to realize that an expensive mix like the snowball won't sound nearly as good as it should(the modmic would most likely sound much better in a computer gaming scenario) unless the person speaking is really close to the snowball, i.e. leaning into it.

The modmic sounds incredible when plugged into a soundcard. This is an example of when I had it plugged into my old Creative X-Fi Extreme Music: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5977077/modmic.wav

And this is an example of it plugged into my motherboard audio(my soundcard died): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5977077/modmic_onboard_audio.wav

One of my favorite people to have met online. He's a really nice guy(even though he thinks he's a jerk) that can shoot things in TF2 quite well. Best of luck Aaron!

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It's a dirty mirror.

I couldn't figure out how to smile in a mirror picture so I gave up. Hello friends.

http://i.imgur.com/0nFkO.jpg

I didn't know there was a difference, sorry!

I found it easier to momentarily bind mouse1 to "+attack;bot_refill". Every time you click to shoot, it resets the bots' health and ammo.

bind mouse1 "+attack;bot_refill"

I just picked up a CM Storm Xornet from Amazon for $24. Initially the mouse was garbage because the liftoff distance was unbearably high, but that was fixed with a firmware update. So far it seems to be working flawlessly with the newer firmware, and I haven't had any of the issues people were having with the CM Storm Spawn and Mumble(maybe it has to do with the drivers for that mouse - the Xornet is driverless).

Also for reference, I picked up this mouse to substitute for my G400 while I wait for a new one from Logitech(apparently it's fairly common for the mouse to start disconnecting randomly). I may end up staying with the Xornet because I find it super comfy to use and I haven't seen any issues since I swapped the firmware.

http://www.amazon.com/CM-Storm-Xornet-Switches-SGM-2001-BLON1/dp/B005TEPB74/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1351300003&sr=8-2&keywords=cm+storm

Hey Saltysally1, when Rick said he was going to his car to charge his phone he was implying that he owns a cigarette lighter powered charger for said phone. With a device like that, someone could use the battery in their car(lots of power) to charge the battery in their phone(does not use a lot of power) many many times. Hope this helps!

I opened this thread right as this song started. Surreal.

It sucks that so many people are going to be out of power for such a long time, but it's also pretty amazing to think that even with all this devastation very few people lost their lives(proportionally compared to the amount of damage done). Stay safe friends.