MP3 is just the format, depending on the encoder and the settings you can go from "heavily distorted crap" to "a human being can't tell it apart from a lossless source".

YouTube does AAC, and for 720p or better streams the bitrate is 192kbps audio, which is good. If you're going to rip music from YouTube videos, try to get it from 720p or better sources.

Of course, this all goes to shit if the uploader used a crappy MP3 to make a high res/bitrate video, aka fake HD.

Hm, so I just looked it up again, and apparently YouTube stores 192kbps audio for HD videos, but the one that's actually played on youtube.com is 128kbps. So make sure whatever tool you're using to download the videos before you transcode them is getting the highest quality version. You can use this tool to find out what qualities are available and download them: http://www.h3xed.com/blogmedia/youtube-info.php

I like it! Mid is complex enough that I won't comment until I've played an actual game on the map.

The only thing that stood out to me is how open the map feels if you captured mid and are doing a forward hold. As soon as you walk through one of the exits out of mid, you have a sightline to the enemy spawn. This point in particular stands out, you can watch both spawn exits, and the only way someone could catch you by surprise is by jumping over that block on the left, but you can very easily retreat back to mid:

http://i.imgur.com/s9CNvvX.png

So I guess I'd either 1) try to move those sightlines around so that an enemy team has better chances of flanking forward holders, or 2) extend the paths from spawn to mid so there's a buffer area between mid and spawn, like viaduct.

That is a lot of hope.

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time

>Random Damage Spread is off by default

nice

I guess this means you can't move dropped weapons with explosives anymore.

This "exchange" is not permanent, is it?

Also related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSZWSQSSEjE

When I started doing upside down exercises I added those wrist stretches to my daily routine and at the same time noticed how I wasn't getting wrist pain from gaming or typing anymore. Pretty useful stuff if you work *and* play in front of a computer.

If you're an idiot like me but still would like to understand what quantum physics is all about, here are four lectures on Quantum Electrodynamics (how electrons behave according to quantum mechanics) by Richard Feynman, the great explainer:

#1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvl6TBGEoO0
#2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjdbbnWsdis
#3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF25Lwt73fg
#4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtK6FdTg9HU

If you completed high school your math and physics are good enough to understand it, it's mind blowing and I really recommend watching them.

FWIW, TF2 has had CELT voice for years now. Set sv_steam_voice 1.

Could have played Raiden II on the nearest arcade instead, it's basically the same game :P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TRkEOY3_kA

I experience a similar problem when trying to play on a wireless connection and someone else is using the same network. All it takes is someone browsing YouTube or even Facebook and I start getting lag spikes like that. I now have a long ass cable crossing my living room every time I want to play video games.

So that the list of streams is instantly available when the button is clicked. I did it like you suggested at first but then every time you clicked the button the contents would change in front of you and I really disliked that.

That looks really neat. What do the stars mean? I've edited the first post to include a link to your thread too.

http://getfirefox.com :D