You filthy peasants think you can get high quality audio out of CD with a sampling frequency of only 44.1kHz? SACD is the only choice for the truly discerning listener 8)

On-topic: I like that this event promotes visiting and supporting your local music store, but I don't think I'd ever buy vinyl. It's unwieldy, non-portable, expensive, and fraught with potential mechanical issues (groove wear, keeping the surfaces clean)...

Solid, I dig it. Got an old-timey gospel feel that I'm down with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98hfR8eZrjY

Wtf, do you switch resolution every time you switch class?

From what I figured out last night, the browser the MOTD uses is at least superficially distinct from the Steam overlay browser in the sense that it has its own cookies/cache (persistent between TF2 launches). I would bet that they use the same browser/rendering engine, but I haven't done enough testing to conclusively determine this.

As rays said, this is still a big ugly hack and we haven't fully determined its viability. That being said, I am more than willing to discuss it in greater depth with knowledgable parties who might be able to help us advance this proof of concept.

Lending my runescape friend 9 million gp and he blew it all on runes and never paid a penny back

I also had an idea to make a hud mod with tf2center support built in. However, tf2center doesn't have any readily-available APIs for polling lobby data/joining lobbies AFAIK, so this would be difficult to do without some TLC from the tf2center devs.

A few things I do to mitigate latency issues with my wireless:

1) Enable QoS
2) Forward ports for TF2 (if there's an option for it, be sure to set TF2's ports to "high" priority)
3) Use inSSIDer to make sure I'm not on a congested channel with all my neighbors

I find that if I'm suddenly getting terrible performance, it's because too many of the neighborhood routers have hopped into my channel. Changing it usually mitigates this, but this probably isn't viable if you live in a dense area (dorm/apartment).

You can also look into getting a dual band router/wireless card that both support the far less crowded 5GHz band. Beware that these have terrible range though.

In the article, they note that Steam has only had the "Hours played" profile stat since 2009. Most likely everybody got their fill of HL2 long before then and hasn't played since.

Ars just posted a very interesting article on stats they generated by scraping Steam user profiles:
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/04/introducing-steam-gauge-ars-reveals-steams-most-popular-games/

(tl;dr) Here are the TF2 related charts:

http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/steammeter-graphs-0404.003.png

http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/steammeter-graphs-0404.004.png

http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/stacked-hours-correct.001.png

I think it's interesting that TF2 makes up ~8% of total hours of all games played on Steam, but it doesn't even show up on the median number of hours per owner chart. This means that most of the hours played in TF2 are contributed by a relatively small number of players with *lots* of playtime. This is hardly surprising, but a very interesting insight to be statistically proven.

You might try typing unbindall in console and then going under keyboard options and hit "use defaults". This will make sure none of your keys are bound to anything funky.

Also, look in your configs and make sure nothing weird is happening in there either.

1920x1080 is 16:9 aspect ratio

1024x768 is 4:3 aspect ratio

Unless you want to stretch the image, it is impossible to get rid of the black bars.

It seems to me that the ban stems more from the concern that people can and have used it troll and waste a slot in a dm server.

Risk of Rain is $4 for today on GoG

http://www.gog.com/game/risk_of_rain

rayspugs

Thanks for the detailed reply, I appreciate it! I'll go on geekhack and make a thread there.

I use my computer peripherals a ton, so I'm not fazed by spending a bit extra up front to get the keyboard best suited to my needs. I'll probably start looking into keyboards with topre switches and see if there's one that suits me.