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If you meant texture detail instead, it's "mat_picmip 2".

The body is (matte) plastic and from the few times I've used one, I found it quite solid. The caps pop off with a key cap remover and have standard plus-shaped stems. See here for a relative sizing chart.

The closest switches to blacks when it comes to actuation force are blues(one-sixth lighter than blacks). They are a completely different switch, though; they have a tactile bump and a rather loud click on actuation. The closest thing to blacks when it comes to feeling are red switches, which are a quarter lighter than black switches, but linear.

The editing on the simultaneous airshot was fabulous.

TF2 ≠ GTA5. TF2 barely uses your GPU and mostly uses the CPU. You can check various threads on these forums or use Google to check for yourself. I know it's counter-intuitive, but it is true for TF2.

The results of your Googling are correct; AIO coolers do not perform any better than any decent air cooler, so you're set.

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I think a lot of people underestimate the complexity of decision making and communication in team games while you have to partake in the game at the same time. You must constantly execute basic mechanical tasks to perfection, keep an eye on the enemies', your team mates' and your own state and position, choose the corresponding strategy for that information set and accurately but minimalisticly convey that strategy to your team mates in due time while keeping in mind the fact that your team mates might only be giving you partial information about the part of the game you can't directly observe.

On top of that, in a lot of games you also need to constantly have a back-up plan in case random mechanics(crits, for example) or human chance interaction(for example, missing all your shots because your opponent just happens to randomly elect to move in the evasive direction every single time) end up screwing you over, even if you chose the correct strategy at the time.

And it goes without mentioning that before the game even starts, you need to put in time to learn to recognise the consequences of all of these different parameters in the first place. This is what makes some in-game leaders absolute geniuses, in my opinion.

Questions for Clockwork:

• What do you think are the main things developers of FPS games need to keep at the backs of their heads at all times during development to ensure the game will be an interesting competitive prospect for players and spectators alike?
• Similarly, what do you think their update cycle, if any, should be like in order to maintain the interest of both viewers and competitors? Additionally, what types of updates should they steer clear of as to not ruin game balance or make changes so drastic that they alienate the by then established audience and playerbase?
• If you were forced to choose between the two, would you prefer a game with solid and enjoyable base mechanics or great strategic depth?

Thank you for doing these, Sideshow & guests.

Hugges meant pressing enter after that so the console will print your actual DirectX level, which according to them will still be 9.0 regardless of setting it to 9.1. I believe if you just type a command in console, it will just autofill to the last value entered for the command(and mat_dxlevel is probably in your launch options).

That is exactly what I was thinking, yes. You could even use strike-through on the loser's name if the grey doesn't look grey enough because of how thin the font is and how 'pastel' the background is, I guess. I think all of the panels and animations look and work great, I wouldn't waste too much more of your time on them; the whole production quality is A++ in my opinion.

I personally think it would be best to forego the boxes and use the side panel from the first screenshot(as you're doing currently). I would however take out the "Match Winner" header and just grey out the loser and colour-highlight the winner under the "Match Results" header. Put the map scores below it and remove the "Final Score" header, but leaving a large enough empty space between the team names and the map scores. This will also leave you more space in case you get best-of-5 matches going the distance in the future.

It seems fine as it is, though.

Combo jacks are getting more and more common on laptops due to Applerexia nervosa. Just look at a lot of the ultrabooks by Asus, Lenovo, Toshiba or Dell. Apple has even patented a 3.5mm jack which has the top cut off(so it's sort of a D-shape) to ensure the audio jack isn't going to be limiting the thinness of their mobile devices any time soon.

@OP These same splitters also exist in a USB form, where you just plug a little block into a USB port and it then has headphone and microphone 3.5 female ports.

Can this include uploading VODs to YouTube, please? I missed practically the entire last two seasons of ESEA because I never had the time to watch any of it before the Twitch VODs had auto-deleted and a lot of them(especially the play-offs) aren't on YouTube.

Go to the first page of this thread, click on the link under "FAQ", scroll down to "Customisation" and follow bullet point 6. I'm obviously not going to paste the answer here. Congratulations on uselessly typing in your question instead of just doing the reading in the first place. Expending more energy by being lazy, what a fascinating creature you are to manage such an almost paradoxical feat. :0)

I can't imagine how it must have felt for rocket engineers like Werner von Braun to send off years and years of their blood, sweat and tears; their life's work. Hoping that you've done your job and it and the valuable people and things it is carrying will be safe, like letting your child travel abroad on their own for the first time. That feeling of it completing the journey and returning to you safely must be something else, especially if you have shared all the work, worry and delight with so many other, like-minded people for such a long period in your lives. This could be a huge step for space exploration.