Someone asked me this question just now and I remembered reading this thread and then realised I forgot to reply to it...

Your keyboard is set to a scheme which includes what's known as "dead keys". If you press the tilde, accent grave, apostrophe, quotation marks or accent circonflexe key, it will not immediately type `, ~, ', " or ^. It will instead hold the character until you press a key again, and then(if possible) combine it with that key. For example, an apostrophe followed by a vowel will result in a vowel with an accent aigu on it, or in the case of the letter C, a C with a cedille(áéíóýúç).

Because of this, if you don't press a vowel after pressing the tilde key, Windows actually tries to "type the accent grave" again(for example, accent grave followed by Q results in `q), which closes your console because it is being registered as you typing another accent grave(but it's actually Windows doing it). My guess as to why it's working in the main menu is because you're pressing a button instead of pressing ` when you open it from the menu.

Possible solutions are: using a keyboard scheme which doesn't have dead keys(yours is probably set to US-International, which does have dead keys in it), changing your console toggle bind to a button which is not one of the five aforementioned characters, or simply typing a vowel and deleting it every time you open the console. Hope that helps.

http://www.teamfortress.tv/7598/tf2-benchmarks/?page=15#430

It's pretty much the same as Kaby Lake. 8700k can even be worse due to Windows 10 thread scheduling, although something might have been done about that recently. Good luck finding one though, they were out of stock at most if not all major retailers last time I checked.

I wonder if Valve would be able to tell the difference between "give demo a glock" and "give pyro a lightning gun". Would they think both are memes? Both serious suggestions? The wrong way around?

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Kaidus

The point is that when you go to a restaurant and you're given a soup which consists solely of boiled water, you would not think it's delicious; you'd leave without paying because you can just put the kettle on at home. There is a difference between minimalism and non-existence. It's also not impressive to tell someone something in a vague and laborious manner which requires all sorts of background checking, that's just failing at getting your message across.

In the end, meaning is different for everyone(everything in the universe means fuck all until you decide for yourself that it has meaning), but within the framework of our society, if you put something on display or up for sale in a public place, you do have to try to communicate with that very same public in their framework. And even if you fail to do so, people might still appreciate your artistry without comprehending your message. But there is very little artistry in one stroke of paint or monochrome surface. This is also why someone can think a painting is ugly, but still appreciate it. With some modern art, if you don't understand the message there also isn't any artistry to fall back on that you could still appreciate. Hence the strong reactions people have to it compared to older art.

This doesn't mean that you shouldn't enjoy a monochrome surface. You should just be cognisant of the reason why the vast majority of the public is not in a position to enjoy it and perhaps shouldn't be expected to put in the effort to be able to at the very least appreciate, let alone enjoy, what the artist was trying to communicate in a highly abstract and arguably incompetent manner.

https://clips.twitch.tv/DeterminedConfidentWeaselBibleThump

Iron Maiden's Rock in Rio.

It's all very exciting until you realise that the grand finals of the top division were contested by what is essentially a mix team and a team who never play outside of match days.

@Setsul

On a slightly related note, do you have any idea how long the input lag is on a modern 144Hz display, say something like a BenQ XL2411Z? I'm specifically referring to the gap between the display receiving the signal and the moment the pixels begin changing on the panel.

Or to phrase it differently: If you turned on V-sync, how much of the input lag would actually be additional, and how much of that lag would you be experiencing even with V-sync turned off?

I think there is one specific case in which it can be acceptable to spank a child and that is to instill fear where there is none, but there should be.

For example, a daughter of a friend of mine would bolt off onto the street and it had been explained to her in various ways that she could be hit by a car and die. A lot of people talked to her at length(her parents, grandparents, friends of the parents like myself), punished her by taking things away every time she did it, etc. We even threw a melon in front of a friend's janky old car to demonstrate what would happen to her. Eventually she was nearly run over and we thought she learnt her lesson, but the next week she did it again and my friends(the parents that is) had decided that if she did it again they would spank her just to the point where she would fear the spanking because she didn't fear being run over. She never did it again and never had to be spanked again.

While this may seem crude, I think that sometimes as a parent you are essentially choosing between letting your child kill themselves or instilling what is basically a "replacement fear" because their brain somehow can not (yet) make the link between action and consequence in spite of exhaustive efforts to get them to understand the risk. If you're feeling more angry than worried when you feel the need to spank your child, something is wrong with you as a parent. Beating a child is always wrong, in my opinion. You don't need to hurt them; just scare them enough to save them.

I think it would be interesting if teleporter exits built near-instantaneously and had entry portals in each spawn so they don't become irrelevant when you spawn further back or forward. As a trade-off, they would only get three teleports before the exit blows up and upgrading to level two and three would add three extra teleports each time and only marginally decrease the spin-up time(10-8-6 seconds for example, instead of the 10-5-3 I think it is currently). You could even leave teleporter entrances as an extra option so you can still do sneaky things, both the entrance and spawn portal would just lead to the same exit.

But I think Zesty is right in saying that you would have to fundamentally change the class and consequently piss off a lot of players to make the class more interesting and less annoying to play against outside of last. This would probably involve making it worse at last defence in some way or another, which kind of destroys its specific niche.

Is there anything Beater doesn't do for this community?

If you can get it to work and you don't mind atrocious graphics, Soulbringer is a forgotten treasure. Excellent voice acting, quirky combat system and controls(in a good way), great lore, very fitting music and sound design. It's one of those games which would have been a classic if the publisher didn't rush the devs during the last 25% of development. I always felt they cut off 20% of the end-game even though the storyline was already written, just because they weren't given more time. The story still makes perfect sense though. There are also some bugs and oversights as a result of this rushed late development, but they can all be overcome in five seconds if you know what to do(feel free to PM me if the game breaks).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyPlECHiXcM

Aaaaaaaaaaaand then it was revealed it will be exclusive to the Windows Store. Anyone want some sulphuric acid to drink with that?

There will be duel, but we have no idea if it's going to involve the champion selection thing that's in the beta or if it's going to be a different system. The team tournament for this year(it's been a different game mode almost every year) is going to be 4v4 Sacrifice, which is the new CDTF(capture & defend the flag) mode where you get to pick which "base" you want to be yours at the first "flag" capture.

I hope the players enjoy lobbing wet toilet paper at each other, because that's what shooting rockets feels like in Quake Champions at the moment. That game is still very far from being in a competitively playable state with such high stakes. And what's worse is that they've now given themselves a deadline to release it this month so the players can get some practice in(Quakecon is end of August this year). That gives them about three weeks to fix some relatively major technical problems. Yikes²