Gratz guys! Sadly, I will not c u @ lan. But I'll be casting late Saturday / Sunday, so you better make it to finals.

20,000

I've only seen one public interview by Elizabeth Warren, and I think it was after she had begun campaigning for senate. She sounded full of it - most of what I heard was political speak, and not even good political speak. Just ignoring questions and vomiting talking points.

But she'll probably vote for stuff I want in the Senate so that's cool. :/

Ruskeydoo.

I thought the Thrawn trilogy was alright, but I haven't read it for like 10 years.

The show is tonight. Not Wednesday. So stop being disappointed.

You got a spare upvote?

http://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/12cddw/8_hours_from_this_post_fully_charged_the_tf2/

Do it!

"shave my head"

http://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/120ly3/fully_charged_the_tf2_podcast_starts_6_hours/

it really ~helps me out~

How did you create the survey?

I have my mic set to 60-70 range, tf2 to 4, mumble to whatever the current max is. It sounds like each computer/setup will be slightly different though, so you should record a couple of sound tests on your casts before you start in earnest to make sure the levels are OK. Obviously, if you're using those settings and they don't work, then bring your mic volume down and your mumble volume up. It's all experimentation until you get it right.

http://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/11mr9s/9_hours_from_this_post_fully_charged_episode_5/

You can upvote if you want to.

You can leave your friends behind.

Because your friends don't vote and if they don't vote, well,

They're no friends of mine.

I have to adjust my mic volume back to 70 every time I cast because other programs keep fucking with it.

My game volume, by contrast, is 4 in the Windows audio mixer. Out of 100.

Had a question from Larz, whom I am working with on STV demo playback capabilities. It goes like this:

So there are three spectator modes (1st person, 3rd person, 3rd person free-flying). The keyboard command to cycle them is the space-bar, the console command is "spec_mode". However, this simply cycles them in order (all demos start in the 3rd mode, so I tell the demo to cycle once more to be in first person). What I'm looking for is some sort of console command that would allow me to specify which exact spec_mode to switch to. I've seen the console code "cl_spec_mode" = "4", but I really have no clue what this command does (maybe this is it?).
If I were able to specify, it would open up many new doors into how much we can do with this. For example, if I could tell it "cl_spec_mode 1; spec_player "mix^ TLR"" at tick 12999, then it would automatically give me the exact camera I want at the specific time. AND you would be able to do some of your own camera work. Lets say at 12000 you wanted to check on what the enemy engineer is doing (something I may have forgotten to do). You could switch over to the engie, or you could go into 3rd person camera to explain the map, or you could do whatever you felt like on the fly. Then, 999 ticks later, the demo would pull you away from whatever you were doing to the first person TLR cam.

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TLDR: Is there a console command that is the functional equivalent of the spacebar for spectating, or one that can specify 1st or 3rd person instantly?