It's really helpful for embedding simple grammar and vocab. I've used it a lot this year for German (doing year 12) and it's really helped me with just remembering how to conjugate verbs and stuff (I barely knew any German at the start of the year, don't ask). The main advantage is the instant feedback which is really useful, I've found its lessons are also structured quite well. Best used in tandem with other things though, like classes or books or videos etc

That spy's name is classy

Tf2's community might be but that says nothing about tftv's. Anyway try chris' net settings as posted above. They'll probably help.

Stabby's pixelated stuff is due to him forcing his graphics card to run on a lower level of detail, not any cvars as far as I know.

Someone give the man a hard drive, please

I had this myself once it's actually an option in mumble which i accidentally clicked on. Don't know how to deal with it properly but i just uninstalled mumble and deleted all its registry entries then reinstalled and the settings were back to default.

Turn shadows off?

Holy shit that's awesome
I dont understand a word though haha

Also this thread is pretty cool, really interesting to read

Roamer airshots and scout 3ks all the way. I much prefer being able to see something cool happening even if the casters miss it than to just have to work it out from the kill feed. I kind of feel like that at least one of the casters should somehow be watching the same povs as the camera guy, probably not possible to sync that though which is a pity.

The thing is that the people with salaries of $100,000 will still have access to things if they aren't free (generally people who really 'can't manage money' spend it too much, so they're quite capable of spending a bit more for an education). It seems a bit weird to talk about salaried workers in a discussion about tuition fees though, they're not normally the ones who need tertiary education because they've already had it... I do see where you're coming from a bit more now but in reality, I think, a salaried worker who just for example pisses it all away (alcohol) will still be able to have access to something as important to them as education, whereas it's just not an option for people from a financially disadvantaged background.

I'm not actually American, I'm Australian, but there are plenty of similarities in the systems. For example:

This is why our tertiary fees are growing :| it's going to cost me in the tens to hundreds of thousands over 3-5 years to go to uni and our government wants to increase it. They're also talking about forcing those with 'outstanding' student loans to 'repay' the debt even though if they haven't already then that means they've never earned enough for it to start being taken out of their salary on top of their tax (it's a bit complicated but basically they're targeting stay at home parents and the poor and disabled) so apologies if this is a bit of a raw subject for me lol

On the other hand free tuition might be one of the reasons my German penfriend didn't get offered a place at a uni this year or last year :S At least one of the advantages of our system is that basically everyone gets offered a place somewhere, it just might be at a shitty uni. If only because of the fees they can squeeze out of us.

Apologies for the ramble

So fuck all the poor people eh, they deserve it because 'they are bad at managing money'.

Maybe when every job done is fairly reimbursed then you can make that argument, but for the moment all you're doing is buying into the usual crap that unpaid labor (like all the housework my and likely your parents did while bringing us up) is worthless. Sorry but um no. Likewise none of this accounts for an uneven distribution of opportunity or any prejudices that come into play even when you are being paid (eg women getting paid something like 78% of what men are in the American workforce).

For example my mother's actually damn good at managing money, she does all the finances and juggles all the balance transfers etc etc, and yet because she stayed home to look after her kids her superannuation is nonexistant while my dad has a few hundred grand. Is that fair? Does she now deserve to have to work past retirement age because, well, because she was good at managing money?

It's pretty obvious by now that this capitalist system is inequitable, so rather than blame the victims perhaps you could consider what you could do to change it. The future Albert Einsteins and Isaac Newtons from the gutter and the Third World will thank you.

It's similar down here to in the US except the politicians who are just now deregulating the fees which will push some up to ~$200k over the four or five years all had the benefit of free tertiary education in the seventies, so I find it hard to sympathise with that point of view. It's like they don't realise that this is exactly what taxes were invented to pay for.

So bonobo and sheep are taking a break?
sheep trying to sell all his tf2 items scares me, is he quitting? :S

I don't know if you're allowed to do short stories, but if so you could try Peter Carey's collection, hell one of the stories in there is called American Dreams! We studied it this year and it was one of the main themes throughout all the stories, although he does come at it from a 'minor country's' perspective (Australian). I think it would definitely make for an interesting angleif you're allowed.

Have to disagree that Gatsby is bad just because it uses plain language, there's a lot of depth to be found beneath its apparent simplicity.

I play tf2 on two separate computers and the favorites lists are different. I do have the cloud save off though. And my favorites rarely wipe, it only happens to me like once every three months