Originally posted by omegaman7:

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I have an unnatural amount of patience. LOL! Heck, Dialup hardly bothered me. Though dont get me wrong, I'd never go back LOL!

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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It will probably take about 15-20 years before we can emulate the PS3. No I'm not joking. Right now only BlueGene and whatever the current #1 cascade system is could do it.

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Haha using dial-up is akin to watching paint dry imo.

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Mine's only a very rough guess, but it's taken 7 years to get convincing emulation of the Gamecube,

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Originally posted by Sammorris:

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It will probably take about 15-20 years before we can emulate the PS3. No I'm not joking.

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Originally posted by Red_Maw:

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Didn't mean for it to come across as skepticism, sorry about that. I know what you're talking about though, AI isn't the best way to describe it but like you said it's hard to put the concept into words, especially since we hardly understand it lol.
If you continue to pursue this I'd be very interested in any progress you may make.

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Originally posted by sam a long friggin time ago:

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If a case is TRULY partitioned then of course, the ceiling fan has nothing to do with the graphics cards. Maintaining positive pressure would dictate that the top two side fans are intake, and a Kama Bay would be very useful. The rear 120mm and top whatever size it is fans can do the rest. The difficulty is that the side fans won't line up perfectly with your partition, so there'll be some crossover turbulence in the middle where the intake and exhaust fans meet.

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Hah, I knew you'd be interested in Company of Heroes, that perhaps is more up your street, it is also quite a pretty game, neat physics, HARD tactics and WW2 combat. It's got Rich written all over it!

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Originally posted by Omega:

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Soo...Valve is like Rockstar right? Just another business producing video games? Heh heh. Remember, im new to the gaming scene LOL!

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Originally posted by sam:

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Left 4 Dead was free for a day earlier this week

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Amazingly, despite playing the game as much as I do, I haven't listened the developer's commentary yet, I will at some point. Sweet, so I get to hear your mate Miles talking?

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Originally posted by Red_Maw:

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Haha using dial-up is akin to watching paint dry imo.

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Originally posted by Rich's tutorial on the "F-You" finger position!:

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WASD - what's to modify? Look, you said you were new to this, so you might be REALLY NEW. If you already know this stuff, just skip ahead:

You put your "F-you" finger on the W, that one also handles the S. That covers move forward, move backward. Ring finger handles move left, pointer handles move right.

Pointer also handles E=Use key, opens doors, etc. I guess pointer also handles 3 - molotov or pipe bomb, but I think I'm going to change that to 4, which right now is health, to try to take advantage of the flash practice from COD4 with 4 being the flash key, since I only have a two button mouse (plus middle mouse scroll button.) I have to get at least a 4 button mouse one day. Ring finger handles Q - make that your last weapon key for a quick move back and forth from handgun to rifle - remember hand gun ammo is infinite and when you find the second hand gun you have awesome power - and unless you know where all the ammo dumps are, like I don't yet, you can save your colt auto rifle rounds for the horde attacks and for the tanks.

Little finger handles crouch with the Ctrl key. It's weird at first - believe me you'll get used to it and it's the best one for crouch. Shift is used by a lot of games, like Call of Duty, to run fast (and by Counter Strike to run slow, haha - I'm not kidding, you walk that way and thereby you don't give out your position with footstep sounds.)

(That reminds me of a good story. I was playing Condition Zero a couple months ago to get back into counter strike shape, and I was trying to get past the New Orleans map on Hard difficulty, where I had all the achievements done and was way ahead on games, playing with the bullpup rifle, except for the requirement that you have to knife a goddamn bot. Let me tell you, on Hard, those goddamn bots are crack shots and you just can't go knife them. So I had the room all smoked up and the bot had his back to me, and to try to run up and knife him I pressed Shift - from all my damn COD4 multi-player - but being the practice version of Counter Strike, that made me Walk, which gave the f**king bot time to get out of the smoke and turn around and blow me away! Three @#!%&$!!! hours wasted!!! I take this sh*t serious! Just kidding again!!)

Pointer finger can handle F, to turn your flashlight off to not startle the witch. If you want your character to say stuff during the game, try z or x and then select with your mouse. From Day of Defeat, where z is lay prone, I got used to the ring finger dropping down on the z key. I have no idea which finger would work x, maybe the F-you finger. All the guys were running around laughing and I asked what key that was - it's x! The counter strikers love to run around saying "Yes Sir!!" "Yes Sir!" Bunch of a**holes!! Just kidding again!!

Ok, and for Left 4 Dead, don't forget about shoving, which in other games is called the Melee attack. When you have too many zombies on you, just shove them. That can work better than shooting at that moment - it's true. While dead I watched a guy who plays expert a lot, and he was doing a lot of shoving when he was surrounded, and he confirmed that also when we chatted on our mics. For that I assigned mouse two - the right mouse. It's easy to right mouse shove, and left mouse shoot. For zooming in with the hunting rifle, usually on most shooters right mouse is zoom, but I assigned the middle mouse scroll - just pushing it down activates hunting rifle zoom, because right mouse was working out much better for shoving and then shooting.

But now that I think about it, I like the middle mouse for Call of Duty regular grenade - it's much easier than COD4 number 4 for flash grenade which I have been trying to learn, but usually hit both 4 and R=Reload at the same time - oh I forgot, R for Reload is also handled by the pointer finger of course. There is only one type of grenade in Left 4 Dead (molotov or pipe bomb) and I hardly ever use the hunting rifle anyway, I'm a colt machine gun guy, so maybe I'll go back to middle mouse for grenade, and something like g key for hunting rifle zoom if I ever try it again. Unlike Call of Duty, grenade is two steps in Left 4 Dead, select, then throw.

The 3 key for grenade select doesn't work well for me. I was trying to throw a molotov at a damned tank and it was kind of dark in my trailer/office, and I couldn't see my keyboard very well (I'll have to buy a lighted up keyboard one day) and I hit 4 instead of 3, and there was my health pack stupidly in front of my face while the tank was just below me raising all kinds of hell! It was Normal difficulty and he was focused on another player fortunately, and I nailed him a few seconds later, but on Advanced and Expert, those kinds of mistakes are deadly! So I think I'll try grenade select = middle mouse.

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Originally posted by estuansis:

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BTW Rich(or anyone who cares), if you wanna play some L4D send me a PM and I'll give you my SteamID.

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Originally posted by Sintek idiot exploding gattling gun soldiers:

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That reminds me what those damn sintek gattling gun soldiers that I grew to hate used to say all the time, in addition to "Flank left." "Changing attack vector." "You're mine cop!"

They used to say: "Unstoppable!"

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much <3 rich, but ill buy it, jsut have to buy it later, as i need to pay for some shisha/hookah stuff first.

LOL I know what you mean. It's hard to smoke and compute sometimes ;P

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