Originally posted by krj15489:

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Hey guys, I found this funny picture and thought you might like it.

http://www.dula.tv/blog/wp-content/uploa...359.jpg

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Originally posted by what the hell was rich thinking?:

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I thought it might run because, as I say, my laptop will play videos better than my PC - but that's because of the nimble processor. My guess is that L4D, being a proper PC game unlike the poor port of GTA4, fully loads up the graphics card where my laptop - obviously by the results - is very weak. No worries, it was just a random after-thought anyway, hahaha! I never bought the laptop for gaming. Notice that on Krj's pic it didn't say "Buy a gaming laptop" lol.

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Originally posted by Sammorris:

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Omega: You completed all four campaigns in 2 hours 47 minutes? That's pretty impressive, but trust me, turn the difficulty above easy, it'll take you a lot longer as you can't just blast through it without a care in the world.

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Originally posted by sam:

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Rich: The opening movie isn't game-rendered, it's a 720p film clip rendered using DivX or similar I believe.

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Originally posted by Rich beating No Mercy Single Player on Advanced - everybody escaped!:

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I played just the finale chapter of No Mercy on Single Player Advanced for about 5 or 6 hours - I escaped just once by myself - then I switched to Uzi and defended near the ammo - and we all escaped! LOL! (Sam said it couldn't be done with the bots, lol. But maybe I just got lucky, not as many smokers or hunters around perhaps. I'll have to try again one day to prove it wasn't just a fluke.)

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Originally posted by Rich explaining Uzi versus P90:

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Blame Sam for this part of the post. I kept calling the smg a P90, just for the fun of it, because I doubted that any other smg has a 50 round clip. I had suspected that Valve was just taking creative license using a regular looking smg that had the clip size of a p90. But Sam, being very precise, not sloppy like myself, lol, told me I had to stop calling it a p90, and instead call it by its proper name, SMG. Yes Sir Captain! But after my research, I am now going to call it by its very proper and correct smg name: Uzi! LOL!

The L4D smg is an Uzi with a 50 round clip, invented by an Israeli captain named Uziel Gal around 1950. (I googled it - standard uzi came with 24 round clip, or max clip of 32 rounds, but later they added a 50 round clip - probably after the p90 was invented!) The Uzi is cheap to make, requiring no forging, just stamped metal. The expensive p90 is better for prone with the clip along the top. The Uzi, especially with that longer 50-round clip which sticks down from the handle, is a little clumsy for prone - you can't bring the weapon all the way down because of the long clip extending below the handle. That's not a factor in Left 4 Dead, nor for COD4, of course - no laying down prone! Day of Defeat, with prone, uses a Thompson smg. I don?t' know if that was a pain for the soldiers or not - the Thompson being more of an attack weapon for the sergeants. The BAR, very powerful but only 20 round Browning Automatic Rifle, is a bitch to handle with giant recoil, unless you are in prone. The earlier version of Day of Defeat had tripod legs that extended out from the front of the BAR. Anyway, I imagine that for Left 4 Dead, Valve just felt that the Uzi is a better-looking smg than the somewhat ugly P90 hahaha. (But I love that goddamn ugly P90!! You Far Cry players will remember how great the P90 was in that game. The Far Cry Colt - assault rifle - however gave you nearly sniper like accuracy in single-bullet mode. The 30 round assault rifle, by the way, which I call a Colt - I forget why - is the M16 Army rifle developed for the Vietnam War. Maybe Colt is the manufacturer. (Yeah - google - Colt bought the rights to make the gun from the original designer.) It fires a very small round the size of a 22, but with a huge amount of powder behind it, at a VERY fast velocity! That gun is the standard anti-terrorist rifle in Counter Strike, and it was featured in the earlier chapters of Far Cry.)

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Originally posted by Keith reminding me of something:

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Keith, that was funny! You took Kevin's presumptuous and gave us the Brit version! Not bad. But you raised a very interesting point for me - I'm trying to seriously learn Spanish and become fluent - very challenging. I just sold a house for a lady from Peru who speaks NO English - I got a lot of practice in many conversations with her. I watch 2 hours of Spanish tv each night and I am beginning to get 50% of the dialog - sometimes more. But a dude told me recently that I should start reading more - reading anything - with a dictionary in hand. He said I would dramatically expand my vocabulary. Your comment about Omega's "presumptuous" proves that dude's point lol.

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