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Shingi said:
MasterP said:
…Also, something that hasn’t been explained is why Wii Bowling was thrown out when all it takes is a single projector, which we already have more of at this LAN due to the Dell sponsorship. It also had more votes than games being played….
Please show me where it was stated that Brawl was thrown out.
Wii BOWLING. My bad.
My point remains the same. It’s not like it’s hard to host or bracket for and turnout has yet to be poor.
And ditto to Nickname’s point. For PC games, what we vote on at the meeting is what we play, barring a tie in which case the HISTORICALLY better pick usually wins out. We don’t hold seperate meetings as there is no need to discuss things further as we already have a good idea how our stuff is going to run.
If console gamers REALLY want to play PC games feel free to nominate and vote for the ones you want but keep in mind you are expected to actually play them at the LAN. When I voted for Mario Kart and Wii Bowling I had every intention of playing them as their tournaments are quick and easy to fit in between PC games but if they aren’t tournament play what’s the point?
You’ve had Smash Brothers miniLANs for the past few weeks, you can’t tell me none of them have it. Also, something that hasn’t been explained is why Wii Brawl was thrown out when all it takes is a single projector, which we already have more of at this LAN due to the Dell sponsorship. It also had more votes than games being played.
Btw, I find it mildly entertaining that the “we can’t find anyone with one or that has any interest” attitude has been changed from PS3s to Nintendo games that have historically done well at LANs.
Polls are fine to hand out but people rarely fill them out. You’ll notice the last time we did one for general suggestions and comments there were quite a few that were left blank in the playing areas.
I was going to post something extravagant but Kuros did it so I won’t. For what it’s worth, you’ve lost me as a console player at this LAN for this type of decision making and probably at least a dozen other PC gamers who don’t want the big, drawn out tournaments.
Kuros said:
Do it the way karen did. Put all the names in a random name generator and click generate until we get fairly even teams. I thought the way she did it was perfect.We had to go with the 2nd list if I remember correctly but yeah the teams were fair.
Nickname said:
Best players that are going to be there are probably you, Kuros, and Kappamerc. Also very good are MasterP, Nukedude, Cacaphony, Chupathingy, and NoDice.I’m not in the “best” class? WTF?
Rydell382 said:
so you mean, in the next round, the first cap officially wins the game? Kinda like overtimeYes.
Are you planning on doing a 2/3 rounds or just 1? We usually have the time to do best 2 out of 3.
I personally think the random picks are the fairest as it prevents the “I was picked last” feeling. If teams are stacked we can always do last minute changes but I think the core decision for this needs to be random as it’s been done every time in the past.
Rydell382 said:
Also what will we do in the event of a stalemate?Keep playing? One team will eventually cap.
NoDice said:
for those that actually play consul game at the lan should have went to their meeting if you really cared what was going on.If I had known games were going to be changed I would have gone, as would have many others. If you’re going to be making changes like this, EVERYONE needs to know in advance, that way people that might want to play consoles but don’t care how the tournaments are set up (IE PC gamers) might show up. Note the way you announced the meeting:
Shingi said:
I’ll be holding the first console meeting of the semester this Friday in the Cat’s Den at 8 p.m. The purpose of this meeting will assess where we stand as far as what free play will go on at the LAN’s and also other events that we can possible hold.That doesn’t even hint at the possibility to overriding the general meeting vote as far as games go therefor most assume the games played will be the ones previously voted in.
I agree with a previous post, if the general meeting voting doesn’t count don’t bother having one as the PC voting REALLY got shafted because we ran out of time after spending 15-20 minutes nominating and voting on console games.
Also, I would bet that there are more copies of Mario Kart Wii on campus than there are PS3s. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but as far as overall sales and marketshare go you should be having more Wii tournaments than the XBOX360 and PS3 as it has outsold both by a sizeable margin; over twice the sales of the PS3 and 9% more than the XBOX. Now I know gamers don’t like numbers presented like this but that means we should be jumping towards attracting Wii players, not the handful of rich people who have PS3s on campus. Wii gamers may not be into slingshotting people into buildings but they are attracted to a good Mario Kart tournament.
Rydell382 said:
Just wondering which maps people want to play for the tournament. 2fort is getting kinda old and i was thinking of adding some ctf maps that move a little faster and maybe some balanced cp maps like well.Also nominate any maps you want to play after the tournaments. I will take the maps with more than 3 nominations and put them in a poll for people to vote on. The official maps are already a given but nominate any other custom maps.
Talk with Nickname and Kuros. Both know how to run a good tournament and have played at ASU’s LAN event. On that note you might want to go ahead and start thinking about how you want to do teams because some of us play better than others when grouped together.
Was just curios because at the general meeting both Mario Kart Wii and Wii Bowling got more votes than Soul Calibur 4 and Guitar Hero 3. There were ALOT more people at the general meeting so I would hope it would be the basis of interest instead of the smaller meeting.
I’m not going to tell you how to run the consoles because I really don’t care how well you do but not knowing good tournaments settings doesn’t mean PCs switch games. If it did we wouldn’t play half the games we do. Several people bragged about running tournaments before (IE Gamestop), if that’s REALLY the case you can’t tell me they can’t sit down for 5 minutes and figure it out.
No Mario Kart or Wii Bowling? Wtf?
What was the point of even having a vote for console games at the general meeting if the results were subject to change later?
Lemm said:
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo P8600 (2.40GHz, 3M L2 Cache, 1066MHz FSB)2.0GB, DDR2-800 SDRAM, 1 DIMM
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M
160GB Hard Drive, 7200RPM with Free Fall Sensor
15.4″ UltraSharp™ Widescreen WUXGA (1920×1200) Display-Brushed Metal Black
Genuine Windows Vista® Business SP1, With media
Dell Slim 65W Auto/Air/AC Adapter
8X DVD+/-RW w/Roxio and Cyberlink Power DVD™
Intel® WiFi Link 5100 802.11a/g/n Draft Mini Card
Intel vPro™ Technology’s advanced management features
Resource DVD – Contains Diagnostics and Drivers
9 Cell Battery
That’s a decent WORK laptop. By no means is it anywhere near good for gaming no matter what OS you put on it. Below is a link to your video card stats. It should play the game fine on a decent resolution but I wouldn’t go above 1440×900 in CSS and would consider going down to 1024×768 if need be.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro_nvs_no…_techspecs.html
Lemm said:
anyways.. when i started it up it asked my why i didn’t connect the 90 w psu that came with it.. but it only came with the 65 w psu???Call and ask about it. If it came from the factory with the wrong power adapter that’s something that should have been dealt with after the first power on. Having a lesser power adapter will reduce the overall effectiveness of the laptop, either lowering the clocks on your processor and video card or making it so you can’t charge the battery and use the laptop at the same time.
Lemm said:
also it has lots of dell programs on there for the hot keys and etcCut them off. Start-msconfig. At the services tab check the “Hide all Microsoft” box and close what you don’t want/need. On the startups do the same but be mindful as the sidebar and a few other useful MS programs are there as “Windows Vista”.
Lemm said:
the gfx is a nvidia quadro nvs 160M with 256mb on the card… it’s no high end card by any means.. but seriouslyi get 40 FPS at the most
Quadro cards have never been built for gaming and tbh I’m surprised they’d put one in a laptop. The stats on the page I linked to above are well below what I consider decent by modern standards.
Lemm said:
I seriously think I’m about to install xp over it…By all means but keep in mind if it came with Vista you probably won’t get XP drivers. Oh btw, it won’t get much faster than it is already. If you want to reinstall, reinstall Vista with a non-Dell DVD and use your existing serial. I think you’ll find that Dell shipped the laptop with too much bloatware, which has nothing to do with how fast Vista should be running on it.
NoDice said:
please explain?Block people on CT side of the bridge on Aztec so they get killed to get the AWP from them.
Anonymous said:
Action: Report AbuseStatement: Playing in WCU server in CSS on de_aztec around 2:05 PM EST, and an admin bans me.
SM] ADMIN: Banned player “rQ?» ren” for 3600 minutes (reason: retarded”).
rQ?» ren left the game (retarded”).
sorry, that just screams abuse at me, and i can’t comprehend why someone would abuse admin like that.
Sometimes players act retarded. When this happens they are dealt with accordingly. Get over it.
Hint: don’t talk *edited* to admins when they ask you not to lame players for their guns.
With CSS, IE, MSN, AIM, Xfire, Steam, Outlook, Virtual PC, Daemon tools, Windows Onecare, and WCU’s faculty/staff VPN tunnel tool running I’m at 64 processes. You’ve got garbage running you don’t need and it isn’t Vista’s fault at all.
What’s your framerate NOW?
What processor do you have?
What TYPE of ram do you have?
What video card do you have?
MajorMajorMajor said:
u can get past ANYTHING w/ a heavy and a good medicecpet maybe another heavy and medic combo….
Not my Demo/Eng setup. Just ask all the heavy/medic combos at App State that tried and switched strats mid-game.
Nickname said:
His ideals are what I think the Republican party was originally fundamentally about but has since strayed into the nonsense it is today.And notice how the Rebublicans lost almost all political power until the conservative movement took over the party. We will never have someone in office who thinks or legislates like Ron Paul because not only are his policies bad for the wealthy but they’re bad for everyone else as well. Sure he sounds good when he spends an hour preparing for a 5 minute flame to a foreign advisor but when you boil all his rhetoric down you get nothing new from him. All his ideals have been said before and will be said again and again until they realize the majority of the population disagrees with them. He had the largest internet and grassroots effort at the start of the primaries and note how fast he lost.
Also, imagine if the United States was the only major country to NOT send aid to other counties after natural disasters or if we didnt’ help allies recover after being attacked. We’d look pretty silly and no country would want to be our military or political ally.
Another thing that *edited*es me off alot, we have the strongest and fastest responding military on the planet, why we’d want to pretend or act otherwise is beyond me but he consistantly talks about how we own an “empire” and then turns around and talks about how depleted and weak our military is. You can’t say we pwn others all the time and then talk about how weak we are, it just doesn’t make sense to most.
On his domestic policies, sure we need to focus on the needs of our own people but how exactly do we do that? You can’t hand out money to just the poor as there would be no encouragement to get wealthy. You can’t give away healthcare to the poor as it won’t be good or fair to those who pay $10,000/year for it. You can’t give away food because oh wait we already do. Most poor in this country have the ability to make something of themselves if they care or try. FAFSA? [/argument]
Right now all Paul is doing is stealing voters and while that’s all well and good it certainly doesn’t get you any closer to winning. All it does is make someone alot more popular in the party lose.
Rydell382 said:
and it sometimes takes a good amount of strategy and coordination to get past a Sentry gun nest.Depending on who’s helping me, it may take an entire team to get by my defensive line.
lockEm said:
Could just ask the Source admins who banned him, and why.If he can’t even remember when he was banned how do you expect the admins to remember? I don’t even think the admins are required to keep demos for over a month after the ban.
If he fills out a FORMAL appeal we’ll look into it but without more info we have no way of doing so.
LuckySeven said:
Banned for what reason again cause he is a *edited*?He won’t tell us why or when he was banned. I’m not digging through hundreds of log files and can’t ask Liam to do so either. If we can’t get a more exact timeframe there’s no way for us to pull the ban info.
Bitey said:
Nope NoDice, same *edited* lolAin’t that the truth. Why is it our Aramark food is the worst there is?
NoDice said:
lol, thus was all types of fun going on tonightSome admin abuse but hey who can resist TKing for extreme mic spam.
Chris said:
yes, its a contender for game of the yearCheck out the ratings on Amazon. 1088/1172 give it a 1 star, mostly for the DRM. It requires you hit an EA server to activate and after 3 installs you no longer own the game. Apparently the illegal copies are less of a hassle than the store bought copies.
$50 to rent a game = fail
