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Daffa and a couple of his clan mates turned up as well. For some reason it was ridiculously hard to fill the server as well... Should be better in a week or so when the new updates get people more into playing again. It's also a massive problem getting folk onto your server if it's not one of the 'main' GSP ones, which is why we paid for HLStatsX.

Looks quite interesting... Beta tester needed?

What the iphone needs is some sort of Footballl manager game. The amount of people who spend their lives on that game would make whoever did a bagload...the UI would need to be flawless though for ease of use

Come on then, lets have you. Vimes is waiting, I'm waiting... just need some other peeps.

Lovely and original. Keep it up!

Oooo, I'm not so sure that the pyro is quite so imba now. He (she?) has had the 50 health bonus removed when using the backburner a while back now bringing it back into balance. Thrik - what do I put into steam to add you into friends list?

...and that update looks amazing! The update will include seven fresh maps and a new game mode - the mysteriously unannounced game mode will come supported with five Valve-crafted maps, A "new Payload map focusing on more open spaces than Goldrush" will also be released, and cp_steel, a community map. Plus the new weapons and achievements. EA would try to charge you 20 quid for that lot!

To those of you who think you're crap - well it doesn't matter! The whole point of TF2 is that it's fun... so there's no 'hindering' or 'dragging the team down' - just play, and try and help the team towards the objective rather than rambo-ing, and everyone will have fun

Going to try and populate the server now actually if anyone is about.

What time? 7 pm on? Which map? If you want to play on the trickery server, let me know what map you want, so it can be ready. Goldrush usually pulls punters in if there's a few folk on there already.

Weds is good for me.

I might be out that evening...but don't let that stop you!

Not finished it yet!

Very good indeed.

I'm in. I pay for a server, hosted at inx-gaming, we could play there if you like. It's got a few customs set up, including ctf_omega_redux, a nice little ctf map done by one of the chaps in the gaming community. It won map of the day on fps banana at one point! If you're interested in playing any of the customs, here's the mappack we use: http://www.apaw95.dsl.pipex.com/trickery_mappack.rar Containing the following maps: pl_dbheights pl_dustbowl_b4 wacky_races_v1 cp_roswell ctf_convoy_v2 ctf_omega_rc1 ctf_omega_rc1 has been supplanted by ctf_omega_redux which can be found here: http://www.fpsbanana.com/maps/60826 Failing that, if you just want to play standard maps, can do that too! Also, don't have to use the server, but it's there if you want it

I've just bought one of these. For those who haven't followed the link yet, it is a Neural Impulse Actuator. Basically a brain/computer interface - it looked ace in the reviews, and intruiged me a great deal - and the fact that it does actually work too. It can detect eye movement, upper facial muscle movement, but more importantly alpha and beta brainwaves. Apparently it was dispatched yesterday! Will it prove to be a foolish and wasteful investment? Watch this space

It's prolly better to point you at the people who came up with the tech that sits inside the OCZ NIA for that info. http://www.brainfingers.com/cyberlink.htm Lists all the stuff they use it for. The OCZ interface is a little different, and, more fortunately since that site doesn't seem to have been updated much for a few years, OCZ are bringing drivers out every week it seems at the moment with little bug fixes, adjustments etc. etc. I've been playing with it for a bit longer this afternoon, and spent some considerable time setting up the sensitivities. I can now run forwards with a tiny amount of jaw pressure (wanted to make this as little as possible to avoid cramp ), and run backwards if I bite (if I stop biting, but keep a little pressure, it tells the game to go back to running forwards, and if you stop that, you stop again). The controls that tell the game how long the key is pressed, how often the key is pressed, the delay on pressing it and what have you are a little confusing to me at present. The glance function is still eluding me at the moment, and I've had to settle for 'hold-duration' when the glance is triggered, for strafing, so if I glance right I will (at my present setting) strafe right for 0.3 seconds. This isn't ideal perhaps, I imagine there's a better way to do it when I get more familiar with the software. The brain wave registers are exceedingly hard to influence - with a little bit of effort (the wrong word perhaps - relaxation maybe?) I can make all 6 registers (Alpha 1, 2, 3 and Beta 1, 2, 3) drop to 0 - although not consistently. How to gain control of them, I have no idea, although a PDF from the site above seems to suggest that relaxing back muscles helps with alpha control. Conversely, I tried tensing my core muscles (ie pelvic floor etc) to see if the registers increased, and they did, but in a somewhat haphazard fashion. As I'm actively engaged in practising pilates for my back problem, I might gain finer control, but then again, I might not. I've been looking around the web, and alpha tend to be associated with relaxation and beta with alertness and concentration. To actually gain control over each regsiter in turn (and therefore be able to use then to consistently repeat a particular action in the game) will be really tough I think. The list of ways you describe the controls to the game mentioned above are: Single Dwell-Single Hold Hold-Duration* Dwell-Hold Dwell-Hold-Duration* Repeat-Single Repeat-Hold Repeat-Duration* Dwell-Repeat-Duration* Dwell-Repeat-Single Dwell-Repeat-Hold Toggle On/Off Dwell-Toggle Dwell is the time the signal is delayed before being passed to the game. *Only available on 'glance' settings.

Sorry, I only got it on thursday after work, then went to a festival on friday. Only played with it for a few hours. I had to install an old game to test it, because TF2 takes so looooong to load it quickly became tedious - so I went with RTCW. Few annoyances - if you alt-tab out, the key combination to activate the NIA in game stops working, so you have to basically restart the game. The other main one is that you have to ground yourself to the control box so that the signal drops to a low enough level for calibration in order to use it; the easiest way I've found is to put it against your stomach while sitting down. The fun stuff... it really works. I'm having a bit of trouble getting the glance thing to work, but after tweaking the sensitivity and movement, it becomes easier to use. The muscle thing is the easiest to get working initially, and I've found that it detects difference muscle movements well. The way the 'joystick' zones work is quite good, say for instance raising your eyebrows makes the signal level so high, and biting down is a bit higher, so you set the trigger points at the requisite levels, so that raising your eyebrows can make you jump, and biting makes you fire. All in all pretty interesting so far, hopefully over the course of the next few weeks I will get better control over the glance control so strafing left and right will be less of a chore. I've also been investigating the company that provided the technology, and on their website (as the system was designed for disabled folks first) there are a few more pointers than OCZ gave on how to make the Alpha and Beta more controllable.

...courtesy of cracked.com http://www.cracked.com/article_16532_5-greatest-things-ever-accomplished-while-high.html

That game was top. A bit OT, but I remember in the multiplayer, you could be a french weasel, complete with blue stripey jumpers and berets, while all they said was, "hoh-hee-hoh-hee" while running about. Who said stereotypes are dead?

Are you going to pipe grindcore through the speakers of the shopping centres?

EG gave it 10! That alone makes me interested in give it a go.

I saw Kenny the other day - bloody funny. Some choice quotes: On marriage... "Why don't you cut out the middleman? Find someone you hate and give 'em a house." On fortune telling... "You know, 2000 years ago, the greeks used to claim that they could tell the future from looking at your poo. Judging by some of the things I've seen from festivals, the future looks pretty bleak, I can tell you." On cleaning out a sewer tank... "There is a smell in here that will out last religion." Marriage being my fave.

I'm trying to source a camera.

Mainly because I've been spending money on peripherals :E