So I finally got my PC parts in the mail today! Now I just need to staple it all together! I've got a webcam and all that shiz, so I was wondering how I should got about getting assistance for the assembly. I have 2 option as far as I can tell:

1. http://www.livestream.com/
Pros: Can interact with an unlimited amount of people
Cons: I can only see text from others

2. AIM/MSN video chat
Pros: Can see/hear each other
Cons: Can only be 1-on-1

Oh yeah, This will be anytime saturday morning or afternoon. w/e works for Ex/rox/lath

I need a much better pc than my 2006 laptop in order to enjoy sc2. I have a working understanding of lego instructions, so I want to try building my own desktop with newegg shit for once. I've come to terms with the fact that it will be difficult if I want everything done. I want to grow from this.

I have $800 to work with. So the typical "Buy this, this, this, and this. That is all." is a good place to start. Do not be offended if I ask you why you think seagate is shit, and corsair is not.

Now with all that stuff said, I'd like to ramble for a second about random things I heard, and quirky preferences. I definitely want to have both a windows OS and a linux OS installed. Is it true that vista and win7 log all your pirated software, and sends that info to Microsoft? Sounds crazy, but a professor said it. I know and love XP and don't see the need to get windows 7 yet, but I felt the same about win98 vs XP, and shudder thinking where I'd be if I stayed with 98. RAID sounds cool, any1 here do it? I also definitely want an above-average speed HDD. I heard Ex say something about it being better if it's a single platter. I want that. Basically what I want is for my computer to be super responsive. I don't want games on max-settings, or have 10 multitasking programs, as much as I want firefox to load the second I click it. He can play starcraft2 better than me, clicking links or launching programs has this 1 second lag that does not exist for my ancient laptop. I don't want to make that trade. I can't stress enough how important that is to me.

I think I might youtube my assembly attempt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnXvmNjGQIQ

Just an new video by an old mentor of mine. He has always had the most original game design concepts I've heard from anyone face-to-face. Give it a look now, and I'll letcha know when something's playable.

Didn't embed it because I'm not sure if it youtube still counts it as a 'view' then.

So I'm finally going to be getting a new computer, and with it StarCraft 2. I want to try my hand at SC2 mapping, and I know I won't have time to keep up with TS between my new job, school, my comic, my card game and SC2. I really want SEN to take over SC2, and I feel like I could help make that happen.

Temple Siege is still incredibly popular, and has tons of room to grow. I haven't even done everything I wanted to do with it yet. Unlimited hero picking will be as far as I go. Hopefully the next person can finish 'classic' heroes, and maybe even get around to the 'extended' hero class. 8/22/10 will be my last tourny, and C1T my last version.

So about my successor. I don't have anyone decided on yet. Everyone has their own list of pros and cons, like Pigy_g: Pros - very determined, most TS editing experience, free time, pro-mapper, knows all ts strategy. Cons - map stealer, rampant drop hacker, not respected.
So first I want to hear from everyone that would like to take up the mantle of continuing TS mapping, and community management (hosting tournys). Let me know if you want to take over the tournys, mapping, or both. Also make a case for why you deserve it.
I wasn't the best mapper when I started with ts, but I really loved the game and wanted it to grow. So you don't need to be tuxedo-templar to get picked, just willing to donate tons of time to managing everything about the game, and have fun doing it.

Let it be known UnholyUrine made the first TS map. Just in case you were living under a rock, never read the mission obj, force names, or knew anything about the game at all.

Temple Siege C1

Original by: UnholyUrine
Terrainer: MNeox
M versions by: MiniMoose2707
3.1-4, M9, and C versions by: ClansAreForGays
X and Chaos versions are illegitimate.

C1 has no limitations on hero selection.

I've got alot more to put here.
Download >>>> http://www.staredit.net/?file=2257

So today I saw this on facebook

Wow, so Blizzard officially doesn't give a dam if you support cracking their game? I guess Centreri was actually right, it didn't help us one god dam bit playing by the rules, it only hurt us.

Policy change time anyone?

ROUND 1
Prism)Juke( + 2 random blitz players VS RetroSpect(aka Daggoth), Jakamakala, Daddywhoo <<<<<<<<WINNERS!
WINNERS! >>>>>>>>>>>> DT_Espo, Caranthir, KINGZILLA VS xRoffle CaliGreenz InsertLurkBomb
WINNERS! >>>>>>>>>>>> StreetlightMuse, divinecomedy, theDarkOne VS an_hero, KalOwnsU, Kira
WINNERS! >>>>>>>>>>>> Wally_, FH-mappo, FH-JackHerer VS ][cy, Pigy_G, dontforget[df]
WINNERS! >>>>>>>>>>>> FLix, rel3ct, Ragedy VS OlimarandLouie, MEMEME670, Lo)tus
WINNERS! >>>>>>>>>>>> Dolle, Iceman16, ImSoFly VS Arch-Angel, changeling, Wingzero
WINNERS! >>>>>>>>>>>> xRoffles, HookerBait, BroodSlayer VS Dark_Protss, Firestar, vergolino
ENDtheFED, X_Rated, ReCon VS they got a by

ROUND 2
RetroSpect(aka Daggoth), Jakamakala, Daddywhoo VS Wally_, FH-mappo, FH-JackHerer <<<<<<<<<<< WINNERS!
DT_Espo, Caranthir, KINGZILLA VS StreetlightMuse, divinecomedy, theDarkOne <<<<<<<<<<< WINNERS!
FLix, rel3ct, Ragedy VS ENDtheFED, X_Rated, ReCon <<<<<<<<<<< WINNERS!
WINNERS! >>>>>>>>>>>> Dolle, Iceman16, fdsa7127(dropped fly) VS Sacrieur, coc-snickers, arch-angel

ROUND 3
WINNERS! >>>>>>>>>>>> Wally_, FH-mappo, FH-JackHerer VS StreetlightMuse, divinecomedy, theDarkOne
xRoffles, HookerBait, BroodSlayer VS ENDtheFED, X_Rated, ReCon <<<<<<<<<<<< WINNERS!
ROUND 3b
ENDtheFED, X_Rated, ReCon VS Dolle, Iceman16, ImSoFly- <<<<<<<<<<<< WINNERS!

FINAL ROUND!
WINNERS! >>>>>>>>>>>> Wally_, FH-mappo, FH-JackHerer VS Dolle, Iceman16, ImSoFly- <<<<<<<<<<<<< DQ(no show)

http://us.starcraft2.com/dominion/

Take the test and report what unit you turn out to be. I'm a firebat

SEN Temple Siege Tournament

Date: 6/17/10 (Thursday)
Time: 6:00PM EST
Place: USeast in channel Op SEN


Rules & Regulations
- All teams must designate 1 Captain (hopefully the most active of the team) to represent them.
- The captain must have a SEN account, the remaining members however, do not.
- Single elimination. No Bo3.
- We will all be playing the Tournament's official version: http://www.staredit.net/?download=2220
- If you lost your match (and didn't host), but the version you played was not the official one - you may request a rematch.
- There will be NO hacks, spoofs or other starcraft modifications tolerated.
- You may not wall-in your spawn.
- You may not manually click attack your spawn with fast attack animation units like mech, you may 'team splash' your own spawn with storm, archon/fbat attack, lurkerbombing, mech's tanks, reavers, etc. 'team splashing' means you are attacking an enemy unit, your own comps spawn just happen to be close enough to die from the splash also. The only instance you are allowed to purposely kill your own team's spawn is if they are blocking your path. Neutral/P12 units are allowed to be killed by anyone at any time.
- Player summon killing is more strict. You may not 'team splash' player summons(medics,goblins,etc). Only the occasional accident is allowed. Killing an ally's medics because the player "is a noob feeding them" does not qualify as a valid reason, and will result in DQ.
- If you end end up with a glitched unit from a spell cast like a Valkyrie, leave it at the back of your base or suicide it.
- Teams will consist of 3 players.
- These rules are not finalized and are subject to change, including new rules, removal of previous rules, or modifications to all rules.
- Let me be clear: You won't be charged for taking advantage of anything else that you might have invented and is widely unknown. I don't punish ingenuity and thinking outside the box.
- Latency has to be low, and the no players can lag.
- you can not be forced to play more than 3 games in 1 night. If the tourny cant finish in 3 rounds, you have the OPTION of postponing your match for another day, or getting a sub.
- The winning team of a match must show me, or at least let me download the replay (I save them, and host them)
- If you think glitching or cheating has taken place in your game, you must play the game out. The replay/screenshots will just be checked.
- It should go without saying, but suiciding your own unit into enemy cannons, your own splash damage, or storm to deny the other team experience is allowed.
- Light Mages may not hallucinate each other. If you do, and any sort of glitch arises from it, your team loses.


Teams (Red are unconfirmed; no check-in)
- OlimarandLouie, MEMEME670, Changeling
- RetroSpect(aka Daggoth), Jakamakala, Daddywhoo
- PRiSM)JuKe(, 19_M.Austin, I2uthless
- DT_Espo, Caranthir, KINGZILLA
- ThedarKOne, Dante(divinecomedy) (2)
- Mewuvmyself, Tod_The_Rod (2)
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Players without Teams:
- Sacrieur
- Zoan
- NerdyTerdy
- Loxs
- Rockz
- LoTu)S
- Baalin911
- Wing Zero
- Arch-Angel
- Pigy_G
- xRoffle
- Kimaru2
- Squall.MoD
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When you guys have selected people to form teams then notify me with PM or here.

M9 Changes/hints
M9 is based off of M8, so if you play M8 then you're going to have an easy transition. The biggest change is that each team can have 1 of any hero, regardless of what the other team selects. Rine was too powerful with his lv3 in M8, so it fires 1 less shot now. For too long spawn rushing = win in tournaments, so it's gone. Another new features is Enemy spawn increasing. Your team can spend 3 civs to make ur enemy's warp gates pump out and extra spawn each wave. It should pay for itself after about 8 minutes. Medic has a new lv1 by default that makes it hard for noobs to feed with her, but you can have the classic lv1 if you suicide your infested terran at the top in the first 30 seconds. The new 1 spawns a medic at each of your allies to heal around 90 hp, then removes itself. Double casting increases the time and heals the healing spirit. Her Lv4 now heals +3 levels of HP more than it used to. Summoner now can get his goblin speed and attack speed with his 2nd and 3rd spell level. Lv4 has also been boosted. Abyssal demons(max 4) are immune to Warrior lv3, and the can only die 1 at a time by other kill effects. Mech's lv2 rail gun only fires while mech is moving, but it doesn't block your path. The mutant lv3, and assasin lv1 no longer channel. LM's lv3 does not take as long to go off now. Assault's lv1 now does a slow drain, and lv4 no longer has a pre-spell effect (so you can be sneaky). Gates take 100s longer to respawn. No more invincibilty at temple, you heal every 7 seconds. This means summoner is not safe at temple against a dt late game.
If you play 3.4 ~ Well I made 3.4, but this is definitely not 3.4. Just trust that if I was able to balance 3.4, I can balance this.


FAQ's
Is it too late for me to sign up?
Never. Even if you can't make it at 6PM, you can be made a sub for someone who left early. If you can't stay too late, still play for as long as you can, you will just be subbed out.

How can I sign up?
At the most, post in this topic that you want to sign up (preferably with a team). At the least, just show up!

I'm not coming cuz I can't get a pro team together, or, There's no way I'm gonna win.
Who cares! Just come and have some fun!

I want to create a unit with proporties in scmdraft2 via the visual trigger editor. I've only used 6 of the CWUP slots [sic?], and the properties I set are saved, and are still there when I pull the map back of later, but the map basically just does it like "create unit". Specifically, I need to make a unit spawn with half hp, and no - creating it then making another trigger that modifies hp of units at location isn't an option. What's going on?

Using another editor will make the map unstable.

http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/index.php

Make Any Webpage Look Like It Was Made By A 13 Year-Old In 1996.

In case you've been living under a rock, the "tea party movement" is a grass roots campaign against anything the involves raising taxes on the top %10 of Americans. Somehow it's organizers have tricked many lower income evangelicals into following them. When you ask them for 1 specific thing they are against, nothing comes out.

These "tea party" people are probably the dumbest people I've ever seen. I get a real kick out of watching them being interviewed. I'll post all the good ones I've found:






I'm also tempted to post Sarah Palin book signing events. Those are even dumber.

Now that Moose is fading out, IP is inactive, and Dev is just a coder, how does one repeal moderation with no attentive admin to PM?

And I'm not just being hypothetical, I actually want to challenge something for once.



Also, I noticed I was suspended from the DLDB for 1337 hours, and given 5 severity by corbo, but I'm pretty sure this one is just a joke as I haven't touched the dldb in months. Happen to anyone else?

Was spurred to make this by a recent comment made by cecil/cervantes that made me lol



I just think they really over due the whole patting themselves on the back and talking about how easy going they are.

And he's very sad and wants to hang out tonight. I'm not a very sympathetic person, and I have no idea what to do in this situation! It's gonna be so awkward!

Help! have any of you normal humans had to go through something like this? Teach me your human ways.

I'm making the title of a short super-hero comic I'm writing for a friend to be an acronym. It be spelt TAEL TAIL or TALE (preferably the last 2)

The characters have abnormal growths from their bodies, these give them their powers. For shorthand they refer to them as "tails"

So far I have - Temporary Ally In Life

WORD BANK:
T - tool, temporary, twisted, talent, truncate
A - ally, aide, alternate, augment, addition, absence, accent, attachment, adequate, alien, asthenic(weakness)
E - enhance-d-ment, eviornment, enchanted, emissary, envoy, extra, enrich, extended, extension, error, excess
I - in, increase, improved, inability, insufficiency, insertion, incomplete, inadequate, infirmity
L - life, location, legate, lack, loss, liable, limit

thx buds

I'm more a Z player than anything, but if a game drags past 10 minutes, I almost never win. After being honest with myself I can recognize that I'm so uncomfortable with using defilers, that I'm sacred to bother with them no matter what point has reached, or what units the enemy is building.

I guess it comes from knowing that I'm going to have to micro a spell caster, which I generally don't like. I feel like it would be better not get a hive+mound+research+defiler and instead make a lot more hydras/lurkers/mutas. having to use defilers ruins everything I like about playing zerg. Up till then I get to just swarm with shit and attack+move micro. Then all of a sudden I have to basically storm shit. Plague I can stand, but I just don't see how some pro sc players think dark swarm is the best thing in the game. It's not the large of an area, and the enemy can just run out of it! I don't get it! I've never had dark swarm work out of me.

I also think ultras have no use outside of getting rid of resources fast(that you shouldn't have let accumulate in the first place).

Is this just a phase that all z players go through until they grasp defilers?

So at the start of my map, player(s) will desync/drop. If it's a full house game, it's always player 4, but it changes depending on how many ppl have joined. What could be causing this? Even without protection it still happens.

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EDIT:
I'm posting this in Null because I'm apparently suspended from SD for two years (I just noticed, lol ). Though technically Null, it'd be nice if people pretended that this was Light Discussion, just to keep spam out. I'll post my own views in a later post; if I posted them right now, it would fit under SD rules and a cruel person might move it to where I can't reach it.

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SPECIFICATIONS

• Players
  Requires 6-7 players
  
• Map Tileset
  Jungle
  
• Map Size
  256x256
  

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STORY
The Rage Virus has erupted in Britain, while a G-Virus outbreak has matured and spread from the Middle East all the way to Greece. Germany and France will try their best to hold the zombie hordes in check while their American, Scandinavian, and Russian comrades mobilize.

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What's New?

• Foreign Aid - You are given a kahlis crystal to transport to any 1 country periodically.
  
• If a human leaves, their neutral units don't beat you to the ground. Yellow is human allied.
  
• Noob detection - If a player is doing nothing, the map recognizes them as a newb. They are given a tutorial and a few free units.
  
• Colors are cooler ;p
  
• Each country has a very specialized role, and strength.
  
• Just spamming your 1 hero unit is no longer the best strategy.
  
• Zombie expanding is most done via infesting command centers.
  
• Income is now constant small doses.
  
• Tunnel/sewer systems expanded.
  
• Zombie Army limit reduced to 150.
  

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COUNTRY DETAILS

• Germany
  Income : A
  Army Quantity : B
  Army Quality : B
  Expansion Potential : F
  Biohazard Prevention : A (border defenses)
  • High quality tanks and firebats
  • Most powerful human player. Starts near its maximum potential. An average player can keep zombies in check for the first 5 minutes while his allies build up. Its only draw back is no surrounding territory to capture. This just gives Germany more time to micro his army and send foreign aid.
  
  
• USA
  Income : F
  Army Quantity : F
  Army Quality : A
  Expansion Potential : D
  Biohazard Prevention : B
  • All units except firebats are high quality. With its above average biohazard prevention abilities, the only way it's going down is if Mid-East zombies throws every single thing it has at it, which would be suicide for the zombie. USA is quality over quantity, but can be extremely deadly if humans give their foreign aid to him. Expanding also goes a long way with the USA. Has nuking ability.
  
  
• France
  Income : A
  Army Quantity : C
  Army Quality : F
  Expansion Potential : C
  Biohazard Prevention : B
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  in progress
  

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Current Version ======> http://www.staredit.net/?file=1889

Planned Additions
• Give computer attack intelligent scripts
• Have tutorial give noobs objectives to complete, and react to what they are specifically doing wrong
• Add more events
• Remove terrain blocks

UPDATES

• 1/30/2010 2.03 - Actually fixed desyncing
  
• 1/30/2010 2.02 - Thought I fixed desyncing, but didn't
  
• 1/29/2010 2.01 - first release
  

Any tricks you can suggest?