buy eeet.

I drop ze price. Play some TF2 on thse biznatches.

https://www.miataturbo.net/stuff-sal...e-slots-68382/

If we are doing a MvM run, we form a part to start and then go in. Once we are in its unjoinable by anyone else, since we used the matchmaking system.

Otherwise, normal servers... should be able to follow us in without issue.

MT folks be reprezentin' all up in this TF2 bitch.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1347719267

So amusing to see a map plastered with the logo.

I set it as my spray too, ought to be fun! lol

Another MvM night anyone? I have another MvM ticket, no squad tickets anymore though.

Alright, whose up for MvM? Maybe take a break from Black Mesa?

PFFFFFF, Borderlands 2 time.

I can do 9pm EST tonight. I even promise to stay up until we win.

Anyone else not able to log into steam?

me

nm, now its working

MvM today?

8pm EST... ie: Now... lets roll kiddos. Sam is leading the charge.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1348491821

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1348491821

Wait a minute, Scott. I downloaded it for free. What gives with the pkg?

BTW, come play with us!

It used to cost money, then Valve decided to give it away for free.

To be fair, it's probably a stellar business model for them. I'll bet they make more money selling hats and related paraphernalia than they did off of box sales.

They've already probably gotten more off of me from MVM tickets/squad vouchers then I would have put into a boxed copy.

I will not be paying for anymore tickets btw... i just need to beat the endurance map and I'm content.

I'm finally starting to collect enough junk to fabricate weapons. Can anybody tell me about custom fabrication?

You've already crafted the optimal loadout for each class, Six? If so, I'm /very/ impressed, I still haven't done that!

Well, not knowing what the optimal loadout is for each class would likely be a problem.

I thought it would be neat to build something unusual out of some of the crappy duplicate and/or lesser items.

that was back in 2008 and it was only $15 then. That was the secret santa gift I picked out.

Who knew that Beartato and Reginald were TF2 fans?

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1348706845

Can I play?

Come on in, the water's fine. Wait, I just peed in the pool.

Have now beaten all MvM maps. Received a strange bot killer butterfly knife for my spy. It has a pez dispenser bot head in the middle of it... the mouth moves when you move.

This one I was especially proud of. Notice that I am on Red, and I am standing in the BLU intel room:

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...1&d=1349064983

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...1&d=1349064983

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...1&d=1349064983

I built the first sentry and the first teleporter pair, after which a couple of other players on my team switched to Engie and piled into the room to assist.

We had a total of three sentries and three dispensers in there, plus two teleporter exists (from our base) and one teleporter entrance (to our base.)

Given that we were already two up, we decided to just let the enemy grab our intelligence and try to bring it back into their own intel room. It was impossible. By the end, our entire team was standing around waiting for them. I was laughing so hard I could barely speak into the mic.

Always wanted to do something like that, but could never get in safely. The ideal setup would be to have one engineer sneak in, deploy a teleporter exit and have another engineer come through holding a level 3 sentry. Invite me to play if you see me on Joe, we can give it a shot.

In other news, I finished my first tour of MvM. Got a bot killer knife for spy but then immediately traded it for a bot killer mini gun with a guy on the server. It was pretty epic, everyone but me was on their third+ tour.

It took me a few tries to get in, but I finally managed it just after both teams had snatched each others' respective intel and were too busy shooting it out at the bridge to notice a single Engineer sneaking across the whole map through the sewer system.

What was really hilarious was that one of the Blu spies finally found out where I'd placed the teleporter entrance (in the middle of the Red hayroom, just outside Red spawn, in plain sight) and he kept trying to use it to sneak into his own intel room. Which, of course, dumped him out right in the middle of a hostile sentry farm.

I am game for messing with the opposing teams mind.

I have always wanted to do this! we must do this sometime!

Anyone free friday night?

Dammit now I want in on sneaking into the enemies hood and putting up sentries.

I'm definitely down for engineer carnage. LEZ DO IT!

Do we want to set a date and time?

I just bought RE6, and have a wedding to goto this weekend in WI. So I will not be on for a while. Hopefully some time next week.

Okay, I am almost finished downloading it. How do I play with you guys?

What's your Steam username? We will invite you to the group.

RPMLegends18

I think that should work...

Huh, I'm not finding you on steam.

Under "Community", try searching for a group called miataturbo.net

I know what I need to try to do.

I want to pair up with another Engie and put a matched pair of teleporters in both Intel rooms. That way I can grab the intel, teleport to my room, drop it off, and then teleport back and grab it again before The Administrator can even finish saying "The enemy has captured our Intelligence."

Shortest full match of CTF in history.

Alrighty, I joined the group

Great. Now you can see when one or more of us is in-game, and elect to join us. You may also find yourself invited to join in a match when one is being planned. These are usually coordinated here on the forum ahead of time.

A tip: the current "hot trend" seems to be MvM. You'll want to practice playing some "regular" games on the public servers first, then some MvM on the public servers. In other words, right now you suck at TF2. (It's ok, we all did.) Learn how to not suck before joining up in league play of MvM.

You can still hop into regular unscheduled games with us any time.

So let's say I wanted to play with the Joe Perez right now, what would I do to make that happen?

find him in steam, and find the join game prompt.

Give me a time and a place. Preferably evenings.

Fuck it, Tonight 9pm eastern time. I will get on and we can try that. Would be full of lulz.

Man, last night was a hell of a good game.

It's really rare to find two teams that well matched and with players of that caliber. BLU was really on top of their game, and did an excellent job of preventing me from accomplishing any of my usual shenanigans. They also didn't fall for our tricks inside Red Intel- normally that arrangement shoots me right to the top of the scoreboard.

Also, thanks for everybody abandoning me in the intel room just as the ENTIRE blue team showed up. :rolleyes:

While I was briefly there... I was at least voicecomming you warnings of people coming right after I died :p

I'll try to show up and give the other team somebody to shoot at while you guys do your thing.

Thats all I was good for last night, holy cow did I keep getting rolled over.

I did some MVM bootie camp stuff with what were likely kindergardeners by the way they played. So much fail that anytime a 5th or 6th person joined up they left after or during their first wave. I dunno why I stuck around but I gained a couple more weapons.

That was a KILLER round, Virant.



Incidentally, here's what I was talking about earlier.

In-game screenshot:

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...1&d=1349762016



Here's a closeup of the dual DECtape transport in real life, installed in a PDP-11 (a "small" computer):

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1349763789



And in the context of a full size PDP-10 system (featuring the "Moby Memory" cabinets- the rightmost six racks are nothing but RAM):

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1349763789



Ironically, the two most common colors of the PDP series: Red and Blu. (Green was used on the LINC series, which were laboratory-oriented systems with analog I/O)


The PDP-10 was a truly awesome computer, and was home to most of the early realtime multiuser timesharing systems (that actually worked.) It was so complex that it included a built-in PDP-11 (visible in the third cabinet from left, below the DECtape) whose sole function was to act as a bootloader and watchdog.


CompuServe (remember them?) was also based on the PDP-10 system, and they continued to operate them all the way until 2009 (!!!) when the system was finally decommissioned.

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Its predecessor was the PDP-6, pictured below. It was on this system, located at MIT's AI lab, that EMACS was first created. Additionally, ITS (Incompatible Timesharing System, a predecessor to UNIX) was first written on this very machine.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...c_pdp-6.lg.jpg



Extreme Geek Trivia: A PDP computer, with DECtape drives, is featured prominently in the first act of "Three Days of the Condor." Janice Chon is loading a new spool of tape onto it just before she is assassinated.

So Apple even stole the name EMAC. Hilarious.

Oops, slight typo on my part. It's properly spelled EMACS.

If you mean that Apple includes EMACS in their Linux-based OSes, I wouldn't say they stole it. EMACS has been part of every standard Unix/Linux distribution for decades.

(Unless they're using the name for something else.)

No, I mean they named an entire line of computers the "eMac".

Oh, yeah. The Gumdrop-class machines. I totally forgot about those.

edit: Wait, no, those were iMacs. What's an eMac?

edit II: Ah, Wikipedia to the rescue. Wow, I TOTALLY forgot about those. Hard to believe they weighed 50 lbs. Was Apple intentionally putting lead ballast in them or something? And no carrying handle like the iMac, plus a totally slick, smooth case with no hard edges. Great design, there.