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Isn't it just -map?

I've never used +map for source OR goldsource and -map always loads the proper map for me.

Actually I was wrong.
It was 6 syllables, oops.
That was my bad.

Idea has only two
syllables whereas every other
word only has one. Wrong.

Who the fuck came up
with such a ridiculous
idea such as this?

It's the lenses from a pair of binoculars I've macgyvered into a usable macro lens suitable for pretty much anything that it can fit over. For attaching you don't really 'attach' it at all, you can tape it to the lens [Not recommended] or just hold it in place, which is a lot more convenient then taping it and removing the tape every shot.

It was never my intention to make a macro lens actually, I made it by accident.

Although, if you saw it [attached] while the Kodak had it's real lens extended, you'd probably think it's a zoom lens attachment and not a macro attachment. A little bit too out of focus for my taste, but that shot was a bitch to get right, so I'm not going to complain.

Know what it's used for?And here is the lens equipped to my Kodak Easyshare:Apparently I DO love photography so much that I actually made my own lens. God damnit.

Yeah, apologies, I did indeed misjudge you far too many times, and I didn't stop to think about what you were doing or what you were getting at most of the time, but regardless, stay safe. Here's to hopes you'll never have to use it.

For the most part I don't think I would actually ever draw my gun. But it helps to be prepared.

Thank you. That honestly does make me feel a little less uneased, but I still stand by my point: You need to have that trigger finger dealt with, the problem with putting your finger on the trigger while handling a unloaded firearm is not the danger from doing it, it is the habit that will grow out of it. And it is one of the worst habits you can possibly get into, because if you feel comfortable just plainly putting your finger on the trigger of a weapon unloaded or not, you will eventually be comfortable doing it with a loaded firearm as well, and you will become careless.

I thank you for not going in all swinging as I might've expected you to as I did go a little bit over, but you have to understand that getting a gun for self defense is a extremely serious thing and is something I do not take lightly in the absolute least.

First attempt at watching I closed the video instantly due to extremely poor trigger discipline, not even 2 seconds in and you have your finger on the trigger of a weapon that you stated you would always treat as if loaded.

Second attempt at watching closed 10 seconds in when you put your finger directly on the trigger again. That is my last attempt. To be dead honest I would fear for my life if I ever met you in person knowing that you could potentially be carrying, from what you'd iterated you'd do in a situation when confronted combined with your extremely poor trigger discipline I'd honestly rather be held at gunpoint by a real robber.

Trigger discipline is a two way system: You either have it or you don't, there is no 'lousy trigger discipline' and from what I'd just seen within the first 10 seconds of you handling a gun I'd say you don't have it, adding the fact that you showcase such skittish behavior as to how you'd deal with a scenario where somebody MIGHT confront you I can only imagine that you'd probably end up killing somebody. Please, for the fucking good of your own safety and the safety of every innocent on the campus, give the gun back to your father, get some god damned training. I've seen little kids reviewing airsoft guns handle guns more responsibly then that.

EDIT: Oh jesus christ 2 minutes in you start jamming your entire finger into the trigger guard and do THAT? At least do a full clearance drill, while showing the camera for confirmation so you can at least LOOK like you know what you're doing. Come on man.

I'd be beyond scared for my life, I'd fucking call the cops on you, I'm sorry but I have NEVER, EVER seen such a irresponsible handling of a firearm, combined with your attitude towards dealing with anybody who might be 'suspicious' enough for you to draw on them... I would seriously just call the police right there and then.

I'm in Canada and I'll never handle a firearm within my lifetime, but at least I follow simple concepts such as your finger should not be on the trigger of ANYTHING when you do not intend to perform the action that would be execute as a result of pulling the trigger. When I use a drill I put my finger against the frame of the body even though in reality the chances of anything happening are extremely slim and even if I accidentally pull the trigger it probably would cause no harm considering the drill would just simply rotate in the air, but I do it anyways because I know that getting 'lazy' with something like that isn't an option. I do not intend to turn the drill so I ensure I can't accidentally turn the drill, even though no harm would be brought on by the drill turning by accident, it's still better to always be in control.

If I ever had a gun would I use it? The fuck NO, a gun for self defense is used as a absolute last resort, in a life or death situation where you have absolutely no other choice, however you for some reason do not follow this logic and instead seem to follow "If he's suspicious looking draw on him", functioning entirely off of paranoia fueled by stories surrounding you about people getting hurt, clouding your judgement and probably going to make you kill somebody you shouldn't.

America is the place where pizza comes quicker than police.

Unfortunately true.

I think i might go chimpanzee on their ass

For some reason, I found this extremely hilarious. The image of CT flailing his arms around like a fucking idiot to scare off a robber is amusing to say the least.

I just went through the previous page and it was pretty entertaining.

See blitz? Our ripping of each others new assholes wasn't such a failure after all!

Hey, if it's worth so much to you actually, why don't you safeguard it? Install some GPS tracker embedded deep inside it that you can access at any time, if somebody ever mugs you for it, hand it over to them and then get the police involved.

If you think it's worth shelling a shitton money and time over to get a gun that might save you from having it stolen, then it'd probably be more worth it to invest into a gps unit.

The only time a gun would be beneficial would be if they were going to take the laptop and kill you ANYWAYS, but AFIAK you're not referring to murderers so I don't imagine that situation would arise anyways.

A gun for self defense should ONLY be used for just that, self defense. It should not be brandished simply as a means to scare a robber off, believe it or not but honestly that is exactly the equivalent to brandishing a chrome 1911 because some guy said something bad about you, it's irresponsible and unnecessary.
If somebody tries to mug you for it at gunpoint just hand it over. Your life is not worth whatever you're holding, and if it is, then you should not have it on you to begin with. Only draw if they give you no other choice and were going to take your life if you didn't.

Archie is bringing up the exact point as to what I'm referring to. And you're still not getting my point with self defense.

If you receive a good amount of proper self defense you would not do that and you wouldn't have that attitude towards the matter, you NEVER EVER carry anything on you that you would die for, your life is not worth a thousand dollar laptop, of course you won't want to try and charge him, I've said endless times that I'm NOT saying you're going to be attempting to take him down or dispatch him when I say to learn self defense, stop reading it as 'self defense' because it's much more then that.
As Archie said you could get paranoid and draw the gun on a innocent suspicious looking person, and because you're so paranoid you might just kill them there and then. If you receive proper training you would not let paranoia cloud your thoughts and you would think things through so much more logically, and would only draw if he posed an immediate threat to you and in a situation where you had no other choice. Self discipline goes a extremely long way in the ways of owning a gun, believe it or not martial arts [or any form of self-defense] do not just help you in only hand-to-hand combat.

With that aside I do think you should ditch the pot, controlled or not that shit kills a fuckton of braincells, but I won't tell you how to live your life.
[I wouldn't understand 'partying' or such, I wouldn't drink beer or smoke anything if I was given the choice, I just don't get the benefits, but to each their own.]

Apologies, I let my anger get the better of me and went off when I shouldn't have, the Karate comment just struck a wrong note for me and fueled by my attitude of Americans I went where I shouldn't have. Sorry.

Ninja'd

You're right, I did go off on you, and I shouldn't have, but understand that you weren't getting the point and I was getting severely frustrated by having to explain such a simple concept, the pot comment was far too exploitable and I chose to exploit it because I felt it was appropriate at the time because it would piss you off, in the process emphasizing to you just how extremely frustrating it was to attempt to respond to you. Judging from the posts following, I'd say it succeeded, so either way, I won. You shouldn't have responded at all, but neither should have I. Somehow we've got a 2-way troll going, and I say fuck it, I'll leave and you leave, otherwise this would go on until we both get banned.

Of course, that won't happen. It can't. Human psychology just prohibits it from happening. Still fun to try though.

This is exactly what I'm referring to with martial arts, a true martial artist is not like me, they do not let anger cloud their judgement and they do not break their composure so easily, they exercise a great level of self-discipline and respect. I'd like to think that I'd gotton better since before I started taking karate but I suppose I'd just by lying to myself.

Er sorry actually no, I worded that completely incorrectly, I should have said how is that INSULTING, not personal, my bad.

Also I don't believe Jesus Christ engages in such actions, as they probably were considered unorthodox at the time, and no I also don't believe Jesus Christ can ever be wrong, but why do you ask?

But shit talking aside, All I'm saying is that a gun is not beneficial without even proper gun training, what I'd read from Zeeba's post is that he's stating that he's going to buy a gun and just that gesture will keep him safe and from getting mugged. I'm telling him that plan won't work. Just accept that and move on, it's the internet, not America.
He should seek some self defense training [Not necessarily karate or kung fu, but any self defense training] so that he can be more aware of the hostile environment he's in, is there a crackhead at that corner? Don't go near there. Suspicious individual always hanging around that corner over there? Don't go there either. Basic awareness even to that level goes a long way. If he wants to get a gun, more power to him, but he should NEVER automatically assume he is safe just because he has it on him, that is a extremely careless attitude, especially when you're in such a hostile environment.

You can't achieve anywhere near what you can achieve with colour correction just with lighting alone.

Agreed, especially since color correction can just be changed right on the spot should you want to change the mood at any time, whereas if you were to try doing that with lighting you'd have to change so many individual light settings to do what you very easily did with one entity.

Also post-colour correct it looks great, IMO before it looked generic but now it takes on it's own unique look.

Well then technically anything you've said to anybody is personal, by mentioning PB in an earlier post I've basically made this 'personal', so I really don't see your point.

How is it personal again? You're ignorant as to the proper idea as to what a martial art really is, because of the American media nobody knows what the fuck it's all really about, if I call you ignorant that's not an insult, it's stating that you're unaware of the real facts, about what's actually happening. If you want to take it personally, go ahead, that is your problem, but stating somebody is ignorant about something isn't personal, no matter what light you shine it in.

You were clearly implying that I was retarded or something

Nope, you only comprehended it as such, because you want to make it your own way to take anything and everything the wrong way so you can call me a prick. Doesn't work that way.

Like I said, what you were saying makes absolutely no sense whatsoever so if you want to take the comment intently wrong then that's your problem, but what you are suggesting [GUN=EASY123 ENEMIES RUN AWAY:DDD] is nonsensible and illogical to the extreme, pot kills braincells and hinders your logistical way of thinking so it'd make sense for one who smokes it to think so clouded.

Like I said, Martial arts might teach you how to do efficient punches and kicks, but that is not even remotely close to what it's about. Martial arts are lifestyles, they teach you respect and discipline, it is far far more then just punching and kicking which roughly is every Americans idea of Martial arts no thanks to the shitty media system.

A gun, does not substitute for years of discipline and hard training, if anything it will make you more reckless and careless because you for some reason believe it will somehow get you out of the situation, like it's a magical "pull it out and tehy go away" button you just have to press.

Yes really, but all you see in movies or TV shows are punches and kicks.

Also how is that a personal insult? You do pot and you're telling me that a gun will suddenly magically solve problems so that you don't have to take proper training to learn how to handle tough situations, and that a gun will suddenly make you realize exactly how to handle rough situations [EG. pull gun out, robber runs away! Happy ending, rejoice!] I was going to realize the connection sooner or later.

No the American media really is ass-retarded in the sense that they always portray martial arts as cool backflips and kicking and punching and nothing else. We get the same horseshit here because we have American television broadcasts as well. Karate kid is the only movie that I'd seen that even remotely comes close to portraying martial arts correctly, but not even.

Martial arts do not teach you how to do kicks and punchs, they teach you to be aware of where you are, what other people are going to do, and how to deal with situations regardless of extremity, everything else comes secondary.
If somebody has a gun pointed at you and is going to shoot, you can't pull your gun quick enough to shoot him first because he's already got his gun on you, NOTHING will save you from that scenario.

Oh right you're American, you don't see martial arts as self defense you see them as flying high kicks and beating other people up, of course how silly of me to forget.

You see, believe it or not, martial arts are not just simply fighting styles, they do really fucking weird-ass shit like train your reflexes and help you be aware of the environment around you and shit. Really fucking weird shit, right?

No but really though, if you honestly think that somebody utilizing Karate training means they're trying to charge somebody with a fucking gun, then just go back to your pot. Somebody with Karate training isn't going to be stupid enough to try charging somebody with a gun, they wouldn't even be at gunpoint to begin with.

I smoke pot

Suddenly it all makes sense

Because PB Ninja'd me,

TL;DR: A gun is not a solution, it is merely a tool. If you don't know how to put together a broken car, don't go out and buy a drill and expect it to suddenly allow you to put it back together with no experience.

If you know how to properly deal with a situation then a gun would be beneficial, it may seem stupid to take Karate for defending yourself against armed attackers, but that's just because you're too ignorant to understand how self defense training works, and I won't bother trying to explain it, but I'll just say that it helps you with retarded shit like situation awareness and reflexes, but nothing that would help you the way a gun in your hands would, because that'd be fucking ridiculous.

Zeeba is saying that he's worried about getting his expensive laptop stolen so he's getting a gun and saying that it will keep him safe. I'm just telling him that buying a gun isn't exactly a solution.

But whatever, you Americans can live with your high daily death toll rate, I'll just be over here, not getting shot at every two seconds by crackheads.

Posting statistics about how redneck your country is isn't exactly the best counter-argument.

You might think the idea of karate vs gun is a silly thing, but in reality just buying a gun and expecting it to waive off all the robbers and bad guys is just as stupid, with the difference being with karate you actually know what the fuck you're doing.

But now... All I gotta do is get my license and borrow my dad's 9mm until I can afford a pistol or even just use the rest of my student loan and get one. I will be safe in the parking lots now

Like I've said endless times, you cannot just simply get a gun and have it do magical things. if you don't know any form of self defense, gun or not.
Learning Karate or any form of self defense will make you safer in the parking lot, simply buying a gun does not substitute for actual training that actually teaches you how to deal with situations.

Erp, something that's not readily apparent is that second paragraph down I was talking to Zeeba, not Archie, my bad.

Why learn "self defense[sic] of some sort" only to give them what they want if you're ever confronted?

Self defense is beneficial if the person who confronts you is going to kill you or cause you extreme harm regardless of whatever you give them or do, for the most part giving the robber what he wants should make him leave you alone though.

Let me ask you a very simple question, if you shoot or stab somebody with a knife in the arm or leg, can you kill them from it?

You CAN NOT just stab or shoot somebody at random points on their body just hoping that you pick a spot that only 'hurts' and won't kill them. Using a knife to defend yourself with absolutely no experience as to where the vital arteries are is only going to make you kill somebody. A gun only makes it worse.

Like I said, take up self defense so you can get even the slightest of a grasp as to how the human body functions, because simply buying a gun will not solve ANYTHING, after you take self defense and understand thoroughly how the human body functions, where vital organs are, vital arteries, nerve bundles and soforth, then you can get a gun as a means of extra security, but if you don't know anything about the human body then don't get a fucking gun. Killing somebody over a fucking laptop is absolutely redneck.

For fucks sake don't just get a gun, it doesn't solve a goddamn thing. Learn some self defense of some sort, and if ever confronted just give them what they want, pulling a gun with no experience is just going to get you killed, and there's no point in killing others when you very easily could have dispatched them in a non-lethal fashion, then called the cops and had them arrested.

Yes, he is 12, but he is a native english speaker.

12 year old's don't have the vast vocabulary that somebody over 12 has gained over the span of their lifetime, nor are they as far education wise as somebody older, speaking English natively is irrelevant.

Here's the CNC2000 supressor by CNC Gunsmithing.

If you want a cheap SD capture card you can't go wrong with EzCAP, it's extremely cheap and if it's not good enough, you didn't waste any money.

go outside (that's the big ass room with no ceiling)

what noob forgot to put a ceiling in that room? Haven't they heard of LEAKS?

I was not referring to the slow motion, I was referring to the camcorder as a whole. A camcorder's main function being video I'd have assumed that whoever reads it would come to the conclusion that I was referring to the video, and not the camcorders capability to shoot video and take images. As Striker stated that he hoped that I'd be shooting video and that I shouldn't buy it just for taking images.

Just because I said it has slow motion capabilities does not mean I am suddenly referring to the slow motion capability from that point on. Moreover I would not refer to slow motion capabilities as "It", don't you think it would be odd if i did?

My comprehensive skills are not at fault here, it is either your poor reading of my writing, or my poor wording.

EDIT:When you hold it steady it can take some pretty decent pictures.

Ditto, and if [simg] is 'Small image tag', then could we just get a tag that simply removes the "Open in new window" link, instead of resizing or moving the image?

Yeah camcorders are not good for photography at all, they have very poor [if at any] manual controls for settings, this one fortunately has a ring on the lens that allows for some relatively precise focus [Being 'normal' and 'macro'] so it's still pretty useful for video.

Also, are you seriously suggesting that I would ever have a camcorder with slow motion capabilities, and WOULDN'T use it? Don't speak such blasphemy!

Well, the camera wasn't in-store even though it should have been [The website listed the product as available in the local store's stock], so I instead just got what was next down on my priority list: HD Camcorder.

The video quality it shoots is quite great for a sub-150$ camera, but unfortunately if I want some good shallow DOF, I'll have to shell out over 600$ for one of the DSLRs they had in stock. I do not have over 600$.Some individual frame-grabs from test videos:It probably doesn't look too great as a individual screengrab due to some slight compression, but at 30 frames per second, the quality is pretty nice.
Plus, it's got 60fps 720p capabilities for some fun slowmotion videos.

Nope, it just doesn't work for you.

I remember when the first Just Cause was released, the graphics were so amazing at the time it was almost like Crysis level for us.

I agree, you guys need to stop jumping on his dick first chance you get, if he wants to gain some interest before he writes up a dozen or two lines of description then let him. He did the exact same thing with the 'realistic shadows' tutorial that you guys loved so much.

While Striker's photography is great, I agree, with a real photography course, you will learn probably a lot more then Striker depending on how far in you go.

However, keep in mind it has nothing to do with the knowledge, it is purely the artistic talent and vision you have that will allow you to take great photographs, knowing how to operate the equipment almost comes second after.

Also Striker, the camera I want to get also has a 12.3' CMOS sensor, so our photography equipment would be pretty much on par. Bring it on.

EDIT: What camera do you have exactly? The one I'm looking at seems very similar to yours, shooting 720p video of about the same quality as your earthworm video, same CMOS sensor size, and same resolution?

Yeah, and I've got the perfect plan for when I do get it [hopefully the 31st]; Take pictures of cameras.Preferably old cameras.

So now it suddenly become an important thing eh?

I never said it was 'important', because if it was then I'd be saving up my own money for it, but I'm getting a certain amount of money and choosing what I want to buy with said money. It's not even remotely the same thing.

One is working your ass off to get an opportunity to get a camera, and the other is just picking\choosing to get a camera, when the opportunity just 'pops up'.
If somebody offered you a million dollar car and you accepted it, it doesn't mean you would have otherwise worked your ass to the bone to get enough money to pay for it. Or if somebody gave you a videogame for free does that mean you would have taken 60$ out of your paycheck to invest into buying it? No.

I might be getting this on my birthday, might not. Whatever.Ifwhen I do, expect some MF rape.

Should probably clean this up to be neater, but to lazy

You're too lazy to use entry-level English when you yourself are from an English speaking country, being outperformed by non English speakers in your own language?

Being lazy isn't exactly an excuse here.

Exactly.

Like said, erase whatever is written in the new password field if you do not intend to change the password. It doesn't look very blank.