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So I was named ' overall ' winner of the lan held at Georgia Tech last semester and basically I got 3 choices of grand prizes.
8800gt
22inch wide screen lcd
xbox360
Originally, at the lan they told me it was a 8800GTS and a xbox360. I was going to take the video card because I didn't have my new computer yet [ I do now ] and it would've saved me a bunch of money. I would've only had to pay like 100 more for the 8800GT I have now [ paid fully - _-v ]
Anyway, that's all the specs they gave me. I have no use for the video card now and I figure even from a financial standpoint the LCD would sell for the most. I have no interest in the xbox360 nor it's games, I was going to pick that simply to give to my teammates/friends irl since we won cs 1.6/cs:source/dota together.
I asked for the specs of the 22inch lcd and I'm waiting for the response email. Still though, I can't help but think even the shittiest 22inch widescreen costs more than a xbox.
I also don't like widescreens so in the end I might just sell whichever I pick. I think xbox's go for $350 nowadays?
Lastly, those with widescreen LCD's do you really enjoy them? I have a 20.1 LCD non-widescreen because I just always didn't like how a widescreen felt playing games.
 
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I have a widescreen on my laptop, it's alright. I prefer standard. I think I also have a 20.1 non-widescreen LCD for my tower and it's perfect for me.
I'd keep the LCD though.
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$350? wtf I don't think they are really that cheap man
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On February 09 2008 02:15 JensOfSweden wrote:
$350? wtf I don't think they are really that cheap man
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000W91YTA/
The reason I don't want an xbox360 is because I'm not a console gamer at all. None of the games appeal to me other than maybe halo. I have no time to play it either, no tv [ I watch hdtv through tv-tuner card on pc ].
I would give it up in a second though to one of my friends who wanted it but other than that it has no value to me.
Other thing that bothered me is that they didn't list the manufacturer for the 8800gt.
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what you do is you take the 360 and then give it to us for a teamliquid starleage prize.
I wont ever win it so you know I'm not suggesting it out of greed
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On February 09 2008 02:51 XCetron wrote:
what you do is you take the 360 and then give it to us for a teamliquid starleage prize.
I wont ever win it so you know I'm not suggesting it out of greed
I hate you now because I know I'll never win it either, but you were the one that made my inferiority so obvious D: <
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It's ok though guys I'll win it and fork it over to you
K?
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lcd
edit: I thought this was going to be more philosophical, such as choices about life or something....way to let me down with the ~
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On February 09 2008 03:42 fight_or_flight wrote:
lcd
edit: I thought this was going to be more philosophical, such as choices about life or something....way to let me down with the ~
Really?
You want more of those? I mean....seriously if you want I could link you to about 10 topics like that.
Sorry I let you down rofl.
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what games did you play at the lan? Was it a good lan>?
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It was good as in fun. It wasn't that competitive I'd say about 6/10 overall.
My friends decided to win as many events as we could. At first they had console games too and we would've wiped the board clean but had some trouble. I guess I can post the whole thing here as I'm done with classes today, thanks for the interest inc!
They had wc3, sc, cs 1.6, cs:source, quake, dota, some other strange fps game I couldn't figure out.
I played in sc, cs:source, cs1.6, dota. I could've played in wc3 but the times for the events overlapped.
Our team placed 1st in source, 2nd in 1.6, and 3rd in dota. I placed 2nd in broodwar.
The funny thing is I had zero expectations to place at broodwar. I literally hadn't touched broodwar for over a year [ although still coming to TLnet of course ] I played maybe 5-7 ICCUP games to practice 2 days before the lan. I basically ripped through everyone up until the playoffs through pure build order execution. Once I got to the semi-finals I was a bit worried but I still didn't know at this point I was at semis. It was just another game to me.
I rolled this guy again with pure build order about 6 minutes in. Every single one of my bw games was under 15 minutes but every single one was extended by at least 2-3 minutes because the faggot kids there who had no idea how to play would just float Terran buildings to odd corners of the map. Also rules were you decided the map between yourselves, and I kinda knew there would be newbs so I always let them choose the map.
The finals was bo3 and when my friends and I first got to the lan there were like 5 korean kids in a corner watching MSL live finals through stream and I thought to myself ' probably some good kids here ' I'm korean too, so I just pointed a thumbs up to them with a nod recognizing the fact they were watching a live stream of finals. This is why I didn't expect to go far in the bw tourney.
Since it was bo3 and he watched my last semi-final game from behind me I decided to switch up races from Protoss to Zerg. Turns out he plays protoss. We actually decided on Luna, and not some gay map like challenger or obscure 5man island map like my matches before (--v)
I was pretty confident in my lurker/ling +1carapace contain so I did that.... of course I don't follow progaming anymore after Boxer ' quit ' so I had no idea about Bisu style play with FE and sair/dt.
The only time I experienced this before was reps of Nal_rA on LT going fast nex. I actually took down his gateway with lurker sniping so I thought I was ahead and double expanded. Of course that was a huge mistake since I didn't think that all he needed the gateway for was the tech tree to corsair. He came with 3 sairs and raped all my ovies and I had to switch to hydras and game ended pretty fast after.
The second game I kinda just gave up and played a shitty PvP that ended in goon/reaver wars. I was really tired at this point since it was the 2nd to last event and probably 3:00AM and I still had dota to play.
He got a ktec mouse and I got razor krait which I was EXTREMELY happy with. Ktec would've been nice I have great mice already.
For winning source, all 5 of us got razer diamondbacks, for 2nd in 1.6 we got cd holding binders.
Dota was such a debacle, since my teammates and I were SO confident we could win. We rolled all the teams and got to the semi-finals. It was a NINETY minute game. Well into 5am in the morning and the lan started at 8PM the day before. We placed third because we ended up on their side of the bracket. In comparison, the finals game lasted 30 minutes. We definitely would've placed 2nd if we were on the other side of the bracket. We probably could've taken first as well but our actual dota roster wasn't our most competitive. Our team at the lan was 1-2 casual players and only 3 competitive players who didn't play that well that day.
At the end of the dota game as I was putting up my keyboard the guy who ran the event came to me and said I was the overall winner for placing highest in the most events. Thus the prizes... That was a long time ago and I thought he forgot about it but finally I got an email.
There's another lan coming this ' winter ' and I'm excited to go to this one too. As gay as it might sound that I win prizes cuz I actually play the games semi-competitively and most people there are newbs, it's still nice and fun to play with friends. Especially team games like cs and dota.
I promised the korean kid in the bw finals I would practice next time because I thought to myself if I played this guy in my ' prime ' it would've been a lot closer. It was a breath of fresh air because he spoke little English but was very humble about winning and shook my hand everything. All my other bw opponents were bm non-mannered faggots.
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if its a sick monitor, take it (like 3000:1 contrast, 2ms, etc) Otherwise i'd get the 360 because it has the highest retail value and sell it if you can.
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On February 09 2008 07:50 decafchicken wrote:
if its a sick monitor, take it (like 3000:1 contrast, 2ms, etc) Otherwise i'd get the 360 because it has the highest retail value and sell it if you can.
This is what I'm hoping for.
But still even if it's like 5ms 2000:1 ratio I'd still get it because like that link above 360 is not worth that much nowadays.
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