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The Lounge / Re: Sports Argument BS
« on: Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 19:40:09 PM »
Skrewy is talking about existentialism.

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Honor Claims / Re: Honor Claim - TlTS_or_GTF0
« on: Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 19:37:46 PM »
Done.

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Hardware/Software / Re: What Makes an Excellent Sound Card?
« on: Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 19:27:54 PM »
Give me a picture of this Technics amp please.

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Hardware/Software / Re: What Makes an Excellent Sound Card?
« on: Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 18:48:12 PM »
Also Creative has technologies like "combat mod" that make you hear any enemy before they hear you. I never heard that, cause I never had a newer sound card from them, but I bet is all about their processor trying to detect the minimum sounds and making them louder (it might be something like that).

Compression. Or heavy limiting. Same idea.

And you are wrong about the onboard sound cards being good.

Of course they suck hard, but I know how to compensate for bad onboard sound. I can measure/listen for signal clipping so I don't send square waves to my big boy speakers. Then I turn down the gain for the onboard sound and just raise the amplifier power. I've got enough amp power so it's no big deal. I'd rather buy better speakers before I buy a big boy sound card.

Here's a fun fact; on my laptop the volume has to be set to 70% for optimum quality. This is the level where there is no signal clipping.
On my computer, which has a 90s creative soundblaster, the volume must be 85% for optimum quality.

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The Lounge / Re: Sports Argument BS
« on: Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 16:10:15 PM »
Giving someone positive feedback about their performance is something everyone likes even if they don't say it outright. Maybe this isn't a discussion of watching competitive sports but maybe it is relating to the person you're watching. Maybe you can't be as good as them at something and by experiencing a moment with them, you are them. We love stories of people rising to fame from nothing. So maybe when we're clenched to our seats saying, "can he do it?" we are with them at the moment and share the experience. If you were out there doing something awesome, you would just soak up all the good feel people are throwing at you. Who doesn't like to be told they fucking rock. When we're watching a competitive event (or as you guys have been saying, even watching someone paint), are we watching for the event or is it something else?

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Honor Claims / Re: Honor Claim
« on: Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 15:48:47 PM »
Looks good.

Done.

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Honor Claims / Re: wiicked
« on: Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 15:47:07 PM »
Looks good to me.

Done.

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General Chat / Re: No Legal Weapon Action
« on: Monday, April 09, 2012, 22:51:23 PM »
Makes sense. It probably occurs because people keep mashing the shoot button even if they can't shoot due to reload, fix jam, etc etc.

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Hardware/Software / Re: What Makes an Excellent Sound Card?
« on: Monday, April 09, 2012, 21:14:01 PM »
I guess I'm a purist because I don't want to have things messing with audio to make it "crystal clear" like you say.

Makes me so happy that Windows 7 has a Disable All Enhancements tickbox for audio devices. I don't need to dick around those stupid driver control panels to turn random "enhancements" off.

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General Chat / Re: No Legal Weapon Action
« on: Monday, April 09, 2012, 20:51:37 PM »
I didn't respond because I don't know. I've never gotten it so it doesn't bug me.

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Hardware/Software / Re: What Makes an Excellent Sound Card?
« on: Monday, April 09, 2012, 20:50:31 PM »
Meh, these days motherboard sound is enough for anything. If your a pro and play with big boy speakers, and pro audio equipment, you're going to have a usb or fireware DAC if you use the computer for audio. If you're a gamer and feel like those PCI-E soundcards do something for you, that's cool maybe it does I dunno.

If you don't use the computer for audio, then you're on vinyl or cd's which then is a completely different story and all of this discussion about sound cards doesn't matter :)

In the end, for me as long as I don't hear clipped waveforms and bad response then I don't really care how the sound is being processed.

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Hardware/Software / Re: What Makes an Excellent Sound Card?
« on: Monday, April 09, 2012, 18:36:05 PM »
I don't believe in HTIB's. Only if they give winning lottery tickets.

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Hardware/Software / Re: What Makes an Excellent Sound Card?
« on: Monday, April 09, 2012, 18:34:45 PM »
Hahaha yeah. I have pondered going to optical, but I can deal with random laptop parts squealing occasionally. It's not too bad if I shove all the equipment on the same tap.

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Hardware/Software / Re: What Makes an Excellent Sound Card?
« on: Monday, April 09, 2012, 17:03:16 PM »
I won't even get into the crappy power supplies in computers (even the $200 ones, they're still of the switching variety), grounding issues and EMI/RFI.

And oh lord switching power supplies are noisy cunts. A poorly designed switching power supply can goof up all your audio lines. Fact, I have that problem on my laptop when it's connected to an amp on AC power. Damn power supply is too damn noisy and has terrible ground.

I'm gonna split this.

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Hardware/Software / Re: What Makes an Excellent Sound Card?
« on: Monday, April 09, 2012, 15:47:24 PM »
Nice for people processing effects on digital audio workstations for music and such.

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