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Quote from: ねこ on August 01, 2017, 05:14:52 PM

I think two of them are players from Unreal Tournament

Which ones? It's not uncommon for good Quake players to have played UT and other arena shooters as well.

Oh damn seems that they didn't make it, Vo0 the painkiller champion did dough

Yeah, Vo0 is performing pretty well in Quake Champions. He used to be a Quake 2 pro before going to Painkiller, so it's not surprising.

Did the australian player make it in?

Yep, Dandaking played in the US qualifiers at 300 ping and made it to the Regionals this weekend. Also, Australia is sending 4 people to the BYOC tournament. It's basically a mini-tournament held at the beginning of Quakecon where anyone who signs up and brings their own PC can participate at a small LAN. The top 8 there still make it into the main tournament. I'm hoping that some of the top European players that don't qualify in the regionals risk it and go play in the BYOC as well. After all, Australia really isn't all that good. Fraze is top tier, Camma and Python are decent too, but that's about it.

http://esreality.com/post/2880001/australia-to-send-4-to-quakecon/

The Regionals should be pretty damn great though. Only downside is the lack of balance between Europe and US. There's a lot more good players in Europe than there are in the US, yet both are limited to supplying 12 players each.

Among the top European players, we now have:
Cypher, Cooller, Evil, Demon, Xron, Noctis, Clawz, Nitrino, Voo, Agent, Tox, Fazz, Strenx, Avek, Killsen, Stermy and Base. That's 17 top tier players for 12 slots. 5 of the best players in the world will not be able to attend.

Among the top US players, there are:
Rapha, Dahang, Chance and id. That's 4 (5, if we're going to be very generous and count Griffin) top tier players for 12 slots. 8 subpar players that wouldn't stand the slighest chance against the abovementioned 5 Europeans that will be bumped from the list will still be able to attend and have zero odds of making it out of the first round or two.

And then, the final 8 players will be entered through the BYOC (bring your own computer) mini-tournament held at Quakecon itself. Since this is held in the US right before the main tournament starts, this is also going to be filled with lower tier American players that probably wouldn't even have made it through the very first qualifiers from back in June. Unless some players gamble and put up their own money just to try and qualify here, this is also a pretty disappointing group of contestants.

With the way the qualifiers are now laid out, we're going to see low tier US players qualify that would get absolutely destroyed by top EU players that can't qualify because of player count limits. Damn shame, especially considering that the BYOC last minute qualifications are also going to be US dominated since they're held in Texas itself. Still hype, but it does suck how they laid it out. Instead of having, say, the best 24 players in the world + 8 outliers compete, we're now probably only going to see like 16 of the top players. Bit of a shame, but hopefully they'll learn from their mistakes.

That's what you get for being a weeb.

A lot. Got some good news today but it'll take effort.

hey guys wanna argue even more? Can good gameplay make up for shit story and characters?

Absolutely.

http://challonge.com/znlu7oqa

Brackets for the regionals this weekend have been revealed. The top 12 players from each continent qualify for the Quakecon finals in a few weeks. Pretty hype stuff.

Quote from: Flee on August 01, 2017, 12:51:12 PM

Quakecon 2017 and the revival of the greatest competitive video game series in history.

League is becoming less shit?

>moba
>ever

Ew.

>Legal loli.

Is that even possible?

You silly baka, she's actually a 1000 year old dragon goddess taking on the appearance of a girl for reasons.

Quote from: MarKhan on July 28, 2017, 09:31:59 AM

YouTube

best overwatch video i've ever seen

The the current voice is better than what Terry would've been.

dude no way dude, what did you get so sober on??

Soon. I'll try to make some more time for it and post in the Discord again. Just been a really hectic few weeks at work. The H2020 deadlines are coming up soon and I'm working on my PhD proposal, so I haven't even touched my PC in a while.

Quote from: Verbatim on July 28, 2017, 08:09:14 PM

i'm pretty sure he can enter a bar, he just can't order anything alcoholic

or that's how it should work

Depends.
Smoking bar = he can't enter legally at all
Non smoking restaurant type "bar" he can enter and sit at a table but not the bar itself.

Key word is legally.

Damn, American drinking laws are stupid.

Information

They're not really the same though. Information is data formatted in a way that gives value or meaning.

Quote from: FatherlyNick on July 27, 2017, 12:26:26 PM

Was that taken in Europe?

That's London

It is? Buildings look very Paris to me.

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Quote from: Flee on July 25, 2017, 02:50:07 PM

The most likely solution is that you will need to verify your age and identity by giving out credit card details to the site

For Pornhub there are times when I click on a video I get spammed with those fake game bait and switch links. I'm not saying Pornhub is a dangerous site to have your credit card info on, but I wouldn't trust any site which have bait and switch ads. Do to those types of ads I think it's a bad idea to have your information like that on. The UK government should just leave it to the "check the box" for your age rather than forcing people to post their information on a site which could be a trap.

It is an ISP block, so you will provide your credit card info only to your ISP. So, for example, you trying to access the age restricted site, your provider pops up the page "You are trying to access age restricted site" with field where you are entering your credit card number, then ISP checks if your credit card number is in bank database. If it is there, you'll be then redirected to the page you need, otherwise it pops up an error.

I don't think that's true at all. Details are currently not yet final, but it's the sites themselves that require the verification.

I don't think that it will be carried by sites themselves, at least it shouldn't, because it is hard to make every site who hosts something age restricted implement block, plus owners of sites will probably be against such kind of block, plus in this case sites will really have access to your credit card info, which is dumb.

"The age-check requirement applies to any website or other online platform that provides pornography "on a commercial basis" to people in the UK. It allows a regulator to fine any business that refuses to comply and to ask third-party payment services to withdraw support. The watchdog will also be able to force internet providers to block access to non-compliant services."

Basically, commercial porn sites must have proper age verification tools for anyone trying to connect from the UK. If they don't, they can first be fined and then blocked completely in the UK by British ISPs. So it's not the ISPs who will verify the identity.

Highly flawed law.