Hi there Americans (and other ESreality users feeling obliged to read this journal entry)!
What is the best gaming ISP in the San Francisco area, just based on low latency?
I moved from the land where internet is like LAN and blonde girls beg you to have sex with them all the time, (yes, I am of course talking about Sweden) to San Francisco, CA, USA in May last year. It was a work-related move. Right now I have comcast which... well... I haven't really been tempted to try much FPS games online lately, partly because I lost the touch with all the homies back in Sweden and the IRC culture over there, but also because the times I have tried it has been more than frustrating (latency wise).
The reason why I am asking around now is that I want to be prepared for when Quake Live comes out and maybe play an hour or two online again.
I haven't looked around that much to be honest so any feedback is appreciated.
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some redbull and some dextrose...
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Toxic was playing the semi's about now.
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Someone please figure out what the guys who did this meant... and what is that sign after the "fisk"? ("Fisk" is "fish" in swedish)
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Last picture before the boys got their gloves on...
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After the final (which toxic won in a 2-1, 2-1 fashion, coming from the loosers bracket) Gopher and fox taking turns yawning
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Ms.x, prozac, zlz in the front and behind him carmac interviewing toxic.
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... hmmm, what is happening here?
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Don't know about you, but I think Liefje looks peculiar in this picture.
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... and a piece of Carmac
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The vodka in Fatal1ty's hand was emptied quite quickly that night.
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We crammed ourselves into one of the rooms which the g0d-girls had rented.
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trito looking really scary here...
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Fatality showing some Texas Hold'em skills.
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team9|zeb is watching as sujoy, devilmc, falcon, gopher and behind him toxic, fiddle with their computers just as you should at a BYOC LAN.
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Between fox and toxic. Since they sat next to each other we got "something" to put in between them. What's more fitting than a huge Q4-logo?
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Fox hiding on the other side of the cardboard.
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The famous RTCW player civ, now playing quake 4 with team9.
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Canna 1th, fox 2th, hazter 3rd and OoZe, rvd, smi, Missy, slayz, Louie as 4-10th place.
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They threw out alot of stuff to the audience at the ceremony.
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Mattias declaring the results.
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... and got quite a lot of stuff
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Well, soon was a relative term here... first there were a couple of matches in the losers bracket that had to be played. This time we used more of a budget version card board.
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There were other entertainment than just sitting infront of your computer all day... you could stand and play at one of these!
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Some of these guys were pretty good
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Kind of like all the other arcade games, but this one requires some drumming-skills. The guy who is sitting there when I snapped this photo was doing the songs on the most difficult level and it almost looked like it was easy... almost...
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Closest to the camera we have: [FOE]OoZe (fastest man on earth?!), Louie, rvd and megaone (or mo)
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This shot was taken about 6am in the morning on saturday. I almost fell asleep... heck, I did fell asleep, but luckely I woke some minutes before they started.
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This was where Fatal1ty, purri and stermy had their shootouts against three other players. They played FFA 5 minutes on "The Longest day".
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The VIA/S3 booth where the girls played.
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The crowd watching as the shootout takes place.
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They girls had signed up and they played the best out of the ones that faced fatality.
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... but looking elsewhere. Missy got 15 frags which earned her a 4-10th place and a sound card.
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Ms.X, aNouC, trito and Missy. All of them looking absolutely killer.
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Toxic and Lanman eating some food
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... and it's Purri's time to be the pro. Here he's actually playing FFA with two of united newbs: mo_of_swe and rvd. The fourth player was [FOE]OoZe. Needless to say, Purri had some more resistance then Fatality had the day before. Carmac closest to the camera and the shoutcaster to the left.
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OoZe (and rvd behind him) after the game. It was a close game, but purri managed to win in the end.
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In a club in Jönköping. Chromy hats and the back of Carmac.
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Photo's taken by DWdanne during the Dreamhack Winter 05 event.
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Gametype: Team Game
Map: ospdm6 - Intervention
Mod: N/A
Viewpoint: [EYE]ironbyte
Version info: 1.32
How to play back Q3 demosThis is [EYE]ironbyte playing a pickup-game. It's basically a massacre. It could be argued that the demo is not worth watching because of the following:
1) "Teh other team suckz, they're newbs walking straight forward 'n that. I can own 'I can win' bots that way tooo, u know!"
2) Some members of the opposite team stops playing after about 12 minutes.
3) "Ironbyte isn't all +forward. He is all sneaky n' stuff! That sucks!"
4) "ospdm6 sucks!"
5) "Ironbyte is a quad-whore, taking 8 of the 10 quads. If I had quad all the time, don't you think that I'd do that kind of damage?!"
5) It's just a slaughter.
The arguments why anyone should watch this:
1) 18318 damage given
2) 67.7% rail (61/90) (The LG isn't bad either)
3) 105 kills, 5 deaths, 1 teamkill. 99 NET
4) It's just a slaughter.
You decide.
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Gametype: N/A
Map: N/A
Mod: N/A
Viewpoint: MVD
Version info: pr 1.32 promode version 1.00
How to play back Q3 demosEvent: Challenges-2 map: cpm16
Second game between Fazz and Lsv
Update: Unfortunately this file is no longer available on ESR.
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