They are nice to browse around and get ideas. I meant a full list of all existing tags actually, not just "popular" ones. 

Drew 30 minutes is what I have from monday to friday everyday at the moments is nothing in mapping time because i�m as brilliant as you guys are...

I take to many time to make some brushes :|

And I rather use this minutes to finish my map that is in progress since January 2009 and only have 1171 brushes :( 

i remember doing one in 10 mins once. timed on a stopwatch (think it actually came to 10:47, but close enough). christ remembers which pack it ended up in but it got onto SDA somehow :D

it was with qED as well, remade in WC it would probably take half that time... 

But I remember Xen did an awesome 30 min speedmap once.

His SM's near the end were amazing. 

yeah whatever happened to him... 

Think scampie pissed him off and he left. 

That sucks. Especially since Scampie has pretty much left too. 

http://www.reviewwithextremeprejudice.com/?p=78

This is how you are supposed to do it. 

Truth be told, that game does look pretty badass. And Zero Punctuation has been getting pretty stale lately, it was past due for someone else to take up the snarky video game reviewing mantle. 

I like that review :-) 

After reading someone's recommendation (think it was Metl), I gave it the demo a go on the PS3 and I liked it. Gonna try the PC demo on steam too to see if the controls are better so I can make up my mind what platform it makes sense to get for. 

That review delivery was so slow and stilted, I only lasted halfway... 

+1 for Yhatzee:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1516-Aliens-vs-Predator 

Much more like it. Who said he was getting stale?? 

That other review is US american, Zero Punctuation is british. Hmm... 

wasn't even worth pausing my music. Not to speak of my wasted time. Not funny. 

The guy forgot to bring the funny. 

The time to get a TFT is finally here. Going for a 19" one (everything above is too large for my needs, or is it?). What can you tell me about widescreen displays? Seems weird for a computer monitor. How does one work in games - is the display streched? Any real benefit? 

Why on earth would you want to map on a small 19" when you can map on a 22-24" on a MUCH larger resolution? 

http://www.amazon.de/LG-L227WTP-PF-TFT-Monitor-Kontrast-30000/dp/B001H2K2IK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=ce-de&qid=1268855687&sr=8-1

and i'm pretty much satisfied with it, even though I found the colours too intensive at first and calibration was a bitch. Now that i'm used to it, it seems that even if it is wrong (which i don't really know), it's not problematic. Nothing occurs to me as wrong, and i have a crt next to it. it looks different and less intense, but the samsung looks better now.

Gaming is fine unless you're really hardcore gamer and even then you can get used to it.

i'd also agree that larger is better, unless you're desk is in a really, really confined space 

the crt looks different and less intense. 

Yes, finally not more nagging about wrong screenshot brightness!

I have a LG Flatron L227WTP and love it. A bit too bright for working so I reduce gamma a bit. 

What did you calibrate? Do you use sRGB? 

So sick of being blasted by electron guns.

Here's a question... for gaming and mapping, 16:10 or 16:9 aspect ratio?

Also, are there good panels that have component or composite inputs? I would want to plug my game system (PS2 currently) into this. 

I run a 24" Acer at 1920x1080 (16:9) and it works great. I also have a 23" tv with enough separate inputs for my Wii, PS2 and Xbox so I never have to unplug any of them. I just switch modes and there ya go.