CornOnJacob

Maybe there is a problem with your damage code. This seems pretty straightforward, so as long as you have the right commands, those 6 lines are not the problem.

@CornOnJacob, how about not allowing any submitter to vote?

 

When some submitters vote those who do not are, intentionally or not, manipulating the outcome.

What do you mean exactly? That's the point of voting. They are not allowed to vote for themselves, no one can manipulate the outcome in his/her favor, only in someone else's.

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After all, this is a competition, and some people will not vote for what is best for the competition, but only for what is best for themselves. Requiring voting may lead to some seriously messed up results.

 

TL:DR The builds need to be a bit more diverse for more voting to occur, as everyone builds what they believe is best. There needs to be more options in the build, to make people realize that there are other ways to build it that could be better, such as different allocations of budget, instead of having it come down to who system has the better specs and does the best in benchmarks.

That is an unfortunate part of having constrictive budgets. We are all people who enjoy building PCs and are at least somewhat knowledgeable on the topic, which leads to similar decisions regarding parts. I want to encourage people to refrain from entering if there is already a build entered which is very similar and they would be comfortable voting for it. Voting will never be required on the part of participants if I have anything to say about it.

In the past, the most votes have come in the most well-known contests (such as Linus' Rig Done Right), which is why we asked Slick to mention the Build-Offs on the WAN Show so they got more attention. Unfortunately he did it during the afterparty and fewer people heard it (and there is no archive of the afterparty that I know of). It was definitely still appreciated though, and I hope it will help with future voting.

IMO, there should be a link to the individual builds, for those that's on the voting poll, so it's easier to find the build, instead of scrolling through the pages. -snip-

When one of us puts up the poll, we could copypasta the "PCPartpicker Part List" at the top of each entrant's post and put it in the OP. Would that work?

Congratulations @KoolKaboom for winning Contest 60! #61 will be posted soon.

The poll is live!

Awww, was about to post my hackintosh build. Oh well, must save it and do that next time. So at $750 is this a APU build or can it be Intel?

Intel is totally fine. Which CPU is up to you

Sorry about the last minute switch. 

But this week is Valentine's week. I thought it would be appropriate to do so.

K, all set.

Aw darn, i wanted to do my Valentine's Day PC idea.

Sorry, I didn't see your PM until after I posted this. We can do it next

I present Contest 60! http://www.linustechtips.com/main/topic/307503-build-off-contest-60-valentines-machine/

Welcome to the 60th LTT Build-Off! The rules and previous contests can be found here.

Thank you @terrytek for suggesting the challenge.

Budget: $750

Speakers/Headphones: No

Mouse: Yes

Keyboard: Yes

Monitor: No

Submissions: February 9th through 14th

Voting: February 15th through 19th

Pretty standard budget machine for a special someone. Let's assume that person wants to do a little gaming, so please include an APU or discrete GPU. Also, this build should have USB 3 and eSATA capability.

This is LoL, not wrestling. Does gender make enough of a difference to justify any sort of discrimination?

We're allowed to vote for ourselves, right? Or no?

Please read the rules in the main thread linked in every contest OP.

Under "Voting," it states:

2. Please do not vote for yourself (votes are public and you will be disqualified if you do). If you are caught making fake accounts in order to get extra votes you will be banned from participating in the future.

So no, you may not vote for yourself if you want your entry to count.

This is exciting, but since my friends and I can't even use Steam Broadcasting because our internet is too slow, I don't know how we could ever use this service to stream games.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/QNdLqs

Please paste in the full BBCode Markup so people don't have to follow links for every entry.

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Your formatting seems to be messed up. Try copypasta again, and if it doesn't work right then no big deal.

I hate how "quantum" is becoming a buzzword. Are the "dots" in a superposition of different color values, making it easier and faster to switch between colors? No? Is there another quantum technology at use here? No? Then this is not quantum anything.

I have the v1 and love it. Hope the v2 is even better and they don't skimp on the quality now that the HyperX Cloud has a good reputation.

the UN are a bunch of asshats that does whatever favors the us gov, when was the last time they did something significant that favored anyone that wasn't the us or eu

The only thing keeping the US in check is the Russian/Chinese vetoes. The only thing keeping Russia in check is the US veto. To top it off, the UN is pretty powerless anyway.The whole thing is so broken.

Well i might help for the build contest since it was my idea but dont know if @CornOnJacob will approve.

My idea was to be one of the official creator of the build contest

 

I was thinking of taking ownership of this tread which i will ask the moderators

 

then again hope that CornOnJacob could see this

Yeah. I have time to help out with it too. We can be co-workers on the build offs IFF the mods and CornOnJacob are ok with it. 

 

But @CornOnJacob   PLEASE COME BACK!

I wish I had more time for the forum too guys. I would definitely be open to letting you post contests when I can't, but I would rather not change ownership of the thread.

We can discuss this further in a PM.

From the PCPP source code:

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OT: This is really cool. Smaller implementations of heart rate sensors, for example, means more space for bigger batteries.

A chromecast would be great! I've wanted one for a while.

@nicklmg I'll ask you since you seem to be checking up on this thread: Does this mean that the whole-room-watercooling project is being delayed/canceled? It wouldn't make sense to hook things up just to move, and I doubt you guys will get around to it anytime soon after the move.

The hardware consists of a dual core Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 processor (the same processor that was used in the first Android-powered Motorola Droid RAZR)...I am expecting the Google Glass hardware to go through another stage of evolution before it’s ready for a primetime consumer release. That’s partially because Texas Instruments no longer support the OMAP chipset and I’m sure Google won’t simply swap out the processor, but will take the time to further refine the hardware design.

What's with Google using Texas Instruments chips? The Moto 360 really suffered from it, and the preview Google Glass already had bad battery life.

Not on topic, but senior year is worse. College apps. Trust me. Harder course load. Take it from a Senior. 

I guess it just seems bad because I've only experienced 11th grade so far. At least college apps are done by the time winter comes around. I'm taking 4 AP classes right now, and next year I'll probably drop it down to 3, so that's why I'm expecting it to be easier.

Yea either if is me or the forum is losing its shine. Lost a few good members.

Even though he is FRICKING online, looking at the community index.

IDK if you were talking about me or ddbtkd456, but I wasn't online when you posted. It really is a shame that so many people are leaving, but it's not like the community is dying. A few notable people are gone, but many new ones are joining.

Just because a few people have left doesn't necessarily mean the community is dying. Stuff happens, people get busy with life, things change. I'm sure someone else could take over setting up the build-off threads. One of us could probably do it, (though it helps to be a mod to be able to manipulate the threads/posts).

I can definitely still keep this running, I just get busy. I don't know your age (or the age of the other participants), but I'm a junior in high school which is the hardest, busiest year (even more than senior year) if you are planning to go to a high-caliber college (which I hope to do). I'm lucky if I make one post on the forum per day.

Thanks for your suggestions guys! Really appreciate them