...Mmmm...interesting response IanH...as i was not insulting your intelligence at all. Also, I flagged up the fact that I realised i was being arrogant and used emoticons to illustrate that I was being only semi-serious and also actually stated that my tongue was firmly in my cheek for part of that response.
In terms of fact, my comment about game speed did not simply relate to online games but also offline against bots (as you know, this can be just as intense as online in Q3 and UT2003 which u yourself said u will be playing)...so I don't understand your reaction against my comments on that. Oh, and by the way, I am extremely well aquainted will LAN parties. However, I am sure you know that there are LAN parties and there are 'real' LAN parties. And I'm sure (like me) you have experience of these in tournament play in Q2, Q3, UT and UT2003 - enough to know that a serious gamer will sacrifice every aspect of graphic 'effect' to achieve maximum clarity of image and speed of refresh and frame rate...an LCD would never be considered in this community. An LCD is currently purchased for its aesthetics and space-saving qualities, and not for its graphic performance.
Please, if you do come back and read this (just out of curiosity) read my post again carefully...I think u will find that it was not as insulting or personally focused as u might have first thought...that certainly was not my intent.
However, I am perfectly willing to accept that if you misinterpreted it, then it can only be because i badly phrased my message. I'm happy to apologise for that.
On another point...I have given the same advice to my own Brother who nearly paid a fortune for an LCD monitor expecting it to do what he wanted when playing games. I can not stress enough my own view that you will be wasting your hard-earned money on LCD at this time, especially if u want to play games. The point of giving advice here is to try and help others avoid the mistakes that we ourselves have made. Believe me, i have been there...and i wish someone had given me strong advice against similar decisions that i have made in the past. I have made myself feel stupid on many occasions.
Sometimes my own strength of opinion might make my posts seem a little arrogant...that's just me...and it's something i realise and that's why I state that i'm going to be arrrogant in my posts. My intention was to do whatever I could to try and make sure you didn't get a dissapointment.
It's your money, and your choice. But you wouldn't have sought advice in this forum if you knew what you were going to do. I just decided that I would advise you in a strong manner. Clearly i failed to adequately emphasise the intended 'light-heartedness' of my post.
I'm adult enough to take criticism if you feel it's warranted, and i hope you don't leave the forum. The greatest respect i can show anyone, is by taking time to read their message and actually responding to it. But I will also defend myself in this place and will not accept criticism unless substantiated in fact.
I hope this is accepted in the spirit it is intended, but if not, i am still open to a duel...in Q2, Q3, UT or UT2003...I will be using an Iiyama Vision Master Pro CRT 1411 17'' monitor...and i will seriously kick your ass...simply because I will see you faster and clearer while strafing and tapping you twice to the head with my flak cannon.
...now that's what I call arrogant
Response time on CRT monitors is, several orders of magnitude, faster than on even the fastest LCDs.
I know I can be a little 'brutish' at times, but I don't think I deserved IanH's comments. However, I have sent him an email apologising if i caused offence and suggesting that he should come back to the forum.