Zhohar

That's one happy little dude. Made my day.

PS: TG BF2142 server is dying. Lots of good times there, sad to see it go. Fingers crossed for BF3.

Article: http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/social...ooling-effect/

Key quotes:

The Evaporative Cooling Effect ... occurs when the most high value contributors to a community realize that the community is no longer serving their needs any more and so therefore, leave. When that happens, it drops the general quality of the community down such that the next most high value contributors now find the community underwhelming. Each layer of disappearances

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Maybe I'll detail my adventure here.

So I started out with regex. Each span has a unique ID, so regex -- why not? Slurp the whole file, match on the IDs, barf out the content.
Not my most brilliant moment, I've got to admit. The HTML is often formatted strangely, and this method is pretty inefficient for large files. I figured someone had already done this (I knew, in fact, I just figured this'd be faster and simpler), so method #2.
The HTML Parser class from CPAN. ...

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Enjoy~

Previous loadout: Assault + USAS + extra C4 + extra shells.
Current loadout: Medic + USAS + extra speed + magnum ammo.

180 degree turnaround in gameplay.

What's the end result?
a) 2x more effective squads. I'm a smart dude -- spending 2 minutes of my time to C4 a tank that's nearly useless anyways is not the best way I can contribute to my team. Pulling off 5 revives in that span of time makes my squad, and my team a lot more effective.
b) ...