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Pirate Hat. Good for deathmatches. 'Nuff said.

The new build of PR3 will have some improvements in the chat system:

1. The "this room is brought to you by ..." text only shows in user created rooms.
2. Stuff you write in the "notes" field when creating a room will actually show up
3. The creator of a room can type /kick username to kick spammers out (This only works in user created rooms, and moderators are immune)
4. Your room selection is remembered. If you leave a chat room for a while ...

I did some messing around with performance-y stuff today. The Water Block Washin' level was taking 1:45 seconds to draw on my laptop, and now it is taking 0:09 seconds. That's more than 10 times faster, so yay.

Setting the brush tool's size to 1 will now cause it to act like a pencil tool. This gives you control over individual pixels... combine that with being able to hold shift to draw a straight line, and it's possible to make some very precise and detailed drawings.

Why only race your own ghost? That's kind of neat and all, but it would be neat-er if you could race the ghosts of your friends as well. You could try to beat their best time, and they, in turn, could come back later and try to beat yours.

As luck would have it, I just added such a feature to PR3.

This is a video of me trying to beat Tigerheart's best time on "Blue Construction Zone". As you can see, I got nowhere close. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xya_olFA22k ...