Just because your local police force "supposedly" called SWAT out incorrectly does not mean there should be no SWAT teams at all.

Right, and when someone goes crazy is running around with a assault rifle and body armor killing everyone, you would likely be the first person to say "Why didn't the police have anything to stop this maniac before he killed so many people". Keep throwing stones without understanding.

Gates was a visionary and he acted when others did nothing.

This whole situation is terribly simple to understand and CNN provided the footage. A black woman was being interviewed and she said (yelled) "All we want is the truth, why can't we have the truth...."

Simple fact is, that once it was a white cop that killed a black guy, there was no real "truth" to provide her at all. She made up her mind about everything and was just on the warpath afterwards. New facts, forensics, video's, etc will NEVER matter to her. The same is likely true about 99% of the protesters.

Everyone always talks about it and would love to believe and live in a fairy tale world where racism is a 2 way street. Please wakeup, in this country it only goes 1 direction. This whole story is being covered from 1 side, media coverage across the board is 1 sided.

For myself, I will wait for when the media can repeatedly report on the same outrage when a black person kills a white person. When was the last time you seen that reported on international news and had the president involved? Take your time to look it up, I am not going to hold my breath. Maybe its because we don't use every incident like this to riot.

Was a pretty simple and effective strategy on defense. We gave them the flanks but challenged hard 1on1 whole clogging up the middle on the crosses. Not going to work vs Germany but I'm sure the coach knows that all too well.

I think we are going to surprise vs Portugal but losing altidore is so huge.

The fear coming from Epsi smells refreshing

Still looking

I been using SpaceCadet for probably 20 years now. Started when I was playing online Duke Nukem/Doom tournaments and then moved on to Quake. I will likely never use another name.

I remember my dad giving me a box of his junk and said I could keep anything I wanted. Inside were lot of the patches kids would sew into a jacket and one of them said "SpaceCadet" with a bunch of stars around it. I liked it instantly and I have kept it ever since. It still sits on my computer desk to this day.

I think most times the picking turns out to be a popularity contest. You can't get much new blood when the same players add up for every game and 8-10 of them just finished the last pug and got picked again instantly. I would bet many players like myself, who can play solidly against just about anyone, gave up on pug.na because it was a waste of time to wait for picking and see the same names picked again and again.

I don't understand what any of this has anything to do with my OP. I was never comparing open players to invite players in terms of skill. Infact, I wasn't talking about the actual players at all, I was talking about the cast so I still don't understand your point. Basically Sky said everything already.

Why should it matter what the person's name is who forced your mistake? Banny is playing the same class any other demoman is playing with the same health and items. If a demo screws you, it doesn't matter what his name is.

You guys are asking for way too much from ESEA. I am not an ESEA bashing or hating person but lets be honest here. ESEA can't even add something as simple as updated match stats for league play, particularly medic and heal stats. How many seasons ago did we ask/beg for this? You guys are asking for so much more that it is insane to think they will comply at all.

This talk about new players and new teams needing to join competitive play. Do you actually see how the newest teams and divisions get talked about by respected players in the community? I have been involved with Team Fortress since the beginning over 15 years ago and seen it all but the negativity from the top players/teams towards the new players is unlike any I have experienced.

There have been many examples but the most recent I seen was the TFTV cast a few weeks ago for the ESEA Open match Arizona vs Goldman. Let me first say that I respect Lange and Seanbud for the things they have done in this community but that cast wasn't good. If I remember correctly, well over 500 ppl were watching and I would bet a lot were low level or potentially new players looking to enjoy a match and maybe learn the game. Instead of casting the action and giving some experienced insight to the viewers, we were basically told "this is ok for open level players" for the entire match.
So many failed pushes or mistakes were more laughed at than anything else. To me, most of the cast came off as overly negative and condescending to the players involved. In contrast, when invite players fail in the same situations, the opposing players typically get praised for making such "great plays". Its a shame the same praise for simple "open" players was not returned. I am not blaming Sean and Lange for the overall problem, this was just an example. I understand these guys cast on their free time and I appreciate all the effort and everything they do.

As I said, this was just a single example but this type of thing happens so often from the veteran high level players that I would expect most brand new players to not even want to spend the time to improve and get in this community.

Really not my fault Rag. I make some dreams come true :)

Tulk is an awesome guy and a damn fine soldier. In all honesty, you never regret picking up a player from the real old school TF generation that was a successful player. We seen it all and know how to be effective teammates. Get this man a team, he will not disappoint.

Sure you can, there is a solution to both problems. If there is traffic, just don't drive. Glenn Beck is on TV? Don't watch it.

Another bump