Just adding further input, that it's likely having to do with your CPU temps. When your cpu overheats, TF2 suffers immensely. If you are getting good frames immediately when you start playing and notice a progressive dip while you play, this is almost definitely the cause.

A thread for pictures of TF2 related tattoos. It can be of your tattoo or someone elses, but please, only 1 tat per user/post.

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hide non-tf2 streams or put them into a separate expandable bracket

but really, how does everyone keep their hands cold?

nevada humor

they got exc0 to play the game. +rep

I don't see any issue with what he's doing in the streets but when he enters the gambling houses, it's a bit of an invasion of privacy.

Definitely some dark stuff you see when he runs into those mentally ill addicts.

praying for no hats mod update D:

its like they just don't even try to optimize updates anymore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjlYh394S_g

pure awe

watched season 8 of highlander, dave+ fanboy for life

Make sure you pick up some SM57's! For the price, it's hard to find any mic that beats its quality and versatility. It's used on so many professionally engineered metal/indie/punk/emo/alt rock records for miking toms, so in other words, it's the real deal. Also can work well on the snare, depending how solid the tone is to begin with, but for a tight budget, also likely your best bet. Best of luck, mixing recordings from drums that have been miked properly sounds like a ton of fun!

Edit: Oops, forgotten to mention they're great for miking a cabinet when working with guitar tracks. You see this all the time on plenty of high quality albums as well.

CBEAR PLEASEEEE

dude cares so much about the game, definitely will do well in IM. he handles my extreme pranking very well, can handle anything.

Really? No one has even mentioned Polk?

He'd set alarms through the day as a kid for dedicated times to "boost his stats" in TFC, bribing other players to not play at the same as him in order to achieve maximum stat BOOSTAGE.

The Hawaiian enigma spends countless hours in the "LazyTown" pub community, a past time of eternal endearment that will never grow old, even beyond his Platinum victories. His most familiar pre-game peptalk was to "Play gay" and I'm almost positive he has a subwoofer fetish, having posted hundreds of different subwoofer demos and reviews on his youtube channel since 2006.

Also, I once saw him streaming Minecraft @ 4 in the morning with the most bazaar mouse movement, as if he had never played an fps, while he was listening to a cover of Gangnam Style.

Definitely one of the strangest, but undoubtedly coolest people I've met in the game.

sometimes try to walk aruond and then jump three (3) times

ha 8D

Just to clarify before I go on, I don't have any advice for what exactly you should try, but I thought I could help you look at this dilemma from a different angle. First off, there's no shame in not knowing what you want to do in the future. In fact, a lot of the people who claim to know what they want to do, do it because they feel like they need to hold on to something before it's too late, and aren't 100% sure themselves. The cold fact is that over half of college students will change their major at least once before they graduate; deciding isn't easy. The reason I bring this up is that you shouldn't feel discouraged because you feel that you are lagging behind, or others have better self-awareness on this issue, because this is a universally-common worry and the fact that you are looking for help on figuring it out is a huge step. As far as actually finding that interest, one of the best approaches is being open-minded and putting yourself in as many situations as possible where you can experience different fields. Don't box yourself in to a certain salary range or ideal criteria, because there are also plenty of people living in regret that they went down the path they did for logistical reasons, rather than actual appeal. There's no easy answer here, but the best advice I can give is to try everything and anything that is available to try. You'll never know what you may end up loving.