Been down this road, you're pretty much screwed unfortunately as if that's the owner's policy it applies to everyone and that's it.

This perfectly illustrates exactly how I feel also, thank you for this well written piece doc.

Coming from someone who works in this industry, you're mistaken. Near-invisible RCE is entirely achievable from a user just visiting a web page through certain exploits. You wouldn't even need to consciously click dodgy links for this as its fairly common for known good sites to have their downloads silently compromised.

You can change your local group policy to only ask you to update when updates are available without forcing. You should still patch your system regularly as there seems to be a gigantic issue disclosed every patch tuesday nowadays.

Additionally just to address something else - it's incredibly foolish to use an out-of-support OS, not just because you won't receive security patches but because Microsoft no longer need to acknowledge any issue with Windows 7 if they choose not to, meaning you may be unaware of certain exploits even if you attempt to keep yourself in the loop.

Windows 10 would be the choice for sure. If you do choose to disable automatic updates (you can do this via local group policy) make sure you routinely patch your system as its probably only a matter of time before the next horrific Microsoft vulnerability is brought to light.

Really nice work, I enjoyed this a lot, although I personally would have preferred it if you'd added SFX.

Going forwards it'd be really cool to see you get more ambitious with your cinematics (the pipe thing was great for example) and you should consider using SFM to give yourself more freedom and avoid issues.

tf2's music is awesome, fits the game really well and is pretty much iconic at this point.

Unlikely this will look much better than 240 imo. In terms of performance maybe mastercoms or someone has some benchmark data on different systems but i doubt you're feasibly getting 300 out of tf2 in any 6s game.

That has no bearing on this situation and you know that.

If anyone has been able to contact ties please let me know as soon as you can.

https://twitter.com/Ties_tf?s=09

You guys are calling someone who is clearly suffering "cringe". This guy is my friend and I just fucking want to know if he is ok and now I can't even contact him.

So yeah thanks for that you fucking morons.

imagine being so upset about someone being from another country you pay $5 to hide their posts LOL

Depends what you mean by that but possibly.

if anyone is interested in pretending they use stock in their fragvids I made a mod that replaces the entire iron bomber with the stock GL, including sounds, grenades (yes they spin) etc. although it doesn't work on sv_pure servers like Lava's mod does.

If you really believe it's as black and white as "person does good thing so they good, person does bad thing so they bad now" there's no point in even having this discussion.

I normally don't post about things like this but I have a huge problem with this comment. Console was horrendously abused and exploited by someone older than him and, whatever his (admittedly questionable) intentions are here, downplaying that by equating it to console simply calling dashner "dangerous" is not appropriate at all.

Yet another instance of people on this website willing to do a complete 180 and attack someone after being sympathetic towards them for whatever reason. This is probably the last time I will even bother to call out people for doing this because apparently nobody has each others backs anymore. Disappointing.