from what shade said in the OP it sounds like there's a balance of buddy points and skill points, they could theoretically get another roamer with bigger numbers but tagg knows what he's doing so they aren't looking to make cuts unless someone can't dedicate the general expected attention to the game, in which case changes get made

Jill's posted on tftv and actively lurks r/tf2, no doubt they're aware of the major concerns

For whatever reason it looks like they're just gonna roll up all their support into one big update where we can assume thereafter we'll get constant support, and I guess they're just gonna stay quiet and inactive in the comp community until then

I didn't know about that, that's pretty dumb

You'd figure from valves eyes they'd value more feedback as better, i don't get why they'd cut their line that short

They should be more transparent about stuff but they're probably well aware the people they tell will spread the message. If I were valve i wouldnt want to raise expectations by elaborating on promises themselves anyways

As everybody has said, it's (for the most part) out of the hands of the community. Valve has to take measures to reinvigorate the game with matchmaking, rebalances, performance improvements, and consistent communication.

The community can help through events (ToTH, i55 etc). The more the community contributes to these, the more tf2 will reach out and people can see how cool the game is when everyone gets together. Smaller ways include things like creating popular media for the game like videos and artwork/mods that get shared around a lot. But these things have been around for so long and dried out that it's difficult to make anything that's new or interesting, So even then those are limited unless valve adds more content to cover in-game.

TF2 as a competitive career is too stressfully unlikely and difficult to do fulltime if you're barely making ends meet off even the biggest grand finals, sometimes losing money just to fly out to lan- I can understand why he wants to experiment with overwatch, it's backed by blizzbo baggins who we all know will drop millions into the comp prize pools, plus team sponsorships and stuff and the game is easy as hell so if you do it fulltime you can stomp every player in existence

He could theoretically play both, but if he's a little bored of tf2 or just wants to take a break from it then it's probably better to take the time off anyways

The guy is 17, and was probably 15 when he made the choices

I agree anything puberty or past needs to take forgiveness without forgetting what they did but cut him some slack who wasnt a retard at 15

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christ, vlad

there goes half of the jokes in my arsenal

Is this hopefully the end of wide scale hacking in TF2 then? Or are there other clients valve will have to investigate on?

yeah, this makes my suspicion a lot more likely. hmm, guess i'm a target

I don't want to witch hunt, but IIRC mike joined the UGC HL match i had been casting with a friend of mine, and then snipehacked.

Likewise, less than a week ago, I got a reddit message from one of my stream viewers, and they told me "after you ended your stream someone was talking hardcore about doxing you and your friends, like he could do it easy if he wanted to". The viewer didnt know who said it, just that he remembered he wanted to warn me.

Not saying they're connected since I can't confirm who threatened a dox in my chat, but it seems really suspicious to me. Just really unsolicited since I've never heard of mike, the closest thing was when he showed up in podgy's match we were scrimming and me and my cast buddy jokingly rooted for mike because we're unprofessional shitlords. Never made enemies with the guy though

As someone who came from a newbie team i second this, it was an awesome way to enter esea

also im not sure if its any different for twitch, or if there even is a tax, but on youtube when you do taxes you have to pay a lot more than you would in a regular job where your employer generally does a big cut of taxes right out of your paycheck. since stuff like youtube/twitch the money goes straight to you without being taxed (the half twitch takes is for their own profit, not taxes iirc), you essentially have to pay double in taxes (like 33%) meaning however much he's making he has to cut a lot out of taxes (luckily you can write off anything bought towards the job off your taxes, so i believe stuff like new computer equipment, travelling to lans, etc, can all be written off as long as it's done specifically for 'work related purposes')
ps im not a lawyer so dont use my word as law

"ESEA admins ruled that the entire series has to be replayed from 0-0. Probably the fairest ruling. Fresh start. No more BS hopefully." b4nny on twitter

so it sounds like reschedule confirmed, date uncomfirmed

edit: shade on twitter "Since that match is being replayed and @froyotech didn't lose... I'm technically an undefeated invite pocket AND roamer. #esports #tf2"

so yeah reschedule confirm