Sorry I think my point flew a bit over your head here, never did I state I've even looked at your tftv profile, you just made some wildly flawed assumptions.

I'm explaining the reality of a connected world, and how if you interact with employment in the real world, there's likely a lot of available data on you as well.

Considering you're trying to take the high road and declare as fact over anybody heres mental state or wellbeing pretty much indicates you have no self awareness over anything you've said. I was literally just educating you on the reality of how engrained personal data is in the framework of modern society, and you should take steps to minimise your exposure if you aren't comefortable with that, but evidently that's not a point you're willing to concede. Hope you live a fulfilling and contented life

I'll be honest mate you've got a bit of an unhealthy obsession with accusing people of being creeps despite your reasonably anonymous internet footprint compared to whatever you do away from the screen.
If you've ever worked for a corporate, likely you'd be familiar with linkedin - it's pretty common for getting a background or introduction on people you've never met before but might have an interest in interacting with.
Same with recruitment both external and internal - Any profile linked to your internet footprint might be looked at by those interested in employing you to build up a bit of your overall profile and whether you'll fit in, both qualification and personality wise. Does it not make sense if you're stirring the pot with controversial views people might have an interest in your experiences and qualifications to make those judgements?

It's the reality of the connected world we live in that you're putting a lot of data out there about yourself, and linking it in very simple ways. Not creepy in any way tbh, just regulate what you want to and do not want to share on whatever platform and leave it at that.

Well, I think we can agree that it certainly requires a balance of all 3 disciplines to have a successful and enjoyable race, with lots of nuance between athletes preferences, it would be a real shame if any of the disciplines weren't a part of it.

Nah the swim is pretty important, you need to be strong enough to get out in the first group so you can get on the bikes with the front group. Cycling is all vibes and conserving energy in the front pack, then it boils down to the run.
No point gassing it on the swim cause you can't abuse the aerodynamics in the cycle pack, but if you're not in that first group out the water you'll never catch them up. You do see some breakaways on the cycle but it's a big gamble to take leaving the nice comfy pack and often doesn't work out. There's a lot less influence from other competitors by the run, so that tends to be the racewinning area.

Hi mate I used to be a sportsman, didn't really like cycling though so did Biathlon (swimming + running) instead of triathlon. Turns out not many people like Biathlon so they don't do it and it was easier to win things. If you like playing with class limits 1 you can probs host your own tourney and might have a shot at winning, cheers.

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I think you bring up a lot of points with which people share the sentiment, and have been circling round for some time but nobody has really gone and publicly said something about it. Considering Yak has almost 150 upfrags on his first comment, it demonstrates shared opinions, but it doesn't prevent the sponsorships and promotions.

Even with regulated gambling industries such as sports betting, the prevalence of addiction and damage resultant from them is ever increasing. Not just every day folk, but for example footballers being almost suffocated by gambling advertisement end up putting their entire livelihood and short lived careers on the line and partake in sports betting (See Ivan Toney and Sandro Tonali for topical examples). I'm not trying to offer sympathy to the footballers, I'm just pointing out the damage gambling can cause at every level of involvement with the sport.

While it's not really measurable to see the influence of TF2**sy sponsorships and the increase in traffic for the site, It would be ignorant to assume it's negligible. I think it's quite indicative of some players attitudes where they are willing to sell out on their ethical principles for what is essentially UK minimum wage over the time period of an official match (Cannot confirm exact payment per match but this is a rough equivalent of what I have heard).

At the risk of downfrags it's worth also questioning, might these players also be a victim to an extent? Where gambling advertising is so prevalent, have they even considered the implications of accepting sponsorship, or would it simply be negligence for them to not have done so? As Adysky mentioned, one of the team members was a minor when receiving sponsorship, which demonstrates the predatory behaviour of these sites towards influencing anybody and everybody they can.

I've personally seen people lose 100s on tf2/csgo gambling sites, and 1000s on sports betting. They know it's an addiction, and it's damaging, but they can't stop themselves. Promotion of gambling sites is a cancer on our a community.

Bro ur literally banned on steamrep for scamming I AM DENNIS out of $30 8 years ago
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So is BaseStack hosting a payment portal to also pay for our teams? Or is that separate?

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Market gardener can also generate kills/trades when a soldier should be caught with no exit opportunity ie. 1/0 rockets loaded, sub 150 health vs a 180hp player.

Since getting a rice cooker, eating healthier is so much easier which just helps out all around feeling good.

Real power food is a curry though, maybe a lamb bhuna.

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