Name: Forty-Two
Class: Soldier
Team [BLU/RED]: Blu
Map/Setting: Badlands
Pose: About to do a sync, or just after a skip over the boxes on mid, something like that maybe?
Hat: Unusual Stainless Pot (Steaming)
Misc 1: Soldier's Stogie
Misc 2: Hornblower
Weapon: Rocket Launcher
Other comments: I'm but a lowly soldier dude, don't feel bad if you don't have time for mine :D

bind 1 "slot1;bind mouse2 +attack2"
bind 2 "slot2;bind mouse2 +attack2"
bind 3 "slot3;bind mouse2 +jump"

^ goes in soldier.cfg

bind 3 "slot3"
bind mouse2 "+attack2"

^ goes in all other classes.cfg

The problem with things like anxiety is that they tend to be subtly or not-so-subtly different for every sufferer. For me personally cognitive behavioral therapy is helping at least somewhat, but that doesn't mean it will for you.
It's a standard response I guess, but I'd definitely recommend looking for a professional to look into it; depending on the therapist they tend to be able to give help based on your own, individual case. Personal experiences from a lot of different people can be useful, but their experiences won't necessarily be yours.
Therapists can help choose the right approach that's most likely to help you, and guide you through the process of a certain therapy or technique or whatnot, but in the end it'll still be you who will have to do it.

http://i.imgur.com/JHfA3Ot.png

I think my Heartbleed-check-ception confused it, been loading for quite a few minutes now. Maybe it's cause of the http or something but I never manually added that.

I got this kind of stuff with high DPI scaling with other games. TF2 never had an issue with it though, and if it's only zoom it's even less likely this is it. You could try right-clicking on the .exe, go to properties - compatibility - disable display scaling on high DPI settings (that's assuming you have high DPI to begin with).

(By the way, don't confuse this with mouse DPI, I mean the thing that makes your text bigger)

This seems like the place for random simple HUD-questions.. does anyone know where the position of the damage numbers that stay (so not the floating ones) can be adjusted? And how about chat? I looked through hudlayout.res and tried some random ones that seemed like they had an appropriate name, but when I hud_reloadscheme'd nothing changed so I'll just ask here.

That showmatch was amazing to watch, both teams put up a great show with great plays! Even though it wasn't for any league and the ping always makes it so that you have to take these showmatches with a grain of salt, this was the most excited I've been for any game in a while. Impressed with both teams :>

It's a good point, when searching for info on the subject pretty much every site I found recommended this. The monitor of my work's computer is too high, and after using it for a while it has more noticabe effects than you'd think: I'd recommend checking this to anyone, immediate eye/neck problems or no.

I think this might have been one of the sites I found when googling for information on this matter. I personally haven't found too many differences between before and after adjusting some habits based on sites like these, but maybe I'm just still doing it wrong. Despite that I'd say it's still good practice to adjust habits based on what these sites say (for example focusing on a distant physical object every so often).

It sounds stupid but I hadn't truly thought of this before. The problems started at about the same time ('about' meaning within a week) of me getting this new desktop, so I assumed this was causing the problems. That's correlation though, not necessarily causation. I already had an appointment with my GP tomorrow, I'll ask about this as well.

Again, thanks for all the replies so far people, I really appreciate that you're taking the time to help me out :)

This is indeed the problem here. I'm already significantly below the brightness that would allow you to see the difference between dark colours; unfortunately if I go much lower with the brighness it will be pretty much be unusable in a lot of situations. This tv's brightness has a 0-100 scale, where 85 has the best colour display or whatever it's called. I'm currently on 43, which was the best balance between lowest brightness possible and best picture possible. However, even when I put it all the way down to 0, it still feels like looking into a light source, while my laptop didn't have this at all for example (provided I adjusted brightness based on the light of the environment).

I definitely don't play with the lights off. I'll try finding ways to light my room better, though I'm not sure how much I can improve on. I could maybe try something with the 'distribution' of light since some areas of the room are darker than others.. it's tricky but I'll look into it.

alias +nameblah "bind q +left;bind e +right"
alias -nameblah "bind q <whatever medic call is>;bind e <whatever switch to last weapon is>"
bind mouse2 "+nameblah"

Pretty sure that should do the trick.. I don't know medic call/switch to last commands by heart, if they need quotes just make them an alias for them

Hey everyone, thanks for your replies so far.

That's actually an amazing suggestion, whether eye strain is an issue or not. I'll definitely be doing that :D

I am currently already using f.lux, I think I may have mentioned it in my original post, apologies if I forgot. I like f.lux and it did help, but didn't fix it completely.

Considering this is a problem in the evenings (when the light of the environment is lower) I think that'll cause more health problems than it will solve.

I'll be looking into this: a cheap temporary solution while saving at the cost of some graphical fidelity seems like a pretty good idea, so I'll definitely check out some sites!

Hey everyone,

About two months ago I built a new desktop. Prior to this, I'd been playing on a shitty laptop. At the time I did not get a monitor to go with it; instead I'm using a 22'' 1080p tv. This works fine and all, but it's not exactly the greatest thing to use as a monitor (if I recall correctly it was very cheap several years ago). Though calibrating and finetuning helped a little bit, it doesn't display colours too well, which can at times even make it difficult to distinguish red players from blue ones in TF2.

The main problem I have with it however is the lighting. My laptop displayed everything fine at any brightness setting, and visibility was a matter of how the light in the area was. With this thing, any dark colours have no hope of being displayed as anything other than black to begin with, yet even if I pull the brightness far, far down, beyond the point where nothing is actually readable, it still gives off way more light than my laptop screen did, which (again, depending on the light in the room) didn't seem like a light source at all.

I've been saving for a 120Hz monitor, but being a poor student my savings don't increase too rapidly. I'm generally a patient person so I wouldn't mind this too much, but this monitor (tv) is actually causing a significant amount of eye strain, even with all the tips concerning positioning, pauses etc, and using f.lux. After using it for an evening, the next day my eyes will look somewhat like this, if a bit less extreme. Though according to what I've found on the internet there is no scientific evidence this causes long-term damage, it still worries me, and aside from that it's uncomfortable and just looks freaky.

My question to you would be if you'd recommend to keep saving for a 120Hz monitor, or to get a cheaper 'normal' monitor for now. Or perhaps you have some incredible insight as to how to make this monitor not make my eyes resemble Voldemort's.

Either way I'm hoping you'll be able to give some advice on this.

For me, when I use dead keys (ie press ' and then e for é), if I open the console with tilde and then try to type, it automatically closes again. Don't know a fix for it, but if I first open the console with tilde and then close and re-open it with escape, I can use it normally. I'm not sure if this is the problem you're having, but maybe it helps.

Edit: whoops, 51 seconds late on that, glad to hear you fixed it.

So in the notes of the new update there was:

So yay!

I've been experiencing similar problems since today. Other games, watching streams, downloading things and all kinds of things you'd expect to take much more bandwidth than playing tf2 work fine. Going to a random server, I just can't move. I can try, then a second later it warps me back to where I was. The game is unplayable.

As far as I know there hasn't been an update today, I haven't installed anything new lately (save a hitsound some days ago) or changed any cvars except for net_graph after I got the problem, to make the screenshot below.

http://i.imgur.com/XCNlWNnl.jpg (or http://i.imgur.com/XCNlWNn.jpg , should you want a bigger one)

I'm not entirely sure how to interpret all elements of net_graph, though some are self-explanatory. I noticed 'in' was high (400+) all the time, occasionally spiking to 1000+, but I don't know if that's problematic or not, and if it is I don't know how to fix it.

Any ideas?