I'd be discussing it with a steam account that seems to have been made shortly before this thread though. It doesn't make a good impression, and if you look around most other public projects at least have human looking steam accounts attached to them, and surely you'd look to have some public leadership at some point?

I'm not asking for Elon Musk here, but you do get a lot of people hiding their identities for less than noble purposes, mainly their existing reputation being trash. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ymmv

How big is your team at the moment and who is in it?

Do you have anything other than a few screenshots of what you would like 2 pages of the website to look like?

It's not though. There was an idea working in this man's mind. It may not be what you'd consider main stream religion, but unless you consider him to be completely insane then, like all apparently rational mass killers, he needed something to dehumanise his victims.

In his case it looks like it was the hateful religious ideology of Islamic extremism. You can argue it's not theologically sound, but it's still a religious idea at the heart of his motivation.

Speculating about how important it was to him individually is a bit pointless as we'll never really know, but there was clearly a failure to successfully challenge those ideas within him. Maybe it would have been possible, maybe not. I doubt an FBI investigation would have been the best way to do that, but it seems it was the only official contact.

An underwater volcano map cannot be bad

The wider social context around gun control can't deal with individuals like these. They live apparently law abiding blameless lives of conformity until exploding. No one would deny them gun ownership on any simple clearly assessable criteria.

The best scholarly work I've seen done on the psychology of Islamist (and in general right wing) extremists identifies 4 particular personality traits that are key to the individual's motivation:
Disgust - a notion of purity or cleanliness taken to an extreme degree, it could be nationalist or racial for some right wing extremists but in Islamist cases they are noted for a hatred of homosexuality in particular and extreme sexism

Need for Closure - a preference for order, structure and certainties, and a rejection of ambiguities, which obviously leads into a strong preference for authoritarianism. Essentially they want to see the world as a simple story.

In/out group distinction - a very clear perception of a sharp distinction of being or not being in a particular group, which produces a restricted ability to form a complex view of other people. This is where identifying strongly with a particular Islamist group comes in, and why those group's ability to project a strong media image matters. Individuals who fill the other criteria are the primed but empty vessels they want their propaganda to reach.

Simplism - assigning single causes and remedies to complex situations that have complex causes and solutions, leading to ideas like killing everyone who isn't a Muslim will make the world a better place and is a good idea (or possibly that banning all Muslims from entering the US will make the world a better place and is a good idea)

This obviously doesn't describe every Muslim, and everyone described by this doesn't become an ideologically motivated mass murderer, but the links between these personality traits and extremism are not trivial, they're very strong. How this could feed into a pre-emptive solution without entering a very strange and oppressive world I don't know.

My understanding is that Mexico's problem is heavily related to law enforcement funding, with a very strong correlation between areas that pay their police well suppressing crime levels and areas where they are paid poorly experiencing massive corruption and lawlessness.

Regarding the availability of guns, in the case of the French and Belgian attacks those involved were largely part of an existing criminal underworld with the connections necessary to arm themselves and arrange for the transportation of weapons across national borders. Those with existing petty criminal records would almost certainly have found it very hard to acquire weapons legally.

Breivik is an example of how a determined individual with no criminal record or officially recorded mental health issue can acquire a cache of weapons regardless of gun controls. In his testimony he provided a detailed account of his attempts to buy them. Although it sounds paradoxical gun control laws aren't relevant in his case, it's day to day murders that would be reduced if access to weapons were generally restricted, and atrocities committed by individuals with clearly established mental health problems or criminal records.

Where this individual comes in we don't yet know

I don't think comp.tf has done a terrible job but if you haven't joined liquid I don't see why it would be a problem if someone else did.

Their anti cheat t&cs say you agree they can come to your house and install a bitcoin miner

I looked at a new specification a couple of months ago dealing with most of the problems, improving the experience and administration and generally making it more viable. This work is pretty necessary as roster issues in TF2 are incredibly chaotic, teams sometimes wait until even after their first games to decide if they will play, etc, and the existing system isn't flexible enough to cope.

It's a lot of work though, more than I can justify if it's just a TF2 thing because the scene is too small. The problem with making a project aimed at other games as well though is that the overall market is becoming very crowded and innovation is becoming more difficult.

There are already games accepting items as well as money, etc, and most commercial games offer f2p options. I don't see any obvious gaps in the market that I can exploit right now so it's hard to see where it will come from. I58 roster issues shouldn't be anywhere near as bad though so it might be possible to get that done, probably need someone to help with the grunt work though.

Overwatch is a bigger esport because of $$$. It would be bigger if the game mode were Desert Bus

Reckoner should now be added

Oh yeah, I've got the screenshots just need to get them in the system

Be pretty aids if the map ends before the next mid

How about the first round or two don't have seeded teams in them?