No I'm on windows 7 64 bit

So.... My tf2 just crashes right to desktop. I receive this error message in the console right before it goes to desktop:

KeyValues Error: RecursiveLoadFromBuffer: got } in key in file (null)
items_game, items, 245, 1, (*visuals*), (*use_per_class_bodygroups*), (*cannot trade*), (*value*), (*3*), (*name*), (*model_player_per_class*),
KeyValues Error: LoadFromBuffer: missing { in file (null)
(*community_market_item_remaps*), (*Decoder Ring*), (*Nice Winter Key 2012*), (*2*), (*quickplay_type*), (*tags*), (*map_has_deep_water*), (*conditions*), (*0*), (*required*), (*model_player_per_class*),
**WARNING** Failed to apply item schema!
Required key "attributes" missing.

What I have tried:

Verifying Integrity - Completed to 100% in the standard way after a few attempts no dls
Restarting steam
Restarting PC
removing all custom CFGs and Huds

Help? lol

The birth of UKM Gaming Syndicate

Honestly, if you're at a loss for what to do for halloween, just dress in normal clothes and say you're a spy.

If you're questioned as to why you don't look like "a spy" you should just respond "because I'm a good one"

This has been tested and is proven to work.

It's not an uncommon problem.

Mainly from reading your post your issue is about in-game experience. The feeling I get is that you have to try really hard to stay on top of things and to comm the way you feel you should and that gets exhausting, and then after a while you start slowing down and things don't add up anymore.

It will go away in time - the other way to fix it is to encourage somebody else on your team to start helping you so that when you start to fade or get mentally exhausted somebody else can step in for you and keep a lid on the situation.

It's almost entirely experience - you'll learn to see things coming more - and your teammates will rely less on your calls as they too gain experience in playing. There's no real quick fix, so to speak, for this problem - everybody goes through it.

The only thing I could suggest, is if you find that you're scrimming A TON and you lose your later scrims and the morale of the team is being damaged, take breaks and don't scrim so much in one sitting. Generally 2-3 scrims is the max and that 3rd scrim is usually pretty shadey lol.

What you're seeing in invite - and this has been going on ever since I really started to follow invite closely (particularly bad since s13) - is that the High- tier of players has an extremely high turnover rate.

Assuming the 6 guys on Watch This never play again that is a big reduction in high+ players (and 3 Tf2 juggernauts). Invite has already been struggling with a quality problem for a while - ever since 4 (I think 4) IM teams had to be called up in s13 and DT died as well as most of the IM call ups over the following seasons.

I think the scene will, on the whole, be OK if enough lower invite players and teams actually stick it out and don't break apart - I think it's particularly a community philosophy problem, and partly the nature of this game - if you lose your pocket, medic, or Demo your list of options for potential replacements are EXTREMELY limited, particularly if a higher level invite team is looking for the same thing. There's a HUGE influx of new players waiting in the wings, but they will need a while to be top quality. It'll be rough going if our current trends continue - particularly if 3-4+ teams have to be dug out of main every season and they die within 1-2 seasons.

As far as other leagues go. CEVO appears to be kinda getting its act together - I still have a bad taste in my mouth from their last open season before the reboot and the vanilla tournament - both of which made basically everything ESEA has done over the last 4-5 seasons look like strokes of genius. UGC 6s isn't really built or aimed at attracting the highest level players and the league itself is rather amorphous since everybody is working for free and the personal touches of the admin team carry a lot of weight (which is great if you have dedicated admins and bad if they disappear). The main problem with turning to another league is that it's incredibly hard work that nobody really wants to do, and ESEA has its problems but none of them are that bad considering LAN and prize options and the predictability of seasons (when they happen when they'll end etc).

I don't get why a reschedule wasn't possible or why other avenues for funding weren't looked at. Yeah, it's lame to ask people for money, but it's not that hard to get. I sell my plasma to pay league fees + premium and replacement parts for my PC - not to mention beer money lol.

The last time I dressed up it was as John McCain in 2008 (I have a very fancy suit) - my best bro went as Sarah Palin, and our beautiful Friend dave was an abortionist - I ended up meeting another Sarah Palin impersonator and that began a rather lengthy relationship lol.

This year I'll be going as nothing but my kiddo will be Steve from Minecraft and also The Soldier :D (He has 2 occasions for trick or treating so we have 2 separate costumes lol). Since he's little he uses them for play anyhow so it's not a massive expense considering the use we get out of them.

Generally speaking, platinum retains the rights over his own image as long as it's being used to sell something unless he has submitted the particular image you use to some kind of service with dubious terms of use and you happen to be the party that controls that agreement (facebook for example).

So for example, you could make a shirt with plat's face on it and give it to people, but you couldn't sell it without plat having the legal right to recompense for the use of his image - unless he has a facebook account and you're somebody at facebook ;).

My mom owned a knitting business for years and years making blankets for kids - she had to break a lot of parent's hearts when they wanted copyrighted characters on them lol.

sometimes you have to fiddle with the client a bit - for example, since some time around last season I have always had to start mine twice just to get it to turn on (the first instance of double clicking does nothing lol).

Patch notes: fixed that sandvich glitch...

broke esea client forever...

Well, China's state newspaper released a bit of commentary today "It is time to build a de-Americanized world."

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/indepth/2013-10/13/c_132794246.htm

We'll see if this current political joke actually provides the impetus for the rest of the world to formulate an international system with enough backbone to function properly.

unfortunately it looks like I have to back out of casting due to ESEA client problems dislodging match times :/

Rikachu out due to rl problems rip :(

I so far have never been on a team that wasn't made either 2 days before the season or had somebody leave literally days prior to the season starting :(

Pot confirmed only backing up.

We need a demoman - rikachu had IRL stuff come up :(

We scrim sun-thurs 9-11 est