Always good to see more coverage of tf2!

These look awesome, non-cringy too as saam said.

That cannot be real. Kratos is surely not this deluded, this is utterly ridiculous.

I have seen a lot of "Tide Turner is OP and broken" etc but no real reasons why. Someone break it down for me, because I'm struggling to see how it's better than default loadout or eyelander+booties+splendid screen if you wanted to demoknight.

I think you just have a different definition of playable to most people here. When you're playing competitive any small stutters are a problem, and you want constant 200+ fps. It's simply not good enough to have 60+fps max.

I think that's a ridiculous claim to make given how powerful scouts are, and the reason for that mainly stemming from movement ability. Why do you think it would go that way?

Can we attempt to come from the standpoint that they should be, just for sake of argument? It's a whole other debate and one that the pro-unlock is winning mostly due to MM probably having an open whitelist.

What the fuck. Pretty common to happen at the beginning of semesters afaik, people get away from home and it gets a lot worse when they're alone. So sad.

Obviously the definition is vague, but you can't argue that racism only applies to people with a different skin colour LOL that's insane. Whether or not you even call it racism is totally arbitrary, it's discrimination and prejudice against a group of people based on stereotypes or negative generalisation.

Also you can't disparage the word racism or the term/definition based on the people who coined it. Their actions are separate to the word they created or used.

After trawling through whitelist.tf and compiling 3 pages of reasoning for why certain weapons are banned in competitive, I have stumbled upon a few that I don't really understand why they're banned. There might be bugs or there might be ways they would interact with 6v6 that I haven't thought about. I'm not advocating for their unban, just wondering about the reasoning behind the ban, since there is normally a decent reason.

So I'm gonna throw it out to you guys. Why are these weapons banned in 6v6?
(Note that I am using ETF2L unlocks as a base, as they're looser than ESEA. The only weapon I can see that's allowed in ESEA but not ETF2L is the Cozy Camper and WHY OH WHY doesn't everybody use that? It's so OP in 6s!)

• Panic Attack - although it sounds scary it seems fairly useless when I've used it in pubs etc
  
• Flying Guillotine - does a fairly small amount of damage and is projectile for the scout, hard to argue for it in favour of pistol / winger
  
• Wrap Assassin - does a paltry amount of damage, removes utility of boston basher.
  
• Phlogistinator - removes airblast making pyro completely open to every class' damage. Pyro in 6v6 should not be able to even fill a single charge with flames if open to rockets and hitscan.
  
• Tide Turner - demoknight is easy to avoid and kill, and booties provide the same use as this when combined with splendid screen. I can't see why you'd allow one and not the other unless you're concerned about loose cannon + demoknight combo, which I still don't think would be effective.
  
• Brass Beast - can kinda see why on this one, but it makes the heavy completely useless and an instant target if defending against an uber or a big player disadvantage. Impossible to use the brass beast to bait damage and run back into spawn for example, you commit that player to either get frags on defense or die.
  
• Gunslinger - now that mini-sentries deploy with 50 hp for the first few seconds, they can be dispatched pretty easily. One rocket or decent scatter shot will kill them before they do damage.
  
• Cleaner's Carbine - getting a kill grants mini-crits, but it's more difficult to get the kill. In a situation where a sniper is using SMG he wants the kill rather than some bonus afterwards, can't see how this would affect the game.

Please respond with structured reasons why these weapons deserve to be banned rather than "LOL aids weapon dxD".

What length do you think people would watch TF2 interviews for?

10 minutes like a short snippet, 2 hours like Reflections, or some value in between?

Somebody planning to run a BYOC tournament? That'd be cool if you could, it would be a lot of work though.

Go to the doctor Manky, go talk to a health professional. They are there to help and will guide you through it. The worst thing you can do is ignore it and hope it'll go away. Suicidal thoughts tend to knock you into a spiral of depression where you won't seek help so you feel ignored and it continues like this. Go see somebody as soon as you can.

My good childhood friend killed himself about a year ago to this date, I hadn't talked to him in a few months and it rocked me. Going to his funeral was a really good way to be surrounded by people all feeling the same way and console each other. Talking to people is difficult at first to broach subjects but once you do you'll find that people are almost instantly receptive and will be a great help. You're not being a burden to anybody.

That's so good, never read the whole thing before hahahaa.

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