was expecting a thread about http://steamcommunity.com/id/cri_nge/

oh boy I just realized this and double_down are on the same weekend
oh god help

if r5 win I give them this hat: http://tf2b.com/tf2/item/76561198035897364/1477275406

they were 3rd in open
2nd in IM
only possible outcome now is 1st in invite

gogogog

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Player1: Spyromancer
STEAM: http://steamcommunity.com/id/spyromancer/
Player2: Lights_
STEAM: http://steamcommunity.com/id/lights_/

Before I started playing TF2, I'd watch a lot of "pro" gameplay (no fragvids until year later rolf) such as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I4PEHQ-pVU and a bunch of stabbystabby videos, and was convinced that pyro and spy had the highest skill ceilings of any class (ya ok). I wanted a named to showcase my love of these high-skill classes: after watching http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GNnftq744I , and having read on TVTropes that highly-skilled pyros were refered to as "pyromancers", I went with the name Spyromancer.
The fact that it can be read at least three different ways is just a nice bonus :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGfguhnvECc

red "airshot boners" ban

I started smoking when I found a full, unopened pack on the bus one day. I took it but didn't open it for a while (still not too sure why), and my first smoke was when me and the group I was with finished our project for grade 11 physics, which was to make a string-powered car. The competition was to make the one that would go the farthest in a straight line from the start, and we were all feeling really confident that ours would win (it did), so I'm like, "I'm feeling real happy, so I'm gonna smoke, if no one minds?"
They didn't, and the cigs were mild enough that I didn't start immediately hacking like when I tried my grandmother's cig (she's been smoking for 40+ years and has already had a stroke, refuses to kick the habit). What I liked the most about smoking was just watching the smoke undulate, both from the tip and from the exhale: this is why I never smoke when it's windy/ too bright to see the smoke.
Since then I've tied smoking in with doing something that makes me feel really good, be it really good music, having just done something I'm really proud of, or just hanging out with friends and having a good time. I once tried smoking when I was stressed over something or other, and I just couldn't finish it (music and video games have always been my stress relief, and I'd already tied smoking in with high points rather than low points).
For the first few months I'd hide it from my parents, mainly since I led to both of them quitting: my mom quit when she was pregnant with me, and I made my dad quit when I was like 8 and just off the whole DARE crap. I knew they wouldn't do anything I'd be afraid of: they're firmly Catholic, but unlike AMC up there they had no issue with finding out I'd disowned my faith. I mainly hid them because of the embarrassment I thought they'd make me feel by bringing up the irony of it all, but by the time they found out I'd more or less fully switched over to e-cigs (there's nothing like smoking ice cream), and their major talking point was worry for my future health: I averaged 1 cigarette a month up to that point, and not much has changed since then, so I convinced them that there was nothing to worry about.

1:38 AM - Spyromancer ~~<==3: and you don't feel anything in what sense?
1:38 AM - redban: i told you
1:39 AM - redban: like
1:39 AM - redban: we were having a real passionate kiss and what not
1:39 AM - redban: and during it
1:39 AM - redban: i started remembering a sick airshot i got earlier
1:39 AM - redban: LOL
1:39 AM - Spyromancer ~~<==3: ROFL
1:39 AM - redban: i instantly got a boner

http://store.steampowered.com/news/?appids=440
Nothing about Tip of the Hats OR LAN, but ESEA's fuckup gets front page on TF2's news section.
Way to fucking support TF2 as an eSport, Valve. We'll definitely get new players into comp this way for sure.
Unbelievable.

Would the -frag brigade be able to tell me if there's something critically bad about my play, or did I simply rub the wrong people the wrong way?
Thanks in advance, I'd like to keep things constructive.

killem is a sweetheart

Hi I'm Spyromancer, I play the healyman and feetshooter classes. I'd be playing medic in IM this season but schedule complications killed that dream. Making a team didn't work out so hot either, so I might as well try for joining an already established team.
I generally have to go to bed around 11 est or so 'cuz of work in the morning.
Looking for a chill team that I will enjoy shooting the shit with in mumble as much as I'd enjoy shooting the shitties with when it comes to match time.
I'd prefer medic as that's my best class, but I'm also confident in either soldier role (latter not for IM tho).
Add me or post here if my friendslist is full.