Magicka (must play)
Torchlight 2
Swat 4
Risk of Rain
Rayman Origins & Legends (must play)
Rainbow six vegas 2
Sniper Elite V2
E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy (good bang for the buck, literally)
Dead Island
Borderlands
Left 4 Dead 1&2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzWKWNM6zvI

If you hate bronies you can just go for the players who are wearing the hat. Mlp fans get to express their love for something, others can express their hatred by killing them. I dont see the problem.

I had the same issue,later it turned out that I somehow broke off a plastic holding the cpu cooler causing the cpu to overheat, so you might want to check it out. maybe you should check in the bios what does it do when the temps are too hot (restart or does nothing) and dont use the computer often to avoid further damage.

make her download a torrent with a screamer in it. She will think twice before she starts torrenting again

As a pubber, my opinion is that valve doesnt think that making tf2 comp viable would be profitable. they could have done it ages ago, but they rather invested time and money in mvm and cosmetics, because its essentially free money. people pay to play on your servers (rather than playing on dedicated servers, which is 0 dollars for valve) and you can reward them with some random stuff that you didnt even have to make because the community already made it for you. MvM is now even more appealing with the killstreak kits and australium weapons.
On the other hand, how could you profit off from making tf2 comp a huge thing? you would have to pay tons of money on programmers to make a ranked system, a normal matchmaking system, a decent spectator system, you would have to balance the weapons, fix the bugs, you would have to spend a long time analysing the meta and making the game comp viable( as it is without third party rulesets, weapon and class limitations). And after all these things, what would you get? praise from a couple hundred of guys who are playing the game seriously and a huge bill from the workers of the project. Its better for their wallet if they just make the game more fun for the bigger audience, because 10,000 people pay more money than a 1,000.
I think its a little bit too late to convince valve that tf2, a six years old game could be the next big hit. After they found out that the mann co store is the easiest way to profit, they became money hungry. The number of hats were growing at the expense of the games' atmosphere and balance. tf2 was a good ground for experiments for the later valve titles, but it became a money-milking abomination during the process. the community would have to something truly remarkable to convince valve that there better ways to get money than making weapons glittery.

Should I try reverting to an older verison?

I just found out that you can make your tf2 look even worse by tampering with your nvidia settings. I have downloaded Nvidiainspector and did everything right according to the manual. In theory if I set the LOD bias to 15.000 and apply the settings it works, but it has no visible effects ingame. Any suggestions? I am using Chris' maxfps config. This is my profile:

Profile "Team Fortress 2"
ShowOn GeForce
ProfileType Application
Executable "team fortress 2/hl2.exe"
Setting ID_0x002c7f45 = 0x00000009
Setting ID_0x00664339 = 0x00000001
Setting ID_0x00738e8f = 0x00000078 UserSpecified=true <lod bias
Setting ID_0x0095def9 = 0x00000002
Setting ID_0x00d55f7d = 0x00000018
Setting ID_0x1033cec1 = 0x00000003
Setting ID_0x1033dcd2 = 0x00000004
Setting ID_0x106d5cff = 0x00000000
Setting ID_0x1095def8 = 0x00c02005
Setting ID_0x10f9dc81 = 0x00000011
EndProfile

(Driver version is Geforce 310.70 WHQL [r310_44],video card is Geforce GT520M)
Thanks in advance