GXL 2015

I get a king suite that is separated into two rooms. Some of the TFTV production crew stays with me, as well as my roommate, and Alfa. The production crew wasn't going to arrive until late Friday / early Saturday or something like that, so the first night was my roommate, Alfa, and me. Alright, cool.

After I leave the LAN for the night, I hit up Marmaduke's room. There's Marmaduke, Rick, Rando, 4-5 other people that I can't remember off the top of my head (I know some of them were Rick's crew that he brings to some LANs), and a very wasted Alfa. I guess some of them went to some restaurant before this and got some Italian food or something, too. Anyway, we chill in the room for a while. Sometime later, Alfa said he was gonna go back to the room to get some sleep. When I leave, I notice Alfa is in the lounge area, nearly passed out at a table. I wake him up and we go to the room.

So, king suite = king bed. Alfa and I share the king bed. We chat for a little bit, but I said that I really wanted to try to get some sleep. Now, keep in mind that over the past few months, I've had various health problems with restlessness, increased heart rate for no reason, dizziness, panic attacks, waking up in the middle of the night in a panic, etc. Just a whole bunch of annoying shit (which I think ended up being bad anxiety). So, I really wanted to try to fall asleep quickly before some of those things possibly happened. I could hear him texting a bit, which didn't really bother me or anything.

Ten minutes pass by, and I hear him go "blurrruhghgh."

I immediately think to myself "you know, that kinda sounded like he almost threw up or something, but I'm gonna just go back to sleep with full confidence that he's not throwing up and I won't have to deal with this shit right now :DDDdd"

Ten seconds later, I hear him go "BLURRRUGHGHGUGHH." He UNQUESTIONABLY threw up. The room was pitch black, but it didn't matter. Remember the part of the third Matrix movie where Neo is blind but he can still use his hearing to perfectly visualize everything? Yeah, I could just visualize the chunks flying out of his mouth. I could feel the vibrations of the vomit splashing against the bed. It was fucked. It was all fucked.

I reluctantly got out of bed and turned on the lights. I see Alfa, throwing up all over the fucking bed. That Italian restaurant he hit up earlier? All over the bed. Just this incredible cocktail of tomato sauce and alcohol, giving wonderful color to the entire bed where all the sheets, comforters, and pillows that were formerly white. He looks up at me and says "ugh, help." I laugh and go "WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT ME TO DO?" I look around, and the only thing I see are these trash cans that are like 3 inches by 10 inches (seriously). I give him this entirely unhelpful trash can, to which I don't even think he bothered to throw up in.

Now, I cannot stress enough how much of an endless stream this boy had vomited. It lasted for what seemed like five or ten minutes. I made him get up and finish his Pollock splatter painting in the sink. When he seemed to reach the end of his vomit spree, he went into the bathroom. While he was cooling off in there, I called the front desk and explained that my retard friend threw up all over the sheets and needed some new ones. At this point, I notice it's like 3 AM and who the fuck knows when I'll be able to fall asleep. My roommate is still in the other part of the suite, completely passed out and oblivious to everything that just happened.

Some chick comes up to the room with trash bags, ready to bag up these vomit-infested sheets. I already feel awful for the girl already, so I tell her not to worry about it and I'll bag up the sheets and give them to her. I also give her like a $10 tip, which I think I had Alfa reimburse me for because fuck this shit. She came back up with new sheets and I put them on the bed, then asked Alfa if he wanted some water or something. He said sure, so I went down to the lobby to grab him some water. I could still hear Alfa periodically throw up while he was in the bathroom, but it seemed like it wasn't as frequent as when it had started. I knock on the bathroom to give him some water, and he tells me to come in. I open the door to hand him the water. Alfa is on the toilet, and he's shirtless with his pants down to his ankles, with fresh vomit ALL OVER HIS LEGS AND PANTS. Oh my fucking god.

After everything has calmed down, I try to go to sleep. Alfa is still recovering in the bathroom. I try to sleep for almost an hour, but I am extremely restless and my heart rate is racing. I feel extremely uneasy and my anxiety tells me I need to go to the emergency room. Again, this is part of the full year where I had various health problems and couldn't figure out what was wrong. I wake up my roommate and tell him to bring me to the ER. We go to the ER, doctor tells me I'm fine and gives me some stuff to calm down, and I'm out of there in about an hour.

We get back to the hotel, and I was so worried about my health that I didn't mention a single thing to my roommate. In fact, I don't even know if he was aware that Alfa was in the room. My roommate was headed towards the bathroom, and all I wanted to do was go back to bed, so I didn't think anything of it. My roommate opens the door, jumps back, and yells "WHAT THE FUCK???"

My poor roommate just wanted to take a shit after a rough morning of taking me to the ER, but he is unexpectedly greeted by a completely passed out Alfa on the toilet, completely naked from head to toe, head resting on his knees, legs still covered in dry vomit, basically surrounded in a vile pool of what used to be food and alcohol. Even trying to brush your teeth was a chore, because the sink was doused in various noodles birthed by Alfa hours earlier.

The hotel was not gonna clean up the mess and neither was I. Alfa had to stay back at the room for an hour and clean everything (which I will say he did a good job). Still, what a fucking night.

It's a little hard to tell for sure because the netcode is kinda meh. Some people are still complaining about Galena's hurtbox. To me, she seems extremely hard to rail right now.

Would it be better if id renamed the game to something else? I don't get it.

I don't think the classes are a bad thing. They are all a little different but still have a lot of the same core gameplay (ie: it's not like there's a healer role). I don't think it's all amazing by any means, but I think it's interesting.

I think he meant the whole system where it's like this:

Green 50% prot 100 max
Yellow 66% prot 150 max
Red 75% prot 200 max

So, for example, having 140 red armor is better than having 150 yellow armor.

Still, that's not the same thing, as I knew what you originally referenced is how there's only one kind of armor at all.

You do know that the game is going to be free to play from the start, right? And the primary currency you get for playing games and completing challenges only unlocks a champion for 24 hours. Unless you use real money (or get an extremely rare drop of the real money currency in the highest tier loot crate), you can't unlock them permanently. You can buy all of them bundled together for, paraphrased, "a normal price of a game." (so like $50? I have no idea)

lol

I mean, honestly, I think your attitude towards this entire topic is basically summed up from this:

http://www.poorlydrawnlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/mad.png

It's entirely fine to not like a game for what it is, but if you want a "real quake game," let me remind you that Quake 4 definitely didn't do well. Many people despised that game quickly, pros included.

If you're going to tell me Quake 4 (or any other Quake game) isn't a real Quake game, then fuck, I don't know dude. Go play Q3OSP online somewhere with <10 people. :|

I just got done giving out the TF2 in-game RGB LAN medals. If you played in the tournament and it's still not in your inventory, let me know.

edit: It may take a little while for it to show up in your inventory, so if it's not there by tomorrow morning, message me.

i am a heron. i haev a long neck and i pick fish out of the water w/ my beak. if you dont repost this comment on 10 other pages i will fly into your kitchen tonight and make a mess of your pots and pans

Finally! I'll start working on these over the weekend. :3

If there's a very real chance that the next shot the enemy will potentially hit on you will make you drop, then just pop it. Popping is better in every way in comparison to being dead, because you'll 1) be alive 2) be ahead on uber by about 25-40% instead of watching the death cam, and 3) you'll be able to keep your teammates healthy in the meantime. If you didn't pop and you lived, yeah that's cool, but you put your team in a horrible position if you drop. If you use, you'll probably lose a control point and then you should sustain at a stalemate.

If you're down by one round and you really need to pull out a solid push with not much time left on the clock, then yeah, I'd do everything you can to hold on to the uber.

A decent amount of the time, you can get around even being in this situation by making sure your team is aware of their surroundings. They need to check for hiding enemies, as well as turning around and helping you out when you're being pressured. Obviously, it doesn't totally rest on your team's shoulders, as you need to make sure your positioning is solid as well.

Make sure your monitor is set in Windows to 144hz. You'd be surprised how many people don't notice this (looking at you, kev).

Like the policy or not, change does not always spell good things.

Pancakes are S tier.

pie_hero fucking blows rofl.

love you nico :3

Also, for those asking, the RGB LAN medals are not yet in the game. They will be included during the next TF2 update (whenever that will be). When they are thrown in with the next update, I'll give out the medals.

It's really just comparing q1/q3promode to q2/vq3/q4. The movement systems in all of the games are awesome and should be appreciated, but to say one is objectively better or what QC needs is a bit silly.

I want to make it known that technically, showstopper has dethroned b4nny.

Hey, I really appreciate this. But when people come up to me to thank me, I always thank them right back, because if they didn't show up, then all my work is for nothing. Just show up to these events and have a good time, and I promise I'll be just as thankful to you as you are to me.

Also, that bit about doing something cool for the teams that got eliminated first: I had a few TF2 prizes to give away, like a Heavy figurine that has a code inside for in-game content. I wanted to do a little trivia competition or something, but could never get both teams in their entirety at once. After a while, I just grabbed a couple people from one of the teams that got eliminated first and did a little 5 minute trivia thing for the Heavy figurine. They enjoyed it and it was a good time. :)

Once again, I also need to thank drshdwpuppet for helping with running the servers. Whether it's the tournament servers, pug servers, or even MGE servers, he continues to be an incredibly important component to the flow and success to these TF2 tournaments we have here. I will never be able to thank him enough for coming out to these events, even when he had to struggle to take off of work or even when he hurt his leg. Things would be much more difficult without him, but instead, he makes my already stressful weekend a hell of a lot easier.