Life's too short to waste time doing stuff you don't truly enjoy, if you don't have fun playing with your current team then just leave. No point wasting your time when your goals aren't aligned as everyone else has said.

From the perspective of somebody who spent many many hours playing this game and trying to get better, I never once had to make a decision whether or not to keep playing despite not wanting to. Don't let your thoughts on 'having potential' force you to continue playing, everyone has potential--to become a good player you need to put in a *lot* of time and that may or may not be worth it to you.

Another thing is it's not quite as black and white as it sounds, as you've probably heard: nobody quits tf2. Like any other hobby, there's absolutely no reason to all of a sudden completely stop it forever. Besides doing a few casts and ringing 2 or 3 times, I haven't touched the game for 2 months, and I've found myself a lot happier as a result. I definitely enjoyed playing all these seasons and watching streams and stuff, but sometimes you just have to take a break and focus on real life. But that's not to say I won't come back for LAN's and maybe even play next season or something. Do what's right for you in the moment, if you feel the urge to grind the game and it's not at the sacrifice of other more important things like schoolwork, go for it.

Being consistent in matches is definitely all about the mental game as people have said, it's very easy to get in your own head and judge yourself based on how you expect to be doing, but the best thing to do is to acknowledge those thoughts and tendencies and just let them go. Everyone gets self conscious when they start out a game poorly or aren't playing up to their potential but the only thing to do is to move on and focus on the next moment. The best players on the best teams will play exactly the same whether or not they are down 4-0 with 5 minutes left or at the very beginning of the game. If you want to read up and learn more about this stuff there's tons of resources and videos out there about sports psychology (e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECcokwYv9vY)

I've found practicing mindfulness helps a lot too because it's the same idea of letting things go and focusing on the present moment. Can't be a consistent player in matches if you get distracted or get angry or caught up with things during the game. Another thing is if you are having a bad game or are in a bad mental state an easy way to re-focus and chill out is to simply get up and get a glass of water or go to the bathroom or something. Warming up the same way and having a routine before matches also helps with consistency (to prevent from going into a match 'cold' or not feeling as practiced as you might other days)

making this for new releases that aren't necessarily hip hop, post any new/recent music releases you're hyped about

ill start off by saying ive been listening to the new gorillaz 'song machine' album and it's pretty sick:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbA5p54Rw2M&list=OLAK5uy_nAsSeabV45hs2uO-CiOMIQR3Vne-pZQkI

ok we need a jarrett legacy if only just to document all the crazy trap kills he's gotten over the years

smh what kinda cheese discourse is this, yall sleeping on muenster it's the best for grilled cheese

yomps played his first season in IM and won and then played invite so its definitely possible you just have to be a superhuman

lets go nasboiiiiiii

:)

i ended up just going to cali and having a blast chilling with the homies at an airbnb but honestly fuck sami and dashner for screwing over so many other people, esp people who were going to fly internationally

I get people being concerned about Lange and make sure he's okay or whatever but can we chill out with the armchair psychiatrist shit? We don't know what's going on with him or what the motivation for this stuff is, doesn't feel right to be saying he has such and such mental illness or not. Sucks he deleted the nodecg repo tho whatever it was that led him to do it.

Obviously ETF2L can do what they want and regular season matches probably don't hold much consequences. But as a ruleset I'm not sure how I feel about it, don't game in EU happen relatively early at like 8pm UK time? Seems a little weird to have these time limits on games that aren't LAN with super limited time.

Also, wouldn't this encourage a team that loses mid on golden cap to stalemate and never push out because they get a free pass to another middle? In ESEA we had no time limit and the longest golden cap I ever saw was a 30 minute one between my team and ascent, where we went back and forth from last to last on badlands until eventually the better team (ascent) won.

TF2 is about winning rounds and a large part of what makes the game interesting is the better team can lose a middle but still win the round by consistently outplaying the other team in team fights and pushes/holds. Middles have a lot of randomness and it seems like it would be so frustrating to play a golden cap for 15 minutes and scrape your way to the enemy last but then have all your progress nullified and end up getting unlucky and losing middle. We don't measure the best teams based off who won more middles, we measure it by who won the most rounds.

I wanna see aim legacy with all 69 airshots from rewind 2

yea id def play in one day/weekend cups with lower commitment, sounds like a good way to keep the community engaged w/o lans

Cool stuff, looks really nice in 1440p too. Slow mo looked a bit choppy at times but overall loved it.

I haven't tried any of the other PureXP modes but it already looks razer sharp and I have no issues with the screen looking too blurry. In fact it's consistently impressed me how clear it looked, and that I am able to run it at 240hz and have tracking be super smooth. Does lowering the refresh rate make the input delay better in some way? Because I would much rather have a smooth 240hz experience than a 120hz one with a little less input delay and a little more clarity for motion blur. I have a 3600XT and 2070 super and my game runs very smooth so I don't really see any reason to drop it.