Damn man. Reading this made me cry so hard. It reminded me of what I went through leading to his last day. It all started with this "episodes" that I later found out were caused by the tumor in his heart bleeding between this layer around the heart and the heart itself. It would cause these episodes where he would collapse and all he could do was lay there and hyperventilate to try and breathe, as the pressure of the bleed pressed against his heart and made breathing difficult. I went through 2 vet visits, and then it got so bad I finally took him to a hospital/specialist where they quickly found diagnosed his issue. They tapped his chest and pulled out 1/3 of a liter of blood. This relieved his symptoms drastically and they sent us home. They told me the median life exptancy without any intervention for that cancer was 12 days. I did a lot of things to try and sustain his life and make him comfortable. But 4 days after we left the hospital he bled again and I couldn't take watching him suffer like that and took away his pain.

It is so traumatic going through all of that. Thank you for sharing your story with me.

Rats are actually such cool little creatures. Intelligent, clean, and totally capable of love and friendship with humans. I had two back around 2008. Their names were Brie and Barley. It's so sad that they only live 2-3 years.

How many of you have lost a best friend that was with you for a significant amount of time? I adopted a dog in 2011 and just a few weeks ago he died from an aggressive cancer that developed around his heart. He was, still is really, everything to me. As simple and corny as it may sound, he really was so much more than a dog to me. It's been over 5 weeks and I'm still in the process of grieving deeply. It's so hard to not think about all the saddest of things, like the weeks and days leading up to when I had to put him down, and that awful day itself.

I want to reach the point where I can just smile and remember the good times. But I also feel sad and guilty as time slips by, realizing that each day takes me further away from him in a sense.

If you have any advice or just want to share stories about your little loved ones, I'd love to hear them.

Same with Razer mechanical keyboards. I had a nice one many years ago. It lasted about 1-2 years before the D key became softer than hot butter.

I love my Leopold's. Extreme quality. You can feel the quality as soon as you touch/pick one up.

Unfortunately Caboose passed away several years ago. That fact still hasn't quite sunk in yet. RIP Addy ♥

Does anyone know where I can find the Seanbud copypasta that was long and stupid calling him a tyrant and accusing him of stealing from the community? I just spent about 10 minutes looking for it to post it here but can't find it. It was from like 9 years ago at least.

edit: to clarify, I sincerely want to find it and read it again because it made me laugh super hard

Not even kidding... Using mIRC (I had the paid version) and joining pugna is one my most fond and nostalgic memories.

boomer/player from the golden days here

I will probably get downvoted for saying this. But I'm just thinking out loud. But I remember back in the golden days of tf2 - around 10-12 years ago, Badlands wasn't nearly as hated. Yeah pushing out of last was hard but that was something that separated the good teams from the great teams. I remember working with my team(s) on that part of the map and it was difficult but it could be done.

Obviously the game has changed a ton since that long ago. But maybe that's the point... I feel like with how fast the game is now with scouts+medic, the crossbow being op, and other meta changes... that it's less the map and more the way the game has evolved that is the problem.

Not saying there isn't anything wrong with the map though. Just some perspective.

I agree. I think ergonomically speaking this is the proper way as well.

Does anyone know the specific command to set hit sounds to *always*? I have a problem of whenever I switch classes it resets to "special events". I could be possible that something about my class configs are causing a problem, or it could be a known problem with the game. Can anyone confirm either?

I actually want to see this. I'm downloading the mod right now after reading and watching some of it. Really cool stuff.

edit: got it installed. My custom configs and [most] of my custom HUD transferred over to the classic mod without issues. One thing I wish is that they fix the hit sounds soon because not hearing damage really throws me off. Other than that this mod is so cool and runs so well. I have a potato laptop but it runs better than the actual tf2.

edit: can someone explain why I'm being downvoted for this?

Hey old pal

Thank you Daphne! That means a lot.