Really? He facilitated the means for over 1 million illegal transactions (many of them drug transactions, but some firearm and other illegal goods/services transactions as well).

If he got a year in prison for each transaction, he'd be looking at 1 million years in jail. RIP.

But then there was also the whole thing about him hiring a hitman...

Well, I do partially agree with you. I think many of the executives at goldman sachs should be in jail for fraud and other illegal market manipulation part of which contributed to the huge global financial crisis. But I wouldn't directly compare the crimes of the silk road guy with goldman sachs. Last I heard, I don't remember goldman sachs direct involvement in 1 million illegal drug and firearm transactions.

These large financial institutions have so much wealth and influence in the government they can get away with almost anything. I remember a quote from a financial expert at the BBC. "Governments do not rule the world. Goldman Sach's rules the world." It's sad but there is some truth to that statement.

If I wanted to confuse my friend, I would have linked them to this TLDR developers document. I know the video I posted from 2008, but the concept is still the same.... But seriously are there any more modern demonstration videos? I've not found any.

This is a video I've known about for a while know... I was just talking to some people about interp and the relationship between the player model and the actual hit boxes and how changing lerp adjusts the positioning of the hitbox in relationship to the player model.

Thought I'd also post here. Yes this is a Day of Defeat Source video, but since its source engine still it should be quite similar to TF2.

Just thought some people might find it helpful. I was unable to find any TF2 interp type videos with demonstrations like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1OqFVlgGp8

I like running gunboats as pocket. Gives me a lot more freedom, and I'm generally able to play more aggressively and chase people down etc. If I die I can also rollout back to my teams position faster by pogo jumping and stuff. I think there are some times where a soldier probably should switch off of gunboats for a bit. Such as holding last when you are at a disadvantage... you need every bit of DPS you can get, or in some last push cases where the soldier is going to be tanked and is the main part of the uber.

But yes in addition to having more freedom, you spread the heals out and give more heals to the scouts, which is very important. Keeping scouts buffed accross the point wins mid fights.

As someone mentioned it can cause weaker ubers. I agree. A gunboat pocket should never take a solo uber, and involving a scout in an uber is always great.

The other main disadvantage I see on fulltime gunboat pockets is they might not have the best ability to protect their medic from scouts with no shotty. But with good comms and people watching flanks this shouldn't be much of a problem.

Definitely NOT clean tf2. He used a pastebin of the same config I use. Secondly, this has only happened to him once since he started using the config where it rendered those textures that way. The end result may be similar to "clean tf2" but that's not what he's using... I just wanted to make it clear that this is the result of the game not loading some textures properly for some strange reason.

Or will it? My friend said he is using the same config I'm using (one thats popular on tf.tv, a modded chris's), which definitely does NOT do any of that. So AFAIK all the strange looking textures were rendered that way in error.

My friend launched TF2 to join a snakewater lobby and his game looked like this:

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/36372383537760833/1F2F700F69138A3D55840F1F703DC0194EE535CB/

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/36372383537760541/3983B482FB977F897247A841D1D83923CCA403DC/

He was at a solid 299 FPS the entire game. He had tons of errors in console. He mentioned he could see everyone really easily, especially in those dark corners where people sometimes hide on snakewater!

Here is a dump of the errors in console.

http://pastebin.com/f1RzzdnR

I'm guessing just a bunch of textures didn't load properly? I've never seen anything like this before. Are there any legit configs that allow you to run the game and make it look like this in comp tf2?

I agree that laptops are not ideal for gaming. If you must buy a laptop however (e.g. need one for school), try to get one with at least a mid-range dedicated graphics card (GPU) not one with an integrated GPU. And I'd highly recommend using a decent notebook cooler when you plan to game, to prevent overheating and thermal throttling, and just to increase the lifespan of the computer.

Just give him a punch in his lmaobox then run away!

I've seen different uses for that clip before but man.... I'm literally crying right now because I was laughing so hard!

Good Shit!

Exactly what I was thinking.... lmao. However in all honesty CPU mining bitcoins might make them 1 cent a year per user. Bitcoin mining is now exclusively done on ASIC chips. CPU/GPU mining won't even come close to covering the cost of electricity consumed.

"please note that running the ESEA Client and playing on ESEA servers is entirely optional, there are other places to play, and if you're uncomfortable with the Client always running then you should uninstall and cancel your subscription."

Seems like a deal with it or GTFO statement. Personally I'd like to see some proof that the ESEA client actually does something as far as anti-cheating for TF2 goes.

STEAM_0:0:95700187

Name: Toko

Profile Link: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198151666102

A friend of mine was suspicious of " toko" and reported him to me. I did a little research and dug into some logs and found this particular log:

http://logs.tf/722892?highlight=76561198151666102

77% Sniper accuracy across 16,247 damage. 64 headshots, 548 DPM. He got really focused by the enemy scout and soldier, or I have no doubt he would have gotten an absolute insane amount of kills/dpm.

I found the server owner and he provided me with the STV:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6jwry8mo861c5aq/20150317-1406-koth_viaduct_pro5.dem?dl=0

After watching it and seeing multiple cases where he hits back to back headshots 5-7 times in a row without missing, its clear he is using silent aim. I would say the most convincing ticks are near the end starting at about 116K. He headshots the scout jumping in his face first shot. The scout isn't even in his scope what-so ever when he fires the shot. Yes lag compensation might have a bit to do with it, but it wouldn't effect it that much, unless the guy had several hundred ping (which he did not). Then he snipes a few more players like the demo, soldier medic, heavy all in a row without missing right near the end. And even headshots the scout again which is randomly jumping his first shot.

I tried to add him yesterday (before reviewing the demo), as some people I can get to just admit to cheating, but he hit ignore and also made his profile private.

Thanks for the update. 25 cheaters banned is a lot! And I'm sure there are still more that we will continue to uncover as time goes on...

Dayumm... I would have liked to see another hacker stream. What happened with the last guy was hilarious. Definitely give your friend a scolding! Also, just curious did someone spot his hack on his stream such as his login info or F11/Insert menu? Or was it just obvious based on his game play?

If they are hard to airshot wait for them to bomb and time their rocket so you can surf it giving you a height advantage and fire down 2-3 rockets on them. :P

I'd love to have a solid 50-60 ping. But instead I'm stuck with 80-120 ping usually!

I used to have quite a few large ping spikes that would drive me up from 80 to 200 ping with my old shit router.

I got a newer asus $100 router that seems to handle more network usage such as someone on youtube or skype at the same time that I'm playing TF2 a lot better. Other than that I don't really have any other suggestions, other than making sure your computer isn't updating things while you are playing (windows updates, AV, torrents etc)

90C is far too high for that CPU. Many laptop CPU's can handle around 90C fine.

According to Intel the i5-3750K has a TCASE of 67.4C. For some reason there is no Tj spec for this CPU. TCASE is the temperature @ the heatspreader, Tj would be the temperature of the individual CPU dies, which would generally be 5C or so hotter at least.

Either way though, 60C under load is fine.