Yes! One of my regrets in this project is that I left no way of contacting attendees so if you got moved up, it's on you to check.

The reality is though, open is such a different game at the top and bottom. Are the top 8 open teams plenty good enough to benefit from this? I would say so. Top 16? Maybe. Top 32? No, I would say not. But where is that line? If we drew one it would be completely arbitrary. So we draw it at IM experience because that is a simple, clear, line in the sand.

There is absolutely 0 reason to assume we get them from religion at all. The evolutionary theory of morality and ethics (that moral compunction is an evolved trait that emerged from individual and group pressures) is more than sufficient to explain human morality and even goes so far as to answer why we aren't the only animals to act in a seemingly moral way. Biological evidence even supports this notion.

In fact, I believe that even most theologians these days draw a sharp distinction between religion and morality and one is not reliant on the other. Religion and morality are separate and distinct action guides. I am not saying they are mutually incompatible (there are plenty of moral theists and immoral atheists), just that they aren't in any way related and there is exactly and precisely 0 reason to believe that they are.

Guys,
Kevinispwn went through a lot of effort to get pro players lined up and ready to answer your questions in a panel style discussion on high level TF2. The only problem is, only 5 people have signed up so far. If you have IM experience (even one season!) and want to ask questions from some of the best minds in TF2, please sign up!

its from 7:00 to 8:30pm EST TONIGHT
http://classes.tf2stadium.com/classes/31/ <----- sign up there

It isn't live yet. I know people have gotten into servers, but the existence or lack of white/black lists says exactly nothing about the final form of competitive mode.

There but for the grace of god go we. This could happen in any city, in any country, at any time. I hope for the safety of every French TF2 player, their families and friends, and grieve for the victims of this unequivocal terrorist attack on a peaceful and happy group of innocent people.

This sort of terror attack scares me. The fast moving, low barrier of entry, random killings of a few dozen to a few hundred people is almost impossible to protect ourselves from. I am interested to hear about intelligence reports and the like.

Thank you to the French military and Paris police, fire and ems for putting your lives on the line to help those in need.

THEY ARE SO FAST

None of our players have that option.

Hang on, it turns out wrech doesn't own a monitor or something.

how do we get our players readied up?

How has this not become a huge thing in America.

Not for linux they dont.

No one hosts their mumble server on a private computer in their home. Most are hosted by game server companies or on a VPS which I am willing to bet have at least the same, if not greater, uptime than something like discord. They are also proven, whereas this is a new product that could just shut down at any time, as many similar projects do.

Well, there are moral/ethical grounds to prefer open source projects, but there are also technical considerations to be had.
The open source nature of mumble has led to increased ability for customizing installs and deployments, and the exposure of the complete mumble api and backend through murmur ice RPC. You can do some seriously cool stuff with that, stuff that may not be available for discord ever.

In the event that discord has a market failure or heads in an entirely terrible direction, we have no recourse except to switch back to mumble. If the mumble developers go off the deep end, it is literally a branch away from being the project of more sane individuals.

The community can add features/request features and they are easier to implement. I am not sure if TF2 has ever done this for mumble, but I have submitted many bug reports, some of which ended up getting fixed. Discord, as a proprietary software, is locked into their own development cycle where there is a payoff between adding new features that may be incomplete or buggy to entice users vs stabilizing their platform and focusing on the essence of what people use it for.

This reeks of the "I have nothing to hide" fallacy of data security. Remember that, if you are not buying the product, you are the product. Free discord users likely factor into their profit model somehow, and that is entirely up to them how they manage that. You are technically correct in the statement that, probably almost all of us have nothing worth hiding from discord and that they are unlikely to use the data in truly shitty ways (companies just arent getting away with that shit anymore), but it would still be a direct downgrade to mumble, which collects no data (except for setup details to help developers provide sane defaults and increase supported systems).

On a technical note, discord isnt working for my microphone on Linux, probably because its USB. This isn't a discord bug, but one with chrome I believe (as google hangouts do the same thing), but mumble literally had 0 problems at all.

I have coached Lobey a couple of times in Newbie Mixes and seen his play improve recently. His dedication to improvement is a really good sign that he is ready for a low-mid or so open team that can take him under their wings and help him grow as a player. He actively solicits advice and has great questions prepared for the end of every game and, most importantly, has developed a level of introspection into his own gameplay where he can identify his faults and try and work on them solo. Those traits indicate someone who will improve drastically in a season of open and I urge any forming or looking team to at least give lobey a trial.

Has actually happened. I keep a backup keyboard plugged in and ready just in case.

Im super glad companions cant die because dog is a fucking moron.