this old bump confused me....

here's the YouTube VOD if anyone wants to watch it, the twitch one didn't load for me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3qY2YP9GOg

yeah... didn't imagine I'd need to do it when I hit post, but oh wells. my bad.

The thread was pretty innocuous when I made my first post, there were some good posts after mine, but also a lot of people who got really angry misunderstanding what I said. I'm not trying to point a finger back at them, it's my fault for being unclear with my words.

Stalin's post seemed eXtravagantly angry about the whole thing, hope he calmed down.

Marissa asked why people bash HL, I made a quick post right before I ran out the door to work that got misunderstood for the last 8 hours.

There are a lot of people on the internet that just spit hate because it's the internet. Those were the only people I was talking about.

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I don't think 6s should be scared of HL, all I was attempting to say was that the people that bash Highlander without good reason are in a way scared of HL. Guess I screwed that up *shrug*

I'm gonna be running camera this week most likely. Got all day Monday to make sure we're gtg with spechud and advspec.

Can't get miek's spectator plugin to work for me though :/

-58 frag votes? whatevs.

Just got back from work, here's some diffusion.

Marissa asked why HL gets bashed. I think that some of the bashers are 6s players that are scared of HL overtaking it. I'm not generalizing 6s players, just the minority that bashes on HL without GOOD reasons. There are a lot of logical thoughts being discussed in this thread, which to me isn't "bashing".

I think there is a subliminal thought process in some of the HL haters that are scared of the fact that HL is way more relate-able to pubbers, aka the mass majority of TF2 players. What if Valve came in and hosted a TF2-I with just Highlander? <--- that's not gonna happen, but that's the fear of the haters.

Just my opinion, don't really care about the -fragss, still gonna sleep well tonight.

p.s. regarding my HL is more team-oriented comment, I didn't mean it takes more team work per se, just that there is less room for individuals to make huge impacts.

haters be hating.

6s players see it as a threat.

Those are two subliminal reasons, but there are also gameplay/gametype issues for some players. HL is even more team-centric, it's tougher for single players to have the same large impact as you can in 6s. Sometimes that can be frustrating as you can play soldier, play pretty well, and yet feel like you can't do enough good to make your team win.

It can be tough to organize 9 people and comm efficiently, and there is also the issue of prizes having to be larger/split more. Those issues should be irrelevant in terms of bashing HL, but they are obstacles the format faces.

[day after edit: This was a bit of a throw away post before I went to work. I understand the -frags cuz I guess my point got misunderstood. All I was trying to address was the small minority of people in the community that irrationally hate highlander. After my post this thread turned into a great discussion of more serious issues people have with highlander. I think the minority I was talking about has gotten smaller and smaller over the last two years. Sorry for not making sense, I'm leaving my words as they were though, you can read my clarifications in later pages]

was a fun match. thanks to the players for playing. hope the rest of the charity drive goes well.

Yao, watch dis shit

yeah I think that controller seems pretty cool. The touchpads are definitely something I wasn't quite eXpecting. I have some misgivings about the button placements but there are four up top and two underneath, 6 buttons is a pretty good start. All the touch screen stuff sounds pretty cool as well.

Will be interesting to really see how FPS's/RTS's work on this.

yup yup! we'll be posting it ASAP afterwards!

bump bump, should be a great time.

Yyyaaaoooo! Pretty happy to be available to cast live again consistently, looking forward to casting the rest of the Platinum HL season with Kip!

LoL, touche! <3

A Year and a quarter late and this is all we get????

j/k, history is always relevant. GJ and Thanks for the vid.