do u really show up to new jobs without learning anything about the industry?

aren't you like an actual adult lmao

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i got offered a research position / job at a brewery doing stuff with yeast. idk anything about brewing, but it seems like a dad hobby and there's dads here. what are good resources to learn about it?

I think you could just change the way points work in 5cp and have a good chance of encouraging more aggressive play. Change round timer to 5:00, make it so it never resets, and then give the team controlling mid points at the end of the round. With current point rules you'd just sit at mid after winning and turtle for two minutes, so you need to give them a reason to move. A simple way would just be making it so having more cps controlled at the end would give you more points. Holding mid gives you 1 point, holding second gives you 2, capping last gives you 3. The team holding mid would be encouraged to push to get more points, while the other team would have a reason to push out of last more often.

The problem right now is the stalemates are sort of a minima when you look at the risk for everything you could do. Changing the round timer doesn't make standing still more dangerous, but making it so standing still loses you points makes it really important to at least try and retake second

even if a map solves a particular gameplay problem, it doesn't make it fun. This can be cause solving the problem is a big can of worms or the execution is off. Gully is off-class friendly but also horribly flawed, and it'd be hard to make it less chokey without sacrificing the off-class viability. You can't just take badlands, remove the shitty parts, and suddenly have a good map. The shitty parts are inherent to the map and make the good parts workable too.

go to good will, especially at $60

make sure to dunk that shit in ethanol tho

in real games, never take pipe fights with people who are actually trying to dodge. Just put stickies on the floor and wait for them to run over them. Its borderline pointless to MGE with pipes because 99% of the time in a 6s scenario when you'll need to actually win a pipe duel you're already so fucked that aim won't really matter.

no one ever does that weird stutter stepping they do in pipe mge

alright im home and i actually think this is an interesting thought so w/e I'll flesh it out better
The assumption is that video games and online communities have a higher percentage of the population that identifies as LGBT compared to the general population. Further, I'm interested in if games with bigger time commitments like speedrunning and competitive titles select more for LGBT people. This is based on personal observation and tf2 being seen as a "gay weeb" game. I could be flatout wrong whoops :(.

The three reasons I gave were possible reasons I'd think I see more LGBT people in this community than elsewhere. I'm most familiar with tf2 so its really the only community I can talk about. Option 1 would be my self-selection for LGBT people to hang out with has made me see a pattern in my own circle of friends and I've accidentally applied it to the whole community. 2 would be there being a pattern for TF2, but not necessarily every online community that is comparable. 3 would be a possible reason that this pattern would be observable in all online communities.

Better isn't a good word, but its easy to understand I guess. If you took random people from the entire population of the US, on average I think you'd find more gay people who are "good" at video games than you find heteronormies who are "good". Time spent playing video games is probably a better variable to track. If you were to do actual analysis something like CSGO rank, chess Elo, or MMR would be more usable for relative ability. I'd say better and more common are kinda conflated when you're talking about this, since people who don't play video games would be pretty bad at them.

I don't think TF2 itself is more attractive to lgbt people by design. Valve didn't make a game trying to corner the queer population obviously. That doesn't mean it can't be uniquely appealing because of something like the community being very LGBT friendly. As an example, I'd say Old School Runescape isn't very LGBT friendly compared to TF2.

this is more what I meant. It might be that younger people are more likely to be LGBT in general, but I kind of assume you'll see less young LGBT people playing lots of sports, and more of them in more introverted or inside hobbies like arts and gaming.

Yeah, this is why I gave option 2 in the OP. It might be TF2 is really unique in its appeal. I definitely think CS etc are more "normie" games and you see less LGBT people in them, but I only pub those games so its not like TF2 where I at least am passingly familiar with half the community.

Although the (few) girls I've played with in this game have been L or B, I think that the selective pressures you'll see on women who get into competitive gaming probably put a weird bottleneck on what kind of women would be here anyway. I think its an intersectional issue and kind of outside the scope of this topic. It is worth pointing out that competitive games are overwhelmingly male and that probably puts some weird gender pressures on people who participate.

Not better in the sense of invite, better in that the average lgbt person is probably played more video games than the average person

Recognizin selection bias is important :(

Or: LGBT people are over represented in competitive and high level gamin scenes

This is my graduae research topic feel free to comment. Personally it feels like lgbt ppl are more common in this community than in the general population. 3 ppssible reasons ive figured

1. I only hang out with gay tf2 players
2. Tf2 is uniquely appealing to lgbt people
3. Lgbt people are more likely to sit inside getting good at games due to social stigmatization

murder the police they represent hierarchy

u might have to keep waiting cause my internet was not fixed :L(

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this is unironically a good idea and solves the OP problem without being unbalanced debate me atheists