tbh you haven't lived until you've mained pootis on a 24/7 2fort server for a year and a half.

i used to recommend one of these bad boys
https://www.amazon.com/Zalman-Zm-Mic1-Sensitivity-Headphone-Microphone/dp/B00029MTMQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1524595149&sr=8-1&keywords=zalman+mic
plus whatever your favorite headphones are, but it seems like the zalman is out of production now. $15 is still a pretty good deal, but I bet you could find something better for that money.

one of these is pretty close to the original price of the ZM1
https://www.amazon.com/Technica-ATR4650-Condenser-Computer-Microphone/dp/B006QSSUK2/ref=sr_1_10?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1524595568&sr=1-10&keywords=zalman+mic
but I can't vouch for its quality.

other than those, if you want a clip on you could go with just a real lav. this one looks fine
https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Microphone-Omnidirectional-Smartphones-Cancelling/dp/B016C4ZG74/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1524595694&sr=1-3&keywords=lavalier+microphone
but again, i can't vouch for it.

if you wanna give a desk mic a shot, really anything here should work fine
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_4_8?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&field-keywords=desk+microphone&sprefix=desk+mic%2Celectronics%2C165&crid=1IVDXZ4FXQ6PU

just make sure you buy an actual mic, not a stand.

the only thing you really need to know is that you don't need to drop 50 bucks on a modmic or a snowball to get something that'll work for comms in your favorite gamer games. as for headphones, the general rules are

• don't buy anything gamer branded

anything that says gamer is gonna be either really really cheap shit marked way way up by some no-name company to get people who don't know any better to think it must be good because it's expensive, or it's going to be the same shit you could get for about half the price, but just with LEDs and really ugly plastic pieces all over it to make it for gamers. either way, avoid at all costs.

• open backed > close backed

having an open back will give you better positional sound, but it'll also let in a lot more of your ambient noise. if you live in a really noisey house or a dorm or something, probably stick with closed back stuff, but if you can, i'd definitely say go for opens or at least semi opens.

• stick with real audio brands if you can afford them

again, you don't have to spend $200 on some 598s like all the streamers have, but something like these
https://www.amazon.com/AKG-240-Semi-Open-Studio-Headphones/dp/B0001ARCFA/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1524596557&sr=1-3&keywords=akg+k240

or these
https://www.amazon.com/Audio-Technica-ATH-M30x-Professional-Monitor-Headphones/dp/B00HVLUQW8/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1524596627&sr=1-1&keywords=m30x
are gonna be worlds better than anything from the chinese company you've never heard of, or a computer memory vendor turned headset company.

cromen

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i want the internet to change too, but i don't think that """"""""""""""""""""""""cyber-harassment"""""""""""""""""""""""" is something we need to worry about when the solution is literally one click away.

but whatever, fuck having a pissing contest in a sea of piss. this isn't even a thread about bullyhunters anymore

smh

toxic gamers are everywhere, mute them and move on. if you miss out on good comms for a pug, oh well, there goes at most a half an hour of your life that you would've otherwise spent getting creeped out by some neckbeard who doesn't know any better. i mute toxic gamers all the time, and i have a pee-pee. this isn't a problem unique to women, and it isn't a problem that's very difficult to solve. if you don't like the solution everyone else uses and still want to solve this issue, there are a few options. first is voice_enable 0. second is to stop playing online games. the third is to only play with people you know and mute the rest. the fourth and final is to ask the entire internet to change because you don't like it when someone says, "hur dur gamer gril hur dur rape joke"

i would really like it if the internet weren't such a shithole too, but i don't go around complaining about how it's everyone else's fault and explaining that they need to make the internet great again by not saying shit that i don't like. if you want to criticize the culture of the internet, that's fine, but don't say that all of the multitude of solutions available don't cut it for you because you have a vagoo instead of a pee-pee.

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how so, friendo? it potentially hurts their ability to heal team mates at long range, but there have been a few suggestions itt that would help that

I think most peoples' gripes are that it's so damn good at healing, even at close range, that it makes playing against it frustrating. if you just make it less good by reducing the healing in one way or another (longer reload/no passive reload, reduce base healing stats, make it heal over time instead of 150 all at once, etc.) so that it's on par with the medigun instead of straight up better, it would be a win-win. I think the idea behind the weapon is a good one, but its execution leaves a lot to be desired. healing at range should come at a cost, not be the preferable option to the medigun.

maybe i'm wrong, after all i'm just a publord, i don't know nothing about nothing, but just from theory crafting i don't see how nerfing or banning the xbow really hurts medic that much. soldier/demo, sure, but medic idk.

love ya babe, keep doin what you're doin. you make dope content, i'm just some asshole on the internet whining about my free entertainment.

the visual style was a really refreshing and inventive break from the usual slide-show format of videos like these, and like I said, it does work well as a companion piece to your other content on the subject. I just think it would have been better served if you had communicated that more clearly so that retarded tftv posters like me would pick up on that before we post comments criticizing it. I think CGP grey has a pretty good way of posting follow up videos as footnotes, but that obviously wouldn't have worked here since the video(s) it's a companion to came out months prior.

either way, dope shit homie, keep it up. and I know the DS thing was just a joke, I tried to make a joke out of it too, but I'm just really fuckin bad at being a funny guy

I funkin dig this guy, but i really don't understand what this video was supposed to do. it has no target audience that i can tell

it doesn't go in depth enough to help new players, and any veterans will already know everything he talked about. and it doesn't really come at it from an outsider's perspective either, where everything gets explained in a way that someone who has never played tf2 would be able to understand why we love this elderly hat simulator so much

I guess he said it's about why tf2 is rewarding to play, but he spent too much time in the nitty gritty details that really don't matter. they should serve as evidence to a point being made, not the point themselves

I get it though, it's a hard topic to talk about. explaining to normies [cronge] why we like this shitty 10 year old hat simulator is tricky without talking about every little awesome thing about the game, but this video feels like it should have been half its length, and part of a larger video about everything that makes tf2 awesome. like, oh, i don't know lazypurple's video, or maybe a video about what makes tf2 such a compelling "esport"

which i guess helps make some sense of it. as a companion piece to lazy's timeless masterpiece or funke's own tf2 esports videos it's pretty good. it helps explain what exactly keeps the dedicated, hardcore players around, and why some of us think it would make a good esport (if only valve-senpai would bother to notice us). but on it's own, i don't think it's a very good video

really though, the whole thing felt like a reason to make the dark souls joke at the end

>greentexting outside of memetown

hmmm

the tf2 comp community is only friendly and welcoming if you aren't a weeb

ftfy

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I'm not some political nerd like you gamers, but the way I see it the production isn't socialized because the products aren't socialized. They're sold individually to individuals, not socially to societies. If production were socialized, that would necessitate that the needs and wants of the people would be social rather than individual. And ultimately, the individual should be who these systems work to benefit, not the society, because the one thing that can't be socialized is happiness. Which is the one thing communism, at least as I understand, and how I've seen it argued for again and again just ignores: a person's wants.

And so the question I would pose to you is: How does communism do a better job at meeting the individual's wants than capitalism? What is the mechanism by which communism is better at this than capitalism, and moreover, how would it be implemented?

Do you just give everyone whatever they want? Or do they have to participate in production to earn it? And if the latter is the case, how is this functionally any different to capitalism as implemented in a state with some or all socialized basic necessities, like, say, the modern developed world? Or are wants something that will simply stop mattering when we seize the means of production?