your voice sounds different to you than it does to everyone else. you're used to the way your voice sounds because you're getting it internally and through your eardrums. when you hear a recording of yourself, that's no longer true.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20130913-why-we-hate-hearing-our-own-voice

but... mumble shouldn't be repeating the things you say back to you unless someone else is echoing.

i'll give the same feedback i give every season. the casters need to talk way less and think way more. almost all of them start sentences without thinking about what they're saying, end up with a word salad mess, and usually by the time they've corrected themselves they're 15 seconds behind. remember: we're watching. it's not radio, it's tv. you do not need to painstakingly list every player movement and every kill. and if the observer is doing his job, when you say things that contradict what we're seeing, it just makes the cast dissonant. trust your observer.

watch professional sports broadcasts. notice how they use the downtime (before the pitch or snap, which in tf2 corresponds to during stalemates) to prep viewers for what could happen. they do this quickly and precisely, and it saves them a bunch of talking during the action that follows. remember that you don't have to fill every second of action with words for the sake of words.

(of course, i recognize that they're volunteers and none of this really matters. but just in case they want to improve, or springboard into doing industry casting in another game like sideshow, cornpop, etc. ...tf2 casting has gone downhill, and i think it's because most of the people who liked casting as much as they liked tf2 have left for different games.)

note: i thought the observation was excellent in every invite cast i watched this season. noticeably improved from years past. seemed like the viewers hardly ever missed highlights and often the observers saw offclasses and aggressive plays before the casters did.

medic gets progressively more fun the better the players in the server are

i almost wouldn't put it past capnfapn to have written both sides of this

this is how i know you've never been to an alabama dennys or waffle house in the middle of the night. it is a raw experience. it is like the novel "bleak house" by charles dickens compressed into 30 minutes of weird smells and anger.

why do waiters always ask me questions when i have food in my mouth

tf2 is just better when you have team comms to listen to. it is what it is

i always really took shade streaming these for granted. so much better than the tftv casts

jay doesn't do his mg damage during sacs, he does it during chaos team fights when everyone is having to focus b4nny/habib

tex mex

is there any path to getting this into the actual game to replace the released version?

is aim gonna let himself be called out like that

trying to incentivize people to move up

if they did it the other way winner of div 1 would get more than 5th place invite or whatever. and then people would complain about that.

i think ping differences do, yeah

but the effect is usually short-lived. if it's affecting you more than a few minutes into your first scrim you probably have a different problem

loved this thanks