strace just hates everybody

:C

djc said on rr's stream that djc, tyrone, dummy, ruwin, and pyyyour (on demo) were making a team for main, maybe mackey is the 6th?

8/13/13

3:

stole my fucking format

mini is a really nice guy, he has good mechanics, he knows a ton about the game, he has the plat heavy tracking, and he sounds exactly like lansky, pick him up

Hey. I just took my first AP US map quiz and here's a couple tips.

http://www.ilike2learn.com/ - this is a REALLY, REALLY good site for memorizing maps. I am a horrible studier, but to me, this feels as close to a fun game as studying gets. Warning, though, that it doesn't have all the major NA rivers, but it does have most of them.

-Seriously, create your own mnemonics or stupid little sayings and connections to remember chains of countries in continents you don't know. Don't use someone else's. It is so, so much more memorable than stealing someone else's. When I say stupid sayings, I mean like "The Slave River looks like a pair of handcuffs" or how "Yemen, Oman" sounds like "Yeah man, no man" with a Jamaican accent.

-If you're memorizing a world map, or multiple types of maps (like countries vs mountains vs bodies of water, times like two or three continents), don't bash your head against one map until you get it down perfectly. It's frustrating, and you'll forget it all anyway. Keep alternating between maps until you nail it.

-SONGS ARE AWESOME. I learned the States and Capitals song in like 4th grade and I remember it to the extent that I just randomly start singing it when bored in the car on vacation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNUDDaEOvuY

Seriously, don't cram it all in in one night. It's not impossible, it's just really exhausting.

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Hi, this is 4812622~, aka Numbers, aka FastCo. I'd like to backup in ESEA-O this season. I don't really have a preference to what class, as long as it isn't Scout, but my Medic and roamer are much stronger than my pocket or demo.

I've never played ESEA before, but I've played a season of UGC Steel 6s as Roamer and a season of UGC Steel Highlander as Demo. I've maincalled for both of my UGC teams (yeah, even as roamer) and I feel like I have a working knowledge of how the game works, at least. I've also played a lot of mixes, around 170ish as of today. If hours matter, I have around 4600 of them, of which 1500 are actual playtime, but I do play a lot of TF2, pubs, mixes, scrims, DM, jump maps, and demo reviews with my mentors, and I think I'm pretty dedicated to improving.

Here's my (biased) perception of my strengths and weaknesses as a player.

Generally
+ I don't rage. Except in pubs. Pubs make me incredibly angry.
+ I comm a lot.
+ I have lots of free time (available around 4:30 EST and after on weekdays, all the time on weekends)
+ I ping 5-10 to Chicago.
+ I can pay league fees.
+ Willing to watch scrims / go over demos with team.
+ I've never played extensively with the Quick-Fix, so there's nothing to unlearn.
- My UGC teams don't scrim much, but I'm prioritizing them over subbing if schedules do conflict.
Sat, Sun, Mon - generally unavailable 9:00-10:30 EST
Tues, Wed, Thurs - generally unavailable 9:30-10:30 EST
Fri - no scrim

Medic
+ I have decent surfs.
+ I have decent crossbows and needles.
= I'm pretty conservative with my Ubers.
- I miss a not-insignificant portion of flashes, although I think i'm getting better at that.

Roamer
- I have some sub-par rocket jumps. I can do single jumps, and sometimes pogos and walljumps, but that's pretty much the extent of it. My airstrafing is pretty mediocre too. I've been getting into practicing jump maps and rollouts and such more lately though.
+ Despite this seemingly-crippling weakness, I somehow manage to do stuff. I'm not entirely sure myself if this can be attributed to having enough awareness or position or gamesense or DM to compensate, but it's something.
+ I can play Spy and Pyro.
- But my Sniping is very inconsistent, and so is my Heavy, to a lesser extent.

Pocket
+ I feel like my Ubers do work pretty consistently.
+ I'm pretty meticulous in checking for traps.
- My Shotgun is very inconsistent. Some days I hit every shot, other days, none of them.
- Sometimes I abandon my Medic at times when i shouldn't. It comes with maiming Roamer.
- My airstrafing is mediocre.
- I've only ever played pocket in mixes.

Demo
+ I rarely overextend.
+ I feel like I have some pretty good stickies.
- My pipes are inconsistent / usually bad.
- I can't hit the Badlands or Process rollout yet, and I haven't practiced the new Metalworks one, but my Granary, Gully, Snake, and Viaduct are adequate, I think.

What I'm looking for in a team are a cool bunch of nice people who are dedicated to improving.

Thanks!

cloridium is scary

always accepts the melee duels in soap dm

also assraped the fuck out of my ugc plastic hl team so he must be good

pick him up

heh

All sets were banned by ESEA. The Powerjack itself is not. Before the Powerjack was useless compared to the Axtinguisher. Now it's viable.

Also here is SPUF thread with a bunch of plat pyros (huey lewis, hard ass johnny, tmp, indivicivet) arguing about axtinguisher vs gas jockey. the arguiment is that the axtinguisher is better for killing heavies. there are no heavies in 6s. so the gas jockey would have been better, or so it seems to me.

Not that it matters because Jockey was nerfed into the ground, but still.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3128539

the class also neuters the other team's non-sniper long-ranged damage

don't think this is the problem

just decide bans in irc like you pick players, and then ban anyone who uses banned weapons

direct point-blank reflects are 151, which means you'd have to flame the med down before you reflected

it could happen but it sounds really, really hard

seems better against uber really, because you can stall the hell out of them once you force, unlike the qf, flamethrower penetration against a med that can't heal himself is nice too

still think the axtinguisher is better against qf

roster?

i thought you played demo rain

huh?

in my experience, pyro can destroy a quick-fix uber if he gets close, but you need an axtinguisher, which means you can't have the powerjack

or do you mean reflects or flares or something