doubt it seeing as all sources suggest they'll both be playing next season

unless they get super bored and stop trying and S14 lan winds up being between AG, Vector, Mad Men and clockwork's team or something

which is unlikely

shrugger to outfrag ruwin (he did remember to bring his hardware this time right?)
lansky to outdamage b4nny
omar to have an unsuccessful spy play
visitor to outplay tlr
cyzer for MVP
zbryan to appear in at least one video that becomes a meme
brad to somehow drop ubers despite not even playing medic

slin to refer to someone as "the mangachu of invite"

people who say "faggot", "nigger", "raped" etc etc in a casual manner disturb me a lot less than the people who say things like "girls can't play video games" and "transsexuals are just men in skirts" and "black people are less intelligent than whites" and so on and so forth in complete seriousness.

while casual use of "offensive" words may be a symptom of some degree of closeted (or not-so-closeted) bigotry, it just as often seems to be a result of peer pressure, & the social forces exerted on people of the certain age, personality type and socioeconomic background to play competitive tf2. if anyone remembers that drunk djc stream from a while back, this same issue came up, with some insightful commentary from tyrone and john. (i even went back to watch the vod again >.>)

this thread is all the negative stereotypes about esports rolled into one i mean goddamn

sleep

for me sleeping 10 hours a day is actually a bigger problem than playing videogames 3 hours a day

i should probably switch those numbers

i just add up and it usually lets me join within a few minutes, but i guess i'm willing to wait a bit for 10 ping nocrits

dammit djc, you weren't supposed to reveal the secret plans ;<

omar i think

none of the other playoff teams were even able to take a round off the mad men, let's hope r5 can pull off at least a couple of rounds before it's over

7 damage meatshots

well, my thought process is (1) i like playing tf2, it's fun; (2) you can't play tf2 when you're dead; (3) i should die less; (4) in order to die less, i should kill the people who are trying to kill me before they kill me; (5) therefore i need better aim and reaction time, and not to be overwhelmed with the multitude of targets and/or spam when 4 people are on my screen.

so yes, i would like to do better. i suppose i should play more DM, and try to focus on at least two players at once at any given point, or... something.

what i'm not sure about is if inability to multitask and slow reaction time are just built-in things, like a lack of fine motor control, that will forever keep me from being good. right now i mostly play east coast pubs/mge/dm, would probably need a mic/headset to play anything more competitive but i anyway don't really feel i could do much at this point, considering how poorly i do in pubs. maybe newbie mixes.

so i've been playing tf2 for just over 666 hours and still don't feel like i've improved at all. (this is especially true of the projectile classes, soldier and demoman.) i'm pretty sure i know why; there's always too much going on for me to react to. i can concentrate on maybe one or two things at a time, so i wind up either tunnel visioning or getting overloaded with information. i don't see any reasonable way of learning to deal with this; i play a fair amount of MGE, but that's 1v1 and you always know where the other guy is coming from, so it doesn't help me much. DM has the opposite problem: it's simply too chaotic for me, and i wind up wildly spamming or tunneling and only getting kills by chance.

i also have real difficulties with aim, because i'm bad at the two things you need to aim well (that is, prediction and tracking -- i'm always about half a second behind); but that's to be expected of someone on their first fps that they didn't pick up until age 20. aim could be improved with practice, if i can figure out how to practice well.

so should i stop trying and just play huntsman sniper in pubs and hang out in stream chats? or is there something i can do to actually get better and, if so, what?

it's happening with every custom hud, must have been a hidden update. only solution is to switch back to the default until it's fixed

on the plus side, invisible players and floating unusual effects appear to be completely fixed now, same with that heal beam thing. and the new spectator hud is pretty awesome!