sorry my bad it's ghostayama you're right. won't happen again

My least favorite riddle. He should look in the mirror and see what he saw, then take the saw, saw the table in half, two halves make a whole, he should crawl through the hole and out of the box.

This is essentially how I feel about it, but I'd like to add that on the internet people beyond your intended audience have access to the words you speak and type, and I wish we'd consider their impact as being on more people than just those in your mumble, or just hose on tf.tv.

<3 stay strong deer frend <3

I guess we're going to have to agree to disagree because personally I find the potential negative consequence of making someone feel terrible about their sexuality, or bringing up something from their past they'd rather avoid, or bringing skin color back into discussion with someone who'd prefer that society stopped making an issue of it, is not as important as the potential for a few cheap laughs.

And I do want to address rr's point too, I feel like a lot of those words are thrown out simply because it's the internet, but to me that's exactly why they shouldn't be thrown out. It's a lot harder to understand someone's intent from text or from speech when you don't know the person at all, and again, I personally prefer to air on the side of caution.

Well I definitely understand what you mean by double standard now, but my main issue with the usage of such words is simply what I stated above, that I feel they're holding the game back and have negative connotations, and that there really isn't any good reason to use them. I have the exact same issue with everything ghost7ayama has said. It's not that I believe there's a derogatory intent behind the words when TF2 people use them; in fact, I believe I made it pretty clear in my OP that I understand the 'friendly' intent.

I see it pretty simply. There are very real negative consequences of using those words. Why are we using them? When you consider the immense number of suicides annually that have been attributed to hatred toward homosexuals as well as murder and even bullying as blatant hate-crimes, in addition to the amount of rape that occurs and goes unpunished, ( and, if you want to bring the n-word into this, then the centuries of prejudice and slavery), I'm astounded that anyone would use these words as a joke or whatever when there are very real issues attached to them and there are so many less offensive alternatives. I just don't understand why people use them. That's all.

Care to extrapolate? I don't really understand what you mean by 'double standard'. How so?

Hey All,
Not sure who is aware of this but today is the national day of silence, an event designed to show support for LGBT rights where participants take a vow of silence for half or more of today in an attempt to experience part of what it would be like to feel unable to come out of the closet and speak. Roughly 90% of my high school is participating, including me, and the headmaster just canceled all classes today and tomorrow (yes we have classes on saturday fml.) In light of all this, I was wondering what all your thoughts were on the issue, and, since this is a TF2 forum, about the usage of the word "faggot". Just hoping to provoke a discussion. While we're on the subject, perhaps we could also have a discussion on the usage of the word "raped".

I personally am a large supporter of LGBT rights and therefore don't really appreciate it when streamers and friends use the word "faggot". Because I know that when TF2 streamers use the word it isn't intended to be derogatory it doesn't bother me in that way, but it still irks me a little because I don't believe there is really a good reason to use the word and there are a couple pretty good reasons to not use it (in my opinion). And that's pretty much the way I feel about people using the word "raped" in a casual context, I don't understand why people don't just say "lit" or "hurt". Furthermore, I personally feel that the issue is also holding the community and e-sport back. I would be a little wary of integrating team comms into a cast due to this sort of thing, and I wouldn't blame TwitchJohn at all if he stopped front-paging TF2 if we DID have mumble comms because there's no accountability for what might be said. Thoughts?

this shouldn't die, I really appreciate how rays puts up with all of my stupid questions and shit about his hud. <3

are you positive you pasted the clientscheme.res part in the correct part of clientscheme.res? it has to be with the other custom font files at the bottom and the two parts need to be in their respective separate sections. you can't just paste it in at the top.

you need to close the brackets I'm pretty sure? could be wrong about that, but in my hud it looks more like the changes in bold. also you need to have the file 'crosshairs.ttf' in /tf/resource if you don't already.

I vote for a combination of these two; I think we should make it so that that meehyun's idea is an option, making the viewer see no frags is an option, and keeping it the same is an option (and the default option.) This would make everyone happy, I hope.

Honestly I see no reason not to try something different with frags as long as it can always be changed back, enough people hate their existence and the bandwagoning they feel it promotes (not saying I agree; I don't know what to think on this haha) to warrant at least trying something new, at least in my opinion.

yo are you real sad

(sorry couldn't resist)

zbryan crafted original and justin carbonado sniper, can't wait to use my new original (too poor for a strange one Q_Q)

^ this.