im sorry i am a bit out of the loop on this but op you want to give up on something that was no doubt hundreds of hours of work because the admins wasted 8 hrs of your time?

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theres a skill in life called "conceding with egotistical prick maniacs to further your own selfish goals." Where you hate the people you're working with, but you still work with them because you want something out of them. sounds like you want to use the site, but keep getting banned and sidelined by the egotistical prick maniac running it. And even, that the egotistical prick running it is doing a bad job of running it.

Now, you could invest hundreds of man hours learning how to code a new site. But i think a better investment in life skill would be putting some hours into learning how to deal with an idiot who has control of something you want. It will help you more in your personal life.

Yes. I have the same experience, a lively pub community with a few hundred members. There were less cognitive failures playing tf2 then (because the game cost money), and I was younger as well.

I don't really enjoy pubbing anymore, because it seems like I've grown out of the game, and the game has grown out of me.

I'm posting with a wistful glow! -- not bitterness or a delusion that things could return to their former state.

call me jaded but i dont think 2008 (it was 2010 for me) era tf2 can happen on pubs anymore really.

if you have players joining who consistently sit in a mumble server (pretty much all competitive tf2-ers), then in game talk, balanced pub games, people talking to their medic, etc. can't really happen. or rather, doesn't happen.

thats why skial badwater is the way it is. theres like 5 different groups of ppl, all of them are in mumble, and they all want to win (cause they play competitive tf2) but they dont want to talk to each other, cause theyre busy jerking each other off in mumble. jerking each other off in mumble feels good, dont get me wrong, but it doesnt feel like 2008 pub tf2.

my actual thread contribution: dont make it a 24/7 badwater server.

I'm going to make a promise, that I will never use this plugin, and all my airshots will remain forever virgin and uncorrupted, non machine assisted, entirely organic and without influence of such a mathematical and cold prediction device.

Seriously though, this is very cool. I'm sure the US DoD has a job waiting for you. Those predator drones won't program themselves :)

Couldn't get into this one. I loved reading the prose but after a few sentence/paragraphs I start to wonder what I'm reading. I think I need an annotated version.

Oh well!

Great choice, that is one of my absolute favorite stories. So accessible and easy to read, yet such a classic! I've read it more than 3 times for sure.

I finished CivilWarLand in Bad Decline a little while ago, that was a fun read. Also really enjoyed The Good Lord Bird. -- reminded me of Django Unchained but way more whimsical.

I think this next on my list of "movie books." I think you should check out All the Light We Cannot See. I bet it would be great on audiobook.

honestly you have to be fucking retarded to hate/boycott esea now.

what the fuck are you doing in your bios and kernel and shit that somehow is just now an awful privacy violation? are you worried that kane is gonna steal your naked anime pics and bank passwords that are stored on your motherboard bios?

HOW many programs on your computer do you have installed that you havent compiled from source yourself and checked against the public MD5???? cause they all could, potentially, POTENTIALLY, go full blown stuxnet matrix on your ass and fuckin mix up all your files, 0 out your hard drive, and send your school homework over the net to a server in a abandoned stalin-era steel factory in the caucasus.

and if your job requires you to have confidential files, national security secrets, or HIPAA protected documents on your HOME COMPUTER, that you play tf2 and watch porn on, you work for someone who doesn't know what the fuck they're doing with regards to data security and your organization will probably go under by now because they can't afford to give their employees a company lenovo thinkpad.

PLEASE, by ALL MEANS, continue getting upset at every fresh lpkane post. i'm sure he is enjoying trolling the ever loving fuck out of the entirety of esea open and like half of IM.

everyone, EVERY SINGLE PERSON, who is "concerned about software privacy" had better be running tf2 on Arch linux with a framed, RMS signed poster print of a wildebeest on the wall in front of your PC.

Or else, you are fuckin dumb.

Your PC is always in jeopardy if you are using closed source, non-free software.

It's much more obvious with the ESEA client, because it is a particularly egregious piece of non-free software, but the fact of the matter is that the heavy hand of proprietary and closed source software affects us all. This is an illustrative example.

:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6ll4hFnsUs

holy cow these guys have a sick INVITE scout who got PICKED UP by a legit INVITE TEAM last season.

how is the fridge? I'm thinking of getting one to keep my drinks cold desk-side while I'm playing tf2.

anyone else felt depressed after reading that? damn.

this actually might be the most retarded post I have ever read. Retarded in a pseudo-intellectual reddit way, not even an ironically retarded for the sake of shitposting way.

Feel free to issue a retort about logical fallacies, I will commit an ad-hominem: you are actually dumber than a post and I am dumber for having read this post.

LEGAL PSA:

I don't care about whatever debate is going on in this thread. I will say: do not, do NOT, DO NOT even THINK about viewing illegal pornography from the internet. Just don't.

The way the law treats this stuff is very archaic. There is little distinction between "possession" and "intent," legally--meaning, rarely is there a difference between direct download from an FTP server and simply having the stuff in your internet cache files because you clicked a flashing banner ad.

If convicted, you are looking at years in prison, even for a first offence. That is for "possession" of CP -- "distribution" is worse. It is also a felony and will go on your sexual record. It happens to people who are viewing other types of pornography (people addicted to pornography can "stumble on" CP, it then shows up in their internet files and they wind up convicted for possession). It happens to people downloading pornography (CP labeled as something else, the download is canceled, they are convicted for possession based on limewire's "temp downloads" folder).

Offenders can be convicted and sentenced to prison time without any prior criminal record. You are more likely to be convicted if you are a man.

Viewing CP is awful, pedophilia is an awful mental illness. I believe people who are caught with CP should receive mental help in a secured environment where they cannot harm children. The law (esp. in California) is fucked up, and doesn't really follow reality in a lot of ways. But it is NOT worth it at all to be caught up in this stuff.

If you are viewing pornography that is not certified 18+, you are risking a LOT. Most people do not realize how screwed up the law is with regards to this.

/PSA from someone who has seen/worked with the inside of the legal system in this area. I am not a lawyer. (California, but other states are similar from what I understand)

you may now continue comparing maining pyro to child abuse. :D

granary blows

-middle where 4/6 classes can't see shit

-second which is a giant spam box

-last where you have to pop early and the enemy has unlimited room to kite ubers, & also is very difficult to push out of

-garage which grants you an automatic minus 100 health upon entry

koth is the most interesting game mode for spectator tf2, and i also think the most fun to play, although koth_coalplant had a few problems.

also ffs why do people have to put new visual styles on their maps all the time? i want a standard tf2 badlands/badwater map. playing coal plant (cp and koth) felt like a dungeon.