using the DH also gives up a critically important function of the rocket launcher, spam from splash, while the grenade launcher has its splash on a huge delay and hardly does any splash damage anyway, so giving it up isnt nearly as much of a downside

there is a difference between aesthetic design and believable design. things can be painted lime green in the real world. but you never see disembodied partially see-through arms floating in front of you.

if you had bothered to read any of the links i had sent, you would realize very clearly who holds the power in this country. it isn't up to someone to "decide" its up to observers to realize when the actual facts have a clearly indicated pattern.

One, this is merely treating a symptom of the actual problem, which is that black people are treated as second class citizens in a significant number of ways. Two, the president isnt some all powerful mega emperor who can just dictate whatever he wants. the republican backlash (which is a party that is still rooted in frequently ridiculous traditions and often unwilling to budge on very basic human rights issues, much less declassifying a currently schedule 1 drug and fully legalizing it nationwide) would be enormous and a bill of that nature would never work its way through congress.

would you really like to put a deadline on something as incredibly complex as race relations? it's not something that we just solve, one day we are all racist and the next we are all loving and compassionate towards our fellow man, its a continuum that we as a species should be constantly working to better.

this sentence is almost completely unintelligible, but i think your point is supposed to be "when blacks are approved over whites for the same position, it creates tension between races, and coddles blacks." this isn't necessarily a bad point on its own but you're missing the forest for the trees. that is to say, you'e focusing on single instances of anger and distrust because of affirmative action, rather than focusing on the overall massive amount of good that it does for equality on average, for all races and genders, see http://www.civilrights.org/equal-opportunity/fact-sheets/fact_sheet_packet.pdf

again, this is hyperspecific anecdotal evidence (and incredibly outdated anecdotal evidence at that.) if you looked at hard statistics (like those that i have linked) you would clearly see the effectiveness of affirmative action

this is, by definition, not racism. racism is a combination of prejudice and power¹. african americans (along with many other ethnicities) do not wield as much power in this country and globally as caucasians. what you are failing to consider with your very basic analysis of race relations in this country is that african americans are still systematically oppressed in major and minor ways, whether through incarceration rates², racial profiling³, discrimination at school and in the workplace⁴, or any number of untold minor biases faced every single day. what affirmative action attempts to do is offset the burden of being born african american by allowing more opportunities to minorities, which in turn empowers them as a collective to no longer need assistance in the future. to claim in ignorance that many of the people who are assisted by affirmative action are "objectively less talented/hardworking" is not only very likely wrong, but also completely misses the point of the programs.

¹http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1998-07453-002

²https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/aclu-thewaronmarijuana-rel2.pdf
³http://www.reformer.com/reformereditorials/ci_19992621?source=rss
⁴http://www.workplacefairness.org/sc/discrimination.php

There are some good suggestions in here but i think what a lot of people are misunderstanding is the point of the stress test. Everyone asking for features like map selection and making sure you get on a local server, that is stuff that obviously will exist in the final product. What valve wanted from this test was to get as many games as possible as quickly as possible, and if you were able to choose what map you wanted to play and always have sub 100 ping then the queue times would be way longer. This wasnt for you, so that you could have a fun matchmaking experience. this is for valve to get as much data as possible on how the hardware and software of matchmaking is actually working

yeah just having it based on stats per minute rather than just stats total is an easy solution

got a double on viaduct, med went "nice"

good vibes are radiating from this post. what are you playing in modern?

yup np dude

its because your texture quality is crap, try mat_picmip -1

Gonna go over some more technical issues with the map so that you have somewhere to start working

minor displacement bug

http://i.imgur.com/ungNsrN.jpg

a lot of clipping stuff i'd like to see changed

one that someone mentioned upthread and probably the most egregious example, this messes people up constantly and you could probably just shorten how much the roof hangs over in addition to adding some clipping

http://i.imgur.com/2vzv9sK.jpg

no clipping here

http://i.imgur.com/ZnRfmQi.jpg

no clipping here

http://i.imgur.com/3QeqVMV.jpg

no clipping here

http://i.imgur.com/inK3bS6.jpg

no clipping here (sorry for bad pic, this is inside lobby)

http://i.imgur.com/zKvF7fO.jpg

no clipping here

http://i.imgur.com/ZovGnJT.jpg

no clipping here (easy to get stuck between that door frame and the support beams)

http://i.imgur.com/RNBv8MZ.jpg

no clipping here

http://i.imgur.com/SHdSbya.jpg

last clipping issue, although personally i think you should just get rid of this spot altogether, it really makes no sense

http://i.imgur.com/xFNAIU7.jpg

more awkward/underutilized/impeding geometry

this spot at mid catches my head constantly, because the platform sticks out past the wall next to it, i would fill this in or move the stairs back a bit so that you cant accidentally get stuck under it when you're running past it.

http://i.imgur.com/FsSbxEU.jpg

the pinch at this spot really doesnt make much sense, i'm not sure if its even something that needs to be fixed but it's very awkward

http://i.imgur.com/lNhbBV1.jpg

as far as overall balance changes go w/r/t last stalemates, i think that tends to happen because there are really no viable ways to push in and rotating is slow because of the width of last. shutter is a super choke and easily trapped, and lower means you're giving up any and all positional advantage, which means that pushing the main door is the only viable route, and is defended the most heavily. rotating to shutter is really telegraphed every time because everyone just disappears from the doorway, and rotating to lower takes ages because you have to rotate to shutter then go down the ramp then clear a narrow doorway to be out lower. maybe shrinking how wide last is could help attackers get in more easily, because rotating would be less predictable, and maybe removing the shutter and adding some clutter in front of spawn to prevent a sightline would help pushes from that side be more effective. the rest of the map are some of the most interesting and unique 5cp areas and i would shy away from messing with them too much if at all

https://i.gyazo.com/244a7b38b233fc0cf974e6cd85ba0fe2.png

which, its worth noting, in a game with no class limits will be nothing like the current meta

its a joke man relax

quit being weird man