"lmao"

community
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sounds like a good way to shut a community up without having to do anything

"work in progress"
"did make improvements since launch"
"showing it way more support than they show other game modes they've created"

if i ctrl+f 'competitive' here
one result on October 20, 2017: Moved the Casual and Competitive badge panels to the main menu
June 3, 2017: Fixed UI not displaying the "Searching..." panel when queued for competitive matchmaking
June 2, 2017: Fixed Competitive match history sometimes appearing as empty when connection to matchmaking servers is lost
Feb 14, 2017: Added new survey questions to the end-of-match survey for Casual and Competitive modes and fixed a bug where multiple surveys could be displayed at the same time
Dec 21, 2016: Players can now set their maximum acceptable ping by clicking the new gear icon in the top right of the Casual and Competitive matchmaking lobby screens and choosing "Ping Settings"
The Competitive maps list has been updated

Added cp_granary and cp_badlands ------------------------ on a sidenote, afaik they were gonna update the
Disabled cp_snakewater and cp_foundry ------------------------ maps list every week
Oct 25, 2016: Removed ctf_turbine from the Competitive maps list
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and other map updates and some elo updates (which to be honest, no one cares about, because barely anyone plays matchmaking for elo to be effective and it's full of cheaters). so i don't know why you'd say any of the three things you said

that was the very first thing they did after hundreds of people emailed them to finally do it. is this called "support"?

i don't know where you read that there's hidden MMR in casual matchmaking. publicly-shown "ranks" are actually levels that always go up. even if it was a plus ufor the competitive scene, it's a side effect of wanting to get rid of vip servers, all-skin-enabled servers and servers where people slowhack their users

are you talking about the razorback/ambassador changes that favour highlander more than 6v6? should we list all the changes in the past two years and see which scene gets favoured more often? it's undeniable that valve is more on the economy focused side because they know tf2 is long past the way of becoming a big esport, but they are still making a shit ton of money off of casuals, so all they do is -just enough- to keep the competitive scene silent so they don't get spammed with emails.

like we get it you want to be optimistic about it but jesus.. it's not gonna happen. can we just do our own thing and not give a shit about valve?

xbow
ubersaw
kritz
gunboats
escape plan

class limits:
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i know this has been said over and over again but i sincerely believe most people never wanted any of the other unlocks if it wasn't for a single ex tf2 dev saying "i find 6v6 boring", which resulted in people going ahead and unbanning as much crap as possible in hopes of
1. getting more support from valve - which never happened, unless you consider a half-assed gamemode that calls itself "Matchmaking" which no one ever plays and is full of cheaters actual support
2. getting more pubbers to play competitive - has likely not happened much compared to tons of entertaining streamers and tons of resources built up and maintained by very few people (ToTH, huds.tf, whitelist.tf, comp.tf, serveme.tf, fps configs, logs.tf/sizzlingstats.com, tragicservers, tf2lobby.com/tf2center.com/tf2pickup.net/pugchamp.gg/, fragmovies/fragshows)

most recent windows 10 update caused a bunch of people to get input lag, try playing in fullscreen

after his parents quickly

so when someone asks you what games you play you're going to give them games you don't actually play?

get ipz please

if you don't know how something sounds then maybe you should go to the hifi store closest to you and try some headphones before buying a pair :)

imo open/closed being better/worse for gaming is marketing bullshit

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call your provider and tell them your card is broken, they'll give you a new one

maybe the trackers don't control the quality of torrents but the users certainly do, bad transcodes usually get deleted within a couple hours depending on the popularity of the torrent, people are always looking to get perfect uploads with artwork, metadata, album reviews, artists descriptions and the audio formats the tracker has to offer

i'll list a couple things that i like about private trackers (in no particular order) and while they're not exclusive to just private trackers, you can find everything you like inside that without having to use different services

enforced tags and formatting rules
collages are a great thing to discover other types of music
people purchase expensive gear to capture their LPs
vanity house, where artists share their own music, how they produced it, etc
casual games/competitions on the site/the forums/IRC
a nice forum ranging from general chat, books, movies, shows to audio equipment, music production, creativity and technology
well-seeded torrents
heavily unpopular music gets uploaded in great quality that you can sometimes barely even find on youtube/soundcloud
requests, if there's something you want, someone else is likely to have it

i don't know of any popular music tracker that will delete your account if you're on ratio watch, you just can't download things anymore and have to stick to freeleech/filling requests/uploading your own rips which really isn't a hard thing to do

what makes you think the trackers that rised from What's ashes won't surpass the amount of music it had to offer? for three months, the only way you could get into RED was if you provided proof of being a What refugee (or you got invited). the interviews are the exact same as they were on What and most of the interviewers are still the same old people.

screencap up/downstream and maybe I can give you one

wrong x2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCyzGuipTd4

https://clips.twitch.tv/CarefulFamousAirGuitarStoneLightning
still in the game boys