You're pretty cute as well, Olgha :3

humans being social animals that care for each other pushed us from small tribes to civilisation, language, a sense of humour , empathy. And humans taming themselves that way by building a great place of worship and celebration like (gobleke tepe) by teamwork and a common goal and purpose and discovering the benefits of long term planning in communities, etc etc. And apparantly one of the biggest way to get everyone on the same line and connect each other was... playing games with each other with set unwritten roles and society is one big game in a way. you cannot progress for in games if you act like an asshole to your family, back in those days it was ok for the patriarch of the family to smash their siblings skull in if they were truely such big jerks that they brought shame with them.

As opposed to having hostility as your first instinct with other humans like in the small tribal communities ("The attrition rate of numerous close-quarter clashes, which characterize warfare in tribal warrior society, produces casualty rates of up to 60%" from "War Before Civilization: the Myth of the Peaceful Savage" )where you are forced to plunder or eat each other for food, instead of working out arrangments where farmers can help each other as a social safety net.

2% of people will aim for an animal crossing the road.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/27/drivers-intentionally-run-over-turtles-college-experiment_n_2371485.html
these people will target the emotionally weakest and most easy to upset group of people because unleashing your sadistic urges on people they perceive as mentally ill gives them a feeling of power and impact on someone else, they'd never have elsewise.

How about complimenting each other to feel better about yourselves?? Like i swear some guys never ever got a compliment thrown their way and struggle with self esteem issues and it makes them so happy, to hear something positive.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/buy%20off
to free (as from military service) by payment

i'll buy him off you for two goats

Class bus trip to french city, half of bus straight goes for a macdonalds, but i wonder, in england where all the restaurants are basically american/exotic food franchises now, whats supposed to be the local food restaurant. Greggs?

Ive been hearing tf2 is dead since fucking i46. if people can get gathers for natural selection today why is there always this impending doom sign over tf2 even though i meet fresh blood with lots of potential when i play hlpugs and thats the dead gamemode of tf2 apparantly. People who bought into the fake e-sports meme that tf2 would eventually become and put a lot of time in it, may reach to their conclusions over this long time, and i'm ok with being a piece of shit, playing with cool people in my favourite game with no fucking drama whatsoever like hobbits in the shire. I know its just a fraction still playing of the glory days, but lots of games have dedicated communities

Just imagine the impact of "tf2 is dead" being repeated and the demoralizing effect it had on dedicated people who gave up investing their time in it because people kept telling them what they are doing is pointless, why do you think you get exponentially fewer and fewer captains over time. (not saying its the sole reason obviously) but I remember i was so emberassed, so burned out at the scene after being my keenest and seeing the americans beat the crap out of the euros who were so smug and so drunk the night before. So off to a new game with less soul crushing experiences right? Yea, except that i went into dota 2. after a dozen or so "comp" captain mode games where i basically had to play clockwerk each fucking time, i decided i only want to play games with friends, to have fun. and lot of us are that way. So what if b4nnny will never win a 100 million dollar pricepool, we're the super smash melee of fps'es; smelly dirty gamers who enjoy each other making sick fucking plays. Go get a job if you want money LMAO.

pugchamp's design to be exclusive turns out it makes the site exclusive. would love the friend system for medic added in from tf2pickup tbh to avoid shit like spending two hours waiting, going captain to have someone kill the pug for the one that is about to finish so others get to captain and then picks two friends and i get fatkidded for a guy who played one season in open who needed to be subbed later aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

why punish the silent majority of frendly tf2 gamers because of the actions of idiots. tf2 comp teams have brought people from all over the world together and appreciate each other and created lasting friendships.

yea, no shit when people and teams are suddenly gonna be way more accountable and set tighter standards, there will be a lot of mutual shitflinging over quotes from tilters or tilted. Any admin would be hesitant to act, and rather mediate any poor decision in hindsight and fix it than sanction and giving the scummiest players under us another tool t as in grief people until they say something retarded and then going "gotcha". Not saying se7en are a bunch of scumbags, but can you imagine when the ru div6/silver young teens who use the most slurs and dumb shittalk are gonna act holier than thou and call people a nigger in the tf2center and then report the guy they insulted when he gets revenge and wins the offi and says "not such hot shit now huh?" you get the drift.

Its an important and seperate topic that needs to be adressed as raymon and ondkaja posted without forgetting we all have a part of this, especially if you are a player other players look up to. .

what happened with uberchain everyone is on the same page obviously, (except jaded cynical people who don't trust anything at face value)

Degu: don't go into comedy that was less funny than watching modern female american stand up comedy

Rather be a fucking moron than a virgin idiot!!

Look, Uberchain did the right thing twittering what she did and she prolly has all the support right now of those who know her and read it. She shouldn't be afraid to name things since all this emotions the people feel after reading it should be directed at the people who told her the things she mentioned; not to the two idiots. You should report their twitter if you really care, they are being accidentally the perfect lightning rods with their comments .

“Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out.” and let the community take care of this. At the reactions here, they are more than willing to. Tagg mentioned all the names too, and people still remember who he named. Even if they are a "vital" part of the community.

"guys can you pause our flank scout called your roamer the r-word in discord and we need to replace him" But I agree actually, when real shit happens everyone is very quick to forgive the sins of the people they depend on. what happened to Tagg and esp the shit platinum did in public in front of sponsors was incredibly dumb. But you can't expect everyone to contain their slurs all the time, especially not when people get angry, tilted, sad. I rather be called a bunch of slurs so he can vent that way and not on his teammates.

Just watch Olgha

maybe they know something we don't that makes them react viciously like that, that doesn't excuse them, but it would bring a motive to the table, and i'm curious what it is. (like them knowing who she dated and taking his side)

taimou got warned multiple times first then got a temp ban after persisting since he was doing in casted matches, and he only got permbanned after alting and using cheats, just proving my point that you'll just create way more headaches for the admins with petty (taimous attitude not dismissing what he did) shit like this if implemented. I remember playing with this guy in dmixes way back and he was an insufferable asshole, but when he got banned check the comments http://etf2l.org/2012/08/22/season-13-powered-by-tt-esports-prizes-signups-a-ban. Half of them are sympathetic

Was sanctioned for sexually harassing a presenter of OGN in Twitch Chat during an Interview of Morte. The issue got a lot of media attention in Korea and Team EnVyUs was facing disqualification from OGN Overwatch APEX, but got a last chance because the organisation and Taimou formally apologized for his behavior.[9] Taimou was fined one round of "fight money," money earned for each match win in the league.[10]

Lmao, bans for nobodies, formal apologies when money is on the line, just shows the hypocrisy present in that game

someone being an asshole doesnt excuse being an even bigger asshole and doing illegal activity. don't you see where this train of logic leads you?

theres a bunch of people who did/said abhorrent things in the past who without any sanction redeemed themselves completely and are fundamentally constructive to the community nowadays. and a league ban would only cause an opposite effect tbh. (coming back on alts and then ban evasion etc etc) and instead of them feeling vindicated in their words because in their mind they'll just see it as a "women doing a white knight rally call with her tweet" and they'll see themselves as victims and justify it, but if people treat them like an asshole or just show contempt day after day after day, they''ll either redeem or leave. also since pubs and tf2center are the places the most denigrating insults are being thrown around most people don't take offence with anything. but tf2 is not social media, and they violated the terms on that, so why isn't this a thread about twitter banning them? There's been a lot of amazing people who left becuase of dumb shit like this, and there would be a lot of other amazing people who'd leave once people start getting banned for saying dumb shit, it's a lose/lose situation honestly and the only real way to change it is our own behaviour. else if this is a case of "taking it seriously" and punish, we will eventually will go into captains digging up dirt on other teams player to sabotage matches and people encouraging other to do crime just because they don't like them. For example see raisins statement on a streamer he didnt like