I never asked anything but I read through a ton of the thread for reference when I built my first computer. Thanks man : )

I don't have a ton of evidence, but at rank 4, I have more reason to believe that matchups are random than that they're actually attempting to match ranks.

They stopped doing flash sales last winter. :{

I managed to join TF2 lobby during the fabled UGC ctf_haunt week of Feb 2013. It was scarring and it took several months before I went back.

I was in Japan last semester and tried some different pugs for kicks. Shana pugs were the worst pugs in terms of skill level and attitude I've ever had the misfortune to play. The Japanese specific pugs I found after I finally recovered from that experience were well run and had a wide range of skill levels. If you speak an Asian language, it's probably worth checking to see if they have their own communities.

Not sure where you're going, but the ping to NA was usually 150 ish and Med / Scout was playable.

Japanese community pub servers were also exceptionally tryhard if you felt like pretending getting healed 24/7 in a pub was close enough ahaha

Its highly likely that there was more to your sisters breakup than armpit hair. But by all means, come to conclusions about trends in feminism over your sister not shaving her pits.

Imagine how hilarious a Bernie-Biden ticket would be tho

who even begins to have the time to parse down that ridiculous term paper and refute his points

and do you really think he'd listen at all?

god damn it simon

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I've never regretted the 3$ I spent on super hexagon. Its good for incredibly brief stints, you can lose a dozen times in a couple of minutes if you're bad enough.

Gr8stalin summed it up well for the most part. Rain is an idiot with great DM. Our team unanimously agreed that if he ever stopped being an idiot he'd be incredible. Unfortunately, no matter who told him or what advice was given, he refused to change either his play style or comming practices at all. Billdozer's description was spot on for our entire season, with pretty much zero changes from match 1 to 16.

Rain was also definitely not 'super dedicated to the team' (but maybe he fit in with the memesquad better which drew out the full forces of friendship!!) Its true that all he does with his life is play tf2, but it's not equivalent. Rain was a complete flake. His communication when he missed scrims or matches was 0. His presence during map reviews / demos was 0, what little we did of them. If he said anything other than stale memes or duck noises it was a really fabulous day for rain. The second he learned we didnt want to play another season with him, he removed everyone from his friendslist and -karmad everyone on the team without even bothering to ask why. He's not actually unpleasant to be around, but I wouldn't bother with him for anything serious.

yo dude same setup!!

my uber button is f. I think it makes some gamers palpably ill to hear. let me know if you find a miracle c-tap cure since i gave that dream up a long time ago

man im definitely a cream puff but ya'll talkin big about trying to put nerds on tilt... its like, you're actively trying to make someone feel worse just so u can get an artificial advantage. like maybe its empowering to exploit other people's emotional weakness but you cant pretend its not sorta scummy and not doing it wouldn't make you the better player IMO

Whyme is an extremely dedicated tf2 player, he will work hard to adapt and grow with your team. He's also very chill and (surprisingly) stable, keeping an upbeat attitude even when things don't go so well. Just a solid pickup all around imo \o/

flay is a chill gamer, a funny guy, and the perfect teammate: reclusive enough to play video games 3-4 nights a week, but socially adjusted enough to be a real human being with interesting shit to say. his dm is unarguably high open and his mediocre ESEA record can mostly be attributed to having to carry us lot of casuals. he'll do great on a more srsbznz team, and if he doesn't brighten/stabilize your mumble environment with his unwaveringly positive attitude, ur money back guarantee. pick him up! \o/

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