i make a delicious and simple slow cooked pork tenderloin with brown sugar, teriyaki sauce, and various hot peppers that i serve over white rice on the rare occasions I actually receive guests. it's quite nice.

I think it's cool to fly through the air and drop a bunch of explosives on people

limit scout to one you say? where have i heard this one before

I always figured it was for that "thawed out" look and so you wouldn't have to change many props. You can keep the rocks the same grey color, and you don't have to get rid of any of the trees. I would wager it also means people have to do less work to the skybox as well. I think people also just think Alpine is prettier than Badlands. You would know more than me though, I'm not a mapper.

I think Coldfront and Viaduct would look odd with the Badlands theme. I think Barnblitz and Snowycoast might actually look better, but I also just hate playing them either way, "pro version" or not.

oh we're all talking about playing it now so i'll do it
i played some of it myself, i just really don't like MOBAs
i liked shooting people and that's it, but i tend to just like shooting people in multiplayer games in general. the abilities and stuff just do not appeal to me. i think stuns and slows are boring, and the game has a lot of those. MOBAs just don't make much sense to me, i'd rather just shoot the guys then take a point than escort my mooks to go help me fight a bigger mook. if you're all over DOTA2 though you'll probably like it

i mean valve makes a shitton of money from microtransactions. they made like one billion from just key sales for CS last year. obviously they make the bulk from the steam store but lootbux isn't a drop in the bucket for them. they just don't give a fuck in general about anything other than their weird doodads they're working on and maintaining constant revenue sources

i mean i guess, although i don't think it's still going to be that effective. the internal culture at valve doesn't really seem to incentivize actually working on a 17 year old first person shooter with a decently sized playerbase. which is a shame considering i think it's one of the favorite games of like every poster on this forum

deep rock galactic is pretty fun
there's also single player games, i have enjoyed bg3

i saw a bit of the sci fi build and it actually looked pretty bad too because it looked more like neon overwatch than half life or portal sadly
a shame because a game that looked like a more stylized half life 1 aesthetic would have been pretty killer

this aesthetic looks atrocious and i don't really like tps that much so i am not exactly excited

chatgpt doesn't understand the concept of a red herring https://imgur.com/a/lDP0TOF

installing kernal level anticheat for the prime opportunity of some guy calling me barely veiled homophobic slurs

BLU last on hydro looks very nice. honestly hydro looks nice in general but who wants to play it
https://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/c/ce/Hydro_Blu_Last.png

assuming you're not just like, missing, here's some basic troubleshooting i can think of:
-try running directx 9 (some people report issues of the game lagging with directx 8)
-try low instead of very low (very low can also make the same run worse)
-make sure vsync didn't weasel it's way on
-check your drivers for updates
if none of that works, file a report here
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Source-1-Games/issues

a very long time ago i used to suck ass at the drums

let me know when scout gets the stickybomb launcher