damn I thought u were exaggerating with this but nah

https://i.imgur.com/1exDCX4.png

(2nd place team rang the cheater, 3rd was Hami's team)

kind of insane ngl, lesson learned i guess just ring a cheater r1 playoffs and you'll be all good! (just don't do it in later rounds or during regular season, that would be too far of course).

Not in a million years would I have guessed what type of thread this post was made on.

state space is so much bigger in 6s tf2 compared to other RL applications i see in games that i'm pretty sure tf2 will be completely dead before we reach that point lol

FWIW I don't think this will end up being true; when I write this Trump is at ~73.5 million votes and he ended up with ~74.2 million votes in 2020, but states especially on the west coast haven't finished counting yet. Cali in particular is slow as shit and still has like 5.5 million votes left; he won about 40% of the votes in Cali and would have to somehow get less than 15% of the remaining faction which seems impossible, even in his absolute worst performing counties he still got like 20%.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/president-results

i knew democrat voter turnout would be down when I looked at tftv

I know this is a bad idea, but can you explain how it is possibly a good idea to provide the combination therapy of "making you feel like shit + provide advice" vs. just "provide advice" within the context of a short ass pug made up of (who i assume are) 9-5ers.

Also ignoring the fact that you know, maybe the 1 player who makes a living off of competitive should try to make it appealing to new players (crazy i know)

b4nny argued with charis for over an hour when charis tried to tell him the extremely radical idea of "constantly berating people in pugs doesn't make them play better, actually"

playing demoman just brings out something in him

Holy shit am I finally able to yap about cryptography on tftv.

Japanese naval codes (i.e. JN-25) were not readable prior to the attack. They were "solved" in the sense that the structure of the code was known, requiring two codebooks that perform grouping and additive operations (will ignore details for now, you can look at this if interested). But without these codebooks it was not functionally readable.

Diplomatic codes were cracked by this time (PURPLE). So the White House certainly knew an attack was coming (it has been a while but I believe primary suspicion was against Macarthur who was not in Hawaii) but there was no clear indication in decoded PURPLE messages that the target was Pearl Harbor*. The infamous 14 part declaration delivered immediately prior to the attack was also not decoded, written down, and delivered in its entirety until about an hour after the attack (and if you read it doesn't really declare an attack officially in Western fashion, just cuts off negotiations. Maybe people who were more used to Japanese sensibilities would know that is equivalent to launching an attack, but still there is no mention of Pearl Harbor. You can read it here.)

Also from a conspiracy theory perspective the motivation to let the attack occur is unclear; wanting to escalate a war with Japan by giving up a critical military keypiece is certainly...a strategy. American neutrality was already a farce by this point in the war with Roosevelt's order to basically shoot to kill German U-Boats so on that front it's not like they need any excuse as well.

*There was correspondence between a spy at Pearl Harbor who reported to the consulate, who would then report to Tokyo. If you know anything about Hawaii there is a large Japanese population there, so his presence is not unusual by any means. One important message that was missed was a request about the location and # of warships at Pearl Harbor. Given the volume of messages being decoded and the people who were actually able to see such messages (notably not the military commander of Pearl Harbor iirc) along with other fuckery that was going on in the cryptography branch it's likely that this was just bad oversight.

It is really funny to me that the one season that ppl didn't threaten a boycott, which again started because people didn't want playoffs to be messed up cause of a cheater,...had playoffs being messed up because of a cheater. Can't make this shit up lmao (sucks for everybody involved though)

Weren't esea open threads like this, if anything it's a sign that Nature is Healing

exhibiting real eater behavior during your first time is a good sign, i am impressed

where's the slaw (or did you sub it out)

Agree on the engineer part and on the points made saying that it can be pretty consequential to not be able to offclass. Engineer is definitely the biggest offender and honestly just making it so you can't be restricted off engie/spy probably solves most issues.

Possible I'm misunderstanding your point here, but I agree with this sentiment if people were trying to play "optimal 6's" in which case yeah putting an invite pyro main to airblast on gully last barely matters. But if you are already resigned to playing perma heavy/pyro and understand that a lot of the time they are objectively the wrong choice surely having an invite hl main on those classes is better than random combat player from x div if the div is low.

Regardless, I agree with your point that no matter what banning offclasses does make it more difficult to learn the format for the HL players in this instance. On the other hand though playing against the pyro/heavy team is surely not conducive to other teams in the div learning the format as well.

That one RGL admin who was like an IM 6's player made amateur playoffs on engineer (i don't even think they were a scout player, they were banned off soldier) and that class blows, I feel like a top heavy player could place in IM or something that class is not even that bad.

IIRC the reason is so players in lower 6s divs actually have the opportunity to learn how the format is supposed to be played as opposed to just playing against perma offclass teams, which at least to me makes sense. Perma spy seems super dogshit though tbh but perma heavy/pyro probably requires specific counterplay.

The side effect of course is that it kills offclassing on last which is not optimal (and also hurts the ability of the HL players to learn the format) which in theory could be rectified via some complex "no offclassing except on last" ban but that seems kinda nightmarish administratively.

Any invite hl player gets restricted off their class in IM or below (minus med), but it is funny lmao. Also a good idea tbh.