while there's a good point to the popular opinion of HL splitting competitive tf2, a large majority of 6s TF2 being in a stalemate for so long was entirely to do with how painfully difficult it is to get into

blaming HL for being able to accomplish getting new people in is brushing off that huge chunks of 6s' accessibility relied on a really small amount of community leaders, several of which left over the years as a result of becoming so exhausted. if 6s had the amount of people willing to constantly help out like HL did, 9v9 would've died years ago

http://np.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/4q318f/why_not_take_a_minute_and_play_a_tutorial/d4pulik?context=10000

please do not hourshame, tftv

yeah, just look at how stephen harper's government promoted as lean and small worked out for us!

...wait

put it this way, when microsoft pulls their head out of their ass and makes w10 usable for basic gaming stuff (windowed TF2 is still laggy and basically unfixable after win7) you can switch later on with no cost

because by upgrading now you're reserving a free copy of w10 (which you can't do any longer after mid-july iirc) and it still counts even after you roll back to w7

also, you don't need to check each update manually, you can just use something like this to block out any w10 related stuff for you

every single time there's a stress test, there's always that one dude who doesn't realize what a stress test is

will it be released before or after june ends

place ya bets, place ya bets

if mediocre food can stop terrorists, why is america still so afraid of terrorism

checkmate atheists

and they're willing to deal with that. I don't think you realize here, the rest of EU is willing to deal with this, even if it hurts their bottom line. the UK, on the flipside, just set themselves up in such a manner where they can't, they need trade agreements eventually, and other countries will be more than willing to take advantage of this fact

this goes for just about every other argument you've made so far. it all relies on the assumption that other countries have to deal with the UK eventually, not realizing that they're always going to be taking a loss because of this, so it's far more effective for them to choke out resources until they get better agreements

except this is an issue that all of scotland is united on

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ClsuGCbUYAEy5EF.jpg

they see themselves being shoehorned into a scenario they don't want, and the only reason they're still UK is because of the exact thing you tossed out. you're trying to argue like the UK suddenly has all this bargaining to work with, when even in best-case scenarios the UK's just about always getting the shorter end of the stick, even if that results in negatives for other countries

considering the choices are slightly shit EU connection and no EU connection at all, when the only reason they stayed beforehand was under the assumption the UK would always stick with them, then yes, most people of scotland are going to fuck off and seperate

I'm just going to assume you haven't actually clicked any link I've posted so far and end it at that

voters are informed when they actually know the facts, as in what these decisions will and won't do

you really do not have to look hard to figure out that a lot of people did not pass this test

https://i.imgur.com/WR85eza.png

https://twitter.com/LauraTopham/status/746260604936200192
"Totally depressing - and very frustrating. A lesson in protest voting"

...I don't understand "protest voting". like, I can't comprehend that people don't understand that it's still a vote that's going to be counted

that hair looks like it was photoshopped in

democracy without informed voters is worthless as a way to make decisions, which, for the record, is what this was. you're not making decisions based on mass informed opinions by that point, you're making decisions based on bullshit and gut feelings