Isn't highlander already larger in terms of players? You can pretty safely say it's already overtaken it so fearing any future "overtaking" is kinda ridiculous.

At worst HL bashing is elitism. Most bashing I see is disliking the gameplay (playing with the "annoying" classes more often) or thinking of it as diminished competition (lower skill ceilings in general, etc), which honestly I think is acceptable since different game modes and styles are for different people.

I don't get why you expect the price to be the same as the ad revenue he gets from a single person, but it'd be cents. Also, the server overhead is obviously very low per person, but you're paying to support enigma's time spent coding/maintaining the site. That's the main cost, which obviously doesn't have a set price on it.

It's to support the site/enigma. It's impossible to make it "worth" it because you're mainly paying for a subjective thing (supporting the site). There could be more features, and I agree with that, but expecting the $5 to be objectively worth it is pretty stupid.

Specifically what bashing are you talking about?

At the very least 9's diminishes the contribution of a single player (1/9th compared to 1/6th). Of course it reality it's skewed towards the better classes like demo, but there's less individual skill coming into play. A good "high level" competitive format should be the right balance between # of players/skill distribution and fun.

I have no problems with people enjoying HL/playing it for fun, but the 6's community doesn't see it as a very competitive format (like the popular opinion on dota2 > lol in this forum).

I don't get how adding something can improve performance, and I doubt that adding an extra query will be non-existent. A small performance hit could be .05 seconds, could be .2 seconds who knows (I haven't myself made a benchmark for this scale a website, but obviously it's going to add a few fractions of a second at the very least). There would still be a performance hit. Also, I'm pretty sure this is run on a VPS. Depending on the capabilities and limits of enigma's provider (I think it's linode, and he's using cloudflare to help distribute), it could be worse than it should be.

Also, whatever on the invision part. I used a "free" invisionboard provider (though it is a proprietary board anyways dunno how much source is given out) but either way most of those boards have very similar layouts and features that aren't needed. The question is could you easily achieve this exact look using those forum providers, and would throwing out all the work already put in be worth it. I mean I like teamliquid's style and this site's/gotfrag style where there's at most 1 icon next to the person, then legacy stars (which aren't necessary but whatever). Aesthetics are pretty important for a site like this, and people don't want enigma to fix what isn't broken.

ESEA doesn't have an API. The best you can do is make a webcrawler (which probably isn't that hard, but it's still work to be done). Dunno about ETF2L but I doubt they have one also.

Why not list them? Exclude anything that involves icons/headers in threads though (even the i49 donator header kinda annoyed me visually). I'm sure enigma's open to good ideas that don't conflict with some of the design goals of the forum.

You've reminded me why free boards like invision and phpbb are awful. Overly large post headers, stupid icons spam, avatars, signatures, etc.

This site is suppose to be pretty bare bones and based off the gotfrag layout/system. Because of how basic it was meant to be, starting from scratch was arguably easier than having to cut out all the excess features, reskin the boards to their specs, etc. It also comes with the benefit of being pretty optimized because there's no vestigial database entries and what not from the bloated free forums.

And yes, tftv could probably handle the feature at a small to medium performance cost. However I doubt enigma wants to trash on the current speed of the forums (it's pretty fast if you haven't noticed). If anything, think of it as a test feature that could potentially become a normal feature, though I doubt anytime soon (once enigma starts implementing an archiving system and gets a bigger server then maybe).

Also, tftv+ is mainly just to support the site, as there's really no way to make $5 "worth" it on an online forum. But if the site continues to expand maybe it'll be possible to add more features to the mix and make it a bit more worth it.

PS. I do think gold names would be better than blue names for tftv+, just so legacy invite keeps something. Maybe add a css hack for outlining text with gold and invite color, but it looks kinda ugly (hope browsers eventually support true outlining text).

Didn't the other thread establish that the reddit MGE owners didn't really browse this site?

http://teamfortress.tv/forum/thread/12201-sniper-hacking-in-reddit-mge/2#post-36

Not much is going to happen reporting it here (maybe a ban on the iT servers, but I'm betting those hackers generally don't target them since no lolclassing).

Depends on what you get mad at. Some people get mad at themselves, some get mad at their teammates, some get mad at the server, etc. It's best to just figure out why you're getting rolled and think of the future instead of getting too focused on the current game. Blaming teammates and what not makes it harder for the team to fix things in the future, and if you blame yourself work on DM or something.

Pretty sure you can still plug in a keyboard or mouse into the steam box. Don't see why they would stop you from doing it at least.

Also, some games do feel better on controller than keyboard IMO. Nothing wrong with having a controller for those games. Though it's missing buttons on the right side for common console types.

We'll have to see how people actually like the feel/usability of the controller (who gives a shit about controller looks anyways). I'm assuming valve was competent enough to make sure the testers actually enjoyed the feel of the controller for the games they tested.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Bridges_of_K%C3%B6nigsberg

I wonder if this will work to get the BP badge.

There aren't many loose ends though. The only people left in the game are Walt's family, Jesse, Brock, Lydia, and the neo-nazis. Killing the neo-nazis cleans up just about everything (money back, Jesse and Brock saved), plus Lydia with ricin cleans up things nicely. That's not to say the money might go to waste, but Saul is gone. I think Walt can convinced the cleaner to take Jesse again despite his policy too, letting Jesse get on with his life potentially. Then Walt can die (and probably confess everything to the DEA before dying to get his "legacy") and hope that Jesse figure out how to send the money properly to Brock, Mike's granddaughter, and Walt's family.

I rewatched the news scene about 5 times.

I think him seeing Elliot and Gretchen made him realize that he isn't a good guy anymore. He's always thought that he was doing what was morally right, but after Junior hating him and Gretchen saying that Walter White was gone made him realize that his legacy is just about the only thing left. This isn't about redemption anymore (except maybe to Jesse, but Jesse's already been fucked 100x over by Walt at this point), but revenge for a) keeping Jesse alive to cook blue meth and b) killing Hank. c) later when Todd tries to kill Skyler. Walt is going to die, but he wants to get everything straightened out and at least get his side of the story out. He knows he's truly a bad guy at this point. So he's going to go out like a bad guy and in a blaze of glory. Something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGEzasVvNCg

Also, Jesse has to live. If Walt survives the shootout/Todd then I'd expect him to give Jesse the option to kill him and probably the option to disappear (he can only give money to Jesse/Vacumn cleaner guy at this point).

Considering he still believes Walt killed Hank, he's reacting correctly.

Jumping backwards lets you over accelerate in some older source games (maybe newer too).