Dear fellow Concerned Competitive TF2 Gamers:

It would appear since the publishing of this open letter, the Recharge Gaming League Anti-Cheat Team has made a few vital changes to the wording of their article!!!

As can be seen in the updated ruleset, clarification has been added to remove the threatening and discriminatory language which affected disabled members of the community such as myself and many, many others.

I thank everyone who brought this to the attention of our League Administrators, this fight could not have been won without your support.

Keep on gaming in peace friends, I'll be sure to see you all on the battlefield!

Yours sincerely,

No Longer Concerned (But Still Vigilant) Gamer Extrasolar

It isn't pretty obvious to me, there is little context surrounding the actual "hearing aid" parts of the article, I was simply looking for clarification on the matter. Audio ducking (as used by Highlander Head Admin Exa in the past) has seemingly been brought under the umbrella of "hearing aids" but there's a whole lot of implicature in the hearing aid section of the post and not much in the way of clear-cut language. I am simply concerned about the matter and would appreciate clarification - I cannot simply make my deaf ear not be deaf after all!

Good evening fellow competitive TF2 gamers.

As I am sure many of you are now aware, the main North American Competitive Team Fortress 2 Gaming League (RGL.gg) has recently released an article clarifying changes to its ruleset regarding the detection and punishment of the naughty cheaters who are ruining our gameplay experience.

However, the cheating ruleset includes the use of hearing aids as a bannable offence - even going as far as to include it in the same brazen categories of injecting external programs for Aim Assistance, Wallhacking and Fake Lagging amongst other advantages - and will ban players for a period of one year if caught!

This troubles me however as a certified Hearing Impaired Individual - having profound hearing loss in my right ear since birth, I am dependent upon a hearing aid in order to go about my daily life, in order to better position the sources of sounds around me - since I hear completely in mono unaided by my prescribed device, this is impossible for me to achieve without my aid.

RGL's clarification article has only raised further questions for myself, and now I (and possibly many other Disabled Competitive TF2 Players) am in need of clarification. Does the "hearing aid" ban limit itself to only software-based tweaking; be it through external programs or one's sound card/headphone configuration, or does it includes such items as personal hearing aids prescribed by their healthcare provider?

Should it be the case that the latter is true, this is problematic to say the least. A league's admin team which has taken it upon themselves to stamp out toxicity and bad behaviour within its player base would then be in itself discriminating against some of the most vulnerable members of our global community - the disabled!

I hope to gain the opinions of fellow gamers suffering throughout their daily lives with similar disabilities to my own. What could be next if this discriminatory league procedure is indeed true (something I sincerely hope to not be the case)? Banning sufferers of ADD and AD/HD from consuming adderall and related medications to deal with their concentration issues? Banning depressed users from taking their meds 48 hours before officials and league-sanctioned scrims? Sigafoo-mandated drug tests at LAN events (assuming any will take place in NA in the future)?

I hope my North American brothers and sisters will join me in a chorus of solidarity against the oppression of the downtrodden in our community. Suffering through their afflictions in their daily IRL lives only to be further chased by such demons in their personal time? A sad state of affairs indeed.

I urge the RGL premiership to please clarify this stance so your community can respond as appropriate. I apologise for any false alarms if this discriminatory policy is untrue; I only ask you to please update your ruleset and/or your blog post as you see fit to make sure that such misunderstandings do not happen again.

I look forward to reading your response, my dear RGL Government.

Yours faithfully,

Concerned Gamer Extrasolar

hey look this guy used audio ducking and more extensive editing of game_sounds_player.txt (an atypical method considering the prominence of the thread surfacing a few months ago and other oddities that don't necessarily conform to such a hypothesis that I've written below)

never mind the fact that it's far less likely he'd actually take the time to perform such methods if he only used it for one or two matches, and the fact that he turns instantly upon the decloak button being pressed - meaning it's incredibly likely he put a short, high-volume sound over the decloak instead of this weird roundabout shit - that, despite removing falloff and boosting decloak frequencies would still be less noticeable until closer towards the peak of the decloak due to cluttered comms and general tomfoolery happening in-game

this clearly means that this method is the one river used because a youtube video exists of someone demonstrating it over demos

no easier to implement alternatives likely to be employed by a user for a short period of time exist guys, look this youtube video proves so

regardless even if he did use the method in the video and not a simpler one it literally doesn't change your argument at all - there's a huge fucking difference between removing useless background noise of birds chirping and wind blowing for the benefit of ALL other sounds (that actually matter and arent just irrelevant background noise) as opposed to making it so the spy class can never decloak far enough away from you to be unheard

that's like saying using noise reduction is the same as cranking your bass up to +5dB
that's like saying that using an fps config is the same as ESP because you can see through spammy choke points better

its genuinely one of the most retarded things ive read on this site and trust me thats an achievement when you consider the fact that i post here sometimes

no

yes because sending an unsolicited photo of your penis to another adult is certainly comparable to using your clout as a top player/youtuber/whatever to persistently groom vulnerable underage members of the childrens cartoon shooting game community, saying every time some small drama about it leaked out that you're sorry and will change and then using your sexuality/gender identity/libido as a weapon against any naysayers to your egregious behaviour and going straight back to business as usual and continuing to e-diddle kids

notice how karl's ban is an indeterminate "lifetime with a minimum sentence of 1 year"
didnt all the nonces also get lifetime bans???

nobody's disputing what he did was more than just a little bit silly, and quite inappropriate, it's the timing of the ban that's really suspicious here friend, but if you try to lump that shit in with literal fucking paedophiles running rampant in the comp scene then I don't know what to tell you tbh

if it was such a big deal and the receiver of the images felt so threatened then why didn't they bring it up when it actually occurred instead of waiting until the team that they happen to share with the head admin of the league has a very real threat to its podium finish next season when arguably the best HL team the NA scene has ever had is reforming

didnt the person in question also have good ties with the ugc admins at the time, if thats the case its not like you can use the "but they had no voice" excuse

ugc banned people from the league for posting lewd images on the forums for christ's sake, do you really expect me to believe that they would've shrugged off that shit being sent in DMs

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/793126531758816320/489ABD3CBA6154C6A549935C04EA86ECF93AC243/

so why wasnt he banned when rgl was created instead of the same week he has 6/9 players confirmed for a dK remake with bowl - when knd is now dead and the team with a highlander head admin on it is currently sitting top of invite almost uncontested

really activates the almonds..........

ok boomer

and somehow its still better than RGL
state of this game lmao, valve were right to kill it

Make UGC Great Again

doing god's work mr skull

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go on james u slag

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