I'm 6'3", taller with the hair

I have to admit that I could get behind this if it weren't for the refusal to tell us about your team (we don't give a shit about Steam profiles, just give us names and maybe a bit about everyone - introduce yourselves) and the bizarre idea of having 5,000 TF2 servers and 26 Mumble servers, which everyone has mentioned is BEYOND excessive and implies a lack of true understanding of the competitive TF2 community.

I'm on a plane in 2 days and am incredibly hyped

I want to echo what the guys are saying - you are helping our game a ton at this event if you pay and ready up now. If it's possible for you, please consider it.

kirby you seem defensive

Last year's GXL thread, 8 pages. This year's, 28 so far and the event's 6 days away.

Amaaazing news on the sponsor. Ready to go give my all for GXL weekend!

I understand a fair bit about the nature of US debt, but I guess my kneejerk reaction was to think of a "cost" of providing free tuition. The other stuff goes beyond what I know about. Good insight in your other posts, thanks brother.

My driving route per Google takes me down the east coast via I-91 and then I-95. I've never done highway driving in these areas, wondering if there are any areas I should avoid for traffic/congestion/whatever? Specifically wondering about New York City and that region. Am I overthinking it?

Jake grabbed my spare cable, but anyone else who has spares, can't hurt to be a bro and bring em along

Guess I'll bring a spare ethernet cable to lend

I can understand what you're going for here, but it's difficult to argue against post secondary education in 2014. Yes, there are MANY people who have been successful without it, and there will continue to be. But post secondary certainly makes it MUCH easier to get a career and earn a good salary, in many ways. It would be foolish to say "Don't go to college, it's too expensive." There's more to it than that. This is an interesting article that touches on that idea somewhat, although I'm sure there are far better ones.

There is an issue with overqualification among new job seekers but I think that's probably way off course from this thread.

(If you Google it, you will find TONS of articles and reports on this.)

I'm not sure how much going to school out of state factors into this. The average cost of a four year degree in the US is still over $29k a year, more for some, less for some. Regardless of if you'll be living at home, or living in residence/off-campus housing.

Some people have to travel in order to attend school for their discipline, i.e. trades, whatever. Some people will have to travel no matter what because there's no four-year college near their city. I had to travel across the country to study broadcasting because there is literally no program for it in my province. I'm sure a lot of students are in a similar boat.

Bottom line it's just very difficult to get a degree in the US without paying about 100k.

Yeah I think one big thing required for a country to have this is "Don't be in debt for 17 trillion dollars"