now reban for anime

and your student debt, presumably

there was an ascent (or something)/froyo grand finals or ubf in esea on granary. i think cornpop was casting. i have a vivid memory of one of them pushing last with 30 seconds left, both teams simultaneously wiping, and time expiring with no living players, point not capped, cornpop (?) saying "everyone's dead!" and then it went to golden cap.

i hope i'm remembering that right because it was incredible

i think froyo won the golden cap in about two minutes but whatever

remember when someone posted a stream highlight of nomi using this in a pug

my company blocked access to gamestop.com for some reason

would've been so damn funny

always funny how it's immediately obvious when playing against any of these people

and then like nine months pass

and then they get banned

have you tried playing tf2center for 5000 hours

this was ridiculously good

brady's really gonna beat the bills in the super bowl

i am going to play with tape over my mouth

i haven't heard them sound like they did on sunshine since they had to put blaze on medic and play 5v6. shit was tense. fantastic tf2

haha jesus christ. so sad. i'm sorry for laughing but this made my day

your voice sounds different to you than it does to everyone else. you're used to the way your voice sounds because you're getting it internally and through your eardrums. when you hear a recording of yourself, that's no longer true.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20130913-why-we-hate-hearing-our-own-voice

but... mumble shouldn't be repeating the things you say back to you unless someone else is echoing.

i'll give the same feedback i give every season. the casters need to talk way less and think way more. almost all of them start sentences without thinking about what they're saying, end up with a word salad mess, and usually by the time they've corrected themselves they're 15 seconds behind. remember: we're watching. it's not radio, it's tv. you do not need to painstakingly list every player movement and every kill. and if the observer is doing his job, when you say things that contradict what we're seeing, it just makes the cast dissonant. trust your observer.

watch professional sports broadcasts. notice how they use the downtime (before the pitch or snap, which in tf2 corresponds to during stalemates) to prep viewers for what could happen. they do this quickly and precisely, and it saves them a bunch of talking during the action that follows. remember that you don't have to fill every second of action with words for the sake of words.

(of course, i recognize that they're volunteers and none of this really matters. but just in case they want to improve, or springboard into doing industry casting in another game like sideshow, cornpop, etc. ...tf2 casting has gone downhill, and i think it's because most of the people who liked casting as much as they liked tf2 have left for different games.)

note: i thought the observation was excellent in every invite cast i watched this season. noticeably improved from years past. seemed like the viewers hardly ever missed highlights and often the observers saw offclasses and aggressive plays before the casters did.