Fruity Pebbles on weekdays.

Toast, eggs, bacon, seasoned diced potatoes and sausage on Saturday and sometimes Sunday.

Even if that is the case we shouldn't be expecting to rely on delays for every season.

What was the point of letting the rest of the community watch if they had no influence on the decisions made whatsoever?

I understand that you can't have hundreds of people talking in discord at the same time but surely there was a better way that we could have gone about this, because from the looks of things no one is happy at all, and I don't blame them.

Like, does anyone honestly think that the entire community (or even a good majority of it) wanted the quickfix and the sodapopper unbanned? The responses this thread has garnered could have fooled me.

vanilla and cookiedough

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't whitelisting a feature that Valve added into the game?

Did Valve not create the ability for us to pick and ban weapon usage on a per server basis?

Now, if this is the case and Valve did give people the ability to create a whitelist, why are we trying to move away from it? Why are we assuming that Valve wants us to use every weapon in the game when they've purposely given us a way to ban weapons? We have been doing exactly what they wanted this whole time by using the feature to ban unlocks, have we not?

If that's the case, and we're already doing things as Valve sees fit by using the whitelist system, then it literally doesn't matter how many weapons we unban, we're never going to get the attention from them that we want, and we should focus our efforts on other aspects of our scene while keeping it fun to play.

Cold hands as well as time warner cable are the two things that fuck me over, the latter at least once a month (if I'm lucky)

Where is the "original ESEA whitelist" option because I want to pick that.

The fact that we've even given the slightest consideration to unbanning the cleaver worries me immensely

The thing is, you're assuming that Valve is holding back on us because we still haven't reduced the whitelist to their liking, but I really, REALLY don't think that it's true.

Time for an example:
We've been letting valve know for eons that we wanted a better voice codec. We've pleaded and begged them for it time and time again, but they never actually did it for us no matter how much we bent over backwards and adjusted our rules for them. (Hell I'm pretty sure we could completely remove the whitelist and it still wouldn't matter at all, and we'd still end up being ignored.) Do you know why this is? Money. We don't have money. We don't have enough money being generated from our events to warrant valve actually putting effort into fixing our game or helping us host events.

A Faceit admin sends valve an email to update the voice codec and they immediately fucking do it, like really fucking fast. You know why? Because Faceit has money and Valve thinks its in their best interest to listen to them.

We shouldn't be trying to cater to whatever vague bullshit idea valve has for the game, especially since we don't even know what they want. We need to focus on keeping the game the most fun to play, and work towards amassing a decent amount of revenue for the prizepots in our leagues. Once we do that, THEN valve will step in and help us further.

So really:
-Figure out what maps are fun to play (If there are too few, make more and test them)
-Figure out what weapons ruin the fun of the game and ban them accordingly. IE: Not trying to fucking unban shit like the bonk because we just assume valve will start caring about us.
-Figure out how to make the game fun to spectate
-Figure out how to increase our prizepools to give people an actual incentive to play and improve.

Once we figure these things out, THEN we can expect Valve support, but what we're doing now with these lenient whitelists hasn't fixed a goddamn thing and has only served to make the game more annoying.

Valve will only help us if we help ourselves and show them that we can stand successfully on our own 2 feet. (Aka make our prizepools actually worth playing for)

fat girls are harder to kidnap

Lets see...

-It's the initials for my first middle and last names
-Can stand for Accuracy, Precision, Timing
-The adjective "Apt" Defined as "Quick to learn" (Which is how you pronounce my name, not by letters like "Ay Pee Tee" or (god forbid) "apartment")
-It's short

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