I respect you so much for this post Josh. Intelligent and insightful.

hmmmmmmmmmm

I did reinstall a couple days ago.

"still uses pipe launcher"
"Still uses needles instead of xbow"
"doesn't know that scout has secondaries"

Y'all complaining just research and write your own 100+ paragraph article instead. I'll read it.

That said, I see no issue with a lot of the older players getting ranked highly. You kinda have to look at each time period in a vaccuum. Pre ammomod, pre MGE, cl_interp 1, TF2 was a whole different game. Especially with the differences in unlocks. This is clearly an opinion piece/editorial and as such Tery will weigh things differently than you might.

Just wanna say that reading through these threads has been an absolute pleasure. TF2 was such a formitive game for me (especially between 2009-2016 when I was active.) It's also been cool to read about how great some of the players who were on the way up when I was quitting have become. I played my last season of ESEA when Shamoo was playing one of his first open seasons, and even back then I could tell he was abosulutely going to pound and go far.

Congrats to everyone listed so far, your passion for this game is what has made it interesting, and one of the best games ever made <3.

MESR4PRESR.

#We R Gucci U R Crocs
#Big Bongs Long Dongs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qowwo-LAPpU

LETS GO YOSH!!!

Potato Bacon or Chicken Noodle. I keep it simple.

What a sick and well made article. I look forward to seeing where some of my former inspirations and idol's placed, as well as to see who the newer legends of the game are. I'm a little ashamed that I never got good enough to be remembered in any capacity myself, but that honestly just makes me even more impressed by how skilled the people on the list will be. Maybe do a bottom 100 so I can be on a list too :P

Also Fuck yeah tony honerable mention for being the Boomer/dad of tf2 I always knew you were. lmaooo

Teamfortress 2: 6.4 hours played.

How did you even find this site lmao.

Any type of pasta with sundried tomato sauce and chicken and i'm messin with it.

If you have an NVIDIA card you could also use Nvidia Broadcast to get rid of background noise from your mic. This will require an RTX 2060 or newer, but works very well and has a negligible impact on performance.

Haven't played actively in like 3 years or so. I'll still hop in from time to time to DM/MGE/Surf/Jump because tf2 has the best mechanics of any FPS game and those 4 modes are like a concentrate for the things I love about the game.

I quit because I was losing motivation, and had actually ended up liking Overwatch quite a bit. That said, the day valve makes tf2 run well on modern hardware (source 2? TF3???) I'll likely be done with OW. Tf2 just feels particularily old these days. I also quit because i'm getting older, and I cannot keep playing at the degen hours that the game seems to operate at (especially with the timezone difference).

That said, i'm working on a personal youtube/twitch project which will probably see me making some kind of return to the game in the coming months, unlikely that it will be in the form of a competitive player though.

I just like the way the surface font numbers look. Easy to read at a glance.

I actually loved ToonHUD thanks to its installer that let you change up the fonts and colours. The default 'toon' font is ugly as hell, but the layout and style of the hud is pretty well thought out and polished.

edit: it doesn't have an installer anymore. actually a full website where you can customize the whole hud. pretty cool for people who don't know much about hud editing.

Been listening to DEMONDICE/Mori Calliope songs on repeat for like 3 months now. Pretty sure vtuber music is considered weird. Even if she is an excellent artist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjjHO24rYgo