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Signed Up January 17, 2017
Last Posted March 14, 2024 at 12:30 AM
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#5 Did tf2 ever get you into trouble in TF2 General Discussion

My brother and I weren't allowed to play video games other than Minecraft growing up bc "violent video games" or whatever, but our friends got us into tf2 and we'd play late at night after they went to bed. One night after a month or so of this, my brother stayed up way too late and when asked why he was tired, fessed up the next morning (snitch).

But then we pulled out the pyrovision goggles and were like "see it's cartoon violence it's totally fine :)" and they let us keep playing lmao

Lowkey owe my career to that tho, bless pyrovision

posted 4 days ago
#14 rahThread: Skin care routine in Off Topic

https://pm1.aminoapps.com/7175/c1b4b1ea03e6e442cf15fe76e228c956015ad8dfr1-260-267v2_uhq.jpg

posted 1 month ago
#22 I want your weird and unserious frags! in Videos

I've got a few clips from years past - idk if any of them are what you're looking for, but I at least had fun looking through my old shadowplay folders :)
frags as med:
https://streamable.com/0195jl - med2kWithAirshot.dem
https://streamable.com/dqiesg - med2kOnDemoMed.dem
I also had some old med frags from RGB4, but I only have POVs and it looks like they can't load any more?

Not a frag, but a bonkers surf + arrow on 1 hp scout:
https://streamable.com/j91nn4 image - surf1healtharrow.dem

Just dumb:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S-6rPt-UEA - 4airstrikes.dem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-V95Y5HVmY - Idk if there's anything good for this project in here, and it's like a dozen ticks, but I can hunt down the demo if desired

posted 1 month ago
#17 most poverty comp tf2 setups thread in TF2 General Discussion

I wish I had a picture of it, but StarSucker would play on his shitty college mandated laptop with Quadro graphics, sitting on his bed, $10 Walmart mouse (no mousepad, just fuckin rawdogging it on the bedsheet), and used the left half of a controller for movement rather than keyboard. When questioned about the controller, the only answer he would ever give was "360 degree movement".

We could also tell whenever someone used the microwave at his place since the router was right next to it and his ping would hit like 400.

Edit: pom found it, I forgot about the cursed headphones too

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/356572176779968513/1127476086335352842/starseup.webp?width=516&height=917

posted 8 months ago
#105 Cheater bans should be permanent in TF2 General Discussion
Rendoaswhen is this community going to stop fucking around and start banning people who use slurs against marginalized groups

Why is this being downfragged? Like ik people sometimes like to cj on Rendoas, but it boggles my mind that "maybe we as a community should do something more serious about blatant transphobia/racism/etc" is seen as a bad take. I've been getting an irl friend into tf2 recently and I'd love to show them some competitive stuff, but I'm too fucking embarrassed to show them with how y'all act.

posted 8 months ago
#13 wats a game u wish u were good at in Off Topic
BumFreezeany game that would make me a millionaire would be nice

bro I gotchu

https://i.imgur.com/YzcLCHt.jpg

posted 9 months ago
#64 RGL S11 Advanced Happenings/Discussion in TF2 General Discussion
MiG-21bisIs whoever gets home team random now? I've had 2 matches where my team was the away team despite being seeded higher.

Home status goes to the team that's been home less so far. Iirc if both teams have been home the same number of times, it goes to higher seed, but it might be random.

posted about a year ago
#29 4 suggestions for RGL in TF2 General Discussion

For a while I've personally been interested in trying the bo2 2 maps/week approach that's used in etf2l and ozf. I think the main argument against it in NA previously was that people were attached to half-time, but with the b4nny config growing in popularity, having bo2 b4nny-config matches might be a compelling preposition. They'd run longer than our current 1-map-2-halves matches, which might be a challenge, but the idea of playing two maps per week sounds really fun to me.

posted about a year ago
#434 RGL S10 Main Discussion Thread in TF2 General Discussion
SpaceCadetI appreciate the post and the stats but I don't quite understand some of this.

What is the single thing that can happen to ruin a H2H result?

Either that week's map being a better map for one team or things like ringers or internet issues can easily make a H2H result inaccurate, particularly when you're only looking at tiebreaking against close teams (where a map favoring one team can make the difference). I want to call out though that this statement isn't my argument, just a hypothesis about why the stats show rw% is more accurate. The decision was made based on rw% being statistically notably better at predicting which team was stronger.

Rough numbers:
RNG tiebreaker: right 50% of the time (baseline)
H2H tiebreaker: right ~65% of the time (better than RNG, but not by much)
RW% tiebreaker: right ~77% of the time (better than H2H and significantly better than RNG)

SpaceCadetNo offense, but none of your stats or analysis seem to address the scheduling conflicts with some teams playing strong opponents early in the season and getting "free" 5-0 results. That weak team then dies and the other teams in the division are denied that same free 5-0.

Strength-of-schedule is absolutely a challenge with any non-rr tournament, and we've talked plenty about possible improvements to reduce its effect. However, it was absolutely accounted for in the data - the situation you're describing happened plenty over the 6 seasons of data analyzed, and rw% still shows better results than h2h.

SpaceCadetI am saying H2H should be first and RW% secondary. Wins and Losses should ALWAYS be treated with more priority than rounds.

Why? The goal of a tiebreaking metric is that the better team makes it into playoffs. Across all of the first 6 seasons of RGL, rw% outperformed h2h, even when looking at situations where h2h should have a large advantage. Fwiw I totally get the gut reaction that h2h should be better and went into the study partly expecting to find that, but the data shows that rw% is more accurate.

To call it out again, in one of the analyses we looked at teams with identical records that played each other in the regular season and then had a rematch in playoffs. Even in that situation, rw% was a better predictor than the regular season h2h result of which team would win the rematch.

posted about a year ago
#431 RGL S10 Main Discussion Thread in TF2 General Discussion

The h2h vs rw% discussion was brought up internally at RGL about a year ago. As part of that, I ran a statistical analysis that looked at whether h2h or rw% better predicted playoff outcomes using the dataset of S1-S6 playoffs (not including RR divs or am or nc). The results indicated rw% was a better predictor of playoff performance across the board, including when taking into account potential biases. Even when we looked at teams that had faced each other in playoffs, rw% was a better predictor of which team would win - which is a situation where you'd expect h2h to have a significant advantage. This lead to us keeping it as the primary tiebreaking metric. I've got a big writeup draft somewhere with all the stats and methodologies that I wanted to publish back then, but we got busy with S7 and it got put on the back burner.

Through doing the analysis, I figured out that the general reason rw% is better than h2h can be qualitatively stated as "it only takes a single thing happening to mess up a h2h result, but it takes a bunch of things happening to mess up a w% result." (which was backed up by the data and the mathematical modeling I did)

Of course, neither method is perfect - the only way to have perfect competitiveness is to run a double RR division with pick-bans for maps (which is why that's the format for Invite). RGL uses RW% as a tiebreaker because it's correct more of the time than the alternatives. There will always be cases where it's not accurate, no matter which method is used.

If anyone's deeply interested in the methodology, etc, feel free to message me on discord - matchmaking and playoffs structures are one of my main focuses at RGL, and I'm always happy to chat about this kind of thing.

Also, random interesting data drop:
As part of the investigation, we looked into the potential bias that some maps would yield more rounds than others. The data shows a small but not insignificant effect:

Data from adv-im S5 regular season
rt = rounds taken
rtow = rounds taken on win
rtol = rounds taken on loss
rtol/rtow = % of the winning team's rounds the loosing team takes = rtol/rtow
rtol/rp = % of all rounds the losing team takes
#m = number of matches
map                  | rt  | rtow | rotl | # matches | rotl/rotw | rotl/rp | avg. score
cp_gullywash_final1  | 409 | 303  | 106  | 66        | 34.98%    | 25.92%  | 4.59 - 1.61
cp_metalworks        | 407 | 292  | 115  | 64        | 39.38%    | 28.26%  | 4.56 - 1.80
cp_process_f7        | 364 | 290  |  74  | 65        | 25.52%    | 20.33%  | 4.46 - 1.14
cp_snakewater_final1 | 369 | 287  |  82  | 60        | 28.57%    | 22.22%  | 4.78 - 1.37
cp_sunshine          | 418 | 297  | 121  | 65        | 40.74%    | 28.95%  | 4.57 - 1.86
cp_villa_b18         | 424 | 306  | 118  | 63        | 38.56%    | 27.83%  | 4.86 - 1.87
koth_clearcut_b15d   | 305 | 248  |  57  | 65        | 22.98%    | 18.69%  | 3.82 - 0.88
koth_product_rcx     | 320 | 235  |  85  | 61        | 36.17%    | 26.56%  | 3.85 - 1.39
posted about a year ago
#59 TF2 player vocabulary in TF2 General Discussion
Menachem(tho rgl scanning scrim chatlogs for slurs is an odd grey area where people are potentially getting punished even if everyone on the server was fine)

I'm not really sure where this myth got started, but RGL doesn't do any kind of chatlog scanning to ban from - all our bans come from reports, and we keep an eye out for reporters that are completely unaffiliated with the thing they're reporting and just witch-hunting.

posted about a year ago
#6 radeon super resolution in TF2 General Discussion
suprafree sync is kinda useless in tf2 because it forces you to use a certain framerate like constant 144 fps, just to much the screen refresh rate and since fps in tf2 are kinda fluctuating depending what's happening in the game, it's better not to use it and have a framerate higher than the refresh rate, because when your fps drops down below the refresh rate you notice an unpleasant frame drop(s)

This is the exact opposite of what freesync and g-sync do lmao. Adaptive sync modes let your monitor adjust to match the game's framerate. If tf2 is running faster than the monitor, you get the usual behavior (same as no adaptive sync). If your fps drops below the monitor's max refresh rate, the monitor'll wait for the next frame before updating, eliminating tearing entirely and reducing stuttering.

posted about a year ago
#3 is this the first tf2 jump movie? in Videos

Sorry bro but the legendary T6 PanFrie }svny{|DF| had you beat by 8 months

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMbqWATk2fw

posted about 2 years ago
#11 TF: Source 2 in TF2 General Discussion
seven1Will source 2 even affect the GPU and CPU usage at all? From what little i know about source 2 I wouldn't think it is like this, but this information was a bit older so I really don't know.

Source 2 is a drastically more modern engine designed with modern hardware and techniques in mind. In 2007, game engines were designed for machines with one or a couple threads and modest gpus. Even your basic gaming computer in 2021 has 4+ threads and the gpu is an order of magnitude (or several) more powerful than 2007 hardware*, but a large portion of that goes to waste since current tf2 isn't designed to use it. A source 2 tf2 port is likely to blow the current tf2's performance out of the water for the same graphical fidelity, or largely improve the graphical fidelity while also improving perf.

Of course, a lot depends on what level of access this team has to the tools (i.e. a mod will never be as fast as having native access), but the potential's there. I'd personally love to see stv support so that games played in TF2 could be casted/produced in TF:S2.

* I looked into this for fun - some gpu benchmarks
639 - GeForce 8800 Ultra (arguably the best card on the market in 2007)
1503 (2.35x) - the Vega integrated graphics in the first $500 gaming laptop I could find
19509 (30x) - the RTX 2080 Super I have
benchmarks are definitely not everything, of course - there have been substantial architectural improvements to GPUs as well

posted about 2 years ago
#20 bedroom accessory recommendations in Hardware

https://push.dubthink.com/2021/08/e56.jpg

posted about 2 years ago
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