I just don't understand why RGL is allowed to police scrims when they don't provide servers and they don't assist in setting up the scrims (It's not guaranteed that everyone who sets up scrims uses their Discord to do so). Does using their config really mean they're allowed that much power? If I make up a config that is nearly identical to the RGL ruleset with like, three changes, does that no longer make it RGL sanctioned and they aren't allowed to ban you over what you do in it? Why is it they've made distinctions that they do not make bans over actions in pugs despite most people using the exact same config?

It fails and it causes people who were fans of TF2 and still stuck around to keep playing despite the bots decide to drop the game entirely because they start to believe it's a dying game. And then the whole "TF2 is dying" mantra gets louder.

I mean realistically, if you've stuck around with TF2 for this long, you love the game and very little will actually sway you to stop playing, but most of the people I know who play TF2 are competitive players and they're a bit harder to push away from the game than a casual player who could probably be convinced to stop playing.

And regarding the whole, "Valve cares about public image" or "Here are community fixes by fans" thing, look again to OpenFortress and TFClassic. Both were out for a long period of time and then got taken down with rumors of, "Higher-ups are Valve didn't even know these mods were going on". They took those down despite it being a negative mark on their rep. If Valve actually wanted the community's help, Mastercom's would've been in-house optimizing the game years ago.

I just think you're vastly overestimating how much TF2 news or community content employees at Valve actually receive. I would be greatly surprised if a bunch of people who had the power to do something TF2-related even heard of Mastercoms.

It's not pessimism, it's realism. The only "announcement" Valve has made about the bot crisis is someone recording Gaben saying a vague, "We have a plan" solution with their phone. It's been years and the bot crisis has gotten worse with silence from Valve. Valve took down TF2Classic and OpenFortress and nobody knows when or if they're coming back, nobody even asked them to do that but they decided they wanted to kill their own game anyway. But you think it's a shitty attitude to acknowledge that Valve is done with TF2 when that's 100% what has happened? A hashtag in the face of a billion dollar company is nothing. There are people who actually do something concrete and end up having it fail horrifically, it's not pessimistic to believe that a Twitter hashtag will do nothing. I could flip the script and say you're not being optimistic, you're being delusional.

Regarding comp, Valve will never pay attention to it because they want TF2 to be a party game.
Regarding casual, I would play on Uncletopia regardless if the bot situation got fixed because I prefer the nocrits and nospread on those servers, and they have enough that one is always full.

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I don't want to LFT but it'd be fun to play, did anyone ever get early morning pugs going at the California one, or was the schedule too tight to fit it in?

Because gossip is more fun than TF2.

Post highlight frags from Twitch or demo clips so I know who to vote for.

Claiming you've changed then making all these statements in Page 2 alone proves the opposite.

You're still egotistical, you still feed off of drama, and you're still disrespectful. You think logs are a substitute for being personable. You judge people's opinions based on what div they're in. You asked why do people hate you, some people said your chat binds are annoying, and your response was, "No they aren't".

"Young Sanity is a little kid" becomes less justified the older you are especially considering there are Main and Adv players who are a year or two older than you and don't have these issues at all. You're still acting like you're 12-years old at 15. You'll probably be the same at 18 and then you'll have zero excuse as to why you act like this.

lmao what the fuck

https://i.ibb.co/0MRtMxw/Kings-Avatar-available-ion-Netflix.jpg

This show gets an American reboot with a current member from Froyo. Who would make for the best lead role?

koth week

https://i.ibb.co/P53RB35/Untitled.png

good luck

also i vote on the name being "Wicked Pugs" with your icon being the wizard of OZ wicked witch

https://i.ibb.co/vqDbBvF/Untitled2.png

there's not even enough for ultiduo

If you're going to do a match-only team and are accepting class restrictions, that suggests it's a laidback team from the get-go. So, yes, the match-only teams don't want to work as hard as the team that scrims four days a week with a demo review on the weekends and each player having their own personal mentor. And I still don't see a compelling reason why the compromise of class restriction should be taken away because of your personal belief that people should be playing at their peak and strive to improve all the time.