huge if true. congrats.

i wanted to post last week but i was busy studying and forgot (so sorry for the bump)

i just wanna share the things i have improved on in the past few years that i have noticed (both tf2 and non-tf2 related)

#1 is probably talking to girls. just in general i've become a lot more comfortable with casually throwing out compliments with girls im interested in and just seeing where it gets me, instead of obsessing over how im gonna ask her out and what shes gonna think of me and aaaaaaaaa. the closest ive ever been to a relationship was pretty recent and it all started when i decided to tell one of my friends from work, who i wasnt even originally interested in, that she was cute (didnt end up working out but thats neither here nor there).

still on the topic of girls i've gotten over the fear of texting first and trying to make plans. i used to fear for my life to even send one text and would instead just watch any progress i've made wash away because my silence gets taken as a lack of interest. so that's neat too that ive improved there.

#2 is TF2 related, but also just generally personality related. around 3 years ago I used to let what people thought about me dictate how i thought about myself (this was usually related to posts on my LFT threads gassing me up, inflating my ego).

one of the most clear images of this in my mind was in esea season 29. 2 [unnamed] invite players were streaming my match live thru the STV and one of them says "damn grape juice is way too good to be on a 7-9 team" and the other responds "are you sure? i really dont think he's very good" (fun fact, looking back, the second player was 100% correct). unfortunately, while watching the vod, i let the first player's comments go to my head and got annoyed that the second player Completely Ignored My Past Displays Of Talent.

I didn't really start to think about this until about 8 months later when RGL 6s first started. I made my goal simply to finish the season and see where i stood in advanced. the team died, shoutouts to The Bag, and after an invite tryout gone horribly wrong for an o5 revival team, I finally felt confident in where i stood and in my abilities as a player, and it was based on MY feelings and MY experience playing the game over the past couple months. not based on some random commenters on my LFT threads who looked at my frag videos and went "Wow This Guy Has Good DM and Is My Friend So +Rep :)"

And since that revelation I've let myself become confident in my abilities in other aspects of my life (such as work) based on my perception and assessment of my performance, rather than relying on the kind words of others to lift me up, or letting gossip behind my back pull me down.

good luck to everyone else who posted on your improvement that you're trying to reach, and i personally invite anyone else who wants to share their self improvement progress in this thread to do so as well.

hater's guide to this season
https://youtu.be/UCfmicGVH1g

I need more homies to talk about hockey with so I am making a thread similar to the F1 thread.
cool ok thanks

https://youtu.be/oGabSJnyjPQ

built in also has a bookmark function

nose goes

maple walnut goes so hard

article linked only says its banned in the preseason cup

this one sounds personal

Owl? Idk : sniper players deserve to be tortured to death
Owl? Idk left the game

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/459957763741843459/893982653945085952/unknown.png

dude got sniped from demos he didn't submit a year and a half ago. he shouldn't have even been banned this summer

im doing good thank you

canada's worst driver is a banger

im scared