There are a lot of good options: ducky, coolermaster, filco, pok3r, etc. And lots of groupbuy / custom keyboards if you're looking to splurge or DIY some.

Switches are mostly preference so what exactly are you looking for that razer green switches didn't offer? More/less tactile, more/less clicky, etc.?

While it's bumped I did do some writing on this: https://github.com/JarateKing/jarconfig/blob/master/docs/zoom_sensitivity_ratio.md
It's the same conclusion (0.793471 is what you probably want) but explains some of the thought behind it.

Yeah it wouldn't be too hard. Throw this into wolfram alpha:

(arctan(x*tan((20 * pi/180)/2) ) / arctan(x*tan((90 * pi/180)/2)))/(20/90) = 0.83333

And replace "0.83333" with your tf2 zoom sense. This should give you an x value, then throw this into wolfram alpha again:

(arctan(0.403109*tan((40 * pi/180)/2) ) / arctan(0.403109*tan((90 * pi/180)/2)))/(40/90)

Replacing the two "0.403109"s with the x value from before. The result should be the same zoom sens.

quick python script for this:

# range to set
min = -2
max = 2

# enforce proper wrapping rules
def getCoords(x, y, z, separator):
    toret = ''
    toret += str((x - min) % (max - min + 1) + min) + separator
    toret += str((y - min) % (max - min + 1) + min) + separator
    toret += str((z - min) % (max - min + 1) + min) 
    return toret

# base binds
for c in ['x', 'y', 'z']:
    print('alias "inc_vm_' + c + '" "vm_0_0_0"')
print('')

# internal state binds
for x in range(min, max + 1):
    for y in range(min, max + 1):
        for z in range(min, max + 1):
            toprint = 'alias "vm_' + getCoords(x, y, z, '_') + '" "'
            toprint += 'tf_viewmodels_offset_override ' + getCoords(x, y, z, ' ') + ';'
            toprint += 'alias inc_vm_x vm_' + getCoords(x+1, y, z, '_') + ';'
            toprint += 'alias inc_vm_y vm_' + getCoords(x, y+1, z, '_') + ';'
            toprint += 'alias inc_vm_z vm_' + getCoords(x, y, z+1, '_') + '"'
            print(toprint)

There's some obvious big improvements (support for decrementing instead of just having to wrap around, and support for floats / not having to always be an integer) but this should get the idea across.

What huds are you trying? If they're old, then their info.vdf files probably aren't up to date (if they have one at all).

In the future, there's https://www.teamfortress.tv/19073/hud-editing-short-questions-quick-answers

Copy over HudDeathNotice inside scripts/hudlayout.res

Might also need to copy over fonts and colors from clientscheme to do it but should be easy enough to do with some know-how about the clientscheme:
https://github.com/JarateKing/TF2-Hud-Reference/blob/master/0-TUTORIAL/3-Editing-Clientscheme.md

Specifically, you just need a label that has the labeltext "%metal%". Anything else doesn't really matter, it's just a regular label that you put in huddamageaccount.res.

None in sv_pure. You can edit the vmt/vtf to change the images, or the .pcf to change the particle effect itself, but in both cases it'll revert to default in sv_pure. Don't have the filenames on hand but shouldn't be too hard to find them either.

So far it's helped me with my last two jobs. The interviewers for my current job were impressed with the tf2 stuff on my github (even though they had no clue what tf2 was), and my previous job was a gamedev position where experience modding games was a big asset. These are both programming jobs so a lot of the skills are transferable, but in both what sold it was the things I've done in tf2.

I also fucked up another game programmer interview by talking too much about my tf2 mods and not enough about my other experience, but it's been more wins than losses so far.

Just a note: chat_english will not run into these issues. tf_english will, and for that reason it's recommended to use chat_english for any localization changes.

Try (re)installing the fonts. It's pretty hard to tell what the problem is with just that, but if it's just the font files not getting transferred / recognized then installing them means the clientscheme doesn't have to reference the local copy.

The three things that differ in linux are:

• folders and filenames are case-sensitive and need to be lowercase (unless specifically referenced with #base or something using capitals)
  
• fonts are smaller (exactly 80% the size of windows fonts)
  
• [$WINDOWS] tags don't work and [$LINUX] does. [$WIN32] is for PC including linux, as an opposite to [$X360]

More likely though you just need to use cl_use_tournament_specgui to turn it on.

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

Moving things forward is good but I think most of the community is fed up with the decisionmaking being opaque and feeling like it's just the whims of whoever's talking loudest, with what seems like 0 effort being being put into improving the process or consulting the entire rest of the community (outside of when a particular decision is completely hated and has to be reverted). All that paired with there still being no clear reasoning on why it's been going the direction it has, or really any long term plan at all.

People do want progress, it's just that the most relevant area for progress is to come up with an actually good decisionmaking process. Whitelists for example, every time a new whitelist comes out there's more headache and backlash than there were problems with the old whitelist in the first place -- which is a pretty good indication that the system ain't working well. But I don't think we've ever actually heard plans to fix this, we just end up running into the same situation a season or two later, with the same concerns and complaints. I get that it isn't easy and not everyone will be happy, but does anyone think the current method is actually any good?

This is the best opportunity the community at large will have to actually improving the way we approach things like whitelists to stop making controversial decisions, but it seems like that whole discussion is falling on some of the same people who've been making these controversial decisions in the first place.

I am making progress on it, and it all should be doable (most of the questionable parts are done).

As long as imagemagick and wine are installed, the generate.sh that's currently there should be able to generate flat textures. I haven't tested throroughly though, and feedback would be appreciated.

Scroll up a bit and this should be:

Or the thread for it: https://www.teamfortress.tv/51736/cleantf2-nohats-flat-textures-etc

try this https://pastebin.com/hJr2rHeu

I don't think this was the intention but when I read it, it comes off a bit as "I apologize for it, but it didn't happen, or it wasn't a big deal, or it wasn't me, or it was your fault it happened." A lot of it can easily be taken as a defense, so I can't blame anyone for taking it as you defending yourself.

e: in retrospect this was giving way too much benefit of the doubt, now that the thread's been locked and scratch doubled down hard, I'd like to make it clear that his "apology" shouldn't fly

Why is this met with "ok harassment sucks but the real problem here is how much she dislikes being harassed, I think she should be harassed more before she gets upset" and not "why the fuck is there harassment in our small community?"

However much harassment you think someone should be able to take is completely moot because we should strive to not have harassment in the first place.