That's basically always been the case RIptide - I don't know how we've been doing lately, but years ago the truism in regards to tf2 streaming was that we struggled to *get* viewers, but once they came they stayed far longer than the average. Which is encouraging lol.

It depends on the kind of anxiety - if it's cripplingly severe, treatment from a professional can massively increase your quality of life - and don't be afraid to shop around for a doctor or therapist that you like + trust.

If it's just life's normal anxieties, thinking in this way has always helped me:

http://existentialcomics.com/comic/66

I've always maintained that once valve decides to nix tf2 in favor of whatever they produce to take its place they will reintroduce grenades for the various classes. My official prediction right there.

They were great in TFC - in tf2, because the game is much chokier and slower just in general, it would be a nightmare lol.

Needles 4 life. The day crossbow became mandatory was a sad day.

I'm *all* for the medic having more to do - but the current implementation of the crossbow dramatically alters player behaviors and underlying assumptions about the game, which results in more chaotic/frustrating game play.

I'm down to cast just don't make me use slack.

Also @#25

Get yourself some video recording software like OBS, watch some stvs, stick those clips in movie maker, put them on youtube/twitch. After you do 4-5 of the things you should be good to go. I wouldn't worry about what "type" of caster you are, just be yourself and it'll work out.

I would be in favor of banning the crossbow until it's nerfed - right now you can simply put out far too much healing, and gain far too much uber, from its use. It should be set back to how it was where, yes, you can heal your teammates with it, and sure, build uber from its use, but only be able to fire it once every 20 minutes or so. The problem is that it currently upsets the internal calculus of the game too much - you never have any idea how hurt a player actually is because they can just get an arrow slung at them with the enemy medic sacrificing nothing to make the attempt, not to mention the impact of defensive arrow building (you know the other team is going to push so you arrow build and woops turns out you have uber and their push is boned). Arrows also have the negative effect of allowing players who are "pushed out" of a certain map area to get an arrow and return at near or full health - again with almost no sacrifice on the medic's part.

The rescue ranger is also pretty lame.

Also, never ever unban the quickfix it's awful for everything and everyone.

I don't particularly care about valve. If the game is fun or not is enough for me lol. We shouldn't phrase whitelists as rejecting valve, but simply making valve's product better. Like the ker-trillions of games that are far superior with mods.

I imagine the reason teams don't GG out, is because rounds for are so important to playoff seeding. Any number of extra rounds can come in really handy at the end of the season, unless you're way down the ladder already (but those matches tend not to be casted). Especially if you know the other team has nothing to play for any more with victory being assured, you can snatch up 1-2 extra rounds sometimes.

It is pretty rare that we run into garbage time in the US however. That sort of a game would be a certifiable marathon that only happens once in a blue moon.

2 bottles of local wine, a case of beer, and 100$ New headset comin in hot.

If you can make playing the pro-mod look cool enough we'll still have cross-over appeal with what remains of the casual community. That would be on the production side of twitch and youtube content though. It would also be on anybody who was willing to actually make such a pro-mod which I would imagine would be a pretty tremendous undertaking.

The only reason I would be in favor of such a mod is purely because it would prevent changes from coming onto the competitive scene suddenly. It could also allow some of the more odious changes to be done away with - but deciding what those are is way down the road because somebody would have to actually announce their intention to make such a thing and get it working somewhat.

I'm pretty interested in what a big deal was made of this in the US press - if anything it benefits Russo-Turkic relations because Turkey will have to be more amenable to Russian concerns, at least publicly, in the short-term, and the Syria/ISIS situation won't be going on much longer.

You can though https://play.esea.net/index.php?s=stats&d=match&id=8022339 you can also dl the demo still if you're really interested lol.

Just imagine how scary this forum would be if it turned out "funny meme" was actually code for something much more sinister!

Pizzagate is 100% fake - there's no extant evidence for anything of the sort. Just look at the historical precedent of political sex-rings - they tend to happen at private parties and in non-public buildings. When you engage in illicit activities in public the probability that somebody will say something is just too high because there are non-guilty parties present who have some sort of authority.

Which is exactly what happened with this deal in Korea. When you perform strange shamanistic rituals in government offices staffed by civil service members who are not necessarily loyal to the individual in charge they will say scandalous things about it - rumors about these strange behaviors have been going around for years in Korean news sources. But there's nothing strictly illegal/reprehensible about having a trusted spiritual advisor or engaging in strange shamanistic rituals in an of itself. But because the former 2 things are so strange they invite additional attention and then all the dirty laundry gets found. Similar scandals have occurred in the US actually - Reagan consulted astrologers and quoted horoscopes to friends - as did FDR - President Wilson even regularly consulted a personal psychic. Those three in particular ended up receiving media attention they would've rather not have had as a result lol.

According to steam it's Hearts of Iron 3 with 1619 hours on record :(

To be fair most of my history course's exams (the classes I cared about) were graded quite harshly and they accounted for 40% of your total grade (of which there were only 2 exams - mid-term and final). The last 20% was a term paper - so if you fucked up an exam you failed the class basically so it was imperative to do as well as possible.

For my present graduate work I have to do pretty lengthy oral exams + papers. So far nobody has noticed that if they put me against a wall I rub my nose with my left hand to help me remember stuff lol.