I don't really buy clothes too often but here is a fun story to add to the thread having to do with pants.

So, I was in Georgia near Fort Benning (a very large military base). I was going to go camping with my then GF in the UP in Michigan a few weeks later, and figured buying some cargo pants would be a good choice so I could carry lots of things - and of course who has pants with more pockets than the Army? That's right, nobody.

So I walk into what I *thought* was just a military surplus store, but it turns out that it's not at all a military surplus store and it's the QM supply store for air borne trainees. At the time I had a crew cut and looked young enough, so the guys at the front just assumed I was there to pick up my stuff. So they give me a box, and start loading it with stuff people need for their air borne training - one of them even tries to make small talk asking me how I had like my ROTC training. I didn't really know what to do right away - should I just wait until less people are around? Should I just go ahead and go to air borne training and wait to see if they go ahead and pay me? So, eventually they give me my box and tell me that I'll find some optional items on my "list" that I can browse around for. So, with that information, I figure I'll just sneak off into a corner or something, and then make my escape once attention is off of me, and concoct some excuse if anybody asks me why I'm leaving without my box of gear.

So I'm pretending to look at items on the self to be innocuous for a few minutes, when a guy working there steps up behind me. "You're not really Airborne are you?" I flip around to see that it's a mildly intimidating male figure in casual uniform behind me. "No" I reply dejectedly, I then go on to inform him that I just wanted some cargo pants and thought it was a surplus store since it wasn't labelled anything unusual. He then went on to inform me that you couldn't actually buy anything at the store without a military ID, and that I could leave when I wanted to. He also offered me a free sprite if I agreed to go visit the recruitment office that was just down the street *and* told me where I could find a surplus store that sold cargo pants. He also told me that he *knew* I wasn't in the service because he'd seen me walking there from down the street, but that he was happy to cover for me to avoid further embarrassment lol.

In the end I got a nice pair of cargo pants which came in super handy for containing various supplies on our camping trip. That was also the second time in my life that I had accidentally wandered into a military base/establishment.

Also fuck skinny jeans - I never wear pants unless it's absolutely necessary - shorts for life.

I guess I didn't mention heavy- Heavy is already the best and most glorious class in the game so there isn't much that needs to be changed in that realm at least in regards to sixes. If anything I'd be an advocate of people running heavy *more*.

As the old motto goes "If we start to lose, dumbbrain go heavy" it worked wonders.

Making his gun a projectile weapon *could* be pretty interesting - so long as it's better than the 50 cal defensive armaments in battlefield 1942 lol. (If you never played that game it was basically impossible to hit anything that was moving - which was everything - with said gun unless you were a god who had honed their craft for hundreds of hours lol).

Yeah maybe something like a cone of flame that does shitty damage at the edge of the cone but in the center of said cone you would get trashed at close range. I mean at least that'd give the pyro some viability, a dash of skill-ceiling - and a patently obvious mechanic that isn't taking away somebody else's control of their own character by forcing them against a wall or using wonky crit/invincibility mechanics.

The pyro in tf2 is BY FAR and away superior to the pyro in TFC so I've always had problems with too much talk of reworking the pyro overmuch because I remember him when he wasn't just non-optimal but actually a detriment to the team lol. So I at least give valve credit for creating a class that *can* be played in some game modes without it ruining everybody else's game lol.

Pyros having a tighter spread on their fire and having it focus as an LG *might* be somewhat interesting but you'd have to deal with the range of such a mechanic (what range would be appropriate?) for the LG effect to work and so on - it'd be a major change.

The best way to "fix" pyro would be to have him maintain his present speed and HP but up the amount of damage the flamethrower does at very close range - *very* similar to how heavy can easily be out DPS'd by most classes at long-medium range, but will typically absolutely shred you at pt. blank range the pyro *should* fall into the same realm - if the pyro can get a jump on you or flame you at pt. blank range you should be virtually doomed. The difference between pyro and heavy would be that pyro has lower HP and is faster than the heavy,but has far less medium-long range capability than the heavy. So you'd have two separate niches (short range devastation) being filled by two classes with opposite capabilities (high HP and slow vs low HP and fast). They've already tried to have pyro operate this way on a multitude of occasions (back-burner, axtinguisher) - but always through unlocks. Axtinguisher was particularly lame because of the ability for the pyro to air-blast virtually in perpetuity. Instead of trying to give the pyro wonky extra mechanics just make his flamethrower do respectable damage - if a solly can do 110 damage to you with a direct the pyro ought to be able to do the same - and he should be rewarded for doing so since he has less health and mobility than the soldier for example so most of the time he'll just die trying to get there lol. You could make it more skill based by giving the primo short range damage a tighter spread (as indeed the heavy's bullets have a *really* tight spread at close range hence the huge amount of damage).

Air blast is an ok mechanic as it is (since I doubt they can seriously rework it), but I *would* prefer if the air blast took more ammo. Air blasting should be a serious choice for the pyro - atm it isn't because the ammo cost is fairly low and the main damage of the flamer is negligible in terms of impacting the game relative to airblasting.

In short, if you let a pyro get right on top of you, you deserve to die, and if the player somehow finagled the map to be able to do that they deserve their kill - it's only annoying (to me) when they can manipulate you for an exceptionally long time via airblast (although it is possible to manipulate your movement when you're airblasted so long as you don't get put into a corner or against a wall). .

Volume and gain settings in game are the culprit i'd imagine. You can get your mic to sound pretty wonky by jacking the gain all the way up or the transmit volume. May have to fiddle with that a bit. If you have mumble and the game bound to the same key (or VO in mumble) you'll also end up with an echo effect that'll make things go wonky in mumble.

It could also be a driver issue but I'd doubt that unless you've been doing some weird tinkering with your audio card/chipset.

I'd doubt that the coup itself was fake - the Kurds are *all* on about how the coup itself was because a large amount of anti-Erdogan military officials were about to be forcibly retired, so they more or less figured this was their last chance to have a coup as an "option" for use. So they tried. Since it didn't work Erdogan gets carte blanche to do as he pleases and to tar his enemies as collaborators, sympathizers, and traitors - it's SOP for any state that suffers from a coup and manages to retain state power.

The West just prefers the nicer narrative because Turkey is a major ally and has been for 50+ years.

Here is the deal WIFI is very unstable. It's going to spike and fuck up regardless of how good your router is or how few people use it - because you're communicating with the box over air - and there is a lot of other shit also going through the air (AM/FM signals, random solar radiation, microwaves if you open the microwave door too soon, trace amounts of A and B waves if you have granite under the house).

The other issue of course is that your ping is going to spike if anybody else in the house uses the internet at the same time - because tf2 and ping rely on a consistent connection to provide a smooth experience and when your connection reassigns bandwidth because somebody else is now using the internet you're going to get a ping spike unless they're using an absolute bare minimum of bandwidth (just browsing webpages with no video).

An ethernet cable alone should stop the instability from your wifi and also provide you with the ability to receive more bandwidth in general. Plus you can take it with you if you ever set up an impromptu lan. You should be able to find one at any store that sells electronic supplies OR just buy one on the internet it'll be called an ethernet cable and probably won't be that expensive (since a lot of people make them themselves lol) unless you want a REALLY long one.

If you wanted to plug your ethernet directly into the wall that would be a much larger project because you'd have to wire the plug to your router and would involve cutting a hole in the wall and running a wire to wherever your box is lol. I had a wired connection to the box at one of my old places that I sent through the wall and it was a pain in the ass to set it up - but it was nice since I didn't have to have a cable run through the whole house lol.

When you've got it into your head that it's ok to murder people en masse religion is just a convenient justification. Every faith and non-faith has proven that its adherents are capable of committing atrocities on a grand scale.

My assumption as to why France has been targeted more than say, Poland, is that France is a fairly open society where large public gatherings aren't particularly well secured and people from all over the world being present wont raise any particular notice. Another (more important) factor is that there is a large Arab/Maghreb minority in France where some segments of that minority have become disillusioned with French society in general (2005 riots for example - although tension can date back much further - particularly into the 1960's) and so it's relatively easier for malcontents to undergo the radicalization process and become convinced that they're completely powerless and that it is imperative that they avenge themselves.

Sad and senseless all the same :(

A win for the sentient mountain.

It works fairly well for stalemates - I'm partial to buff banner over conch myself because you can crush any single target with just 1-2 players receiving the banner in the space of 1 second or so.

If you're having trouble pushing lasts just have a soldier come up buff banner and have somebody come up heavy and give it a go ;)

You *can* run them outside of last push scenarios, but, at least in my mind, promotes a kind of passive play I don't typically like to see out of roamers on the rest of the map (since they have to actively try to stay alive so as to build more banner).

The batallion's just does wacky stuff and does the whole kritz negation thing and used to build SUPER fast.

The pain from appendicitis can manifest itself in a lot of different ways - sometimes it's in the lower abdomen and sometimes it can be almost in the chest - some people even report it feeling like a heart attack. Any time you have persistent stomach pain it's a good idea to see a doctor. I've still got my tonsils and appendix for now tho so I've been lucky in that regard. I did get to sit in on an old school style appendectomy a few years ago (I was a dentist in Nicaragua for a month in college lol) - it was pretty interesting, They had to leave the wound to heal open because it burst as they were pulling it out so they couldn't stitch the poor guy closed because of the risk of trapping the infection.

You've got a few avenues for this with a few caveats.

- If you want to see such a tournament you should know that if it is going to happen you'll have to do most of the work yourself.

- I'd try talking to Tri - since at least in the past ESEA admins had some amount of freemium at the least to hand out you could try to work out a deal there to cut down on the amount of (donations I presume) money you would need to fund the winner(s). The same goes with server providers of course who may be happy to hand out a select few slots for the advertising.

- I would be happy to cast the tournament if you stream it

So, a few things.

1. Sometimes, especially on newer teams, the "flank" as it were players don't really know what sort of things they're supposed to say. To start with I'd at least ask them to say whenever they're going to try to take a fight with somebody. Some flanks don't really need to talk to each other that much if they've got a modicum of experience and synergy between the roamer and the scout that hangs with him more in hold situations. The important thing is if they're going to go in to take a fight they need to let the rest of the team know because you could try to help them by being aggressive yourselves or at least trying to distract - they'll also know they may need to back up to a more defensive position should you die - instead of it just happening suddenly. The combo also needs to help them by making it EXCEEDINGLY clear when they need to play as carefully as possible (uber disadvantage/focusing on building/large uber advantage which is about to be used).

2. Your flank should know that it's not allowed to push in most scenarios and they don't get to feed whenever they want - it helps to be condescending "thanks for the feed" getting really close to your mic and saying "solid feed team" and things like that may help to condition them - Pavlovian style - to not do silly things - if that's what your problem is. Your flank holds should mostly revolve around one player baiting another - either the scout pushes up a bit to try to get somebody to chase him around a corner whereupon a roamer shoots the ground 4 times and deftly kills said chasing thing. Or the roamer spams rockets close to a door, and runs away when trouble shows up into his +forwarding scout friend who then gets the kill. Sometimes accidents happen and players die in these scenarios, but it's good to *at least* let the combo know something like that is going down.

3. If you really want to break the spirit of your flank and possibly your combo too you should start running kritz whenever it makes sense to do so in scrims (basically whenever your medic and their medic die in the same fight, but yours happens to die first and a few other more specific situations). Why kritz? Well, since nobody will be invincible it forces your flank and combo players to be a lot more coordinated in how they approach an attack (assuming you prefer not to fail and lose) - so it gets them used to working together. Do we bomb in the roamer first to distract prior to the kritz being popped? If so what do the scout(s) on the flank do? When do they come in or run away, what sorts of things will the combo players say to let them know if/when they should come in or run away? The other important thing about kritz is that you have to do things very quickly - because if you take too long to actually use the kritz your opponents will have uber, and assuming they have the awareness of most plant-life forms, they'll be able to use said uber and nullify your kritz and you're far more likely to get wiped. Plus, if you actually get acclimated to running kritz it provides you with a useful tool/trick you can use in matches.

1. I hate the booties. Like I absolutely despise the fact that they're in the game.
2. I want GPIT back.
3. People don't run enough heavy - forcing us instead to watch 5-7 minute sniper/spy duels instead of just pushing last with a heavy and laughing about it afterwords.

You've got a few different options here which all lead to different eventualities.

First, you need to determine - by reviewing your lease agreement - if your having AC is mentioned at all or is covered as an appliance for which the landlord is responsible (for example in some lease agreements even if a refrigerator is provided with the property it may be specifically excluded from the responsibility of the landlord in the lease). Usually in your lease agreement there will also be a process outlined for repairs and how you're to go about getting them done - some lease agreements are more strict than others.

Secondly, if you haven't already, send your landlord something in writing mentioning that your AC is broken and you want it fixed - you could likely even do this in the form of a text message. Verbal stuff is hard to hold up - make sure you have written correspondence on the matter and demonstrate that you've waited and tried to be accommodating.

I don't know how rent laws work in Alabama, but in general your avenues are: write something to landlord wait for them to fix it. Take matters into your own hands after a few weeks of waiting, text or write to the landlord informing him/her of your intention to repair the AC yourself, and that you will take the cost of the repairs out of your rent - so long as your having AC isn't excluded from the landlords responsibility in the lease. A similar process is usually outlined in your lease agreement.

The reason written correspondence is so important is that your landlord may refuse to accept this arrangement and if you withhold rent from them they may attempt to coerce you to pay the full amount by utilizing your lease agreement's missed or insufficient payment stipulations - at which point you'll have to go to small claims/renter's court to settle the affair - written documentation regarding the situation, and a thorough understanding of your lease agreement, will help you in that endeavor.