Join a team. Watch them do regrettable things. Sass them. Get sad. Rinse and repeat.

Honestly just playing on a team and learning their tendencies and how to work together will do more for your medic gameplay than anything else. How you position yourself, what you need to say and when, where you need to be looking in certain situations, etc. Surfing and "mechanics" are nice, but they're all secondary to the bread and butter of medic gameplay which is don't get surprised by things, count ubers, how to recognize bad situations, etc all come from simply playing normally. Pugging isn't *so* bad - especially if you can play with players who are better than you are regularly - but in general there's no substitute for being on a team.

Honestly you don't need any more noobie mixes than a few weeks - the rest is up to you. The issue is that the people you're playing against in noobie mixes ought to have very little experience and so they won't press you to improve in any meaningful way. I don't claim to speak for the noobie mix organizers though so it's up to them.

The way *things* used to work, is you'd go into a website like www.tf2center.com and play there. Make a few friends, play more centers with them (we called them lobbies HEH) and then make a team with them and play next season.

Or, alternatively, you could make a thread in the recruitment section and try get on a team which may be forming for next season already, or get picked up by a team in need, or ask to be a sub and get to play every once in a blue moon, and you'd get to hang out with players who were making their way through comp tf2. You could also do the same for a UGC team - I'm sure there are plenty of UGC teams currently that need starters and back-ups.

Also to shamelessly self-promote my youtube channel www.youtube.com/medimarx has lots and lots of stuff geared towards teaching players how to play TF2 somewhat. As folks who've done my mixes can likely confirm, you'll get the same there as you will from me live and in person - I'm a sound board basically.

You could also check out: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD098F81F2CA74F00 which has some really classic videos from some of the best folks that've ever played the game.

Mambo may've known me longer than anybody on this website lol.

Playing red alert 1 on westwood online and seeing the win totals next to my name and feeling nerd-pride.

Yeah old computer parts are always selling on ebay :D

You have to talk to tri or killing or submit a ticket - just post in the match comms what time and region you want the server to be in, and submit a ticket or tell tri/killing and they'll reschedule your match so long as the other team also posts that they agree to those things.

I remember watching him play for Wake Forest in the NCAA tournament. It's gonna be really weird watching basketball without him whenever he does finally retire :( .

I'm spending the afternoon shouting "there's just not zip on the ball" "he should've retired last year" "His arm strength is really holding them back" and so on every time Peyton completes a pass.

The funny thing is that you actually do have quite a lot of statistical evidence to prove the statement that Captain Kirk is one of the best Bulls players in history:

I think he's something like 3rd all time in franchise history in games played, and 1st all time in 3 pointers made.

edit - he's also third all time in steals and assists for the franchise.

Pacers since I was a tiny baby. I still have a signed Reggie Miller poster I won at a basketball youth camp as a kid on my wall - he has followed me everywhere lol.

I miss Roy Hibbert and D-West though - still catch them from time to time when I can . D-West was the heart and soul of the old Pacers and I was really sad to see him go - and Hibbert was always fun to watch - the ups and the downs.

The only teams I try to avoid watching due to disgust are the Clippers, Rockets, and OKC whenever Durant is hurt - I can usually handle watching any other teams.

Also watch the Cavs purely for future MVP Joe Harris from time to time - but he's gone now so I'll have to come up with a new excuse to listen to Austin Carr.

Bringing back warmfront *and* gpit would make it a categorical imperative that I find some way to play again lol.

Well you can get two distinct kinds of soreness - the soreness/stiffness that comes after physical activity is caused by acid burning your muscle - cramping is a different thing entirely and I assume you know the difference. If it's the case that you're now more likely to cramp up (which can happen when people first start a regimen) you need more potassium you can get it pretty easily by consuming: bananas, kiwis, or the skin of a potato (just make mashed potatoes but leave the skins in).

If it's just regular soreness stretching and moving in general will help loosen things up and *eventually* the soreness will go away as your body acclimates to the work out schedule.

If your pain is extreme, and you have no reason to endure that - you need to back off a bit or you could potentially end up with some array of injury. I gave myself a hip flexor some years ago and it took *forever* (3 months) for it to go away because I was massively overdoing it on the leg work outs.

well depending on your state you may be able to sell your blood plasma - I did that to pay for a tf2 server and mumble + booze for a while when money was especially tight. The place I went on gave me 50$ a month for my blood that i was only *partially* using.

The surest way to ruin a friendship is giving them money and expecting repayment. If you give somebody money never expect to get it back - you may be surprised - but usually you're not getting anything back. Especially in this case, you're basically hosed. There may be some vague thing in your state with housing law, but I know here you'd be high and dry too.

The only thing I could think to do would be to ask your land-lord to let you out of *his* portion of the break-fee unless you were subletting to him in which case you're hosed extra. You've prolly already gone down that route, but you could hope that they're a super nice person (unlikely).

Command and Conquer (the original) knew I was stuck. Earth Siege was pretty swole too.