Actually medic in TF2 is the perfect communist - as contrary to the comic book version of "everybody is equal" communism's maxim is based on the biblical quote from Acts (if you're curious 34: Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, 35: And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.). "From each according to ability, to each according to need" (Marx in the Gotha Program) thus the medic, who has the ability to heal, ought to distribute them to where the need is greatest ;) In general doing so should result in a pretty good performance. One could argue poor medic play is often the result of putting heals where they aren't most needed kinda like capitalism ;)

Lemme help you EEE.

We live in a society where it is thought that almost anything is possible. We can think of a time when we might live on the Moon or Mars, and think that that time is relatively close. Fusion reactors, growing organs in labs to prolong our lives, curing cancer, having plastic surgery to give myself two penises. All of these things are possible and likely will be possible within the next 30-40 years.

But as soon as somebody suggests that maybe we ought to change the way production is handled... Nope! Not possible sorry, can't be done.

The whole point of Marxian economic thought is that presently you have private persons owning the means that are producing goods for a whole society - as production often crosses international borders it can't even be argued that it's even for one society in particular. Those individuals then in turn reap whatever rewards there are for themselves, when you could end the contradiction between private ownership over social production, by socializing the production itself so that society as a whole owns the means which allow the society to exist in the first place, rather than private individuals who serve no real function in particular.

You can see this contradiction in capitalism because there are a plethora of homes, but still homeless, or more than enough food, but still there is hunger. Ending the private person's control over that production would allow society as a whole to produce them in abundance. The reason for this contradiction's existence is clear enough. If you produce a good to the point where everybody has it - it loses all value, and as such, there is no point in producing it. That's why for example the Ag Bureau in the U.S. spends billions of dollars a year storing food in warehouses and paying farmers subsidies *not* to farm certain parcels of land - because the supply must remain low enough that there is some demand within the market that is not met to keep farming profitable.

It's hard to beat a proper iron skillet + bacon grease cornbread in my book.

Ok a few things.

1. Water gullywash was played for at least a few seasons in ESEA - it was also played *again* in s12 I think because of a mistake on the part of the ESEA adminning team lol. This is a video that very fully demonstrates how wonderful water was and why Muma's window is where it is (it was a spot to come up for air):

https://youtu.be/xRG3T-6D98s

2. Al-queda (I call it ISIS to stay with the times) is called that because it was Wonderwall's job to watch that particular door - and ww- was Arab, and played on Mihaly's flow, so it was an in-joke regarding his ethnic origins.

3. I call cafe panera bread because I have a personal grudge against chilis. I've tried to eat in there twice in my life and my table has always been forgotten. So, I've walked out twice after prolonged waits with no service and thus have never actually eaten at a chili's - and thus refused to say chili's lol.

Utopia can mean almost anything. It could just as easily be argued that the Austrian school of economic thought is too a Utopia - hell Spinoza spent a hell of a lot of time conceptualizing a Utopia that looks fairly similar to the "ideal" capitalist society that one can find in bare-bones readings of Adam Smith.

I should also point out that a majority of Russians want their communism back. http://www.newsweek.com/majority-russians-fond-lenin-and-regret-soviet-collapse-449624 Likewise I should point out that a referendum was held prior to the collapse of the USSR and the "don't dissolve the USSR" option won, but that was ultimately ignored.

57% of former East Germans polled also responded that they had a "good life; though flawed, the DDR had more good sides than bad" mind you that's in the DDR, so former socialist projects were hardly the dystopian catastrophe that they're portrayed to be in the eyes of people who lived it.

Although it's a favorite debating tactic, it's as intellectually unfair to actual existing captalism to liken Pinochet's Chile to every state which, more or less, relies on a capitalist mode of production. Political economy is infinitely more complicated than that.

In much the same way that saying "lol those socialist states weren't really communist- they don't count" is also intellectually dishonest - it's a cover for ignorance. Sure, they did/do bad things and made/make mistakes from time to time, but they were certainly *trying* to achieve the goal of a socialist/communist society in almost every case (it would be easy to cherry pick a few examples where dictatorships utilized socialist/communist rhetoric to their own ends, but I'd argue that's not a significant case in the overall experience of socialist states).

But here is a question for ya' kevchev - if big government ultimately = worse government. What are economies of scale and why do they magically not happen when applied to government, but do in every other case?

I for one approve of the reversion of last.

Problem: The new last was unique to currently played maps in that the point itself was accessible from 5 different directions making it quite a task to actually defend - whereas many last caps are only easily accessible from 2-3 directions *at most* (process being a bit of an exception but there is still that railing that makes it hard to just step on and off however you like in 2 directions), so moving it back helps the defender in that the point itself now is blocked at least from the back.

Problem 2: The point as it was forced the defender to engage pushes directly much earlier than is typically necessary and added to the difficulty of defense. In a map like granary where a primary criticism of the map is that a full wipe at mid often results in a very easy last cap for the mid's winner, moving the point forward wasn't an ideal change.

If you've managed to fix spawns - I'm excited for that. Granary last used to be quite a bit of fun with a few different options to hold to - plus with the reinclusion of rocket room it'll be the only map where a shutter door won't allow you to instantly spawn away from danger - which I see as a net positive.

JOE on badlands was really a special sight. I've gotten put on blast by a lot of players in my career. Mackey on badlands, Tuggernog on granary, SS who shot me into that little nook thing on metalworks one time, but I've never felt so helpless as trying to play badlands against JOE - that guy had some kind of special gift that allowed him to hit every shot while simultaneously seeing 4 seconds into the future.

Ask your current professors + advisor for contact information or to contact them for you - it will be taken much more seriously.

1. I would point out to them that in 2 years you're going to move out on your own for university. You need to know how to make decisions for yourself so you should point out to them that, at 16, you ought to start experiencing *some* freedom, so that you can learn to make good decisions for yourself. Reassure them that they have taught you the right way to do things and that you won't fuck up.

2. Don't fuck it up. Actively do stuff and avoid letting them see you on the computer if they do relax at all, in fact I would encourage you to find good reasons to be home as little as possible. Demonstrate to them they don't have to take the computer with them because you won't use it. That'd be a good in.

3. Join a club or sport or team or *anything* this will further burden them (by having to keep track of you) and have the plus side of giving you outlets for things to do outside of school/homework, since I'm assuming you don't have a car.

4. Get a job. This will give you the money to have *some* independence and also will enable you to leave the house as often as possible, and you'll meet cool people. Have a cool friend with good internet? Sounds like that's a good place to go. Restaurants are always hiring high school aged kids. Cleaning and lawn care/landscaping companies do too. Depending on your state your school guidance counselor may also be able to find you work. For example in Indiana, most of the farmers and logging companies put work requests in *directly* to the schools, so all you have to do is go to the office and ask for a job and ye' shall receive. I took a summer job (through the school office) at 14 and spent 2 months of the summer (June-July) working for a logging company 1 1/2 hours from home living out of a trailer or tent (depending on how far afield we went to find logs). They didn't trust me with the heavy equipment, but I still worked and got paid a tidy 6$/hr (at the time minimum wage in the US was 5.15 so I was making bank in my eyes).

After that I took a job at McDonald's but it sucked way worse than logging, and so I applied at the land-fill as a shop hand, as the logging experience had taught me to operate some heavier equipment and to do basic tire repair (you would be amazed how often garbage trucks lose tires to nails and other stuff - basically every truck every run, and they need some poor idiot to change those giant tires). I worked weekends only until the summer, and stayed at the landfill until I went off to college (senior year, being unable to play sports anymore due to various injuries, I worked 3-8ish every day). Bought my own car, my own computer, and my own phone line (dial up internet). Was pretty great.

5. Depending on the state and your age, you can emancipate yourself virtually on demand. For example in Indiana the age of consent is 16, so after 16 you're considered an adult and can do whatever you please, furthermore all you have to do to is file a single piece of paperwork and as long as your parents cannot demonstrate that you'll be indigent (no job/will be immediately homeless/burden to society) or incompetent (unable to work), there is nothing they can do to stop it. I imagine that would permanently destroy your relationship with your parents, but if you have somewhere else you could live and can find gainful employment to offset the costs of not being supported by your parents it's an avenue to approach, it would probably also help you on your FAFSA.

So long as you are *not* emancipated you're basically beholden to your parents so long as they're not abusing you, and based on what you've written they are not in the state's eyes, and the best thing you can do is find as many ways to spend time out of the house as possible.

Worst case you could always do what my cousin did when his parents threatened to *force* him to go to a particular university that he didn't want to go to (an all boys school). He just called up the good The Few, The Proud, The Brave, the United States Marine Corps. He told them he would like to sign up, and had them send a recruiter to the house. Having a uniformed Marine in the house with paperwork to sign him up for an all expenses paid trip to Iraq put the fear of God in them and they came to their senses lol.

Also this fucking pump has run for 2 hours straight now, and the goddam hotel is booked up :( Guess I'll have ta' call my grandma she's got a spare bed lol.

The pump that prevents my house from flooding has been running all night and I barely slept because it's loud as fuck :/ I have 2 super important meetings that will last all day today that I will somehow have to survive. I've considered renting a hotel room if this keeps up so I can at least sleep tonight.

As a fellow member of the 30 club, I can say sometimes it's hard to find the time - but I love this silly hat game and many of the people who play it too much to ever countenance leaving it. My goosebumps come when I think about playing again. I know I never really could because I can't commit the 4-5 nights a week that I would need to to feel OK with what I was doing, but damn it was so much fun.

http://www.politiscales.net/en_US/results/?b1=19&b0=64&m0=98&c1=12&c0=48&femi=62&s1=7&s0=90&e1=45&e0=19&j0=60&j1=31&t0=64&t1=7&p0=90&p1=5&anar=100

I dunno man, I gotta agree with mustard.

Still salty I couldn't go, but well done folks :D Great production! I've been a member of other communities, but none is as good as this one. I still hang out every night with the same people despite me being the only one really involved in TF2 anymore.

+ ban the crossbow

+ unnerf the demo

+ Remove scout speed buff

+ Scrap "pro" versions of maps not named viaduct.

+Revert Pyro

Enjoy perfect TF2.

So, I'll relay here the deets as I've been able to procure them - not to make a political statement, but to attempt to elucidate my swamp existence.

The last police involved shooting in my county was in 1934 during a string of bank robberies. (There was a state trooper who was killed during a traffic stop some years ago, but he didn't discharge his weapon during the stop, so it's not an office involved shooting as such).

There have been a string of day time break-ins and robberies in the Eastern part of my swamp and the neighboring county. So many in fact that the police had theorized that it was as many as 5 different people possibly working in tandem. Aware of this fact, a neighbor in the swamp next to mine noticed that somebody unusual was doing something in their neighbors yard as they drove past to get groceries, so being a small swamp-county too they called the police.

Police arrive, and confront the man who is carrying furniture out of the house and loading it onto a trailer. They question him. He responds that he's moving out. They inform him that they know that he doesn't live there. He scrambles past them and enters his truck and drives off - the police give chase.

They chase him into my county and the very lowest reaches of our Eastern swamp parts - wherein he gets off the road and takes his truck and trailer through the empty corn fields. Due to excessive mud the police cruisers can't follow, his trailer also detaches and throws his unfortunate victim's belongings all over the field. The officers busy themselves collecting said belongings, being unable to do much else, and put out an alert to our Sherrif's department that he is entering our county off-road.

A guy I went to school with who patrols that portion of the swamp during the day (one of 3 officers who are ever on duty at a given time) receives a dispatch notification that an elderly woman, who lives alone, had called in to report that a strange vehicle had driven down her driveway and into a wooded area behind her home. He decides to make a stop before checking out her house, and picks up an additional sherrif's deputy who happened to live between his position and the house he was supposed to check out. He dons a shirt that says "sherrif's department" but doesn't have his service weapon with him.

They reach the home. They stop in the driveway and walk to the woods on foot. There they witness a man painting a truck that matches the description received from officers in the neighboring county. As he paints the truck they decide that it would be best if my former classmate would go back to his cruiser and get his belt (which contains his gun). He then realizes that he had forgotten his belt that morning, because his wife had removed it from the car the evening before as she needed to use the car and didn't want to have his service weapon in the car when she did (each deputy has his own vehicle that he pays for and can use whilst off duty). They decide to return to the woods and observe after radioing it in.

They then see the man enter his vehicle and withdraw a shotgun and sit down in the driver's seat apparently waiting for his new paint job to dry. It's at that point they decide to collect the elderly woman and withdraw. Eventually 3 more (armed) deputies arrive, along with a deputy from the neighboring swamp, and when they call out to him (from the woods) he then brandishes the shotgun and fires on them at which point they return fire. They attempt to administer first aid, but he was killed in the gun battle.

The other strange part of the story is that the fellow appears to live well over an hour away from the location that he was robbing, and his truck was filled with paint cans of varying colors and upon investigation, had repainted his truck several times.

And that is how the biggest incident in my swamp in 80 years went down.