Is that a "come see me so I can beat you up" or a "come see me so I can show you how nice I am"? : >

Thank you for entertaining us, Immunity. Mix^ and especially Harbleu absolutely deserved it though, as much as I wanted to see iM make it a three-way tie. What a milk, what a saw, what a crossbow.

War just seems to be doing all the basic things to perfection, but hitting loads of nice pipes on top of that solid basis. There's no fancy jumping and all that, but the actual damage and positioning are obviously doing much more work than hero plays. He's defending himself and KnOxXx so well, too.

That would mean matches would start at 3 AM British time, seems a bit unlikely.

I still don't know what I watched when I saw that. It's definitely unlike anything else and worth watching if only for that.

So is your shitposting.

I'd second Moon and Jagten(The Hunt).

• 2001: A Space Odyssey is a great film if you have some patience and like quirky science fiction. It premiered in 1968 and it still looks modern and advanced to this day, it's quite something.
  
• 500 Days of Summer is a bit of a different romantic film that had a unique style; not trying to be funny with a bad script like most romantic comedies.
  
• The Machinist is a psychological thriller which is also known for Christian Bale dropping his weight to 54 kg(~120 lbs) to play the main character, after which he then immediately doubled it again through weight training to play Batman.

I recently saw Boyhood, which was filmed over 12 years with the same actors all the way through. I'm not quite sure what I think of it yet, but it was definitely unique and worth watching, in my opinion. Enjoy.

I just hope that they can keep the (environmental) movement mechanics identical if it gets ported to SrcII. Blast jumping and strafing are so good in TF2 compared to other games which try to implement such movement mechanics. A new engine often means new physics, so I'm kind of scared that rocket/sticky jumping etc. will not have the same feeling and/or give the same capabilities they have now.

It is a highly personal thing, especially the finer details that actually make the difference. One thing which really doesn't help is feeling pressured to go to sleep at a certain time because you have to be awake at a certain time, but there is not much you can really do about this because of the way society is currently structured.

The only thing I could think of adding to what has been said above is that with all things that have to do with health which aren't just a case of something being broken - whether that be obesity, depression, poor stamina, anxiety, insomnia, nightmares, substance dependency or whatever - it is most important to make the decision to change your life in order to accommodate for your body being in a healthier state. It's like doing exercise; if you're busy all day and you can't find the time to do some exercise, then you're never going to do exercise. You're going to have to decide to drop some of the things you are doing before you have the chance to choose to do exercise. The problem was not in the exercise, but in another part of your life. The same thing applies to bad sleeping: if you are doing things which you know badly affect your sleep, then you are going to have to make a change to make room for stopping those habits, rather than trying to force your sleeping mechanisms to work within your current lifestyle.

Also if you're in pain(mentally or physically) or your body is "malfunctioning" in any way, go see a doctor, because it might just domino its way through your body and make it nigh impossible for you to fix all of the problems it creates without a little help. Good luck.

To me the worrying part of this is that at this point in time it seems that the flight was brought down by rebels. All instances of civilian planes being taken down in the past were military acts by national forces. That rebels somehow obtained the means to bring down a plane at cruising altitude is disturbing because this would mean that guarding the airspace directly around an airport is no longer enough to guarantee safe flight corridors.

It's also interesting to point out that when civilian jets have been brought down in the past, it was almost always(or even just always) a mistake as well; two examples:

• An American cruiser took down an Iranian jet in the past because they thought it was a missile coming at them due to its flight pattern on their target radar.
  
• A Russian fighter jet was looking for an American radar plane during the Cold War, but he mistakenly took down a Korean civilian jet(this was at night) which happened to be where they were expecting the scout plane to be. The flight had veered off course due to failing to set the correct heading mode on the auto-pilot.

So as you can see, while it is worrying that rebels have such weapons, military forces are known to make these mistakes as well(especially at times of war).

I prefer watching the EU rule set. I also don't see the problem in playing two different maps in a row if you can play three to five different maps in a row when it comes to grand finals time(not to mention you don't even know what the maps are going to be, though you do have a pool to practice in its entirety). I suppose it might be a bit harder for players at lower levels of competition, as they haven't played the maps as many times as invite/professional/premiership level players, not to mention their team might not have been together as long.

Seems like local STV is recording but remote STV isn't working.

As a spectator and not a player, I have to say that yes, I did want slower game play to some degree. I don't know if this goes for everyone who enjoys watching TF2, but I like it because it combines the elements which make other FPS successful. There's the positioning you get from tactical shooters, mobility you get from arena shooters and still the gun play is solid as well, which makes the DM fights fun to watch.

In my opinion, the way Valve effected the nerf lessened the quality of some of the elements I just mentioned. There seemed to be more of a focus on raw DM fights and less on positioning and carving out space carefully. I also feel that a lot of the transitions and übers were tactically uninteresting to watch and ended up being sloppy quite often. There were a fair amount of Gullywash stalemates yesterday, yes, but I enjoyed the match immensely. On the other hand, I do understand that as a player it can get boring having a stand-off while waiting for a pick. I suppose this is true especially for the roamer, since you're often the one who ends up having to bomb in and die, sometimes several times without getting any return on your efforts.

I think there is room for a nerf which lessens stalemates while still allowing for a nice balance of DM fights and tactical play(on some maps or even some specific points there is maybe too much of a focus on über pushes indeed), but it wasn't the one Valve implemented. Do you feel that if there were a lesser nerf implemented, the game would still open up a bit more to off-über pushing and less Demoman-focused defence during transitional plays, or would it have to be quite a drastic change to allow for that to happen?

I hope it's because someone at Valve reads these forums, because that would mean that they read all the alternatives people have suggested in this thread, not just that people didn't like the nerf... which would also prevent another unbalanced nerf next time they decide to tweak the weapon.