https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC_0o7ALuEY

you should check, assuming your college provides student insurance, if they provide an extension of coverage for the first unregistered semester. I think a lot of four year colleges provide student insurance, so it's definitely worth giving them a call and asking if there's any way to remain on their plan for the next semester.

Also, assuming that you're american, do you have no insurance, bad insurance due to high deductible, or bad insurance due to lack of coverage? If your parents have a plan you should be on their coverage until 26, and most families are not tanking the annual fine. Bad insurance due to high deductible is very inconvenient, but as far as I'm aware you can directly charge your insurance (again, assuming your parents aren't tanking the annual fee) and leave your parents to deal with it. That might mess up your future living situation though, so be careful.

Finally, if your insurance is refusing to cover you based on the grounds of "lack of medical necessity" this is where fun stuff happens and there's stuff you can actually get done. First off, talk to your doctor about this, they want your business and every doctor I've ever had has offered to do half the work of dealing with my insurance company. The rest of this will be specific to what I'm assuming (insert e word) means: spironolactone (or some other antiandrogen) + estradiol. I'm assuming that you have previously either gone to a doctor that provides endocrinology services, or an IC (informed consent) clinic. If you haven't done either try to make it to an IC clinic, they generally provide a sliding scale payment model (unemployed/poor people can get it for cheap or free). You want a prescription (obviously) but also the diagnostic codes, usually "Gender identity disorder, unspecified (F64.9)"/F64.0 which is to my knowledge equivalent, or "Endocrine disorder, unspecified (E34.9)"

I don't know how having E34.9 vs F64.x effects getting a prescription, but if they deny your treatment due to lack of medical necessity you will need your healthcare provider to send your insurance company a letter of medical necessity. You don't write this. After that happens you'll either be good, or they'll deny you again, if the latter happens you'll need to send in an appeal letter. If they deny you based on medical necessity again that would be very weird (usually WHO documentation deals with that quickly) but they might deny you for some unreasonable out of network complaint. You just need to describe how your medical situation is debilitating, and how the request they are making of you (different doctor that is presumably not possible for you to access, or lack of medical treatment) is impossible. Obviously you want it to be relatively dry, but don't be afraid to play up stuff like fear of discrimination, violence targeted towards you, comorbidity of other diagnoses if you have any of those (depression, anxiety, stuff like that).

For therapy I have much less knowledge, I believe you want the F64.9 diagnosis if you're arguing medical necessity of therapy. I would research my policy, and call my insurance company and ask for direct clarification. If they cover any form of therapy for medical necessity (PTSD, trauma, stuff like that) you should be able to get it with an F64.9 diagnosis. but I am a stranger on the internet talk to trained medical professionals and take their advice on how to deal with your insurance over mine.

EDIT: also, for anyone who has to pay for their own prescriptions, this website is great: https://www.goodrx.com/

I definitely support banning for bonk or solemn vow (even it won't effect higher levels where people can count uber solemn vow actually takes skill away from the game why unban it :<) but I think that soda popper is getting overhyped and I have played against most of the really amazing soda popper scouts (ibby, jump4r before the rework).

The nerf to make it rely on damage instead of movement is huge, it takes 350 damage to build the charge so you now need to actually be fighting things for a while before you can take advantage of it. The thing that made playing against good soda popper scouts (ibby) awful was that they practically always had the jumps ready. Not being able to charge it in downtime is a massive nerf to a weapon that is now actually forced to be worse than stock most of the time. It's like running banner on a class that doesn't have any particularly good spam weapons, yeah when you get it to work it's great but a lot of the time it won't (and this isn't even going into the steep learning curve of the weapon).

Also IMO you can't just walk through flanks for free as a bonk scout anymore. It is still super broken but I think if they hit you for a few hundred damage they can consistently just follow with their scout and trust their's to win with the speed advantage. But you can still do really dumb stuff with it like bonk sacs where you just walk your scout up to their medic and wait for bonk to end. I think the weapon is overrated, but scout is already really broken and doesn't need any buffs, so definitely keep it banned.

The TFTV admins went back on their ban of all open, IM, or highlander content after a couple of years.

:( he was an incredible person and him and Kirby were such a big influence on so many people as they grew up.

I legitimately don't understand why spacecadet gets all of this focus on him. I've actually never seen him say or do anything particularly racist. I see so many well known players who say racist things constantly and nobody comments on them, so I'm really confused. Did I miss him saying some horrible things or something?

To be fair steam offline/online times are kinda glitchy, and a lot of people leave their computer running all night, so I don't think you can really rely on those. This situation seems pretty dumb though, at least try rescheduling before FFWing someone even if you really have to go.

The version I have has a family tree at the start of it, I can't imagine I would be able to actually understand what was going on otherwise :p. I'll definitely have to check that stuff out though thanks for the recommendations!

Me too! I'm liking it a ton.

I'm also reading Flour Water Salt Yeast and Worm which are respectively really useful/educational and really really good.

(plus a bunch of stuff for school but that's different, although I got to read A Child's Book of Sickness and Death which was really good but a really hard read)

good and nice!

I played gpit and I still want it back!

very nice and good

the team's comms are done in portuguese

I get about 200, I've been having a ton of fun playing so far though!

This is what I did when I played scout on steel but different playstyles work out better for everyone so you should experiment and just do what works best for you!

Offense:
Pushing A: go to A and cap it. 99% of teams won't pressure it at all, just make sure to check for random hiding spots.

Pushing B: I almost always did the bonk strat to push their players off of the high ground balc thingie on B, what that is is just using bonk and then running up the stairs, body blocking spam in order to get your players space to walk up behind you, and then go into the cubby and kill the teleporter exit that is normally there. This gives your players who want to walk through main a ton of room and if you control that area after ubers fade you should be in a pretty good spot to win B (Credit to bv for thinking up of this strat which is now really common).

Pushing C: the #1 important thing about pushing C is taking control of wishbone, as that allows you to pressure E point, force their combo to rotate off of C, and then take C mostly for free. To help with this I like to bonk through wishbone to bait out sticky traps/demo spam/their sniper's shot, and then after we control that just pressure E cap until they rotate.

Pushing D/E (most teams just ignore D for pushing): I find that there isn't much you can do for these points besides just play with your combo and help teamfight and make sure to get captime any time you safely can.

Defense:
Holding A: you can hide on A point and try to contest cap/get a random kill as you will spawn in time to help hold B 99% of the time, but it almost never really does much for your team, it just has very little downside. Usually I think just positioning yourself on E to watch for rotations or on B to help with any form of early sac wave is better.

Holding B: I think this mostly depends on how your spy wants to play it, if your spy doesn't want to just sit cloak and daggered on A doing nothing but call where their team goes (be it onto E, into dropdown, or back into spawn) then you're the best class to sit in the E spawn door and call where if they go into lobby/onto E. If they send their flank to pressure cap you're one of the best classes to rotate as you can just sit in the E spawn door and spam cleavers at their capping players. However unless they're committing players into E you really want to make sure you're in position to help with the teamfight that will happen on B.

Holding C: this point is kind of weird as scout, what I did was sit on cliff, calling anyone who tried to push that direction, and if they didn't send anyone I would flank into B from cliff and try to kill their teleporter exit/win a 1v1 vs a spawner as you should be able to 1v1 most classes on that open ground or just back out easily if it starts to go bad for you. The other big option is holding E/lobby, which I think is good but requires you play with your soldier/pyro (depending on which you commit to flank) because winning DM fights as scout in such a confined space is relatively hard.

Holding D/E: as soon as they cap C I try to be in position in spawn to call anyone pushing through death hallway, as if they're able to push that by surprise that can completely catch out and wipe your team. A lot of what I try to do is just be in a position to call where their players are and where they rotate, while being close enough to my combo to rotate for DM fights. Getting an early call on if their combo rotates wishbone is really helpful for your team, and can definitely make the difference to allow you to rotate your combo quick enough to stuff them in the choke. Also, if aren't in control of lobby it's important for you or your spy to be in position to rotate onto A and kill their sniper if he is in A window, as an uncontested sniper in A window can basically just win their team complete E control.