Can confirm. I checked bptf an hour or so after the thread was made and found nothing

@boxdrew generally the backpack.tf forums are a better place to look for trades. Pretty sure people with premium on backpack.tf can find profiles that have the hat, but aren't selling them. If you're lucky you can find someone on the forums there willing to help out when you can't find something.
This is just a forum for competitive TF2 so you'll rarely have people on here that are into trading :)

https://steamladder.com/
can see the top levels and some stats about your own profile

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

Wasn't paying attention to the country. My bad. Fixed in this one. Not going to overclock.
Don't really know much about storage requirements. Difference in price between 2TB and 1TB HDD is €15 so might as well play it safe?

https://be.pcpartpicker.com/list/GRHgP3
Moved down a tier with most things using logicalincrements and changed PSU and case appropriately

Thanks for the advise so far!

Been using a laptop for all my time in TF2. It's finally dying and I have no clue what I'm doing so I went through logicalincrements and used the Superb section. Mainly want to make sure the list I have now doesn't have any big improvements that can be made. Ordering in a week or so
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/KmpL7W

Budget: 1000-1200 Euros (mech keyboard/144hz monitor not included. i'll figure those out after I finalise the list)
Goal: 200+ fps on TF2. Don't really care about other games' performance. Not planning on doing video editing. Not planning on streaming (or at least not at high enough settings for it to matter)

edit: not planning on overclocking, but prices were so comparable I might as well buy the 8600k just in case I want to once I know what I'm doing

https://clips.twitch.tv/ObservantCooperativeWolverineTwitchRaid
https://clips.twitch.tv/CrazySquareGrouseWOOP
https://clips.twitch.tv/BoldAuspiciousChickpeaFUNgineer

https://clips.twitch.tv/ThirstyTardyWombatCoolStoryBob

Heads up for those that use Stylish.
Turns out it's stealing people's browser history and such.
Firefox and chrome have taken action, but it probably won't be uninstalled automatically
If you uninstall it on chrome (right click on top right icon in browser) it redirects you to its own site to guilt you out of it but you can just close that tab since it'll already be uninstalled anyway

here's an open source alternative https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpeebahjckkjfobafhncgmne

https://clips.twitch.tv/BoredHelplessAsparagusMau5

the entire point of VTF crosshairs is not having to use commands. You assign the crosshairs, use the command once, then never have to use commands again or have to deal with crosshair switch scripts

If your crosshair_file keeps changing you are still using a crosshair switcher or have cl_crosshair_file somewhere in your cfg when you shouldn't

If your amby crosshair doesn't work you might not have a functional VMT file for the VTF or there is an error in the text file of the spy revolver

https://clips.twitch.tv/JazzySmallGrouseCorgiDerp
https://clips.twitch.tv/ExquisiteRenownedGarbageM4xHeh

the only one that still works is this for smaller explosions. helps a tiny bit for visibility when there's a lot of spam. Also has a minimal impact on performance if there's a lot of simultaneous explosions afaik but I don't remember if someone ever benchmarked that.
You can do some more stuff with it like replacing or removing hitscan tracers. Pretty sure somewhere in the thread someone made a download for that or at least explains what to replace in the txt files

you can't anymore. this pack is long outdated. only works offline or few community servers that allow it through sv_pure

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198840068367
Looks like this spambot forgot to post the malware link. Sad day

Followup on #27

Exam went well.
Going to be making a fun oneshot DnD campaign which I'll DM within a week and a half. It'll be my first time DMing in DnD and i'm excited.
Staying up late and scrimming with my awesome teammates tomorrow to celebrate freedom now that exams are over.
Also going to be playing the new Path of Exile league which is looking really good :)