From what I've read folding is very careful about not using up full load on your PC. It's meant to be as passive as possible. There is no indication that the ESEA client's bitcoin mining did not overtax systems and until the source code is released no proof if that's the case or not.

That depends on how well the mining code was written and how "nice" it was (ie how aggressive it was in taking resources). Folding is written by people who probably know more about what they're doing than the ESEA anti-cheat developer team. Would love to see the bitcoin part of the source code, but I don't expect that to come out unless there's a lawsuit.

Hah! Having him "step down" is enough? He should be dropped like the PR disaster he is along with any product managers, or developers who were responsible for the addition of that code.

Leads to an interesting question? How is "work" on the anti-cheat client managed? Is there a product manager, are there testers, waterfall or agile, etc. How the hell did this go through without anyone asking questions and what changes will ESEA make to ensure this never happens again?

What ESEA did was a gross breach of trust. As a developer, I'm disgusted by their response to this news. I'd suggest contacting the Better Business Bureau and also all of ESEA's sponsors.

And all that bullshit about being covered by a ToS, don't bother suing, doesn't hold water at all, especially in Europe. I don't know if the EFF would be interested in this, but they might help with publicity https://www.eff.org/about/contact

I think we're asking the wrong people what is wrong, if anything, with TF2. If we want to explore the why, we should really get people who don't watch TF2 or play competitively. They answer some questions, watch some comp games, and answer some more questions. That way we get opinions from people who don't have preconceptions about how competitive TF2 should be played.

Can you explain where you're stuck. If I need to I can write an entire guide. To run the program you'll need to install Python for your operating system http://www.python.org/download . Once that's done you can download the code and run python twitch.py from the commandline (after changing your director to where you downloaded the code).

I might be able to create an exe file, but it will certainly not be as frequently updated as the code will be and you will still need to run it via the commandline.

I was really tired of Twitch's dashboard, aka assboard, so I wrote up a command line tool I could use to set my stream status and game. https://github.com/TronPaul/TwitchHQ I may go and write a web service for this at some point including a much better embeded chat. Hopefully this helps some people.

I'll write up a readme, but currently you'll have to register the application on twitch http://www.twitch.tv/settings?section=applications since twitch has no good way to auth for native apps.

If you have any questions feel free to ask here.

Still haven't heard anything. Is there someone I should contact?

It would be nice, spent 5 minutes trying to figure out how to add it. A forum thread seems like a poor way to do it.

twitch.tv/tronpaul

Thanks!