angry french people are not far behind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woOD7Ii-zEU

God bless you boys for necroing my thread for me

Gonna go over the things I read since last time I posted

Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges is amazing. It is quite dense, and mostly consists of fictional academic texts discussing fictional books and is written in a very academic style. I fucking loved it, but you might not. It’s not a long read, and I’m almost certain you can find most of it online if you want to try giving it a shot.

East of Eden by John Steinbeck might be the best book I read all year. I think the internet sells it as a retelling of Cain and Abel, but that’s honestly just the last ~100 pages of a 600-page masterpiece. I absolutely adore historical fiction and all the characters are given so much care and detail and feel incredibly real. I cannot recommend this one enough.

An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro is about an old Japanese painter who is struggling to come to terms with how post ww2 Japan treats his pre ww2 propaganda art. Kazuo Ishiguro is amazing at telling the reader exactly just what they need to know, and If you’ve enjoyed some of his other books you will probably enjoy this one too. The plot, however, is to me the least interesting one of his books that I have read.

First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami is a short story collection that is very much just short Murakami stories. If you like them, you will like these too.

Alt dette kunne du få (You could had all of this) by Josefine Klougart is a book I got my mother for Christmas last year because its about someone growing up like 5km from where she grew up herself. It’s written incredibly well and is one of the rare examples of Danish actually sounding good. As far as I can tell it has yet to be released in any language that isn’t Danish, but if it is someday, keep an eye out.

Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami is a novel written by Murakami. If you like novels written by Murakami, you will like this one too.

The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan is about an anxious 50 yearold mother who struggles with climate change and social media and trying to connect with her early 20s son who likes to play video games and also about letting go of a dying parent. I would never buy this book but one of my classmates gave it to me because she couldn’t fit it in her suitcase. It was surprisingly well written.

Candide, or the Optimist by Voltaire is a book I bought in an English bookshop while visiting a friend in Paris because I asked one of the people that worked there what I should read if I had never read any French literature before. It’s surprisingly readable for a ~250 year old book. I wish I had taken some form of class on this book. It would probably be very fun to work with more.

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami is the reason I haven’t read more books in the second half of the year. It is by far my least favourite Murakami novel I have ever read. It was also like 900 pages. I’m not really sure why I finished it. The female main character is written as a caricature of Murakami’s dream girl or some shit and makes so much of this book incredibly uncomfortable and not fun to read. I did it anyway for some reason. Don’t be me.

About the Size of the Universe by Jon Kalman Stefansson is incredibly well written. It’s a multi-generational story about a family in Iceland, but honestly Jon Kalman Stefansson just writes so gorgeously that there isn’t really too much more to say.

I just finished A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro like 2 hours ago and I enjoyed it very much. It is hard to talk about what this book is about because literally anything is a giant spoiler. Ishiguro is still very good at writing.

Next up on my shelf is The Plague by Albert Camus because I also picked it up in Paris. Besides that, I’m like 30 pages into The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt on my kindle. I don’t think I’ll be finishing anything before the new year.

My friend Beater had an idea:

Jeg har faktisk en idé til hvordan man kunne skaffe sig af med dødt tid fuldstændigt (altså den tid der er tilbage i et spil 5cp hvor ét hold er oppe 4-0 med 3 minutter eller noget i den stil). Få hvert kontrolpunkt til at give dig en bestemt mængde point for den specifikke map. Min forklaring er lidt lang så på forhånd undskyld.

BASALE REGLER:
EKSEMPEL 1: overtagelse af midtpunktet giver dig 1 point på første mid(fordi det tidligere ikke tilhørte nogen) > genovertagelse fra det andet hold giver dig 2 point> hvis fjenden fortsætter angrebet og tager 2. punkt og/eller sidste får de 2 point.
Eksempel 2 : holdet der taber midtpunktet og/eller andet punkt vil få 2 point for at angribe og genovertage det punkt der tilhører modstanderne.
Ikke overtaget midtpunkt = giver 1 point
Hvilken som helst punkt overtaget af modstanderne= giver 2 point
Offclasses tilladt på alle tidspunkter=Spion og Snigskytte på alle af de 5 punkter på alle tid.
Begrænset offclasses= Tung ELLER Ingeniør (ikke begge) når man holder sit eget sidste punkt (for eksempel hvis den der var på ingeniør skifter til tung er det okay eller omvendt)

Forestil dig nu følgende: Hvert hold spiller til 50 point(tallet kan ændres det er bare det første der poppede ind i mit hoved), hvert starter med 0 self, eller hvem end der har de fleste point efter 30 minutters spilletid ja runder vil stadigt have 5 minutters nedtælling der er implementeret MEN hvis du er angriberen for eksempel og fejler i at angribe ud af dit andet punkt eller sidste punkt efter 5 minutter, 1 point vil gå til det angribende hold og banen vil nulstille som det ville normalt når nedtællingen bliver færdig.

Dette fikser to ting, folk vil faktisk stoppe med at sætte op på deres sidste punkt eller i dent mindste vil de blive afskrækket med mindre de har et stort forspring og kan klare at tabe de 2 point, og dødt tid ville være mere eller mindre forsvundet i spil der normalt ender 3-0 eller 4-0 hvis du angriber kyst til kyst (og overtager sidste punkt) på en bane ville det betyde at du ville have 8 point til sidst.

Nu er det her bare noget der poppede ind i mit hoved i mens jeg spiste morgenmad men eftersom vi (ETF2L) kommer til at være i lidt af en 6s tørke i de kommende par måneder foreslår jeg en lille til tekst hvordan dette (med modifikationer) ville virke og hvis det overhovedet er muligt at skab en server konfiguration for disse regler.

Alle forslag til hvordan der kan bygges videre på dette system er værdsatte.

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

I know nothing about football but reading angry brits complain about losing in football makes me happy

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bumping this because i have begun working on a part 2
if you have any specific questions/topics you want me to cover post them and i will include them if theyre interesting

i hope anthropoligsts find this thread in 100 years and study it

i'd tend to agree, but if you compare the ammount of seasons won (when playing) papi is currently only a single season behind kaidus

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the main difference comes from lan wins and seasons spent coaching
the argument is probably a lot more compelling for second best, i honestly dont really know who else you compare him to at that point, maybe knoxx?

everyone always talks about mike when it comes to eu soldiers but i honestly think that there is an argument for both kaptain and silentes having a better resume and (because they played more modern tf2) better gameplay
with this season and lan victory i think papi genuinely enters the conversation as one of if not the greatest eu team leader of all time
imo the marmaloo + mirrorman soldier combo of 2022 froyo is the greatest soldier duo of all time, everyone talks about jay scout and forgets how absolutely fucking insane mirrorman and marmaloo were at dictating the entirity of the froyo offence

https://clips.twitch.tv/ScrumptiousEnergeticWalletPanicBasket-cTSdMdOYmk42Jc6d

i second pretty much everything in this thread but i wish for the day where we can have a lan hall with normal lights instead of the red/blue rgb gamer lighting

Shoutouts to ignis and danny for being absolute legends
Shoutouts to bum for carrying me through some banger casts
Shoutouts to eepily, surny, turbo and beater for also casting some great games
Shoutouts to turbo and eepily for being the fucking lifeblood of the broadcast
Shoutouts to ondkaja, beater and jmax for observing
Shoutouts to lasse and mia for putting together a really good broadcast
Shoutouts to dcs for being the most german man ever
Shoutouts to papi and the rest of witness for playing their fucking hearts out and finally winning a lan (ga 2018 doesnt count)
Shoutouts to josh and tf2easy for stepping up and giving us the greatest lan final of all time
Shoutouts to bigblokelan for fucking slamming everyone and letting me scream about video games
Shoutouts to botmode for being polite and saying hi when i said hi to him
Shoutouts to the german pug council for letting me under their wing
Shoutouts to everyone who braved a shot (or three, sorry sil) of gammel dansk.
Shoutouts to ignis for joining me on a 1am food adventure and eating the most sus pizza of all time
Shoutouts to gazy for making it to lan despite dbs efforts to stop him
Shoutouts to koling for translating what the small racist child infront of the kebab shop yelled at me
Shoutouts to the bonk blue truthers
Shoutouts to zoey for joining witness gaming
Shoutouts to beavern for not getting mad when i lost him 20 elo
Shoutouts to zambz for not being able to perceive height properly
Shoutouts to papi for helping me explain the legend of commander thundercock
Shoutouts to everyone who has said/sent me messages about my casting and inflating my ego
Shoutouts to ignis for finally getting his wg trial
There are so many more that i have forgotten and am too tired to remember, ty all for a sick fucking lan

https://clips.twitch.tv/PlacidVibrantAnteaterKevinTurtle-sZC80r9u-L2aK8vI

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