Does anyone understand stuff like racial pride, ethnic pride--or as a matter of fact, national pride?

I've never really understood why someone would be proud to be of a certain race, ethnicity, or nationality. I'm Asian in the eyes of social construct, and as far as I can see it, it takes no skill to be Asian. So I never understood why Asians are praised at being good at math or supposedly smart. I remember this year's Independence Day where there were buttons being sold at various fireworks shops, saying, "Proud to be American." And as usual I was like, "What does that mean?" Although I'm not originally from the United States I know that nationality isn't something that's "chosen." Most of us don't really get to choose our nationality, much less race and ethnicity. Isn't national pride what got us into WW1 in the first place? So why would anyone be proud to be an American, or Asian, or whatever ethnicity? I think pride should be reserved for what you've accomplished in life. I'm proud to have gotten an 'A' on that exam because I studied, rather than, I'm proud to have gotten an 'A' on that exam because I can write my name. I'm Chinese, Korean, and French but I didn't choose my ethnicities--it's pretty much a genetic predisposition. It's like being genetically predisposed to having breast cancer, yet nobody says, "I'm proud to have a genetic predisposition for breast cancer." I think having way too much pride in something that is not earned is vice. Nowadays, I feel as though everyone is arrogant and cocky without substantiation.

grooveshark is pretty nice

So true, it's like nobody thinks anymore.

lol. i remember the Head Start Program, then came along the No Child Left Behind Act. i still find it humorous.

Did/does anyone else find that high school is a waste of time?

I'm currently attending Princeton University, and now looking back at high school, I feel like it was a waste of time. That is not to say that I didn't enjoy it, I really did enjoy high school. However, I was able to graduate with a 4.0 GPA without much effort--there were many times where I wished that I could be moving on with my life, rather than idling through this "education" phase. Now that I'm finally in college I feel like i'm growing in terms of individuality. I'm majoring in chemistry and the material that we go through can be really challenging and interesting--something which I've been looking for that was not offered in my high school life. Although I have much fewer friends in college than I do in high school, it doesn't bother me. I believe in quality over quantity in terms of friends. I'm sorry if I'm digressing too much, I'm an introvert and I constantly think a lot about things and I need to express them sometimes. I feel that there is some room for improvement in the United States' education system. Does anyone feel the same way? I just wish that the system would provide impetus in our education rather than relegate us.

there's a lot more to scrims/matches than pure DM.

certainly, DM helps you mow through--but gamesense may determine which team will win if DM is arbitrary.

also, in scrims/matches, it's going to be a team-based frontier. whereas, in MGE, it's all about 1v1.

keep turning it on and off and on and off until something cool happens

it's either tf2 without mvm, or no tf2 at all.

i think crosshairs can help you aim a little bit better, but they certainly can't help you that much

it feels like an organized pub

you need to go to your ui folder and delete WaveCompleteSummaryPanel.res

For those who are not able to start TF2 after this recent update,

all you have to do is go into your ui folder and delete WaveCompleteSummaryPanel.res

Furthermore, I am not entirely sure if this is the only definite way of fixing this bug. So far, this method worked for me.
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I use a MacBook Pro, so it might be a little bit different as to how you're going to get to your ui folder--but this is how I got there.

Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Team Fortress 2/tf/custom/my_custom_stuff/resource