Cool idea, Jon. Want to bring it to the VALVe HQ?

if you're European and want to get a 240hz monitor for less than 290 euros check if your country has the KG251QD, don't mistake it for the 75hz or the 144hz version though, brits had it on sale for like £229 recently
https://pricespy.co.uk/computers-accessories/monitors/acer-kg251qd-bmiipx--p4707466?q=kg251qd
(I personally fucking love it)

https://clips.twitch.tv/DeafDreamyEndiveDancingBanana

to get this working with any fps config, use this

"r_shadows 1; r_shadowrendertotexture 1; cl_blobbyshadows 0; r_shadowmaxrendered 12"

i noticed that upon joining a map my game would crash if r_shadowrendertotexture was set to 1, so if yours do the same, set it to 0 and after loading it set it to 1

a new whitelist and a proper dicking
(the real answer would be a violin, a guitar pedal, clothes and chocolate)

to celebrate christmas with the anglos heres a hypothetical interesting and good

esea brings back tf2 lan and after the first day of games is done you find b4nny at his computer alone and crying, you walk up to him and say "whats up bubby? ;(" and he looks at you with redshot eyes (and also maybe slightly white nose its up for interpetation) and says "i hate esea... they killed neetgear.cool..." and stands up and starts waving a faceit flag and suddenly like a gigillion 12 year old b4nny subs rush the venue and starts like shanking people with butterknives and saying shit like "im the shpee xd" wyd.?

hamaham to debut

what if you replace 1 soldier with demo?
imagine having to watch for 16 sticks, imagine having to watch for 28 if they are on scottish resistance
you can legit sticky every entrance with 2 demos
what a godawful idea

People can't distinguish between knowledge and experience, but I also have a theory towards why they want to appeal to fake ideas of promises (TF2 devs just said they won't support current ruleset which is way too fucking vague, it doesn't guarantee a healthy esport), they're at the top and no matter which direction TF2 took they'd very likely still be at the top, so if they could make TF2 more popular by any measure they'd take it for the sake of getting more money out of the game, us who play for the simple reason of passion are against this for it makes the game less enjoyable for anyone who cares about just enjoying a game with great mechanics and a pretty good meta (compared to what would be the case with no rules.)
B4nny and Nursey are willing to sell their bodies for an extra slice of cheese. Disgusting.

The TF2 devs will not give us a $10,000 tournament if we cater to their needs, stop being desperate

You also avoided answering what success we'd gain from unbanning unlocks, you said "bridge gap between competitive and casual" and besides whitelist the difference is classlimits and rules

What chance of success are you talking about? What is considered successful? We used to have sponsors back in the day because TF2 was like 3 years old and not 11.

The TF2 dev team don't know how to make a good competitive game and ruleset. Comp is interesting because we made a ruleset and classlimit, more medics would get rid of the importance of the class and the importance of uber and being able to count the enemy's uber. Europe used to have 2 demos then they realized it was too annoying and made it so only 1 demo was allowed. TF2 devs might love TF2 which I don't doubt, but they are as clueless as any fresh install when it comes to what's important for competitive.

I don't think anybody feels that it's hopeless it's more that we know what works and we know what's fun to play with and against, can we please stop trying to make it more casual to play?
You just sound desperate and have yet given actual arguments except "it might not be shit"

https://streamable.com/gov6f

ya but at the same time you're unbanning this not because it's refreshing and fun to play against but because top teams can counter it and find it "meh its kinda pointless", its a gimmick weapon and imo theres no fucking point in having gimmick weapons unbanned, do you think a bunch of open, low and mid players are more keen to play when shit that is annoying to everyone but a highly skilled well coordinated team and it gets used against them when they're losing 4-0? the reason you wanna do this is to bridge the gap between casual and comp so more newbies will join but at the same time the whitelist protects them from being stomped to fuck shit in unfun ways by people who are better than them
the whitelist isn't why pubbers wont play comp, its because they dont want or have the drive to play comp in the first place, they cba dedicating time to getting better aim, understanding what they're doing is wrong and why it's wrong and etc

imagine if you are playing badlands, your demo has quickie launcher, you bonk onto point, sticks are gone, you might be slow but you're capping that fucker fast, it's a fucking free entry wtf ? where is the skill from the scout's part?

https://youtu.be/BQLEW1c-69c?t=2382 (youtube embed breaks time)
tell me if this story sounds similar, the top players have put more hours into the game than all the devs combined, there is no fucking reason to cater to what they want because they have no idea how good tf2 can be at its best
we can either keep making some mutant freak out of comp tf2 which meets our needs but also lines up with tf2 devs views OR we can embellish in what we've been building up for 11 years.

im not against allowing more weapons into the whitelist, but i am against allowing gimmick weapons, useless or not and trying to please devs who dont know how to play the game