gg damn slater is so fucking good lol

> and a party who's electorate becomes more socially democratic every election season

the democratic party has soundly rejected bernie sanders two elections in a row, maybe the voters are moving further left but the party itself has shown that it will not tolerate anything outside of its narrow, center-right, neoliberal Overton window

maybe its stv lag but watch the clip you flick to it before the medic dies lol

if he actually reasoned it out he would say soldier missing watch valley and one of his scouts would look at it. what this looks like is he knows the soldier is there but has no logical explanation for it so cant comm it to his team without looking like a cheater.

if ur any good at tf2 u should know that its not a demos role on mid to be watching for flankers like that

as far as projectile classes go its all about getting in the reps. soldier and demo are pretty lenient on mouse control you just need to build up the intuitive understanding of how people move and how your projectiles work.

IMO for both classes the best way to get better is:

pugging > dm > mge.

people move very unnaturally in mge because there's no objective other than winning a fight, in a real game you can use your understanding of the other players win conditions and objective to hit them more. dm kind of mimics this by people having to worry about more than one person but pugging is definitely the best practice

conversely, if your someone who wants to get good at tf2 as soon as possible just grind the fuck out of scout dm/mge cuz u can have awful fundamentals and still play at a div 1 or 2 level just by having good aim and playing the beam

some of the most meteoric rises ive seen in tf2 have just been scouts with a 2k hours of mge completely steamrolling a lower division in their first season and getting on teams off of that

https://clips.twitch.tv/EnergeticAdorableEndiveWow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=jKVYX5qB2bY

btw he has videos on his youtube of him with the scope removal script lol (literally the featured video that auto-plays when u open his youtube channel)

really interesting how this series of events occurs

-freakshow is like bottom im and only plays scout/sniper
-quits after being exposed as a cheater
-comes back years later
-is suddenly by far the best demo in div 1 and its not even close

i wonder if something underhanded could be happening here!

You could message an admin on steam, thats what I did when the goblin zone guys were planning on offclassing in d2

To be fair; I remeber playing against s4rr in s29 open and he was definitely a solid player mechanically, I think his team finished top 8 or top 4. Definitely reasonable to restrict him in IM which is supposed to be the low open equivalent

His delivery is obviously awful but I will reaffirm that he is basically right;

A lot of people blame tf2 / video games for their depression but for me, the height of my depression was definitely after I quit tf2 in s21. I'd gone from an asocial loner with a hobby to an asocial loner with no hobbies, I'd thought quitting tf2 would fix all my issues but in reality, it amplified them. I spent the whole year after that neglecting my studies, my friends, and my own personal health. I eventually ended up coming back to tf2 (obviously) and honestly I'd say it has a positive impact on my mental health, for a few hours a night I get to hang out with some chill guys and play my favorite game in a good environment.

What actually ""ended"" my depression (I haven't felt seriously depressed for over a year now) was a drastic change in living situations, I moved to a new city, made a whole new circle of friends, and was immensely busy with first-year engineering work at university. It was basically a soft reset on my life up to that point, I started working out, taking my studies very seriously, started acting more extroverted, and actively trying to make friends with strangers, things that were basically unthinkable to me in high school.

Earlier in the thread, you said you had agoraphobia, so obviously what worked for me won't work for you, but as someone else who has dealt with serious depressive episodes the best advice I can give is to change things up, get out of your rut and do things you've never done before, go places you've never been, whatever or wherever that might be. I understand if you brush this off though, I heard this exact same advice from others when I was dealing with depressive episodes; it took the actual material conditions of my life forcing me to change before I actually did anything, making me very lucky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvqTP5Hh1OU

Death to scout

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1urtAQzPl4GFmQmml4WWYCBEF2fqoRnxFktTu2IMId1Q/edit#gid=2056338013

josh is a god