Better idea, get Civ5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlCRfTmBSGs

On a serious note, practice. Practice by just playing. I don't mean to not focus on ways to improve your game while playing, but what I'm saying is to keep on playing. Play for an extra hour or so if you can spare it. Overtime, brutha.

I know you're seeking help on improving your DM, but a piece of advice I want to give you is to focus more on being a smart player. DM is only a fraction of this game. In terms of being an individual player, DM is still only a fraction of this game. If you can out think your opponent, your ability to win the fight will sky rocket.

Now in terms of DM, you say you MGE and play in DM servers. That's good. Even though it can be highly frustrating (MGE more so than DM IMO), it helps and it will only stop helping when you make it.

Movement is part of DM. Some people may disagree, but that's how I see it. Work on your movement just as much as you work on your DM. This isn't me saying to not do the simple things like spamming A and D as that can be effective from time to time. What I'm saying is learn to utilize your environment with the props around you and your movement.

Oh, and pug. Pugging is the closest you'll get to an actual game if you're not scrimming/in a match.

Finally, have fun playing. Don't try to get frustrated. Brush it off instead of being frustrated. It's not worth getting stressed out over silly stuff. Play to have fun. Well, unless you're like me and have fun when you're doing well more often than purely having fun regardless.

I often have trouble figuring out if you're trying to troll people with every thing you post. Spamming A and D constantly is bad, yes, doing it every now and again at random times isn't.

Strafe aiming is a good way to point and click, but so is tracking and flicking. Learn how to utilize all three. And yes, strafe aiming is basically tracking, I know. What I'm saying, however, is that strafe aiming is basically mirroring the other player's movement and tracking (or flicking too), as opposed to having sporadic, thought out or not thought out movement and tracking/flicking. I consider it the in between way of aiming.

Time Machines now cost me 2 trillion each. Well, it was nice knowing you, TM.

give it to a poor man 8)

Not sure if this is the best place for this thread. If it needs to be moved then go ahead.

I'm looking for thermal paste suggestions. I've considered Tuniq TX-4 and OCZ freeze, but I'd rather get some suggestions first.

Bumping this because I've come to the conclusion that this FPS drop isn't only in TF2, it's in every game.

I've ruled out it being a virus of some sort and as you read, I've ruled out it being a TF2 problem. I'm guessing the problem lies somewhere in either the GPU or CPU in some way. There's nothing giving me any hints as to what it could be with either of those two, though.

I'm not overheating, so that's not it. I may need to do some deep cleaning and get some canned air asap. Thermal paste too, possibly. The part about this entire problem that bothers me the most is not being able to figure out what the problem is exactly.

I miss the days when the pistol would fire as fast as we could make it :(

not to go off topic here, but this reminded me that blue -frags were pretty neat

blaze & tagg are awesome to watch. ww was a blast to watch, however he can't really be classified as "for now" anymore.

he has rq'd a couple pugs i've played in, however that's not the proof you're looking for. but there's another voice backing it for you anyway.

calm down, man. some people have different opinions. it's not like i think numlocked is bad, because i don't.

compare numlocked doing possibly better during one lan event to seemingly endless seasons of b4nny being the best.

http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/232/750/49d.jpg

i didn't post that @_@

a whole lot of people have. i think it was close to winning the edit contest last year.