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good question actually

i've seen people practice a lot and not improve much. i've seen people who rarely ever practice and are still really good. my conclusion from this is that the role of natural talent is underestimated. i mean, maybe i'm wrong and the reason people practice a lot without improving is because they're playing on a trackpad with 700 ping whereas the people who never practice and are still really good had 5000 hours in team fortress classic.

as for me, i don't see a reason to play a lot of tf2. i don't find it that fun to spend hours in dm servers practicing. (i spent most of the 200 hours between soldier/scout/demo in dm and mge, but didn't really enjoy it.) i'm not going to recommend it to other people for its own sake. maybe if you have friends in the community and you enjoy playing with them, it's worth it, but i don't.

that's fair enough. i guess if people do feel tf2 rewards the effort to try to improve, more power to them.

(i'd still argue that there is a baseline amount of talent you need to have—or learn to deal without—to compete in low open in the first place, but i probably hang around pubs too much)

we are the 99%?

if you are naturally talented—have a fast reaction time, good hand-eye coordination, good vision, lateral thinking skills, patience—and have good hardware, you can eventually learn to have good aim. if not, the extreme amount of effort required to become good at tf2 is simply not worth it. tf2 is not that rewarding. play for fun and watch invite matches or something.

if you ever are in a situation where you have to ask "why am i bad?", you're never going to be good. To become good you'd have to be capable of analysing your situation and answering that question on your own.

(you'll also notice that people who make threads on tf.tv asking "how to get better?" never seem to end up in invite/prem, weird huh?)

some configuration of clockwork, darn!, tagg, tony swan, numlocked, ipz, zalfy, panzerxiii, frank west, and/or pyyyour

just imagine the comms

great idea! we should also have postcounts, avatars (at least 100x100), smilies, and custom user titles. and donators for only $10 per month can unlock additional bbcodes (like colours, animated/scrolling text, tables etc), upload attachments and get gold names.

also, replace +/- frags with some text saying "You and 3 other people like/dislike this post" and add the ability to post status updates

I once dreamed james bond was the spy—as in, the actual james bond movies had him walk around in an all blue suit and balaclava, dispose of enemies via backstab, turn invisible using his wristwatch and disguise by holding a cardboard cutout of an enemy henchman over his face, successfully fooling everyone. The discrepancy between the spy being french and james bond being english apparently never occurred to me.

that was the first indication that maybe i was playing too much tf2

madmen have been together for a while and play really consistently, most of the other teams are still getting used to new rosters, so they've been beating a lot of teams that look better on paper

preseason scrims don't mean much tho

while they don't admit it to me, pretty much all of the (3 or 4) people i know in real life would actually benefit from my death. i regret my life not because it's shitty but because it's pointless

actually, can you regret your genetics? if so i want to change my answer

TF2 wise, i regret not trying to make friends with anyone when i was into the game. having a community of sorts would have made it much more enjoyable.

i regret not killing myself when i was in the right frame of mind to do it

ok that was melodramatic sorry

i use a different alias on almost every website/game/whatever

plus if i stay on a site for more than a few months (not very common) i get tired of a name and decide to change it. unfortunately not possible on this site which is why my account name isn't my steam name but i guess i could just make an alt or something

thaumiel is a scp foundation reference. one alias on another forum i got from the first thing i saw on my computer screen when registering. previous tf2 alias was kiriona which i got by pasting random phonemes together. before that i don't remember.

i would like a picture of the demoman (equipped with pink circling hearts stovepipe and orbiting fire lime green bird-man of aberdeen) hitting a double airshot on 2 soldiers with one pipe while sword fighting against a bear on top of a zeppelin bearing the insignia of the imperial japanese navy that is about to crash into the statue of liberty

no more than 200px on a side please

i think they will surprise the europeans with their prodigious alcohol consumption skills

same as last season, except they're playing in open this time