Last season, we had a pretty serious discussion about banning the loose cannon. Yet, no one seems to bring them up anymore. Why is that? Well, I can't speak for anyone else but, frankly, the booties are so overpowered that I barely care about that other annoying demo unlock anymore. Any competent (not amazing, just competent) demo who runs them instantly has the potential to get fewer deaths than his medic while playing exactly as aggressive as he normally would. You're harder to kill, stickies are easier to hit, and in general it's just unbelievably annoying to play against.

Way back in November I had this conversation with tri:

WhiteRaceCadet: yo
WhiteRaceCadet: pls tell me yall are banning the booties
WhiteRaceCadet: next season
WhiteRaceCadet: pls
tri: should we
WhiteRaceCadet: its overpowered as FUCK
WhiteRaceCadet: its ridiculous
WhiteRaceCadet: seriously, make a thread floating the possibility on tftv and see what people think or something
WhiteRaceCadet: id be heavily surprised if people didnt agree with me
tri: are they overpowered
tri: lol
WhiteRaceCadet: insanely overpowered
WhiteRaceCadet: every demo who runs them like topdamages while dying less than either medic

I'm extremely lazy (and tri clearly didn't believe me) so I waited til now to make an actual thread. So, what do other people think on this topic?

WhiteRaceCadet: yo
WhiteRaceCadet: pls tell me yall are banning the booties
WhiteRaceCadet: next season
WhiteRaceCadet: pls
tri: should we
WhiteRaceCadet: its overpowered as FUCK
WhiteRaceCadet: its ridiculous
WhiteRaceCadet: seriously, make a thread floating the possibility on tftv and see what people think or something
WhiteRaceCadet: id be heavily surprised if people didnt agree with me
tri: are they overpowered
tri: lol
WhiteRaceCadet: insanely overpowered
WhiteRaceCadet: every demo who runs them like topdamages while dying less than either medic

this is from back in november b t w

at least half of my posts in the various political discussion threads on here are -fragged because, while people don't seem to mind when I point out the most egregious racists like SpaceCadet, they don't necessarily like when I call out people who seem more reasonable for also saying really prejudiced and/or irrational things (like blaming Muslims for all terrorist attacks based on a definition of terrorism specific to the U.S. in order to avoid labeling anything we do as a matter of foreign policy as terrorism

I've been accused of many things in my time on tf2 forums, but being a relentless pursuer of plusfrags is not one of them. I will point out racism when I see it, and it's been a calling card of racists to paint themselves as the victims rather than the perpetrators of hate since the dawn of time

fuck the map discussion, we need to get rid of the booties more than anything

to be fair, I don't think anyone past or present (with the exception of the guy who made borneo) has ever really taken vhalin seriously as a human being

plus he was the worst player on x6 heh

repeating a lie doesn't make it true

top tier

national chain

pick one

8}

and then come to brooklyn and get schooled about how good pizza is supposed to taste

lookin hella somalian bruh

I have a gay friend whose last name is "De Kock"

I went to high school with a kid named Joo Suk, and being Korean apparently every male in his family has the name "Joo" so he had cousins named Joo Gun and Joo Ho

also I know a couple kids whose last name is Groot, wonder how that is affecting their lives nowadays

Also, recommended read on the topic:
http://www.dailydot.com/esports/ibuypower-permaban-valve-decision-unfair-system/

It's pretty similar to my belief on the issue, which is as follows:

1. Valve is within their rights to ban the players permanently from valve events

2. There is no reason that valve bans should entail bans from all the upcoming giant events- turner league, blizzard mlg, etc.

I honestly think it's ludicrous that the developer of the game gets extra authority over players when they serve no extra administrative function in the actual competitive scene. yeah they donate prize money (an amount that is looking increasingly puny...and which has already been matched by tournaments valve had nothing to do with). so what? if razer or logitech demanded that the ibp people be banned we would laugh them out of town

it's not like riot where valve actually runs the tournament circuit, all they do is interfere in stupid and negative ways (poorly timed updates and map pool changes, stupid rules that no tournament would choose on their own, etc.)

Pete Rose's ban got reviewed this year and upheld because he lives in Las Vegas and still regularly bets on baseball (and because he lied about that fact at first)

ur not from italy retard

im back homies

I like this idea a lot as a compromise

ye ive seen that get shredded kid around 4eva