this is actually super important, much more so than any of these other news items, hopefully we can start discussing it.

also for those curious:

http://play.esea.net/index.php?s=forums&d=topic&id=648549&find_comment_number=206#n206

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I was about to flip a gasket

bump, I want to mainly play pocket now bc demo is shit but I would play demo under certain circumstances

I'm glad you said this for my own sanity because I can now convince myself that like 10-15 of my -frags on every post are from 1 person

now I don't have to battle depression cuz of a video game forum

cafe monster showing off the new demo meta post-nerf

abuse the fact that the other team still thinks demo is a priority target and sacrifice him for the win

if you dont make prem within a season or two you must have utterly terrible gamesense lol

n1

I am sorry mr lingle pls find it in your heart to forgive me

bump, I m ready 2 rokk

this might be an extraordinarily inappropriate question, but did he and youngblood ever reconcile before...you know...

I should also add, richard lewis paid oplaid a salary so he could publish this article:

http://www.dailydot.com/esports/team-fortress-2-insomnia-52/

richard lewis is way more well known than any tf2 player who has ever played

oplaid works for him at the daily dot

get over urselves

I always thought this would be fun, but I worried that the homogeneity of stats would make different classes meaningless to compare

therefore, even though high level 6s is more competitive, I once made a fantasy ruleset for highlander

http://pastebin.com/vE8Uqj3b

the system is far from perfect (pyros kept getting too many points), but here it is if it helps

awp v rifle is not THAT different overall (I guess in certain situations like say moto corner to arch where you might be jiggle peeking so as not to get peeker's advantage'd it's nerfed but not that much overall), but the update really fucked t side awpers attempting to peek into other awpers

for instance, the window peek on mirage used to be relatively t sided because of the spawns, but now I can legit see it swinging the other way just cuz of that extra time before accuracy

demoted will carry like fuck and he also sounds exactly like squid

Jaguar the reason people are -fragging you is that you take yourself, your team, and this game as a whole too seriously

xattuu keeps putting his foot in his mouth on the forums, which seems to be hurting his reputation, but he actually is a very nice guy and clearly has potential as medic. I don't think anyone who has been on a team with him would characterize him as a rager or anything.

his biggest problem, from my experience, is his level of dedication and mindset. it felt like, on the spectrum of players from those who treat scrims exactly like matches to those who treat them like pugs, xattuu fell way too far towards the latter side of the spectrum. he would purposefully go for crazy medic frags at bad times, not to mention go afk or spend the entire rollout to mid talking about stupid shit. in matches, to his credit, he did try a lot harder, and some of the time this resulted in confident and strong play with good communication. however, when there wasn't a lot of time to prepare or he missed a lot of scrims due to irl busyness, it felt like he was rarely prepared enough to play a map in matches, because he didn't maximize the effectiveness of the scrim time he did have. if he realized just how important scrims are in getting everyone on the same page, learning your role in every mid fight, learning the way your pocket and demo and the rest of your team want to play a given fight, etc., he would instantly be competitive at at least a low-mid IM level. it's tough to instantly recommend him based on what I saw last season; however, at the same time, his problem seems to be a very easy one to fix if he just acknowledges the extent of it, and therefore gambling on him for your IM team might be worth it because I could easily see him turning over a new leaf in that regard.

I hope I've been fair and even-handed in this post.