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#15 Re-Balancing Sniper [SkrapbookTF2] in Videos
MavenMy main point however is that the reason sniper is so hard to kill us because he has a team protecting him at all times. He is clearly weak to stuff or else people wouldn't need to sit on him.

This is a flawed argument. You don't sit on the sniper because the sniper "needs it", i.e. they would be useless or bad otherwise. You sit on the sniper because it is worth it; sniper is so good that it is entirely worth dedicating classes to just sit on them and afk to support. It's a very deliberate choice that people make; the value add of an engineer actually playing the game is seen as lower than just placing them in a no man's land like lakeside ruins or back of product cliff to lower the odds of the sniper getting stabbed.

Of course this alone is not evidence that sniper is broken (could be the case that engineer/pyro are just that bad, though I sort of doubt it), but the argument that people sitting on him = people need to sit on him is quite poor. Empirical evidence shows you what is perceived as being optimal, and optimal is not the same thing as necessary.

MavenIf teamwork is actively being used in the argument for him being too powerful, I don't get why it's ridiculous to say that teamwork can be used against him.

Not all teamwork is created equal, to just treat them as the same is at best seriously misinformed. It does not take that many brain cells to play pyro and just sit on your sniper; it is much more difficult to coordinate pressure on the sniper (especially if you currently don't have one) so you don't just die during a dry push.

posted 1 week ago
#2 Re-Balancing Sniper [SkrapbookTF2] in Videos

I'm going to keep it real chief the analysis in this video is really bad. Lot's of things I could say about basically every point but the fact that a highlander player in big 2025 nonironically said "just don't peak the sniper and get your spy to stab him bro" is a little insane. This mentality is how ppl just autolose every koth map.

Also there's something really funny about trying to rebut the idea that sniper has no counters (outside of another sniper) by providing a counterexample that requires two players.

posted 1 week ago
#76 stock market crash? in Off Topic
nikkomodereal talk if you're in academia or plan on going to graduate school you are completely fucked right now. basically every stem program in New York got wiped off the map, i'm talking REU's, jobs, graduate admissions, everything. Even big colleges like Cornell and Colombia (and others outside of NY like MIT) are just not accepting many graduates at all because they don't have even CLOSE to enough money to support them. Hell, some colleges are cutting departments all together. My college, right now, put all graduate math and science programs "on hiatus" (i.e. killed them).

Prayers out for everyone.

I have delayed defending this year (ok this is cope my dumb ass probably wasn't going to anyway) but yeah it is fucking brutal right now. Collaborators are getting funding canceled and historically 'safe' topics in biomedical applications (i.e. cancer + alzheimer's) are getting nuked as well.

posted 3 weeks ago
#8 Whats the state of comp outside of RGL and ETF2L ? in TF2 General Discussion
capnnofapnI'm surprised intra-south american ping is that bad. Am i just underestimating the distance between population centers or is it more of a routing issue?

Apparently (quite surprising to me anyway) the shortest airline distance between Bogota, Colombia to Sao Paulo, Brazil is actually absurdly close to the distance between Bogota and Chicago (2684 vs 2705 miles). Add just a touch of shitty routing and I can see Colombians on average pinging lower to NA.

Mercator projection and it's consequences.

posted 3 weeks ago
#5 I Think The 6v6 Meta Team Composition Is Flawed in TF2 General Discussion

the addition of markdown formatting really adds to the bit

posted 1 month ago
#11 what do you think about ai? in Off Topic
zxpAI makes data science so much easier and more accessible. It's what google/stackexchange was on steroids, and I think education as a whole needs to be rethunk. It's capable at carrying you through an entire undergraduate in any math heavy field (possibly also others, but I can't tell).

Missed this post somehow, but disagree here, at least for the statistics half/portion of data science. There's so much shit statistics advice out there that it's trained on, and I see this a lot as a TA, but if you don't already have a good understanding of the subject it's very easy for the AI to gaslight you into thinking something is true when it's not.

Here's an example:

https://i.imgur.com/kzVOZP4.png

This probably seems reasonable at first glance but this is just incorrect.

That being said models will always improve (wouldn't be surprised if the better AI's can get this right) but when you're first learning things it can be pretty misleading.

posted 1 month ago
#8 what do you think about ai? in Off Topic

Would be more cool if it didn't somehow make the "tech bro who doesn't know anything about other fields but definitely knows they're all doing it wrong" even more annoying.

Somewhere along the way it went from "Image/text generation is the best way of assessing our ability to learn and generate data from complex distributions" to "artists are cucks and we serve no value and we should just kill them, actually"

posted 1 month ago
#3 Which player popularized double gunboats? in TF2 General Discussion

Probably lansky on froyo in terms of influence/marking the beginning of the shift.

posted 1 month ago
#3 What made old community pubs nostalgic to you? in TF2 General Discussion

I'm pretty sure when I was playing those old pubs my life was just better and I'm nostalgic for that.

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posted 2 months ago
#8 na & eu combined league in TF2 General Discussion
VeeeThat's not how the internet works there are no cables between the Azores and the North American mainland so the ping would still be dogshit
https://www.submarinecablemap.com/

Signed up 8 years ago, first post about submarine cables holy based.

posted 2 months ago
#9 TL Harbors Pedophiles in TF2 General Discussion
subhumanur playing AM HL theres no way u couldnt find somebody to ring for 2 whole weeks, be fucking serious.

AM HL is kinda insane ngl they got insane beef apparently (apparently there was a hater discord made cause ppl couldn't beat the #1 team or some shit).

Also to OP I'd be pretty surprised if RGL did anything if it is just limited to social media follows; I'm like 95% sure some admins have used pfp's from twitter artists who probably also draw... unsavory content and that pedophile nazi brony dude took forever to ban and was much more high profile (and they specifically used some of the art as their steam PFP). Plus it resulted in a staff member leaving + 2 other random rgl member casualties lol.

posted 3 months ago
#8 Unc Sanity in TF2 General Discussion

God speed young man, best of luck in your academic endeavors.

Also as a TA please spare your TA's in the future and do some formatting before you submit assignments.

posted 3 months ago
#8 incoming 6s noobs truth nuke? in TF2 General Discussion

ppl got to realize when solarlight says truth nuke about 6s he's talking to pubbers who think that the average 6s player is a member of a satanic child eating cabal who want to shoot dead engineer players in the street

posted 3 months ago
#3 Must watch matches of all time in TF2 General Discussion

RCADIA lan grand finals.

posted 3 months ago
#81 No Hats Mod + HeadsFeet, 2020+ Edition in Customization
HomosapienAll I want for christmas is an update to this beautiful mod :)

Won't be at PC until after the holidays unfortunately; in the meantime people can check out no-hats bgum for something similar (although right now seems last update was in july).

https://pevhs.ch/tf2/

posted 4 months ago
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