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  1. Posted

    1 hour ago, Razputin said:

    Please never stop posting here d4mo

    at this point i think i'm going to because I don't know that any of the people online at the times I post have any redeeming features

    i miss spuf

  2. Posted

    10 minutes ago, Raison d'être said:

    Your heroic restraint is noted and appreciated.

    it's more like you guys don't even seem to understand the concept that you could be wrong so it's just a waste of words

  3. Posted

    On the whole the changes are good although adding more rng to the game (the amby rework) is dumb and mentioning equip rates just triggers me needlessly.

    But they've finally worked out how to think about balance changes more or less correctly. I have a feeling the semi-decent players among the tf team have finally managed to convince the potatoes to stop making changes just because they 'seem fun' and are now prioritising the overall health of the game much more highly. Razorback and dds changes are a highlight imo, both are really good.

    Side note, if this were old spuf i'd be flaming quite a few of the posters from the last day or so because of your dumb opinions but i don't really see the point here and now. Most of the people i know are saying at least semi-intelligent things so it's whatever.

  4. Posted

    2 hours ago, Wulff said:

    I'm not even sure what the point of this paragraph is. Please elaborate on why stating facts that no one has disagreed with was necessary.

    It literally contradicted everything I was responding to. You contended that professional esports had a 'cold and calculated' approach due to sponsors -- I showed why that's bullshit -- and now you're asking me what the point of the paragraph was?

    2 hours ago, Wulff said:

    Keyword being 'probably'.

    I retract that word after reading this response.

    2 hours ago, Wulff said:

    Are you of the belief that if there isn't enough money in the competitive scene of a game to incentivize players going at it as a full-time job and pushing themselves to limits they would not be able to while also maintaining an education or a job outside of playing the game, then the game is not worth the time or the effort? What do you think of the idea of letting a game run its natural course and not trying to keep it alive by pumping money into it? Do you think that no one should ever bother playing games competitively because it might die out after some time and in that case the time investment is not worth it? Do you think that games that develop regional communities independent of each other are worse than games that incorporate everyone internationally?

    Good competitive, skill-based games with a bunch of depth and incredibly dedicated competitive scenes should be supported as such. The two best examples are smash and tf2, and you can see what happened there.

  5. Posted

    10 hours ago, Paero said:

    5. A 'good' competitive scene is not directly tied to the amount of money or support that a company puts into it

    which leads back to what I said before. If high level players in an incredibly skilled game have no way of earning any remuneration for the thousands or tens of thousands of hours of practice they've put in, then what is the point of them playing in the first place? It's fun up until you're showing up to work tired or late because you had scrims the night before after hours of fundamentals training.

    Competitive scenes without proper monetary support artificially limit the skill the highest level players can show, in the best case, and in the worst case they lead to high level players simply not being that high level because once you've won the highest division once or in the case of australia's team immunity for tf2 ten times, the game starts to get a bit stale and the players start leaving. Remember that these games are usually played worldwide in multiple regions as well, and without developer support for competition the highest level teams in each region don't have a chance to play each other in a fair manner.

    11 hours ago, Wulff said:

    Paero doesn't want to see "amateur" competitive players shittalking each other. He wants to see players (of all skill levels) that have a genuine love and deep investment in the game express their passion on the stage as they win or lose, rather than the cold and corporate approach you can find within tournaments that are funded and hosted entirely by private companies, who care more about maintaining their family friendly public image, than they do the game for which they're hosting the tournament.

    High level players for any game have a genuine love and deep investment to the game, otherwise they wouldn't have put in the time to be high level, so that can be discarded entirely. Players express their passion after winning any tournament. In fact, any corporate sponsors for games where players react like robots after winning thousands or millions of dollars would probably find themselves rethinking their investment at some point -- if the players don't care, who will?

    11 hours ago, Wulff said:

    rather than the cold and corporate approach you can find within tournaments that are funded and hosted entirely by private companies, who care more about maintaining their family friendly public image, than they do the game for which they're hosting the tournament.

    This bit actually says something relevant but it's not accurate for all games. All csgo tournaments are hosted by private companies (either third party organisers like ESL or Valve themselves for the Majors) and they're perfectly happy to encourage a bit of shittalking. They went through a phase where they thought they might have a chance at becoming a family show but that's laughable in a game about planting bombs and killing terrorists so it became a massive meme.

    This sentence might hold some truth for league or dota but pretty much no other game.

     

    And don't insult my reading comprehension, it's probably a lot better than yours.

  6. Posted

    34 minutes ago, Facade said:

    you sure get offended a lot

    who are you

    21 minutes ago, Razputin said:

    @d4mo what are you talking about he in no way says players should not get rewarded for their skills. Also if you can't handle banter at a competitive event you should go live in a soundproof padded hamsterball because you're not getting far in life

    he hates esports and only likes watching amateur competitive players shittalking each other

    incredibly lame attitude but whatever

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  7. Posted

    7 hours ago, Paero said:

    rant

    this offends me on a primal level as a (former) competitive tf2 player

    basically you want to be able to watch an esport without the players getting any of the remuneration they deserve from being at the top of a highly competitive and incredibly skilled game

    while I don't follow smash at all, I can tell you that the reason the competitive community doesn't like the changes you were describing is because either they decrease the skill based nature of the game, or in the case of the Project M mod because it increases the barrier of entry to an already small scene.

    and if the most important aspect of watching video games to you is seeing people shittalk each other maybe you should find some other hobby

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  11. Posted

    1 hour ago, Medic said:

    Am I the only person who always finds E3 boring?

    No, you aren't. The big news is always just console shit and games I'll never play. I watched good game's e3 special once or twice and that was ok but that's only because they went around all the booths and actually played some interesting lesser known games/got some semi-decent interviews with devs. rip good game :(

  14. Posted

    every hero requires a high skilled team with decent communication to be used for their full potential

    sombra still fucking owns in solo queue if you're any good at her though. On some maps she's brokenly good (2cp, particularly 2nd point defense, and everywhere on volskaya) and you should just always run her, but she's still absolutely fine on most other maps. Even if there aren't any good health packs for you to hack sombra still does a decent amount of damage, melts through shields, hard counters half the dive heroes in the game and gets her ult up really often.

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    1 hour ago, Raison d'être said:

    But this is funny. "It's not worth my time to even read your essays... let alone bother responding to them," he says, after responding to an eight month old essay.

    a ridiculously racist sentence on the last page of a recently bumped thread caught my eye

    i don't know how you fail to be ashamed of the ridiculous things you are espousing but no one takes bullshit like that seriously anymore unless you're posting on breitbart or something rofl

  19. Posted

    1 hour ago, blackzero98 said:

     Either way it would be people who take the game far more seriously than they have any real right to

    this sentence makes no sense

    if you want to screw around that's fine but you have no right to tell other people off for taking a competitive game seriously

    1 hour ago, blackzero98 said:

     though I'd contest the notion skilled/competitive players don't play pubs in the first place considering my experiences with pubstompers.

    it's very very easy to stomp pubs you hardly have to be a premiership division gamer with 10 years experience under your belt. Obviously high level players occasionally play pubs but the skill level and attitude that is commonly associated with 'pub stomping' is much lower and much more toxic than your average competitive player's.

  20. Posted

    Hispanics are american. African americans are american. Asian americans are american. Everyone born in and who grew up in America is American unless they make a concerted effort to not be (by moving to a different country and living there for years, for example). Ethnicity is irrelevant. It doesn't matter whether you're black, yellow, white, whatever, if you've grown up in a culture you become part of it. Pretending otherwise is blatantly discriminatory and because the discrimination is due to ethnicity, it's racist.

    The rest of your opinion seems to follow from that idiocy so is probably worthless.

    But it's okay because you said I can agree or disagree, so you welcome me posting but are never going to change your mind no matter how terrible your argument is shown to be. I've come across many people like you before so I know it's not worth my time to even read your essays on why trying to push society back hundreds of years is such a good ideology to hold, let alone bother responding to them.

    Yeah sorry about the 8 month delay, I would have posted then but I wasn't a part of this forum...

  23. Posted

    13 hours ago, blackzero98 said:

    God help us if e-sport types had a match intruded on by friends trying to play. 

    'e-sport types' don't play pubs in the first place because it's a low skill shitfest

    11 hours ago, alexgndl said:

    That doesn't even count the people who have the more subtle hacks-you know, the soldier who's just a *little* too good at airshots, the sniper who  just happens to be pointing right at your head when you poke your head around the corner...those guys are even harder to find out.  

    Those aren't cheaters, they're just slightly less incompetent than your average pubber.

  25. Posted

    re pinion it still exists but valve cracked down on it a while ago

    and it's really easy to block now, i never see pinion ads because i blocked them through the hosts file, so it probably wouldn't be worth it anyway

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