ScampSixteen

It's cool to not care about things you're cool man wow apathy is the most attractive character trait a man can have you must be drowning in pussy wow

Last night I dreamed that I went to a Lego shop that was run by a kindly old man, he said he'd pay good money for a rare toy called a HNK, I managed to find one online (it was a saxophone with each section coloured with a different pattern from a clown's outfit) and it turned out to be worth £15 at most, it felt like the man had scammed me for some reason.

Last night I dreamed that I went to a Lego shop that was run by a kindly old man, he said he'd pay good money for a rare toy called a HNK, I managed to find one online (it was a saxophone with each section coloured with a different pattern from a clown's outfit) and it turned out to be worth £15 at most, it felt like the man had scammed me for some reason.

It's sad to say but it's definitely on it's way out. The latest update doesn't feel like TF2 at all, I remember watching Meet The Spy and being fascinated with the game and the spirit it seemed to have, but that's gone now for the most part, if a version of TF2 was released that kept only the class update stuff and was otherwise vanilla, I'd play it in a heartbeat.
Zombie Fortress is still the bomb though, it's the main reason I play nowadays, but even then the userbase is dwindling, it's a shame that a lot of the problems with modern TF2 are essentially unfixable without alienating the current community.

Bern sums it up very well.
Honestly, TF2 was dead to me when it became free to play, the entire atmosphere of the community just changed. Free to play games just attract a completely different audience, and naturally there was just a massive influx of new players that didn't know what the fuck they were doing. It was clear that TF2 needed that injection of new people but back then I often thought it might've been better to just stay paid and slowly die out.
And that's just how TF2 has always been since then: when you join a 24 player server, a maximum of 8 people actually know how to play and the other 16 are cannon fodder. But even then, TF2 is still really fun to me, and calling a game with such a large playing community dead is probably kind of silly. The pre-F2P spark is gone but that turned TF2 from a 9.5/10 game into an 8/10 game and it is still miles better than the half a handful of other arena shooters that are still out there. And sadly it doesn't look like that will change anytime soon, as Overwatch looks to be more like a first person MOBA than an arena shooter, and dirty bomb is way closer to the millitary shooter genre than the arena shooter genre.
This is also why I am so genuinely bitter about Tribes Ascend: it came at exactly the right time to grab all the leaving TF2 players and had absolutely everything going for it to (without hyperbole) become my favourite game of all time, and it got utterly destroyed by Hirez wanting to squeeze as much money as possible out of it and dropping it as soon as the well ran dry. Compared to that shit the TF2 dev team have been fucking saints for keeping it running for so long and still being a blast to play after eight years. I mean are there any 8 year old games that haven't drastically decreased in quality?
TL;DR TF2 lost its original spark years ago but it's still the best online shooter out there. And considering it's almost 8 years old it could be so much worse right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNPCYv88UYc&index=41&list=FL2CRocS8TQWpwD7zdQKXwkA

What.

Haven't even watched these but this exists now.

Haven't even watched these but this exists now.

I suggest to just do a simple condolences message explaining who we are and where we knew XYTWO from, with all our names (maybe nationalities to show how he had friends all over the world)
 
Dear Mr and Ms Lebowitz,
 
We heard of James' passing through his roommate. We are all part of a small gaming community James was part of, and his passing was a great shock to all of us. He was a great guy, and had friends all over the world.
 
Our deepest condolences,
 
[names]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7pzBtRLED8

Donna is the best because they didn't try to force a fucking love interest angle between her and the Doctor.
 
Also because of how much we got to see this guy.
 

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Kanye West.
 
Hate on him all you want, but every solo album he's released has been critically acclaimed and commercially successful, in addition to being hugely influential. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy especially stands out as perhaps one of the greatest mainstream albums of the 2010's (so far).
 
Between the quality of his music and his usually bizarre public persona, Kanye's definitely going to be remembered as a classic for a long time.
 
Also, Beyonce. But that hardly needs explaining.

Guys I found it. The holy grail of PC gaming in the flesh.


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Print out 250 copies of the cover art, cut them out, and hide all of them around the house when your family is out.

Guys I found it. The holy grail of PC gaming in the flesh.


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Wow typical ciscomputer scum

Your laptop is obviously a genderfluid 800A0400kin.

Explains why my laptop likes to pretend that he's an oven on weekends.

I haven't read any of the AMAs in like a year because of the shitty copy pasta questions and honestly because of the usual answer to even good questions being about one word long, a sentence at most, and super vague.
 
If we do a Series 2 we should strongly encourage only having people sign up if they actually want to answer personal questions about themselves. Enforce a "no copping out" rule (with obvious exceptions like "What's your social?" and traumatic events people don't want to relive ever).

Oh God, I just listened to this album called Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything by Thee Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra, it's great a bunch of members from Godspeed You! Black Emperor are in the band and this particular song is just fantastic.
 

 
It's called What We Loved Was Not Enough and sounds like a cross between GY!BE, Arcade Fire and Neutral Milk Hotel, it's a whole universe of beauty, ayo Raz listen to this it's your wet dream.