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Oh whoops, my bad sorry.I did actually scan the thread to check, but all the videos were taking forever to load, instead just being black rectangles. Probably because I have post-per-page settings up way high, this thread is still only one page long for me.EDIT: No wait, this is now the first post on the second page.

I actually tracked down this movie and watched it. Don't. It's really, really boring and completely disjointed and makes no sense- in a bad way. This was one of the stranger clips from it. And no, watching the movie will not give you any more context on what the actual fuck is going on.

So I was talking to my friend about this, and she said when she first saw it (the day it was uploaded with 74 views or something) she chuckled a little bit. It was a bit of a different style to many k-pop videos, and had lots of references in it that only koreans would get. Like a cameo by a famous Korean comedian and the like. She was very confused by why Westerners like it so much though. Is a slightly chubby korean doing a slightly funny dance really that amazing? Or is it the music? The combination? What am I missing here?

I feel so honoured right now.

People from my old town have apparently just discovered 'me-mes'. Oh god my Facebook feed. And I mean, I thought the video clip was kinda silly/quirky, I guess. But hardly anything special.

-FaN: faster reload No real comment. I guess the FaN might need a bit of a buff to make it in the same league as the scattergun, but it might just make it one of those annoying-yet-balanced/inferior weapons. Sorta like how the Loch 'n' Load is generally inferior to the Grenade Launcher, but more infuriating to fight against. -Soda Popper: Hype is filled with damage instead of movement, and can be activated by pressing M2 Can you activate the hype meter whenever you want then? Or only when it is filled? Otherwise, I think this is a good change. -CaC: no cooldown I like this. -Guillotine: fix the aim lag Don't have the weapon, but by your description this should be fixed. -Concheror: health regen increase to 40% / 50% 50% sounds fine, but I play in random pubs. Might be too much at a higher level. But yes, a buff is needed. -Backburner: 130 degrees crit angle 120 degrees would be more rounded, but that probably doesn't really matter in terms of balance. This would probably be fine. If it is OP, have the current crit angle, but then another larger angle that gives minicrits. -Wee Booties: better targeturning No opinion. -Scottish Resistance: faster reload Sounds fine. The ScoRes is a really awseome concept for a side grade but still manages to fall short. A small buff like this could make it perfect. -Claidheamh Mòr: charge regen on kill I want demoknights to be abolished from the game so I'm too biased to provide a proper opinion on this. -Brass Beast: tighter firing cone Sure. -Wrangler: shield down in standby Definately. -Huntsman: can fire arrow when airblasted/splashed I agree, I always found this annoying and not very intuitive. However, getting headshots from above a target is ridiculously easy- especially using projectile hitboxes. So definately make the hitbox better fit the arrow, and possibly, if needed make it so when in air the arrow is 'inaccurate' like when you have the bow drawn for too long? Not sure about that? Might not be needed. -Homewrecker / Neon Annihliator: Sapper removal removed, and given a different buff. I love the niche the homewrecker promotes as an anti-spy weapon, but I do acknowledge that it undeservedly screws over the spy. Why not allow the homewrecker to heal a sentry at the cost of flamethrower ammo? Note: not contribute to upgrade, just repair. A pyro could still help against spies by delaying how fast the sapper kills the sentry, but only if the engineer is still around. -Pomson: Über drain removed, or at least removed against fully charged Medics. Uber drain needs to be completely changed to something else. Medicing has already become drastically less fun since the beginning of the game with the amount of 'joke' weapons team mates can use- like the demoknight. This is just another thing that sucks fun out of the game for the medic, and without even putting much fun in for the engineer. Change it to something like, the amount of uber a medic has is given to the engie in metal. So if the medic has 100% charge, the engie gets 100 metal. Have it go up to 300 with decay if need be. (This doesn't deplete ubercharge). Now an engineer can try to shoot a medic to rebuild a base quickly after the uber goes through, or to use the extra metal to keep his current base up, resulting in more action and input by everyone involved. -Spycicle: Complete rework, or at least given a proper downside Can't give an informed enough opinion on the spycicle. Problem Children: 16 These weapons are all very problematic to me: they have their own flaws that I want to addres properly, and I often don't really know how to change them, so suggestions are very welcome. -Natascha: deathnerfed She needs to remain deathnerfed unless the slowdown is changed to a different mechanic, I agree. I tried playing with heavily increased knockback to make it a defensive minigun. Sit on a point and blast away scouts and jumpers, but without necessarily killing them. Unfortunately I was only able to play against bots, so whilst it felt fun as playing as the Heavy, it might still be really infuriating to play against. -Liberty Launcher: crutch in need of a buff I agree. A common suggestion for a rework is for slightly increased look-knockback and greatly increased z-axis knockback. Knocking enemies into the air, setting them up to be airshotted or hit with the Reserve Shooter. I've also played with this and it seemed fun, but might be infuriating to fight against. -CM5k: everything went wrong forever Allow it to be kritzed by medics somewhere in a rework, I don't care. I'm sick of team mates ♥♥♥♥ing over what used to be my favourite class with dumbass and selflish loadouts. That's all I can say about these gun. -Phlogistinator: Crutch in need of a buff Not enough experience to say. -Minigun / Tomislav / Heatmaker: need higher skill floors 1) Increased firing cone is nice. 2) Lengthened rev up cements Heavy's weakness to ambush and makes him to be more careful with overextending and being alone. 3) Shortened rev makes the heavy less binary, giving him more options in regards to retreat and will also make shotgun secondaries more viable. 4) Instead of plain decreased damage, also add a fifth bullet. DPS remains exactly the same if all bullets hit. The fifth bullet goes near direct straight. I've been playing with this for quite some time by editing item schemas. It rewards good aim, makes it more consistent. At long range, if you have good aim you can consistently do low damage which might be good or bad. How it is currently, there is no consistency though, so you may do no damage all lots. -Razorback / Cozy Camper: badly designed If I could I would purge these too. -Atomizer: needs a nerf I agree. Not only does it make dodging rockets insanely more easy, it made lots of very neat and difficult tricks with the double jump completely useless. Like getting onto the crates at granary from the bottom via lights, or escaping with the intelligence through the back area of ctf_doublecross. -Gunslinger: very frustrating I don't have this problem at all, but some other suggestions to consider are slower turning speed and a limited turning Z-axis to make it less powerful against jumpers. -Dead Ringer: very frustrating I honestly think having the damage resistance scale down over time will work very well. It will make the inital death still survivable, but if the dead ringer spy is obvious, he won't be as nearly as hard to kill. Lazy unlocks: 5 Can't believe you forgot the Darwin's Danger Shield, which is perhaps the most boring unlock in the game. Set Hats: Agreed with fully. Ouch, that was a lot. EDIT: As I said, I think the gunslinger is mostly fine. But remember, a gunslinger shuts down scouts and pyros, is spammable, very quick to set up and often placed on the battlefield. A level three sentry is far less mobile, takes longer to set up, is more vulnerable when setting up and is usually used to cover points or chokepoints in fairly standard locations. The minisentry can really pop up anywhere anytime and make the area out of bounds. Well, that's how the argument goes. I still remember that when the gunslinger first came out, all the scouts would brag about running up to this peeshooter and meleeing it to death. Maybe that was back when engineers use to use gunslingers more like level three's, and not as a spammable, disposable aimbot?

Is it hard science fiction? Or pretty soft? Or does that not factor into gameplay at all?

Stop it.You're ruining my childhood.And I can't stop reading them.

Who doesn't love classic Batman? Bat-Hound is clearly the best super hero.

Just saw this: Oh my! A sun!! Nazi!!!

This is only partially relevant, but I just came across this news story. This wasn't just confined to the Internet, but made its way to actual televised news.Not only do I find it retardly stupid, I find it offensive to put such retardly stupid political spin on a man's death.

Google Chinesus.

Why are you even debating who's the best Doctor when Tom Baker exists?

I've got some more somewhere 'round here. (Thank goodness we turned sv_cheats on so I didn't screw my stats up with those >135 kills) More lulz. Does that intentionally not end with a question mark. In which case, oh no. That would be terrifying. And should totally be modded in.

True, true. The whole thing was ridiculous, that's for sure.

That is what I was going with. There are a whole range of issues at stake, lots of anti-American sentiment around, and the film was just the 'straw that broke the camels back'. But then, in the case of Australia and London... They can't really be seen as general anti-American protests, with a catalyst of this film. If they're pissed off with the Western powers 1) why are they living here, 2) they have democratic channels to voice their concerns 3) They're not directly affected by US foreign policy 4) They have a higher standard of living 5) Within a few minutes they can actually watch the trailer themselves, meaning its harder to be misled about the situation. These protestors are just over reacting and being silly. They're not protesting a film in the context of a militant, radicalised, impoverished, screwed-over society. They're just protesting a fifteen minute YouTube clip. Just because someone says something under freedom of speech doesn't mean you have to agree with it. Muslims in the US could use their freedom of speech to hold a rally/protest. Also, it seems that some Americans only like Freedom of Speech when it suits them. Look at all your Flag Burning controversy. The same people who think they should have the freedom to burn the Quran want to demonise flag burning. Actually, look at the whole Dixie Chicks debacle over the Iraq War. They say they're ashamed of Bush, and suddenly people want them tried for treason and put to death.

Nice.This made me laugh. The swarm of scouts made me nostalgic of my TFC days. It would be me and three other friends as engineer verse 20 scout bots on Warpath. Good, mayhemic, fun. Now sometimes done on TF2.And, uh, you wanted us to be all grammar nazi on yo ass, right? Really, the only mistake that jumped out at me was coocking instead of cooking.

And that sort of shows that Islam isn't the reason for high levels of religious violence, but events happening in the Middle East, North Africa, Persian areas. What I would write would basically come down to:The middle east was screwed over by the West, by the East, by the Jews, and any sort of pan-Arab identity failed them, so they sought refuge in an Islamic identity. They use this identity to create a demonised 'other' that fits nicely for the United States, Israel and the West in general, whilst also providing a handy source of propaganda in order to mobilise support for their agenda.In South America, they were screwed over by Neo-Liberalism predominately. They have large European roots, and some countries (Argentina for example) consider themselves European culturally. They are very Catholic, and only now are other religious groups, such as Pentecostals making any progress in the area. The major source of their violence is between the left and the right. They can't demonise their enemies as 'Catholics', because they themselves are Catholic. The Catholic church was actually split on the whole right-left economical/political section. Most violence is about whether if you are on the left or right of the political scale in terms of economics.Middle East can't say they're Communist verse Capitalists (because they aren't communist). They can't say they're Arabs vs the West because that already failed horrendously. But they easily can be Islam vs. The Judo-Christian West. South American violence can't be Christians vs. [Religion] because there isn't another religion.So, pretty much, it's not just religion, or quality/standard of life as you said, but the entire histo-political context of the region. If for some reason there was a large population of left-wing Muslims in Latin America, and a large proportion of Right-Wing Christians, there would be a lot more religious conflict in South America.EDIT: ♥♥♥♥, that summary was longer than I intended. Imma gonna cut it down a little.A MUCH LATER EDIT:So I just saw this on my news feed. Now, I thought the Muslim protestors in the Middle East/North Africa would have largely been whipped up into a frenzy by extremisists, and rioted due to their already militant culture and a vast array of other circumstances. But people in Australia? Come on, this is a tiny little shitty "film". It's not even that. It's a video posted on YouTube, with no major backing, no major funding, or any sort of production value. It's not the official view expressed by a government or a major government. It's nothing. Are there protests like this happening in the USA?

In three years I've got no warnings, infractions or bans. I guess I fail at SPUFing.

Indonesia has the largest Islamic population. I would say it's comparable to South America in terms of violence.I can write a fairly large, informative post on why South America is different to the Middle East in terms of violence if anyone is interested. It's sorta my 'area' of knowledge.

At first, I thought the rioting may have been a little bit justified. Then the murders started happening and I thought it was terrible. After watching Innocence of Muslims I think the whole situtation is ludicrous. I wonder if half the rioters have even seen it. But from what I can tell, it's seems a few religious extremisits are blowing it largely out of proportion to start anti-American riots. Though on the news, there was one commentator saying many of rioters were football fans who were just bandwagoning on the religious problems in order to attack the police. Jews are alright. Israel is a complete dickshit. EDIT: As with all religions, it comes down to interpretation I think. One of the big lines in the Quran says something like "fight for your religion against those who fight against you." Some interpret that as meaning only self defence is allowed. EDIT 2: Here are some nice quotes: "Except for those who take refuge with a people between yourselves and whom is a treaty or those who come to you, their hearts strained at [the prospect of] fighting you or fighting their own people. And if Allah had willed, He could have given them power over you, and they would have fought you. So if they remove themselves from you and do not fight you and offer you peace, then Allah has not made for you a cause [for fighting] against them." 4:90, i.e. only fight if provoked. "Allah does not forbid you from those who do not fight you because of religion and do not expel you from your homes - from being righteous toward them and acting justly toward them. Indeed, Allah loves those who act justly." 60:8, i.e. you can respect other faiths. EVEN MORE EDITS: 2:256 "There shall be no compulsion in [acceptance of] the religion. The right course has become clear from the wrong. So whoever disbelieves in Taghut and believes in Allah has grasped the most trustworthy handhold with no break in it. And Allah is Hearing and Knowing." Of course, when someone does 'wage war' against Islam... "Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment," 5:33 And just to highlight the issue of intepretation- what do you define 'wage war' as? Does it have to be physical violence? We have governments 'waging wars' against drugs, against discrimination, and even against unemployment. What about a propaganda campaign against the entire religion? Is that a war? How big does that campaign have to be to be considered a war?

That was one awesome coffee machine they have. More game company's need to do this.

You don't read horse erotica? Okay, what ever floats your boat. Weirdo.

And some of them had made in the six digits after a few months if I remember correctly. (Though it may have been them collectively had made in the 6 digits...)

We have bloody frogs in the loo in Australia. I don't know how that's relevant, but then again, nothing in this thread is.