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Yeah, it's no doubt not the most common occurence, but it's hardly unbelievable.

Sorry, that wasn't meant to be about anyone specifically in this thread. It's just a general feel I get from a lot of this whole Amanda Todd crap, which involves singlehandedly beating down every single bully despite their number or age.
Ignoring bullies is a good first strategy, and does work a lot of the time, but not always. The fact that a few people at my old highschool had to move towns because of bullying despite trying to ignore it, depsite telling teachers, and in one case depsite notifying the police shows that sometimes these basic strategies just don't work. In Amanda Todd's case, even moving towns wasn't enough. Some people say they should 'just get over it'. That's also a pretty valid idea. Little primary schoolers who get called 'smelly' should just get over it. I myself 'just got over it' with the help of the prospect of leaving said country town and those people behind forever.

To go back to what Gigolo said a while back:



Shit like this could work. We should show people that suicide is a stupid way to go about things. But it is being taken too far. If it was simply "Amanda Todd shouldn't have committed suicide, it is dumb and stopped any chance of her life getting better when it surely would have" it would probably help.
But a line has to be drawn at some point, if the answer to everyone getting bullied is "get over it" its just going to stop people from wanting to ever speak up and get help. Imagine if you were suffering from depression from being bullied, and you see all these people tearing into Amanda Todd.


If you were contemplating suicide, would you go to that person for advice? Would that inspire you to call the Kids Helpline? It would hopefully slap some sense into these people, but I would be more than willing to bet that it would just cement the 'no one understands me' mindset.

-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?

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?

I thought I'd put up a better fight, but I was disappointed.:pinkiegasm:

Only applies to black people.

Engineer playing Guitar Hero.

Tried to rep everyone for their pantastic puns. Some of you I can't right now though (spread rep around yadda yadda yadda), sorry.

I think I have a few things I need to go back into school for after lessons are done, but I haven't really panned that far ahead.

Could somebody pass me a pan and paper? I'd like to sign!

Linky?
Stockthrower is for men. The lower your KDR, the more each kill means to you.

Inside.

Well, I managed to find this. I'm not sure how much use it will be, or if it even works still (You're using Game Maker 8 I think you said, this is from Game Maker 5). It's also probably horribly messy code, but meh. Just chuck this in the step event of the spycrabs and movement should (hopefully) be taken care of.
if distance_to_object(you) < 100{setnewcoordinate = 1xcoordinate = you.xycoordinate = you.y}elseif setnewcoordinate < 0{xcoordinate = you.x + random(distance_to_object(you)*1.5) - random(distance_to_object(you)*1.5)ycoordinate = you.y + random(distance_to_object(you)*1.5) - random(distance_to_object(you)*1.5)setnewcoordinate = distance_to_object(you)/4}if self.x = xcoordinate and self.y = ycoordinatesetnewcoordinate = -1mp_potential_step(xcoordinate,ycoordinate,3,false)setnewcoordinate += -1Change 'you' to 'pyro' or whatever the player's name is.Changing the 1.5 in "random(distance_to_object(you)*1.5)" to a lower number will make the spycrabs more direct in their attack. Making it higher will make them spread out more before attacking you.Similarly, "setnewcoordinate = distance_to_object(you)/4" making the 4 a higher number will make them more and more direct, but they will act slightly more erratically.I'm fairly confident that you'd be able to come up with something a lot better than all this though, this is from years back when I was just messing around with Game Maker.===========If you're looking for ideas for minigames, you could have a space invaders sort of thing, you play as ianskate (sprite being a guy on a skateboard?) who must shoot banhammers at incoming Pootis posters to protect subSPUF. I'm not sure what a Pootis would look like though...

Well, Spring Break is coming up, and seeing as I'm going to have some free time on my hands, I've decided to ignore my (many) current projects and get started on a game based on the wonderful thing called SPUF. It will be a top-down shootemup RPG. I'm currently working mainly on the engine, but keep on posting ideas!

Probably taking a few things from the Super Spuf Fighter thread. REP based powers, Fight off trolls, maybe meet a few famous spuffers along the way. Work your way to defeating (or joining) the Admins.

Again, open to suggestions, and I'll update as progress is made!

WORKING ON:
Nuuuuu Weapons!

v0.3.2 (5/31/12):
-Modification improvements:
-Item schema now available for editing
-Item inventories also available for editing
-new object: obj_rocket
-rep now attracts only from a certain distance, also remains longer.
-fixed error when firing with no weapon pressed.

v0.3 (5/24/12):

[*]Added new enemy types: Medium and Monarch Spycrabs
[*]Changed rep drop image
[*]Added Detonator. Still does not do self-damage.
[*]Added Alt-fire to the flamethrower: Compression Blast.
[*]File structure system change for easier future modifications.
[*]Adjustments to the window size.
[*]Added first hat. Get by defeating the Monarch Spycrab.
[*]Changed the inventory screen.
[*]Improved enemy AI (Thanks O'Malley!)
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I have taken it upon myself to archive the humorous threads that I come across from time to time. I'm currently sitting on at least ten or fifteen threads that were ultimately locked or deleted permanently by the evil fair and just mods. Without further ado, I present them in image format. If you want any hyperlinks from them, I can just copy and paste them from the saved copy. I made ZIPs!

General SPUF zip of whatever.

chesse20 zip of ideas.

To read them, go through folders until you see a bunch of folders. Then open those and look at index.html. It should work. Probably. I think.

It's right at the top of the Settings page.

What I don't get is that this has been going on for years and years, but now all of a sudden there's a massive shitstorm on Facebook about it. The fact that so many people seem to be up in arms about this after watching a 30 minute documentary seems kind of shallow to me. I don't know about you guys, but there are people on my friends list who have gotten quite passionate about this despite not really knowing anything about what is going on, or how they're going to help. They seem to be doing this more for themselves rather than the people suffering in Africa. I know someone who purchased two hundred dollars worth of posters to put up to 'raise awareness'. Now raising awareness is good and all, but it comes to a point where awareness is raised enough, and you need to actually start doing something constructive.

As Gigolo said, "All they've done is give hipsters a false sense of accomplishment by letting them pretend to be activists for a day."

However, I'm still a little on the fence of whether this is a bad thing or not. Does it matter that these people are just bandwagoning on the latest fad, and that in three weeks they won't even care about the LRA ever again? To bring up an analogy that we can all relate to, the TF2 Japanese Tsunami Charity effort. There would have been many people out there who would have bought the $100 hat, not because they care about Japan or the tragedy that happened there, but because they want the hat. But does that matter? One hundred dollars to a disaster victim is $100, whether it was sent with love or not.

Then, on the '31% is better than nothing' matter: It would seem that donating to Invisible Children will make people think they've done their part and not donate to other -more cost effective- charities. But how many of these people who are donating would have donated to another charity? A charity that donates 99% of all proceeds to a good cause is useless if it can't get people impassioned enough to actually donate. This Kony 2012 campaign mightn't be donating that much money percent wise, but it sure seems effective at getting large numbers of people impassioned enough to actually donate.

(Note: this doesn't mean I support this charity, it still seems like a bit of a crock to me, and supporting military intervention seems like a very poor way to go about this sort of problem)

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