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Sorry but I don't buy it, he is just much too goofy. If they went for that "justified hypocricy" spin with a character like the governor (before they gave him an eyepatch and a room full of heads) it could have worked, but not with a guy who needs a zinger ever other sentence and carries around a barbed bat he calls Lucille Thinking back on the governor, that is probably just my overall irritation of the entirety of the walking dead; it has such an inconsistent tone. You can introduce Michone as a hooded ninja with two zombie carrier slaves, and a guy who pretends he is a highborn king holding a tiger on a leash, but if you then turn around and start being deep about the nature of humanity I just get completely pulled out of it

It's only two days, I'll be back on schedule tomorrow night probably. But it's annoying as I got a ton to do tomorrow

It's p good for a while but grinds on for way too long. Basically what happens with 80% of popular shows

Does anyone still watch the walking dead? I finished the latest session this week but i couldn't tell you why, it was total garbage. A whole season of nothing happening beyond the first episode And then I walk into a mediastore and see them advertising Negan like they are actually proud of writing the edgiest goofiest "charismatic" villain I have ever seen. Crowning moment being that, although he is a vicious gruesome psychopath serial murdering tirant, we have to make absolutely sure that it's clear this guy does not condone rape. Full frontal smashing someones head in with a baseball bat until their eyes pop out we can spin into a charismatic character but rape would be a bridge too far

I went to bed at 5am two nights in a row and I think it fucked my sleeping rhythm. Now i gotta wake up in 4 hours and I feel exhausted but just can't seem to fall asleep

One out of four new items being a throwaway joke after more than a year of waiting was idiotic go begin with The more time has passed since the pyro update the less I liked the update, dragon fury might be fun but the normal flamers just outdamage it, and wm1ing is now actually too good doing WAY too much damage for how easy it is to spam. It also doesnt help that the new flame visuals are much brighter making it hard to see where the pyro is exactly.

I got reminded again of the 4 stupid youtube view achievements and then of replays in general. And then about the halfassed tutorials that no longer work. And then the coaching system. And then duels still being "season 1". TF2 has so much bloat of features that were inplemented and then dropped before they were finished, I'd actually like a deletion update that just straight up removes functions they have no interest in fixing anymore

In other news, rapidly clicking mouse1 with flamethrowers instead of holding it down now does an absurd amount of damage. I guess it's because of what TheOnlyGuyEver already posted here, and clicking makes the particles slower and thus linger inside the hurtbox I've also seen people wiggle around their aim on purpose but I'm not 100% certain that works

That's actually kinda interesting; how did people get into tf2? For me it was mostly portal memes; saw the orange box on sale and it had portal so I bought it, finished portal and the hl2s before even touching tf2. Then after getting into it a bit I found this video because a friend got me listening to Pendulum And then I got turbo hooked even though my pc couldn't really run tf2 and I mostly played it at that same friend's house

I'm not sure which one I played exactly, it was the one with the tf2 promo items. I remember losing some games because of autotapping mana at least.

And so EA will go into history for permanently seriously damaging the gaming industry by pushing the limit until it broke I expect/hope the EU will enforce an 18+ rating on lootbox games instead of pulling an Australia and banning games outright

Magic 2014 is a game I played M2014 briefly, but although it is pretty entertaining it is so limited compared to paper magic or other digital games. If I recall there are really odd limitations on what can be in your deck and it autotaps mana for you which can fuck you over

I'm super jelly

I thought Jonathan was boring as shit and I went through it waiting for when the stands would kick in which according to everyone on the interrnet is the greatest thing Then Joseph came along and I loved that shit, great bad guys too but still no stands Then Jotaro came and stands became a thing and I realized it's just a monster of the week show and I stopped after 5ish episodes. But apparently it still becomes good afterwards?

Every great thing valve ever did eventually spawned horrible things Half Life started the realistic shooter craze TF2 started lootboxes Portal started obnoxious videogame fanbases Old Valve started Current Valve

Since the money always stays in Valve's hands, it technically isn't (but really is). Getting to what should and should not be allowed legally is pretty tough I'd say, there is a huge grey area. I still think that purely cosmetic items are fine for a gambling system, but it goes South as soon as gameplay affecting items can get won that way. But good luck trying to define that legally. And of course, there's microtransation shit like in the new Shadow of Mordor, which I think is basically just as scummy, but not something you can outlaw in any way. I think that, even though it doesn't work that well, just refusing to buy into those products is still the best thing to do as a consumer. There's still plenty of devs that make good games with payment models not handcrafted by the Devil

I think everyone can agree that pay to win gamble systems are scummy, but then what? Should some pay models straight up be made illegal? I would not agree with that. The best we could do is making some payment models count as gambling, and forcing an 18+ rating onto them. That will make publishers very reluctant to use such models. But then I wonder where the line should be, as making all lootbox systems universally 18+ would do way more harm than good

All flare guns got their damage effectively kept the same; 4 afterburn per tick but less burn duration. That is still a big buff however as you really have to dash to get a medpack, and a full flare hit is 90 damage I feel like the normal flamethrowers are a little too much reward for required skill, and it's kind of silly the dragons fury has barely any reward compared to them for demanding much more aim and not having the crowd control powers.

So now the pyrostorm has settled a bit (except on new maps) what do you all think of our new and inproved pyro? The jetpack is a lot better than I originally thought and I find myself equipping it a lot. Dragon Fury is still fun as fuck and even though I see a lot of people complain about it i think it is conpletely fine, pyro needs that damage potential to keep up with the generalists. I do find that pyro suicidebombing with normal flamethrowers has gotten really goddamn annoying though, with the increased afterburn tick a pyro can easily just bumrush a crowd and trade for a shitton of damage. Especially as scout turning a corner into a pyro is just instadeath. Flare guns are also ridiculously good now. I wouldn't say it is inherently too strong now but it can really get on my nerves. I also hope they make the gas passer actually useful, it's a neat concept but right now it's a hell of a long charge for a medium strong effect

Yes exactly, unironically.

Cold weather is such suffering in the morning though, I'm already not a morning person and now I have to leave my comfy warm bed to freeze my nose off biking to work

Talking about "having the right" or any type of morality with this subject doesn't really go anywhere if you ask me. In the end businesses gotta business. I think the real question is where the line is in how much you are legally allowed to promote gambling in minors. Anyone over 18 willing to spend 400 bucks to play as Darth Vader should do so

This lootbox shit has gotten completely out of hand and I'm pretty sure devs are pushing the limits so hard there WILL be legal actions in some countries eventually. I worry that will do more bad than good however; for many games lootboxes is what keeps updates free and if lootboxes were banned tomorrow I'm pretty certain everyone here would have to spend a lot more money to keep playing the games they're playing now. Although it sucks you can't always get the cosmetics you want in OW I think that system is still completely within boundaries, and getting a straightforward "buy what you want" shop next to lootboxes would either demand ridiculous prices (like ten bucks for a single skin) or make lootboxes completely obsolete. As for ridiculous shit like this Star Wars Battlefront stuff, the argument is often made to vote with your wallet but that does not really hold up as these systems are by design built to exploit a few whales Another dog I have in the fight is how this will affect things like magic the gathering, which would suffer massive losses if a sweeping 18+ restriction would be put over all these systems, whilst an 18+ rating wouldn't really do much at all against the perpetrators in games

Skewy ghost het for scouts voicelines