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Aw, they must have just went down. I was looking at them a minute ago. Basically it went down like this: 45 comes in and posts this rant about how the new restrictions are ruining the game, that he isn't going to be able to have fun any more because he'll get stuck with shitty teams, how Valve is going downhill, how they're all a bunch of pinkhearted pinkhearts and that he refuses to play MVM or pay for Mann Up any more. You know, basically throwing a shit fit. I explain why he's an idiot and tell him he shouldn't be pubbing if he's really that concerned about finding a decent team. He posts this caps lock rant slinging insults at me. I tell him he's an idiot, again. Someone else mentions that the new restrictions cut down on farming, to which he replies "that never happens" and throws another insult laden block of text at me saying I'm (read: "your") a nine year old loser who's never beat MVM and shit like that. So at this point I'm like fuck it, this guy is obviously a troll. I don't respond to the thread for a while and he tries to bait me with an "I see you finally stfu lol" post. Meanwhile other people are basically telling him he's an idiot and he's filling every response with as many pink hearts as he can. I see his bait post, say I don't want to waste my time with a troll, he basically says "I like bashing Valve and swearing, it's fun", and some time later, thread gets eram'd. I don't think he deleted the entire thread, but all of my posts from the incident are gone.

Yeah, he put the guy in timeout. Posts are still there for anyone else who wants to read them, though.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/search.php?searchid=17337916

Someone going into full on retard rage mode about the new rules on the forums. I thought there might be a good chance it was one you trolling.

Okay, which one of you is forty-five? You had me going there for a second. Well played.

din'un.

The Loch-n-Load is an absolute rapebeast if you can hit your targets. A few times I wiped entire teams with it no problem. Paired with a targe it's even nastier as it seems to give you complete fire and explosives resistance. The Brass Beast is also pretty damned formidable, but you're essentially a completely immobile sentry that takes a while to get set up. Once you DO get set up, though... I did not realize this! I've been running around with the whole set on. I wonder what the other set bonuses have been set to... +10 health per second regen for the Medic or +250 health for the Scout sounds pretty handy.

http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/921242003833241928/A0F2859E0B5BAA9051180A4C76873DC25DF8A88C/this is the best day of my life.

I assume you wouldn't have to worry about it at all if you used localized time dilation instead of classic super speed. With relativistic speed you would strike your opponent with a normal punch while the force of the blow would only be amplified outside of your "time bubble". Physics wouldn't fuck with your body, just everyone else's.... right?

Most OP: Empathic Mimicry/Power Absorption Favorite: Telekinesis Possible Power Choice: I've actually put way too much thought into this question prior to this thread, so I have a few different options I would pick from, the last of which I kind of made up myself: 1. Telekinesis Because it's fucking cool and absurdly versatile. 2. Teleportation I'd probably pair this ability with conventional weaponry (guns, grenades, that sort of thing). Since I think Remote Teleportation is OP, I'd have to touch an object in order to TP it. The standard secondary power with this ability is spacial awareness. 3. Biological Manipulation/Cellular Absorbtion I don't really have a proper name for this one, but I have a general idea how it would work. Basically, for anyone who's seen this film, this ability would make me similar to "The Thing", or the lead character from Prototype if people are more familiar with that. My cells would function more as a "collective" than as part of a singular organism and I would be able to control them in order to rapidly manipulate my anatomy. I could absorb and replicate the DNA and biomass from other organisms, adapting and even improving on their biological uniqueness to enhance my own physiology - meaning, I could touch a snake and copy its venom, or just absorb an entire fucking cow for extra organic material to work with. I could even break myself or parts of myself down into smaller organisms that would function independently. I would also be able to absorb human beings for the purposes of accessing their memories or mimicking them, but I would not be able to duplicate their abilities. Secondary for this ability would be the an intuitive aptitude for genetics. I would mostly want this secondary ability in order to control the aforementioned "smaller organisms". While I wouldn't be able to command them telepathically when separated from me, I could program instincts into their genetic code so that they would carry out simple tasks when I am not able to directly control them. For instance, if I were to be blown to pieces, the chunks of my body would be "programmed" to instinctively be drawn to seek each other out and recombine. I would have many of these programs on call that I could use offensively or as organic tools.

I also accidentally stumbled upon this. Enjoy.

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Really? I actually like iTunes quite a bit.

Little too far north. I think he was actually born in Nepal and spent a good portion of his life around India.

For those of you unfamiliar with it, Black Mesa: Source is an updated remake of the original Half Life. These guys are pretty much redoing the whole thing from the ground up and have gone through a considerable amount of effort, even going so far as to completely rerecord the game's

It's really fascinating to see how large the generational gap can be between immigrants and their children. Kids born in America often become "Americanized" very quickly.

This is a thread of the utmost quality.

Am I the only one who actually likes playing Medic?

My koss headphones broke a while ago.Finally sent them in for repair with a note and a check for S&H. A couple of weeks later they've sent me back a brand new pair, no questions asked.Lifetime warranties are nice, man.

Never banned. Of my five infractions I have, three are yellow (zero points) and two are red (four points), all expired.Last one I got was in May of 2011. I think I'm due to raise some more mischeif soon.

It's not Half Life. It's Half Life: Source, or what it should have been anyway.

I completely agree with you "on paper". It seems pretty ridiculous that people hold our entire country responsible for the actions of a few. At the same time, there are a lot of contributing factors here. For one, to these people, the United States not taking legal action against the filmmaker/s is just one more example of how our country is "anti-islam". People like to say "it's just a youtube clip, what's the big deal?" but you have to understand that in most of the places these people live in, even something simple like that could get you arrested, jailed, or worse. That kind of stuff is very stricly regulated. The entire concept of "freedom of speech" is simply not relatable because they don't have those kinds of rights. They assume that the US government themselves condone these anti-Islamic sentiments because in their country, the government only allows sentiments that they agree with to be expressed. So, the simple act of not supressing this video makes it look like the government actually supports it, in the eyes of many Muslims. On top of that you have extremist groups waiting in the wings to take advantage of situations like these to rile the people up. Like I said, it just further exacerbates the whole "Us vs. Them" mentality that a lot of these militant muslims have.

This is exactly what I came here to post. When you look at the way that just about every non-Islamic power has fucked over the Middle East time and time again, it's really no surprise that radical groups managed to lead people into this angry "Us vs. Them" mentality. These people feel like they have no power and are at the mercy of nations that are predominantly Christian or Jewish, so they retreat further into their Islamic identies and pull this holy war shit. So, to expand on what I was saying befoere, it's not just the fact that these people have a poor quality of life. It's the fact that these people have a poor quality of life that, in many ways, countries like the United States caused. These are people that are lashing out because they feel (and in many cases are) victimized.

I think it has a lot to do with the quality of life and the religion. Many countries that are occupied predominantly by Christians have a higher quality of living (to be fair, probably because they've gone out of their way to fuck over just about everyone else) while a lot of the countries where this kind of shit happens are not the nicest places to live. If Muslims were all fat and happy and Christians were trying to eke out a living alongside radical religious groups who would kill people, hold back progress and generally make life shitty for them, it might be the other way around. Either way, I think both of them have the potential to breed violent behavior.