John Caveson

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This is going to finally reveal my age as a literal 30 something year old boomer but I've already given enough clues away for that conclusion already, so whatever.
 
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This has been gnawing at my head for a while now, but I have three questions for everybody.
 
First one to tackle of course is the title: Which one is your G.O.A.T? Which is your favorite of each console maker, if applicable? (e.g. favorite Sega system, Nintendo system, Xbox.....)
 
Secondly, what is your favorite console generation of all time? (for reference)
 
The first two questions can be simply answered with the poll ofc, but, detailed explanations and even tier lists are welcomed and encouraged.
 
The third and final question will be more of a thought experiment/game.
 
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You are forced to give up all except one of the gaming devices you own. You get to choose, however, you will be stuck with that device, your current accessories, and only the titles you presently have for it, whether physical or digital, forever. You are given a grace period of 24 hours to redownload any digital games and DLC that you have already purchased, however, you cannot upgrade storage. You cannot choose your PC*.
 
There are four (and a half) variances to this scenario:
 
You have neither Internet access, nor a PC. You have a PC with your current library of games, but no Internet access. You have Internet access, but no PC. You have both of the above. In variances 2 and 4, you are allowed to trade your PC for a second one of your consoles (including handhelds). Would you trade it in? If so, for what?  
As you can see, the third question is aimed more towards people who have more than one console along with our PCs for gaming, which I assume is most of everyone here. If you don't then....I guess you'll just die, lol.
 
*I'm regarding PCs as separate entities in this scenario as it is clearly the best choice, and thus, would make it less interesting. If you have multiple PCs, you must choose which one to keep in the relevant variants.
 
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I only have 3 consoles, all of which will be mentioned in my response (except handhelds ofc, that being the Gameboy Advance SP, and the Nintendo DS).
 
Of those three consoles, I generally find the Series S to be the most reliant on internet access, not only because of the one-time online check for newly installed games and initial setup, but also the plethora of online multiplayer-focused games I have on it compared to the other two consoles. The Gamecube on the other hand I find to be the opposite. Since it has no online capabilities (barring like 5 games, most of which are Japan-exclusive, and all of which need a separate broadband adapter to even use), I can rest assured that whatever game I put in, I know I'll be getting the full experience of that game, internet or not. Meanwhile, the Switch is more of my jack-of-all-trades console. It, being a Nintendo console, will have that superior offline experience, like the Gamecube, while also the capability of utilizing online functionality whenever possible, unlike the GC, but not entirely reliant on it like the Series S, all the while having a good number of 3rd parties, both modern and nostalgic, like the Series S.
 
 
And with that I look forward to your responses.

Got this on my front page just now.

 
Our boy is famous!

It disgusts me when people discriminate against others based on the color of their skin.
 
What actually makes you better or worse is eye color.
 

he's been here since the beginning

It's so silly how people try to say you shouldn't criticize a game that's still being developed, when the period where the game is still being developed is the perfect time that you SHOULD criticize it.

Did an audit on the amount of entities each map in tf2 has. Unsurprisingly, the maps with the most entities are the halloween maps mostly. The limit for a server is 2048 entities and the map with the most is pl_bloodwater (badwater event) with 1586 without any players connected. Each player, cosmetic, and weapon is an entity so each player at least will count for 7 entities.
 
1586+(24*7)=1754 entities used up by players alone. Any player with a cosmetic item in their use slot (like a spellbook or duck) will add yet another entity, and certain classes take up more entities (engineers and spies alone can take up an extra 10 each with buildings and disguises). 2048-1754 gives us 294 entities to work with in a perfect scenario. This is a halloween map, which means everyone will have a spellbook equipped (minus 24, 270 entities to work with). Any spell such as pumpkin bombs, skeletons, or monoculi will add entities, can assume 40 would be in use by these at max at any given time. so we only have 230 entities to work with.
 
This means on the map with the most entities, that if the entire server went engineer and had every cosmetic slot filled AND built all 4 buildings that the server would crash.
 
Want less coordination? 13 demoman (max cosmetics) laying out 14 stickybombs with the Scottish Resistance, and shooting 4 pills each at the same time is enough to crash the server on their own (without any soldiers launching rockets, or other projectiles existing on the map).
 
What's that? Want even LESS coordination? How about this? If you can get 6 medics (max cosmetics) to go to an area with a high ceiling (badwater event last) and look straight up and unload their entire syringe gun magazine into the sky, then the server would crash from just your guys' contributions alone. You can queue into casual servers with 6 people.
 
Basically, what I'm saying is, the fabric of tf2 universe relies on the syringe guns not being popular, since it's the most amount of entities any one player can make on their own (without exploits).
 
 

She's pretty much better now, although obviously still not perfect.

She tells me she's gonna retire and open up a shelter for dogs while also becoming a beekeeper. Which shows that her crazy personality is still intact, thankfully.

He escaped... that we could all be so lucky.

We had to put our dog down last night. In the past week she just went on a sudden down-swing, stopped eating her food, would only eat eggs or rice, and then stopped eating at all. She started throwing up... But she made it through Christmas. We put her in a wagon and pushed her out front of us on our walk, and she stood up straight and tall looking at out everything, just like on all the car and boat rides she loved so much. Then in the following days she just shut down, she could hardly stand and started having seizures, just seemed out of it. We didn't want her to suffer any longer; the vet said it was probably cancer and renal failure. She's alright now.

You know what would be really poggers, fam? If you yeeted yourself off a fucking cliff.

Ah yes, another example of the Halloween version of the map being superior design-wise, like Helltower.
 
*sigh*

Pretty much.

Just lock the old people, immunocompromised, and anyone who doesn't wanna risk it in like gay baby jail or something for two years while the rest of us fight through it while living life normally. FUCK it's so easy why the hell doesn't the government listen to me.

I'll have you know it's called "Sorry!"

Honestly if it wasnt for the bots I'd be completely fine with TF2 staying in the state it's currently in forever. I seriously think it's the most balanced it has ever been. The only weapon in TF2 that I still think is truly overpowered and would have liked to see changed is the Vaccinator. It charges way too quick and crit immunity is not ok
 
Two nitpicks are the state of Spy now being turned from stealth class to 200 HP annoying fly feeding off new players thanks to Kunai and DR, but that isn't really overpowered, just kind of a lame end point for a cool class. The other one is a single Gunslinger on KotH just kind of shutting down Pyro and Scout entirely but Pyro and Scout are also very good on KotH so it sort of balances out.