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Alright so hi hows everyone doing today, I hope youre doing well. I came here to write a mile-long post bitching about the state of Team Fortress 2, its design, and how commentary around its design has rapidly changed over the past few months.

To introduce people who don't know a shit about TF2; it's basically the game that set in stone the genre of "hero shooter" [Class Shooter] and how it should generally work. Prequels to Team Fortress 2, such as Team Fortress Classic, or Team Fortress [Quake Mod] do exist and show more barebones gameplay, but Team Fortress 2 did the concept so well that it's been solidified as the OG of the genre. The game has been subject to 9 years of pre-release closed-house development [1998 to 2007], 9 years of post-release open-house development in the form of regular updates [2008 to 2017], and then a further 8 going on 9 years of ignorance where there was basically no development and no novel… anything… in the TF2 community [2018 to present].

The biggest implication for (You), random passerby, is that TF2 is a game witha whole bunch of concepts and jargon that are thrown around within the community of TF2 that means something far more specific than what it does outside the TF2 community. For example, when discussing the game's design, "Competitive" is used not just to describe a moment in TF2 where player-versus-player competition is generally increased; be it the Valve-designed mechanic of Dominations [getting 4 kills on a player without said player killing you back, which puts a literal target over your head plus other aesthetics to encourage that player to target you and vice-versa], or the outright existence of organized competitive leagues. In TF2, "Competitive" is used as a shorthand for the rulesets generally used by competitive TF2 leagues. "Valve Competitive" is used as a shorthand for the "competitive TF2 que" that Valve had added in its ill-fated 2016 Meet-Your-Match update. The "Competitive Community" is a semi-existing strata of players who agree that competitive TF2 is good, and its implied at least some of them want "Competitive" to be TF2's main ruleset.

I'm not going to write the whole history, so if you ever have four fucking hours to yourself, I'd recommend watching this video by a local chud of the TF2 community: https://youtu.be/JNxg5stxlhk

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I hope you people will start uploading your game clips, or at least those of a player that knows what they're doing! Don't worry! I'll make you!

Repost because of the body was epic nonsensense!!

So does anyone know why exactly every Phantasy Star related forum is full of AI bullshit now? I swear, at first I thought it was just the subreddit (because of course it would), but other places like the pscave forums have AI art bullshit plastered everywhere, and even searching for youtube remixes leads me to AI music.
I'd talk about the irony of so much AI garbage being made by the community, when Phantasy Star 2 especially is so anti-AI, but it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Like is everyone who plays these now just utterly, creatively bankrupt?
…Later, ace!

He would 100% be a light based ninja with a crystal rapier as his weapon of choice:

Signature Moves:

Photokinetic Blast (Beam Attack): Floyd fires a concentrated, translucent beam from his palms, causing damage and burn damage over time against the opponent.
The Twist: If the beam passes through one of his "Crystal Walls," it splits into three separate beams (refraction), hitting a wider area for increased chip damage.

Prismatic Barrier (Defensive): He summons a crystalized, translucent wall glowing hardened light.
Effect: It doesn't just block projectiles; it reflects them back at the opponent with 1.5x speed and 1x5 damage.

Prism Pillar (Defensive) Floyd summons a massive, translucent crystal from the ground. It acts as a physical wall, but when light hits it, it casts a rainbow-tinted "safe zone" behind it where Floyd can recover health.

Shimmering Shield (Buff/DoT): Floyd’s body begins to vibrate at a high frequency, emitting a blinding neon glow.
Defensive: Reduces damage taken by 20%.
Offensive: Opponents standing in "sweep distance" take ticking fire/burn damage as the light literally cooks the air around them.
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what is ur favorite single player fps franchise!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!

I just started playing the Halo games for the first time and they're my new favorite shooty single player games!!! I was SHOCKED with how much better Halo 2 is compared with the first one, and I was SHOCKED once again with the generational leap on Halo 3. I'm still in the beginning of Halo 3, and I'm excited to see how the next ones stack up. they better not disappoint!!!!!!!!!

Anyone still playing the game? For me swiftplay kinda saved it. Only fun mode to play right now, wish they would just return twisted treeline.
What champs and modes do you guys prefer?

Anyway, alk about the game

I'm pretty new to victoria 3, and I'm looking for some advice. What are some fun countries to play as while still being a beginner? Also, what are the best mods I should get?

funny to see honey watson on the timeline again announcing being a writer for ZA/UM's new game someone who has not been relevant for years and put out the 2 most YA looking scifi shit imaginable. well, hope it is worth selling out and being a massive hack for a criminal scumbag. just absolutely no shame working for a company that helped destroy an Estonian left wing art collective and put so much of the members who made the studio what it was in the first place into poverty after taking their work and kicking them out. complete and utter hacks

Disco Elysium to a bit of its detriment already feels too twitter especially mid 2010s twitter but this new ZA/UM game is feeling way way more twitter to an even worse degree straight up hiring a nobody left twitter personality for their game

anarchasm.mc.gg:25565 minecraft 1.5.2 old school anarchy server, 11 months old, do whatever the fuck you want, server is cracked………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

Why am I so bad at beat-em-ups? Played Lollipop Chainsaw, God Hand, and Viewtiful Joe, and couldn't get very far in any of them before ragequitting. My attacks seem to do no damage, whereas when I watch people play the games, they kill enemies in a few hits. I'm clearly doing something wrong. I get that beat-em-ups have multiple attack buttons, and I'm supposed to be performing combos, but I cannot for the life of me figure out when to use which attacks.