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everyday the “everyone is twelve” theory only gets proven truer and truer, especially in online spaces. i think i really am living up to my bio as the only human using the internet correctly.

@AannoyingCaat @YURlSUSHI it had to have happened consistently enough for Valve to feel like gutting BLU was the right choice. in all fairness the main game does wire players brains to shoot the people with the opposite color, and with MvM being an entirely new idea i could see it happening regularly.

@sketch702_ @YURlSUSHI Yeah that's what I'm thinking aswell ngl. The story makes it seem like they had a super long session where players sometimes just started failing to do PvP and needed help. But I'm thinking (and hoping) it happened like, once or twice and the devs just cut it. But I wouldn't know

my favorite Valve Playtesters being dumb™ story is them having to remove being able to use the crowbar in half life:Alyx cause players kept thinking they were playing as Gordon lmao

I felt like making a Demoman portrait that leaned towards realism #tf2

@AannoyingCaat @YURlSUSHI in game development, even the shortest moment of confusion is a bad sign. especially to Valve, who try to optimize their game design to the point that even someone whose never touched a video game in their life can play with as little confusion as possible.

@sketch702_ @YURlSUSHI I will always kinda wish I could see exactly what was going on with the Playtesters at the time. Cause there's no way this lasted past the whole, pre round set up. I refuse to believe they got THAT confused for so long.

Reject AI.

Lots of brain-dead people are saying things like, “You’re just trying to manufacture outrage,” or “It’s just an ammo pickup, why do you care?” What they fail to realize is that this is just a symptom of a much bigger problem What made the original Halo aesthetic so believable was that its artists grounded its fictional designs in real-world military hardware and engineering. Even though Halo takes place centuries in the future, its equipment still looked like it was designed by people who understood manufacturing, logistics, reliability, maintainability, and practicality. That attention to engineering detail is what gave Halo its unique visual identity and made the universe feel authentic This redesign abandons those principles in favor of a generic “sci-fi” look. On its own, it’s just an ammo container. But taken alongside countless other design changes over the years, it represents a gradual erosion of one of Halo’s core design pillars This is how an iconic visual identity dies, not through one massive change, but through hundreds of small decisions made by people who either don’t understand or don’t value what made the original design language so compelling in the first place. Death by a thousand cuts

The last time an update had: - no bots - no 15m queues - 50%+ map hit rate …was 2018. And yet, no one cares. It’s impossible *to* care. The over abundance of content has caused every sequential addition to matter less and less. This model is unsustainable, always has been.

Yeah fuck it- looking at the general responses to the summer update (on Twitter), it once again confirms for me that most people in the TF2 sphere don't actually play the game. No one is talking about the matchmaking system breaking, AGAIN. Want to play on the new maps? Sorry! No one is talking about the maps breaking/the insane frame drops on one of the new maps. No one is talking about the new hard game crashes, amongst other broken shit. But don't worry guys, Sniper is a cowboy now! Cough up $2.50 a crate to roleplay as everyone's favorite meme, Big Iron! How is this acceptable from a multi-billion dollar company? Why are we not holding Valve to a higher standard? This is pathetic. Of course you'll see the usual non-argument: "The game is old, move on, just stop playing it!" As if though that would be an acceptable solution for ANY other game offered as live, playable, and monetized for tens of millions each year. And my personal favorite : "JUST SHUT UP AND ENJOY THE UPDATE!" I wish I was kidding. What the fuck is wrong with us? Is ignorance and cognitive dissonance all that's left? This has to stop, because unless we do something, it's only going get worse.

oh wow, thats a lotta screenshots i sure do like taking pictures of games

obligatory compilation of casual shitting the bed while trying to play the new maps:

TF2 2026 Summer Update finally dropped! thoughts on the new maps: Mojave: immaculate map. feels right at home alongside TF2's launch maps, plays great on both attack and defense. these are the kinds of maps TF2 needs and deserves. 10/10, a permanent addition to my map pool.

Dryfield: decent map. plays okay, but feels overbaked. i can appreciate that it tries to go for TF2's classic artstyle but it has too many props and small details that make the map feel cluttered and adds too much visual noise. gonna play this one a bit more to feel it out.

Redwood: surprisingly fun and looks great. i enjoyed this one more than i thought i would, went into it thinking the ziplines were just a dumb gimmick but ended up having a great time. looking forward to playing this one more.

As someone who knows Bloop personally, this isn't true at all. He's a very talented person who made a ton of the best TF2 videos in recent memory. I can't believe that being sad about a game you love turning out badly is grounds for being called an "unmedicated nut".

every time this tweet comes across my feed it has a different community note, it’s hilarious. they want people to think physical discs are unpopular sooo bad but it’s abundantly clear that the audience for physical media is massive and they’re just full of shit. fuck Sony.

I made a Team Fortress 2 contest and got noticed by Valve. Here's how. (Video in replies)

@SavageKid5027 it's to artificially add more "value" to buying games digitally opposed to physically. "look, you can track time played and other data if you buy it digitally! can't do that with physical- b-but just ignore that you could for the past 20 years until we decided you couldn't!!!"

genuinely why would sony even do this