[quote][B]Fire When Ready, but Spare My Hat
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What would Philip Treacy or Eugenia Kim make of the Vintage Merryweather or the Gentleman’s Gatsby, two of the virtual hats coveted by fans of the first-person shooter video game Team Fortress 2?
They would most likely scratch their heads over the fact that the computer-generated chapeaus, which serve no purpose except to allow players to dress up their avatars, sell for upward of $2,000 — in real money. [/quote]
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[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/13/fashion/fire-when-ready-but-spare-my-hat.html[/url]
I remember seeing what was probably a married couple heavy medic combo playing TF2 once, both wearing a different set of matching unusuals each round. It with both great pride and shame that I made them ragequit by constantly one-shotting them with caber charges.
NYTimes: "Your hobby is fucking weird."
[QUOTE=GoldenGnome;41028787]NYTimes: "Your hobby is fucking weird."[/QUOTE]
In my opinion, it is. They're HATS. They have no status value, they do nothing. I think they are ridiculous. And the kid who spent his student loan check on them is a moron.
It's not just a hobby, you can make loads of money in the TF2 economy if you play your cards right.
[QUOTE=WhiskeyTangoF;41029286]It's not just a hobby, you can make loads of money in the TF2 economy if you play your cards right.[/QUOTE]
some people live off tf2 like this one guy on sourceop is making thousands because he's quick
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