TF2 BLOG POST - Buisness Time!

[DrewB]

[url]http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=10307[/url]

April Fools everyone.

[quote]April 1, 2013 - TF2 Team

You may have heard that Reddit bought Team Fortress 2 today. We can officially confirm that this is in fact the case. So if any Reddit staffers are reading this: Hi, boss! We're working pretty hard over here. Well, back to work.

Okay, the Reddit guys've probably stopped reading by now, so we can be square with you: Reddit only thinks it bought us, because that's what we told them when we met them over the weekend to sign all the legal documents. What they don't know is that when a bird flew into a window during the signing and everybody on the TF2 team got scared and some of us started crying, that was a little something we in the business world call a distraction.

The "bird" that "flew" into the window? Not a bird at all. It was a squirrel launched from a t-shirt cannon by one of our guys across the street. The part where we got "scared"? Daniel Day Lewis-level method acting by the TF2 team. The part where some of us started "crying"? That was because the sound of the squirrel hitting the glass was a lot louder than we thought it would be and was legitimately scary. So technically real, but still under the umbrella of our overall deception.

Once the Reddit guys were thoroughly distracted, we took advantage of them awkwardly trying to avoid eye contact with us and switched the legal documents for new documents. Documents that said we actually secretly bought them. Business.

In celebration of our Reddit purchase, we're going to add some new Reddit-themed items to the game. There's also plenty of neat stuff we're working on and would love to tease. But realistically, because today is the International Day of Foolishness, anything we told you guys would just be met with suspicion. And when have we ever trolled our community? Never, that's when. Okay, maybe that one time.
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[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbplQYiSBVQ[/media]

[Psychopath]

I can't wait for the inevitable childishness that ensues when people discriminate against people who have the item or not, just like with the Cheater's Lament.

Fun, right?

[light dasher]

But the link in the post links to Jarate, which actually became an ingame item!
:tinfoil:

[OffTheRoad]

[QUOTE=light dasher;40121277]But the link in the post links to Jarate, which actually became an ingame item!
:tinfoil:[/QUOTE]

The thing is that Jarate was announced on 1st of April, making everyone think it was an April fools joke.

[LightFlock]

Because I'm an itemwhore in a way, I went to reddit. And apparently it's gone free to play.

[img]http://c.thumbs.redditmedia.com/k162r3XpZrDtVK_t.png[/img]

[Frying Dutchman]

the end is nigh.

[DrewB]

[QUOTE=light dasher;40121277]But the link in the post links to Jarate, which actually became an ingame item!
:tinfoil:[/QUOTE]

But that said the [B]next class update[/B]

we knew it was coming when we saw it

we wanted that

we dont even want this

[Ducksink]

added new item quality: "le"

[Mikemaximum]

[QUOTE=Ducksink;40121318]added new item quality: "le"[/QUOTE]

Le Le Party Phantom

[ned_ballad]

maybe the items won't be bad

...

eh...

[Tooie]

Seriously.

Not all of reddit is the bad part of reddit.

/r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu is only one subreddit.

[Mario6493]

[QUOTE=Ducksink;40121318]added new item quality: "le"[/QUOTE]
Items in this quality have a red name and a white background?

[H11]

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;40121385]maybe the items won't be bad

...

eh...[/QUOTE]

[I]that's what we said about Payday[/I]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/cioCp7N.png[/img]

[CWalkthroughs]

"You don't need to pay to win. (But it certainly couldn't hurt!)"

You reddit bastards are so smug.

[ned_ballad]

let's just go into this assuming it's a troll mask and so we'll be happily surprised when it's not. Or when it is.

[Mikemaximum]

[QUOTE=ned_ballad;40121385]maybe the items won't be bad

...

eh...[/QUOTE]
I found a WIP of one of the reddit items.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/zTqz5yV.png[/img]

[CWalkthroughs]

Oh yeah, this reminds me that I have an account on reddit.

I nearly forgot about that,

[Psyke]

There should be a tumblr item

A unique flaregun called "The privilege checker"

[Robmortar]

new heavy weapon called the shitposting sandvich

[LightFlock]

Why does everyone here hate 9gag and reddit and stuff anyway. But then again every site hates all these other ones, right?

[Erfly]

[QUOTE=LightFlock;40121715]Why does everyone here hate 9gag and reddit and stuff anyway. But then again every site hates all these other ones, right?[/QUOTE]

They can run anything into the ground in less than an hour.

[Enth]

[QUOTE=Erfly;40121777]They can run anything into the ground in less than an hour.[/QUOTE]

So can Facepunch and just about any other moderately large online community.

[Jordax]

[QUOTE=Erfly;40121777]They run everything into the ground in less than an hour.[/QUOTE]

Fixed.

[Psyke]

[QUOTE=LightFlock;40121715]Why does everyone here hate 9gag and reddit and stuff anyway. But then again every site hates all these other ones, right?[/QUOTE]

They are devoid of any actual creativity for the most part.

They take content from all over and claim it as there own work/take credit for it when it's not their own work

and the shit they do come up with is stupid as fuck.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCTdpFTslrI[/media]

Example.

[Desuh]

[QUOTE=LightFlock;40121715]Why does everyone here hate 9gag and reddit and stuff anyway. But then again every site hates all these other ones, right?[/QUOTE]

Did you ever visit them?

[LightFlock]

[QUOTE=Desuh;40121815]Did you ever visit them?[/QUOTE]

I've visited them, and box me up tight, but I don't see anything wrong with them.

[Marik Bentusi]

[QUOTE=LightFlock;40121715]Why does everyone here hate 9gag and reddit and stuff anyway. But then again every site hates all these other ones, right?[/QUOTE]

Apparently so, it's a weird kind of "muh secret treehouse club" patriotism. Nothing's safe from sturgeon's law and the same dolts run around everywhere all the time.

I can't say anything about 9gag and reddit for instance, but on tumblr I've just been following art and scribble blogs for like a year and I have no idea how it's connected to the privilege thing people keep reposting.

So yeah I take these things as the same kind of nonsense the "gasmask-fetishist atheist" Facepunch's own stereotype is.

Except 4chan. That's literally the public bathroom stalls of the internet vaguely categorized by topics 99% of the time and that 1% is mostly DnD stories by people that actually go outside and meet up with friends to do something creative together.

[Barobax]

[QUOTE=Robmortar;40121643]new heavy weapon called the shitposting sandvich[/QUOTE]

They are making a promo for the TF2 General Chat board?

[LightFlock]

[QUOTE=Marik Bentusi;40121844]Except 4chan. That's literally the public bathroom stalls of the internet vaguely categorized by topics 99% of the time and that 1% is mostly DnD stories by people that actually go outside and meet up with friends to do something creative together.[/QUOTE]

I'll argue that not all of 9gag, reddit etc. are bad, but no way will I stick up for 4chan.

[Psyke]

[QUOTE=Marik Bentusi;40121844] but on tumblr I've just been following art and scribble blogs for like a year and I have no idea how it's connected to the privilege thing people keep reposting.
[/QUOTE]

The connection with the privilege thing that comes up is the over-abundant amount of social justice bloggers. feminists and pro-misandry folk you'll find on tumblr. and the extremes some of those folks will go

Nothing wrong with women wanting equal rights and whatnot

But when you do shit like this

[img]http://puu.sh/2s4yP/19db1efcc0[/img]

i think you need to get the fuck off the internet for a bit.