TF2 General Chat and Speculation Station V9 - Sad Heavy Hours? Who Up?
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if ya spent 3 minutes reading the article maybe you wouldve realized this is about people actively harassing people even outside of tf2
Let's try to at least keep the modding/TF2 forum community toxin free.
Yeah, censoring TF2 would probably fuck it up hard in the ass. Blizzard is already the most nazi at this, HoTS is a great example, you get banned for the slightest shit ever. Toxicity or not but censoring games should not be a fucking thing
Hostile / Toxic environments have been a thing in gaming in general ( not just TF2 ) for quite a long time now. In and out of game as well. It feels like stating that they're just now catching wind of it. I will admit though, hearing about it occurring outside of the game to people in person has started to become more and more of a problem as of late though.
Not to be an edgy contrarian, but I like a bit of leveled toxicity in my competitive online games. The occasional bit of shit-talking and gloating just fits so well with TF2's brand of humor. If a player's being a toxic dickhead, that only makes it sweeter when you dominate him and Schaudenfreude over his corpse.
And then autobalance puts you on the same team as that dude and the shit-talking turns into bants as you end up working together/competing for the top spot on the board. If they're still being a dick, just wait for someone to micspam baby noises or votekick him or something; it's an old-school kind of system of rivalry and camaraderie that you don't get in games like Overwatch, where the display of any emotion besides smiling politely (but not too politely) has been made illegal by the dev team.
I'm gonna call you a bitch, you're gonna call me a cunt, we're both gonna exchange wicked banter, and we're both gonna be laughing together
don't let this culture die
The thing is, literally nobody is proposing taking away your garden-variety toxicity.
Taunting, casual BM, whatever- what's being spoken about specifically are people throwing around slurs and specifically harassing players in the competitive scene. Uberchain was sexually assaulted, countless people have come out about being targeted with sexist, transphobic, racist bullshit- this is so much more than just "bantz" or whatever.
I really think you guys should take into consideration what's actually being spoken against before getting defensive.
I like how they correctly mention that valve shits on this game for the amount of money it makes.
Valve’s absentee parenting is a contributing factor to all this.
We run bare iron (a physical, non-virtualized server) that's reasonably beefy (mirrored SSDs, Xeon processor). It handles six TF2 servers and whatever else we throw at it (Killing Floor 1, 7 Days to Die, etc.) The connection is pretty solid (100MBPS, located in the middle of the continental US). All of this comes at a cost. $80/mo IIRC.
$80/mo per server? or $80/mo total?
This is the crux of the issue - it's one thing to be "you fuckin' suck dude", and an entirely different beast to be like "i hate your country and i hope you get bombed".
it's a dedicated server
So it runs all the other servers then? Because he's talking about multiple servers (6 TF2 servers is a lot, I'm looking into 1, maybe 2 max).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEBwrh_vIVU
"What can you do"
Well, as the single largest sponsor in TF2, I refuse to allow extremely toxic pieces of garbage to earn money from myself and the community. So I won't sponsor an event that allows those people to play.
You stop giving them the time of day. You force them out.
Good thing you're big enough to do something about it and we're not then.
It's like you don't even understand what the conversation has been about dude.
Yeah, so stop trying to get in the way of people who can do something about it by whining about how nothing can be done.
Also this looks really fucking fun
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You really have no idea what you're even arguing against
I sincerely hope half the TF2 community isn't getting up to what's been described in the various articles covering this.
Hint: we're not talking about your average trash-talking. Stop responding to an argument that isn't being made and read the article yo
You replied to my post, I'm arguing about what was on my post
Also all of my friend's achievements just completely reset, stats, play hours, etc.
The fuck?
It's not hacking, it's just SAM.
Third-party achievement unlocker in case you want 100% of the achievements for 0% of the effort.
She got her stats reset infront of me, sitting next to me. It's not SAM, all she did was play a casual game and then I noticed in Loading screen all the stats were gone.
So no, It's not SAM.
Yea well thats all fine and all guys, but i just wanna say i actually like the ticket boy, okay?!
I don't know why you're trying to discuss anything with him, he's the same guy that in the original thread about this issue, constantly told people to just ignore it because it's just guys being guys over serious sexual harassment. He clearly doesn't understand what he's even arguing for, and/or is just being contrarian for god knows what reason
Not everyone are a special snowflake like you that thinks their opinion is the most correct one.
sorry buddy but no
but i respect your opinion mainly cause you're cool
calling people snowflakes doesn't hide the fact that you clearly didn't read the article, or else you wouldn't be turning it into a conversation about basic banter/BM.
seriously, dude. you're better than this.
it completes the mad milk outfit i have. it's perfect for a milk man outfit hahah
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