Team Fortress 2 Community - A free-to-play dress up game for grownups, gameplay fully automated! Waiting to be mercy killed...

[McKennai]

I remember stockpiling mvm tickets from the christmas stockings and only completing my favorite missions instead of the whole tour so I could replay them whenever I wanted instead of paying valve for the privilege of playing with competent people. Weezy's fucking insane for spending this much on a slot machine that only spits out pennies.

Back on MVM release you could actually play it for nothing considering loots per mission were valuable and often amounted more or less to the price of a single ticket.
Valve really created a gambling addict breed of its own.

 

[Bukke Bruse]

Heard about the ban wave going on so, went to the subreddit hoping to see people seethe. But there honestly isn't as much whining as I had hoped.

Did find this tranny user whining about being banned for being a bot hoster https://old.reddit.com/user/LeviHVH

https://old.reddit.com/r/valve/comments/1drbb3o/im_sorry/

 

[Unyielding Stupidity]

Heard about the ban wave going on so, went to the subreddit hoping to see people seethe. But there honestly isn't as much whining as I had hoped.

Did find this tranny user whining about being banned for being a bot hoster https://old.reddit.com/user/LeviHVH

https://old.reddit.com/r/valve/comments/1drbb3o/im_sorry/
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Some more seethe from this same tranny:

They've also allegedly put ants up their penis, but the only source I've seen for this was from 4chan, so take it with a pinch of salt:

 

[BlueCandles]

How does one fail to kill themselves by jumping off a building? Was it a bungalow or a hobbit hole?

 

[ABE LINN COHN]

How does one fail to kill themselves by jumping off a building? Was it a bungalow or a hobbit hole?

Probably by getting talked down or waiting long enough for the firemen to deploy their anti-jumper trampoline.

 

[Lovely Baron]

They've also allegedly put ants up their penis, but the only source I've seen for this was from 4chan, so take it with a pinch of salt:
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Holy shit I know that faggot! he is very well known for being a massive attention whore and his name is Kirts Jenkings, he's actually from Spain and he has done a lot of things like a Rap about incest and almost got into jail once for doing a cum tribute to the Spanish Royal Family. The ant thing comes from a OnlyFans he did while being underage... I wonder if there are other bot hosters like him

 

[Gay Pedo Clown]

>Lilith
Are troons really this uncreative? Seriously never met one who's not named that, Emily or another exotic name

 

[Patrick Bait-man]

Not specifically TF2-oriented but I thought this was the best place to post it: SteamRep will be shutting down after over 13 years of being online at the end of this year due to being "no longer effective", with it's API being retired next year on June 15th, 2025.


RIP "+rep" and "-rep".

 

[Toolbox]

Not specifically TF2-oriented but I thought this was the best place to post it: SteamRep will be shutting down after over 13 years of being online at the end of this year due to being "no longer effective", with it's API being retired next year on June 15th, 2025.
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RIP "+rep" and "-rep".

Thank fucking god, I've seen enough of that spam on random Steam profiles. Had no idea it was some sort of jank software that let people establish some sort of bootleg community driven social credit system. Nothing of value was lost.

 

[Google.com]

Thank fucking god, I've seen enough of that spam on random Steam profiles. Had no idea it was some sort of jank software that let people establish some sort of bootleg community driven social credit system. Nothing of value was lost.

-rep scammer and homosexual

 

[QueenMegan]

Thank fucking god, I've seen enough of that spam on random Steam profiles. Had no idea it was some sort of jank software that let people establish some sort of bootleg community driven social credit system. Nothing of value was lost.

-rep trans

 

[Throng of Titans]

Not specifically TF2-oriented but I thought this was the best place to post it: SteamRep will be shutting down after over 13 years of being online at the end of this year due to being "no longer effective", with it's API being retired next year on June 15th, 2025.
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RIP "+rep" and "-rep".

+rep and -rep aren't Steamrep related, that's just faggots spamming each other's profiles. It's never going away.

Steamrep is instead an autistic detective service where people would report each other's scams and get marks on their profiles for it. This was somewhat effective back when it was mostly 12 year old stealing each other's shit, but nowadays, most scams are bots and stolen accounts, which Steamrep was never designed to deal with.

The biggest loss will be the hilarious e-drama threads of retards yelling about getting their pixels stolen, to the point of faking screenshots to try and get away with it.

 

[licks berty]

The best use of steamrep was history view, where you could pop a tranny's steam profile into it, then look at their past aliases, which would then reveal their deadname quite often because steam defaulted to using your email address as a username and they hadn't trooned out yet.

Still other sites for that, although, steamrep has better UI than most.

 

[piombo]

on an interesting happening, /tf2g/ anons are working to hunt down bot hosters and mass report their accounts, shockingly it was discovered that majority of these hosters are either children/minors (which makes shounic a complete retard), or trannies hosting and running old-ass scripts

edit: now i have read the post up there that covered the argentinian tranny, i'm a retardnigger

 

[SlipNHonkMach2]

Valve really created a gambling addict breed of its own.

There's a good reason why Valve seeks out psychologists
https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/jobs?job_id=11

• Conducting statistical analyses on Valve's gameplay, financial, and company data to identify patterns of behavior

 

[annex]

I've been thinking about this for a couple of days, but I think Valve only works on games/hardware that they know will benefit them in the future and Team Fortress doesn't really align with that so they aren't really interested in working towards coming up with a solution for all these issues that the community has.

The hardware aspect is more compelling to this point compared to their games and it's mainly what Valve seems to be focusing on since they've got a tight hold on the software aspect through Steam, the Steam Machine was the first hardware focused device that was released to the public. There's not really much to say about the Steam Machine since it's basically just a prepackaged computer in a custom case but it was probably their first attempt at manufacturing in house, then came the Steam Controller and Steam Link, none really cares about the Steam Link but the Steam Controller had a lot going for it especially with the gyro which no other controller really had at the time. Now we have the Steam Deck which takes a lot of these elements from earlier products and sort of put it into one, if you realistically think about it the Steam Deck is all these products mashed together into a single device.

VR is another element that Valve seems to be heavily focused on, I'm not really knowledgeable about the history of Valve's contribution so you have to take what I say with a grain of salt since I'm going off memory, but the team working on VR stuff at Valve was heavily involved with the people over at HTC and Oculus (before being bought out by Facebook). The HTC Vive was really a showcase of all these technologies that these companies had worked on into a single package and realistically it was more of collaboration between the two companies with Valve working mainly on the tracking, software and the controls. This eventually led to Valve releasing their own manufactured headset aka the Valve Index, alongside that came the eventual release of Half Life: Alyx which was used not only as a selling point for the Index since there really wasn't many VR games but also as a way to test the hardware.

Valve doesn't really care about their hardware being profitable and would rather they just use these creations as a sort of learning experience for the future, that future being neural interfaces and shit through the company Starfish Neuroscience which Gabe Newell is a cofounder of.

 

[Fireman Sam]

First off. Pretty good that they actually made a coordinated effort to go on a real banning spree. At least big enough to make noise over this. I wonder if there was anything in particular that got some valve employee to get off their ass to do something. If what I've heard about Valve is true, devs pretty much pick and choose their projects and ride or die with them. Someone must have been bored working on Deadgamebreak and might have just wanted something to do that had some impact.

But the bot problem will be back in a month. Mark my words.
Valve got rid of the most loudmouthed botters, mostly skids and people from retarded discord cults who never bothered to hide it in the first place. Arguably they were the ones that ran the majority of server clearing bots but I don't think anything will be done about idlers. It'd make the figures of the game look bad and they're not actively disrupting gameplay (trading and item lootbox gambling isn't gameplay) so I can't see Valve wasting resources on it.

Cheating is still going to be an issue. And even if something like LMAObox is harder to use, it's not impossible to cheat. It'll always be a thing. But that's just a consequence of a f2p game.

While the banwave may have had real significance. The collective paranoia in the tf2 community will persist forever. People will abuse kicks because they got rekt by a pubstomper and scream HAX. They will keep '#Fixtf2' in their name like the NPCs they are. They'll constantly sperg about bots and the reddit fueled shitfest will continue once people realize that this banwave is really just a temporary setback for actually dedicated botters. History repeats itself and the playerbase has pysched themselves up so much they kinda just forget about the past.

Watching bot trannies cry and want to kill themselves over this is very funny though. That's the real win in my book.

>Lilith
Are troons really this uncreative? Seriously never met one who's not named that, Emily or another exotic name

Yes. Troons are very uncreative and robotic people. Many don't really care about the name they use because it's really just an online fetish. They just want a LARPy name that they think is sexy or whatever. They're either porn addicted men who just think they're special and seductive, or actual kids who think naming themselves the female equivalent of Xavier Darkness ShadowFucker is really really epic and cool

All people called Lilith are troons. No exceptions

 

[Toolbox]

There's not really much to say about the Steam Machine since it's basically just a prepackaged computer in a custom case but it was probably their first attempt at manufacturing in house

The Steam Machine concept is a little more interesting than that, it wasn't so much trying to manufacture in house as it was licensing the idea of semi-proprietary mini pcs running some Valve software out to several manufacturers and seeing if they could establish an ecosystem of the things. It inevitably failed, but it's interesting to think what could have been if Valve marketed a bit better.

 

[annex]

it wasn't so much trying to manufacture in house as it was licensing the idea of semi-proprietary mini pcs running some Valve software out to several manufacturers and seeing if they could establish an ecosystem of the things

Yeah that was what they intended to do but they also had their own Valve/Steam branded machines that weren't made by some third party company like Alienware, I have no clue if they actually released it out for the public or if it was released to a couple select people and some of the inventory was used to convince those third party companies into actually creating a system around the idea they had. I think it's reasonable to say that they created the first batch of Steam Machines as a way to understand the manufacturing process before they moved onto to making the Steam Controller and Steam Link.

It inevitably failed, but it's interesting to think what could have been if Valve marketed a bit better.

I think they could have done if it but only if they offered funding to companies to make them switch over to Linux, which was the bones of the Steam Machine. You have to remember that this all started because Microsoft was pushing for their own store to take over the market by having it baked into Windows 8 and were actively pushing people away from using Steam, obviously that never succeeded but at the time it was a fairly big risk for Valve. Realistically Linux was their only choice since they apparently had bad blood with Apple from when Valve wanted to port Half Life 1 to MacOS, the bad blood was also be furthered by some shit happening with VR, so don't except either company to collaborate on anything ever. But if Valve truly wanted to take over they would have to convince basically every publishing company, development studio, technology company that builds PCs, indie developers, developers for games, basically the point is that they would have to be throwing money like Epic Games did and see basically no return on their investment.

 

[Sperglord666]

Didn't this come from a bunch of retards throwing a fit over inexperienced players getting tricked into trading away hats in exchange for common items? I know trading items for cash is a thing, but the forums where that goes on always had volunters that would offer escrow to prevent shenanigans.