#thats not to say it cant be recreated or remade exactly. its just idk if i could experience it the same.

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@ those tf2 server related tags: the lazypurple silly servers still exist. and if you want a silly-adjacent server that still has killing/pvp enabled then they also have a "TDM" server where objectives are disabled so you really just get to dick around

i figured his servers would still be around, although i don't think i ever had personally played on his servers before. i think i've seen some videos of them in the past though.

the two servers i use to hang around in through 2012-2016 were mostly just... hang-out servers? the term i refer to them as is "hub servers", similar to like... hub levels in platformers. one was a big city server where i met a good ammount of my friends on, the other was a server with maps the server owner created, which is also the server that hosted one of my maps. they had some sourcemods in common like the jetpack plugin.

im not sure if i could personally experience the vibes of those servers in the same way these days. granted anytime i play tf2 these days, it's usually to play casual, haven't touched any community servers in a long time.

#ask #anon #theres a channel ive been subbed to on youtube that made the uhh... meet the random fortress videos #those videos give me nostalgia in a way i cant describe #cause like the two servers i mentioned didnt have that exact extreme vibes going on. #but thats what it felt like to play those servers sometimes #like i see those videos and i imagine thats how the golden machine gun server was back in 2008 or so. #i never played on that server for context. but i watched plenty of videos from their channel #the golden machine gun also brings back the nostalgia of a server having custom maps specific to that server #like you couldnt experience those maps anywhere else. #those kind of maps i think honestly inspired me to get into mapping #that. and the second server listed above had maps that kinda looked not great. and i wanted to make a map that looked nicer. #i dont agree with that sentiment in going about making maps now. but thats what got me into mapping. #im told that server hosted the map i made a lot. like it was a really popular map even after i stopped hanging out there #idk. i guess what im getting at is that theres a certain magic to the servers i use to play that idk if ill ever experience the same again #thats not to say it cant be recreated or remade exactly. its just idk if i could experience it the same. #id have to be around a lot of folks from friendshow. whom of which are folks i met from those servers #though not a lot of us play live tf2 that actively these days. ive mostly been playing cause my current computer runs it well now #and ive just been having fun playing casual.... for the most part. and also customizing my guys #im okay at the game these days. ranging from pretty good to okay in most matches. #sometimes i kinda want to be in a server where i can just look pretty and fuck about. #im sure maybe ill find a place some day. ik the servers exist. i just havent really tried exploring any #i think my experience to those servers are similar to roblox servers i use to hang around in as a kid in 2008-2009 #if anyone remembers uhh... space cruise v3 or whatever. thats the vibes i want to achieve for a map some day. #like youre just in a big space cruiser with your own personal room and you can do jobs to get money and buy furnature #and just mill about and shit. too bad that world doesnt really work anymore with robloxs code changes since 2007.... #anyway thank you for telling me anon! i do appreciate it!!