#tf2 basically the whole ass game

[feathernotes]

Hello! My name is Krispy, and I’m the co-creator of the webcomic Ghost Junk Sickness (along with @spacerocketbunny​) It's story time!

GJS is a webcomic published by Hiveworks and features two bounty hunters with an unstable dynamic who are pushed to pursue the deadly bounty dubbed the Ghost The current iteration of GJS is about 9 years old (and wrapping up next year!) It’s been an incredible journey full of ups and downs. We’ve learned SO MUCH creating this comic, and I wanted to share some of it’s origins with you all in hopes of inspiring more folks to take chances, make mistakes, and get messy- and make that comic!

The origin of Ghost Junk Sickness came from our love for Magic Knight Rayearth and Final Fantasy 7. Vahn, the protagonist of GJS, was basically a mash up of Hikaru and Cloud from those two series. The very first version of this story has unfortunately been destroyed, and this map is the only piece I have left of that world. Character art still exists though, and it was pretty funny to see how obvious we were with our inspirations at the time.

The original attempt at the story was called Crew, and my sister Space and I worked on it in 2002-2004. We sort of got lost in our own ideas after that, and weren’t as focus on making the comic (now lost). A few years later, I decided to try my hand at it and it looked like this:

This was all done on low quality paper, whichever I could find at the time and some pencil crayons. This attempt was over 600 pages long and had a pretty random story plot, much like the first version. I could not tell you what it was about haha 😅

My second attempt (then called Divine Ace) I wanted to look more 'traditional manga' and kept with just inks and tried my darndest to tone on the computer (it never worked out). This one lasted over 400 pages, and was more allinged with my liking to edgy action anime and games at the time. It was also Trigger's first appearance!

After experimenting and eventually wanting to change- I started to work with Space again, and we collaborated in full on our first fancomic for TF2 called "Be Efficient, Be Polite." It was a good lesson on how we could coordinate our shared skill sets and plan out who did what as far as the whole process of comics go.

All of these comics (save for the very first lost version) were hosted on DA the day we got our hands on a scanner. It was our first taste on being 'webcomic creators' back in the day, and it was very fun! We didn't much care for readers, only the process of completion at the time, so a page done was always a victory worthy to be celebrated (and back then, we had more time to make pages!)

And so, as the years went by and we decided to move on from our fandom roots, Space and I went back to the Crew/Divine Ace project and redesigned and overhauled the entirety of it. (You can see the full evolution here) We wanted to re-asses what the story, comic, and characters meant to us, and how we could convey some pretty important ideas and concepts to our potential readers. From that, Ghost Junk Sickness was born, and began pre-production in 2013.

Years after, we find ourselves reflecting on how much we've learned from the process of going ahead and diving in head first. There were certainly many iterations and years it took to get where we are today, but realising that it all began that day Space and I decided to scribble some pretty mediocire comics in our homework books and papers. Because that is the beauty of comics- The many skill sets, the hats, and challenges that come along with creating them. And how much we've become better at so many things along the way. So if you read this and feel nervous about diving head first into your first comic, I'm here to re-assure you that things will feel tough, but exciting. Things will feel really hard but amazing when you're getting your story out in front of you with such an incredible medium. Webcomics will always be my favourite because of how accessible it is to any skill set. And know in your heart of hearts that there ARE people out that that LOVE to see growth, they love to see the progression of your journey. So get out there and start creating that comic that's occupied your brain for so long, and start breathing that life into your OCs and your world. The only way is up with webcomics, and the only way to start is just by creating now.

#webcomics #webcomic #ghost junk sickness #hiveworks #feathernotes #me talking

[hungwy]

I’ve seen many people reblog a post which contains tweets that, in my eyes, amount to a single complaint that is only half true (but that I agree with for the most part). But anyway, here’s a longpost:

(tweet in question)

I think it’s mostly wrong to say FPS multiplayer “peaked” ("was most fun for the playerbase"?) with Source games in the way presented. Believe it or not, you can still join a server with 30 people playing on a user map with fucked up assets everywhere, and some of the 30 people playing will be 14-year-olds with bad mics getting mad at being spawn killed by someone with 20,000 hours in the game. In fact, there are servers like this in most Source games, including Garry’s Mod, TF2, and CSS and CSGO (but honestly I think TF2 is most representative of the above scenario). I just launched Valve’s community server browser and have found an unending list of silly-sounding servers for TF2: Minecraft trade, Murder at the Mannor, Zombie Escape, Medieval Mode, all full or near-full. I checked Garry’s Mod: SCP-RP, Zombie Survival, Clone Wars Roleplay, “Swamp Cinema”, 1980’s Mafia Roleplay, DarkRP (x20), again, all well-populated. Admittedly CS2 was mostly deathmatch servers (due to it being Source 2 and not Source and so missing a lot of plugins that would allow for “fun” servers), but CSS still had surf, bhop, minigames, and jailbreak servers still going and full. My server browser won’t show CSGO for whatever reason, but up until CS2 released I know for a fact that these silly ass servers still exist there too. The implication that these servers and their conditions are gone is wrong. You don’t want a server with the exact same conditions though, I think you want to relive the specific memories you’re having and feel happiness again. But maybe I’m going too far there.

How about this. I’ll give it to you, Dusk developer, that for you FPS multiplayer peaked with insane TF2 trade servers, but you also make boomer shooters for a living, so I think you’re biased towards enjoying an older generation of games anyway. Modern FPS games are fantastic and in their own ways contain a lot of fun. Modern games in general fill the spaces that, for you, TF2 servers filled. Have you seen Roblox minigames and Minecraft server plugins? They’re actually crazy and decently well made. I’m excited that kids have grown up in such a good environment for games. They have tons of options that we didn’t have back then. It’s awesome! Like, don’t let your nostalgia blind you to the fact that kids are having just as much fun as you now. TF2 and Garry’s Mod are not the be-all, end-all of FPS multiplayer fun. That sentiment I completely disagree with and think people should get over.

But like, how the hell does competitive gaming play into this? I truly don’t buy the wording of “Esports and competitive ranking ruined multiplayer”. It’s just not true. Not only are the servers you’re mourning still exist, they’re still well-populated and their “golden age” coincided with some of the greatest heights in competitive FPS gaming. You know what’s funny? When CSGO released in 2012, TF2 saw a drop of almost 10,000 average players. It recovered basically the next year. Besides a small dip in 2018, TF2 had held around 50,000 average players since its release, until 2019 where its average player-count has risen to about 80,000 players. Garry’s Mod wouldn’t peak in total concurrent players until 2015 and has had a dedicated core of players averaging around 25,000 since like 2013. Seriously, these are incredibly consistent player-counts throughout the release of Overwatch, PUBG, Fortnite, Apex, and Valorant. In fact, contrary to the tweeter's implicit assumptions, it seems like nothing much has changed, and that competitive gaming did not, at all, ruin or depopulate these “fun” spaces.

So, again, how does competitive gaming and esports play into this? Only thing I think is valid is the fact that a few popular modern FPSes don’t do the whole “community-hosted server” thing: Apex, Fortnite, PUBG, Valorant, and Overwatch all do not have native community-hosted server support. Which, to be frank, is bad for their competitive gaming scene too! Esports has ALWAYS used self-hosted servers for practicing to get better. I don’t know the argument for not having these sorts of things, maybe not developing the toolkit for these things is easier than developing them. IDK. But I agree that it is bad that many popular games don’t support this sort of thing. The “self-hosted netizen” is a category of person that’s been declining for a long time regardless of the effect of competitive first-person shooter games on the casual first-person shooter games self-hosted server market. But again, for the topic of the post, I think this is a completely nonsensical implication. As far as I can tell ALL Valve-made Source engine games have active and popular community servers still, and the popular games ALL have very populated servers with “fun” gamemodes and atmospheres. Competitive has grown very popular, yes. It's true. It's fun to compete, everyone knows it. But esports has taken very little if anything away from the casual playerbase of Source games.

(Also, for the record, during the actual multiplayer FPS golden age of the time, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 shooters, there were no self-hosted servers for us, and it was still the most fun anyone ever had playing casually on console. It was the age of trickshotting and montages, man! For the intent of this post that exact restriction counts as “keeping players from interacting with one another” yet these games, especially COD, were, uh… infamously social. Not to mention these games had competitive scenes alongside the casual scene perfectly fine.)

I think, really, ignoring the actual content of the tweet, these tweets are just about nostalgia for your childhood. Which is fine! You can miss things you used to do for fun and no longer do. Probably every human that’s ever existed has gone through this. I mean, again, it is kind of popular in current culture to be nostalgic. The 90s aesthetic, early 2000s media, retro games, super hero movies, cartoons being consumed by adults to a greater degree than ever, et cetera. I think to some extent the complaint itself isn’t like, a completely unclouded judgement of the Decline of The Beauty of Multiplayer Gaming throughout the years. The concrete complaints in those tweets seem both a little rose-tinted and unnecessarily doomerpilled to me. But like, regardless, it’s kind of your fault for not returning to these things, man. Go join one of those servers if you’re not busy being an adult with a job and friends and other obligations that may keep you from doing things that you’re not used to and have fun like you did in childhood. Or is that what's actually the problem…? I don’t know. A suggestion. I just think in the end the complaint isn't valid.

This post is long and I had a LOT of thoughts that I may have missed or chopped off at the incorrect time. I think the picture I'm trying to build has probably been communicated, though? Maybe I’m not considering something, maybe I overinterpreted implications, maybe the fact that the playerbase of TF2 and Garry's Mod being highly consistent for ten years or whatever is not indicative of anything I've said, but I hope regardless you understand that like, at least part of this tweet is weird to say in the ways I've attempted to untease. People young and old are still having crazy times in video games and esports has done, as far as I can tell, absolutely nothing to change at, ever.

Turning off reblogs because I have a feeling anyone who doesn't follow me might become annoying about this

[friendlyengie]

Heyo thought I’d drop some random tf2 hcs and stuff cause of ur post :D

- scout and Pyro get along really well and scout will draw for pyro. Scout likes them cause he seems to actually listen to scout talk

- Engineer is pretty oblivious when it comes to people having feelings for him and hes (kinda accidentally) decent at flirting tho

- Engineer is like a father figure to scout and it makes spy really jealous lol

- Demo is really good at karaoke

- Since spy is good at finding this out about people based on body language etc. he knows exactly who has crushes on who in the base and he thinks it’s SO OBVIOUS but it’s not to the rest of them and he’s really close to just screaming at everyone that they’re blind and to just kiss already. He’s just forced to watch all these pining idiots dance around each other and he hates it

- Heavy and Medic have a book club that is just the two of them

- Scout would be a good dad later in life if he had a kid

ohohhoho interesting. Cracks my knuckles.

-scout and pyro friendship truther until I DIE. I find the idea of scout going from being terrified of this weird “thing” to just being besties with Pyro kind of hilarious. I think they can both do art pretty well actually! I like to think they run around towns and do graffiti together.

-Nodding at this. I also think it helps that (to me) hes naturally very friendly and polite because of how he was raised and like half of the people on his team havent heard anything nice from another human being since they were actual children (if that.) Is he good at flirting or are your standards dangerously low? Is it both? Great question!

-Ive always seen engineer as more of a low-maintenance uncle figure to scout If That. They’re just kind of a pretty standard close older dude with a lot of life experience and younger dude with fuck all going on friendship to me. and tbh ive never. Really been able to get behind the idea of spy being “jealous” of any sort of relationship Scout has with other mercs. Whether it’s him being weirded out by father standins or judgemental of potential partners. I don’t think he doesn’t have a weird relationship with seeing scout bond with the other mercs but i feel like it’s just sort of. Idk. A little more of a unique issue for him.

-Accepted. Though i think “good” for him ranges from “genuinely good singing” to “loud, overconfident, and having a great time getting half of the lyrics wrong.”

-As much as I think it would be fun if spy was surprisingly emotionally dense, i cant deny his canonical skills in that sort of field. That’s like. His whole game. I think his approach to trying to help anyone with romance is “he wont unless youre prepared to basically just inflate his ego for the sake of a few tips.” A la expiration date.

-no doubt in my mind that heavy and medic dont agree with a single thing that the other gleams from reading books. Said with love. They will argue about meanings and subtext and the value of interpretation until it sounds like someone’s about to file for divorce and then end with “so same time next week ^_^?”

-I will be so honest with you. I do not know if i could ever see scout being a father, much less a good one NDGSKHJDKNJJ.

Actually . Hm. Thinking about it. I could. SEE it in a sense. I think he would have some good steps to go off of because of his Mom. Unsure of how good his ma’s parenting was but she at least was very caring toward her kids. He’d have that. But i think he’d have to be a lot more emotionally mature to be able to process how his own current issues with dads and fatherhood would healthily translate into being a dad himself. I could see him being really laid back and maybe a little too “im not just your parent, im your friend,” and any hypothetical kid he has would Not take his ass seriously. I think having to parent a teenager would kill him.

#tf2 #asks #The Clown Speaks

[fandomandangstlover]

self aware tf2 stuff. then am slep

- the TF2 Mod uses the camera of whatever device the Players are playin on to use it as data to make the Avatars of said Players look more like its Players. it doesn't ask for permission. unless they got something covering the camera lens of whatever device they're on (the Pyro Main uses a sticker to cover its desktop's camera, so they're safe. maybe the Solly & Snipes Main got something too, who knows), they're getting mimiced lol

- the Mod supports & encourages using VR, but very few of the Players has a VR headset. the only few who has them are the Scout & Medic Main. why? Scout's a Gamer (he bought it himself) while Medic's parents are just rich (they got it as a gift).

- the Mod is PACKING. it has. So Much. Heavy Main's computer is the only one who could render the whole Mod without it having any problems & even then his PC needs to have like. 4 strong ass fans just so it wouldn't explode.

- whoever was behind the Mod has, in fact, an Avatar that was left behind deep within the files. it is unplayable, & adding it to the Game only results in it registering that the model doesn't exist. it looks oddly like the Director..

- this Mod has an Big Ass Map. Full Big Boy. it's basically the landscape of what you see in the Meet The Team videos. even the Base :3 it has a vote system if u wanna- well, get to do the shooting & start a match— but everyone playing has to be in agreement or else it won't start.

.. yippeekaaayyaa !!! :3

#my thoughts #tf2 au #self aware tf2 au

[cognitohazardous]

i get autobalanced in basically every tf2 game i play and whenever my friend duels me and he queues us for a new match i always hit join new match first and that causes me to lose the fucking duel. absolute bullshit. terrible game mechanics working together to fuck my whole ass

[abstract-hellbender]

Hey folks! My name is Ted 🐊🐊🐊 Welcome to my blog! Some basic info to start out with:

I am 17 years old 🤯🤯🤯🤯

I am TRANSGENDER (he/him pleasey)💥💥💥 I am a gay 💥💥💥💥 and I’m autistic💥💥💥

I love drawing though I usually have long gaps between posts because I’m busy irl 🐊🐊🐊

^^ In regards to that, I draw mainly. Fandom stuff. It used to be just TF2, but lately it's been everything 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ euhh whatevs...

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Some Extra Cool Fun Facts:

Me and my buddy @fru1tt0ast are the #1 Beefy Sniper historians

MY BESTEST BFFS OF ALL TIME ARE @fru1tt0ast and @protocolghost

I’ve seen American Psycho 65 times. My friend and I have a tradition to watch it every day of October. Feel free to ask me about it 🥶🥶😈😈

Avid emoji user AND abuser as you might,,, be able to tell,,,

I have a whole slew of hobbies (drawing, sewing, whittling, sculpting, growing plants, etc)😎😎😎😎  

ermmm i really like rdr2, killer7, rdr2, moral orel, resident evil, reanimator, evil dead, rdr2, music in general, euhmmm english teacher-ass books like Slaughterhouse Five (MY FAVOURITE BOOK OF ALL TIME BTW) or Frankenstein or Dracula,,,,, im a hgay homsezxueall,,,,, rdr2

^^ not everything i like btw this is just off the top of my head as im writing this :''']

ALSO FMV GAMES I FUCKING LOVE FMV GAMES AUGHRHHH I LOVE THEM SO MUCH THEYRE THE COOLEST THING IN THE WORLD

Tag Guide:

(💥💥💥 JUST SAYING, these are all fucked up and disorganised and i also forget to follow my OWN TAGS LMAO💥💥💥)

#My art yo → all posts that are my own art 😎😎

#Not my art yo → art reblogs that are NOT my art 😎😎

#Just chit chatting → posts/reblogs where I’m giving my two-cents or just chit chatting! Sometimes for when I'm talking about something without it being an infodump. Being silly 😈😈

#TF2 PLUSH BONANZA → the tag me and @/fru1tt0ast are using to show off our journey making plush dolls of every major TF2 character. Also just pics that include them in some way 🤔

#Ted gearses like CRAZY 💥 → specifically for when i’m infodumping OR ranting about something I'm very passionate about

#Ted out and about → for posting pictures!! mostly of cool and silly animals I see, though theres sometimes a few plants 💥💥

#goblin 1 → gotta be frank, this one is all jucked up 🐊🐊🐊 it’s a tag I use when interacting with my actual bff of all time @/fru1t0ast and also for answering asks from my BFF BUDDIES !!!

#putting all the tags I use in here so that yall can easily fart around btw #my art yo #not my art yo #just chit chatting #TF2 PLUSH BONANZA #Ted gearses like CRAZY 💥 #Ted out and about #goblin 1 #alright thats all! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 #Music Moment

[emotionallyexcitablemerasmus]

GREETINGS, MORTALS!

IT IS I, MMMERASMUS THE MAGICIAN! AND WELCOME TO MY CARNIVAL! Here we have the MMISFORTUNE TELLER which I run, the WORLDS LARGEST SSSTRONGMAANN, oh and we also have Shoot the Idiot, Raccoon Rampage, and BBBUMPER CARS! Mortals like yourself like those, right?

Oh and also you're kind of stuck here. And the Japanese mafia is after me. No ticket, no ride!

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OOC:

This blog is taking over for @emotionally-frenzied-merasmus, for they're not really into TF2 right now. I will switch between first and third person while writing.

I really enjoy Merasmus' character and whole entire personality, and he might act with slightly more childish enjoyment than in the actual game. Merasmus' is probably fine with like, he/it pronouns. I have not done too much headcanons for him yet, so feel free to help me with some!

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TAGS!

#excitablemerasmus is general tag, #mortaltalk is for asks.

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I shouldn't need to write DNI's. Or anything about talking to the mod. Just do however and whenever you want. And there is some very basic stuff no one allows, but I'll go over it

No maps, pedos, people with fake sexuality things (example: dreamsexual, rabiosexual, trans-racial), people who hate furries, and those who are going to talk bad about forms of Satanism, as I think I might make him hint at following it at all. But just maybe! There's probably other stuff, but you get the point.

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Excess stuff under the cut that might be sort of unwanted for some people who cant handle these sensitive topics (kept lighter, though).

Mod here, still. I just want everyone to know if I don't get back to you soon with art or a RB, it may be me struggling with my mental health. For the later part of this year, It's been going on like this and I can't do much about it. Merasmus here will gladly take your hugs and care for what he is going through. I will also do more explaining in "Messages" if anyone needs it, because I do not want to get too vent-y here. But I’m struggling with mental health, yeah. Depression is biting me in the ass and it is… rather painful.

And overall, RB bait is hard to constantly RB. I don’t want my blog full of unwanted things!

Mod and Merasmus love being asked questions so never be afraid to!

#excitablemerasmus

[thomas-is-my-name]

Should you play chess with the TF2 mercenaries?

Scout: You should absolutely play chess with Scout. It will be the most entertaining event of your week. He doesn’t know the rules, but is too proud to admit it, while also being not quite unhinged enough to kill you in retaliation when you inevitably win. PLEASE play chess with Scout. You will wipe the floor with him easily and his subsequent tantrum will be glorious to witness.

Soldier: A game of chess with Soldier will be equally entertaining, but for different reasons. He likewise has no idea of the rules, nor does he care to learn them. Where he differs from Scout is that he’s so oblivious to reality that he’s basically immune to losing. He’ll turn the board into a battlefield roleplay and narrate the dramatic confrontations between pieces, inevitably resulting in your side being brutally slaughtered. Note that he might get violent with you if you tell him he’s not allowed to “kill” your king, so watch out for that.

Spy: Spy is an expert chess player, as all true gentlemen should be. Definitely a Romantic in terms of playstyle. He’ll make a whole event out of your game – whisky, cigars, and his criminally expensive antique chess set. You’re almost certainly going to lose, but he’ll be extremely gracious regardless of the outcome. Probably worth it for the free booze, if nothing else.

Sniper: Sniper is surprisingly good at chess. He learned as a kid, and sometimes does puzzles to keep himself occupied during long stakeouts. He’s not insecure enough to attack you if you do beat him, and he won’t be an asshole about it if you lose. Basically, this is the most normal game of chess you’re going to have with any of the mercs. You could do a lot worse.

Medic: Medic is just as difficult an opponent as Spy, but much less fun. He plays ruthlessly and will ignore any attempts to make conversation – he’s here to win, and nothing else. You’re gonna get your ass kicked quickly and unceremoniously. And if you do somehow defeat him, he might decide he wants to take your brain apart to find out how you did it. Don’t bother.

Demoman: Probably not worth your time. The potential outcomes range from dull to dangerous, depending on his mood and how much he’s had to drink. He’s gonna be incoherent and sloppy, most of his moves will be bad or outright illegal, and there’s a good chance he’ll pass out before the game is even finished. If he happens to be on a short fuse (heh) when you play, you’re gonna get glassed over the head for your trouble.

Pyro: Complete wildcard. He might be completely chill and sportsmanlike, in which case you’ll have a fairly easy game on your hands. On the other hand he might fly into a homicidal rage and bludgeon you to death with the board before you can even set up the pieces. There’s no way to predict which it’ll be ahead of time. Honestly, you shouldn’t be putting yourself anywhere near Pyro for any reason.

Heavy: I strongly discourage you from playing chess against Heavy. This is basically equivalent to the worst-case scenario Demoman game. He doesn’t have a great grasp on the rules, and will take it EXTREMELY personally when you beat him. Unless you have a plan for outsmarting boolet, don’t risk it.

Engineer: DO NOT PLAY CHESS AGAINST THE ENGINEER. Your life won’t be at risk, but the psychological damage you’ll incur may prove irreparable. He has being playing all his life. He reached grandmaster level during his childhood. He programs world-class chess bots in his free time and then plays against them for fun. He will swiftly and methodically dismantle your ass, not even hesitating between moves, chuckling all the while. Don’t play chess with the Engineer. It’s not worth it.

#team fortress 2 #tf2 #chess

[hypnotic-tears]

Introduction post!

Hi my name is Olly, welcome to my blog!  A bit about me! I am a cosplayer who cosplays a lot of OCs and from rather small fandoms, though I do wish to cosplay from some larger fandoms here and there. I also love insects and currently keep mantises so I may post about them from time to time, just be warned if you have a phobia of bugs. My pronouns are She/Her, I am a cis woman, and am bisexual!  Fandoms I am currently a part of - Steam Powered Giraffe (I have many OCs for this and canon cosplays planned) - ENA  - Portal, TF2, Half-Life (anything valve related honestly) - My Little Pony (My favorites are Pinkie Pie and Rarity!) - The Walten Files Miscellaneous Interests - Analog horror - Role play - Numbers stations - The backrooms (anything related to liminal spaces/dreamcore/oddcore) - Victorian era related things - Oddities  DNI if - Your entire personality is discourse, you guys are mentally draining - You’re a proshipper (You will be instantly blocked) - You are unable to refrain from making rude comments about “unusual pets” (ex: “If I saw it I’d kill it.” “Smash it.” “Ew kill it.”) I swear you guys need to learn to shut up for once. Also before you follow/interact - I am uncomfortable with sexual remarks made about me unless it’s someone I’m close to and it’s in a joking manner. - Do not “simp” for me if you are under the age of 18. My blog will be 13+ so anybody can follow but anyone who is under 18 should not flirt with me in any way as I am a whole ass adult. - I am always excited when people draw my OCs/cosplays but the same rules apply, do not sexualize me in cosplay and do not draw sexual content of my own characters. - I do enjoy role playing as my characters (and I may consider making side blogs for a few of them, if so I will have them linked!) but please do not start a role play with me without asking first as I enjoy planning things out.  - If you are from PonyTown and find this blog somehow, do not talk about PonyTown on any posts that are not related to the game. That’s just tone deaf as fuck. Read the room.  Other socials - Tiktok: speedofsoliton - Twitter: SpeedOfSoliton - Instagram: speedofsoliton - Okay basically it’s the same username across all platforms unless it’s a side account of mine in which you’ll find that if you find that.

#steam powered giraffe #role player #cosplayer #introducing myself #the walten files #portal #valve #my little pony #pony town #shut up olly

[vanityloves]

Rules: List your favorite characters from 10 different fandoms and tag 10 people

tagged by @certified-soft-si-content ! thank you sm 👉👈😳

1) KIRBY FROM....KIRBY....

the amount serotonin i get out of this lil pink dude is incredible - i have such good memories playing these games and i highkey miss that high

2) Ponyo from....ponyo ahsjjs

oh to be a little fishy in the sea 🥺 idk i just loved the movie and I'm just attached to the characters a whole lot. shes just cute i love that i basically kin, iD'd her when the movie came out. very pisces of me

3) Dante Sparda from Devil May Cry

Man. He's such an important chara to me? DMC was one of the first things I got into by myself (usually it was with some influence of a friend). So I got to experience a new story by myself and i had something just for myself. One of the first charas i got really attached to and would die for tbh.

4) Rohan Kishibe from JJBA:DIU

Out of ALL jojo charas, Rohan got me into the series which is... so ironic. Hes the twinkiest twink of the show compared to all the Muscle Men. I just saw a chara that liked to draw and was wow me too maybe we can vibe.

5) Xigbar from Kingdom Hearts

2012 was a whackass time to be on the internet, let alone be into KH bc the fanbase sure was. something. Xigbar was always really interesting to me and JFC. KH3 threw me for a loop, just when I thought we'd tie up some loose ends. but ofc SE said fuck off. And for that.... it makes 'Xigbar' Sexy and Mysterious and i love that for us.

6) Ignis Scientia from FFXV

This man just hits different. He makes me so incredibly depressed and i love it. His entire chara is so... divine, bitch. When I was really into FFXV, I promise you, i wouldve written you essays ab him. I actually wrote an essay on Gladio and turned it into my psych teacher and I wonder what that says ab me.

7) Medic from TF2

I dont think i need to explain why but <3 i never started self caring until i got into tf2 so thats all ill say on that.

8) Aizawa Shouta from BNHA

Listen, I know bnha can be cringe but shut the hell up. Aizawa is one of the only charas i chara ab in the series simply bc of all the Dad Energy. No I will not elaborate.

9) Tifa Lockhart from FVII

God i love women im sorry i dont talk ab them more i have internalized home of foe bee uh. She can kick my ass but she cares so much and the fact that shes Gay (not canonly but.) is nice like? i love her and Aeris whenever they interact

10) Kenpachi Zaraki from Bleach

I just love Big, Bastard characters with a child. It just hits different. Idk i love that hes just looking for a fight all the time but has respect for whoever hes facing. He's kind of his own man and does what he wants and i too want to kick ass and take names (literally)

Tagging: @estrider @fictional-boyfriend @fictiongeek @heartstringsymphonies @coulromantism @moodyblueships @perseverancex-self-shipping @parvou @midnightloverboy @gorillazgirlfriend

#first 2 was just my nostalgia talking bc i didnt wanna talk ab HomeStuck ❤ #tagged #brainworm ivy #also feel free to do this even if you werent tagged! / feel free to skip this if you dont wanna do it!

[bees-aus]

HLVRAI ROLESWAP AU

[ Main tag: #SWAP AU ]

Roleswap AU is just like it sounds- an AU where everyone's roles are switched! However, what causes this AU to stand out from the rest is that roles may be swapped... but species and personality, in most cases, are not! In this AU, Gordon + Benrey are swapped, G-Man and Tommy are swapped, Coomer and Bubby are swapped, Forzen and Darnold, and Joshua and Josh (who works at Gamestop) are swapped!

Gordon Freeman

[ he/him ] [ Reference image ]

Gordon is a college dropout who had a dream of becoming a scientist, but really couldn’t handle it. In some cruel twist of irony, he ends up with a job at Black Mesa… as a security guard. It had great benefits and you didn’t really seem to do anything, so… why not? Sure, he’s a little bitter, but it’s steady, easy, has decent wages, and he at least gets to hang out around scientists. And at least he’s forced to keep up a workout regimen, which is probably the biggest thing he has going for his mental health. Also streams games in his free time. He’d been working there for quite a while when he suddenly got shifted to a different division- something about a big project needing heavier guarding. That’s when he met Benrey- who he thought was fishy as hell. And maybe he was excited to actually be able to do something once in this damn job. Of course, shit immediately goes wrong. Despite everything going to shit- Gordon is sure that his bosses will pull through and fix everything, so he does his best to try and do his job and make sure Benrey doesnt go anywhere he’s not supposed to. Benrey proceeds to completely ignore him, and use his inhuman powers to completely thwart every attempt Gordon makes to make the man listen. Ends up unwillingly becoming the final boss because of Tommy’s thwarting, and hes to be killed by science team, and then manually saved by Gman, Benrey and Tommy.

Benrey

[ they/them + he/him ] [ Reference image ]

Just like canon, Benrey is very much not human and a pain in Gordon’s ass. He’s the head test subject for all of the Xen projects, since his inhuman status prevents him from being killed or injured by most radiation and xen lifeforms that would kill humans. Doesn’t really care about his job, but Tommy roped him into it and he owes him one. Plus, the pay is decent to get things for his son, Joshua- who definitely takes after his dad. When the game starts, he starts playing it for funsies. However, it becomes a lot less fun when he realizes the game is becoming all too real. He hadn't worried about his arm getting cut off- not until it didn't grow back, due to it being a scripted event. Not only that, but Tommy lets him know that when the game ends... they all might die. So he helps bounce ideas off Tommy of how to stop it- with some consequences. They end up causing Gordon to be roped into being the final boss, and has to save him with Tommy and G-Man's help.

Joshua

[ he/him + ??? ] [ reference image ] 

Just like Benrey, Joshua isn’t human- and appears even moreso, since the kid has no interest in trying to appear human. Which Benrey at least tries, for his coworkers sake. About 6-8 mentally, his physical age isn’t really disclosed. He’s currently in his “molting phase”, as Benrey calls it; causing him to shed everywhere and try and itch himself on everything. As well as chewing. And hissing. And clawing the furniture. Despite that, they’re surprisingly well behaved when prompted, and listen to Benrey… decently well. Has an interest in Gordon, though that interest seems to half be trying to chew on all of Gordon’s clothes. Mainly watches Westerns at home or hangs out with Tommy or G-Man while Benrey is working. Has a strange love for cowboys. Calls Benrey “Bany” or “beedee”, Gordon “Hoofs”, Tommy “Eggs”, Gman “Chicken”, Coomer “Murphy”, and Bubby “Packy” as their main nicknames. Can’t read, but is a master Heavenly Sword player, amongst other games. Loves Minecraft in particular.

Tommy Coolatta

[ any pronouns ] [ reference image pending ]

Tommy is the son and successor to one of the more influential interdimensional buisnessmen, G-Man. When his father decided he was done, Tommy stepped up to the plate and took over the business willingly for several reasons- including simple pursuit of knowledge. He met Benrey long even before he took over the business, which is why he trusted him to help him with his project and appointed him to Xen experimentation- with pay, of course. He became self-aware when the "game" started, and though he tried not to interfere much, he got scared when he realized that when the game ended... they might all go with it. So, he decided to confide in Benrey- as they'd been friends for a long time; before Tommy had even taken over his fathers' position. Together they came up with a plan to try and delete the final boss- and it was this that caused Gordon to glitch and take over the role.

G-Man

[ he/him + xe/xem ]

After his son decided he was ready to take over the family business, G-Man decided to retire. He'd never really had time to simply... not do anything before. So he decided to indulge and start learning about more specifics instead of being involved with everything in a broad sense. One of his personal projects was creating a pet for himself- the "perfect" cat, a black oriental shorthair named La Croix. Though he claims she's perfect, she's... well, completley evil. But don't tell him that. Anyway, one day Tommy called him up and asked him for a favor- a client wanted Black Mesa to develop portaling technology to Xen, and he didn't really have to time to teach the humans. So, begrudgingly as a favor to his son, he posed as a scientist hired by Black Mesa to help fund and lead the research team. Much to his chagrin, that also involves working with Benrey, who he never really cared for. When all hell breaks lose, he's forced to accompany the rest of the team through the game for Tommy's sake- and because he actually decently likes the Coomer and Bubby fellows.

Dr. Coomer

[ he/him ]

Coomer is on of Black Mesa's experiments on creating the perfect security and scientist hybrid- if they could just have one person in both roles, it would be so much easier! Unfortunately, their testing didn't go so well. He's the most successful of his batch- and successful he is! He's got the brains of a scientist and the brawns of... well, certainly a lot more than your average security guard. Plus the psychokinesis. Really, he's the perfect package... if only they could properly replicate him. They decided to place him in the Xen department due to his multi functional abilities, and the fact that he got along rather well with the lead scientist there- G-man. Also, he's the only one who can really keep Bubby in check.

Bubby

[ they/them + he/him ]

Another one of Black Mesa's experiments- this time, in cybernetics. He was originally purposed to be withstanding of Xen atmosphere and basically work as a living space probe, but the idea was quickly scrapped. Still, they had a perfectly good brain, so... they simply stuck him in the scientist department instead. Though he's rather small and frail, he's by no means any less dangerous. A good portion of his body is advanced tech; a whole arsenal of tools store and hidden away in his body. Like a living swiss army knife of doom. Some of these features include giant, insectoid blade legs, a mini flamethrower, lasers, science tools... you get the gist.

Darnold

[ he/him ]

Darnold was Gordon's roomate back in college. Though he wanted to graduate in mixology- when Gordon dropped out, he got a new roommate, and things started to go south from there. Long story short, he decided to join the military for help with college and getting his degree. Unfortunately, Darnold is not a brave man. He did not want to be on this mission. He doesn't know why he ever even thought of this. This was a horrible idea. Oh fuck, oh no- But it's a bit too late now, once he's separated from the rest of his squad in an alien infested laboratory. When he finally meets the rest of science team, he quickly surrenders and dips out- but unfortunately, gets taken hostage by an evil cat named La Croix. Once G-Man manages to calm his pet, he books it, escaping the facility, quitting the military. Fortunately for him, Black Mesa's hush money (that Tommy provided, of course) was more than enough to let him get any degree he wants.

Forzen

[ he/him ]

When Darnold and Gordon both dropped out of college... Forzen was the one who decided to pick up the open dorm, and also the empty spot in Darnold's mixology class. Turns out, he was pretty damn good at that. Good enough that he decided that's what he wanted to do instead of join the military- fuck those guys. He went on to get a full, successful degree, and get hired as the official Black Mesa Mixologist. Though he's still a huge, buff, brute-looking man- he passionately works making his elixirs (all of which are lovingly named after beyblades, of course). He's pretty annoyed when a bunch of weirdos come knocking on his department, but he obliges because he has the perfect elixir to test on whatever the one-armed dude is- though they all quickly leave after a pretty heated discussion about TF2.

#HLVRAI #swap au

[gemstone-gynoid]

Team Fortress 2 has some of the best, most iconic shorts in video game history. I mean sure, in Halo you got good graphics, and in Overmunch you have two women in skin tight clothing fighting each other.. Not like I haven’t seen that before on the internet like a hundred times... (Pretty sure I have that book marked actually..) Meanwhile, in Team Fortress 2 animated shorts.. You got people pissin’ in jars, people’s heads getting blown off, looking into gaping holes in people’s bodies to see hell itself, and you see birds.. The last 50 years, the movies have starred the nine playable classes of Team Fortress 2, and Elizabeth from Bioshock Infinite wearing glasses. The first film starts off with the main character: Pootis. Basically sitting down and telling us we’re in for a BuMpY RiDE and also if anyone touches his gun, they’ll be fined 35$ and he’ll come over to your house and punch your lights out if you know what I’m sayin’. This short reveals that Pooter is more than just a disproportionate russian guy, he’s actually an intellectual that can do advanced trigonometry as well as high level mathematical calculations that he often uses to contemplate the human race’s existence… BUT FUCK THAT he’s gonna shoot everyone with his big ol’ machine gun! Next up we meet Private Ryan, a loud guy with a bazooka who hires Michael J. Fox to follow him around on the battlefield to film him shootin’ people, which is historically known as the most gruesome war ever fought on TF2 soil. This guy’s crazy, he thinks his grenades are little dolls and makes up stories of them walkin’ around and.. Oh. Oh. Oh this game is rated M for mature guys don’t look at this. The movie ends with Ryan remembering this one epic time that he got a random crit and then taunted afterwards, and an unforeseen twist that no one saw coming; it turns out that who he was talking to the entire movie… Was all a bunch of severed heads. O MY GOD, I give Shaving Private Ryan; 5 bags of popcorn. Just an amazing film. In the sequel we’re introduced to my personal favorite character: Hardhat Jones. Ya know I love this guy because he plays guitar, and I LOVE GUITAR. Some of my favorite musics, have guitars in em’. Um he spent the entire video taking song requests from audience. “Play Stairway to Heaven!” “NO!” “REVER! REVER! REVER!��� “SHUT THE FUCK UP!”. Little does the crowd know that Hardhat Jones doesn’t take requests, and he only plays songs from the greatest band of all time; Coheed and Cambria. Coheed and Cambria starts playing Next up we meet Pirate, he’s just an old salty dog. Always walkin’ around like “Why’s the rum gone?” and basically just lookin’ for that booty, “Arg! Ya know why they call me Pirate? ‘Cause I’ll make ye walk the plank!”. All of a sudden he sees his friends walk around the corner and he’s like “Oh no! I told Stacy I couldn’t go to the mall because I had to study for geometry!” So he books it out of there to avoid that late awkward moment but it’s too late. Stacy and the gang catches up to him and are all like “I thought you said you couldn’t go to the mall??” “MALL THIS FUCKERS!” and they ALL DIE because Pirate will literally kill people to get out of an awkward conversation. Next movie there’s this guy called Boston, who goes on an undercover secret mission to the enemy castle. Somehow dodging bullets from a sentry gun (despite them supposed to have perfect aim and tracking..) and then he wrestles Pootis for a baloney sandwich. Umm what happens next is a.. Spoiler alert if you haven’t seen The Adventures of Boston the Rise of the Quick Fast Boy Wonder!” I highly suggest you turn the video off now, so okay you have been warned. So in the end of the movie he gets the baloney sandwich. some Brookyln song? The short that came right after that one is about everyone’s favorite sitcom dad: William Cheese! Who drives around spyin’ on people undressing through their open windows like a big ol’ perv. When asked why he only looks at men undressing he’s like “I’m not gay I swear! I can just appreciate the male physique!” But nobody buys it and he calls his dad and he’s like “DAd! Everyone thinks I’m gay! What to I dO!?” and his dad is all like “Son, you ARE gay.” YMCA starts playing The next short is the very first sponsored TF2 short, this one is funded by McDonalds to star everyone’s favorite meal stealer: The Hamburglar! In this movie, The Hamburglar tells an epic tale about the time he went to go find the Secret Cheeseburger of Lost Legend in which he fights Billy Cheese who is actually the holder of the Cheese Key. That’ll get him to the Cheddar Dungeon, with the dungeon master none other than Hardhat Jones! And The Hamburglar is all like “I’d like to make a request, DIE!” and then he fights the final boss the evil Dr. Crentist! Who is the master of karate, but then the hand man does a karate chop that steals the doctors face! And kills him in one hit, and steals the special glasses that’ll let him see the map to the Secret Cheeseburger of Lost Legend. When Hamburglar gets to the good part, Private Ryan is all like “This story SUCKS!” and he blows his FUCKIN’ HEAD OFF. “Well, I guess he should have ordered the Happy Meal.” Movie credits After that film received world wide critical acclaim, audiences demanded a spin off featuring evil Dr. Crentis. So next up we got Dr. Crentist: Origins, the doctor tricks Pootis into getting on his massage table and does EVIL experiments on him while the big dummy just watches him and doesn’t even care because all he can think about doing is shooting his big ol’ machine gun. “Ah I’ll just plug this night light into your heart so you’ll have a brighter heart okay?” “DUH okay DUH” “Uhh I don’t think that’s a good idea.” “SHUT UP PIGEON! HAHAHAHA! LET’s GO GET A CHEESEBURGER!” Yeah turns out this one was also sponsored by McDonalds, so Dr. Crentis and Pooter-9000 with his new robo heart and go outside to get their ass to Mickey Ds because they got hella munchies! “DR CRENTIS! SUPERSIZE ME DOOD!” “I GOTCHU FAM!” Making Medicine cover starts playing *“I’M GONNA GET A CHEESEBURGER!” *and that’ll be 5.99 at the second window The next movie is all about the backstory of one of TF2’s most beloved characters: The Gas Man. “I used to remember when the Gas Man was cool, he used to give me candy.” “One time, The Gas Man said my mask looked really nice, I almost cried because it was the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me.” “Uh, I’m scared of The Gas Man because he used to be nice, but now he’s meeaan.” In reality The Gas Man is a really cool guy, he just runs around blowing bubbles at people’s faces and locking them up in airtight presents. Gas Man turns out to be one of the most misunderstood characters in the whole franchise because people give him shit all the time because he thinks Pinky Pie is the best pony. WHAT ARE YOU STUPID?! AppleJack is obviously the best pony. After we got all the origin stories out the way we get our very first TV movie called: Christmas with the Yanks where Pootis gets to experience his first winter wonderland. sniff sniff “What’s that smell? It smells like… A SNOWBALL FIGHT!” Pootis then recruits his best friend Boston for his snowball team because everyone in school knows that Boston can throw a snowball better than anyone else in the Fourth Grade. Then they walk really really slowly to Private Ryan and Pirate house to totally beat them with a snowball surprise. Uh oh! But guess what? The prank is actually not real and you guys are invited to our snowball team! “Oh my god you got us real good.” So they keep walking around as slowly as humanly possible recruiting other members along the way so they can have the most epic snowball fight team on the block. Finally they see a big ol’ tank full of the neighboring school’s snowball team. “Come on out ya cowards. Show us what ye got ya big dorks!” EEEEEEEEEEHHHHHH COUHHHH Mann vs Machine starts playing * “Oh hoho, now you fucked up. Now you gon be fuckin’ OWNED! WE THE MASTERS OF SNOWBALL FIGHTS BITCHES, AND WE COMIN’ FOR YOU!” *Pootis screech

[knifeaparty]

ive been thinking about and sketching a ffxiv/tf2 au so i am going to ramble about it bc where else to but here

mercs and their races, clans and classes so far:

medic: au’ra, xaela, scholar

honestly i thought of this crossover bc someones xaela looked so much liked medic everytime i saw them so... ive thought about elezen for him which would be interesting and make sense? but dragon medic is too fun. scholar bc, obvs.. i think its the healing class that fits him most with my complete lack of knowledge of what scholar is. hes def not a white mage because the whole uaaah nature thing and it would be cute if his little fairy was archimedes. the scholar aesthetic fits him more than astrologian, too. also the arcanist/summoner side job i think fits him perfectly 

heavy: roegadyn,  hellsguard, warrior

this is the most self indulgent one for me as an mroe warrior player. i think the reclusive mountain clan hellsguard fits him, even tho it’s more of volcano mountains than snowy mountains like russia.  as well as ofc the more beefy roe body type. i think a huge axe named sacha is the best i will get bc i cant just make everyone machinist lmao. also the close ties w warrior to hellsguard makes it an obv choice. *thinks about beat mode* i would like to see it. 

sniper: au’ra, raen, bard

NOW THIS ONE EXCITES ME THE MOST!!!! i ADORE thinking about raen sniper growing up in the dawn thrown around chad xaela au’ra lmaooo. the raen clan in the lost underwater city was just too tempting it just tickles me how perfect it is...  i remember thinking of this crossover before i got to stormblood and when i finally learned more about the au’ra and met the raen clan i went insane it was simply meant to be. me equating xaela to australians is what made me want to switch medic to elezen but there are xaela from ishgard too so who cares. also.. thinking about sniper in the bard outfits absolutely kills me. i dont think saxophone or didgeridoo are instruments in game but ill allow it for him. 

spy: elezen, duskwight??, ninja

this one was a tough choice, esp bc his race effects scouts... obviously hes a ninja, as funny as that is but his race is still up to debate. i didnt really think about the clan bc elezen clan stuff is barely a thing in game, and i would think hes just from ishgard, which makes him basically a wildwood, but i think him being a duskwight is quite funny as well and gridania is also heavily european inspired so, why not. i really wanted him and scout to be cat boys but idk who else i would make elezen lmao. and i cannot imagine an elezen miqote mix. 

scout: elezen/hyur mix, ???, monk

scout was a hard one to pin down, by god i want him to be a cat boy but also him being mixed and having the cute short ears and growing up in the brume is just too irresistible. obvs mother is a hyuran woman. also.. his class... i know ninja is like the “scouting” class and monk is a somewhat beefy tanky dps class but,  i think its the best fit. you do get that speed boost ability (that i never use) so ill just run with it. no pun intended. 

pyro: lalafell, dunesfolk, black mage

its just the obvious choice. blackmage has the most literal fire power out of all the classes, and theyre also just.. generally cryptid ass lalafell lmao. i think its cute and funny. have you seen those lil dudes? c’mon. pyro. definitely just an ul’dahn cryptid. love to see it. 

engie: lalafell, plainsfolk, machinist

this one tickles me especially i just love it so much. even tho all the mercs love their guns i had to give engie mch for the turrets. and i made him lalafell bc hes short. sorry engie my short king, its just too funny. i think he would be home to either limsa or gridania, you dont find many lalafell in limsa but i think he can match their energy. prob grew up in gridanian country side and moved to limsa for the business. 

soldier: hyur, midlander, dragoon

soldierjust being the generic dude he is (this is no shade i love him) is the american hyur. i debated his class a lot but then i thought about his rocket jumps and was like.. okay hes a dragoon. the aesthetic of it doesnt fit him but the playstyle does i think. hes prob from limsa or ul’dah. convinced hes fought all the wars against the garleans but has never actually met one in reality. 

demo: hyur, highlander, paladin

>>> or miqo’te seeker of the moon

demos the one im most undecided on. i just like the thought of demo and soldier being hyur bros but that means i have NO cat boys ??? i could make soldier, engie, or pyro one probably, but i’m just super attached to the races ive given them. engie and pyro being lalafells and soldier and demo being hyurs is just too good to me. i dont really think he would be an ala mhigan either really? i feel like hes just a gridanian. so seeker of the moon would probably fit better but i’m not sure. also paladin bc demoknight but i also think rdm or some casting dps for him would be fun bc of his cursed sorcery background. i think him being taught some blm and his experience w a sword through paladin would make him a good rdm one day. maybe hes a paladin that becomes a drk or something lmao. i think scout is the only one who fits the miqo’te body type too so thats really whats holding my back bc... i will not make demo a twink. 

something that deeply troubles me is the thought of bald catboys, which limits my options for assigned catboy at crossover. they have their hats but..... 

i also dont really have any ala mhigan or doman hcs for them the dawn throne is as close as i get but its just the reality with the tf2 having little asian rep.

#i really just wanted to write down my thought process for this bc ive been thinking about it #i have it all sketched out too but theyre too unfinished for me to post them #if anyone at all enjoys this i will be so happy #not gonna tag the games itself bc honestly #i do not think these fanbases intersect at all #i do see osme influence in the ffxiv community from tf2 esp w sfm stuff #but nobody is actively into them both=

[saltypiss]

The idea that people would ever try to deny that valve in fact did assassinate their modding scene is laughable. Ya’ll gone to your favorite TF2 modding site lately? Oh it’s fucking down? How bout that. Oh gamebanana is still up! Oh, no one’s made mods for a vast vast vast majority of models in over 3+ years? Majority nearing 8?

Oh you think steampipe was to “speed up loading”? Well it fuckin didn’t, but despite that, they changed how you modded, which immediately crippled many older mods, completely disabled mod support for L4D1 and HL:S, made L4D2 crash more and run worse.

Oh, you think workshop was to “expand the modding scene”? Then why doesn’t Half Life 2 have workshop support? Why do I need to manually delete files in Garry’s mod and L4D2 in order to fully remove them from my system when no other game has that problem?

Oh, you thought they disabled mods for their main servers to prevent cheating? Are we really going to believe that with lmaobox? Really now? Are we truly saying the biggest cheating problem back then was people modding their games to give the scout tits? Yet you go to literally ANY community server and there’s no cheaters to be seen, even with mods enabled?

Oh, you thought it was all for the community. It never was. It was to control their own shit and keep it from being modded with content downloaded from 3rd party sites. They don’t get any revenue from that so fuck them right? Oh, they don’t make money off of mods?

Then explained how we have gotten to a point in history for gaming where “paid mods” is a fucking thing. Tell me, WHO APPROVED of that, PROGRAMMED that, and TOOK A MASSIVE FUCK-OFF CUT of that? “BeFthSeAsDA!” The fuck ever dude. They likely were approached by valve to do it. I believe this for many reasons, mainly that they are in charge of a monopoly and their previous assassinations absolutely make more sense when you realize the end-game was paid monopolizing mods.

Valve handled the entire fiasco so badly they were giving wrong advice to people that ended up getting their shit removed, and causing a massive divide and a ton of drama. They had NO system in place for anything, just bare bones bullshit. Which at the time was exactly their strategy for everything, as minimal work as possible, release it and hope for the best from idiots defending it.

Because of this, I can only assume valve took control of a majority of how it would function on, you know, THEIR MULTIBILLION DOLLAR APPLICATION, they likely had a few meetings for precautions that probably just ended in “eh fuck it, we’ll deal with it later” and just said “this is going to make us so much fucking money”

“But why would they not put in the care for it if they were the one’s behind it!”

When you own a monopoly, you really don’t have any reason to care about any bad pr. Just wait til people accept it and move on. Which is what everyone did for steampipe, workshop, and disabling mods on their servers. They just moved on because what the hell else are you going to do?

“Oh but they only made 10k!” “Oh the amount of emails they received cost more than what they made from it!”

How the fuck anyone believes any of that trifle crap I don’t know. But for one: Emails don’t cost money. And no monopolistic company is reading your messages. For two: 10k is absolutely unbelievable. That would mean from the start, their system was doomed to fail. If they can’t afford to make enough money to pay for fucking EMAILS, they aren’t able to run a fucking company. Much less the amount of tax rules they’d have to follow, especially these days, to make that system even work.

Oh, and just so we all know, that means 2,500 dollars were made by modders. That’s 7,500 dollars to companies not doing shit, math not totally correct but roll with it, the point is there.

A few things to note about gabe’s responses:

In reply to concerns that Valve might require exclusivity for mods:

"Exclusivity is a bad idea for everyone. It's basically a financial leveraging strategy that creates short term market distortion and long term crying."

How the fuck you gonna do that? How. There is NO fucking way to not, you have THE MONOPOLY on PC GAMING, you fucking pin-point AIMED to MONOPOLIZE MODDING, your “””competitors””” weren’t charging and are now either down or on death’s door, by your hands, and it failed because thankfully enough people kept poking holes at your UTTER LACK OF ANY PREPAREDNESS OR REGARD FOR ANY REALITY OF THE SYSTEM FUNCTIONING.

People had to break your system for you to give it up, because the unending biggest of bad pr from people halfway seeing what you were doing, and the work needed to resolve anything was never going to be worth the cost of email apparently.

On stolen/plagiarised content appearing in the Workshop:

"This is a straight-forward problem. Between ours and the community's policing, I'm confident that the authors will have control over their creations, not someone trying to rip them off."

Which ended up fucking happening a week in. Under their fucking direction.

And I have to stress, 25% of a dollar, is 25 cents. That’s 75 cents to 2 companies who had fuck off nothing to do with it, and only wanted ALL the money they could possibly obtain.

Idiots defend that kind’ve price gouging, idiots defend free shit turning paid.

So, with that all said. Valve assassinated modding. They made a bare-bones “workshop” that doesn’t cover everything but took so much traffic away that sites died. They made modding manually super unreliable and difficult, specifically to outdate a ton of mods using Steampipe. They then partner with THE most well known “pro-modding” company that has a workshop for their massive game with a rabidly idiotic fanboy base ready to defend the shit out of them, and valve’s rabidly idiotic fanboy base of the time ready to defend the shit out of them too.

It failed because their system was half as half-baked as their workshop was.

And people somehow believe Bethesda, pre-microsoft, went to valve with a whole ass plan (2 paragraphs) and then told valve “okay so use your multibillion dollar app and implement this system we made somehow on our own that will obviously fail”

No, Valve had this shit planned for a while. Bethesda was just dumb enough to think it would’ve worked. And dumb enough to assume Valve would’ve put in any effort into anything ever at the time.

[valhallansim]

(same anon that asked you about heroes/maps) I'm a girl and a mercy main, but ik what you mean. People think mercy is just easy to play imo but she is definitely not. You NEED good positioning as her and also relying on your team having good positioning also. really hard if you're solo queuing. I agree with pretty much everything you said. So what are your opinions on the heroes you didn't mention. Tracer, Zarya, Ana, Pharah, Rein(i have the biggest crush on him, my man) lmao. basically everyone

More Overwatch ramblings beneath the cut my friends ♥ I will try to tag all the Overwatch-related asks I get with ‘ovw related’!

Yes, I know the feeling!!! A lot of people don’t seem to understand that there’s a difference between being able to play a hero on a decent level, and playing a hero on a (very) high level. It’s all about skill curves, you know? Some heroes have a low skill entry level, which means that they are good for new players or players that are trying to get into another role. Characters like Soldier, Reinhardt, Mercy, Lúcio, etc. I mean it like this: a ‘bad’ or decent Mercy is still a good Mercy. She heals, uses her ult, and damage boosts here and there. Seeing as she is just ‘decent’, she will probably die a lot and not get the amount of healing or resses that a good Mercy will get. A ‘bad’ or decent Genji, however, is often more of a liability than any other hero. If Genji doesn’t do his job, it becomes very hard for the other characters to do theirs (taking out the healers, doing damage, combo-ing with other characters to use his ult correctly). Genji requires more ‘skill’ at the entry level than Mercy does, but that doesn’t mean playing these characters makes you dumb or bad at the game? Every single hero has their own skill floors & ceilings, and every hero can be mastered to a degree where they will be better than any other hero because of your skill. You will often see a GIANT difference between a decent Mercy and a good Mercy right away. You become almost impossible to kill because of your positioning, you know when and where to hide to ress your team, and you when and where to utilize your damage boost or your pistol. These are all very critical parts of playing the character, and while she is ‘easy’ to get into at first, she is just as hard to master as any other hero in the game. Also, objectively speaking, some heroes are just easier to ‘carry’ with than other heroes. Doesn’t make them any less valuable lol. /RANT

MORE OPINIONS HERE WE GO

Tracer: Gameplay-wise, I like playing her, but not as much as I enjoyed playing Scout in TF2. She feels a lot more ‘flimsy’ to me, and her gameplay style is a bit too over the place for me to really get into. I find myself not really utilizing all her abilties while playing her, so she doesn’t really suit my playstyle personally! Character-wise, I don’t know. She seems like a really, really sweet person that obviously cares a lot for the people around her and people in general. I wish that Blizzard would kind of lift her from the ‘postergirl’ position to kind of delve a little bit deeper into her backstory, because it seems interesting to know what exactly happened when she got lost in time. It’s weird from a character-progression kind of view, because the whole event of her with the Slipstream and disappearing for days on end doesn’t seem to have affected her in the long run at all. She is literally just portrayed as the happy-go-lucky postergirl, and feels a little bit of a flat character for me sometimes? Obviously the christmas comic has shown us a lot more about her, and I love that she has a girlfriend. I just wish that she also had some lines in-game about Emily (to Winston, maybe, or just in general where she can go ‘oh, I hope I don’t forget to bring Emily a souvenir!’ or something trivial like that). Also I just can’t get behind her voice. I really disliked it the first time I heard it, and I really dislike it now, still ): She’s cute, though. I still like her.

Zarya: I can play her fairly well, but I do not enjoy playing her at all. She feels bland to me, which makes me really sad because I absolutely love her to pieces. I have a thing for Russian accents and she is such a babe, I want her to choke me into the sweet release of death tbh. I wish we knew more about her because I would love to see more of her!! Total babe. Would smooch.

Ana: MOTHER………. I love her so much. I love that she’s such an old lady but she still kicks ass and she is beautiful and perfect and all she wanted was to be good for her daughter but she is still human and she has made some real mistakes. I do really like playing her, but I’m not as good as I’d like to be so I would have to practice more lol. Total menace to play against tho would not recommend she can solo an entire team by herself. grandma stop

Pharah: I REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY want her to be in a happy relationship with Mercy can it happen please. FFFFF I love her. She’s a hard character to play well, being a damn glass cannon and all, but she’s fun!! If you have a good day with her you can definitely wreck an entire team and it’s the best feeling in the world lol

Reinhardt: Can hammer me any day tbh. I have told you guys this plenty of times but Thor (both myth and Marvel tbh) is my favourite in all the things ever and seeing a young Reinhardt with the long blonde hair I’m just aaaaaaaaaaaa. I really hope they do a young Reinhardt skin with a cute beard so I can live in peace. I would probably play him non-stop. Also he’s so cute and I’m so WEAK for gentle giant type characters I want him to both marry me and be happy old marrieds with Ana but you know. I dislike that he’s pretty much a must-pick in most competitive scenarios and I don’t really like playing him all that much, but I have learnt to appreciate his playstyle

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