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Following on with the medic achievement fiasco topic that just keeps on giving, I spotted this one over at GU Comics.

I hadn’t heard of that site before, but Woody Hearn (the writer/artist) does some great stuff there.

It’s all becoming a case of life imitating art as foreseen by the destructoid crew a few months back
(although I counted at least 400 medics on the server I was on tonight).

spotpuff over at the new blog The Theory of Gaming has a nice talk about the new medic gears and the unlocking thereof that is close to my own heart.

Now normally this wouldn’t be such a big deal, but the achievements are not practical at all. Some of them are not achievements you would get if you were playing medic as a team player. For example, needle gunning 50 scouts to death, or bone sawing 50 medics to death. These are NOT things that happen in a regular team fortress game. 99% of the time if you are a medic and you don’t have your medigun out you are doing it wrong. The bone saw has a place in spy killing and last-ditch melee attacks, and the needle gun is useful, just not against scouts. If you needle gun a scout to death the scout either sucks or you got lucky or both, but realistically you should have been healing someone who kills the scout for you. So why did you have the needle gun out in the first place?

Come on Valve! NO MORE! 49 comments and counting from my last rant, none of them really a big fan of the achievement system. Most were against, some grudgingly went along with it just to get the toys.

I think one guy was in support, but he seemed like a bit of an unbalanced nutjob. Probably a career soldier player by the sound of it.

Perpetual double-medic ubersaw ubercharge!

Hopefully this gets nerfed soon. Probably just needs to be so that the ubersaw doesn’t charge your ubercharged while YOU are actually ubercharged.

Cheers to Janordy for the video

Part of the problem is that the other team is full of moron medics farming the new achievements that don’t have a clue how to play. Not sure if this would work as well against a better team.

theBond from Gib$Ru$ wrote in mentioning the promo video they’ve done for their Dustbowl server. (24/7, instaspawn, instateleports - messy. I like it!)

They’re invoking memories of 80s sitcoms, Cheers in particular. My parents used to love that show when I was a kid, we watched it every Tuesday night. I got pissed off cause Knight Rider was on the other channel and I wasn’t allowed to watch it. Yeah, back when Woody Harrelson had hair, Kirsty Alley wasn’t doing reality TV about dieting, Ted Danson was actually well known (although he was pretty good in Damages), and Kelsey Grammer wasn’t Frasier… No wait, he was Frasier in that as well.

It’s all warm and fuzzy like, where every one knows your name. You can almost hear Norm and Cliff hollering for another beer.

Gib$Ru$ 24/7 Dustbowl Server
67.213.67.91:27015

This video was shot on the Gib$Ru$ server.Join us on the Gib$Ru$ 24/7 Dustbowl server, where its Dustbowl all the time. Unique mods such as instant respawn, and instant teleporters seperate the server from the rest, along with friendly [Gib$Ru$] guild members.

After playing for a while, sign up for the guild at gibsrus.com/

We hope to see you around!

Team Fortress 2: Dustbowl to Cheers Theme Song from Sean Joudry on Vimeo.

The Escapist (home to the inimitable Zero Punctuation) has interviewed the Team Roomba lads.

There is talk of griefing videos (as we’ve seen a couple of times before), and the ethical implications thereof.

Arriving at the initial crest of enthusiasm toward Valve’s Team Fortress 2, Team Roomba’s video showing an array of petty, hilarious and oft imaginative cruelty was an immediate memetic sensation. Griefing is usually little more than plain sadism; but with the right soundtrack and frame-perfect editing, Team Roomba’s videos have turned it into - whisper it - a kind of comedy performance. Or, at least, something other than just being a douchebag.

No mention of an an apology for getting Celine Dion stuck in my brain (again).

The evils that come from Team Roomba know no limits.
After a couple of griefing attempts and a Pyro music video, the latest shenanigans to come from their way involves a bunch of sweaty Team Fortress 2 geeks with little to no musical talent playing the “My Heart Will Go On: Karaoke Mod” on the 2for2furious.com server. I kid you not.

The big question is though: Can we put this on a server in my area?. I WANT IN!

TF2 Karaoke: My Heart Will Go On from FLOOR MASTER on Vimeo.

Spotted over at Brad Sucks

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Those amateurs over at Pyro Rock Star (Pyro and Elizabeth Bourke) have started getting all angsty on me cause I’m not doing development work for FREE for them that would normally cost quite a bit of money. And this is after doing a bunch of work setting up their site and getting things humming along (FOR FREE).

They’ve even called for a boycott of ubercharged by Pyro Rock Star readers. Oooh! I’m scared! So their 13 subscribers will stop coming here? GOOD!

Whatever. I’ll just wait for Pyro to lay off the propane fumes, and for Elizabeth to sober up, then we’ll see how it goes.

Nerf NOW!! is a web comic by Josué Pereira. Some very cool work in there.

There’s a bit of a story line going on. So some dreaded continuity required. It’s best to go back and read it all from the first comic (yes, I know, this is tough for some of you with a 30 second attention span, but it’s worth it.)

Cheers to Pinko for the tip off

Xanatos and the Janus Syndicate (who gave the world Get In Shape) have recorded another TF2 machinima. This time they take on Clint Eastwood and the whole spaghetti western genre.

As we all know, it has been statistically proven by science that Clint is the greatest action film hero ever. That old school trademark scowl puts to shame any posturing done by todays wannabe film heroes.

Consider:
Vs:

Honestly, I have no idea how Matt Damon became a “cool” action star.

Anyway…

A group of townspeople are constantly being run out of their town, used, and abused by a skillful gang of bandits. They’ve had enough, and they’re out to find someone to best them and someone who can train them in this 17 min. western/action/comedy/parody.

Made by Xanatos and the Janus Syndicate

Cheers to Garrys Mod news where this was spotted at.

Daxter241 has assembled together a sweet selection of Posed Team Fortress 2 scenes made with Garrys Mod.

Even including all the ubercharged pics that I’ve posted at various times

Nice.