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anyone who would be interested in competative tf2 would watch 6v6, if you want pubber to watch tf2 for no reason i have no idea what to offer to u and im not sure we, as competitive gamers should care about appealing pubbers who are not interested in competitive play either

To expand on what I said above. It is not only the games I love, but the communities. The entire fighting game community is just funny, always entertaining, also seems more mature, less racial slurs/homophobia, partly cos they are older and partly cos there are no white people in that community (or rather very few).

When they pop off it is genuine, they have awesome casters, who make every game entertaining, even if it is not that good a match. The crowd is always hype.

For example this is one of the things at EVO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf8GG3gwam8

The fighting game community expands past it’s games.

I also only watching minecraft, because of the people who play it. They do interesting things and have interesting stories, again I don’t play it, but I will watch it and gain understanding from it.

The entire fighting game community is just funny, always entertaining, also seems more mature, less racial slurs/homophobia, partly cos they are older and partly cos there are no white people in that community (or rather very few).

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Quoted from CrashSite

To expand on what I said above. It is not only the games I love, but the communities. The entire fighting game community is just funny, always entertaining, also seems more mature, less racial slurs/homophobia, partly cos they are older and partly cos there are no white people in that community (or rather very few).

When they pop off it is genuine, they have awesome casters, who make every game entertaining, even if it is not that good a match. The crowd is always hype.

For example this is one of the things at EVO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf8GG3gwam8

The fighting game community expands past it’s games.

I also only watching minecraft, because of the people who play it. They do interesting things and have interesting stories, again I don’t play it, but I will watch it and gain understanding from it.

what is ‘popping off’? can minecraft players ‘pop off’?

Ah, I should explain it seems. I will always watch the games they play, even if I don’t play them myself, because of how funny the community is.

We have a lot of funny people in our community, but their voices are rarely heard. We have Pirate radio, but it very small. In comparison this is one of the fighting games “podcasts”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPUy6GtCBDc&feature=plcp

The fighting game community is also a lot older on average, since they have been playing since the arcade days, so it has a lot of 25-30 year olds.

I should also say that “popping off” is when someone starts talking shit, normally after winning.

I was tired, so maybe it was a bit too much and I could have just said:

I watch other games, without playing them, because of the people within them. We should look to do the same with TF2, since we have the community for it.

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[…]tf2 players sing off

That was fun times.

Quoted from CrashSite

To expand on what I said above. It is not only the games I love, but the communities. The entire fighting game community is just funny, always entertaining, also seems more mature, less racial slurs/homophobia, partly cos they are older and partly cos there are no white people in that community (or rather very few).

Aahahahah xD

The fighting game community actually doesn’t seem that far removed from the 14 year-old faggot-shouting CoD/Halo console community.

http://kotaku.com/5889066/competitive-gamers-inflammatory-comments-spark-sexual-harassment-debate

Rea: Can I get my Street Fighter without sexual harassment?

Bakhtanians: You can’t. You can’t because they’re one and the same thing. This is a community that’s, you know, 15 or 20 years old, and the sexual harassment is part of a culture, and if you remove that from the fighting game community, it’s not the fighting game community–it’s StarCraft.

Important fighting game community figure stating that being like Starcraft is a bad thing (one of the most succesful and mature e-sports to date) and that the fighting game community can’t do without sexual harassment. You were saying? I didn’t even mention the general problem of the fighting games themselves of not being able to get rid of 90’s videogame sexism.

Ontopic:

Maybe I missed a post about this, but isn’t it currently possible to set individual forum rights on the wordpress forum? Couldn’t we achieve the same thing without the PhpBB? I guess I missed something, and the admins have their reasons for it.

I have to agree with Vali. I think the way the PhpBB is set up already shows a fallible standpoint. We see a seperate thread for every single unlock (mon dieu), but the point is not to at all to argue every specific unlock. If you start arguing every single unlock seperately, ultimately there’s no big argument to make to ban/allow a specific one. You can always think of reasons why a single unlock, removed from any context, is useful/fun/interesting/etc. I don’t think that arguing seperate unlocks in seperate threads without any established underlying principles as a “departure point” will get us anywhere. Even if people try to forward the unlocks discussion with the best of intentions, they will have to repeat the underlying inference for their way of reasoning about certain unlocks in every single thread.

Let’s be real, there’s no way we can hop from one ETF2L season to the next and just add a shitload of new unlocks to the ruleset without causing considerable collateral damage to the community and the support of the league in one way or another. The only realistic way to make change (provided the majority actually wants that) is to do it in careful steps, and the way we’re supposed to unsystematically discuss each unlock in those forums doesn’t really seem suited for that in my opinion.

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Aahahahah xD

The fighting game community actually doesn’t seem that far removed from the 14 year-old faggot-shouting CoD/Halo console community.

http://kotaku.com/5889066/competitive-gamers-inflammatory-comments-spark-sexual-harassment-debate

[…]

Important fighting game community figure stating that being like Starcraft is a bad thing (one of the most succesful and mature e-sports to date) and that the fighting game community can’t do without sexual harassment. You were saying? I didn’t even mention the general problem of the fighting games themselves of not being able to get rid of 90’s videogame sexism.

I am literally just going off the American scene that I watch. Really don’t see anything like that there. Maybe it is present but under the surface. So I can’t comment on that.