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3 strange parts who's combined total are ~4 keys without being on the weapons, and a $2 festivizer isn't going to almost double the price. I'd say this is worth ~13 keys, not 30.

Even though you say you're not rude to staff members, any time I'm on at the same time as you, you never cease to leave me alone. I remember a time when you got stuck inside of a door as friendly, and you begged for my attention to "help you out" even though there were much more simple ways of going about it, and when I didn't help you, you yelled at me saying that I should "do my job" even though it was something that could simply be fixed by using the "kill" command in your console. You still have not changed from what I've seen, you still spam binds and complain when someone kills you, even calling that person names.
-1
A:8/10
M:4/10
No, you are not a bad person, please do not go creating drama around this. Do not let my -1 get you down, but unfortunately I feel its best that you hear this to better yourself.

This was attempted and ended up not working so well. The rank website still ended up showing the slurs that were used, even if they were censored.

Was requested by multiple people to make a poll to remove random crits on TGH. You will have 1 week to vote, only members may vote.

Again, answer this question, why do we have no spread then?
 
Also, @Tatost, no need to sperg out. There's a vote for something that people wanted remove, i'm sorry you can't understand that but instigating people only makes you look incredibly silly.

Yes, hi, and hello. Today I'm going to talk about the very controversial map, Edventures. This was both a requested map review and a personal map review.

 



 
This map is trash.
We're done go home.
Ok fine I guess I owe you all reasoning about why this map is so awful. Covering our basis let's talk about this biggest issue with this map, the bad memes. Meme maps aren't inherently bad by default. However there is a certain amount of over saturation and audio spam that brings you to the edge of insanity. Every time this map was on I consistently heard 13 year old and younger kids impersonating the "We need some wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeels" meme that gets played every time you step into the go karts. They were buggy by nature and had a "nifty" little button that made them go faster. Anyone in front was instantly killed. and of course like everything else on this map had some nice audio spam of an engine running. This is the tip of the iceberg folks. Buckle in cause we're in for a long ride.

 



There was a default track of Ed, Edd, and Eddy's theme playing in the background. While nostalgic, it became repetitive after a while. By nature it's not bad. Except for the random tracks of laughing, "allah akbar"-ing(from dropping a bomb,) and screaming from cows having sex on a trailer's roof(assuming you were near that area.) All of these things caused a lot of noise pollution. This is assuming you're lucky enough not to have the walky talkies being spammed, cut, and replayed. Those cursed words of "when you stub your toe" still echo on the deepest levels of my madness. There were more walky talkies hidden on the map but I'm not listing them all.
 



 
Now as I said this is a meme map with various easter eggs including Johnny test's severed head on a pike, Censored MLP porn, and many more trashy memes. The combination of audio and visual memes are enough to make most of sane thinking queezy. To this map's credit however, at least the memes are not overly saturated into a small area. Like many smaller maps tend to do, they shove as much content into a single space as possible to make up for poor quality. At least there is enough space to enjoy yourself before encountering the next meme, at least visually. It won't be long until you run across one though.

 



Next let's talk about the ever important map quality. It's as bad as the memes.
Now now clam the hell down and hear me out.
Yes I'm aware that the map is a reflection of the show it's based on. Ed, Edd, and Eddy by design were minimal. They were designed to be simple yet to the point. However, this map takes the concept too far in my opinion. Taking way too many liberties in lazy design. For starters the texture of the map is incredibly bland where everything not only is flat, but looks flat as well. What do I mean? If you were to look at the fences for example they have no shape. This would have been forgivable if the fences were consistent. The chain fences near the school actually have texture and shape. It's horrendous to look at visually. It doesn't end at fences either. Rooftops, trees and many other things have no shape. They literally are 2d models rendered in a 3d world. It's incredibly ugly

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The coloring and texturing of the environment are even worse. The map is a bunch of dull colors and flat textures that were slapped on. Now I want to point out that the show had detail in it despite it's minimalist nature. You had a certain about of depth that gave visual clues on the shape/texture of an object. The houses are a great example of this where they lose any kind of shading, layout, or design for a literal colored block for buildings. Here is a picture from the show of a house. You can see more detail in this 2d picture then you can on the in game 3d models. The glass has shine, the door appears wooden, the roof has a brick like texture to it. Hell even the pavement has more definition then the 3d models.

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Say what you will about me being harsh on the design elements, but I stand by my opinion that it was lazy. On a 2d plane they have an excuse for an image to appear flat. An animator doesn't have time to perfect the shape of a bush or roof. They just have to get the idea across. As a 3d model however, there is no excuse. "But it looks like the show" Yeah sure as a bland object I could have made with default blender items I could make an egg look like a bad spongebob pineapple. I'm not going to however because it would look bad. Same thing with this map. You have to make changes to make a 2d object into a 3d model. Including adding texture!
 

 



Alright in terms of actual gameplay this map isn't complete garbage. Still bad but not complete trash.
Lots of open space mixed with a niche little alley way maze allows for some fun playstyles you normally couldn't play on say hyrule. Outside of rocket and sticky pogo don't expect any sweet rocket jumps outside of occasionally hanging out on the roof. This map very heavily favors scouts, snipers, and pyros over other classes. The obstacles let scouts have a lot of fun sneaking around and causing mischief to snipers hiding in the neighborhood. Pyros have plenty of fun hiding in the alleyways waiting to catch their victims by surprise. Snipers can just sit behind a building or on a roof and have vision of almost every part of the map that isn't behind a fence/wall. So expect to be sniped, spawn camped by scouts, and dominated by ninja pyros. There isn't quite a lot to do on the map outside of finding the memes. There are a couple easter egg rooms including that bad meme room and a sheep room. Neither team is really favored over the the other in terms of spawns. They're both equally bad being teleport spawns, rather open, and unprotected. It's not the worst map to favor sniper but it is still not wise to walk out into the open.
 

 



Overall this map is bad. It attracts the worst of the tf2 community with bad lenny binds, memes, and other general garbage. I'm not even covering all the exploits the map had. It's a very bland map. It was poorly designed and executed. It's size does not compensate it's quality in any form. I'm glad the map was removed and you all should be happy too. It was funny for the first week it was added but after a while it starts to really show how bad it is. For those of you saying it's not based on a game, you're wrong. Look up Ed, Edd, and Eddies mis-adventures for gamecube/ps2 and you will be disappointed. There was a racing and pc game but we don't talk about those. I would never vote for this map, most certainly nominate it.
 
 
What? Why are you still reading?
 
I didn't forget anything! I Swear!
 
Wait.. What's that over the horizon!

"Hey Look everybody! Bad memes are BACK"
"We love you bad memes!"
Kill me.

-1 has incredibly bad problem with their own ego, really immature.
A: 8
M: 3

-1 has incredibly bad problem with their own ego, really immature.
A: 8
M: 3

Telling people your age on the internet has nothing to do with "privacy". It's simply a way of telling us your maturity, there's no way we'll know anything personally about you based on your age, there's most likely millions of people on the internet who are the same age as you. Another thing I have a problem with is that your application looks more like a staff application than a member application, you should've gave more reasons for joining instead of just saying "people don't listen to admins and are tryhards". I'm going to -1, only because you can't even give us a proper age and your application seems a bit too much like a staff application.

Here's generic picture I show everyone. @Bello
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Here's generic picture I show everyone. @Bello
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Here's generic picture I show everyone. @Bello
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Here's generic picture I show everyone. @Bello
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Here's generic picture I show everyone. @Bello
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and this is my "cool hip guy gamer" pose :thinking:
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3 strange parts who's combined total are ~4 keys without being on the weapons, and a $2 festivizer isn't going to almost double the price. I'd say this is worth ~13 keys, not 30.

3 strange parts who's combined total are ~4 keys without being on the weapons, and a $2 festivizer isn't going to almost double the price. I'd say this is worth ~13 keys, not 30.

[sPESHAL XG DISCOWNT!!!] 30 keys :]]

-1 nah. Seen him on the servers. He thinks he's funny when trying to insult people.
A: 7/10
M: 4/10

Nononono, we don't ban people for spamming the sm_calladmin command, we ban them for intentionally using the plugin for no reason at all.
We [staff] get a notification everytime someone uses the command through a steam bot.
[spoiler=looks like this]

>22:08 - [xG:CA] Killer Keemstar: New report on server: [xG] Trade Gaming History - http://XenoGamers.com (64.74.97.69:27015) ReportID: 1 Reporter: Otaku Krampus (STEAM_0:1:88632487) Target: The Color Pootis (STEAM_0:1:77315912) Reason: Massive mic spam Join server: steam://connect/64.74.97.69:27015 When in game, type !calladmin_handle 1 or /calladmin_handle 1 in chat to handle this report 22:10 - [xG:CA] Killer Keemstar: Last report (1) was handled by: [xG:M] Randy Moss
 
 
Some staff members actually stop doing what they're doing (i.e homework, playing other games etc.) and it's more than awfully annoying when you join to see that someone was just like "XD funi plugin let me see what it does :O".
Before you actually use the command, it gives you an explicit message that says abusing calladmin will result in a punishment:

Gyazo - 5745f24b298eed00c3e48bc16fdb6d4d.png
(Gotta fix the message btw, lol.)
Not only is banning people for abusing that feature after being given an explicit warning more than a legit reason, silencing seems too lenient to me. Keep in mind: I am not saying people who use the calladmin feature for a purpose should be banned, just if they do it for no reason at all.

I expect our staff to use common sense to determine whether it actually had a [legit] reason, which includes the scenerios you've mentioned, or not.
That being said I'm personally against the idea of changing our system.
EDIT: I hope this does not seem hostile at all, I'm about to head to sleep and I rushed this post.

After looking at the two item histories, mostly at who the items directly to, I might be able to clear up confusion. The person who had taken the items either had a private inventory, or changed it to private after scamming the items, so that backpack.tf could not update the item histories through his backpack. Now as for the people who bought them, the guy with the $62,000 backpack is banned off Tf2outpost for trading with marked scammers so most likely he quickbuys off basically anyone. The bot is quickbuying scatterguns, and that's why it went to that bots inventory. What would really help out is if @CCDeVille could provide us his trade history and the scammers steam profile, if he still has it.

Going to keep this short and simple. Number of real life problems, trying to mend a long lasting friendship, and other stuff.
 
I'm going to go ahead and step down.

The poll is now over @Bello.

You have 8 total connects in recent history on the rank.xenogamers.com. I don't think that is "almost every day".