Cat Bountry vs. Earth

tf2shitfest:

Ring ring yes hello Valve?

I’ve been thinking about it more and I really really REALLY want a “WORLD OF TOMORROW” style update yeah.

I mean, you gave us Future Engie.

Please.

Do the thing.

Love, Lux

PS - sorry about the porn blog.

Make it so, Gaben.

tf2shitfest:

weeniehatjrs:

okay since some of you are still interpreting my post wrong, i thought some picture mights help. please note in my original post that i said that the futuristic technology didn’t bother me, but the style did (actually the post was more about pop cultures references that don’t fit the era, like one to siegfried and roy, which can’t be called anything but a careless mistake, but w/e)

let’s take team fortress 2’s sentry and portal’s turret

technology-wise, they have the same exact function: detect thing and shoot thing. the only real technological difference is that one can talk. but obviously, the two are not the same. one is clunky and rough, the other is sleek and clean. the sentry fits the decade’s style. the turret does not. the turret would look absolutely ridiculous and out-of-place on the battle fields of sawmill/thunder mountain/whatever your favorite tf2 map is. all because of its style

another example (one that i used in the original post): the dr. grordbort promotional items and the deus ex promotional items

both are futuristic. you’d have a pretty hard time arguing that ray guns existed in 1968 along with nano helmets. but once again, their styles are drastically different. the cow mangler 5000 is something that you’d see in a 1950s/1960s sci-fi comic book. it’s wonderful; i just love the look of this weapon. it’s retro-futuristic, which works so well because tf2 is retro. the nanobalaclava however… yikes. the style of it clashes pretty badly with the style of tf2. hell, if you painted it white, it would looks like it came out of aperture laboriousness.

i hope i’ve made my point clear. thank you

OPINION TIME: I’m in agreement with weenie on this one. At least as far as the items go (whatever historical inaccuracies that happen in the comics and such fly over me because I don’t pay enough attention).

One thing that really bugs me about this though is that 90% of the items that are guilty of this crime are all items that come from game preorders. Like with the Deus items and some of the new Poker Night items, they look really out of place in the game. Again this doesn’t so much bother me like in a way that keeps me from liking the game but more in a way that it’s like that could have been handled so much better. I mean, you look at the promotional items and you can see that a lot of them have been worked to keep them true to the game’s universe…but then there are some that just…eh.

I know Valve gets a lot of their TF2 revenue from doing these kinds of promotions, but I think that they can make the items work just a smidgen better. They hold the items they accept from the community to such standards that if someone submitted something like the Deus Specs or Nanobaclava (and Valve had no intention of doing a Deus promotion) then they would have turned them down because they don’t fit the game’s universe very well. Then you have items like the Quadwrangler and Triad Trinket and even the Sydney Straw Boat that work fully well with the TF2 world.

I’m just being nitpicky and it boils down to I don’t like ___ item so I won’t get it but it still makes me sigh at the missed opportunities.

I would really like to see more items in the style of the Pomson and Cow Mangler tho. That Sci-Fi 1960’s look is something I really love. Maybe in the future we’ll get like a “world of tomorrow” update with more items like these in it.

/opinion

I don’t really disagree with that, really.

I just kind of accept that it’s a thing and while I don’t personally like those particular items I just deal.

Could be worse.

ms-ashri:

squeakykins:

 

I have a hard time picturing Medic attending modern day masqerade-style sex parties

yeaaaahhhhhhh

that’s for fanfics mmmm <3

Robot Medic had sex parties.

harshaiblogs:

Cold ground: catbountry: chirro: I’m really, really disappointed by this update. I…

chirro:

catbountry:

chirro:

cartoonmaster:

catbountry:

chirro:

I’m really, really disappointed by this update. I don’t interested in anyone’s otp and just like to play in the game, but now really hard to see Byte’d Beak, for example, and not to be angry, because…what? You fucking kidding me?

How vulgar. Why now I must…

Shift your blame to Valve, then, because even if they didn’t write this description themselves (which I’m pretty sure they did), they approved it, and they ultimately have the creative choice over their own game. Which, as a reminder, is a mature game that already contains other suggestive/sexual references, and, more importantly, doesn’t take itself seriously at all. (Hint)

Everything is good in moderation.
TF2 is still a good game with irony and grotesque, but that it was disappointing joke. And this is not some mod, that I can turn off.

Gaben loves our money.

Correction: We, the contributors, love your money because we will be getting that key sales money and not Gaben.

Enjoy your warped and messed-up standards for sexual content versus violent content as influenced by American media and the military industrial complex, nerd.

Oh, if being a civilized man who doesn’t fall into selfishness - it means to be a nerd, then fine.

Now I can see manifestation of the tf2-community in all its glory.

TF2 community talking about messed-up standarts for sexual content, oh well… :/

Like, seriously, was all those innuendos really necessary? In my opinion, that update ended up not like “change your opinion on the standarts for sexual content/orientation/blah-blah-blah” or whatever you supposed it to be (why the heck it was supposed to be this way in this game, anyway?), it looks like more HEY LOOK WE GOT A CHANCE TO MAKE DIRTY JOKES AND MAKE OUR OTPS MORE CANON, YAYYYY LET’S DO IT

Ok, you did it. Now enjoy the shitstorm.

And talking about money - it’s not about this specific update, it’s about the game at all. Because all those sexual jokes are interesting for who? For the part of the fanbase which is interested in shipping and such stuff. And, of course, the plot parts like this will attract more fans who will spend more money on this game. It’s like the rumors about making some gay stuff canon in Supernatural just because SN community enjoys it a lot.

But why the another part of tf2 community which just wants to enjoy the world, characters, plot and gameplay should also look at your shipping stuff IN CANON? It’s perfectly okay on tumblr, tf2chan or anywhere else, because anyone have the rights for having their own opinion. But why do you want to impose it on others, who doesn’t have the similar interests with you, IN THE GAME?

Well, whatever. Now I’m just really happy and have no regrets about the fact that I had quit this community and this game a couple of years ago.

… Or, you know, it’s possible to make a joke about sex in a community without that joke being interpreted as violently pushing a shipping agenda onto parts of that community that don’t care as much but whatever.

epistemotypus:

catbountry:

skoothsmin:

catbountry:

chirro:

I’m really, really disappointed by this update. I don’t interested in anyone’s otp and just like to play in the game, but now really hard to see Byte’d Beak, for example, and not to be angry, because…what? You fucking kidding me?

How vulgar. Why now I must see this in game?

This community full of shit.

Oh no they said the “sex” word.

Fetch the smelling salts my delicate constitution cannot take it.

They didn’t just say the word “sex”, Cat.

THEY SAID THE WORD “SEX” MULTIPLE TIMES.

AT LEAST THREE.

MAN I CAN’T BLOW UP DUDE INTO BLOODY CHUNKS OR THROW JARS OF HUMAN WASTE AT PEOPLE IF I HAVE TO CONSIDER THE POSSIBILITY THAT SEX COULD EXIST WITHIN THE GAME’S UNIVERSE.

THINK OF THE CHILDREN.

WOAHWOAHWOAHWOAH. OK not cool.

Look, not every person has the same comforts regarding sex as you do. TF2 may be a mature game, but it was for the gore and the violence. I could understand the mockery since these aspects have been a part of TF2 since its inception, but the sex thing, no matter how minor, is a new addition to something that someone had been enjoying for quite some time now.

Like, they didn’t say you were bad, or that you were cruel, or that the update was shit. All they said was that they were disappointed by something they perceive as vulgar, and they have every right to view it that way no matter how childish or minor it may seem to you. Mocking them for airing their disapproval is way over the line, and you really ought to know better.

I get that you’re in defense mode given some of the people on the chan being a bunch of little shits, but it’s no reason to go around taking it out on anybody who isn’t fully satisfied with the update. That’s just rude. You really owe Chirro an apology for the way you’re reacting to this because this is not in the slightest bit appropriate or professional.

Seriously dude, take a step back and ask yourself if these responses were really warranted in this situation. Did Chirro’s minor complaints really warrant this kind of aggressive condescension? Is mocking their broken English (due to it being their second language) really appropriate? Is this the kind of behavior you really want to be known for? Is this really the best way to promote Valve? Do you really think Valve is going to be willing to put you back on board for another project if this type of aggressive insulting is how you handle even the smallest of complaints?

I can understand your attitude regarding the chan, but Chirro isn’t the chan, and you don’t have to go into full defense mode over the drop of a hat. Like really, I am way disappointed in how you handled all of this.

I apologize for the broken English bit then, I did not know it was their second language, but I am not budging on my opinion that showing disgust over this:

… in an M-rated game is fundamentally absurd and throwing shippers under the bus for it is wholly unfair. It assumes the person who wrote it only did so to push their ideas onto the community at large, and assumes that they are some bubbleheaded girl idiot who only wants to see the yaois. I don’t know the user that submitted this particular item all that well but from their Steam Workshop profile they are a girl. Nice to know that you think less of their contribution because of the icky sex in it.

I’m sorry if that rubs me the wrong way to see somebody do something like that.

Because I am disappointed that Chirro placed the blame on “shippers” in a very condescending way as though they are vulgar and awful people or something.

If he’s willing to apologize for that I’m willing to apologize for being rude as hell.

gentlemanbones:

catbountry:

skoothsmin:

catbountry:

chirro:

I’m really, really disappointed by this update. I don’t interested in anyone’s otp and just like to play in the game, but now really hard to see Byte’d Beak, for example, and not to be angry, because…what? You fucking kidding me?

How vulgar. Why now I must see this in game?

This community full of shit.

Oh no they said the “sex” word.

Fetch the smelling salts my delicate constitution cannot take it.

They didn’t just say the word “sex”, Cat.

THEY SAID THE WORD “SEX” MULTIPLE TIMES.

AT LEAST THREE.

MAN I CAN’T BLOW UP DUDE INTO BLOODY CHUNKS OR THROW JARS OF HUMAN WASTE AT PEOPLE IF I HAVE TO CONSIDER THE POSSIBILITY THAT SEX COULD EXIST WITHIN THE GAME’S UNIVERSE.

THINK OF THE CHILDREN.

I had to look it up to understand what the fuck, and this is the thing certain people are upset about.

Absolutely stunning.

Man I wish I could have stayed up longer to have followed up on this more.