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Old 08-24-2012, 12:38 AM   Top  -  End  -  #1
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Wow, there's a tf2 trading spreadsheet? Is that current?
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Wow, there's a tf2 trading spreadsheet? Is that current?
I'm not sure if people have taken down stuff they no longer have, so no.
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Boooooooo. I demand Triscuitable Bares All.
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Hot medic on heavy action was not taken?

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Hot medic on heavy action was not taken?

OR WAS IT?!
It was deemed not completely unsafe for work, but not safe for work, either. I'm a student, and teachers check what sites we browse. I can just say "oh, it's a thread on games", but if they see "Hot Medic on Heavy Action!", what'll they think?
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It was deemed not completely unsafe for work, but not safe for work, either. I'm a student, and teachers check what sites we browse. I can just say "oh, it's a thread on games", but if they see "Hot Medic on Heavy Action!", what'll they think?
that you are into some weird TF2 Cosplay stuff...

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Awww, I liked SFW one
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Meh, I'm just gonna keep editing the title in my posts whenever I post here.
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I still think this thread should have been 'Triscuitable Bares All'.
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quick lets post pictures of ample bosoms so that Triscuitable gets in trouble and we can change the thread name back


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It was deemed not completely unsafe for work, but not safe for work, either. I'm a student, and teachers check what sites we browse. I can just say "oh, it's a thread on games", but if they see "Hot Medic on Heavy Action!", what'll they think?
That it's a very amusing joke. Who goes on the internet in school anyway?
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quick lets post pictures of ample bosoms so that Triscuitable gets in trouble and we can change the thread name back


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Meh, I'm just gonna keep editing the title in my posts whenever I post here.
Likewise, it's far better.
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So is it common to be banned off the official servers by the players on them? Tried to play Mann Up and the players on the servers I join kick me off before 1 minute passed pass. On the official servers. That I had to pay money to play on.

Oh well back into the 10 minute queue.
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So I think it was Tavar that wanted to play some E.Y.E. co-op? I guess that might have gotten lost at the bottom of the last thread.
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So is it common to be banned off the official servers by the players on them? Tried to play Mann Up and the players on the servers I join kick me off before 1 minute passed pass. On the official servers. That I had to pay money to play on.

Oh well back into the 10 minute queue.
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Wow, there's a tf2 trading spreadsheet? Is that current?
There is, but recently a massive controversy has been rocking the trading world, centred around the spreadsheet and its owners.

@V: Oh. That makes more sense. I don't know of any controversy about that trading spreadsheet.
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There is, but recently a massive controversy has been rocking the trading world, centred around the spreadsheet and its owners.
I think he's referring to the giantitp trading page thing-a-ma-jig.
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I think he's referring to the giantitp trading page thing-a-ma-jig.
I did.

On the tf2 blog spreadsheet, I don't get the controversy at all. The admin made a profit with a few keys once and only once. The admin also gives away 3 keys a day to random people. For full disclosure I admit I have won one of the key giveaways.

The competing pricing guide is garbage. So the admin of the competing site promotes this controversy and gets more traffic to his site.

And, more importantly, both sites seem to have about the same pricing guides, and they are only guides. They are starting places for a fluctuating value. They also can prevent people (like me) from giving away an unusual hat for a $5 game.

On another topic, apparently it is common to be kicked off of the official Mann Up servers, repeatedly, with no warning, and with spurious reasoning. 30 minutes in the queue, gone.
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I did.

On the tf2 blog spreadsheet, I don't get the controversy at all. The admin made a profit with a few keys once and only once. The admin also gives away 3 keys a day to random people. For full disclosure I admit I have won one of the key giveaways.

The competing pricing guide is garbage. So the admin of the competing site promotes this controversy and gets more traffic to his site.

And, more importantly, both sites seem to have about the same pricing guides, and they are only guides. They are starting places for a fluctuating value. They also can prevent people (like me) from giving away an unusual hat for a $5 game.

On another topic, apparently it is common to be kicked off of the official Mann Up servers, repeatedly, with no warning, and with spurious reasoning. 30 minutes in the queue, gone.
Originally, I actually didn't have much of a problem with the whole affair. It seemed like people were overreacting. But then when the admin came in to explain things, he lied about a number of details. He claimed that his alternate accounts were friends, and then made up a story when he was called out on it. The fact that the admin is acting so evasive about it all makes me think he has something to hide.
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Likewise, it's far better.
Keeping in mind:
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  • It was a holdover from the last thread.
  • It had as many votes as the other.
  • It's still the title of the thread (see above).

Enjoy the thread. For the love of God, it's the TITLE OF A PLACE WHERE YOU TYPE WORDS. It's not a novel. If you want to have a different title, fine, post the next thread. But this title manages to be subtle and funny, while still keeping in with what is barely a theme to begin with.
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Originally, I actually didn't have much of a problem with the whole affair. It seemed like people were overreacting. But then when the admin came in to explain things, he lied about a number of details. He claimed that his alternate accounts were friends, and then made up a story when he was called out on it. The fact that the admin is acting so evasive about it all makes me think he has something to hide.
I have a hard time trusting anyone who's English is so poor. It's rather Anglocentric of me, I'll admit, but it's true.

I've been using TF2 Warehouse recently: its primary advantage is that you can cut out the middle man entirely.
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Keeping in mind:
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  • It was a holdover from the last thread.
  • It had as many votes as the other.
  • It's still the title of the thread (see above).

So quit your bitching, and enjoy the thread. For the love of God, it's the TITLE OF A PLACE WHERE YOU TYPE WORDS. It's not a novel. If you want to have a different title, fine, post the next thread. But this title manages to be subtle and funny, while still keeping in with what is barely a theme to begin with.
There's no need to get rude about it.
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I've been using TF2 Warehouse recently: its primary advantage is that you can cut out the middle man entirely.
I use the WH a lot as well. To be more accurate it replaces the middleman with a bot.

It has it's own problems, such as an inability to trade new items in, and an odd credit system resulting in too much selling and not enough buying, leading to a -50% inflation rate of the credits (if everyone cashed out all their credits, they can only buy half of the inventory's value) and a terrible overstock.
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There's no need to get rude about it.
I'm just offended that everyone's changing their post titles to something else as some sort of rebellion.

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The people like what the people like.
On the new title: I prefer my dirty-but-actually-clean-title.
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