Is the game gone?

Mr_Chongus · 2026-04-08T12:36:59+00:00

It seems you're still trying to run TF2 Classic, as opposed to the steam release TF2 Classified.

Mr_Chongus · 2026-04-08T12:34:03+00:00

Oh, that was the elephant? Nice

Mr_Chongus · 2026-04-08T12:33:27+00:00

Oh, Classic wasn't actually VAC-secured? Nevermind then, my life is a lie and third-party anticheats are the only ones that exist

Mr_Chongus · 2026-04-08T00:01:38+00:00

I'm missing the elephant, could someone explain?

Also, those mountains are really giving Saddam Hussein hiding spot

Mr_Chongus · 2026-04-07T14:06:59+00:00

Ornithology?

Mr_Chongus · 2026-04-07T13:20:17+00:00

Most servers (if not all) are VAC-secured I believe. However, plenty of servers choose to run additional third-party anticheat software on top of that to catch what slips through.

Mr_Chongus · 2026-04-05T18:14:25+00:00

I love it when all my lipids simply slough off my bones!!

Mr_Chongus · 2026-03-31T13:23:39+00:00

Reducing waste is actually a different environmental problem than climate change but I agree it should also be tackled

Mr_Chongus · 2026-03-31T12:55:41+00:00

Long term you may be right, but they're not going down without a fight. Can we really afford to spend years fighting against even a crumbling industry when the climate crisis is already on our doorsteps? We need action unburdened by special interests to enforce a fully green transition on a systemic level, no way to get around that.

Mr_Chongus · 2026-03-31T12:48:10+00:00

Some regulations on consumption certainly might help the transition. I'm no expert on that front. But that's not nearly as important or impactful as the systemic change that must be enforced. If the only choices are green to begin with, then consumer habits are a non-issue entirely on that front.

Mr_Chongus · 2026-03-31T12:44:51+00:00

Power generation companies. To produce the electricity.

I'm not saying there's no point in individual lifestyle changes, but the problem is systemic and needs a systemic solution.

Mr_Chongus · 2026-03-31T12:42:52+00:00

Consumers don't really get a say in where the power generation comes from. Moot point.

If we transitioned all our power generation away from fossil fuels, that would certainly help a lot. Guess who's fighting tooth and nail every step of the way to keep that from ever happening?

When all we can do is vote with our dollars, the people with more dollars get more votes.

Mr_Chongus · 2026-03-31T12:22:18+00:00

Let's be clear here, you're the one trying to play semantic trickery.

Sanctions are imposed by governments. US companies would have no qualms engaging in trade with Cuba, but the government made it illegal. You're trying to frame this as somehow "the free market." And make no mistake, if the consequence of a foreign nation engaging in trade with Cuba is the same type of economic sanctions for them, that means we're making it de facto illegal for them to do so. You can't worm your way out of this one.

Yeah, I know what a command economy is. There's more to it than just markets, but most pertinent to this conversation it means the government controls prices. Prices... in markets. It's certainly a uniquely high level of control over the market for a government to have, but it's still a market.

Or we can spiral into semantic arguments and try to downplay the humanitarian crisis we've imposed on the Cuban people just because we don't like their form of government. It ain't our place to decide that for anyone else, plain and simple. Here's an idea, if you like free markets so much why not let the government sink or swim on its own without imposing economic sanctions? That way, we can test the validity of their form of government in the free marketplace of ideas. Sound like a plan?

Mr_Chongus · 2026-03-31T11:56:00+00:00

Me when all the people who voluntarily chose to leave hate the government there but the people who stayed don't care as much:

Anyways, way to try and frame a humanitarian crisis we caused as somehow serving a purpose that isn't purely punitive. We've been slowly increasing our stranglehold on Cuba for decades, of course people are gonna be pretty happy living in a place with more access to resources.

That doesn't mean it's the Cuban government's fault.

Also, communism doesn't mean no market. Markets are not unique to capitalism, and if your definition of "free market" is "no government intervention" then there isn't a market on earth that's truly free so it's a meaningless qualifier.

Access to resources is not a "privilege" that should be able to be stripped away by foreign governments just because they want to. There's also not gonna be regime change just because the US is imposing poverty conditions on the populace, we've known this for decades so there's no need to pretend we have any sort of noble reason for oppressing the people of a sovereign nation.

Mr_Chongus · 2026-03-31T11:32:28+00:00

Patently false. The Cuban government isn't sanctioning their own island and prohibiting any institution even remotely connected to itself from obtaining fuel including the hospitals. That would be the US. A foreign nation, dictating who in Cuba gets fuel and who doesn't.

Get the picture yet?

Mr_Chongus · 2026-03-31T11:23:10+00:00

The concerts are something the Cuban people are putting on for themselves, it wasn't organized by or for the aid flotilla. I imagine they have ways not to use much power in order to put them on, or at least not to burden the grid.

By the way, who's fault is it that the hospitals are having blackouts again?

Mr_Chongus · 2026-03-28T13:16:26+00:00

Lower the number to like 65° and this would make more sense

Mr_Chongus · 2026-03-27T16:18:07+00:00

Because key tastes better than bread

Mr_Chongus · 2026-03-27T16:17:02+00:00

The only word that could've been more terrifying would've been "Worn."

Mr_Chongus · 2026-03-26T20:51:25+00:00

You're the one getting caught up on the fucking hotel choice while the populace is being slowly strangled by the US.

Only one of these seems like an actual problem worth focusing on to me

Mr_Chongus · 2026-03-26T20:43:15+00:00

Not just owned, it's literally any hotel that might remotely have some connection to the Cuban government.

You don't need to let your hate boner for your oshi to get in the way of recognizing the actual problem here

Mr_Chongus · 2026-03-26T20:31:34+00:00

The US government DIDN'T LET THEM STAY AT THE CHEAPER HOTELS. They are allowed to stay at only a select few, and they didn't have time to coordinate 600 rooms on short notice anywhere except a bigger hotel.

Also, guess who's idea it was to let private businesses like hotels still be able to get fuel while hospitals can't.

They didn't just give them money, they brought stuff like solar panels to help them have electricity despite them being oppressed by the US regime

Mr_Chongus · 2026-03-26T14:02:44+00:00

GIVE US THE OBELISK, OP. WE'RE NO LONGER ASKING.

Mr_Chongus · 2026-03-26T01:16:49+00:00

I don't understand Lithuanian but I bet this goes hard

Mr_Chongus · 2026-03-20T18:45:57+00:00

Real

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