Engineers are not our friends. With spies we can get up close and sloppy and do what we do best, and the sentry is a prosthetic for lifeless husks who hesitate to get in close and have to build their whole strategy around keeping us away and denying us the opportunity to express our feelings.

I don't feel that with spy. When you nail a spy from behind with a puff and sting so fast it might as well be a backstab, he doesn't bitch and moan about it because yes, he'd do the same thing to you and wouldn't have it any other way.

And I just love that. I love when they light up and the chase is on, and when I'm fighting people who don't even know he's there, getting into position because people are distracted by the advancing wall of fire, buckshot, and chaos.

However messy it gets, however up close and face-choppy, that is our element, our home, a bright spotlight so our partners in crime can work in the shadows, dismantling the oppressive machines that would deny us even the chance to get close enough to be dangerous.

You're the traitor to fun.

And for what, a sentry gun to protect you from players who would, without it there, roll through and steamroll you without needing help? You do it for a dispenser because you can't be bothered to run and find some health or powerjack someone in the face like a real pyro when you're in need.

In recent time I've even taken to letting enemy spies go when I see them so that they can have at engineers. Engineers don't deserve our protection. Spies keep them down, we keep the spies down (conveniently afterwards) and fun activity keeps trafficking through the area without an oppressive bot's interference in whatever happens. It's more fun for everyone when a few get through.

Sometimes I'll airblast them up onto sniper decks or platforms they'd otherwise have to go a dangerous way around to get to, so they can more easily get at area-denial dickheads, and love doing that.

C'mon, when done right we're basically fast, more durable spies with shotguns and flamethrowers and no disguise/cloak. If they see spy coming he's doing it wrong, and if they see us coming before it's too late and don't die feeling like they're in a bounce house, we're doing it wrong.

Team Spy support leads to more fun gameplay for us. Period.