guy who scrolls through tf2 fanart and silently shakes his head in disapproval every time he sees a drawing of poor gun safety

Strict Adherents of Gun Safety: Engineer, Spy, Sniper. If one of those three mercs is seen dropping their gun or even holding it weird, the other two will ruthlessly mock him for weeks.

Perfectly In-Character For: Scout, Pyro, Medic. Pyro and Medic are untrained with firearms and Scout’s mother thought a high shelf was a safe enough place to keep loaded guns.

Secret Third Category: Heavy and Demoman refuse to believe their weapons, in their hands, could do *anything* accidentally. They will absentmindedly muzzle-flag you and give you a look if you get upset.

Super-Secret Fourth Category: The Soldier read a book on forklift safety and got it confused for gun safety. If he has to cross railroad tracks while holding a gun, he will do so at a slight diagonal angle.

Team Fortress Two: Parahumans Edition

Like eight different people asked about the specific powers I had in mind for the wormverse iteration of Team Fortress. Here’s the reddit write-up, updated and expanded, now with additional Ms. Pauling and Administrator.

(Read more under the cut; this absolutely got the hell away from me. This is so so long)

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TRANSFEM!SCOUT!!!!!!! I'm still thinking on what to name her, but for now she'll just be Scout. Any suggestions? Ask box is always open!!

girl gamers and cute armor

Girl gamers are mocked for caring about their characters aesthetic enough to choose what armor/weapon their character wears based at least partially on how it looks, but like… of course they do

Women are taught from day one that how they look is the most important thing about them, and they’ll never get anywhere in life if they’re not attractive. Women are conditioned to care about it, and they’re punished when they don’t. And women are constantly told they AREN’T attractive ENOUGH no matter what they do, WHILE being told that attractiveness is the be-all-end-all standard of worth, so like… forgive them for wanting their fantasy escapism self-insert character to just meet a standard they’re forced to strive for every day

Girl gamers who choose cute/pretty armor/weapons are literally just trying to live their own wish fulfillment fantasy, which is the ENTIRE POINT of fantasy games, so literally fuck off if you judge them for it

Also don’t even try to pretend that boy gamers don’t do the EXACT same thing if the armor/weapon looks “cool” (read: masculine/dangerous), like don’t even try

It’s almost as if Blizzard put in an entire game mechanic into World Of Warcraft so people could divorce their gear’s appearance from its stats.

In real life, aesthetics have been of significant importance in armor.

(Also, military uniforms, though that is synthesized up to national level, or at least up to regimental procurement office level)

(Also crazy Landsknecht’s peacock clothes)

Is it really just girl gamers? I assumed that the contingent of people who make “this has better stats but it’s ugly” posts was relatively unisex. I initially thought this post was going to be a defense of “bad” (read: too sexed-up for some) armor designs in games. And I feel like aesthetic matters a lot less with real-life armor. The Operator aesthetic is generally not super-varied for reasons, I believe.

Yeah, if there’s one thing WoW proves it’s that people care about their characters’ aesthetics.

Really half the point of MMOs is to play dress-up.

And something like 90% of the point of TF2.

It’s all worth it, I have a kickass supervillain medic!

RAGE Magazine: for guys who are fed up with the politically correct bullshit ruining men’s magazines ca. 1956

Apparently there’s actually a huge stereotype that party healers in games are submissive sluts who get dominated by the tank.

…I must say that is eerily accurate to my D&D experience as a Neutral Good cleric that time I played with master…

Isn't this the whole basis of the TF2 Heavy/Medic ship?