I'm getting nicknames already...

VALVEEEEE. <3
Newest TF2 update: "Added back some damage falloff to the Pyro's flamethrower. Not nearly as extreme as it was before the Pyro class pack." FUCK YEAH AWESOME. And so ends the reign of terror.
Well, no, but you get the idea.

And according to the official blog the Heavy seems to be getting the next unlockables (I already heard rumours about it a few days ago). Well, at least it will probably mean a field day for me as a Medic. What I'm really waiting for are the Soldier updates, and, uh, Demoman too. And I think Engineer seriously needs something to help him, playing as one is really starting to feel like a job, ie. it's not particularly fun anymore. But maybe it's just me, the stats are telling that Engineer is the second most played class right now.

Nothing else to say, really. Been playing a lot of Demo (and Medic because I find it extremely difficult not to go Medic whenever there are none in my team), unsurprisingly.
And last night I was dubbed "The Guy Who Never Misses" by a server regular who was apparently unlucky enough to always get a pipe bomb exploding at his face. And then I dominated him.
Thankfully he didn't know I had played Demo for only about five hours. It probably wouldn't have made him feel any better about it.
And I kinda like being a guy on default. Not that anyone has any reason to think otherwise since I still don't use my mic. I should, though. Because being able to communicate would be pretty useful. And I figure some regulars would be surprised to find out that The Guy Who Never Misses is in fact a girl. GASP. Not that I like to go around flaunting my gender, but if I open my mouth it kinda does become glaringly obvious. That, or everyone thinks that I'm twelve.
And oh, now I want to rant!

I hate the so-called "Girl Gamers," those who do flaunt their gender, basically scream "LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME I PLAY HALO I AM SPESHUL!" and make it such a gigantic deal that they are GIRLS who play GAMES. Like they think that they're really special because of it. Wtf gender has nothing to do with it! I hate stereotypical gender roles anyway, and I think it's kinda funny that while those girl gamers try to fight against the assumption that girls don't play games, yet they actually promote such gender roles by assuming that they exist in the first place (I believe any male gamer with half a brain realises that girls too play games. "Guy games," even, like horribly violent first person shooters). Damn, even industry's slowly realising that girls play games as well (although I hold infinite amounts of RAGE against all the games that are geared towards girls. Nintendo, I am looking at you. They are nothing but insulting, and that's about the only thing I admit having in common with girl gamers. That, and boobs). Can I just be one of the guys and play the goddamn game without making a big deal out of it? Well, apparently I can.
I hate "girl gamers" just as much as I hate all the guys who think that girls don't and can't play videogames. And if they do, they're casual players who play stuff like Sims and maybe WoW. Or JRPGs like Final Fantasies. FPS is out of question. Girls don't play FPS! No way!
I am not that good at TF2, for example, but I don't think that has anything to do with my gender. Come on, people.
Yeah, I'm a girl, I play games (and I have played videogames for nearly two damn decades, so I figure the whole gaming culture is pretty much ingrained in me by now), but I am not a "girl gamer." I am not a casual gamer either. Even if my Nintendo DS is girly and pink and I play Final Fantasies.

But yeah, I know lots of girls who play TF2, and there are several regular players who are girls on the servers I play on, and I've never seen anyone fly off the handle when they hear a girl voice over the voicechat, so. I only need to get over my irrational fear of sounding like an idiot and starting to stutter when I use the mic.

/end rant.

And maybe I really am not that bad a Demoman, because our team usually lost immediately after I was killed and my stickies disappeared into thin air. Haha. Come on guys, why am I the only one defending, dammit?!
And I'm getting really angry at Medics who über Heavies or Soldiers on Dustbowl's last point to take down sentries. Okay, I understand if there are no Demomen around but FUCK YOU I AM STANDING RIGHT THERE. Then I go and take them down without a goddamn über (usually dying in the process, but sacrifices must be made). Yeah sure I'm not the best Demoman around, but dammit even I can take down a sentry so much better than any Heavy (if we're talking about distant sentries here, sure Heavies take down anything if they get close enough). And please Medic if you do über me, go first. Demomen are not Heavies, we can't push against the stupid sentry fire by ourselves and the closer I get the easier the sentry is to take down. It's just like übering a Pyro and trying to take down a sentry. You need to draw the fire to yourself.
And yeah, if there's another Demo, über him, not me. Haha. I can take down anything when I'm not under obligation of doing so (I like the slow and sneaky approach, even if I do take damage because of it), but I'm probably just going to fail because the pressure to actually succeed and not let my team and the Medic down is too much. I don't like being the one the whole team suddenly depends on. Maybe that makes me a bad team player?

Also got autobalanced in the middle of a match in Well, when my team was steamrolling. So I got switched to the losing team, AGAIN, but thanks to ME we fought the enemy team over the last point for almost five minutes. I had a Kritzkrieg-Medic backing me up, and while I disagreed with his decision to use the Kritzkrieg, I couldn't help but be pretty damn "OH GOD WHAT THE FUCK" when he used the charge on me in the middle of an enemy attack. JESUS CHRIST THE CARNAGE. Crit stickies! Everywhere! I probably killed half of their team with that. And they probably didn't even realise there was kritzkrieging going on before it was too late, because... well, I haven't actually seen a lot of Kritzkrieged Demomen around.
Anyway, we were fighting them off pretty well and then I suicided, completely misreading the entire situation (there were two enemies on the sticky-covered cap with me and I thought that was all, so I detonated, suiciding but killing the enemies. And unfortunately it was a grand mistake, there was another wave of enemies just coming), and we lost within a few seconds from that. Oh well.

Oh yeah, I bonesawed another sentry last night. And I killed the Engineer too. No, I wasn't übered. Well, I was, but it was my own über. I had to panic-launch my charge, and the Soldier I was übering was completely oblivious to everything around him and overlooked a sentry going up behind him. So I just ditched his ass, ran to the sentry in the protection of my charge, whipped out the Übersaw and killed the sentry. And the Engineer who desperately tried to escape. And then I went back to the poor oblivious Soldier with a half-full charge. Oh, Übersaw, how I love thee? Let me count the ways.

Yeah, I should use the mic.

Axan gaemz!

Today's biggest accomplishment: there's this regular guy on the server I usually play on, and he's a pretty good player. Better than me, for sure. I see him sometimes go Pyro and only use the axe to fight (I don't know if he does it to show off, or is he doing it just for fun, since I don't know how much owning he does with the axe). Which is kinda annoying when you're Pyro yourself, you know, other Pyros being flame retardant and everything... so I've gotten axed to death by him several times. And I particularly hate dying from melée weapons, because it's always kinda embarrassing.
So today I'm Pyro in Hydro, he's Pyro and I see he's doing his axing games again, running at me with the axe in hand. I retreat because oh shitfuck he's gonna kill me again, but at some point I just stop backing away, thinking that okay, I'm gonna play his game. So I whip out my axe and the world literally stops. :D It really felt like it, because there was this insane battling going around, but just as I get out the axe and engage him in melée, the battle just seems to die out and it's just me and him, epic fire axe deathmatch.
It was pretty awesome, gotta tell you.
Especially since I actually killed him (it was a really tough fight, I was left with like 30 HP), and felt preeetty darn good after that. :3 He's not the only badass Pyro around anymore!

Also had the strangest CP_Well matches yet, because, uh, I was kinda on top of the scoreboard as a Pyro. Few minutes after the match began I had three times as much points as the player who was the second highest scorer in my team, and twice as much as the enemy team's highest scoring player. I seriously went wtf at that. And it's not that I got really lucky with crits or anything, the enemy team just... it was as if they just looked at me and DIED.
Our team's collective ass was eventually kicked and at some point someone on the enemy team pointed out that "Lol just look at Chrome's score," and I took a look at the scoreboard and I'm STILL the highest scorer, and I still have twice as much points as the next player in our team. At some point the enemies changed their Scout rushing tactics into Pyro rushing tactics (aww, aren't I influential?) and that's when I started getting my personal ass kicked (I'm kinda weak against Pyros), but I still kept at it pretty well.
I still like being good at things.

And I want to kick parents who let their pre-pubescent kids play games like TF2, swear like sailors and act like complete idiots full of themselves over the voicechat. I'm all up for letting kids play as long as they understand that the game is make-believe and you know, watching over them while they play and maybe teach them some manners on how to not annoy everyone if you're going to use the mic, but Jesus Christ every parent who lets their kid play FPS games unsupervised should be neutered. There was this kid today, acting like he was the best player in the universe, calling every other player a noob and an idiot, and just... fuck this, fuck that, you're such a faggot, and so on and so on. He said he was thirteen, but I seriously didn't believe that. I'd say he was nine, ten max.

Halo multiplayer, I know, rite? (Haven't played myself, but I've heard my share of horror stories).