196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone Casey @lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 mo. ago

team wokeness 2 rule

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Hi, elder millennial here that’s starting to lose it. Is the joke here that they did do all these things back in 2006 or whenever tf2 came out?
- Pretty much yes. The only one I'm not 100% on (besides the scout skin, since that was after I stopped playing) is the engineer prosthetic. I feel like that weapon came out a while after TF2 was made (but I can't check that right now so don't take my word for it).
  
  Jarate and heavy x medic were after release too afaik.
  
  Heavy x medic was kinda obvious, but iirc valve didn't start dropping stronger hints until the past few years. Dunno if they've straight-up confirmed it yet or not; it's also been a while since I last played.
  
  Jarate was part of the sniper update, which I thought came after release (because iirc there weren't any alternate items in the original release).
  
  His penis has always been prosthetic in lore, its just never shown.
  
  One of the Engineer's unlockable weapons is the Gunslinger which is a prosthetic hand. It also is (or was) commonly regarded as OP since it replaced the turret with a fast self-building mini-turret that was a pain to keep destroyed (Engie would toss out another one).
  
  It came out in 2010: https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Gunslinger
  
  Especially the pissplay one, right?
- You're correct
  Demoman is the giveaway.
- Am old, also out of the loop and would like someone to explain it to me in "grampa" terms.
  
  I only remember TFC, and that was a long time ago
  
  The game was in its own way progressive and ahead of its time
- Yes exactly
- I've never played tf2 (only played tf2), but based on the structure of the joke, I think so.
im so glad that all of these WOKE LIBERAL SOCIALIST things are out of the game as it was released back in the GOOD days before EVIL GAY PEOPLE were in my videogames,. thank you gabe newell for making gaming real 🙏
- Preach it sister
  
  Women? Involved in video games?! Pssh, yeah, right...
- Evil gay people sounds kinda cool
  
  My exes in their legion of doooooom
  
  Honey, wake up! The new hyperpop band name just dropped
Is there a high-res image for the femboy scout? Asking for a friend.
- Weird. My friend had the same question.
  
  What? I don’t have friends
If it was released today we'd have another rage from the "fucking pronouns" guy
Stop making Valve sound so based
- well, they seem quite based
I legitimately don't think they could get away with releasing TF2 today.
- I don't think anyone could get away with doing anything today. There's always something.
  
  Then you just aren’t watching current media.
- Why
  
  Have you ever played TF2? The content is definitely something that modern journalism would use to stir folks up if it was released in these times.
  
  It's purposely rude and often uses stereotypes, but the point is that it's supposed to be cartoonishly ridiculous in its character depictions.
I fail to see the issue here
I went back to tf2 after cs2 came out and I am so sad to see it totally infested by botters and aimhacks

It was valves crown jewel for a while and now it's just rotting
Demoman is already black?
- No, he's Scottish.
  
  “I’m a black Scottish cyclops. They have more ************************** than they have the likes of me.”
When’d they pull the heavy out of the closet?
5/8

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