Team Fortress 2

[Lardman]

Originally Posted by Edj

lol, my girlfriend (10 years together, so pretty much married) has caught on to the valve splash logo music.

She hears it, comes in and says "ohh no... here we go... he's gonna be playing all night... hasn't even washed the dishes tsk tsk"

run the game with -nosplash or something. problem solved. (she'll just have to get used to tf2 music that way)

[gigs]

OK I think there are alot of gouys here getting pwned by their wifes / GF. Lets post wife diversion methods here, maybe if we pool resources we can keep em of our backs. Here is what I have done:

* Promised to take the wife out for 1 "romantic" (her words) night a week
* Have to cook at least one meal a week

Diversion tactics:

* Say that I'm finishing off some work (while chatting in steam)
* "Had a hard day @ work need some stress relief"
* Send her out shopping or riding her horse or something....

[neowolf]

Originally Posted by gigs

Send her out riding her horse or something....

Yeah cos we all have a horse and paddock on hand :P

[neowolf]

Originally Posted by Lardman

run the game with -nosplash or something. problem solved. (she'll just have to get used to tf2 music that way)

-novid, just right click on the Steam TF2 shortcut and click "Set launch options", then you just add "-novid"

[bucsta]

Originally Posted by gigs

Diversion tactics:

* Say that I'm finishing off some work (while chatting in steam)
* "Had a hard day @ work need some stress relief"
* Send her out shopping or riding her horse or something....

* Throw a sheet over her cage, she will fall asleep.

(I'm glad my wife doesn't visit these forums.)

[ibis]

Originally Posted by Herbo

I ran up to a demoman (no medic) tonight put half a clip of needles into him, he starts moving and I keep shooting at him with blood showing up on him and he eventually kills me and it shows he has full health. Herbo's head goes <explode>

I've had that happen a few times, I've put it down to 1) dodgy netcode, so I'm seeing hits, but the server is actually seeing me miss by a bit or 2) he had been buffed by a medic previously and was close to 150% health, so after me hitting him a few times he was still at 100%

Originally Posted by Herbo

Worst was Neowolf shooting me as an enemy pyro when he was really a scout! I took a quick fraps and only just caught it.

Had a round on Hydro two days ago where an opposition pyro was invisible to our whole team for the entire round. You'd just see flames appear out of nowhere and you'd be burning.

-the fluffy bunny

[k1ll3r]

Originally Posted by ibis

I've had that happen a few times, I've put it down to 1) dodgy netcode, so I'm seeing hits, but the server is actually seeing me miss by a bit or 2) he had been buffed by a medic previously and was close to 150% health, so after me hitting him a few times he was still at 100%

just get your big saw/knife out and start hitting him instead.
more fun too

[.Snips]

Originally Posted by ibis

I've had that happen a few times, I've put it down to 1) dodgy netcode, so I'm seeing hits, but the server is actually seeing me miss by a bit or 2) he had been buffed by a medic previously and was close to 150% health, so after me hitting him a few times he was still at 100%


Had a round on Hydro two days ago where an opposition pyro was invisible to our whole team for the entire round. You'd just see flames appear out of nowhere and you'd be burning.

-the fluffy bunny

he may have beebn buffed up by a medic and you just got right of the 150% health as it was goin down

[Fettrix]

Originally Posted by gigs

LOL @ all the wife carnage! Glad Im not alone there

Maybe we could start a support group?

Originally Posted by gigs

OK I think there are alot of gouys here getting pwned by their wifes / GF. Lets post wife diversion methods here, maybe if we pool resources we can keep em of our backs. Here is what I have done:

* Promised to take the wife out for 1 "romantic" (her words) night a week
* Have to cook at least one meal a week

Diversion tactics:

* Say that I'm finishing off some work (while chatting in steam)
* "Had a hard day @ work need some stress relief"
* Send her out shopping or riding her horse or something....

I'm up for the support group.

My diversion tactics include:

Getting her stuck on the phone with her siblings interstate.
Get her involved with online forums (tho if like me your only on 512, an the bandwidth gets sucked away)

I have not promised her anything as im not the romance type (she keeps reminding me every week)

[Herbo]

Originally Posted by ibis

I've had that happen a few times, I've put it down to 1) dodgy netcode, so I'm seeing hits, but the server is actually seeing me miss by a bit or 2) he had been buffed by a medic previously and was close to 150% health, so after me hitting him a few times he was still at 100%

I was watching and didn't see a medic on him at all and after all the time I spent filling him with needles some damage to his normal health should have happened.

Had a round on Hydro two days ago where an opposition pyro was invisible to our whole team for the entire round. You'd just see flames appear out of nowhere and you'd be burning.

-the fluffy bunny

Man that would have sucked!

[Fresh79]

Some cool TF2 pics

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=206392

[Doc-of-FC]

Originally Posted by Edj

lol, my girlfriend (10 years together, so pretty much married) has caught on to the valve splash logo music.

She hears it, comes in and says "ohh no... here we go... he's gonna be playing all night... hasn't even washed the dishes tsk tsk"

5 years together with the missus and to quote her "I'm a widow to that game and a slave to house work"

[gigs]

Originally Posted by Doc-of-FC

5 years together with the missus and to quote her "I'm a widow to that game and a slave to house work"

OMG they must have their own forum and swap quotes and ways to make our TF2 life hell....

[bucsta]

Originally Posted by gigs

OMG they must have their own forum and swap quotes and ways to make our TF2 life hell....

I got a new mobile phone the other day and put a TF2 picture as the wallpaper... Needless to say she wasn't impressed.

I like it, and it matches the TF2 startup ringtone

[`X']

you guys sound a touch obsessed.. maybe a little.