>>11152
Nominel, sorry it's been so long but could I have your email for sketch sending action and stuff?

Is a Bill's hat worth a Sam's hat anymore? I'm trying to get my hands on one but no one wants to make an offer. Any advice?

>>12186 The wiki page for Demo notes the conflict in the trivia section but doesn't say either is true. I don't think there's been a retcon.

For the supernatural headcanon:
(1) I imagine his family is kind of like a hereditary line of avatars and he can reach out and speak to his demolition-gifted ancestors. I dunno if HE knows that or not, though.
(2) I don't think he would have any spirituality to go along with it, since I see him as largely a pessimist.

My own headcanon: The RED one has Malcom X posters in his bedroom at home, and the BLU one has MLK Jr posters.
It makes sense to me because of the ways MLK and Malcom X went about the Civil Rights movement differently.

Also, Ullapool is a beautiful harbour town. If for some reason the team ever needed to make it across a body of water, Demo would be the go-to guy.

>>12188

>(2) I don't think he would have any spirituality to go along with it, since I see him as largely a pessimist.

Holy shit, I can just imagine him going head-to-head with a vampire. A real vampire.
And the entire time he's just all 'ye bloody numpty, pretendin' ta be a vampire!' and scoffing at the guy while telling him all the vampire trivia that supposedly discredits his claims of vampirism.
He travels around the world in his free time, trying his best to discredit the existence of the supernatural while facing it all and not believing a damn word of it. He can take out any form of supernatural being but he's a pain in the ass to deal with because he'll berate you the entire time for believing in it.

>>12189
As hilarious as that spin is-- I didn't mean it that way. I meant a in, I don't think he would look at it in a spiritual sense. I don't want to say "religion" because that's completely not what I mean. Um. Acknowledging that yes, ghosts exist, and vampires, and wizards... so does grass and the sun. Thinking of it in a sort of way where there's not much to think about instead of treating it in the way a seer/tarot-reader would, or the way John Edward and his fanbase do. No mysticism to it, just taking it as it is.

Still, I do like the "Scooby Doo without the man behind the mask" idea.

(There's already an anime of that, however! It's called Occult Academy. It's literally about a girl who deals with the occult but doesn't believe in it. It's pretty good.)

>>10600
That doesn't seem to promising for the possibilty of a rerelease/enhanced remake of Sam & Max Hit the Road

Dota 2's characters a oozing personality. I'd love to see one of them in a Poker Night game. It just begs the question which one? Bloodseeker kind of seems like the poster boy. Maybe him?

I'd be happy if they just threw in a few more lines of dialogue and some extra decks to win. Although I would love to play against Guybrush from Monkey Island.

>>12175
Nah, his class name is Pyrotechnition. Everyone else is named for what they do.

A pyromaniac is just what he is. (possibly)

>>12177
Maybe the fact that they call him Pyro, rather than Pyromaniac, or Pyrotechnician, is intentional. It's so he can be a combination of the two. Pyrotechnicians are usually more associated with fireworks and such, anyway. Rarely just flamethrowers.

I'm honestly expecting it to not reveal anything about Pyro, in order to retain the running gag.

I do however expect to see an origin to Pyro's original flamethrower and how it came to be, like how MtM showed the origin of the uber.

And i'm hoping that something happens soon. Like, maybe the Saxxys? That'd be neat.

  I'm sure everyone has seen this one...but it's still great.

  Another great one...

  I play with Minnows quite a bit. He makes the best replays.

>>11481

Steam hasn't said anything else about these plush. Has anyone seen one? Are they going to be sold soon? I want on /so/ bad.

>>12143
They said that more info will be out in the fall (north hemisphere)

>>11799
oh shit i forgot to keep you guys updated on this.

turns out its the portal robots, but i forgot to save the pics

Good question, I can't claim to have a clear opinion on the subject. Thinking about it too much causes me to question the nature of fanon.

One thing I like about TF2 is that it's so easy for fans to interpret and work with the characters, and it hardly ever seems wrong just because it's not canon. I'm not usually big on OCs, however. This may just be because I often lose interest when I no longer recognize them as the characters from the game. I guess I'm fine with any interpretation as long as it retains the traits I like in that character. It's not up to me to decide if it's a valid interpretation, though. Obviously some writing looks more like canon, but it's not technically canon either way, right?
I think canon itself is pretty subjective stuff and not always clear-cut, especially with a piece of fiction as dynamic as TF2.

I see canon vs. non-canon as more of a continuum...

1. Is the character backstory consistent with the Word of Valve? The Meet the Team videos, the trading card information, the wiki, the in game voice commands, the comics, the blogs, etc. All else aside, that's what I take to be "factually" true about the cast, unless Valve says "nope, that wasn't canon" (like in the case of the Mac comic). Where Valve is more vague (like whether the BLU Spy is schtupping the RED Scout's mother or not), I assume so because of the voice commands, but I still label it as "personal headcanon sort-of supported by canon material, but I wouldn't cry about it if Valve came out and nixed it".
2. Is the character consistent with in-game (non-griefer) behavior and habits? This was the source I relied to for characterization before some of the later Meet the [Team] videos came out. So in my mind, Sniper and Engineer were pals long before it was suggested in the promotional videos because as an Engineer, I would tend to plunk dispensers next to Snipers. Medics were super-stressed and grumpy all the time, and hated Heavies who acted like Medics were their personal pets and acted ridiculously reckless while being healed, because that was how I acted as a Medic. And so on and so forth. This one, I tend to defer to canon wherever contradictions appeared, but I still prefer my version. So I don't mind stories where the members of the team actively hate each other and can barely work as a cohesive unit because I've been on those teams, but I don't consider those stories of THE cream of the crop RED team because that nonsense would have gotten the offenders kicked out long time ago.
3. Is the character consistent with 1960's history and culture? Or at least the Hollywood version, since TF2's version of world events seem rather different than what happened in reality. I tend not to care about the classes political, religious, or cultural leanings as much because discussing those topics are controversial and I couldn't really do those topics justice without an amount of research that I don't really care to do for pretendy fun time

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>>12183

I agree that guys without chest hair look strange (not that I'm particularly turned on by either), and that, yeah, big, buff bodybuilder types are sort of creepy.
Honestly, the only time I see shirtless dudes is at home because our AC breaks down all the time. I don't know, it just seems sort of iffy to walk around shirtless where we live for whatever reason; people here are so high class. However, there's more than a few dudes here do have enough chest hair to start peeking out of their polo shirts, so I guess that counts for something?
Backing up a bit, it just occurred to me that girls who like the smooth, younger-looking guys tend to do so because of perceived femininity: the guys appear more thoughtful and sensitive than someone with any real definition or body hair, I guess?

i have been carrying a conversation about body hair for two days whaaaat.

On a different note, based on certain events: people writing fanfiction where the characters are the characters in name only. I'm not trying to be a fandom policeman or anything, but I just feel that you'd be better off writing an original story than a fanfiction. especially since the fanfiction in question didn't even bother describing much in the way of the characters' appearances There is plenty of very consistent canon to go by and it doesn't take a lot of effort to flip through the relevant "Meet the Team"s, comics and quotes. I don't think it's too much to ask to put forth that effort if you're going to publish a supposedly TF2 story on a site pretty much dedicated to Team Fortress 2

>>12185

Asking people to write them like they're supposed to be isn't being the fandom police. It honestly galls me to hear people defend themselves by saying "oh, there's not much canon, you can't expect me to make them recognizable." There's loads of canon about the character's behaviour under tense circumstances, the way they address their friends and co-workers over the course of a day in the field, and so on, and so on. Like you said- it doesn't take years to pore over their emotes and responses from the game, and watch the videos about them. We don't know much about many of the characters' home lives or childhoods, but that doesn't mean they're mysterious figures with no defined personality.

I suddenly got urge to read some tf2 fanfics related to magic, demon and etc. Since ghosts and magic are canon.
When it comes to tentaspy, too many writters don't think that they can use magic and curse that nine out of ten tentaspies became as they are because of medic.
Magic spell or curse surely can make a tentaspy or someone so turned on and cause the faggotory easily when it comes to porn.
Why not use the official magic??