One can only dream of being this amazing

  Very sombre artsy piece here, which the artist often does (though she does poke a little fun sometimes)

  >>14248
I know they said the video was more to explore technical wizadry than plot, but with a little polish it would have been perfect. Still enjoyed it though.

Have some gorgeous Gary Schwartz/legit!Heavy karaoke and general team downtime

>>14237

I don't know if others took notice on the front page but this is to perfect not to share haha!

>>14243
Ahahaha!

Spoo and Eng are here at last, hurrah!

For international plebs like me who can't get decent shipping rates from US stores:
Engineer - http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?gcode=FIG-KAI-6710
Spy - http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?gcode=FIG-KAI-6711

Aaaaahhh the teeny sapper and toolbox make me smile!

http://www.finalcombat.ph

Rejoice, all you peeps who can't read Chinese! Final Combat Phlippines [sic] has been live since December 2013 and can offer you all sorts of information in English*!

*Accuracy of English materials not guaranteed.

>>14224
Those genders...

>>14230
To be fair, Hellboy was awoken in WWII, but because this doesn't appear to take place in the same universe, I assume they mean the comic...which wasn't written until much later.

>>14215
I'm still up for submitting something in place of those who can't be contacted. Even if I get nothing in return.

>>14216
>>14217
Was missing 3, but since posting I have received them and/or confirmation of their delay. I've emailed those who are waiting on their gifts so they know.

So.. that means there aren't any orphaned prompts at the moment, but thank you for the offer medacris!

To keep with Smissmassy spirit, since you seemed so keen and have been a regular for so long, I'm happy to take on one of your prompts but you'll have to wait a while for me to get to you. That alright with you? Hit me up via email yo (it's in the field, if it hasn't been peppered enough throughout this whole thread lel)


OKAY TIME TO POST THOSE GIFTS HOLD ONTO YOUR KNICKERS YOU LOT

Gifts are up! Go enjoy your pressies, guys:

Arts: >>/afanart/5705
Fics: >>/afanfic/15803

Well done everyone who contributed! You're stellar people and I love you all

>>14211
Although I am convinced, now, that one of the guys doing the cast is secretly 8-years-old. "OMG BIG FLOPPY PENISES AND GAY PORN! TEEHEE!"

>>14212
Most heterosexual men and heterosexual-women-who-aren't-into-gay-porn are like that, I've found. They're just sort of confused as to the appeal of it or giggling that it even exists.

>>14213
I can understand initially, but one was going on about the floating dicks for a good five minutes. Encouraged everyone else to go look at them, though. Which is an odd form of friendship.

"Being in a sitcom two-bed situation with your wife, who happens to be a mini gun."
"Merasmus' shriveled wizard penis."

I am extremely proud to be responsible for these two.

... I may have added another page of white cards because I thought of more stuff I wanted in.

Whoops.

It's a Smissmas miracle!

You are beautiful people. These are fantastic, I'm crying I'm laughing so hard.

shut up

>>14128
This update was just what I needed to get through everything lately. Dose corpse carts. Dose voice lines. Medic screaming oh my god.

I do agree that Pyro's lines were quite... odd. Not enough muffle.

Not yet seen the new Demo/Solly high five in action, but the prospect of unique class combo high-fives makes me so giddy in the pants.

Playing the game last night was... an experience. I came to the update about 12 hours late, due to working on GhostFort all day and dealing with familial drama, so everyone already knew how spells worked and proceeded to hand my arse to me. Had primed myself up by listening to the voice lines and having my friends fangasm at me over Steam. By the time I arrive, I find myself met with jaded whines of "I'm soooo over Halloween, this update is boring" and "TF2 is dying, what should we play instead?" from my friends over Skype. That's not a comment on the game's update itself - for what it's worth, I enjoyed it a lot! - but I felt like the magic was ruined for me a little this year. Also Scoots. Scoots everywhere. Killing you and not letting you get all the presents...

OH WELL. Fuck the haters, I still love stupid Halloween events.

  Scrapped Valve animation? Most likely legit, since it came out only a day after the update and uses the new voice lines (also dat mocap [albeit rough] and facial flexes on Mer)

We don't have an update discussion thread so I'm hijacking this one

>>14163
I'm tempted to say Can't Sleep made this themselves. If it was a Valve creation, they would have mentioned that it was made by Valve, and where they found it in the SFM files.

I've got both my NECA Demoman as well as my NECA Pyro in the mail yesterday.
Balance issues are no surprise, considering the TF2 design. Top-heavy, somewhat bulky characters, only supported by thin legs and small feet.
I do not say this to take away responsibility from the toy manufacturer. However, I'm just saying that any company producing TF2 figures would probably run into this problem. I personally prefer my figure's sculpt to be accurate instead of them being altered just to make them stand easier. Talking about stand: A toy-stand might help! I bet you can find some of these on googles.
I personally however didn't have much problems balacing my toys. My demo did take some time before he was able to stand, but then again he is the drunk one, right?
Even small differences in temperature can soften the plastic enough to alter the behaviour of joints. If this happens, especially on joints that support the figure's weight, the figure might fall over more easily.
My room happens to be very cold. Maybe that's why I don't have a hard time positioning my figures.

Hijacking this thread as the "Figure Discussion thread" 'cause I feel like an attention seeker making new threads all the time

See those tin can babies in the image attached? They're going up for pre-pre-order on threeA's webshop at 9:00AM Hong Kong time today on the 27th (at the time of writing this, it's about 7:25AM Hong Kong time on the 27th)
threeA's webshop: http://www.bambalandstore.com/

Apparently they'll go up for retail sale later but without the exclusive bundle. I, for one, can afford neither.

Also keeping a hawk eye out for NECA's Spy and Engineer preorders which should be happening soon. I'll make a post when I see them go up for preorder on the international shipping sites

http://store.valvesoftware.com/product.php?i=V3A115T

So apparently this happened...

>Set Powers removed
>mfw you will never anymore use deadringer + Fez
Fuck you Valve, that was the only fun i was able to do it after 5 years of playing without end

Man, whenever there is an update/fix, I feel like such a noob, because everyone else is either complaining/happy about stuff it fixes, and I didn't even notice that stuff to begin with.

I still haven't played either of the new maps, wewps

Overall, I love a lot of the fixes! Though they will take some getting used to, like the Powerjack changes. And as an engineer main, I'm thrilled the nerfs/fixes/whathaveyou are viable and haven't made me ragequit my favourite gameplay style, despite the SPUF screams for removing the gunslinger entirely.

Though I do feel a little bad for spies. I don't deny DRs were often OP in even the worst spy's hands, or that they were blatantly overused, but something about the changes isn't quite right either.

Oh, and the Escape Plan... RIP good buddy. If separating its crits out into a new weapon wasn't bad enough, it's now more or less useless with the marked-for-death nerf.

Sadly no fix for crashes to desktop, server dropouts (not the occasional server error - I'm talking server disconnects after being in for 30 seconds or so, on every one you join), nor stopping the demoknight turn script. Maybe in another 4 years?