TF2 turns 15 today!

[Twilight_Warrior]

http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=6128

This morning Robin Walker threw a birthday party and nobody came. Before you start feeling sorry for him, though, keep in mind he didn't actually invite anybody. He just keeps emailing the TF team pictures of himself in his backyard - jumping around in an inflatable jungle gym he rented, forcing a hired clown to make him balloon animals, and unwrapping gifts he bought himself.

Robin's increasingly sad collection of birthday pictures reminded us that Team Fortress turns fifteen today. To celebrate, we've decided to throw a party ourselves. And unlike Robin, we're inviting everybody. For the next 24 hours, anybody who plays TF2 is going to get:

A free party hat!
A free noisemaker that will have unlimited uses on Team Fortress's birthday and can only be used each year on that day!
Free cake and gifts (in the form of remodeled health kits and ammo packs)!
You'll also see the return of the best stuff from previous TF birthday celebrations, including:

The Team Fortress Birthday Beach Ball!
The Celebration Gib, which causes gibbed players to explode in a shower of balloons and confetti!
We've got the balloons, we've got the presents, we've got the birthday cake. All we're missing is you. (And Robin. Judging from these pictures he's not coming back to work any time soon. The last one had him watching a magic show while riding a donkey wearing a little sombrero. No idea who's taking all these pictures. Possibly the clown.)

So go play.

[Grev]

http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=6128

This morning Robin Walker threw a birthday party and nobody came. Before you start feeling sorry for him, though, keep in mind he didn't actually invite anybody. He just keeps emailing the TF team pictures of himself in his backyard - jumping around in an inflatable jungle gym he rented, forcing a hired clown to make him balloon animals, and unwrapping gifts he bought himself.

Robin's increasingly sad collection of birthday pictures reminded us that Team Fortress turns fifteen today. To celebrate, we've decided to throw a party ourselves. And unlike Robin, we're inviting everybody. For the next 24 hours, anybody who plays TF2 is going to get:

A free party hat!
A free noisemaker that will have unlimited uses on Team Fortress's birthday and can only be used each year on that day!
Free cake and gifts (in the form of remodeled health kits and ammo packs)!
You'll also see the return of the best stuff from previous TF birthday celebrations, including:

The Team Fortress Birthday Beach Ball!
The Celebration Gib, which causes gibbed players to explode in a shower of balloons and confetti!
We've got the balloons, we've got the presents, we've got the birthday cake. All we're missing is you. (And Robin. Judging from these pictures he's not coming back to work any time soon. The last one had him watching a magic show while riding a donkey wearing a little sombrero. No idea who's taking all these pictures. Possibly the clown.)

So go play.

I got that all yesterday at night. I thought it was because valve knew my birthday was in August.

[Moving_Target]

Oh ya, TF2 is 15. Haha. Ya, logged in and got my stuff. Fun fun fun.

[Marth8880]

Team Fortress 2 is 15 years old? That would mean it was released in 1996...yeah, it looks way too good for that to be even remotely possible. The first Team Fortress may have been released that year, but no way was its successor.

[Moving_Target]

I'm guessing you don't know the development history of the game.

[THEWULFMAN]

Team Fortress 1 came out in 1996, Team Fortress 2 came out in 2007.

Fun Fact, Team Fortress 1 was a mod of the game Quake.

Another fun fact, Quake sounds like Cake.

[Nihillo]

Aaaaaand I missed it.

[Marth8880]

I'm guessing you don't know the development history of the game.

I'm guessing the thread's title is incorrect. And no, I obviously do not.

[Twilight_Warrior]

I'm guessing you don't know the development history of the game.

I'm guessing the thread's title is incorrect.

Wow. Way to be anal about it.

I COULD go into a lengthy argument about how we might consider each preceding year to be part of the development of TF2, but really everyone else here got the message, so why bother?

[Marth8880]

I'm guessing you don't know the development history of the game.

I'm guessing the thread's title is incorrect.

Wow. Way to be anal about it.

Allow me to make this nice and crystal clear: When people blatantly and especially publicly point out erroneous values or statements of mine when I do not ask for correction or opinion, I get very annoyed; it is, by far, my largest pet peeve.

I COULD go into a lengthy argument about how we might consider each preceding year to be part of the development of TF2, but really everyone else here got the message, so why bother?

And by tossing this in you make me look like a complete fool for not thoroughly understanding the history of the game's development through and through.

Seriously? Is it that difficult to kindly correct my knowledge of a video game?


Thank you for making me look like an idiot.

[Grev]

I'm guessing you don't know the development history of the game.

I'm guessing the thread's title is incorrect.

Wow. Way to be anal about it.

Allow me to make this nice and crystal clear: When people blatantly and especially publicly point out erroneous values or statements of mine when I do not ask for correction or opinion, I get very enraged; it is, by far, my largest pet peeve.

I COULD go into a lengthy argument about how we might consider each preceding year to be part of the development of TF2, but really everyone else here got the message, so why bother?

And by tossing this in you make me look like a complete fool for not thoroughly understanding the history of the game's development through and through.

Seriously? Is it that difficult to kindly correct my knowledge of a video game?


Thank you for making me look like an idiot.

Dear Marth. I would like to kindly, yet unfortunately publicly, point out how right you are. Those fiends, those ruffians! They'd like nothing more than to make you look like a grade-A buffoon! Where are their manners?

I jest, of course, but the meaning stays the same. Nobody had the intention to make you look like a fool. And besides, Wulfman already pointed out the developmental timeline of the team fortress franchise, so you already know what's up. No reason for anyone, and I don't just mean you, to get fussy over an error here or a misunderstanding there.

[Marth8880]

Dear Marth. I would like to kindly, yet unfortunately publicly, point out how right you are. Those fiends, those ruffians! They'd like nothing more than to make you look like a grade-A buffoon! Where are their manners?

I enjoy you.

I jest, of course, but the meaning stays the same. Nobody had the intention to make you look like a fool.

Which is exactly why people need to watch what they say.

[Grev]

Dear Marth. I would like to kindly, yet unfortunately publicly, point out how right you are. Those fiends, those ruffians! They'd like nothing more than to make you look like a grade-A buffoon! Where are their manners?

I enjoy you.

I jest, of course, but the meaning stays the same. Nobody had the intention to make you look like a fool.

Which is exactly why people need to watch what they say.

As a member of the third party, what I'm trying to say is that they neither intended for you to look like a buffoon, nor would they have succeeded had their intentions been less than noble. Intonation is hard to express via text- nobody meant harm, not is any perceived harm actually legit.

[Marth8880]

As a member of the third party, what I'm trying to say is that they neither intended for you to look like a buffoon, nor would they have succeeded had their intentions been less than noble. Intonation is hard to express via text- nobody meant harm, not is any perceived harm actually legit.

Probably.

[Moving_Target]

Intonation is hard to express via text- nobody meant harm, not is any perceived harm actually legit.

All I can say is this and that. My query wasn't to insult your intelligence.

[Marth8880]

My query wasn't to insult your intelligence.

Probably. All is good then.