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i dont think people realize the sheer power of the doom soundtrack as study music

that shit is MADE for you to focus and as someone with adhd that weighs on my ability to focus like a fucking elephant laying down on a chickpea, it actually allows me to do my schoolwork

literally. try it. you will get work done quicker trust me

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Sniper is pretty overpowered for a few reasons, main one being that he can instantly kill any class from an indefinite distance without much counterplay, but I think huntsman Sniper is pretty damn well-balanced.

For starters, it promotes players not to camp. Camping is a perfectly valid way to play an FPS especially if you want to win but it's not fun to play against at all. Unfortunately, a lot of maps in TF2 have some really potent sniper sightlines where if you exist in that space, you are dead faster than you can say "fuck", with very little you can do besides switching to Sniper and hoping you're fast enough to headshot him before he can headshot you. With the Huntsman, this problem is significantly reduced thanks to the arrow's having an arc and limited range, and the fact that it's a fast projectile as opposed to hitscan. This means that the most effective huntsman Snipers are the ones who stick and move and overall play more aggressively, without necessarily negating the class's more defensive and calculated tactics. Sniper is a pick class after all

Coming back to the Huntsman's range, this fixes a problem with the way Sniper is designed. TF2 is a game where every classes' most effective ranges are not very far in front of them. They pretty much have to clearly see their enemies in order to score a kill. And then there's Sniper who can kill you from anywhere on the map, which creates that aforementioned imbalance where most classes' counterplay is to simply not engage with the Sniper. But the Huntsman is a weapon that's most consistent in those same ranges that everyone else has to play in but also doesn't remove Sniper's long range capabilities. The Huntsman still maintains Sniper's unique ability to headshot from any distance. And this is another point in favor of the huntsman, getting those long-ranged kills is still entirely possible but more difficult thanks to the physics of the Huntsman's arrows. This means Sniper has to get a lot more creative than simply picking a different spot to stand in where nobody can reach him, which means that everybody has fun instead of just Sniper

The Huntsman also has a unique learning curve. Now aiming is very difficult and I'm not going to downplay the ability to do so (I fucking suck at aiming). But the sniper rifles are essentially just scoping in and clicking on peoples' heads. TF2 was designed to have every class be as pick-up-and-play as possible and this had the consequence of the Sniper being very powerful for how low the skill floor to play him is. But with the Huntsman, there's a lot of ways to draw and release an arrow to your advantage depending on the situation. You might be thinking "why not just fully charge all the time since that's how you get the farthest, straightest, and most damaging arrow", and that's because full charging is slow, plus if Sniper holds this position for too long, his hands start to shake and God only knows where the arrow's going to fly from there. It can be really beneficial at close ranges to do a partial charge before releasing or even not charge at all since if you aim at their heads, they're going to die. But because I have to say this and because a lot of huntsman Sniper players only do full charges, that's not obvious at first and you have to learn and practice this mechanic to make the most out of it, which is exactly the thing that makes people like this game and other classes like Soldier and Demoman (The Demoman in general is just a pinnacle of good character and game design but that's a topic I want to learn a lot more about before discussing another day)

Lastly (and tbh, leastly), the Huntsman has WAY better synergy with the SMG than any of the rifles do. I think the intent was to give the Sniper a rifle for long-ranges and when somebody eventually did close the distance, he has an automatic weapon to defend himself without having to risk being in the enemy's face with his melee. The problem is that when you're playing Sniper most optimally, this situation just doesn't really happen since he directly counters almost every other class in the game. Once again, the Huntsman encourages the Sniper to be more involved in fights in the mid range, and this is where the SMG's high rate of fire really complements the slower and more calculated drawing and releasing of the Huntsman's arrows. The Cleaner's Carbine in particular feels a lot more consistent when you're running the Huntsman, whereas with the rifles it can feel like a hindrance since you could be doing a lot more for your team by using the jarate instead

With all that said, obviously the Huntsman is far from perfect, like most of this game. With the sniper rifles, you at least have to scope in to score headshots which can be a legitimate downside when up-close, and with the Huntsman you can just left click one time and instantly kill any class with its only real downside being the time invested to practice doing that, which at this point is not relevant. And of course we can't talk about the Huntsman without talking about this thing's uncanny ability to just magnetize to peoples' heads thanks to the characters' ginormous collision boxes. Plus unlike the sniper rifles, you can instantly kill people without ever seeing them if you just volley arrows into crowded places, i.e. a control point or the chokepoint on Dustbowl last

This weapon has rightfully earned the nickname "the lucksman", but I believe my point still holds water. The Sniper is a far more fine-tuned and nuanced class when using the Huntsman. I know it would never happen but if Valve ever ended up making a Team Fortress 3 and they carried over all of the same classes, I think the Huntsman would make for a perfect base to rebalance Sniper so that we don't end up running into the same fundamental pitfalls that we have in TF2

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Some tweets by @tredlocity from August that I still think about

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part four of my post-canon hannibal art series that I call world's most fucked up road trip<3 you can see the other 3 parts + some comics from the same AU here

This time including: a new house in a new country, opera trips, Hannibal massaging Will's bad shoulder, some new scars that I made up for fun, and Will's hair starting to go grey a little bit (which is a sign of growing older together and living a long life btw and that's beautiful). And, of course, murder.

Jack, Alana, and everyone else are like how does Will sleep at night after doing all that meanwhile Will is spooning a cannibal.

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You're always going to be a woman freak

actually i'm always going to be a freak regardless of my gender

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*introducing you to the lgbtq+ community* aaaaand over here are the aces, and the trans folks. oh and here’s David Tennant and Michael Sheen. they’re not actually lgbtq+ but all of Michael’s characters are queer and David is VEHEMENTLY pro-trans.

Michael: we KISSED!!

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David Tennant - Throwing his Head Back with Laughter - Part Three

[ Part One ] [ Part Two ]

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Them but its a "sudden rainstorm" scene in some 2000's rom-com AU

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If I had a nickel for every time a Scottish actor who supported trans rights played the doctor

I'd have 4 nickels which isn't a lot but I'm glad it happened [whatever the fuck the 4 version of twice is]

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Day #893 of David Tennant as a Fennec Fox 🦊 @neil-gaiman

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I was just scrolling on pinterest and I found the most 'there are 3 kinds of people' comments to ever exist

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NERD AWARD WINNER DAVID TENNANT

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GOOD OMENS | 2x05: "The Ball"

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Michael’s close ups from Staged!!! 😄

Bonus:

I love Michael’s expression after Anna says: “I miss hairdressers”. He’s like HOW DARE YOU 😄😄😂