Battle of the Tanks – Heavy Weapons Guy VS Braum

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You remember a while back I did those Battle of the Healers articles? Well, I recently spotted this week’s free hero rotation in League of Legends and saw a guy called Braum. And I played him. And he’s like our beloved Heavy. Since I had previously compared Sona, the mute healing song girl with no legs (seriously, she has no legs) to our beloved Medic, I thought it’d be amusing to compare the Heavy with this Braum fellow. So yeah, what are we looking at here? Two burly, strong men, with no hair on their heads and thick Russian accents,… [Continue Reading]

“Get Autobalanced,” ft. the Lonely Skybox

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Lock eyes from across the room Down my Bonk! while the rockets boom Strafe your shots and hug your face So your own sentry kills you in my place Make my way through the enemy lines When a revved-up heavy I suddenly find Move in close, let the baseball fly My scattergun fires and the angels cry Leave your base go back to mine Intel papers fluttering behind The winning cap’s what I’ve got instore Gloat over chat that I want some more And I GET AUTOBALANCED I really don’t get how that pyro was there I passed four of… [Continue Reading]

What’s your spray?

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Medic: I always forget I have a spray. The only time I see it is when I accidentally press T instead of R when trying to reload my weapon. Unfortunately, the klutz that I am, I do this rather regularly. Actually, that’s not true, I use auto-reload on most classes and I don’t play Spy enough to warrant adding that auto-reload script to his cfg file. Most of my sprays are old ones and none of them are very good, apart from the Sniper dot spray I once downloaded. My current spray is equally lame and depressing. It’s left over… [Continue Reading]

“L’ingénieur est un espion!”

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Don’t turn invisible and think you’re invincible: they’re completely different words. Don’t go running after the person you’re disguised as. Don’t try to backstab somebody in the front or while surrounded by a dozen other enemies. Don’t kill an Engineer if he has an operational Sentry nearby. Don’t think you can replace a Heavy and destroy the other team with L’étranger. Basic advice for budding Spies, wouldn’t you think? But like that Sniper who tries to shoot through glass, there doesn’t seem any end to the ignorance of newbie Spies. Now if you’re new to TF2 and you like the… [Continue Reading]

A Complete Guide to Logging In and Submitting Articles

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Note: This article is out of date. If you wish to contribute, please check out this page. Thank you! Hey all! In light of today’s contest, I thought it would be polite to write a succinct article explaining how to create an account on The Daily SPUF, start your first article, and submit it. So let’s begin! (I wrote this article from my Steam alt account in order to make sure I experience exactly what a new user experiences, nothing admin gets in the way:) The first screen you see upon visiting our fair site is this: To login/create an… [Continue Reading]

The 400th Article, now with added prizes!

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“So what do you have planned for this 400th article?” Since this is our 400th article, let’s have a look at some random stuff! There’s also a contest further down, so don’t go away! As of writing, we have had over 100,000 views, with over 100 comments. Not a lot of comments, but comments aren’t that great anyway. Most people comment in our SPUF thread instead. Most views in one day was 852, on the 28th of April 2014. The article published that day was “Demoknight, thou shalt not increase thy turn radius” by Aabicus. Most referrals to this site come… [Continue Reading]

How The Original Saved My Life

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For the longest of times, I used to shy away from Soldier. I used to shy away from all non-Medic classes, only occasionally stepping out to play Pyro or, even more rarely, Engineer, because I felt that I was otherwise not contributing to my team. Keeping X alive is just as good as killing Y, right? Not really, if Y has just killed A, B, C and Z. My decision in maining Soldier was nothing more than me desperately needing to play a high damage, high health class because no one else on my team could be bothered. Only problem… [Continue Reading]

Dear VALVe: Please Don’t Add Low Gravity to Any Official Map

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One of the most worrisome requests I’m seeing from numerous people is for Valve to add low gravity in some form to rd_asteroid. I understand that it would be thematically appropriate, but I’ve played on lowgrav servers and it screws with class balance in all the wrong ways. Before requesting lowgrav, I highly encourage you to go try out a lowgrav trade server just so you get a feel of what lowgrav does to a playstyle. Scout in particular becomes downright infuriating to play. His dodging/strafing ability becomes crippled when every time his feet leave the ground he blimps slowly… [Continue Reading]

Helvetica Standard or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Watch Moe Anime

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SPUF’s resident maidsassin Corvette is throwing a huge 10000-post giveaway! Some amazing contributions have rolled through, as SPUFers prove just what they’re willing to do to get free stuff. Well, it turns out I’m willing to watch 3 episodes of Nichijou, which Wikipedia describes as a “Comedy Slice of Life Manga”, but my friends were quick to correct me that manga is the comics and anime is the show. The fact that I didn’t know that should be an indication as to just how green I am in this field. But that Genuine Pip-Boy might as well be a Klondike… [Continue Reading]

Rancho Story

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I’ve never felt such an asshole. I wanted to buy a particular set for Engy today, the fat guy stuff. So I checked out TF2op and found the items I wanted at reasonable prices and added the people or sent trade offers and every single one of them were offline. Now I understand that trade offers are great when you can wait but I’m a ‘right now’ type of guy and was getting more and more frustrated as time went on and finally I had the 3 pieces and went in search of the Rancho Relaxo taunt (because you can’t… [Continue Reading]