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Character Annihilation 1 – Launched

March 27, 2015 Medic 0 Comments Character Annihilation, detonator, event, fun, SleightSoda, SPUF, story

Character Annihilation is a series of short stories based on the people of SPUF. Today’s story, the first in the series, is based on SleightSoda, resident Detonator jumper and an all round nice guy crazy enough to allow SPUFers to use his FastCo. server for events. The light flickered a couple of times, before finally deciding it wanted to illuminate the room. The sun shining brightly outside often feared to tread in this space. A typical garage, full of mostly forgotten things, best kept out of sight. What better place was there to hide such a treasure? Sleight slowly inched… [Continue Reading]

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A Week of Love and Hate

February 14, 2015 Medic 0 Comments event, fun, hate, love

Hello everyone! Happy Valentines day, and welcome to A Week of Love and Hate! Those of you who have partners, I hope you spend a lovely day with your loved one and all that. As for the rest of you who don’t have a partner, don’t fret, I’ve got something just as good! Okay, maybe not just as good, but hopefully it’ll cheer you up. For this week only, we’ve got a theme! In conjunction with buy-loads-of-chocolate-and-flowers day, the Daily SPUF is having a week full of opinions on both our most loved and least loved classes! You see, we… [Continue Reading]

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Characters and Conga

February 3, 2015 Medic 2 Comments conga, event, fun, gmod, SPUF, taunt

Not long ago, I created a thread on SPUF. Normally, my threads are a bit of fun, and this thread was no exception. All I did was tell everyone to leave their main loadout in the thread, and I’d make a giant conga picture out of it. This article sets out to reveal that giant picture (although since I used it as the featured image, that’s kinda moot, but here you see it in all its glory). But before I do that, I want to have a little talk. Being the editor of a blog means I can do that… [Continue Reading]

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Happy New Year! I hope…

December 31, 2014 Medic 0 Comments announcement, event, fun, future, new year

Welp, it’s 2015 now. At least for Ol’Medic here writing this article. It won’t be 2015 for another 7 hours or so according to the blog’s internal clock, but that’s the sort of stuff that happens when we all live in different time zones. So yes, happy new year! I hope. Let’s take a few minutes of your precious time to see how 2014 went, at least for TF2. In the real world, it was turmoil as always, with chaos in the Middle East and on the borders of Russia and Ukraine, not to mention Ebola being a bastard and… [Continue Reading]

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Demoman got nerfed, but FAIRLY this time! – Smissmas 2014

December 23, 2014 Medic 0 Comments change, demoman, event, game mode, map, nerf, recap, update, weapon

After EotL, there wasn’t much hope in the TF2 community. But Valve brought a small amount of hope back with the 2014 Smissmas update. And what did it contain? Those promised Demoman changes from the Love and War update! You all remember that, right? The changes that broke him and made Engineers run rampant that they thankfully reversed? This time round, Valve actually thought about it AND listened to the community! First off, here’s the patch notes. I warn you now, it’s a biggie! All Players who play TF2 during the event will receive a Gift: a Stuffed Stocking! Stockings… [Continue Reading]

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Very Festive SPUF Event

December 21, 2014 Medic 1 Comment event, fun, Highlander, smissmas, snow

After EotL, everyone was very depressed. So I, sensing an opportunity to make people feel better, conjured up a little event. The premise was simple. A normal Highlander match with an extra Demoknight (can’t leave out those Demoknights!), while wearing your festive items. And hopefully, the Winter Noisemaker. The map rotation was simple: Winter TF2 maps only. You can’t have a Smissmas party on Dustbowl now, can you? Although the game started late, as we tried to sorted out players and stuff, but we managed to get some wonderful people from the Fast Company regulars to fill any slots and… [Continue Reading]

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Coordinating Anger

December 16, 2014 Medic 0 Comments event, fun, happy

Good day, everyone! Just thought I’d write a little something to try and calm down and reach out to you all. Alright, the End of the Line update was meh. Apart from the short, it was the same old stuff that you’d expect from any minor patch which introduces a new crate. We got a bunch of cosmetics, a multi-class melee reskin that’s similar in size and shape to the Conscientious Objector minus the need for a decal tool and a pay-to-stat duck thing. Also a couple of maps got vandalized by Pyro. It was a lackluster update that wasn’t… [Continue Reading]

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Gunslingers vs. Highlanders: an analysis

December 4, 2014 aabicus 0 Comments analysis, demoknight, engineer, event, Highlander, medic, scout, theory

There was recently something of an upset when the Highlander team swept the Gunslingers in the recent tournament, and it rightly seems to have attracted something of an interest in the SPUF community. (I notice there hasn’t been a single thread arguing the Gunslinger is OP since the event…) Since I’ve participated in two of these events, playing Medic for Season 2 (the first time the Gunslingers won) and the most recent Season 5, I’ve got a pretty good perspective from which to analyze the two teams. On a fundamental level, the first major reason that Highlanders performed so much better… [Continue Reading]

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My first look into competitive Team Fortress 2

December 3, 2014 Medic 1 Comment 4v4, competitive, event, medic

A while back (actually, the day before the Demoknights VS Highlander event), I was asked by Confusion to play Medic for a 4v4 match. After informing him that 1. I was not actually a very good player, 2. I was a mediocre Medic at best and 3. I’d never played an ounce of competitive TF2 before, outside SPUF events, I decided “what the hell” and agreed to play. Honestly, I didn’t even know that the SPUF-based EU 4v4 team was still alive, let alone still competing. It would have been a missed opportunity if I’d declined, and I’d have let… [Continue Reading]

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Demoknights VS Highlanders – The Results!

November 23, 2014 Medic 0 Comments demoknight, demoman, event, fun, Highlander

When they said “Demoknight” they didn’t mean what I saw in tonight’s Demoknights VS Highlanders match. Demoknight implies some bastard Demoman using the Booties, the Targe and one of the swords. Demoknight implies Sword-using-moron. No, what I saw tonight was NOTHING BUT GRENADES WHICH BLOCKED OUT THE SUN. Hybrid Demoknights VS Highlander was even more hell than Gunslingers VS Highlanders when it came to spam. At any one time, there were as many as 36 grenades at once, all flying towards the hapless Highlanders. Originally, I hadn’t planned to play in the Demoknight VS Highlander match, but a lack of players… [Continue Reading]