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Eyelander Eyestravaganza!

April 25, 2014 aabicus 0 Comments demoknight, event, SPUF

================IMPORTANT INFO================ Where: The SPUF server When: Saturday 7:30 pm GMT =============================================== As you may have noticed, Demoknight recently received a painful blow in the mobility department. In honor of our fallen friend, the SPUF server is having a hack-n-slashathon starring everyone’s favorite haunted sword! RULES 1. Everyone who joins the server must play Demoman. It’s first-come-first-serve. 2. Map is a secret. Time is exactly 25 hours from the moment I posted this announcement, at 7:30pm GMT. 3. The only allowed weapons are Ali Baba’s Wee Booties, Bootlegger, Chargin’ Targe, Sticky Jumper, Eyelander, Nessie’s Nine Iron, and Haunted Headless Horsemann’s… [Continue Reading]

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A Tale of Two Communities

April 17, 2014 aabicus 0 Comments advice, criticism, Dota 2, history, mourning, SPUF, TFC, trading

Lately, SPUF has gotten a bit cabin-feverish, and I can’t say I blame them. The anger seems to be directed at Valve’s repeated promises of “great stuff on the horizon!” and the actuality of the extreme drought of new content for TF2. Recently, even the throwaway crap such as blog posts, cosmetics, and localization-file-only updates have dried up. I can understand why SPUF is upset. But I disagree with how a large amount of this anger seems to be directed at Dota 2, Valve’s newest cash cow and spearhead of the MOBA genre that is clearly getting the lion’s share… [Continue Reading]

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A Farewell to Arms…

April 1, 2014 Medic 1 Comment announcement, SPUF

Last night, we received an email. Not just any email, a very special one from a very special company. In it was lots of technical jargon that I didn’t understand but aabicus did, as the email was meant for him and not me. We spent the whole night discussing the email and eventually, aabicus accepted the offer, despite him not receiving any pay for his services. As from today, aabicus will be writing weekly for the Team Fortress 2 blog, giving us all the juicy gossip going on with the TF2 team, as well as leaking info on any new… [Continue Reading]

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How to Come Up With Ideas For New Daily SPUF Articles

March 31, 2014 aabicus 0 Comments advice, SPUF

The Daily SPUF loves publishing articles written by members of the community! TF2 is such a multi-faceted game that no one individual can master or even care about all of it, so having a fresh new perspective on our beloved game is important for the blog’s coverage. But a lot of people write to me saying that while they’d love to and want to write an article, they can’t think of what to write about! Writer’s block can hit all of us, and I’m no exception. But here are some common themes that routinely produce great articles to get those… [Continue Reading]

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“Mirrored Maps” event results!

March 26, 2014 aabicus 0 Comments announcement, event, maps, recap, SPUF

That event was, in my personal opinion, one of our best yet! Ultimately Team 1 swept in a 3-1 victory, losing only Lwobtsud to a ninja backcap by team 2 spy John Caveson. But the real point was to try some mind-bending maps that challenged the hundreds of hours we collectively have on the classics, and I saw more than one person bump into a wall during the event. Kip‘s streams of the event are posted on Youtube for those who’d like to rewatch the event. Thanks Kip and KobeKun for casting the event! And if you missed it, don’t… [Continue Reading]

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A Particularly Spuffy White Day

March 16, 2014 Jaydor 0 Comments SPUF, story

Just for a bit of background information, this fic comes from the now deleted SPUF Makes A Story thread. Essentially, said thread had members suggesting concepts for one of our writers, Argeon, to write a story about. A number of actual SPUFers were also to be included as characters, which included A 1970 Corvette, aabicus, The Medic, Argeon himself, Huff, and stamda. The final concept ended up being about the SPUFers surviving in the zombie apocalypse, becoming SPUF of the Dead, which can currently be found here on the Daily SPUF. In any case, one of the original concepts suggested was a… [Continue Reading]

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Beloved Daily SPUF Redirect URL Shutting Down, Millions in Mourning

March 12, 2014 aabicus 1 Comment announcement, history, mourning, SPUF

If our fair blog were a TF2 playstyle, he’d be a roamer. A while back we switched from spufblog.com to blog.spuf.info, and left the old URL as a redirect that aabicus was paying 18 dollars a year to keep running. Well, it didn’t seem that useful so we’re closing it down. If you don’t interact with the “spufblog.com” URL, this won’t affect you, and really this won’t affect the visible blog in any way. So if you need to, check and update your bookmarks; the old URL was on the first page of the SPUF megathread for some time.

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SPUF of the Dead: Chapter One

February 28, 2014 Argeon 1 Comment fun, SPUF, story

SPUF OF THE DEAD Chapter 1: Is There Anybody Out There? As the old, dust-covered phone jangled off, two men turned around in surprise from their desks and gazed at the spectacle; the two detectives had not received a single call in a while. “Shall I?” One of the detectives asked, receiving affirmation in return. His name was Donald Stamda, or more commonly referred to as “Don” or simply “Stamda”. He bounced up and walked towards the phone in a relaxed manner, yawning in the poorly-lit room. Stamda was a tall and handsome, smooth-talking man with a fitting pair… [Continue Reading]

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Why you should visit the Unofficial SPUF Server

February 17, 2014 Medic 0 Comments community, fun, SPUF

So, the night before this article was written, (since we don’t publish articles immediately) everyone jumped onto the SPUF server and had a whale of a time. We had all sorts of fun and it was nice. It turns out, all we have to do is throw a couple of people in there and it’s lovely. I’m going to tell you why we should visit the SPUF server more often.

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Write Some Moar! 2 : The Results

January 23, 2014 Argeon 0 Comments announcement, event, fun, SPUF, Write Some Moar!, writing

Hello audience, welcome to the Rentz & Lasby Book Showing! Today I, Don Mister Argeon, am pleased to announce that our committee has finally to a conclusion on what stories we shall publish for you our Australian readers! Before I tell you the results, I’d like for each of you to pick up the surveys we placed underneath your chairs. Keep it close, as Rentz personally sold his last suit to get enough paper for the entire auditorium. Otherwise, let me present to you, the winners of this year’s Write Some Moar! contest! Out of a fine 54 stories, resulting… [Continue Reading]