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Crash

@ueakcrash.bsky.social

TF2 tip! To avoid people joining on you when you load up a map solo:

Go to Team Fortess 2/ tf/cfg

If you don't have one, create an autoexec.cfg and open it in a text editor, add the line

"sv_use_steam_networking 0"

Save that, and when TF2 opens, it will automatically turn that feature off.

#tf2

February 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM

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Lizard Of Oz

@lizard-of-oz.bsky.social

To chime in on #TeamFortress2 malfunctions conversation:

Most community-made maps and gamemodes go through extensive testing during development... using the community server infrastructure, and with the creators having full control over the compiled result

Yes, TF2 breaks and here's how to fix it

Arena_afterlife was working on community servers flawlessly, even with 100 players! I’ve spent weeks making sure the tech is stable, but the discrepancies between Community and Casual, something I had no way to test for, caused things to break. Same was with VSH.

If Casual is here to stay, I wish the community creators had access to testing things in advance under the Casual ecosystem. Sure, the community is taking notes on how Casual probably works post-mortem, but if we’d be able to test and debug things as they’ll run in Casual before the update goes live, things would be much more stable!
Perhaps, maybe Valve could give the update participants access to a test build of the game before the update goes live, so that we could ensure everything is good to go.

On an adjacent topic, modern TF2 maps are made using community-made tools, which Valve, for understandable security reasons, can’t use. We could, hypothetically, bypass many of the engine limits using those tools while remaining compatible with the game, but since Valve insist on compiling TF2 maps on their end, we have to keep our maps compatible with the outdated tools Valve haven’t touched for over a decade.
There’s also a handful of engine bugs that could be bypassed if a map could be compiled using community-made tools, but alas.

This means that if the community mappers could send Valve the compiled result after testing it on the Casual infrastructure, rather than Valve having to compile the map out of the source files on their end, we’d have higher quality, more optimised, and more stable maps. In fact, this is how it was handled for CS:GO.
And it’d also avoid the bummers like missing textures, missing payload carts, or mp3 audio cache getting corrupted. You have no idea how vigorously mappers polish and double check their work after being selected but before the update goes live.

In addition to that, Casual sv_pure settings introduce asset loading related bugs on community servers they do not happen.

October 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM

Breezing Wing

@breezingwing.bsky.social

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#deltarune #oc

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October 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM

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astra 🐻‍❄️💤 artist & predebut ENvt

@sleepyastra.art

mobility aids gave me freedom💙
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#illust #illustration #disability #mobilityaid #art #ocsky #astrabeart #walker #cane

August 31, 2025 at 8:03 PM

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Phanterm

@phanterm.bsky.social

www.twitch.tv/phanterm_ Back from vacation stream! Reminder that I stream most Mon/Wed/Fri at 1PM PST if you ever wanna see what peak gamedev (crying, pain) looks like

Phanterm_ - Twitch

Creating Coruncopia, a 2D action RPG in Godot!

www.twitch.tv

July 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM

Breezing Wing

@breezingwing.bsky.social

Haru urara has such a great name, it feels so good to shout! Like the cadence of it and stuff is just mmmwah chef's kiss

Haru Urara! Haru Urara!!
#umamusume #haruurara

July 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM

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Urn

@urnjagar.bsky.social

A couple of besites having fun
#ウマ娘 #ウマ娘プリティーダービー #umamusume

July 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM

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mbcbrdheun

@mbcbrdheun.bsky.social

Help im a bit gay

Ginny Di @ginnydi.com · Jul 24

more like female gays 😌💜

July 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM

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Iantos

@iantos.bsky.social

Maybe we could find out.

Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372
Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111
Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911
Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440
PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000

Mr Peculiar 🔞 @mrpecu.bsky.social · Jul 24

Collective Shout, the group that took credit for bullying Mastercard into recently censoring more platforms, stated that apparently it took them ~1000 phonecalls to convince them to give them what they wanted?

We got like way more people than that don't we?

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · Jul 24

ok then. one angle of attack then needs to be actively bombarding Visa and Mastercard's phone numbers and emails.

are customer support phone numbers/emails the best avenue to start with or is there a better option?

July 24, 2025 at 3:53 AM

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Brae! 🔞 @ ANE

@brae.gay

Okay now I really wanna do this purely for the sake of supporting NSFW games and getting more people talking about them

Brae! 🔞 @ ANE @brae.gay · May 30

I love a suggestive furry vtuber who plays normal games and makes sex jokes as much as the next guy but i'm still holding out hope for a furry streamer who exclusively plays uncensored NSFW furry porn games and takes it Very seriously

July 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM

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Muds

@mmuds.bsky.social

love these horses

July 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM

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PSX Bunlith 🪄 BLM ACAB 🇵🇸

@b0tster.yeag.gay

how did my waist get more snatched than a baby from a crib 🫣🏖

lilith (goth trans woman with red hair in a witch hat) on the beach in a black two piece swimsuit lounging on a beach towel. her waist looks dabonkers

June 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM

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PSX Bunlith 🪄 BLM ACAB 🇵🇸

@b0tster.yeag.gay

when did bunlith's waist get more snatched than a baby from a crib 🫣🏖

bunlith (goth trans bunny furry) lounging on a beach towel in a two piece swim suit. her waist looks debonkers

June 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM

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Another Angry Woman

@stavvers.bsky.social

chef kissing fingers emoji

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Jun 19

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.

t.co/JXeTALBPds

Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper.

She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but AI summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. “We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that,” she says, laughing.

June 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM

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verti

@verti.blue

Summer time 🏖️

An illustration of the cast of my manga Go! Go! Gris! spending a day at the beach.

June 13, 2025 at 7:39 PM

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Rystic, ultimate legend btw edition (7.4 spoilers)

@transcatffxiv.bsky.social

[noir jazz in the background] the name's yuri. dick yuri. i've been solving cases for 23 years and i've been a girl for 22 of 'em. one thing you learn real quick in the city of dykes is that everybody's packing something, and on most of my jobs, it's lead.

June 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM

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The Museum of English Rural Life

@themerl.bsky.social

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

June 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM