and make it snappy

Back to my roots you guys

MANNtosis! (new)

HAHA DESERVED DESERVED GET OWNED YOU ROUND BUFFOON

This one random demoman picture has been on my laptop for years and every time I stumble upon it while clicking through my folders I get reminded how much this picture means to me in so many ways

It questions my critical thinking and like kinda activates the imaginative part of my brain. It makes me wonder as if I’m in some local museum, standing all alone in one room with only one painting. It makes me forget I’m just standing there all alone with nothing but my own thoughts keeping me from moving on to the next room

How did he get there? What melancholic thoughts are going through him? Is he going to be okay?

Is he just vibing there? Did he land there from a stickyjump?

Are the others merc’s nearby? His bottle kinda looks kinda beer bottle shaped, did he lose his ol’ scrumpy?

Just the fact that these thoughts just pop op in my brain fascinates me as it reminds me i’m alive and I can think. ty for coming to my tedtalk about my tf2demoman_inwater.png

lil bit more thoughts;

Where is he looking off to while raising his hand to take a sip? Or maybe he’s about to throw the bottle?

What or who are his eyes searching for? Or is it just a momentary thought passing through his head while he stares off in the distance?

demooooooo

demoman i lob you.....

comfort characters be like 👨🏻👨🏻👨🏻

No one talks about how petty kim can get if you decide to be an asshole to him.

A little “who looks like shit” poll

I'm interested in the gradual development of Miss Pauling.

Originally an almost incidental character in the Team Fortress 2 comics alone, no official model existed for Miss Pauling for the longest time. Her first appearance was in the WAR comic from 2009, two years after the game's release. She is mentioned by name, but you can tell her character isn't nailed down here yet. They probably aren't even sure if they're going to reuse her at this point. The Administrator herself isn't even fully developed yet.

Despite the tangential nature of her character, she made regular appearances in the TF2 comics, always executing the Administrator's will, though not much was really established about her personality or characteristics beyond being hardworking, extremely competent, and very loyal.

Around this time, the fans started making their own models to use her in fanworks, though with not much to go on in regards to her personality, there weren't many people taking an interest in her. The few times she did appear in fanworks, she was often relegated to just being the token girl character.

In 2013, Valve released Ring of Fired, the first of seven full-length Team Fortress 2 comics that would end up being the main source of character development and plot progression for the universe. And Miss Pauling was there as one of the lead characters, although her characterisation was still rather thin in this first issue.

The big moment here is the Love and War update. In 2014, seven years after the game's launch, the short film Expiration Date was released, the 15 minute video supposedly being a pilot for a potential TF2 tv show. That tv show never happened. However, Miss Pauling was one of the lead characters of the video. It finally gave Miss Pauling an official 3D model, which was notably somewhat different looking from her comic appearances up to this point, as well as a canonical voice.

It also established several defining traits to her character: she was extremely neurotic, kind of awkward, a bit silly, and she had a knack for gallows humor. These traits were heightened with the following Gun Mettle and Jungle Inferno updates, which gave her a bunch of voice lines where she talked to the player characters and let her kookier side show.

These traits would make it back into her characterisation in the comics going forward, finally reaching Maximum Pauling. She became the true Main Character of the TF2 comics, usually being the main perspective character, as well as being the character with the heaviest choices to make as the plot reaches its climax.

While Miss Pauling still to this day doesn't physically appear in the Team Fortress 2 videogame, she has become one of the most important characters of its surrounding universe, and you'd be hard pressed to find a fan who doesn't really like her. It's been fun to watch her develop from an incidental lore character to the unofficial tenth member of the main cast. I'm a huge fan of her.

Okay end of post

my girl deserves the world ngl she put up with so much having to work 25/8 for a boss who could not care less about her but still hoping to achieve something worthwhile within the company.

the way she has to redesign herself now that the administrator is dead is what FUELS my love for this character. I really hope this isn’t the end for her bc I would love to see how she copes/tries to better her self after everything

i’ve watched this like 8 times in a row

Me and my dog post-apocalypse after we find a broken crate of canned peaches washed up on the beach

i love how the lines in the sand makes it so that Soldier just rotated 180 degrees without moving his feet or using his hands, gmod and sfm animation style