Topic: The TF2 Thread (Read 248189 times)

Mongrel · « **Reply #3560 on:** November 15, 2010, 06:01:37 AM »

I named my stock Rocket Launcher "Betsy", but I need a description tag so I can add this text to go with the name:

This is my rocket launcher!
There are many like it, but this one is mine!
To have and to hold, to lock and to load!
Without me, my rocket launcher is lonely!
Without my rocket launcher, *I* am lonely!
You are not welcome in Betsy's world EITHER!

I hope that doesn't break the character limit, but if it does, I can trim it a bit.

A² · « **Reply #3561 on:** November 17, 2010, 12:33:59 AM »

80 Characters, including spaces is the Desc Tag limit.

TA · « **Reply #3562 on:** November 17, 2010, 07:48:27 AM »

So all you could fit is

This is my rocket launcher!
There are many like it, but this one is mine!

That kinda blows.

Mongrel · « **Reply #3563 on:** November 17, 2010, 07:58:25 AM »

I could probably get at least one more line in there. Damn, I was really hoping the engie hats were indicative of the character limit.

I don't mind changing it, but it needs to cover at least two things: The reference the Rifleman's Creed (it's a joke about the stock Rocket Launcher, after all) and a reference as to how he loves his rocket launcher (it doesn't need to be super-explicit... after all, I've already renamed the thing 'Betsy').

What I was HOPING was that at least this would fit:

This is my rocket launcher!
There are many like it, but this one is mine!
To have and to hold, to lock and to load!
You are not welcome in Betsy's world EITHER!

Mongrel · « **Reply #3564 on:** November 17, 2010, 08:07:42 AM »

Okay, this will work, if the character limit really is 80:

There's many like it but this one's MINE To have and to HOLD to lock and to LOAD

Obviously kind of grammatically kerfudgled, but it is the soldier after all.

Alternate version:

This one is MINE! To have and to hold! To lock and to load!

Which one do you guys think works better?

TA · « **Reply #3565 on:** November 17, 2010, 08:50:40 AM »

The former. "This one is mine" doesn't work without "there's many like it" in front.

See how it feels about line breaks, too. You don't want it just a single big run-on sentence.

Mongrel · « **Reply #3566 on:** November 17, 2010, 09:15:56 AM »

Yeah, I don't know, the punctuation is somewhat important for the cadence, so if anyone has an alternate suggestion on how to get:

There are many like it, but this one is MINE!
To have and to hold! To lock and to load!

Into 80 characters, I'd be much happier (I think that's 86 or 87, depending on how you parse it).

TA · « **Reply #3567 on:** November 17, 2010, 09:54:39 AM »

There are many like it
but this one is MINE
To have & to hold
To lock & to load

If a line break is a single character, that's 79. If line breaks aren't allowed, then I have no idea.

Mongrel · « **Reply #3568 on:** November 17, 2010, 10:01:47 AM »

GOOD WORK CITIZEN.

JDigital · « **Reply #3569 on:** December 11, 2010, 03:25:45 AM »

Mongrel · « **Reply #3570 on:** December 11, 2010, 05:45:43 AM »

*groan*

Envy · « **Reply #3571 on:** December 11, 2010, 05:49:56 AM »

Whelp I'm done.

Mongrel · « **Reply #3572 on:** December 11, 2010, 06:06:32 AM »

Whua?

This is a very very small straw. No less stupid for being yet-another straw, but hardly a camel-breaker.

JDigital · « **Reply #3573 on:** December 11, 2010, 06:13:26 AM »

NexAdruin · « **Reply #3574 on:** December 11, 2010, 08:29:42 AM »

Team Fortress isn't a game about shooting things and stealing points/intelligence. It's a game about collecting useless items. When will you guys realize this.

Joxam · « **Reply #3575 on:** December 11, 2010, 10:53:52 AM »

I'm sorry but this is the LEAST offensive thing they've done in a while. If you guys are really bitching because they're handing out CHRISTMAS GIFTS, find a new hobby, seriously.

Mongrel · « **Reply #3576 on:** December 11, 2010, 12:12:13 PM »

Yeah, honestly for all we know, they'll simply fall open on Dec 25th (okay, Dec 25 Valve Time... so like the 28th instead) and we'll all get some silly Christmas hat out of it.

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #3577 on:** December 11, 2010, 07:44:05 PM »

It's not that the game proper has gotten worse; rather, it's that the player base has become motivated to do things with it other than playing.

TA · « **Reply #3578 on:** December 11, 2010, 07:49:22 PM »

Perhaps the key to unlock the crate will drop off their Christmas raid boss.

Catloaf · « **Reply #3579 on:** December 11, 2010, 07:58:57 PM »

I'll laugh if it only opens if you buy and use a present.

Quote from: Bongo Bill on December 11, 2010, 07:44:05 PM

It's not that the game proper has gotten worse; rather, it's that the player base has become motivated to do things with it other than playing.

Isn't that partially why they made the beta open? So achievement-whoring, item-worshiping people could be made useful by exploiting their weakness of being amazingly easy to manipulate?

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