last night, tf2 got its first content update in like 7 months. a single new case and some bug fixes, the tf team probably expecting to throw a minor cosmetic update to keep the game at least a little fresh. in doing so, they did something to the drop rates of crates, and inadvertently added a new bug: certain crates now have a 100% chance of dropping unusuals, generally considered the most expensive items in the game. people inevitably figured this out and, well, made the most out of it.
for further context, one of the most exclusive items in the game is the Burning Team Captain, with only around 5 ever having been unboxed before this all went down. since the update dropped last night, 3 more have been unboxed.
so far valve has not said, let alone done, anything about this and nobody has any idea how they’re going to resolve this. it would be a financial and logistical nightmare to roll back all the unboxes and community market purchases, but at the same time if it isn’t reverted it’ll utterly shatter the ingame economy since unusuals are such a large part of it. people have spent years building up inventories full of tens of thousands of dollars worth of unusuals that are becoming near-worthless with every hour. the tf2 subreddit is on total lockdown until valve releases a statement. it’s total chaos and i’m loving it
This is somehow funnier than cryptocurrency crashes
When I first saw this logo it was in a random post on Facebook and I was convinced it was just another blatantly fake fan creation because of how horrible it is. I was certainly in for a very sexy surprise when I found out that it was the real logo
The designer in me is like wtf this is very ugly But the millenial in me is like Loki god of mischief and eternal troll and shithead memer would absolutely love the fact that this logo is driving people BATSHIT
It’s almost like CEOs and cooperations have an agenda making youths have addictions
That’s a pretty wild accusation. I can guarantee you that getting kids addicted is the last thing that the company behind Juul actually wanted.
You weren’t supposed to deepthroat the boot but ok
The thing that kills is the people in the tags claiming that ecigs and vapes were invented to help people quit smoking. No. No they fucking weren’t. You see back in the late 90s/early 2000s, smoking was already starting to decline. Not only that, but states continued to pass anti-smoking legislation like outlawing smoking in bars and restaurants, increasing taxes on tobacco products, restricting the kind of advertising that tobacco companies could use to sell cigarettes, etc. This scared the shit out of tobacco companies. They were smart enough to see the future and it didn’t look good for their profits. That is how things like ecigs and vapes were born. It was a way for them to continue to get people addicted to their products (the nicotine in ecigs and vapes is extracted from tobacco) and still have a captive market, while getting around all the regulations. Now most of the major vape companies are owned by companies that are cleverly hidden subsidiaries of big tobacco companies. It was never about helping people quit smoking. People were already doing that (or never starting in the first place) all on their own, thanks to decades of public health campaigns. It was always about profits and keeping as many people addicted as possible so they would never go out of business.
