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Thursday Night Throwdown 07/15: Team Fortress 2

Grab a sandvich and a can of Bonk! It's time for a some proper BLU versus RED! HEROIC PROMOTION!

In the spirit of Mann Co. CEO Saxton Hale, let's cut to brass tacks, gentlemen. Giant Bomb's lack of proficiency/familiarity with Team Fortress 2 is no secret. A lot of people have been playing this game non-stop since its initial launch way back in the Mesoproterozoic Era of 2007, but we are, shamefully, not among them. Luckily, the Whiskey Media family has a deep bench of TF2 enthusiasts, which we'll be calling on for this week's Thursday Night Throwdown!

That's right, y'all! Soldiers, Demomen, Medics, Engineers, Pyros, Spies, Scouts, Heavies, and Snipers will all be in full effect as our friends from Tested.com, as well as key members from the Whiskey Media engineering team, prepare to brutally murder/be murdered by you! That's right, YOU! If you want in on this World Series of Blood, hop on the Official Giant Bomb Team Fortress 2 server at tf2.giantbomb.com or 8.17.251.194:27015 if domain name services scare you. We'll be playing, and broadcasting LIVE, at 4PM Pacific Daylight Time this Thursday July 15th, though the server is up now if you want to hone your skills, and will keep going after we've turned off the cameras. 
 
If you missed the live stream, enjoy the archived version below, and stay tuned for our announcement of what we'll be playing on next week's Thursday Night Throwdown! 


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@SteepInKline: I just copied the server adress and added it to my favorites. Go to your favorites tab and click add a server and paste the adress there. I'm sure somebody with better knowledge than me can give you a better explanation.
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Wow. They actually got a streaming service that allows you to actually see the game they are playing and not a mosaic that could make Japanese porn blush.

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@Castiel:  i concur
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@crusader8463 said:
" Wow. They actually got a streaming service that allows you to actually see the game they are playing and not a mosaic that could make Japanese porn blush. "
LOL holy shit thats funny. Very good analogy.
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@crusader8463 said:
" Wow. They actually got a streaming service that allows you to actually see the game they are playing and not a mosaic that could make Japanese porn blush. "
Yeah, justin.tv seems to work pretty well. One question remains though: do they archive livestreams like ustream does?
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It said the server had a slot and as soon as I clicked to join it got full. It sucks that the max slot is only 24 players.

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there needs to be more kicking... one of the people there has been there for 4+ hrs!

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Been trying to get onto the server for three hours. Every time it looks like it's connecting I instantly get the 'Disconnected. Server is full.' message and it chucks me out to the main menu.

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@frythefly said:
" @crusader8463 said:
" Wow. They actually got a streaming service that allows you to actually see the game they are playing and not a mosaic that could make Japanese porn blush. "
Yeah, justin.tv seems to work pretty well. One question remains though: do they archive livestreams like ustream does? "
They do.
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I like many others have no doubt favorited the server and have simple set it to auto join when a slot becomes avaible. So my guess is that they are gonna have to shut down the server and try to log in before every one else gets in.

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WHAT NOW IT NEEDS A PASSWORD??????

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What is the password???

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WHO PUT THE PASSWORD ON

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PASSWORD AGH

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@frythefly:  Im almost positive they do!
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What is the password to the server?

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whats with the sound

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What's the password?

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wat is pw?

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How did people figure out the password? =(

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@mm665 said:

" @frythefly said:

" @crusader8463 said:
" Wow. They actually got a streaming service that allows you to actually see the game they are playing and not a mosaic that could make Japanese porn blush. "
Yeah, justin.tv seems to work pretty well. One question remains though: do they archive livestreams like ustream does? "
They do. "
Great!
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password thing is annoying

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The no sound makes it so suspenseful!!

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The justintv chat panel won't work for me, it just sits there loading forever.

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@Scrumdidlyumptious said:
" How did people figure out the password? =( "
batmanbatmanbatman is my guess
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Holy... what's going on with the picture?

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I wanted to play, but I guess not? It just keeps kicking me when I get a spot, saying, "server is full."
And now there is a password, what is going on?

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Stream is broken?

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Busted!

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This is stupid. They pw the server for what purpose? And I bust my ass to make sure I'm here to just have a hope at joining, but no. Fucking goddamn password. Trolled hard good sirs, trolled hard.

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Live demo folks.

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I tried:
 
GB
GBTNT
775
<>
 
none worked.

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this has gone terribly so far :P

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Sound gone again now... I'm sure they fix it though, just some techincal issues.

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I hope I get to play :(

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They're still setting up, calm down gents

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Everything is exploding, the world is ending. Maybe i'll just go finish dragonage. :/

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lol im getting my join game finger ready 

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password please.

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dudes chil out this thing lasts for hours people come and go and everything is just getting set up youll get to play dont worry

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@SJSchmidt93 said:
" I tried:  GB GBTNT 775 <>  none worked. "
it had like ten to fiteen characters when he typed it in earlier.
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I'll give it another 10 minutes, otherwise it's time for more Bad Company 2. 

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*shrug* even busted it is a better stream than ustream :D

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@Jace said:
" This is stupid. They pw the server for what purpose? And I bust my ass to make sure I'm here to just have a hope at joining, but no. Fucking goddamn password. Trolled hard good sirs, trolled hard. "
If I had to guess, I would say maybe they did that to get everyone off of the server so the GB staff could get on it, then they will remove the pass or something.  Again...that is just a completely random assumption I pulled out of my ass.
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whose playing from whishky 
there are 5 in the server right now 

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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4G4mcYOXMA

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@Draco9898 said:
" Everything is exploding, the world is ending. Maybe i'll just go finish dragonage. :/ "
No... NOOOOO! Not yet, not now! I'm still watching Supernatural, season six hasn't even begun yet, so the world can't end yet it's just too early.
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@metalhead87: 
 
You're probably right. I'm gonna quit raging. I love the GB staff.
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I'm getting ready to toucan everyone's faces off. Engie, here I come.