Hats/Idling

[Bronze Fox]

One of the random webcomics I've found about TF2 posted this today/yesterday.
(As of 8-28-09)

While hats don't give you any bonus whatsoever, they're the only way to make you stand out from the unwashed masses. It doesn't matter if you stole all intel, capped all points and pushed the little cart uphill in the snow, hats are the only way to show yourself in the game right now.

Hats are like the forbidden fruit. Now that we've tasted it, we're aware of our "un-hatness" and how inappropriate it is. The crowd crave for hats but there is no way to fight for it. No achievement to unlock, no boars to kill, no quests to grind, nothing. Except...

Some crafty players created "idle servers" which you can join and... do nothing, you see... there isn't anything involved in getting the coveted hat drops beside being logged in, and since this is all that is required, people join servers to do... nothing.

A craftier player created a program to log you on idle servers without even running the game! Now you can do nothing while doing more productive things like, I don't know... playing a game or something.

I found it very interesting and very true.

[TheCarpe]

Still fail.

[jim beam]

[quote="TheCarpe";p="191552"]Still fail.[/quote]

[Buzzy Beetle]

[quote="jim beam";p="191555"]
[quote="TheCarpe";p="191552"]Still fail.[/quote]
[/quote]

[MMX]

[quote="Buzzy Beetle";p="191557"][quote="jim beam";p="191555"]
[quote="TheCarpe";p="191552"]Still fail.[/quote]
[/quote][/quote]

[Boss Llama]

Fail, perhaps, but that's Valve's fault. It's accurate.

[Guardian]

[quote="Alizée Fan";p="191562"]Fail, perhaps, but that's Valve's fault. It's accurate.[/quote]

Indeed...

Also you think when you get your first hat that you'll be satisfied but all it does is increase your appetite for hats.

[Rigges]

I have the Pyro Propeller Beanie and I love it..



I WANT MORE!



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[LadeeeDuke]

[quote="MMX";p="191558"][quote="Buzzy Beetle";p="191557"][quote="jim beam";p="191555"]
[quote="TheCarpe";p="191552"]Still fail.[/quote]
[/quote][/quote][/quote]

[The Spanish Inquisition]

How about we play some Global Thermonuclear War instead then, ok?

[Shifty]

I don't have a single hat, and I don't give half a crap!

[ZRDeuce]

[quote="Shifty";p="191585"]I don't have a single hat, and I don't give half a crap![/quote]

You have the Half-a-crap hat? Like this one:



I can picture Shifty wearing that.


ZRDeuce

[jim beam]

[quote="The Spanish Inquisition";p="191584"]How about we play some Global Thermonuclear War instead then, ok?[/quote]

Sounds like fun!

[Torven]

So just a quick question for those of you that idle. When the idler is running, does it start HL2.exe in your processes or just the stats/idle program?

[fruitman]

[quote="Torven";p="191594"]So just a quick question for those of you that idle. When the idler is running, does it start HL2.exe in your processes or just the stats/idle program?[/quote]

Only the idle program.