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GameMaster has an entry in Best Revenge, titled "Contest Submission: Joke's on you"

Which video? Wait, I only see 9 videos in that category... is it just me, or do I have Gamemaster as my friend on Youtube or something, and they block my vote for it due to that? Actually, I took a look... it's Sir Prize's version that's on the nomination list, under the name TF2 Replay: Fists of Shield (Saxxy Entry, Sir Prize Version)

Saxxy Finalist judging has begun. Voting will end Monday at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 6pm UTC.

Yes, please complain about getting one of the few Misc items in the game, one of two that the Engineer has, both of which are newish. Oh, and it's also one of the items with alternate styles.

My renamed items include: Vintage Gunslinger: Vintage Fungineer Dropper Description: Sometimes you just need a little less gun. Vintage Huntsman: Head Magnet Description: Has the uncanny ability to headshot no matter where you aim! Vintage Master's Yellow Belt: Vintage Master's Black Belt Painted: Black Vintage Ambassador: The Golden Gun Description: Not actually golden... L'Etranger: Mr. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang Description: He's tall, and he's dark, and like a shark, he looks for trouble. Cloak and Dagger: A View to a Kill Description: Between the shades, assassination's standing still. Dead Ringer: You Only Live Twice Description: ...or so it seems. Knife: Licence to Kill (I recently fixed this, it used to be License to Kill) Description: And you know I'm going straight for your heart! Your Eternal Reward: Live and Let Die Description: When you were young, and your heart, was like an open book... Familiar Fez: Mustafa's Minion Cap

Filenames from the server updater imply Demoman hood of some sort. Also, the Demoman model was updated, no idea why. Full list of model/textures updated (skipping the boring server files):

Hot on the heels of my return, we have:

I have power again now, but not before it was out for two days... it went out at 5pm EDT Sunday, and was out until sometime between 7 and 8pm EDT today.

Sorry about not finishing the vote thing yet. I originally planned on finishing it yesterday, but rather than do a simple version that works for one thing, I'm writing a SourceMod Extension to act similarly to the existing Vote system. Of course, I'm only going to implement map votes for now, but this way, the logic exists to extend it later without breaking things.

We were operating with only five maps at a time on the mapchooser until just recently... so it won't really be any different than before other than using the F1-F5 keys instead of 4-8. Then again, that's the point of changing it!

I figured out how to get the TF2 server to put up the built-in map vote menu with any 5 items I want on it. I'll begin working on a new Mapchooser to take advantage of this tomorrow.

Updated pl_swiftwater on the server to frc20. Also, I've put a lot of effort into reverse engineering the TF2 Voting system, but it's more complicated than it first seemed. I'm downloading the L4D2 Authoring Tools to see if L4D2's version of the Source SDK contains documentation for the CVoteController server object (which also exists in L4D2) before I go around crashing my test server by sending it random data.

Going to update BLU and RED shortly. I'm not sure why they consider this an optional server update if it changes weapons allowed in Medieval, though. Edit: We've temporarily killed the TF2 servers... there were having problems during restart and the system appears to be extremely busy at the moment. Edit 2: BLU and RED are back up now. We had two problems (one with the server's third TF2 server), which in turn caused TFStats Scripts to try spawning multiple copies spinning MySQL out of control.

Valve made a blog post earlier today that basically said that the first round of voting ends Thursday. Once that's done, Valve employees will take some time to choose some final nominees in each category (I expect this to take at least a week Valve time (2-3 weeks)), at which time they'll have us, the end users, vote on videos (1 vote per category).

Now the vote page comes up, but it says I'm not signed in even when I am and get redirected to the page.

No update yet. However, I'm also here to mention I put a new version of Mapchooser Extended on the server that resolves an issue with runoff votes not occurring when they should be (and some new error handling code that doesn't apply to TF2).

I feel stupid. I totally forgot to hit F6 last night after getting Revenge on Frogg by airblasting him off the bridge on Double Cross. Anyway, I expect an update (minor likely) to hit in roughly 30 minutes, when the Saxxy submissions close.

I had to revert back to the old-style vote menu. Bark couldn't open it at all. Other people couldn't figure out how to open it either; I don't know if they had the same issue as Bark or just didn't realize it required you to hit Esc. Luckily, it's a cvar in the plugin, so I don't need to do any extra coding. Also, my Western Wear has been traded to Sir Prize for a Villain's Veil... somehow he got two of the things already!

Updated BLU and RED with the new version of Mapchooser Extended and flipped it to use the "Press Escape first" style vote menu. I'm not sure I like it as well, but it says "Escape menu pending" or something like that in bright red letters in the upper-left corner.

I had just uploaded Mapchooser Extended 1.6b1 to OCR Event 2 (aka Powerlord's Plugin Test Lab) and launched the game to test it. Except I had to update my client, and presumably the server, since they made changes to the game item data. They haven't actually announced it on the server mailing list yet. Edit: Server is operating at a higher than normal CPU load. I've delayed bringing RED back up until it goes down... hopefully in a few minutes.

Nothing more fun than trying to launch the game to test a plugin change and being greeted by a game update, particularly since I'd JUST updated the Event server and have to update it again.

I can't even encode Replays to videos right now, TF2 crashes every time I try. Which really sucks. A shame, too, because I have a 7-second clip where I backstab two Scouts that I thought was pretty good. 2 scouts of a 4 person team. Also, I crafted a bunch of hats together yesterday... and I got one of the new ones (Western Wear engy hat #453). I'm thinking about trading it for metal before the value of it goes down. On another subject, I'm going to be testing a new version of Mapchooser Extended that uses a different menu style. I don't know how it works in TF2, but in HL2DM, you have to hit Esc to access this menu, so it no longer blocks weapon switches.

Updating BLU and RED now. BLU is operational again, and RED will follow shortly.

Won't work, as it's a server plugin in addition to maps.

I don't really like turning RED into a permanent event type of thing. More along the lines of using it separately. I swore I linked to two videos I did when we first tried replays, back when they sporadically caused the server to lag. Anyway, here they are... the good parts of two consecutive lives: They aren't stellar (only 2 kills in one video and 4 in the other), but they don't suck either. Oh, and I killed both Frogg and his medic in each video. Now, if only replays existed during the times I've gotten 12 kills in one life before...