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| − | == History == | + | == Wikicap voting == |
| − | == Geography ==
| + | [[File:User Mikado282 Nikno abstains, courteously.png|thumb|250px|right|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-M8aQqC4CM Nikno abstains, courteously.] ]] |
| − | Teufort is situated within the [[Badlands (Region)]] region of [[New Mexico]].
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| − | == Demographics ==
| + | The current Wikicap voting system: |
| − | Population: 1280
| + | * Among their other duties, Staff vote on awarding [[Wikicap]] to nominated outstanding editors. |
| − | == Economy ==
| + | * Voting Staff is limited to all listed [[Help:Group rights|Administrators and Moderators]]. Thus, Staff represents a limited pool of individual votes; which may be cast as YES, NO, or Abstain. |
| − | Teufort Mall
| + | * Votes are be privately registered with reasons for the vote. |
| − | == Arts and culture ==
| + | * If the nominee receives 5 YES votes, then they receive a Wikicap. |
| − | === Sports ===
| + | ** Dropping the Wikicap is done by the Staff. |
| − | [[Non-player characters#Badland Brawlers|Badland Brawlers]]
| + | * The vote remains open until either the cap is awarded or the vote is closed with no Wikicap awarded. |
| − | == Media ==
| + | * Votes may be changed before the Wikicap is awarded or the voting closed. |
| − | ''Teufort Times''
| + | * The vote is closed without awarding a Wikicap when ... |
| − | == Government ==
| + | ** An Administrator removes the nominee for clear lack of qualifications. |
| − | *Mayor
| + | ** The nominee receives 5 NO votes. |
| − | *Judge
| + | ** The total YES, NO, and Abstain votes exhaust the possibility of reaching 5 votes for or against (given the remaining pool of votes) and an Administrator declares deadlock. |
| − | == Crime ==
| + | *** The Administrator may declare an extention in time for any change in votes to resolve the dead lock. |
| − | == Education ==
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| − | Elementary School
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| − | Public Library
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| − | == Transportation ==
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| − | Teufort is served by the [[Train|Northern Express]] Railroad.
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| − | == Notable people ==
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| − | == See also ==
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| − | [[Badlands (Region)]]
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| − | [[Storyline]]
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| − | == External links ==
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| − | * [http://www.teamfortress.com/tf02_unhappy_returns/ ''Unhappy Returns''] on the [[TF2 Official Website]].
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| − | * [http://www.teamfortress.com/asmissmasstory/ ''A Smissmas Story''] on the [[TF2 Official Website]]. | |
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| − | Some achievement maps provide areas set off or protected for various specific activities, such as heavy-only boxing areas, soccer fields, pyro tennis courts, private achievement rooms, and surf ramps. Some achievement maps also have mechanisms set up to facilitate specific achievements, some with player controls.
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| − | [[AFK]] [[idlers]] are often spawned into an automated conveyor device where they may be targeted by active players seeking achievements or grind out strange levels. Sometimes Bots are spawned into this mechanism as well, but the presence of idling players support achievements that specifically require players as targets [[eg]]
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| − | Besides achievement grinding and strange leveling, various types of activities often occur. Achievement map servers usually encourage trading. Because the standard same mode of the map is usually suppressed, combat is usually "free fire"; however, it is also not uncommon for opposing players to just hang out with each other, chat, assist each other with achievements, show off, or attempt stunts.
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| − | Some feature secret rooms [youtube], air ships, subways, trains, or other thing that players may ride
| + | === Draft:Wikicap vote tally === |
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| | + | !class="header" style="background-color:#F3A957;" | Abstain |
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| − | ==Train== | + | == Formula == |
| − | Train's paint scheme matches the "Bloody Nose" standard that [[w:Southern Pacific Transportation Company|Southern Pacific]] used from [[w:1958|1958]] on -- with the exception that the characteristic SP ''nose wings'' are not the standard Sunset Red but the rare "Halloween" orange that SP experimented with early on.
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| − | ===Bugs===
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| − | The road name "Northern Express" is in mirrored reverse on the right hand side.
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| − | ==Descriptions==
| + | [two aspects : in game time vs wiki time ] |
| − | This is the closest most players will come to hiking around old farm shacks,
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| − | ==User Boxes==
| + | [ time appears local, not global ] |
| − | This user is a fan of Halloween mode
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| − | Yes, this user is aware there are other modes than Halloween.
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| − | This user would like you to kindly consider clicking on this link to his replay.
| + | [ same "local" time basis for all holidays, just different date formula ] |
| − | Click for a cheap replay.
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| − | Click to help user with the replay achievements.
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| − | ==Grainary==
| + | [ dates can be verified but adjusting the host computer's time. ] |
| − | While most TF2 maps contain hidden missile bases, U.S. farm kids would tell visiting big-city kids that the big white grain silos were really missile silos.
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| − | ==References==
| + | When the Full Moon restriction was introduced with the 2011 Very Scary Halloween Special, the formula was set such that the Full Moon event occurred every 29.5 days starting Midday, October 12, 2011. The periods lasted for a full day before and after the time calculated, so the very first Full Moon event was one day either side of 12am (Midnight) on November 10, 2011. However, the actual [[w:Lunar month#Synodic month|synodic month]] is close to 44 minutes and 3 seconds longer than the 29.5 day approximation. The effect of this was that after about four years, the TF2 Full Moon schedule was about one and a half days ahead of the actual lunar phase -- by June 2, 2015, the game (and the [[Template:Fmp|Fmp calculations at that time]]) would close Full Moon events hours before the real Moon was actually full. However, by September 2015 and in subsequent months, the in-game Full Moon event was observed to be more centered on the real full moon time, indicating that the previous game schedule had been [[Template talk:Fmp|changed]]. The formulation computing the Full Moon dates for this page was changed in November 2015 |
| − | Many item names and achievement titles embody puns and double or even triple entendras; part of the fun of the game is figuring those out. Spoiler alert: Answers or guesses at answers to the riddles in some of those titles are provided herein.
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| − | ===Achievements===
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| − | The title also refers to [[w:Diffuse reflection|''Optical Diffusion'']], the scattering of light, which is an important game technology, such as in the {{vdc|Phong#The Phong reflection model|''Source Phong shader''}}. Furthermore, the ''purposeful misspelling'' suggests that by defeating Demoman’s ''Optical'' organ the player is ''defus''ing an explosive situation.
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| − | Also, an ''[[w:array:array]]'' is a standard programing term for a set of things of the same type, like an array of missions.
| + | ... much after this is Mikado282's error ... to be fixed ... per above notes ... |
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| − | others are simply references to actual or archetypical companies, products, and corporate art to support the game's general reference to the 1960s.
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| − | subtle incorporation of a "happy" emoticon into a common coopertive circle icon
| + | to more closely track the observed Full Moon events, largely by changing the period to be closer to the actual average Lunar period. However, the present formula, still being a fixed constant period, does not account for the various oscillations seen in the Lunar period, so the present formula runs several hours ahead or behind the actual event for several months at a time. |
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| − | In software and in general use, and array is an ordered set of of same or related type. the objective of this achievement is the completion of an array of raids
| + | == Talk:Full Moon Formula == |
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| − | References Archer Daniels Midland’s green leaf and molecule logo (minus one atom), which in [[w:1958|1958]] symbolized making industrial chemicals from plants instead of from oil or (ironically) coal.
| + | [ Verification of localized start time by Tark, Yossef, and Mikado282 ] |
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| − | From 1958, the "Double Circle CO-OP" was an trademark owned by Farmland Industries and was displayed by member CO-OPs.<ref>Association of CO-OP Members v. Farmland Industries, No. 81-1260, 1982|url=http://www.leagle.com/decision/19821818684F2d1134_11641</ref>
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| − | Several unrelated retail businesses had and have the name ''Farmers Feed & Seed''. ''Master Mix'' was a product and trademark of [[w:Dave W. McMillen|McMillen Feed Mills]].
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| | + | == This Game Fan Wiki Editor's Prayer == |
| | + | As I sit to type, I utter this self-admonishing prayer: |
| | + | :Very, very few edits to any game fan wiki like this one will [[w:The Sheep and the Goats|feed, clothe, or comfort anyone]] or anything except frail egos. I pray to minimize my self-absorption and sloth and that I not ''compound'' my sins with jealousy and/or anger over game wiki edits. |
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| − | "Make hay while the sun shines."
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| − | On the farm, we could play games inside, ''but only on rainy days''. A wonderful rule. This gamer learned to read the clouds.
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| − | :'''Shiny's Bullion/Gilded Gold'''
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| − | ::Bullion is another name for gold. Both signs reference a false appearance of gold: A ''gilded'' thing looks shiny but is not gold; and [[w:All that glitters is not gold|"All that ''shines'' is not gold."]] The word choices Shiny/Gilded reflect the BLU/RED new/antique dichotomy designed into the game art.
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| − | Blue Corn Co.
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| − | Cornwell/Cornwell
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| − | Casali Shafting Co./Dr. Wilson's AUTO-BORAX Self Scrubbing Mechanical Soap
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| − | *As CP maps are generally laid out symmetrically, the Company signs on this map are symmetric in their references
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| − | :'''BLU STEEL/RED IRON'''
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| − | ::These company names both reference characteristic colors of steel; [[w:Blue Steel|Blue Steel]] and [[w:Red iron|Red Iron]]. ''Note:'' [[w:Gray Iron|Grey Iron]] ''is a type of gray colored cast iron''.
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| − | :'''BLU Blast Complex/RED Iron Works'''
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| − | ::A [[w:Blast furnace|''blast complex'']] and an [[w:Ironworks:Iron Wworks]] are both places where iron ore is smelted into iron. Neither of these types of places is a [[w:Foundry|Foundry]]. ''Note:'' [[w:Gray Iron|Grey Iron]] ''is'' only ''made in a Foundry''.
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| − | :'''Industrial ''Trust the Best''/Happy Farmers ''Trust the Best''
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| − | ::Both signs incorporate a [[w:Smiley|Happy Face]]. Both signs display a type of tractor. These types of tractors also echo the BLU/RED industrial/rustic dichotomy designed into the game art.
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| − | :'''Goldstream Fuel Co./Brown Nugget Prospecting'''
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| − | ::Both of these company names reference one of two closely associated biological [[Process achievements|processes]].
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| − | :'''Scoot's Canoe/Sunny Hay'''
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| − | :'''Cliffe Rocks Inc./Salt'''
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| − | Like its counterpart '''BLU Steel''', this company's name references several real businesses and products named [[Red Iron]] (after a ''characterist color'' of [[Rust|weathered iron]]).
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| − | An [[w:Iron works|''iron works'']] is a place where iron ore is ''smelted'' into [[pig iron]].
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| − | Like its counterpart '''Red Iron''', this company's name references several real businesses and products named [[Blue Steel]] (after a ''characteristic color'' of [[tempered steel]])
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| − | A [[w:Blast furnace|''blast complex'']] is a place where iron is ''refined'' into [[steel]].
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| − | Red iron and blue steel are real names for real materials named for their characteristic colors, neither of which are made in foundries. Grey Iron is also real material named for its characteristic color and it is only made in foundries.
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| − | Red Iron may refer to a characteristic color associated with iron and steel or to forms of iron and steel that are associated with that color:Iron Red will refer more to the color, not to iron or steel
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| − | Ironically, Grey Iron refers to specific alloys of cast iron, due to their characteristic mat finish or fracture.
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| − | Related to the characteristic blue color of the ... oxide of iron, ... may refer to
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| − | One of the four main opposing properties on [[Foundry]].
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| − | One of the two main opposing properties on [[Granary]].
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| − | Counterpart to the Red Iron, Blue Steel Property on [[Foundry]]. Like Red Iron, [[w:Blue Steel|Blue Steel]] is a reference to the color of one of the two common oxides of iron.
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| − | are both references to the natural colors of Blue is a color associated with steel. A Blast Complex implies Blast furnace operation, wherein iron is refined into steel [[w:iron alloys]].
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| − | Counterpoint to ''Red Iron'' on [[Foundry]].
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| − | Red is a color associated with iron.
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| − | Reference to a mammalian biologial process.
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| − | Counterpoint to ''Brown Nugget'' on [[Foundry]].
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| − | Counterpoint to ''Blue Steel'' on [[Foundry]].
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| − | Reference to a mamalian biologial process.
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| − | Counterpoint to ''Goldstream'' on [[Foundry]].
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| − | ==Historical Context==
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| − | The content of TF2 is based on historical and cultural elements of the late 1960's. The setting of most of the first maps released for the game is 1968, generally in the southwestern deserts of the United States. Several later release maps are set a few years later
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| − | the purpose here is to list historical events or movements that influenced TF2, but also to mention very important events and movements that are not omitted from the game.
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| − | If we are to justify games as ''educational'', then we should make efforts to that purpose.
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| − | In someways, the historical presentation in TF2 is reasonably accurate, if nostalgic. The art captures the Atomic Punk and Space Punk movements of the time, yet also shows many iconic references to bygone Americana (rustic farmsteads, delaptidate mines). The [[Cold War]], the [[Space Race]], [[Hippies]], and [[World War II]] (the latter still culturally relevantin the late 1960's) are notablty, if steriotypically, evident in maps, items, character back grounds, or responces. However, other serious contemporary issues are not generally referenced; in particular, global civil unrest, War Protests, and Racial tensions.
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| − | ==Late 1960's==
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| − | 1968 is the time frame of the Gravel Wars
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| − | 1968 is a culmination of a historically and culturally significant period in U.S. and World history
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| − | China was relatively impenetrable.
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| − | The US was winning the Space Race and was on the verge of the Manned Moon Landing, making the Monkeynaut business a bit anachronistic.
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| − | Trains appear immensely popular with Valve and Community Developers, appearing in some form in almost all maps.
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| − | US Railroads were completely dieselized by 1968, but rail passenger service has generally failed by this date, prompting the formation of [[AMTRAK]], which began operation in 1971.
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| − | Surf Rock had progressed to Girl Rock and Car Rock and grown to influence soundtracks for Space, Spy, Monster, and Western movies and TV series; these later four forms being a basis for much of the Team Fortress Soundtrack (cf.
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| − | In 1967, Tom Jones moved to the desert region to begin regular performances at Las Vegas lounges. His television variety show (''[[w:This Is Tom Jones|This Is Tom Jones]]'') abruptly ends with his death in 1971 at the hands of his roommate [[Merasmus]].
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| − | [[w:Night of the Living Dead|''Night of the Living Dead'' (1968)]] established the Modern Zombie genre (cf. Zombie Fortress)
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| − | Nuclear Weapons dominated international relations (heavily referenced in TF2 Maps).
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| − | [[w:Star Trek: The Original Series|''Star Trek'' (1966-69)]]
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| − | Sergio Leone's [[w:Dollars Trilogy|Dollars Trilogy]] was released in the United States in 1967, as tributed in TF2 by references in Engineer items and achievements ([[Face Full of Festive]] [[The Goo badn and ]].
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| − | The scores for these movies established [[w:Ennio Morricone|Ennio Morricone's]] influence in Western movie music, as tributed in TF2 by "The Calm". (signatures whips, whistling, jew's harp, bells, trumpets, reverberating electric guitar
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| − | WWII was still a relatively recent and culturally pervasive event features in several moves produced at that time. (Soldier), references in several items but its significance was to begin to fade as Baby Boomers came to political influence.
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| − | Having ended just over two decades prior, [[w:WWII|World War II]] is still a vivid national memory, but its cultural influence is fading to that of the [[w:Vietnam War|Vietnam War]]. Several achievements and Items, especially those of Soldier, reference WWII equipment, events, or movies. [[Market Gardener]] [[Guns of the Navar0wned]] In 1968, Veterans of WWII are now in middle age and at their peak earnings stage, and they are confronting the Generation Gap -- their children [[the baby boomers]] are now passing through high school and college.
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| − | ====Hippies====
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| − | Long hair became a political statement (Hippies, hair cuts, Hippies)
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| − | Definitive events happened around 1968 Woodstock 1969
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| − | Some very Big Things were going on then and are referenced in the game, but some of the very Big Things happening then are not referenced at all.
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| − | Most Americans still live on farms
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| − | Major, harmful changes in U.S. diet: food processing, replacement of animal fat with hydrogenated vegetable oils. replacement of grass-fed cattle with grain fed Concentrated Feeder Operations
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| − | The [[w:protests of 1968|protests of 1968]] comprised a worldwide escalation of social conflicts, predominately characterized by popular rebellions in many countries ''worldwide''. This was much larger situation than the recent [[w:Arab_Spring#Etymology|Islamist uprisings]]. These revolts were against military, capitalist, and socialist elites alike. The protests were brutally quashed in 2<sup>nd</sup> and 3<sup>rd</sup> world Communist Block countries, but were appeased by progressive spending measures in Western 1<sup>st</sup> world democracies.
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| − | Mao Zedong's [[w:Cultural Revolution|Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution]] targeted [[w:Revisionism (Marxism)|counter-revolutionary revisionists]] with [[w:Class conflict|violent class struggle]].
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| − | ====Vietnam War====
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| − | The archetypical '''M134 ([[w:Minigun|Minigun]])''' was developed specifically for action in [[w:Vietnam War|Vietnam War]] and is one TF2 item that is associated with that war. But other than that, this conflict is largely ignored in TF2.
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| − | By the end of the 1960s, the Vietnam War became a major culturally divisive issue in the United States. Then Republican Candidate for U.S. President [[Richard M. Nixon]] campaigned on a platform of ending that war and wins the biggest U.S. Presidential landslide
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| − | The infamous [[w:Tet Offensive|Tet Offensive]] occurred in 1968. Even though that event was a major military defeat, it was a political victory
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| − | Race was an extremely intense issue in the US at this time, witnessing the [[w:Long Hot Summer of 1967|Long Hot Summer of 1967]], desegregation of housing through the [[Fair Housing Acts]] of 1968 and the [[assassination of Martin Luther King]], which was followed by riots.
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| − | As recently as 1964 and 1965, Civil Rights Acts were passed banning segregation and addressing the voting disenfranchisement of blacks. In 1967, the [[United States Supreme Court]] declared unconstitutional all [[anti-miscegenation laws in the United States]].
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| − | In truth, the [[WAR! Update|close friendship of Demoman and Soldier]], which seems unremarkable today, would have been relatively novel at that time.
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| − | Personally, having been an impressionable (white) child in the 1960s, I have always felt a little uncomfortable with the stereotypical [[w:Blaxploitation|blaxploitation]] hats and miscellaneous items for Demoman; so, I hope their apparent acceptance in the TF2 community reflects that gamers are [[post-racial]].
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| − | ==Game Wiki Editor's Prayer==
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| − | As I sit to type, I utter this self-admonishing prayer: Very, very few edits to this wiki feed, clothe, or comfort anyone or anything except egos. I pray to minimize my self-absorption and sloth and that I not compound my sins with jealousy and or anger over such petty concerns as games.
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| | Loving games is easy, even thieves, murders, and haters love games. How much more glorious is it to love something that does not give such immediate, easy pleasure? | | Loving games is easy, even thieves, murders, and haters love games. How much more glorious is it to love something that does not give such immediate, easy pleasure? |
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| − | Heavy is not he previously jolly self.
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| − | ==Train==
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| − | Train's paint scheme matches the "Bloody Nose" standard that [[w:Southern Pacific Transportation Company|Southern Pacific]] used from [[w:1958|1958]] on -- with the exception that the characteristic SP ''nose wings'' are not the standard Sunset Red but the rare "Halloween" orange that SP experimented with early on.
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| − | The road name "Northern Express" is in mirrored reverse on the right hand side.
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| − | This is the closest most players will come to hiking around old farm shacks,
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| − | This user is a fan of Atomicpunk.
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| − | This user is a fan of Spacepunk.
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| − | This user is a fan of Planet of the Apes references.
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| − | This user is a fan of Halloween mode
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| − | This user would like you to kindly consider clicking on this link to his replay.
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| − | Yes, this user is aware there are other modes than Halloween.
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| − | This user wants to be a REAL engineer.
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| − | Click for cheap replay.
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| − | Click to help user with the replay achievements.
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| − | ==Grainary==
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| − | While most TF2 maps contain hidden missile bases, UlS farm kids really did tell visiting big-city kids that the big white grain silos were really missile silos.
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| − | ==References==
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| − | Many item names and achievement titles embody puns and double or even triple entendras; part of the fun of the game is figuring those out. Spoiler alert: Answers or guesses at answers to the riddles in some of those titles are provided herein.
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| − | ===Achievements===
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| − | The title also refers to [[w:Diffuse reflection|''Optical Diffusion'']], the scattering of light, which is an important game technology, such as in the {{vdc|Phong#The Phong reflection model|''Source Phong shader''}}. Furthermore, the ''purposeful misspelling'' suggests that by defeating Demoman’s ''Optical'' organ the player is ''defus''ing an explosive situation.
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| − | others are simply references to actual or archetypical companies, products, and corporate art to support the game's general reference to the 1960s.
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| − | subtle incorporation of a "happy" emoticon into a common coopertive circle icon
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| − | In software and in general use, and array is an ordered set of of same or related type. the objective of this achievement is the completion of an array of raids
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| − | References Archer Daniels Midland’s green leaf and molecule logo (minus one atom), which in [[w:1958|1958]] symbolized making industrial chemicals from plants instead of from oil or (ironically) coal.
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| − | From 1958, the "Double Circle CO-OP" was an trademark owned by Farmland Industries and was displayed by member CO-OPs.<ref>Association of CO-OP Members v. Farmland Industries, No. 81-1260, 1982|url=http://www.leagle.com/decision/19821818684F2d1134_11641</ref>
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| − | Several unrelated retail businesses had and have the name ''Farmers Feed & Seed''. ''Master Mix'' was a product and trademark of [[w:Dave W. McMillen|McMillen Feed Mills]].
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| − | "Make hay while the sun shines."
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| − | On the farm, we could play games inside, ''but only on rainy days''. A wonderful rule. This gamer learned to read the clouds.
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| − | :'''Shiny's Bullion/Gilded Gold'''
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| − | ::Bullion is another name for gold. Both signs reference a false appearance of gold: A ''gilded'' thing looks shiny but is not gold; and [[w:All that glitters is not gold|"All that ''shines'' is not gold."]] The word choices Shiny/Gilded reflect the BLU/RED new/antique dichotomy designed into the game art.
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| − | ====Foundry====
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| − | Blue Corn Co.
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| − | Grey Gravel
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| − | Cornwell/Cornwell
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| − | Casali Shafting Co./Dr. Wilson's AUTO-BORAX Self Scrubbing Mechanical Soap
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| − | *As CP maps are generally laid out symmetrically, the Company signs on this map are symmetric in their references
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| − | :'''BLU STEEL/RED IRON'''
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| − | ::These company names both reference characteristic colors of steel; [[w:Blue Steel|Blue Steel]] and [[w:Red iron|Red Iron]]. ''Note:'' [[w:Gray Iron|Grey Iron]] ''is a type of gray colored cast iron''.
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| − | :'''BLU Blast Complex/RED Iron Works'''
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| − | ::A [[w:Blast furnace|''blast complex'']] and an [[w:Ironworks:Iron Wworks]] are both places where iron ore is smelted into iron. Neither of these types of places is a [[w:Foundry|Foundry]]. ''Note:'' [[w:Gray Iron|Grey Iron]] ''is'' only ''made in a Foundry''.
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| − | :'''Industrial ''Trust the Best''/Happy Farmers ''Trust the Best''
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| − | ::Both signs incorporate a [[w:Smiley|Happy Face]]. Both signs display a type of tractor. These types of tractors also echo the BLU/RED industrial/rustic dichotomy designed into the game art.
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| − | :'''Goldstream Fuel Co./Brown Nugget Prospecting'''
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| − | ::Both of these company names reference one of two closely associated biological [[Process achievements|processes]].
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| − | :'''Scoot's Canoe/Sunny Hay'''
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| − | :'''Cliffe Rocks Inc./Salt'''
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| − | :'''Jimi Jam/Driller'''
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| − | :'''Bigg's/Crummy's'''
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| − | Like its counterpart '''BLU Steel''', this company's name references several real businesses and products named [[Red Iron]] (after a ''characterist color'' of [[Rust|weathered iron]]).
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| − | An [[w:Iron works|''iron works'']] is a place where iron ore is ''smelted'' into [[pig iron]].
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| − | Like its counterpart '''Red Iron''', this company's name references several real businesses and products named [[Blue Steel]] (after a ''characteristic color'' of [[tempered steel]])
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| − | A [[w:Blast furnace|''blast complex'']] is a place where iron is ''refined'' into [[steel]].
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| − | Red Iron may refer to a characteristic color associated with iron and steel or to forms of iron and steel that are associated with that color:Iron Red will refer more to the color, not to iron or steel
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| − | Ironically, Grey Iron refers to specific alloys of cast iron, due to their characteristic mat finish or fracture.
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| − | Related to the characteristic blue color of the ... oxide of iron, ... may refer to
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| − | One of the four main opposing properties on [[Foundry]].
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| − | One of the two main opposing properties on [[Granary]].
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| − | Counterpart to the Red Iron, Blue Steel Property on [[Foundry]]. Like Red Iron, [[w:Blue Steel|Blue Steel]] is a reference to the color of one of the two common oxides of iron.
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| − | are both references to the natural colors of Blue is a color associated with steel. A Blast Complex implies Blast furnace operation, wherein iron is refined into steel [[w:iron alloys]].
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| − | Counterpoint to ''Red Iron'' on [[Foundry]].
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| − | Red is a color associated with iron.
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| − | ====Goldstream Nuggets====
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| − | References biological function. Counterpart to
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| − | Reference to a mammalian biologial process.
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| − | Counterpoint to ''Brown Nugget'' on [[Foundry]].
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| − | Counterpoint to ''Blue Steel'' on [[Foundry]].
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| − | Reference to a mamalian biologial process.
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| − | Counterpoint to ''Goldstream'' on [[Foundry]].
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| − | ==Historical Context==
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| − | The content of TF2 is based on historical and cultural elements of the late 1960's. The setting of most of the first maps released for the game is 1968, generally in the southwestern deserts of the United States. Several later release maps are set a few years later
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| − | the purpose here is to list historical events or movements that influenced TF2, but also to mention very important events and movements that are not omitted from the game.
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| − | If we are to justify games as ''educational'', then we should make efforts to that purpose.
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| − | In someways, the historical presentation in TF2 is reasonably accurate, if nostalgic. The art captures the Atomic Punk and Space Punk movements of the time, yet also shows many iconic references to bygone Americana (rustic farmsteads, delaptidate mines). The [[Cold War]], the [[Space Race]], [[Hippies]], and [[World War II]] (the latter still culturally relevantin the late 1960's) are notablty, if steriotypically, evident in maps, items, character back grounds, or responces. However, other serious contemporary issues are not generally referenced; in particular, global civil unrest, War Protests, and Racial tensions.
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| − | ==Late 1960's==
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| − | 1968 is the time frame of the Gravel Wars
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| − | 1968 is a culmination of a historically and culturally significant period in U.S. and World history
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| | + | == Inventory of MvM Memoirs == |
| | + | {| class="wikitable grid" |
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| | + | ! class="header" |Map |
| | + | ! class="header" |Style |
| | + | ! class="header" |Comments |
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| | + | | [[Doppler]] || || Favorite Art Design, High glassed Spawn, Snowy cave rollout, sub pen, |
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| | + | | [[Dockyard]] || || |
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| | + | | [[Downtown]] || || |
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| | + | | [[Powerplant]] || brick factory || Tough, Large pine spits rollout |
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| | + | | [[Steep]] || || |
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| | + | | [[Teien]] || Japan || Metro, pond rollout |
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| | + | | [[Waterfront]] || BLU industrial dockland ||simple short, predictable map |
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| | + | | [[Metro]] || Metro || Not spectacular, but most memorable MvM fight |
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| | + | | [[Underground]] || mine tunnel ||compare with Big Rock |
| | + | |} |
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| − | ====Cold War==== | + | == [[Team Fortress Wiki:Discussion/Archive 27#Spoilers|Spoilers]] == |
| − | China was relatively impenetrable.
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| − | ====Space Race====
| + | Somewhat tangentially, I quibble with the comment “[[Team_Fortress_Wiki:Discussion/Archive_27#Spoilers|''If you don't read the comics you wouldn't care about the administrator at all.'']]” I don’t think I got into the comics and videos until my first Halloween event ([[Spectral Halloween Special|Fourth Annual Halloween Special]]). I went the wiki to learn how to fight the bosses, and in that manner learned about the past content. Similarly, that is how I learned that the Administrator/Announcer had any sort of significance. Moreover, it was through the wiki that I learned that the game had any storyline at all. In a nutshell, I found the game, googled for strategy, found the wiki, found the storyline, found the comics. YMV; but, maybe it happens that way for others, too. Truly, the wiki is the ''bookshelf'' where I keep my "worn" copies of the comics. [[User:Mikado282|Mikado282]] ([[User talk:Mikado282|talk]]) 21:39, 22 April 2014 (PDT) |
| − | The US was winning the Space Race and was on the verge of the Manned Moon Landing, making the Monkeynaut business a bit anachronistic.
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| − | Trains appear immensely popular with Valve and Community Developers, appearing in some form in almost all maps.
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| − | US Railroads were completely dieselized by 1968, but rail passenger service has generally failed by this date, prompting the formation of [[AMTRAK]], which began operation in 1971.
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| − | Surf Rock had progressed to Girl Rock and Car Rock and grown to influence soundtracks for Space, Spy, Monster, and Western movies and TV series; these later four forms being a basis for much of the Team Fortress Soundtrack (cf.
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| − | In 1967, Tom Jones moved to the desert region to begin regular performances at Las Vegas lounges. His television variety show (''[[w:This Is Tom Jones|This Is Tom Jones]]'') abruptly ends with his death in 1971 at the hands of his roommate [[Merasmus]].
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| | + | |stated fire rate||base ||+10% ||+10% ||+10% ||+10% |
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| | + | |Cost ||$0 ||$350 ||$700 ||$1,050||$1,400 |
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| | + | |time (s) ||21 ||18 ||18 ||15 ||12 |
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| | + | |bps ||9.52 ||11.11 ||11.11 ||13.33 ||16.67 |
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| | + | |dps ||100% ||117% ||117% ||140% ||175% |
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| | + | |actual fire rate||base ||+17% ||+0% ||+23% ||+25% |
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| − | [[w:Night of the Living Dead|''Night of the Living Dead'' (1968)]] established the Modern Zombie genre (cf. Zombie Fortress)
| + | Hmmm, for $1,400, you get a bit better than permanent, ''stackable'' minicrits. Worth it? |
| − | Nuclear Weapons dominated international relations (heavily referenced in TF2 Maps).
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| − | [[w:Star Trek: The Original Series|''Star Trek'' (1966-69)]] | + | == Community topic notability == |
| | + | {{hatnote|Drafting replacement for [[Team Fortress Wiki:Policies#Mod notability]].}} |
| | + | {{hatnote|See [[Team Fortress Wiki:Community topics notability guidelines]]}} |
| | + | '''Community topics''' embrace a collection of subjects of content and activities that occur outside of direct Valve's corporate operations and publications of the ''Team Fortress'' series of games and all related media. Obviously, Team fortress wiki will not cover all Community activities. ''Secondary'' (if not ''tertiary'') to the primary task of keeping the wiki current with Valve's publications and updates, editors may cover notable Community topics, but only in compliance with the wiki's [[Team Fortress Wiki:Community topics notability guidelines|Policy for Community topic notability]]. |
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| − | Sergio Leone's [[w:Dollars Trilogy|Dollars Trilogy]] was released in the United States in 1967, as tributed in TF2 by references in Engineer items and achievements ([[Face Full of Festive]] [[The Goo badn and ]].
| + | <s>Community-led activities and content development is a foundation of ''Team Fortress''; and, ''Team Fortress 2'' was developed to encourage future content development and activities within the community. |
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| − | The scores for these movies established [[w:Ennio Morricone|Ennio Morricone's]] influence in Western movie music, as tributed in TF2 by "The Calm". (signatures whips, whistling, jew's harp, bells, trumpets, reverberating electric guitar
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| − | ====WWII==== | + | == Community topic tags == |
| − | WWII was still a relatively recent and culturally pervasive event features in several moves produced at that time. (Soldier), references in several items but its significance was to begin to fade as Baby Boomers came to political influence.
| + | {{hatnote|Temporary collective list}} |
| − | Having ended just over two decades prior, [[w:WWII|World War II]] is still a vivid national memory, but its cultural influence is fading to that of the [[w:Vietnam War|Vietnam War]]. Several achievements and Items, especially those of Soldier, reference WWII equipment, events, or movies. [[Market Gardener]] [[Guns of the Navar0wned]] In 1968, Veterans of WWII are now in middle age and at their peak earnings stage, and they are confronting the Generation Gap -- their children [[the baby boomers]] are now passing through high school and college.
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| − | ====Hippies====
| + | [[User:Mikado282/Sandbox/Community_content_notability_guidelines]] |
| − | Long hair became a political statement (Hippies, hair cuts, Hippies)
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| − | Definitive events happened around 1968 Woodstock 1969
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| − | Some very Big Things were going on then and are referenced in the game, but some of the very Big Things happening then are not referenced at all.
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| − | Most Americans still live on farms
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| − | Major, harmful changes in U.S. diet: food processing, replacement of animal fat with hydrogenated vegetable oils. replacement of grass-fed cattle with grain fed Concentrated Feeder Operations
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| − | ====Protests of 1968====
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| − | The [[w:protests of 1968|protests of 1968]] comprised a worldwide escalation of social conflicts, predominately characterized by popular rebellions in many countries ''worldwide''. This was much larger situation than the recent [[w:Arab_Spring#Etymology|Islamist uprisings]]. These revolts were against military, capitalist, and socialist elites alike. The protests were brutally quashed in 2<sup>nd</sup> and 3<sup>rd</sup> world Communist Block countries, but were appeased by progressive spending measures in Western 1<sup>st</sup> world democracies.
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| − | Mao Zedong's [[w:Cultural Revolution|Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution]] targeted [[w:Revisionism (Marxism)|counter-revolutionary revisionists]] with [[w:Class conflict|violent class struggle]].
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| − | The archetypical '''M134 ([[w:Minigun|Minigun]])''' was developed specifically for action in [[w:Vietnam War|Vietnam War]] and is one TF2 item that is associated with that war. But other than that, this conflict is largely ignored in TF2.
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| − | By the end of the 1960s, the Vietnam War became a major culturally divisive issue in the United States. Then Republican Candidate for U.S. President [[Richard M. Nixon]] campaigned on a platform of ending that war and wins the biggest U.S. Presidential landslide
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| − | The infamous [[w:Tet Offensive|Tet Offensive]] occurred in 1968. Even though that event was a major military defeat, it was a political victory
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| − | ====Racial Tensions====
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| − | Race was an extremely intense issue in the US at this time, witnessing the [[w:Long Hot Summer of 1967|Long Hot Summer of 1967]], desegregation of housing through the [[Fair Housing Acts]] of 1968 and the [[assassination of Martin Luther King]], which was followed by riots.
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| − | As recently as 1964 and 1965, Civil Rights Acts were passed banning segregation and addressing the voting disenfranchisement of blacks. In 1967, the [[United States Supreme Court]] declared unconstitutional all [[anti-miscegenation laws in the United States]].
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| − | In truth, the [[WAR! Update|close friendship of Demoman and Soldier]], which seems unremarkable today, would have been relatively novel at that time.
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| − | As I sit to type, I utter this self-admonishing prayer: Very, very few edits to this wiki feed, clothe, or comfort anyone or anything except egos. I pray to minimize my self-absorption and sloth and that I not compound my sins with jealousy and or anger over such petty concerns as games.
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| − | Loving games is easy, even thieves, murders, and haters love games. How much more glorious is it to love something that does not give such immediate, easy pleasure?
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