socialstigma.wordpress.com is about to join the 500 million other websites that start, get updates for a couple of months, then slink into the murky attic of the dustiest corner of the internet. Sadly, WordPress hasnt been the friend and assistant I needed to kick off this little project, so ive moved all the comics (plus some new comics, and some previously unreleased socialstigma) to my deviantART page.

I already had ~20 watchers on dA, and my old school work is all up there; it just figures to move everything to the one place. The only way this affects you guys is that it will be way easier to provide feedback and luls if you’re a member of the most devious community online.

Updates will, from now on, be posted to deviantART

http://7he1ndigo.deviantart.com/

PS: Heres a sample of whats already been released:

See you guys at the new house!

Ok, heres what you do. For this to work, you need a guy and a girl, and a third party who is interested in neither. Also, every person involved needs every other persons phone number.

The third party and the girl (guy) you like need to go out clubbing one night. Sometime around midnight, get your friend, the third party, to send you a quick text of what the girl (guy) is wearing. Just clothing. When you get the text, send one to the girl (guy) you like that says something along the lines of “sexy red top” or “cute blue dress” or, in my case, “jeans”. My case isnt a good one. It has to be specific enough that the girl (guy) you like knows that youre around. She (he) gets the text, which can only have come from someone nearby (insert wink).

The theory here is that your friend, the third party, can closely and accurately monitor how much the girl (guy) is into you based on how thoroughly they look for you in the club they’re both in.

Drawbacks. There are a few. This one is amazing for gathering intelligence on how your crush feels about you, but it has its flaws. For instance, how much do you hear your phone when youre IN a club? Also, what if the girl (guy) you like knows youre NOT at the club? Everyones in the shit. Furthermore, the girl (guy) you like could, at that very moment, be very interested in someone else. Thats not fun. Particularly not if you behave as pathetically as i do around girls i like, around girls you like.

Its CS4, which is a bit different to CS3 – what i used to have on XP. If the comics look a little strange after now, just bear with me while i get back to 1337. I think i dropped down to 1335, maybe even 1334, but rest assured, ill be back.

So ill explain it in a very how-to instructional manual way.

Fat or Crying is an easy game. Youre in a public bathroom, a stall, and someone walks in. Based on their breathing, you try to decipher whether this person is crying or just fat. Simple game. Works best in girls bathrooms, since 90% of practical experimentation has shown that almost every heavy breathing dude has several smaller men orbiting him.

Have Fun!

In my case, i began playing TF2 as the Soldier and the Sniper, mostly. The Sniper is, in my opinion, the easiest character to pick up and play. After a few months of coasting by like this (average of an hour a day) i built up a friend base, a few favourite servers, and a “Hey Rockstar” whenever id join one of them. So after this it didnt take long for me to be drawn into pugging. “Pug” stands for “Pick Up Game”. For those that dont know, this is where players join a team of other players and compete in a professional, competitive match. My first pug, though disastrous (19 deaths, 2 kills), was the first time i started learning about the competitive Scout.

I thrashed the Scout for a quite some time, and became the third ranked pug scout on the iPGN servers. I could go into the details of how to effectively play as the Scout, but its a tad complicated, and itd distract from the point im getting across. I was top scoring 9/10 of the pugs i was playing at this stage, and rarely touching another class in pub (public) games. Finding friends with Steam and TF2 opened me up to another popular strategy within the game: Heavy+Medic. Several people on my TF2 list were saying “Dude, join this server” virtually every time id log into Steam. Id pick Scout, theyd pick Medic and try and heal me. This frustrated them since the Medic moves at roughly half the Scouts speed. So after a few rages, i picked up the Heavy at these opportunities and you know what? I loved it. The Heavy is now my most played character, and my highest scoring. On maps like 2fort, with plenty of clutch points and bottlenecks, the Heavy can potentially harrass and hold back an entire side, leaving the cap open to anyone who happens to do the legwork.

Since playing Heavy, i did learn quite a bit about the value of teamwork and player positioning in terms of scoring the most frags and (maybe) winning matches. It might just be the type of player i am, but i constantly moniter the players on my side, and track the different classes in the game. If a game of 2fort is missing, say, a Soldier or a Scout, chances are youll find me filling the gap. In this sense, i started playing as the enigmatic Pyro.

Im a frontline Pyro, not enjoying supporting a Heavy, waiting for a half dead Scout to slip by and pick up the assist. Instead, im pushing way forward, holding a cap point before a Scout or Heavy can get there. As far as my gameplay style goes, it takes a noob or an idiot to hold their flamethrower out and run straight forward toward a Scout or Heavy without switching to the shotty and popping off a few shots to keep them on their toes. After all, a player with half health takes half as long to kill than a player with full health.

I can feel another trend coming on, to start competitively playing as the Demoman. I greatly dislike the Demoman, since hes lacking in a mid range weapon like the shotty, but i can appreciate his uses in laying down support fire and protecting valuable assets.

So there it is: My TF2 character progression. Sniper, Soldier, Scout, Heavy, Pyro, Demoman. Everyone plays the Medic on and off, so i didnt include that in there, meaning that i have the Engineer and the Spy to go. They are two characters that arent played competitively, and i honestly dont see a valid use for either of them in the game. Nevertheless, i will learn them to master the game

subtle